From the website: "I'm trying to figure out the year round about when [Dad] built it... I was maybe nine or ten years old... perhaps a bit younger. I'm inclined to think it was Christmas of 1966. I'm thinking that Star Trek might have been on TV which is where he would have gotten the inspiration... or was it from "Lost in Space"? Link (via BoingBoing)
Rene Hernandez Miranda from El Salvador created this detailed house complete with furnitures and appliances, entirely from pixels, in MS Paint. http://www.pixelfreak.com/v3/en/house.html
Physicist David G. Willey explains the physics behind (under?) walking on broken glass, dipping fingers in molten lead, breaking concrete block on a bed of nails, and picking up hot space tiles. Link Now if only someone can explain how to properly walk on eggshells...
Whenever I want to complain about a little rain, I take a look at this picture of a sandstorm in Iraq, and thank God that I won't have to deal with that. http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/iraq/sandstorm.htm
