The Original Marching Band Forms Giant Football Player

Content-Aware Image Sizing [EN]

Codehunters

This has to be the coolest LED Room in spa

Smack Nightclub - LED Room from SW on Vimeo.

Some guy attempts to get his cell phone from toilet and his hand gets stuck

Why do this things always come from China? Check this out, this man from the Jiangsu Province in China dropped his phone in toilet and tried to retrieve it but his hand got stuck. Emergency services rescued him with just minor cuts & a few bruises on his arm.

[via Engadget - image via]

Man Actually Bites Dog!

Roderick Lewis, bit a police dog

Now I have really seen everything...

"A Connecticut man searching for some PCP attacked a police officer and bit his dog yesterday. Roderick Lewis, 23, reportedly approached Officer Scott Bloom in West Haven and yelled, 'I need a bag of dust.' Lewis reached into his waistband, Bloom tried to restrain him, and Lewis punched Bloom in the face. Then Onyx, the police dog, jumped from the police vehicle and bit Lewis' leg...and then Lewis bit him back. He bit him so hard, in fact, that he wouldn't let go of the dog until Bloom pulled him off Onyx. Lewis was charged with assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct and cruelty to animals."

[via Gothamist]

What’s your take?

Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her. Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her. After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him.

Picasso replies: "$5,000."
The woman screamed, "But it took you only five minutes."
"No, madam, it took me all my life" replied Picasso.

[via inspire.boranikolic.com]

Welcome to the NFL...ROOKIE!

You thought you had a bad day!

"Fully-loaded" car

Eat your bacon while reading email...

This does not look too good...

Mechanical systems illustrated with animations

Radial Engines

Steam engine Principle

Sewing Machine

Maltese Cross Mechanism

Manual Transmission Mechanism

Constant Velocity Joint

Destroyer Weapons System

Rotary Engine

TV reporter destroys ice sculpture

AMAZING Japanese Baseball Catch by Masato "Spiderman" Akamatsu! [HD]

A dog dances his face off

The changing face of beauty

Thru time, media has depicted beauty in many ways. A pretty face from the 1920's in not exactly "pretty" today. In this short film by newsweek you can see the "changing trends" and may recognize some of the face.

Failed Motorcycle Test

Lame soccer celebratio

Smiling Apple

I can always make you smile by ~00devilstar00 on deviantART

It's National Quit Your Job Day!

The perils of being a middle-eastern american

If a woman was designed by an engineer she would have this label

The Loch Ness Monster now lives in Tokyo!

I guess he wanted more attention?

Being romantic is not an option…is a necessity!!!

No matter what obstacles arise, love will always find a way…somebody slap me!

Has Barbie hit hard times?

FAIL: Self-portrait

What she meant…

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What came out!!!

Apple’s solution to the iPhone 4 reception problems

Are your bookmarks “helping” you?

These are paperclips with arms used as bookmarks. They give the appearance of people that have been stuck between the pages. Each set includes 5 arm clips.

• Size: 45 x 12mm (1.75'' x 5'')
• Material: Stainless Steel

 

Help! Bookmark VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

[via www.Designboom.com]

Is stress getting to everybody?

Is say it is

Holy Cities Batman!!!

What goes around…does it really come around?

According to this ad…YES!!! Very clever.

Shanghai…what a difference 20-years makes!!!

Shanghai 1990

Shanghai 2010

Gran Turismo® 5 E3 2010 Trailer

New Bus for London: virtual tour

Ever seen a beer drinking goat?

Enough said!!! (from the Dominican Republic)

Amazing building art display

Toronto building art by ~Busta09 on deviantART

oh polaroid...where did u go?? by ~lil-crizzy on deviantART

How have good samaritans evolved?

How to Understand Dyslexia

How to Understand Dyslexia: "

Dyslexia is a neurological learning disability (LD) that affects many aspects of life such as reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, and general academics. Children with dyslexia are mislabeled as 'lazy' because of their lack of performance in school and in life. In contrast to this misconception, a large percentage of dyslexics have an above average IQ. To put it in layman's terms, a glitch in their brain makes them unable to access the 'word analyzer' and other parts of the brain. If you don't know much about dyslexia, here is a primer.

Steps

1. Do not assume that a person with dyslexia is just someone who is behind in reading, writing and spelling. The latter can be caused by a variety of factors that are not neurological, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction. Dyslexia is caused by an impairment in the brain's ability to translate images received from the eyes or ears into understandable language.
   
2. Try to imagine the world from a dyslexic person's point of view. A person with dyslexia has trouble seeing letters or words in the intended organization, remembering the order of the words or letters, or processing the words or letters in their correct order, shape, and direction. Here are some things a dyslexic person may experience:
   
   
   
   • see some letters as backwards or upside down
     
   • see text appearing to jump around on a page
     
   • not able to tell the difference between letters that look similar in shape such as (o), (e), (c), (8) and (3)
     
   • not able to tell the difference between letters that have similar shape but different orientation, appearing as if in a mirror, like (db bd) and (qp pq)
     
   • see the letters fine, but not able to sound out words -- that is, not be able to connect the letters to the sounds they make and understand them
     
   • able to connect the letters and sound out words, but not able to recognize words they have seen before, no matter how many times they see them -- each time they would have to start fresh
     
   • able to read the word properly but not able to make sense of or remember what they read, so that they find themselves coming back to read the same passage over and over again
     
   • the letters might look all jumbled up and out of order
     
   • the letters and words might look all bunched together
     
   • the letters of some words might appear completely backwards, such as the word 'bird' looking like 'brid'
     
   • the letters and words might look normal, but the dyslexic person might get a severe headache or feel sick to their stomach every time they try to read for prolonged hours
     
   
   
3. Know how dyslexia is diagnosed. The Dyslexia Determination Test (DDT) is used to investigate specific aspects of language problems and differentiates the child who demonstrates dyslexic tendencies from the individual who is merely behind in reading, writing and spelling due to causes other than a dyslexic pattern. A child must be reading (at least) at a second grade level for the test to be valid. Dyslexia can also be identified genetically. A test can reveal the presence of the DCDC2 Gene now known to be linked to dyslexia (a simple cotton swab is used).
   
4. Avoid confusing dyslexia with developmental disorders such as mental retardation (MR) or autism. MR is generally characterized by low IQ^[1] while people with dyslexia usually have average or above average IQ.^[2] Autism and Asperger's Syndrome are characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior.^[3] These are not characteristics associated with dyslexia.
   
5. Know the different kinds of dyslexia: 'dysphonetic', 'dyseidetic' and dysphoneidetic. Dysphonetic dyslexia is also known as Auditory Dyslexia because the person labeled 'dysphonetic' has difficulty connecting sounds to symbols, and might have a hard time sounding out words, and spelling mistakes would show a very poor grasp of phonics, while the 'dyseidetic' individual, on the other hand, generally has a good grasp of phonetic concepts, but great difficulty with whole word recognition and spelling. This type of dyslexia is also sometimes called 'surface dyslexia' or 'visual dyslexia.' If a child can't read (decode)and spell (encode)words either eidetically or phonetically, this is known as Mixed Dyslexia or Dysphoneidetic Dyslexia. This is the severest form of dyslexia because it involves both types of coding functions.
   

Tips

• The greater collection of symptoms of dyslexia is called 'Word Blindness' which is an old-fashioned term used to mean that a person is unable to recognize and understand words that they see. This was the term used to describe dyslexia when it was first described by doctors about one hundred years ago. It is sometimes still used to describe the symptoms of a person who cannot remember the order and sequence of letters in a word from one time to the next. That is, even after intensive study and drill, the student is unable to recognize the word.
  
• Parents can find out if they or their children carry the hereditary traits of dyslexia in the same way as a paternity test. Use a QIAamp Kit done at home with a prescription given under the orders of a genetics specialist. Saliva will provide all the DNA to test for DCDC2 in chromosome 6 and 15 as linked to the FGFR3 gene helix mutative gene (see Sources and Citations research into dyslexia).
  
• Dyslexia can also make mathematics, especially the algebraic forms, an especially difficult challenge. This type of dyslexia is known as Dyscalculia, which is defined as the inability to calculate equations due to poor mental math and memory skills. Signs of dyscalculia in adulthood would include:
  
  
  
  • Poor mental math, difficulty handling money, making change
    
  • Fails to notice math signs and symbols (+ = - x )
    
  • Can get problems right, but doesn't understand why, so can't transfer the knowledge to new problems
    
  • Doesn't remember the basic math operations like addition and multiplication tables
    
  • Poor sense of direction, trouble reading maps, telling time, understanding schedules
    
  • Mistakes in working with numbers - reversals, substituting other numbers and leaving numbers out
    
  • Trouble learning musical concepts or following directions in sports.
    
  
  
• Problems with math can be due to other factors, however, which make dyscalculia hard to diagnose:
  
  
  
  • Lack of experience and background knowledge in math
    
  • Math instruction in the past has not matched the learner's learning style
    
  • Lack of motivation, lackadaisical (non caring) attitude
    
  • Below average intelligence
    
  • Math anxiety
    
  • Doesn't see mathematics as useful
    
  • Non-mathematical learning disabilities
    
  
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Cope with Dyslexia
  
• How to Recognize the Signs of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  
• How to Understand Differences Between Classic Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
  
• How to Understand Deafblind People
  

Sources And Citations

• http://www.medicinenet.com/dyslexia/article.htm MedicineNet.com
  
• http://www.dyslexia.com/ Davis Dyslexia Association International
  
• http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm 37 common characteristics of Dyslexia By Ronald D. Davis
  
• http://www.ldaamerica.org/ Learning Disabilities Association of America
  
• http://www.ninds.nih.gov/ National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  
• http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/Default.aspx National Institute of Health office of rare Diseases Research
  
• http://www.Vub.ac.be/downloads/dyslexia.pdf Understanding Dyslexia,Information Data Base of the United Kingdom
  
• http://www.Visiontherapykc.com/TypesofDyslexia.pdf this list explains the three known types of Dyslexia by Vision Therapy KC .com
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_research_into_dyslexia the Genetics of Dyslexia Research documents
  
• http://www.nunavutliteracy.ca/english/resource/learning/dyscal.pdf facts sheet on Dyscalculia
  

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This Picture of Earth from Mars is the Most Amazing Thing Ever. EVER.

This Picture of Earth from Mars is the Most Amazing Thing Ever. EVER.: "

I can’t stop looking at this. It might not look like much as far as beauty goes if you compare it to, say, the Hubble photos, but dudes, the fact that we’re taking pictures of Earth from Mars is a complete mind-eff. Wow.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ / CC BY 2.0

Click something, quick!

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Ephemicropolis...a model city made of stacked staples

Just imaging raiding your job's supply cabinet and doing this. No, don't do it!!! It will take about 100,000 staples and a surface of 18 square meters to accomplish what was done here. Just a reminder...I don't want you going thru your supply cabinet...OK!!!

Liar, Liar

Have funeral homes gone too far?

On display is David Morales Colon riding his Repsol Honda, a gift from his uncle. Now, don't fool yourself thinking he is posing for a motorcycle magazine. The 22 year old puerto-rican man died from gun inflicted wounds by a contract-killer. The funeral home responsible for this "arrangement" has a reputation for being very "avant-garde" (if you will). In August of 2008 they displayed a man standing up.

U.S Military decides to "Abstain from Blood" !

Best Cry Ever (Auto-Tuned) Remix [HD]

The most epic film ever!

Who is TicTac Micha?

I love the choreography in this one. This dude iz got some talent.

Who is Tictac Micha? - Awesome video clips here

Which is winter's biggest "I dare you to..."?

If you said eating yellow snow you just won a....

I want to thank my wife for this. Thanks babe...you know I love you.

PicKollage: Spring in NYC

Little tricks you learn in life

I just realized the if you hit stop, stop, stop and then play when you pop-in a dvd it will skip the all then non-sense and go right to the movie. I LOVE IT!!!

Towers and palms

Towers and Palms by *angelreich on deviantART

How much damage can an earthquake cause?

The answer is a lot. Especially when you consider factors such as the measured scale (the higher the stronger), the location (what type of soil is in the area) and the local infrastructure. To highlight this I have attached a satellite image showing the contrast between what was there before and after an earthquake. The area shown is the region of Qinghai, China. I have also added additional information from Google's Official blog. Normally I would say "Enjoy" after posting something to this blog but I will omit it for this once.

On Tuesday, April 13, a powerful 6.9 earthquake shook the province of Qinghai, China, resulting in widespread destruction and the loss of more than 1,700 lives. Working closely with GeoEye, we’ve been able to acquire some high resolution post-earthquake imagery, which vividly illustrates the magnitude of this tragic event.

(click image to view full-size; click here to view in Google Earth)

To see more of this imagery, you can download the KML here and open it in Google Earth.

Satellite Car Chase

It starts in Brooklyn and ends.....who cares?

Satellite Car Chase from Honest Directors on Vimeo.

Mario and Luigi own restaurants in Manchester

Want to smell like a carpenter? Buy LEVELUS...the fragrance!

I'm not sure whether or not this is real but according to what I read it is supposed to hit the market sometime in the future...if it's not already. It is basically a level/cologne bottle and it is supposed to come in different sizes. Here is some data from the maker:

Levelus is a fresh scent to highlight your love of life and self-confidence. The fragrance opens with a bright chord: Calabrianebergamot, rosemary and clementine oil. The optimistic wood notes of birch, cedar and vetiver are balanced with gentle iris root and cardamom.

The bottle is designed for an emotional, strong and self-confident man who doesn’t waste his time.

For frequent use, there are replacement perfume containers. Levelus comes in 20, 40 and 60 mL bottles.

[via artlevedeb.com thru likecool.com]

Claire Danes Drawing by *KJS-1 on deviantART

Claire Danes Drawing by *KJS-1 on deviantART: "
Claire Danes Drawing by *KJS-1 on deviantART"

NINTENDO in a nutshell

My favorite hangout spot!

Washington Square Park

Private I's - I'll be around

A remake of the 1979 classic by Otis Gayle. Not too shabby...

Artistic Cake from an art classic

How effective is mass-transit?

word of mouth?

What if Calvin took ADD pills?

Best sign ever?

Oh dear GOD!!!

Sightseeing: The Dorilton

While on the way back from restarting a server I drove into Manhattan (YES I drove) and noticed this gem of NYC architecture.

It's called The Doriton and is located on 171 West 71st Street & Broadway. It was built in Beaux-Art architectural style and dates back to 1902. It made landmark-status in 1974. New York Architecture had the following to say:

Completed in 1902 at a cost of $750,000, the building had separate servant and passenger elevators, filtered water, separate tenant storerooms and a provision for charging electric automobiles. 

The one-to four-bedroom apartments, four to a floor and renting for $100 to $300 a month, had long halls, unusual paneling and mirrored bathrooms. But there was marginal closet space and a skimpy bath-to-bedroom ratio, both typical of early apartments. [link]

 If you are not in NYC and want a "closer-look" check out below (get your 3D glasses):

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It's the return of the Gullwing..

Long considered a classic. Mercedez brings back...in a modern way...it's classic 300SL model. Hug the genius that came up with this idea.

Chassis
Wheels	17 X 8 AMG wheels
Tires	235/45/17 Continental Sport
Drivetrain
Layout	Front Engine, RWD
Transmission	6 speed manual
Engine
Type:	AMG Handbuilt V8
Displacement	5.5 liters
Horsepower	370 bhp
Torque	530 Nm (390 lb-ft.)

[via RSportsCars.com (Specs) & Gullwing-Americana.com (Picture)]

Pedigree Dogs ad shot 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera

How would Buzz Lightyear look if he was real?

Somehow I like the animated one better...

[via Kidrobot]