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Footprint of bigfoot spotted

Photo shows an aerial view of an enormous footprint on the beach, about the size of 11 football fields.
Bigfoot on the beach?

This enormous footprint on the beach, about 11 football fields in size, is not a footprint of a mythical creature after all. Instead, it might be the footprint of you or me or any person in the developed world for that matter. It was plowed on the beach in Zeebrugge (Belgium) to give people an idea of their "ecological footprint". This is a representation of the earth surface needed per year for a person to eat, drink, warm their house, drive their car, dump their trash, etc. More info on this subject can be found on Wikipedia.

Whether this is an accurate estimate of our effect on the planet continues to be a matter of debate, but nobody can claim this publicity stunt didn't provide a neat picture.

By xorbit, last changed on November 20, 2007 // E-mail to a friend //

Some computer weirdness...

Have you ever noticed that the only time you ever really get to see the Windows shutdown screen for any length of time is when Windows is NOT shutting down? Therefor, we propose to change this screen to improve its accuracy:

Windows shutdown screen changed to say "Windows is spacing out..."
Improved shutdown screen

By xorbit, last changed on February 10, 2008 // E-mail to a friend //

Poor moose

How do you get a moose 50 feet in the air by accident?

Pogo Moose Incident - Fairbanks, Alaska

"They were laying new power cables. They were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck. When the men (miles away) pull the lines up with their big equipment, he went too."

Moose dangling from power lines by its antlers.
Pogo Moose Incident - Fairbanks, Alaska

The complete story can be found on Snopes.com: Moose hanging from power cables .

By feynmium, last changed on January 31, 2008 // E-mail to a friend //

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 //

Want your drink cold?

This may have happened to you: you want your drink cold, FAST. So you put it in the freezer, only to forget it there. Usually, the result is a mess of sticky goo that you need to clean out. This time though, I was in for a pleasant surprise: no mess, and a quite interesting can to put here on the website!

The top surface of the can is folded out instead of folded in.
Frozen cans usually aren't this much fun!

I wonder what the chances of this happening are. I would guess pretty slim. So I suggest you don't try this at home, unless you like sticky messes. :-)

By xorbit, last changed on December 12, 2007 // E-mail to a friend //