Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
Need to demonstrate the cleanliness of a hotel room?
Forget scientific tests, black lights and Petri dishes.
All it takes is a girl, her tongue, and a complete lack of oral hygiene.
OCDers and germaphobes, turn away now…
(Be sure to check out extstay.com for more tongue-tastic taste tests.
Baseball Boss is like a Fantasy Baseballer’s dream come true.
Designed to be the ultimate interactive baseball game, users can create teams using real major league players from 1907 or 2007, and then test and tweak those teams until they’re the best that they can be.
Once a team has been assembled, players can then challenge other players in real games, and using a combination of chance and statistics, a computer determines the winner.
New features are constantly being added, and it’s made by Challenge Games, who also developed Duels, so you know it’s going to have some great support behind it.
Are you ready to step up to the plate?
Give yourself a hearing test with this site from the Norwegian Red Cross.
(Actually, it’s not a hearing test, but a campaign for something else entirely, so give it a shot, but don’t expect any miracle cures.)
[Via: Adverblog]
Ever wonder why time seems to slow down during moments of danger?
According to David Eagleman, a scientist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston:
“In this way, frightening events are associated with richer and denser memories,” Eagleman explained. “And the more memory you have of an event, the longer you believe it took.”
Eagleman added this illusion “is related to the phenomenon that time seems to speed up as you grow older. When you’re a child, you lay down rich memories for all your experiences; when you’re older, you’ve seen it all before and lay down fewer memories. Therefore, when a child looks back at the end of a summer, it seems to have lasted forever; adults think it zoomed by.”
How did he test this theory?
“It’s the scariest thing I have ever done,” said David. “I knew it was perfectly safe, and I also knew that it would be the perfect way to make people feel as though an event took much longer than it actually did.”
Indeed, volunteers estimated their own fall lasted about a third longer than dives they saw other volunteers take.
Now you know.
[LifeScience - Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies]
[Via: Neatorama]
[Photo Via: SoldiersMediaCenter]
Think you have the perfect smile?
Apparently scientists have done a test or two, and come up with the following guidelines:
[The Daily Telegraph - Bright Whites, Imperfect Smile]
[Via: Spluch]
On the car scale, Ferrari is definitely at the top; and on the Ferrari scale, the Enzo is definitely at the top, which is why a special edition Enzo is no ordinary supercar. Called the FXX, it was sold only to “select” buyers, and was used by Ferrari as a test bed for development of their latest equipment.
Two years, and 20,000 miles later, they’ve gathered up enough data from the 20 cars to make an even better version of their wondermobile, and they’re calling it the FXX Evoluzione.
Again available only to a “select” group of buyers, the Evoluzione features 860 hp, a 9,500 redline, 60 millisecond shifts, a less invasive, more adaptable traction control system that can be adjusted in the cockpit on the fly, modified suspension geometry, and a new aerodynamic package.
Being a test driver for Ferrari doesn’t come cheap, but if you had the cash, would you turn down the offer? (Oh, and the $2 million it takes to own one comes with “a 15-member official team made up of engineers, electronics experts and mechanics capable of providing complete assistance to clients”. And you thought you had a comprehensive warranty!)
[Via: Autoblog]
It takes a puzzling kind of love to enjoy a self-referential aptitude test, but if you fear no test, and you enjoy the satisfaction of completing something excruciatingly difficult, then try your luck and take the test.
