The wavelength of the ruby laser is transmitted through the red balloon and is absorbed by the darker balloon inside. With thanks to paul4dirt.

So you think your diet is harsh?

From the huffington post: You know what else stops you from eating when you snort it? Cocaine. From me: Pavlov would be proud.

7/27/2009

From YouTube: So where I work I have about a 12" frosted glass barrier on top of my counter for privacy reasons. I found out today that a simple piece of scotch tape will make the opaque glass clear? It was quite strange.

According to YT: "Made for the queen mums 100th birthday by one of the national papers." I promised myself I would never post something cutesie like this, but the way the one on the right end behaved just killed me.

John Lennon and Chuck Berry perform Johnny B. Goode.

Any chance I can be an astronaut before death, without money or effort? Judging by their hangover potions they party a lot up there...

A sequel to this video, in which a down on his luck Mickey finds himself as a prostitute.

You're playing the most phenominal game ever created! It's a product of your imagination! A game Geeks love only because no one else would take the time to read all the rule books... I just checked... more inside

In what is probably the weirdest, yet most endearing late night segment to date, Jimmy Kimmel put on a white lab coat and gave kids just terrible toys to play with. He took notes as the children proved... more inside

It only flowers once in 3 years, and has the largest unbranched inflorescence (cluster of flowers) in the world. Some Titan Arums bloom every 7 or even 10 years. "The Titan Arum grows in the Sumatran... more inside

Nature is horrific. This species of Wasps inject caterpillars with larvae eggs, that hatch and devour the pray from inside. Later on they infect their hosts brain with a virus, making it into a kind of wasp bodyguard. Kill it with fire..

Science is not a luxury! A recent talk given at the National Academy of Sciences.

If you just bought yourself a dead mermaid corpse and you don't want your cats to mess with it, here are two ways you can teach them.

Holy shit.

In his own words (from Youtube): http://www.jonschmidt.com Hi...Jon Schmidt here. This arrangement is dedicated to Sarah, my 7 year old daughter who loves the song Love Story by Taylor Swift. Because... more inside

Andrea Wachner hated high school, so decided to get a stripper to attend her 10 year reunion...which is just about the greatest idea I have heard.

From Sweden's Got Talent - four young men perform the traditional "Dance of the Crispbread" to ancient Swedish folk songs such as "What What In The Butt" and "Kung Fu Fighting." They use the bread to cover what we can only imagine are their already impressive manhoods.