#music. Songs that evoke a sense of things just out of reach, whether hazy childhood memories or something ethereal. All the songs here share a family resemblance that is best exemplified by Boards of Canada's music.
Memories of times past.
The bittersweet beauty found in desolate isolation
Ethereal
Subtle Euphoria
Also somewhat similarly evocative
The odd bit of trance music I'd heard in the past hadn't grabbed me that much, but I've been trying out a lot more of it recently and some tracks I really like.. like this one "Nuclear Fusion" by Mat Zo
nice smooth sound, and nicely layered beats and rhythms that really pump along.
I love it where songs have an energy or intensity that just keeps on building and building and building, like something is going to burst but doesn't. Here's my favourite examples:
Escape Velocity, The Chemical Brothers. Pretty much the whole song is like this.
FML, Deadmau5. Love the crazy rising intensity in the intro to this. [*edit: changed video to a version that sounds like album version]
Come with us, The Chemical Brothers. Pretty awesome for the first 1:15
mins or so, but falls a bit flat after that.
YikeBike
A compact electric bike that can be folded up quite small. Looks like they're intending to sell them in 2010. website here
Being ridden
Being folded up
Some more photoshopped pictures of birds with added arms, thanks to the good people on the Something Awful forums.
When I see a picture of a bird now without arms, like this one, my brain is thinking "amputee": 
Here they are: 
Over on the Something Awful forums, Paradox86 said "It's pretty simple. A friend and I agreed that birds are pretty pissed that they don't have arms. We decided this should be fixed."
Yes, this is what the world has been needing. Pictures of birds with arms. Yet it is somehow strangely compelling - there's some pretty brilliant stuff there... here's a handful of them: 
Some interesting-looking loft-style bedroom/desk/storage units (via dornob): 
[Update: this map, or at least a similar one, can now be found here]
If you dug a hole through to the other side of the earth, where would you end up? The web-based Antipodies map lets you find out.
Just locate your present location and it'll show exactly where the opposite side of the world is.
5 min video of Miniatur Wudnerland, in Hamburg, Germany -- the world’s largest model railway, and actually quite impressive.
14kms of track, 6 meter high mountains, and highly detailed scenery that also includes moving cars and boats. The whole thing cycles through day and night every 15 mins.
The Minute Glass is a design concept for an alarm clock that forces you to shake it vigourously for around 30 seconds – and hopefully thus properly wake up – in order to turn the alarm off.
Wikipedia's long list of common misconceptions (along with details of the truth of the matter in each case). Misconceptions such as that
Want to see what an ants nest looks like? First, fill it with concrete, then excavate.
Unfortunately image I've uploaded has lost the animation (or somethign like that) - so you'll have to click the picture to see the original images with the 3D effect!
Very cool way of showing 3D depth in images! No doubt would get irritating soon enough, but quite effective. These animated gifs must be made by quickly switching between two stereographic images.
Looks interesting from the outside. I'd be interesting to know what it seems like when you're standing within it.
Maddox's funny little rant about people pointing out that their puns were (or weren't) intended
Finally - disco chickens. Having grown up with chickens around, I knew they had it in them. Thank you Dominos.
