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Archive | October, 2009

Halloween Scenes and Creatures Made Out Of LEGO

Posted on 30 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Trick or Treat Via VignetteBrick from Elroy Davis. Ghost and Skeletons Via FindMyBrick. Shira Camato and Scythitis Via TheAwesomer. Spooky House Via Zirkel. Halloween Scene from 1978. Via Flickr from Keith Goldman. Alien Chest-Burster Via GreatWhiteSnark from an artist pirie1. Don’t knock on that door, SpongeBob! Via Brothers Brick. Headless LEGO Horseman with LED’s Via [...]

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Political Campaign in a Toy City

Posted on 27 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, WTF

There’s just something about human beings that makes us indetachable from our past; having said that, it is oh so easy to find grown adults displaying exhibits celebrating childhood. These exhibits are not necessarily always low-profile ones – just look at the Legoland or Disneyland franchises.Some people believe that associating a theme to childhood toys [...]

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When Farm Kids Get Bored

Posted on 26 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, WTF

No-one likes being bored. It is not necessarily a destructive emotion (although the producers of Fight Club might disagree) but it does compromise your existence, no matter what your age, level of education, skill set, income or company. Of course, when you are on a farm, it is somewhat easy to imagine that one can [...]

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White Lions of South Africa

Posted on 09 October 2009 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare color mutation of the Kruger subspecies of lion (Panthera leo krugeri). It has been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world. White lions are not a separate subspecies and they have never been common in the wild. [...]

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Places To Relax In New York

Posted on 09 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

There are dozens of fantastic cities across the globe; all offering something different for visitors to enjoy, but they all have one thing in common as well. That aspect is that they are very tiring to negotiate! With so many people, activities, places to visit and things to do, just a few hours spent in [...]

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The Most Beautiful Italian Women

Posted on 09 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

This is the list of the most beautiful Italian women ever. Maybe someone will disagree with this list but still I think that it’s a hard work to create a perfect one. Giada Pamela De Laurentiis Giada Pamela De Laurentiis  is an Italian American chef, writer, television personality, and the current host of the Food [...]

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5 Geekiest PC Case Mods

Posted on 09 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, Technology

While most of us plod along with our regular Dells and HP machines, the modders are a different breed altogether. Sometimes come up with obscene specifications for their machines. And at other times, they go ahead and create wacky and weird custom cases. Here are some PC case mods created by people who tread the [...]

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Pierced Eyeglasses

Posted on 09 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

The idea of hanging eyeglasses from a piercing or a combination of piercings or even transdermal implants is something that a lot of us have toyed with — as I was writing this, my old boss Tom Brazda reminded me that almost ten years ago we made a set of them built around a 10ga [...]

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Top 10 Mad Scientists in History

Posted on 09 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Vladimir Demikhov: The Two-Headed Dog Surgeon Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov  was a Soviet scientist and organ transplant pioneer, who did several transplantations in the 1930s and 1950s, such as the transplantation of a heart into an animal and a lung-heart replacement in an animal. He is also well-known for his transplantation of the heads of dogs, [...]

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Six Must See Tourist Attractions In London

Posted on 08 October 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

6. The London Eye The London Eye (also known as the Millennium Wheel) at a height of 135 metres (443 ft), is the biggest Ferris wheel in Europe, and has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3 million people in one year At the time it was [...]

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