Derinkuyu, the mysterious underground city of Turkey

In 1963, an inhabitant of Derinkuyu (in the region of Capadocia, central Anatolia, Turkey), demolishing a wall of his house-cave, discovered astonished that behind the same was a mysterious room that never had seen; this room took to another one, and this one to another one and another one. By chance the underground city of Derinkuyu was shortage, whose first level could be excavated by hititas around year 1400 a.C.

Top 10 craziest concept car designs

“The raddest thing about concepts cars is that all bets are off. Designers don’t need to worry about safety standards, practicality, reliability, weather, parking, door handles, engines – anything at all, really. They just reach into their childhood dreams and create pure fantasy with no need for restraint. And that lack of restraint is key here, as we present you with the top ten craziest concept cars ever.”

VIA: -UNIQUE DAILY-

World's largest fossil site unearthed

“Scientists claim to have uncovered the world’s largest haul of dinosaur fossils in China. They recovered some 7,600 fossils from a 980ft-long pit near Zhucheng city in the eastern province of Shandong in a dig lasting seven months. The finds at the site - dubbed ‘Dinosaur City’ - include the remains of a 65ft hadrosaurus, possibly a record size for fossils of the duck-billed species.”

Blood bucket lamp

"The $226 Blood Bucket Lamp (our name) celebrates the holidays with flowing crimson that's in the perpetual state of just almost spilling all over your floor. Sure, you could pretend that it's supposed to be paint—there's a bucket and everything. But when you wake every night in a cold sweat, your face glowing red from the nightlight...well, we told you so."

Not to be confused with the 1959 black humor cult classic -A BUCKET OF BLOOD- .

14 Creatively Different Modern Door Designs

"In our rush to renovate our dream house with the craziest and most creative that modern design can conjure up, we’re liable to forget how we enter and leave it. If you are thinking that modern door design is a matter of open-and-shut conventional thinking, these 14 examples should put you in the right frame of mind."

In the Dark...

Here are two principles about shadows:

1. They don't pass through opaque objects. Your shadow can fall on a wall, but not through it.
2. Light must strike an object in order to cast a shadow. If you're in the shade, you have no shadow.

Right? But now suppose the sun is behind you and you're contemplating a butterfly:

The shadow under the butterfly is not cast by you (Principle 1), and it's not cast by the butterfly (Principle 2). So what's casting it?

"This is a genuine problem," writes philosopher Robert Martin. "The rules for shadows aren't inconsistent, but they are empirically inadequate — there are phenomena they do not fit."

VIA: -FUTILITY CLOSET-

The Society

Vintage alien landscapes by Kazuaki Saito

In the early 1970s, artist Kazuaki Saito’s fantastic alien landscape illustrations graced the covers of SF Magazine, Japan’s first successful and longest running science fiction periodical.

DIY Brain Machine

It’s definitely on the trippy side, but Mitch Altman’s DIY Brain Machine uses sound and LED light pulses to induce brain states that range from meditative to hallucinatory.

Glow in the Dark Graffiti

Kids, vandalism is BAD, but this Glow in the Dark Graffiti available at Generate makes for intriguing “artistic” endeavors; it comes with a bright LED light near the nozzle to charge the paint.

VIA: -THE AWESOMER-

Scientist says he has found oldest spider web

The tiny tangled threads of the world's oldest spider web have been found encased in a prehistoric piece of amber, a British scientist said Monday. Oxford University paleobiologist Martin Brasier said the 140-million-year-old webbing provides evidence that arachnids had been ensnaring their prey in silky nets since the dinosaur age. He also said the strands were linked to each other in the roughly circular pattern familiar to gardeners the world over.

SEE ALSO: -Unraveling the Wonders of Spider Silk-

The Notorious Bettie Page

At least she lived to a ripe old age, though still sad that a woman known for her vibrant and energetic beauty would spend the last week of her life in a coma. Rest in Peace Bettie, you were the best and will be missed.


Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.

Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution, died Thursday night at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler.

Memorial continued:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 0709.story

100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters

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Junk Bots

Colombian Mario Langer has a thing for robots; his junkbots seem to be made from all manner of salvaged components, including mouses, webcams, suction cups and alligator clips.

The Walking Bike

As ridiculous as it looks, this Walking Bike by Max Knight actually works; it’ll get you around town with kicks to spare, although its bumpy ride is ill advised for hemorrhoid sufferers.

Top 25 comic book battles

Welcome to Comic Book Resources' Top 25 Comic Book Battles, as voted on by the readers of Comic Book Resources!

We asked our readers to pick their favorite battles that took place in comic books and hundreds responded with great enthusiasm!

See Also: -11 Awesome Comic Book Hideouts-

Upsidebackwards Episode # 1

*Episode #: ONE (-download link-)

*Air Date: 12/4/08

*Duration: 15 min 48 sec

*Topics: Introductions past, present, future. Obama Bin Laden and the changing of America's diaper. The inevitable zombie apocalypse.

*Featured Band: Poker Face