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The World’s Shortest Train
The World’s Shortest Train passes a Japanese railroad crossing in this video from Henteko.net. The video may be fake but the train sure is adorable.
Airplane Boarding Method by Astrophysicist Cuts Loading Time in Half
Back in 2008, Fermilab astrophysicist Jason Steffen took a break from matters of the universe to devise the Steffen Method, a clever optimization of the…
2011 Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship in Finland
The town of Savonlinna in Finland is home to the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship where, on August 20, 2011, about 50 international participants tossed…
Colorful Shopping List Refrigerator Magnets
Putting together that weekly grocery list is now made colorful with these sets of refrigerator magnets by London-based letterpress shop, Harrington and Squires. One is…
CLOO, An iPhone App That Lets Users Rent Out Their Bathrooms
CLOO is an iPhone app that allows people to rent their private bathrooms to their friends for a small fee (video). The app is a…
TrustoCorp Special Edition Tabloids Released in Bicoastal Prank
In yet another prank by TrustoCorp, specially modified editions of People, Us Weekly, and OK! were seeded at magazine sellers in New York and Los…
Richard Pryor Recites The Alphabet on Sesame Street
A classic 1976 episode of Sesame Street featuring the late great Richard Pryor reciting the alphabet.
Kitchen Table of the Future Imagined by The New York R&D Times Lab
Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab recently got a peek of our “reading around the breakfast table” future imagined by The New York Times Company’s Research &…
Handerpants, Underpants For Your Hands
The latest in fingerless gloves “technology” at pop culture store Archie McPhee is Handerpants and they are just what you think they are, underpants for…
Kevin Rose Interviews Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley
Kevin Rose did a great interview with Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley on episode 10 of Foundation.