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…SKAGGS shot a lot of water?

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on April 23, 2008

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Water Bottles

A TOTO HET toilet can save up to 24,655 gallons of water per year, but how do you show that visually so that you can truly grasp what a number like that means?

That’s the question that SKAGGS faced for their latest photo shoot, and the answer involved “2 months of planning, 1 trip from El Paso to Dallas and back, 1,000 - 5 gallon water bottles, 3 trucks, 2 tractors, 1 buggy and a whole lot of man (and woman) power”.

Click the links for a rather interesting behind the scenes.

[SKAGGS - Water, Water Everywhere!]

[Flickr - Totology Photo Shoot]

[Via: NOTCOT]

…Armed America shows you what gun owners look like?

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Cory O'Brien

on March 21, 2008

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Armed America

Armed America: Portraits of American Gun Owners in Their Homes “isn’t a book about guns. It’s a book about people”.

Kyle Cassidy traveled 15,000 miles over the course of two years to ask those featured just one question: Why do you own a gun?”

The goal was to humanize an issue as polarizing as gun ownership and gun control, and according to the reviews, Kyle succeeded.

[Armed America]

…It’s Website Wednesday: StrawPoll?

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Cory O'Brien

on February 27, 2008

in Websites

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StrawPoll is a simple site that uses Twitter to ask one daily poll question.

To take part, simply follow StrawPoll on Twitter to get the daily poll question, and then reply with “@strawpoll” (your vote) (your reason)”.

The totals of each day’s vote are then tallied up, and a winner is declared.

What’s your favorite?

[StrawPoll]

…Bacon Blankets are perfect for sandwiches?

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Cory O'Brien

on January 28, 2008

in Food

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Bacon Blanket

The Bacon Blanket is the perfect answer to the “How can I cover my sandwich with the optimal amount of bacon?” question.

Can you think of a better way?

[Via: Breakfast Blogger]

…Your tank isn’t always empty?

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Cory O'Brien

on December 17, 2007

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Tank On Empty

When your gas light comes on, how far can you go before it’s time to push?

Tank on Empty wants to help you answer that question, and it does so by polling other drivers to see how many miles they’ve gone on E.

By using this information, TOE hopes to create a database of how far each car can go before it’s time to fill up.

[Tank On Empty]

[Via: Neatorama]

…The Orange Box is racist?

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Cory O'Brien

on December 4, 2007

in Games

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Team Fortress 2

Buyers of Valve’s The Orange Box quickly discovered that Team Fortress 2 is one of the best multiplayer games out right now.

Using class-based warfare, players assume a role that they must follow until they die. If they want to be a medic, they must spend their time healing other players. If they want to be a pyro, they’re armed with a flamethrower and they must spend their time burning everything in sight.

Though it makes for great gameplay, it does bring up one question: Why is the only black character in the game a grenade launching drunkard?

Games aren’t necessarily known for their racial sensitivity, but this seems to go a bit beyond mere oversight.

What do you think? Was the black player’s role intentional, or did someone just press the black button at the wrong time?

[The Montoya Herald - Playing Offensive]

[Valve - The Orange Box - Team Fortress 2]

[Wikipedia - Team Fortress 2]

…Coins don’t need to have ridges?

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Cory O'Brien

on November 19, 2007

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Coin Ridges

Ever wonder why some coins have ridges, while others do not?

The answer is surprisingly simple:

When coins where made of gold or silver, the value of the coin was based on the value of the metal in it. Thus, a $10 gold coin had $10 worth of gold in it.

Before ridges, thieves would file off the edges of the coins and make a slow but steady profit from passing on the slightly smaller coins, while collecting the rest.

To prevent this practice, the government began minting ridges into the edges of coins so that you can easily tell if a coin has been tampered with.

Though coins are no longer made of gold or silver, they still have ridges, because we’re accustomed to seeing them that way.

Now you know.

[Via: Big Site Of Amazing Facts]

[Photo Via: Clearly Ambiguous]

…A lot of condoms can be worn at once?

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Cory O'Brien

on October 16, 2007

in Science

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Condoms How many condoms can you wear at once?

That’s the question that one inquisitive team of scientists asked after thinking about the term “double bagging”.

It seems like a simple-minded experiment, and it is, but the result may surprise you, so read through for a lighthearted look at the world of latex.

[My Science Project - How Many Condoms At Once?]

[Via: Boinkology]

…deviantART now shows Films?

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Cory O'Brien

on October 1, 2007

in Movies

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deviantART Films

deviantART is launching deviantART Film, but they want to make it very clear that this is not YouTube 2.0.

While YouTube is like a weekend movie, filled with entertainment but ultimately devoid of quality content, deviantART Film is like a film festival; an event that you know is going to be something special.

To begin with, all of their films are hand picked. No webcam rants and raves here; these are feature films that took time and effort to create.

Second, viewers can comment on specific frames of a film. Not sure what the artist was trying to portray? Instead of leaving a generic comment at the end, you can instead mark the part of the film that threw you off, and leave a comment specific to that segment.

Lastly, deviantART Films are available in DivX and h.264 formats in addition to the standard Flash, giving you higher quality and larger sized viewing options.

Considering the art that the deviants have created, I can’t wait to see what they put on Film.

[deviantART Film]

[Via: deviantART]

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