Giant Van Gogh in Goodland, Kansas
There is a small town in Kansas - Goodland - surrounded by sunflowers fields and cut apart by I-70 highway. It is a typical Kansas town with one giant difference. It has Van Gogh. Though just a reproduction but the huge one.
A 24 by 32 foot reproduction of Van Gogh’s “3 Sunflowers In A Vase” on a 80 foot steel easel is created by Cameron Cross in 2001 as a part of The Big Easel Project. Here you can find more information about it.
Via Spiral Pocus.
Pat Says Now Mice
Swiss luxury computer peripherals manufacturer with a fancy name - Pat Says Now - has announced a new line of computer mice decorated with genuine Swarovski crystals, diamonds and white gold. The cheapest one will cost you “just” US$200. But the diamond and white gold version will be hellish US$30,000.
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Stockholm Subway
“The Stockholm Subway is sometimes called a long art exhibition.” (c) vargklo
Näckrosen (”The Water Lily”) subway station in Stockholm. Made like water lily pond on the roof and walls.
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Porche Tractor
Porche is the best renowned for its luxurious sports cars and a few know that Porche is a brand name in the agricultural machinery market. Here is good example of Porche style: 1954 Porsche-Allgaier P312 coffee tractor.
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Tetris - Russian Secret Weapon Against Hollywood
Russians are plotting to rock the Hollywood with their new sci-fi game-based blockbuster - Tetris: The Movie. A brother dies. A chalange arises. The love, the friendship, the betrayal and the deadly game… Tetris.
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Laptop Cover Artworks
Russian website GelaSkins offers a load of famous artworks printed on the sticky tape to customize and individualize your laptop. Each of them offered for about $50 (which is not so pricey but shipped to Russia only) and available for all most popular laptop sizes from 12″ to 17″. You can give your laptop a touch of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or put a bit of frustration with the most known M.C. Escher’s artworks.
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Huge Hole in Quito, Ecuador
Photo by Stern. A huge hole in the ground ate a part of the road in the Ecuador capital city Quito after heavy rains in the beginning of April, 2008. According to Latin American news agency Prensa Latina the hole measured 262 feet (80 meters) in depth, 98 feet (30 meters) in diameter.
NASA finds a black hole in Milky Way
THE discovery in our own galaxy of the smallest black hole known in the universe is a feather in the cap for NASA, but it will present new challenges to future space travellers who may venture too close.
The Daily Telegraph “NASA finds a black hole in our Milky Way galaxy“
Playing World of Warcraft on Asus eeePC
A guy from the Ultramobilegeek.com running World Of Warcraft heavy MMORPG game on his Asus eeePC 701 ultra mobile notebook (which is often called mininote for its modest size and weight). Of cause the eeePC he’s got for it is not the cheapest one. This is 4G model with 2Gb RAM. Also he have used a special software to overclock the CPU and boost 7″ LCD resolution to 800*600.
But it’s work. World of Warcraft runs 8 frames per second - pretty nice for grinding or auctioning on the go.
Zimbabwe Inflation
10 million Zimbabwean dollars and the grocery market prices in Harare. Photos by Bishop Asare / EFE and Reuters respectively.
Being under the Mugabe’s regime for over a twenty years Zimbabwe (a not so small and pretty populated African country situated to the north of South Africa) experienced the most crazy inflation in XXI century word. In the March, 2008 the black market price of the US dollar jumps from 25 million Zimbabwean dollars to almost 90 million!