170 km/h is quite fast in a compact car ( Read more... )

What is silly?

This is: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/8355142.html

So, I guess that means the Washington Monument is next on the list of improper structures?

I just stumbled on what must be the meanest instruction video on the entire videojug website: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-beat-your-children-at-computer-gamesRead more... )

I guess it happens pretty often that when you see a face you go 'wait a minute, this person looks quite a lot like so-and-so ( Read more... )

What the heck did Disney do to the dvd of PotC 2? I'm now into the third copy that's not working properly. Either the store has an entire batch of crappy dvd's, or the new copy protection is working really really well. As in "screws up your movie totally in chapter 14, 15, 16 and 17". I only had to show the dvd at the service desk and the guy said ( Read more... )

Eh, obviously because it wasn't possible to build one back then. Build what, you ask? Why, a rubik's cube solving robot of course!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkft2qaKv_o

I had read about them ( Read more... )

Deja Vu, the feeling that you have lived through something before ( Read more... )

Apparently, dowsing is the most common claim for Randi's one million dollar challenge. According to the article, the ideomotor effect is so convincing, that it doesn't take much to accept that dowsing works. So, let's see how this goes in a little experiment ( Read more... )

Interestingly, the personality tests used for job applications are remarkebly like the ones created here at LJ... I half suspect the creators of the PAPI test to simply download a reasonable amount of polls from LJ, mix them together and sell the thing as a highly accurate personality-testing tool ( Read more... )