November 2013
November 30, 2013
Double Robotics
I think all WUvies need to get these to communicate with each other.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 30, 2013 -
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Category: Robots
Everything’s Coming Up Profits
This looks like the perfect Xmas gift to make any WU-vie happy.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 30, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Music, Twentieth Century
November 29, 2013
Tiny People
The Johansens are a father-son team of photographers who specialize in using the figurines from a model railroad set to create bizarre scenes. Their website is tinypeoplebiglaughs.com.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 29, 2013 -
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Category: Photography and Photographers
By Chevy From Cuba to USA
With the recent migrant tragedies at sea around the globe, we must always recall one of the great refugee success stories: turning an old Detroit truck into an ocean-going vessel.
More photos here.
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 29, 2013 -
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Category: Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Engineering and Construction, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, North America, Twenty-first Century, Trucks
November 28, 2013
Metro the Painting Horse
Read more about Metro at NPR.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 28, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Art
November 27, 2013
The Odon Device
Jorge Odon was an Argentinian car mechanic who, one day, watched a video on YouTube that showed a trick for removing a cork that's stuck inside a wine bottle. Even though he had no medical training at all, the video inspired him to create a device to help deliver babies who are stuck inside the birth canal. And apparently the device (he's called it the Odon Device) actually works — enough so that an American medical technology firm has agreed to manufacture it. [Yahoo!]I can't seem to remember the last brilliant idea I had while watching YouTube videos.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 27, 2013 -
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Category: Inventions, Medicine
Happy Thanksgiving
The tables are turned, as carnivorous turkeys get ready to chow down on an Indian child.
Have a swell holiday!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 27, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Holidays, Native Americans
November 26, 2013
WHO R8X
WHO R8X, how would you read that on a license plate? One Missouri woman felt it was degrading to drive around with the plate which she read as 'whore times eight'. She found it even more insulting with the state motto above it 'The show me state'. Miossouri DMV disagreed and said she would have to pay for a replacement plate until a local TV station got involved. I wonder what her new plate says.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 26, 2013 -
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Category: Goofs and Screw-ups
It felt like i knew you
I'll let artist George Ferrandi describe her ongoing "project" in her own words:I'm guessing that guys who grope women's buttocks on crowded trains probably go through the same kind of mental wind-up.
Anyway, Ferrandi has a friend sitting opposite record the results of her space re-shaping.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 26, 2013 -
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Category: Art
Something
Cyriak usually offers a new video at Xmas. Till then, a couple of his less famous older ones.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 26, 2013 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Horror, Surrealism
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