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Page turning Rube Goldberg machine

I love how the machine uses many normal looking parts of the reader's environment. The trained Guinea Pig is great too. :-)



Check out the site of kinetic artist Joseph Herscher for more!


By xorbit, last changed on January 11, 2012 // E-mail to a friend //  Del.icio.us  Stumble it!  Reddit!  Digg it! 

Weird traffic sign

This must be one of the weirdest traffic signs ever.

The sign shows a weight limit of 12 tons, but under the main sign there are 12 small signs with exceptions.
Weird road sign with 12 instructions in Gdansk

This sign in Gdansk, Poland, sets a 12 ton load limit to cross a bridge, except... well there are twelve different exceptions to this, including farm vehicles can cross no matter how much they weigh and the same is true for vehicles of a local firm. The sign has caused considerable confusion and has brought traffic to a halt as truckers have been trying to figure out if they were allowed to cross or not.


By xorbit, last changed on February 18, 2011 // E-mail to a friend //  Del.icio.us  Stumble it!  Reddit!  Digg it! 

Ceci n'est pas une spirale

This must be one of the most convincing optical illusion I have ever seen.

The image shows an optical illusion that has concentric circles with checker-board patterns between them. The arrangement makes it look as if the circles make a spiral where in fact they are not.
Ceci n'est pas une spirale

Don't know where it originally came from, I found this optical illusion that looks like a spiral on Make's website . They also show a version traced by lines to help convince you that this really is NOT a spiral. :)


By xorbit, last changed on April 21, 2010 // E-mail to a friend //  Del.icio.us  Stumble it!  Reddit!  Digg it! 

Unappetizing dietary supplement

The picture shows a store shelf with bottles of St. John's Wort extract, but the label on the shelf reads St. John's WART extract.
St. John's WART extract... yuck!

I don't care if he was a saint, I still don't want to ingest any extracts from his warts! :)


By xorbit, last changed on February 4, 2010 // E-mail to a friend //  Del.icio.us  Stumble it!  Reddit!  Digg it! 

Really weird clouds

Sometimes reality is weirder than fiction. This is one of those cases.
If a painter would ever paint clouds this weird, everyone would think he had lost his mind or wonder what he had been drinking... and how much. Yet here they are, for real.

The picture shows a perfectly straight and uniform roll cloud which looks like a straight pipe in the sky stretching to the horizon.
Who put that big pipe in the sky?

The picture shows clouds over a cityscape that look like whipped cream was smeared across the sky.
Who has been smearing whipped cream in the sky?

The picture shows a cloud cover with bulges hanging out as if big drops of cloud are about to ooze out.
The clouds are oozing down!

Here is the awesome collection of weird clouds where I found these, there are many more there! Worth seeing!


By xorbit, last changed on January 15, 2010 // E-mail to a friend //  Del.icio.us  Stumble it!  Reddit!  Digg it! 

The amazing invisible painter

The invisible painter has painted himself to blend in with the background of a ruined building.
Invisible painter by ruins

The invisible painter has painted himself to blend in standing in front of a front loader and it is really hard to spot him!
Invisible painter... where is he? Can you find him?

This is Liu Bolin, and if there ever would be an invisible man it would be him. He spends hours meticulously painting himself until he blends in with his chosen background like a chameleon. Amazing! Just the kind of weird stuff we like around here. :)

Follow the link for more pictures of Liu Bolin, the invisible painter .


By xorbit, last changed on November 24, 2009 // E-mail to a friend //  Del.icio.us  Stumble it!  Reddit!  Digg it! 

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