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CEO Stands Behind Bullet-Resistant Glass as Employee Shoots at Him
Trent Kimball, CEO of the armored vehicle company Texas Armoring Corporation (TAC) in San Antonio, shows how he “stands behind his product” in this video…
Family Decals
Family Decals on xkcd
Codecademy, Free Site Teaches Interactive Lessons on Web Coding
Codecademy is a free website that provides interactive lessons on coding for web development. Founders Ryan Bubinski and Zach Sims have started the site with…
Musée Dupuytren, A Paris Museum Full of Medical Curiosities
The collection of medical museum, Musée Dupuytren, at Faculte de Medecine in Paris is full of thousands of anatomical curiosities, including wax models, creepy alcohol-preserved…
Cookie Chart Shows Breakdown of Types of Girl Scout Cookies Sold
image by Celine Grouard Wired created this lovely Cookie Chart which shows the percentage breakdown of types of Girl Scout Cookies sold. via I Love…
Old S.F., An Interactive Map of 16,000 San Francisco Photos Since 1850
Old S.F. is an interactive map of 16,000 geotagged photos of San Francisco from the time period 1850 to 2000. The photos are sourced from…
ScandiPhone, A Retro Telephone Based on the Vintage Ericofon
Based on Ericsson’s Ericofon stand-up telephone, ScandiPhone created by Wild & Wolf, is a great way to get the lovely stylings of the original without…
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…