Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months

I think this is the world record.

In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his story

Full story @ The Guardian.

Carebear internals

Artist website

A nice list with more of his sculptures

Would love to get one of those sculptures :)

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp - The Chump Code Caper

How come I've never seen this before :)

 

Wiki
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp is an American action/adventure comedy series that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1970 to January 2, 1971. The Saturday morning live-action film series featured a cast of chimpanzees given apparent speaking roles by overdubbing with human voices.

Future Space Tribe :)

Monday I started work on a website and though there is enough to share now.

It's still very much a WIP! Made with Squarespace, had no idea how awesome it is, and I've only scratched the surface.

http://futuretribe.space/

Cairo slums

Tried to locate people in that picture of the Cairo slums. I'll admit that some observations may be wrong but my subconscious told me these are people.

edit: for some reason the picture won't upload in original size, any suggestions?

"Broccoli" patent hearing cancelled

Taking into account the ruling of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO that methods for the production of plants which comprise conventional breeding steps as well as technical ones are not patentable under the applicable European patent law, the patentee has proposed to limit its original patent by excluding the breeding methods. Thus, only the broccoli plants as such remain protected.

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French company Limagrain and Swiss group Syngenta filed notices of opposition to the patent in 2003 and maintained their challenge in subsequent appeals. They allege, among other things, that the patent protects an essentially biological method of breeding plants excluded from patentability under the European Patent Convention (EPC) binding on the EPO. The technical board of appeal hearing the two appeals stayed the proceedings and referred questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) with a view to obtaining clarification of the term "essentially biological processes for the production of plants (or animals)" and the associated exception to patentability.

'Broccoli' patent found here, same issue with the 'Tomato' patent.

More than a sundog

Article

Lets not go to Dubai...

Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe
A search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g - so small it would be invisible to the naked eye and weighing less than a grain of sugar - on the tread of one of his shoes. 

A 25-year-old Briton who was found with a similar speck in one pocket as he arrived on holiday has been awaiting sentence since November. 

One man has even been jailed for possession of three poppy seeds left over from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow Airport. Painkiller codeine is also banned.

Quite likely that there will be a speck on one of us. So unless we buy a complete new wardrobe and bags I wouldn't want to go into the country.

Hunter S. Thompson, John Cusack, and Johnny Depp

I have no idea about the context of the image, seems like it must have been a hell of night though :)

What (not) to do with a dead whale

Homer Simpson body

A body that look likes the face of Homer Simpson, not that sexy but still horney.

CACTUS!

Epic prank calls :)

Weird Audio Illusion

Play the video and look at the text paragraphs below for a while and you should hear Fry say it, even though the audio doesn't change. He is actually saying "Fix it"

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There's more in the YT comments.

This is also how that Stairway to Heaven backwards sounds so convincing.

Hurcules the Liger, the largest cat in the world

Video of Hercules, also featuring some other hybrids.

As an interesting comparison; the polar bear is the largest carnivore on earth. Adult males weigh 350–680 kg and measure 2.4–3m in length. Hercules the liger weighs 450kg and is around 3.7m in length.

Bear Grylls turns a dead seal into a wet suit

Bear is awesome. I wonder how viable this technique is, couldn't find much about it on the Googles.

Very Long Truck

I never knew such long road trains operated. This one is much larger than anything allowed in Australia. It seems to be in Brazil, but wiki doesn't give any mention on road trains in Brazil.

In depth reporting on the Shake Weight

Binaural Recordings

You'll need headphones for this to work. Make sure there is no noise around, close your eyes, turn the volume up a little bit, hold and press headphone on your ears for better hearing, play it and enjoy this impressive audio work ( illusion ). Not a screamer not a prank!

Binaural recording @ wiki

This clip also has some effective examples. This clip is also quite good.

Gooble Gobble, one of us

This is the clip I talked about recently, it's from the 1932 movie Freaks. Embedding is disabled on the video so you'll have to use this link.

South Park even spoofed it.

Synchronized Fireflies

Shitty quality video, but an amazing phenomenon. BBC needs to film this in HD.