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On October - 25 - 2011
4 Terrifying Psychology Lessons Behind Famous Movie Monsters
On October - 24 - 2011
LIVE CHAT! Tuesday, October 25th at Noon PST, continue the conversation from this episode with the writers and stars of After Hours! A link to the chat will appear here once we’re live. In the meantime, email your question or observation about movie monster psychology to support@cracked.com with the subject line “AH Question” to be one of the first in line.
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10 Bizarre Cases of Heart Attacks
On October - 24 - 2011
Published on Today 10/24/2011
under Strange Stories
– by Gracie Murano
The man who died of a heart attack while watching British comedy ‘The Goodies’
On 24 March 1975, Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King’s Lynn, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode “Kung Fu Kapers” in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a black pudding-wielding Bill Oddie (master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art “Ecky-Thump”) in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of “Hoots-Toot-ochaye.” After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure.
His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell’s final moments so pleasant.
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The blind woman who started seeing after having a heart attack
Joyce Urch, blind for 25 years, can suddenly see again after a heart attack. Since 1979, Joyce Urch had lived in a world of shadows and near-darkness, but was astonished to find her sight restored when she came round after being resuscitated. Doctors have been unable to explain what happened, but Mrs Urch, 74, was happy yesterday to put it down to a “miracle”.
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The reporter who tweeted live his heart attack
White House correspondent Tommy Christopher with Mediaite.com may have made Social Network history as being the first person ever to update his or her Twitter page while having a heart attack. This claim is unverified and likely inaccurate, but nonetheless, it takes a courageous reporter to inform the public even in personal trying times.
Approximately at 6pm on Sunday afternoon Christopher wrote, “I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!” Presumably a few minutes later the paramedics arrived to tell Christopher he will be stable after his crisis. An hour later Christopher joked about needing to own a cardiac cat, referencing a viral video in which a cat is trying to revive his dead feline friend. He also updated his followers about the pain he was feeling, “even after the morphine.”
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The health guru who had a heart attack during a Talk Show
Jerome Irving Rodale was a proponent of healthy eating. He was an early advocate for organic farming and sustainable agriculture, founder of Organic Farming and Gardening magazine and Rodale Press.
After bragging that he would “live to 100, unless I’m run down by a a sugar-crazy taxi driver”, Rodale died of a heart attack while being interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show in 1971. Appearing fast asleep, Dick Cavett joked “Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?” before discovering that his 72-year-old guest had indeed died. The show was never aired.
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The doctor who was having a heart attack and got paged to his own emergency
A first aider who was suffering a suspected heart attack got a shock when he received a pager message sending him to his own medical emergency. Roger Flux (yes, really his name) works as a volunteer community responder for Hampshire Ambulance Service – a scheme in which volunteer medical workers in their local communities help ensure medical help reaches patients as quickly as possible.
The 66-year-old began experiencing chest pains while lying in bed at his New Forest home in March this year. His wife quickly called 999 as a precaution. Paramedics were on the scenes within minutes – at which point Mr Flux got a pager message scrambling him to an emergency at his own house. Mr Flux said: ‘I was on call that evening and during the middle of the night I had severe chest pains right across my chest and jaw.’ ‘In a couple of minutes the ambulance crews were here and investigating and in the meantime I asked my wife to get my response bag. While I was sitting down my pager went off, telling me to attend to a man with chest pains. Then I looked at the address – it was my own.’
Mr Flux says that later – after cardiac specialists at Southampton General Hospital decided it had been a false alarm –he saw the funny side of it. ‘At least it shows the system works.’
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The man who won the lottery the same day he died from a heart attack
Donald Peters has got to be both the luckiest and unluckiest man on the day of his death. Well, unlucky because he suffered a heart attack and died, but lucky because he just bought the winning lottery ticket that provided for his family. The Peters children think their father would have appreciated the irony.
Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury. Donald Peters usually bought the tickets for 10 weeks at a stretch, so the winning ticket he bought was among several that Charlotte Peters put aside as she, their three children and two grandchildren coped with his sudden death.
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The man having a heart attack who was saved by his dog
Sometimes animal rescuers do more than just alert people about a danger. Teka took a much more active role in saving someone’s life when his owner, Jim Touzeau, suffered a heart attack in 2007. When Touzeau fell to the ground motionless, Teka started barking and jumped on his owner’s chest until his heart restarted and Touzeau was able to call the paramedics.
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The man who suffered a heart attack just before $6 oral sex
A grandfather, who was “looking for sex to his last breath”, collapsed and died after negotiating a £4 fee with a local prostitute. The 80-year-old from Split had just successfully haggled a £4 price for oral sex with the 30-year-old prostitute. The pair went into an abandoned house, where they usually liaised, and he dropped his pants. Sadly in the excitement he collapsed and died.
The prostitute called an ambulance but there was nothing that could be done. He was eulogized in the local paper as a man who was “looking for sex until his last breath”.
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The comedian who had a heart attack on stage after telling a joke
Dick Shawn (1924-1987) was a comedian who had a heart attack and died during a joke that seemed strangely appropriate. He was making fun of politicians by saying campaign cliches ending with “I will not lay down on the job!” Shawn then lay down on the floor face down. At first, the audience thought that it was all part of the show, until sometime later a theater employee checked him for a pulse and began administering CPR.
The paramedics then arrived, and the audience was told to go home – Dick Shawn was dead.
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The man who had a heart attack after bowling a perfect game.
After bowling for 45 years, a Michigan man named Don Doanne finally bowled a perfect 300 game … and then moments later, he died of a heart attack!
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Part Of Man Wonders What It Would Be Like To Fall Through Floor Into Downstairs Apartment
On October - 23 - 2011
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If They Made Ads for the Worst Things Ever
On October - 23 - 2011
Advertisers have been able to sell some pretty terrible stuff. Emphasizing the positives, and downplaying the fact that it kills you goes a long way. We asked you to show us what it might look like if they had to sell stuff that sucks so hard, even the most cynical corporations haven’t thought of tricking you into buying it.
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4 Unintentionally Hilarious ’90s Instructional Videos
On October - 22 - 2011
If you were lucid in the late ’80s and early ’90s, you know that most of our information was given to us by way of rap. It’s how we learned everything from bike safety to the proper way of making love to police officers. However, there were many other teaching methods that were just as deranged. Let’s look at four of them:
#4. eXtremeness: Enter The Yo Zone — X-Treme Yo-Yo
The first time someone in the ’90s thought to put on sunglasses and stand in front of graffiti, Satan laughed and said, “That’s exactly how I’m going to greet that guy when his filthy black soul arrives.” The trend that doomed individual invented was called eXtreme, and it became the driving force behind every marketing campaign of the decade. Extremeness opened our eyes to radical new truths like how every Mountain Dew drinker is a spazzy piece of shit with nothing to live for. It turbo-charged the eXcitement of products we already loved and gave us a Dorito flavor that a human colon could actually pass.
The Yo Zone is exactly what it looks like: a desperate grab at “cool” by people who spent their social development years practicing yo-yo tricks. It’s more of a campaign to convince the viewer that yo-yos are rad than it is an instructional video, and it fails at both. If your doctor wrote a note to your PE teacher that excused you from climbing the rope until your groin rash cleared up, it would be less socially awkward than this video. I don’t approve of what bullies do, but after watching The Yo Zone, I understand why they do it.
The stars of the video are Kate, YO-HANS and Julius. I know this because they start every segment with a brand new introduction. I have no goddamn idea why because if it was possible to forget the name YO-HANS, World ProYo Master, I would. Maybe the producers were worried that the brain would start randomly deleting memories when exposed to an (CENSORED) in mom jeans and goggles doing eXtreme yo-yo. Or maybe this is an example of the first thing they teach in yo-yo performing school — constantly use your first name in order to humanize yourself because people are about to want to kill you. “Hi, I’m Julius! I’m about to show you how to do a trick called Scrape The Uterus! But before I start, I’m Julius! I have a mother who loves me, you haven’t established an alibi and several witnesses saw us leave together!”
Since I was 12, most of the products I’ve owned and eaten have been eXtreme, and I’m still not sure I get it. If I had to guess, I’d say that being eXtreme means you’re a P%$$y but hiding it behind enthusiasm. My point is, it’s a difficult emotion to express on your face — especially when you’re concentrating on yo-yo tricks that took long, sexless years to perfect. The faces Kate, YO-HANS and Julius make while they are performing are like nothing a human head has ever known. They’re not silly, smug, happy … they are simply violent expressions of nothing. These people make faces your fists have been waiting their whole life to smash into.
Besides making stupid faces, another drawback to teaching with eXtremeness is that you have to devote so much time to blowing your student’s mind. Oh, did you have preconceived notions about the yo-yo? Well, then explain why this one is right up in your F*CKing face! For 30 straight minutes! To Canada’s hottest unsigned synth bands! By the time The Yo Zone has wiped out everything you thought you knew about yo-yos, they barely have time to teach you any tricks. Like the back of the box says, “The yo-yo is back! But this ain’t yo parents’ yo-yo.” You might have hired the worst copy-writer in Canada, Yo Zone, but I think you’re right. If my parents had these yo-yos they would have been too busy asking my grandparents what sex felt like to ever break a condom together. Ugh. Even thinking about my parents playing with yo-yos is starting to fade me from existence.
#3. RB: Wendy’s Training Videos
In 1989, Wendy’s produced a training video called Grill Skill that set the standard for all future education. In it, a Wendy’s trainee gets sucked into his break room’s television and taught to grill cheeseburgers by a rapping Duke of the Grill and singing meat patties. It’s almost terrifying how awesome it is, and if you can win the battle for your own sanity, you will come out the other side of it knowing how to properly smash and salt a Wendy’s burger.
Unfortunately, the rest of Wendy’s training videos left behind the inspired insanity of Grill Skill and replaced it with a more pedestrian kind of strangeness. First was “Cold Drinks,” something Paula Abdul would sing to you if you couldn’t figure out how to get Sprite into a cup and she was a sarcastic bitch. Any theologist will tell you that if you need a 120 second song to learn how to distinguish between large and small cups, that’s God’s way of telling you not to handle food. Taco Bell’s training video is less insulting than this, and it’s a 10-minute rap about how to dig dog food out of a can without letting customers see you.
“Hot Drinks” is a lot better. This is exactly the song Billy Ocean would write if he knew the complicated procedure of mixing powdered Sanka with hot water.
So now you know how to grill burgers, pour a soda and put a lid on hot chocolate. You’re ready to start your horrible job, right? Not quite. Do you know how to hand someone a cookie? Bullshit. You only think you do.
When I see that Wendy’s included four lines of a song to something as simple as moving an individually wrapped cookie, it bothers me that not a single word is spent telling employees to resist the urge to put their balls in my food.
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12 Coolest Pictures of Post-it War
On October - 22 - 2011
Published on Today 10/22/2011
under Amazing Art
– by Gracie Murano
So, you are bored at work. What is there to do? Well, you could decorate the glass walls of your office building with Post-it pictures of your favorite animated characters. This is exactly what employees at Ubisoft Montreuil in France did. But, their neighbors across the street at BNP bank took their Post-it artwork as a bit of a challenge, and started firing back with some window images of their own. Thus, the Great French Post-it War of 2011 was born.
So far, it is unclear whether the battles have had an effect on French productivity.
Hello Kitty.
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Apple.
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Michael Jackson.
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Nemo.
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Pokemon.
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Princess Peach.
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Pacman.
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Where is Waldo?
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Obelix.
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Thanks to our reader, Kris C., for the idea.
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[video] Rick Perry Speech Electrifies 1,200 Scared, Miserable Racists
On October - 22 - 2011
The government reduces Bernie Madoff’s sentence in exchange for infiltrating and fixing the economy, leaf hunting season begins, and something is sliding around in this coffin. It’s the week of October 17th, 2011.
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19 Things Old People Suspect About Modern Culture
On October - 21 - 2011
The elderly spent their better days fighting for our freedom, only to have the rug pulled out from under them by the rapid advance of technology. We have nothing but sympathy for them, but all their complaining does make you wonder just what it is they think we’re up to with our damned gadgetry, and new-fangled hip-bop music.
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#19.
by JoeDailey
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by madmann
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by skzip888
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The Inevitable Future of Parenting Reality TV Shows
On October - 20 - 2011
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New Exclusive Coke Scene on Jersey Shore – You Judge
On October - 20 - 2011
This picture is from Season 4 of Jersey Shore. It is from the 2011 episode titled Fist Pump, Pushups, and Chapstick. It would appear that right before Snooki got into a fight in the bar, she was arguing with a girl who has holding a baggie of cocaine.
We would love your comments about the scene. What did you see? Is it controversial that the girl may be waiving cocaine in front of Mtv’s cameras?
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New Decoy Website Launched To Lure Away All Moronic Internet Commenters
On October - 20 - 2011
SAN JOSE, CA—With funding from dozens of news outlets and media companies, the groundbreaking Outkube.com launched this week, providing an online destination where pandering and incendiary content is used to lure moronic Internet commenters away from all other websites.
The site has so far proved extremely popular with the worst F*CKing human beings imaginable.
According to sources, Outkube boasts thousands of articles and forums carefully crafted to draw in dim-witted web users and effectively quarantine obtuse, uninformed comments on topics such as gay rights, Ryan Gosling, the threat of Sharia law in the U.S., health care reform, whether Kobe is better than LeBron, Jewish control of the government and media, the New York Jets, the Second Amendment, and professional wrestler John Cena.
Most stories on the site are reportedly preloaded with several witless and profanity-laden comments specially designed to incite retaliatory remarks.
“Outkube provides an immensely valuable public service,” said YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar, one of the decoy website’s founders and principal investors. “With its unparalleled expanse of sensational content and lack of filters or character limits on postings, Outkube attracts the broadest possible spectrum of jabbering halfwits—from paranoid reactionaries to know-it-all pricks to racists to plain old dumbF*CKs.”
“Now you can read an article or enjoy multimedia on your favorite websites without having to endure the revolting, barely coherent comments these troglodytes used to leave at the bottom of every page,” Kamangar continued. “At long last, a new era has dawned for the Internet.”
Officials at Outkube explained the site relies on a set of fine-tuned algorithms to produce and continuously refresh its content. Using up-to-the-minute sports scores, trending search terms, TV viewing statistics, and key phrases from the latest scaremongering political e-mail forwards, the formulas churn out the divisive social commentary and mindless celebrity gossip upon which web-surfing morons thrive.
In addition, sources confirmed that each day Outkube’s software produces dozens of new pop-culture rankings, such as “The 10 Most Underrated Bands” or “The 15 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time,” which have been shown to occupy some of the Internet’s most obnoxious commenters indefinitely, freeing the remainder of the web for actual rational discourse. The new site also caters to its target demographic with a corps of full-time bloggers including Geraldo Rivera, Rosie O’Donnell, and Spencer Pratt.
“This is a godsend,” said Kenneth Estenson of CNN, which owns a major stake in Outkube. “We’ve seen a huge drop in the number of CNN.com commenters accusing one another of being F*CKing retard dipshits, and the once common practice among users of equating any viewpoint they do not personally share to the philosophy of the Taliban has almost entirely disappeared.”
Added Estenson: “It’s astonishing. A group of our site’s users actually had an intelligent discussion yesterday about the justice system in the Amanda Knox case without being consistently interrupted by speculation about Ms. Knox’s tits or her quote-unquote ‘taco.’ I never could have dreamed this day would come.”
Although Outkube sources admitted the site required little oversight—with nearly all posts devolving on their own into heated exchanges over the Koran’s alleged endorsement of wife-beating, whether Adam Lambert should get AIDS and die, or the government’s secret plan to mentally incapacitate citizens using the HPV vaccine—the site does employ moderators to ensure threads stay as active and idiotic as possible.
“Internet commenters are so inherently dim that, by simply responding to their ridiculous rants with an equally inflammatory statement—for example, by accusing them of engaging in homosexual acts or belittling their favored sports star or political candidate—these imbeciles can’t help but react with outrage and continue to engage with our site,” Outkube webmaster Sean Hawk said. “They take the bait every time.”
“Christ, they’re stupid,” he added.
Hawk then demonstrated a feature that detects when a user has been idle for more than 15 seconds and automatically triggers a pop-up window containing a photograph of a woman whom the user is asked to rate on a scale of “fugly (CENSORED)” to “totally boneable,” a tactic that prevents 9 of 10 idiots from leaving the website, according to internal statistics.
Though the site has won praise for providing a much-need service and has already attracted more than 40 million registered users, Outkube has also earned its share of detractors.
“This site sux serios dick,” wrote a user known as “19brazzballz86,” who left one of the more than 100,000 negative responses posted so far on Outkube’s feedback page. “Fuk u!!! hahah a GO GATORS!!!!”
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10 Coolest Rooftop Attractions
On October - 20 - 2011
Published on Today 10/20/2011
under Cool Places
– by Gracie Murano
Rooftop Playground (Denmark)
Talk about living on the edge! Danish firm JDS Architects has designed one incredibly cool rooftop playground in a densely populated area of Copenhagen. Located on top of three penthouses, the shock absorbing surface (aka the grass hill) is the perfect place for daredevil kids and their worried parents to run rampant. For quieter times, they can marvel at the cityscape on the viewing platform or relax around the outdoor barbecue.
A little freaky, don’t you think? Let’s look on the bright side. Although that low fence must be a nightmare for parents, children who come out unscathed from that death defying experience may grow up to become even more adventurous and confident than the average person!
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Rooftop Pool (Singapore)
If you fancy a dip in this pool, you’ll need a head for heights – it’s 55 storeys up. But swimming to the edge won’t be quite as risky as it looks. While the water in the infinity pool seems to end in a sheer drop, it actually spills into a catchment area where it is pumped back into the main pool. At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650ft up, it is the largest outdoor pool in the world at that height. It features in the impressive, boat-shaped ‘SkyPark’ perched atop the three towers that make up the world’s most expensive hotel, the £4billion Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore.
The infinity pool on the roof is in the ‘SkyPark’ which spans the three towers of the hotel. The platform itself is longer than the Eiffel tower laid down and is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Infinity pools give the effect that the water extends to the horizon. In reality, the water spills over the edge into a catchment below, and is then pumped back into the pool. The pools have two circulation systems. The first functions like that of a regular pool, filtering and heating the water in the main pool. The second filters the water in the catch basin and returns it to the upper pool.
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Rooftop Trailer Park (South Africa)
Atop Cape Town’s swanky Grand Daddy Hotel is a trailer park like no other. The Airstream Penthouse Park is perched on top of the hotel, and is one of the most talked about, hip and happening places in South Africa. More trailer flash than trailer trash, seven imported vintage Airstream Trailers were handed over to local artists and designers for an imaginative makeover. The result is a collection of rooftop suites that plays with the imagination and the senses. Rooms in the hotel start at 945 rands ($90).
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Rooftop Tennis Court (Dubai)
Andre Agassi and Roger Federer were invited to have a friendly match on the world’s highest tennis court on the helipad of Burj Al Arab, 211 meters above the ground.
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Rooftop Roller Coaster (Japan)
Built on the roof-top of an eight-story outlet store in a busy city area, this scary Half Pipe roller coaster was never opened. According to some sources online the problem is with the structure of the building. While the building is capable of handling the weight of the roller coaster, the lateral forces presented an unexpected problem and is why the roller coaster never opened. (At ‘Don Quijote’ department store in downtown Tokyo).
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Rooftop Bar (Thailand)
The stunning, multi-hued Sky bar at Sirocco has several reasons to turn minutes into timeless moments. Suspended in the sky on the 63rd floor of The Dome at State Tower, the Skybar is one of the world’s highest open air bars, overlooking a panoramic view of Bangkok and the Chao Phraya River. With such an enthralling ambience coupled with a seductive selection of the finest vintages, beverages, cocktails and appetizers in Bangkok, the Skybar soars as one of the prized destinations in the city. No wonder, the rooftop bar is unanimously accepted as the coolest bar in Bangkok.
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Rooftop Cinema (Australia)
This might just be the coolest movie theater in Australia. Oh, yeah, and they serve alcoholic drinks, too – what more can you ask for? Owned and operated by a team of artists, the Rooftop Cinema plays classic, current and art-house films in the open air on the top of a six-story building. Sit back and relax in a colorful striped deck chair and just try not to be distracted by the bustle of the city around you.
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Rooftop Garden (Singapore)
Patches of greenery in Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates are popping up on the top decks of multi-storey car parks and on the rooftops of some residential blocks. Taking sky-rise greenery literally to new heights are the Sky Gardens at Pinnacle@ Duxton, Singapore’s tallest public housing building at 50 stories. These distinctive gardens, located on the 26th and 50th floors, are said to be the longest continuous sky gardens in the world, linking seven residential tower blocks together. In the works are plans to implement nine hectares of extensive green roofs – low maintenance rooftop greenery – over the next three to five years in existing HDB estates where rooftop gardens are not feasible.
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Rooftop Office (Austria)
The Viennese architects Wolf Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky, akaCoop Himmelb(l)au, made their reputation on blind, gestural sketches that, sometimes, became buildings. These sketches accomplish many things, three that I would like to focus on: capture a feeling, create a unique design process, and lead to complex structural and design solutions. The accompanying images are Coop Himmelb(l)au’s design of a rooftop addition, focusing on a conference room, to a law firm’s office.
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Rooftop Farm (Chicago)
In 2008, the folks at the Uncommon Ground restaurant, 1401 W. Devon, opened their 2,500-square foot organic rooftop farm. The lofty mission is to deliver organic produce for the downstairs restaurant and to use the garden to teach adult volunteers and children how to grow food organically in an urban, roof-top environment.
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26 Great Movies from the Villain’s Point of View
On October - 19 - 2011
Everyone’s the hero of their own narrative, walking around with the theme from Rocky ringing in their heads. It doesn’t matter if their day involves holding a toddler hostage. We asked you to show us what some great movies looked like inside the bad guy’s head.
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10 Coolest Objects Inspired by iPhone
On October - 18 - 2011
Published on Today 10/18/2011
under Cool Objects
– by Gracie Murano
iPhone Tacky T-Shirt
This shirt doesn’t come with touch technology like the iPhone itself, but we think the reaction is still probably best when activated by the flow of electrons through your skin.
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iPhone Coasters
These coasters are from Meninos. Take your love of iPhone and use that power to protect furniture. They’re made from thin plywood wrapped in a vinyl decal, with rubber slapped on the bottom. The 3.34″ coasters come in a pack of 16 for $60, which seems just a bit expensive, but let’s face it, it isn’t cheap being a geek.
Now, if only they had wireless capabilities, you could set your drink down and open the app at the same time. Or play an iPhone game between two drinkers. Every time you take a drink, you set it down on an app and counter each other’s moves. Oh well, maybe next time.
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iPhone Coffee Table
Attention iPhone fanboys… throw out your coffee table now. You’ve just been out-geeked by some iLoungers. The coolest part about this fairly realistic looking coffee table is that the icons are removable- you pop them out to use them as coasters. The entire table is made of cardboard and glue. Do want.
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iPhone Notebooks
The Notepod ($18 for a set of three) comes from Australia and contains 100 sheets printed to look like a blank iPhone on one side and grid lines on the other — “perfect for notes or jotting down the phone number of a hot geek,” according to the Notepods website. I agree!
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iPhone earrings
The only reason I can see anyone flaunting these crazy earrings is either because they love the gadget too much or just simply cannot afford one. So if you think they are the best alternative to getting the real gadgets, you can contact Toronto artist Barb Feldman who handcrafts these teeny tiny things by precisely layering and slicing Fimo polymer clay.
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iPhone Cushion
iCushion is a comfortable pillow designed to look like a giant Apple iPhone. It even comes with a hidden pocket for your real iPhone.
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iPhone Cupcakes
Deliciously geek.
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iPhone Flask
iPhone? Of course they are, however they’re not real cellphones but iPhone-shaped flasks. Their power switch is actually the flask cap, and it lets the wine out when switched on.
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Supersized iTable
If you can’t be bothered to wait for the iPhone 5, then how about this? A German engineer has created a 10 times scale version of the iPhone 4 with a 40 inch screen which offers iPhone-esque computer functions – but also doubles up as a table. The ‘iTableous’ has exactly the same design as the Apple mobile right down to the on and off buttons, the camera and the accelerometer. It is covered by 8mm strong plexiglass and can flip onto its side to make using it more easy. But before you start placing your order, be aware that the iTableous isn’t quite as hi-tech as it might appear. It does not have a touchscreen and can’t even be used to make phone calls.
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iPhone Bed Sheet
Since your iPod Touch already has access to every app a person could ever need. Just add these custom bed sheets and your collection will be complete.
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