All About Top Gear
America needs reality television like Top Gear. The fact that we don't air this program on a mainstream network channel baffles me.Do Americans like cars? Yes. Do we like comedy? Yes. Do we watch far worse things than this on average?
Regrettably, yes. Top Gear has the laughs, has stunningly good production values, and can keep audiences of all types entertained.
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Praying Mantis are one the best solution for people how don't want to use dangerous chemicals in their garden to control insects. They are one of the best predator insects, eating about any bug except the valuable Lady Bugs.
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Everything Top Gear Related - Watch Top Gear Online
Top Gear is one of the most entertaining shows on television today.Easily one of my favorite shows
You can watch just about every episode for free onlineTop Gear the home of ambitious stunts, the world's fastest supercars, power laps, stars in a reasonably priced car and of course the challenges
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Cool Timelapse light show Olympics Vancouver 2010
More about Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics HERE
Find out which Canadian olympic athletes to watch Vancouver 2010
The Own the Podium initiative, orchestrated in 2005, appears to be paying off and the following athletes will help Canada attain the goal of leading the medal count in 2010.
Top 10 Canadian Olympians To Watch - Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010
Valentine's Day for Your Teacher
Each day your smile becomes my morning star.
I look at you and then my feelings shine.
From you I learn far more than words or numbers:
You're the book that someday will be mine.
Will one day trace in its ancestral line.
For all the ways you help me grow towards beauty,
I ask you please to be my Valentine.
Anonymous.
Make it Valentine's Day Everyday
Superbowl 2010 Football TV Commercials - Super Bowl Ads
A lot more ads can be found HERE
Olympic Alpine Skiing - Event Guide - Tickets - Venue - Schedule
Five thousand years on, it is one of the most popular pastimes in the world.
Alpine skiing has four different disciplines - downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom. The downhill is for speed freaks, and the slalom for master turners.
If You Find Yourself on a UFO
Discreetly pocket some small object (food pill,
bar of soap, chunk of antimatter from the propulsion system)
as a memento.
Your grandchildren may someday ask you: “Gramp, is it
true you once rode in a flying saucer?”
You can nod slowly; show them this memento; gaze wistfully
into the sky; and murmur: “Yeah, I rode one. And
you know what? If they came back tonight…I’d do it
again.”
Painted Cats ~ Splendid Pictures
I laughed so hard when I saw these painted cats that my own cat stalked outside in disgust. These painted cat images are brilliant, as no animal can make a face as fed up and outraged as a cat.
I suspect some of these were done with a computer, but I also think that some are real. They do it to dogs, so I guess it is feasible. I also suspect they are real as most of the cats featured are purebreds, which tend to be ridiculously friendly and the type that would put up with being painted.
If it is fake, or if it is real, I don’t care—they still are brilliant.
Glittery 7.5" Wedges for Valentine's Day
These red glitter heart-heeled shoes are just a little Valentine’s Day fun. Walking in the incredibly high 7.5” heel would unquestionably be a challenge, but think of the impact you would make in them. Heads would definitely be turning your way. I wonder if one could even stand, let alone dance in them with the way they are rounded at the front.
The heart wedge shoes are comprised of leather and wood and made in the USA by Karo’s shoes, a leading manufacturer of “sexy fashion footwear.”
Enjoy the best athletes in the world
- Featured Olympic Events of the Day
- Coming Soon
- Learn About Ski Cross - New Event Added to Olympic Freestyle Skiing
- Click Image For Winter Olympics Tickets
- Excellent Winter Olympic LInks
- 2010 Winter Olympics Venues
- The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: Vancouver 2010 Edition
- Links To Winter Olympic Event Guides - In Depth Look
- Free Stuff to do While in Vancouver for 2010 Olympics
- Current Olympic 2010 Info
- Just Released Video
- What Would An Olympics Be Without Cute Mascots
- Vancouver 2010 Mascots
- Kids Love Mascots
- Complete Schedule of Events for the Vancouver 2010
- Olympic Alpine Skiing Event
- Learn About 3 Wickedly Fast Winter Olympic Sports
- Biathlon Event Guide
- Snowboarding
- Olympic Curling
- Olympic Cross Country Skiing
- Nordic Combined
- Ski Jumping
House Plants that Twitter - Really
When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love.
Anti-stress face-ball
H.Concept is flipping the boring world of stress balls on its head with their Anti-Stress Face-Ball. This stress ball changes faces as you squeeze it. This may not sound like much, but does your stress ball change faces?
Didn’t think so. Experience a range of emotions with the Anti-Stress Face-Ball. Designed by Makiko Yoshida, this stress ball has a range of emotions you can squeeze out of it. Go from happy to grumpy without any medication required. This is a smart idea to improve an already existing product. Brilliant!
Winter Olympics Pins - Vancouver 2010 Pin - Mascot Pins
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2010 Winter Olympics Mascot Family Collectible Pin
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Vancouver 2010 Olympics Mascots Pacific Coliseum Official Vancouver 2010 Pin
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2010 Winter Olympics 5 Rings Collectible Pin
2010 Winter Olympics Silhouette Snowboarding Collectible Pin
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2010 Winter Olympics Green Hockey Silhouette Collectible Pin
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Vancouver 2010 Olympics Quatchi Canada Hockey Place Official Vancouver 2010 Pin
More pins can be found HERE
Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010 - The Complete Guide
Contents at a Glance
- Featured Olympic Event of the Day
- Coming Soon
- Learn About Ski Cross - New Event Added to Olympic Freestyle Skiing
- Click Image For Winter Olympics Tickets
- Excellent Winter Olympic LInks
- 2010 Winter Olympics Venues
- The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: Vancouver 2010 Edition
- Links To Winter Olympic Event Guides - In Depth Look
- Free Stuff to do While in Vancouver for 2010 Olympics
- Current Olympic 2010 Info
- A Path of Northern Lights - Complete Edition: The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay
- Latest Blogs
- Books about the Winter Olympics
- Alpine Skiing
- Biathlon
- Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant
- Cross Country Skiing
- Nordic Combined
- Ski Jumping
- Bobsleigh
- Luge
- Skeleton
- Snowboarding
- Curling
- Featured Lenses
- Mitts for Kids
- Speed Skating
- Where is Whistler?
- Vancouver 2010 - The next Ladies Skating champion
- Vancouver 2010 Mascots
While on a UFO
The Space People will probably give you a tour of
the ship. While being led about, note the location of any
recreational or snack facilities. You’ll want to make full use
of these during your stay.
And observe closely the propulsion system and other
advanced technology—for the benefit of the scientists who,
upon your return to Earth, will be lining up to question
you.
Edible Garden Men
The Medical Herbman Cafe Project (MHCP) was created by Japanese landscape designers ‘Earthscape’ and involved planting medicinal and fragrant herbs in the shape of humongous man. Another interesting thing about this garden is that the herbs planted in certain places of the body actually benefit that anatomical body part. But, wait—there’s more. Aside from being a creative garden, it also doubles as a cafe, kitchen and craft space.
In every new location Earthscape plants the Herbman garden, it sells herbal drinks and foods from their recycled shipping container cafe. This amazing project is also used to construct playgrounds for schools in developing countries. My garden was never able to do that.
Edible Nuptial Gown
The Cake Wedding Dress is an edible wedding gown made by designer Lukka Sigurdardottir. The gigantic, checkered cake adorns the bride as she walks down the aisle and serves as a tasty treat for guests at the reception.
Definitely a very unique and kind of bizarre idea, the Cake Wedding Dress has to weigh a ton and would probably cause quite the mess, but it does make for an unforgettable novelty piece. If the guests eat all the cake, will the bride be left naked?
Ride a UFO - The Return
Upon your return to Earth, take on a space name
and start a new life. Change your name to something like
Orlon or Xantar or Fromilex.
Friends may go on calling you Jim or Lisa. That’s okay—
so long as it’s understood that you’ve undergone a transformation.
That you’ve grown into a new, cosmically-conscious
individual.
Lady Gaga at Grammy's
Living up to her iconic eccentricities, Lady Gaga’s 2010 Grammy Fashion were true to the over-the-top, quirky brand she’s built for herself (just look at those shoes!).
At the Grammy Awards, she donned a few outfits, all by Giorgio Armani prive, kicking off with a galactic number on the red carpet reminiscent of the space-age looks she’s channeled at past performances and in music videos.
A ride in a UFO
A ride in a UFO is a once-in-a-lifetime event. For some,
it is an unnerving event—a misfortune to be endured, then
mercifully forgotten. For others, it is the opportunity of a
lifetime.
Your experience can be good, bad, or indifferent—
depending on your attitude. You can decide from the start
that this is the worst thing that has ever happened to you
—and it probably will be. Or you can decide that good fortune
has sought you out. The choice is yours.
Look, you’re aboard a flying saucer. So why not calm
down and accept that? And once you’ve done so, go a step
further. Resolve to make the most of the situation—to
derive every possible benefit from it.
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15 Things You Never Noticed on a Dollar
Can you find any tiny owls or spiders hidden on the front of the bill?
Baby Mute Button - LOL
Anyone who’s had a baby or been around one for a while knows that silence is not a baby’s strong suit. The Mute Button pacifier seeks to help with that, at least a little bit. The clever pacifier has ‘Mute Button’ printed on it. Pacifiers are great for, well, pacifying little people, and they’re a great way to keep them quiet for a little while.
The Mute Button pacifier is only $6, a very reasonable price considering the value of a little peace and quiet.
William Henry Fox Talbot - Inventor of the negative-positive technique
While thus at leisure, he experimented with a camera obscura to capture "fairy pictures, creations of a moment and destined as rapidly to fade away" It was during these travels that the thought occurred to him "how charming it would be if it were possible to cause these natural images to imprint themselves durably, and remain fixed upon the paper! And why should it not be possible? I asked myself."
More info HERE
Cool,Free Stuff to do in Vancouver During 2010 Olympics
For more Olympic stuff please visit Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010 - The Complete Guide
Milk Packaging - Literally
Milk Packaging by designers Julien De Repentigny and Gabriel Lefebvre offer a unique take on the design of milk cartons by having the package formed like as an alphabetical representation of the product itself.
You do not have to wonder if this is milk or juice, one look at the cartoon spells it out for you.
Eco-Friendly Olympic Medals
The 2010 Olympic Medals designed by Canadian artists Corrine Hunt and Omer Arbel will be made of precious metals reclaimed from old electronics. The salvaged gold, silver, and bronze that would otherwise end up in landfills will instead hang around the proud necks of Vancouver’s Olympians.
It would take more than 17 tons of gold ore to net the same amount of gold reclaimed from the circuit boards of a single junk PC. Using precious junk metal in the Olympics may further the cause of recycling scrap electronics.
RCMP will have floating home for 2010 security
Vancouver has come up with an Olympic solution for housing close to 5,000 RCMP (Canadian cops) for the 2010 Winter Games. For the duration of the Olympic events, the police officers will be offered accommodation aboard two luxury liners offshore to allow security personnel to be closer to the action. Housing space in the city is sparse, so making use of the open area on the water is an innovative, albeit expensive, solution. The temporary lodging will cost the city $37.5 million, but Vancouver considers their proximity worth it.
“In fact, it’s more economical than staying a hotel,” Cpl. Gursharn Bernier of the Winter Games’ Integrated Security Unit said.
That and it keeps hotels free for the approximate 250,000 anticipated visitors.
THE UNIVERSE HOUSE
The Universe House, conceived by Gabriel Orozco, has a swimming pool on the roof which is perfect for star searching during a late night swim.
Just the fact that you can go for a dip on top of your home, nominates the Universe House to be the best place to live this die of the Milky Way.
When Elina Brotherus Isn't Photographing Lakes, She's Photographing Men in Tutus
You know Elina Brotherus is a talented photographer, because she’s been able to add an element of art to photographs of men in tutus. That is no small task. Among the photographers other work are many, many photos of lakes.
This comes as no surprise considering that Brotherus is based in Helsinki, but it still makes for an intriguing portfolio. If men in tutus aren’t your things, you’ll definitely dig the lake stuff.
Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010 - The Complete Guide
Contents at a Glance
- Featured Olympic Event of the Day
- Coming Soon
- Learn About Ski Cross - New Event Added to Olympic Freestyle Skiing
- Click Image For Winter Olympics Tickets
- Excellent Winter Olympic LInks
- 2010 Winter Olympics Venues
- The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: Vancouver 2010 Edition
- Links To Winter Olympic Event Guides - In Depth Look
- Free Stuff to do While in Vancouver for 2010 Olympics
- Current Olympic 2010 Info
- A Path of Northern Lights - Complete Edition: The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay
- Latest Blogs
- Books about the Winter Olympics
- Alpine Skiing
- Biathlon
- Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant
- Cross Country Skiing
- Nordic Combined
- Ski Jumping
- Bobsleigh
- Luge
- Skeleton
- Snowboarding
- Curling
- Featured Lenses
- Mitts for Kids
- Speed Skating
- Where is Whistler?
- Vancouver 2010 - The next Ladies Skating champion
- Vancouver 2010 Mascots
CRISP, CRUNCHY AND READY TO SNACK ON
So you are having a dinner party, and you don’t know what to serve as your starter. You have a lot of different options, but one to keep in mind (and an open mind at that) is serving one of these pre-cooked edible tarantulas.
Oven-baked, and never fried, the edible tarantulas became commonplace during the tyrannical reighn of the Khmer Rouge, and now is one of Cambodia’s national delicacies. They are shipped to your house, ready to eat, and complete with instructions on how to consume them.
Learn More About Olympic Figure Skating
Event Guide - Figure skating (singles)
Ice skating is the sport that brings glitz and glamour to the Winter Olympics.
The high-speed steps, spins and jumps make for some spectacular action.And the wait for the marks to be announced after a routine only heightens the drama.
You can found out more HERE
About Olympic Biathlon and Cross-country Skiing
The biathlon involves cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. There are eight categories - men's and women's sprint, pursuit, individual and relay.Competitors can ski in any style but must not only complete the distance (from 7.5km to 20km) but also hit five targets with five bullets.
For each target missed in the sprint, pursuit and relay events, athletes ski a lap around a 150-metre penalty loop.
You can fine more info HERE
Emotion-Sensing Flowers
This interactive wedding bouquet could put and end to the age old question that has been posed to men throughout the history of holy matrimony - Does she have cold feet? The Biometric bouquet is just about the best modern innovation for marriage ceremonies since monogamy went mainstream.
The ingenious and interactive Biometric Bouquet was invented by the same people who made the ‘critical corset’ (a corset that tightens when the wearer’s heart rate goes up). It consists of white and blue emotion sensing LEDs that light up in unison with the bride’s mood.
Robo Cafe: robot waiters make a restaurant a one-man operation
Either Robo Cafe is a great idea or a sign of the waiter and busboy apocalypse. Robo Cafe is basically a design for a robot run restaurant or diner.
Robots at the Robo Cafe would take and relay orders to the kitchen, serve patrons, and keep tips for greedy managers. Robo Cafe is a unique idea in terms of cutting costs. And these robots look darn cute with their ability to take orders verbally or via a touch screen on their tummies.
Check out the gallery for snaps of the robo-waiters in action as well as designs of what a Robo Cafe would look like. I’ll always be hungry and as long as my robo-waiter isn’t snarky and doesn’t drop stuff I’m decently okay with this idea.
CHETTA Around the Europe
London-based photographer Ondra Chotovinsky captured the essence of the Norway land perfectly in these breathtaking shots. Chotoyinsky specializes in landscape photography and experiments with different lighting effects to bring out unusual and beautiful photos. His images of land, city and sea are spectacular.
Ice bulb
An Ice Bulb is basically a ball of ice with a LED light in it, but the effect itself looks pretty intrigueing.
Imagery Layer for Haiti Earthquake has been released | Google Earth Blog
The best way to understand the devastation is to compare before and after images by switching the Haitian layer on and off.
Download imagery HERE
Learn About Paris - France
The words 'culture,' 'art' and 'fashion' correctly reflect the way of living in Paris; you can witness it in the streets, in the buildings, in the luxury boutiques along the 'Champs Elysées' even by just watching the local people strolling down the avenues. You may also choose to amble through the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter or sit at a 'bistro' or 'café' near the 'Sacré Coeur' in Monte Matre and watch the artists at work while sipping a 'café crème,' savoring the cheery and musical atmosphere that permeates from this lively city.
Paris, the European Capital of Modern Luxury and Magnificent Historical Treasures
Learn more HERE
Cool Ads
Rarely do you drive down the highway and give a billboard or bus ad a second glance, but every once in a while you see an innovative piece of interactive advertising that stops you dead in your tracks. Whether you’re simply marveling at their ingenuity or furrowing your brow trying to figure out how they work, these brilliant pieces of consumer propaganda have incorporated all of the elements and resources in the environment surrounding them to create an all-encompassing piece of advertising that you’re sure never to forget. I just hope this interactive advertising doesn’t become too mainstay, otherwise I’ll likely end up walking into a wall thinking it’s an ad for real estate.
Starbucks Gets a Makeover
I am not going to hate on Starbucks too much here, they have paid my bills for a few years, and still do. But we could all see trouble a brewing, and to face the problems head on, ‘Coffee and Tea’ was devised.
This is the re-branding, and relaunching of the chain. An attempt to not look so yuppie-ish to the urban artist, and to be a little bit more country to the rural folk. With rustic hardword floors, the mysterious removal of the eponymous green siren, Coffee and Tea still promises to deliver your obnoxious latte that has a temperature requirement.
The Lensmaster Lounge / Something that is a concern - I'd like to discuss this
Hmm - well, for something like the recent LOTD picks, it's great that they're focussing on RM lenses. Perhaps next week we could have lenses that are NOT in RM? (Because honestly, the rest of the year it's not like the RM lenses can't be LOTD, but they have to compete on their own merits rather than being singled out).
That's the one that grates with me the most - there's a lot of support and community here on Squidoo, and I never really dared join into the newbie groups and the going for Giant group, so I probably wouldn't join the RM one either (or equivalent) even if I could. But that's up to me. The theme, I don't mind, because it's just another option, and we have a lot of great ones - it's not DIS-advantaging anyone else. But now, missing out on LOTD? (well, in theory!) It's a bit bitter, sitting on the sidelines (and the thing is, the lenses that keep appearing? They're great - and I KNOW them all, which is mostly because they're good, and partly because the lensmaster is active and involved - and I'm wondering what's so 'Rocketmum' about them, why couldn't they be featured the rest of the year? Are they just not considered quite good enough to compete on their on merits? Why can't we show the normal lenses as well, to show the people who've been managing without Rocketmum? )
And also, what next will they get? Because the concessions and awards are getting larger, hence the escalating issues. The problem is, groups GETTING things - promotion, recognition, help - is great, I sit there and think 'wonderful! that's really nice, they earned that, it helps them, now we... wait, we? Oh well, just because I'm not involved doesn't mean,... wait. I can't be. And other people can't be either. And it's not even based on whether I'm interested or a good lensmaster, or because they can only have so many people. It's because I don't choose to lie and present myself as a mother with children (which incidentally, may be an oversimplification, but one wonders if there's anyone who does).
It's like all the 'US-only' features you see on the net, which while rankling, are understandable due to taxes and laws, but still exclude. and have a noticeable effect of 'oh, blah, I can't join that, why should I care? HEY? They're getting MORE?' And, as some of you know, quite apart from not having kids (or wanting them - heck, I'm still in uni! And sort of lacking in certain requirements such as a partner XD ) I don't want to ally myself with something so blatantly gender-orientated. My problems, yes. But lots of other people have similar issues - and there is no recognition of that. Going on about how wonderful RM's is and rewarding it as a group acts as an implication that we should join it. And we CAN'T. So yes, it is very exclusive. And giving things that then removes the chance of anyone else getting them disadvantages the rest of us, and yes, is unfair.
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Largest Published book in the world - Awesome and Available on Amazon
The gigantic book BHUTAN is a breathtaking photographic adventure across the legendary last Himalayan kingdom. Teams from MIT and Friendly Planet took over 60,000 photographs on four extensive expeditions. Portraits of people are life-size or bigger. Panoramas convey the staggering sweep of the Great Himalayan Range and the awesome and unique ancient architecture. Tantric Buddhist dancers, clad in a rainbow of sparkling brocade silks, almost seem to be leaping off the page. According to Guinness World Records, at over five by seven feet (and 133 pounds), this beautiful photographic book is the largest published book in the world–about one of the world’s smallest countries.
More info HERE
The Most Useless Machine EVER!
If you’re into DIY projects for the fun of it, ‘The Most Useless Machine Ever’ by SaskView has to be on your list. This box is, well, a wooden box with a lever. When the lever is pushed, a wooden arm comes out to push the lever to the ‘off’ position. That’s it.
Check out the Instructables to make your own box, and see the video above to watch ‘The Most Useless Machine Ever’ by SaskView in action.
Super Stylish Cell Cases
The minds behind Uncommon cases have compiled some of the greatest contemporary art and made it available for protective mobile cases. The art, which comes from featured artists as well as Uncommon community members, ranges from modern to anime to graffiti to surreal (and everything in between).
Uncommon cases can even be designed by you, which is a great DIY business idea. If the imaginative styles aren’t individual enough for you, then you can make a mobile case individualized to you.
Flowing Pixels
Who says video games and reality can’t mix? These clever street artist took an ordinary pipe on a plain concrete sidewalk and transformed it into a triple-take work of urban art. What starts as a two dimensional pixel stream quickly breaks the barriers and becomes a 3D work of street sculpture.
Green your world from the inside out and upside down
To call this ingenious plant potting idea a clever contemporary design would be an understatement. The simple inversion of typical round planter is space-saving, sure, and sustainable to be certain (since it saves water
) – but best of all: yes, your plants will hang in a pot suspended upside down from the ceiling (or even quite literally off the wall)
How Do You Want Your Coffee?
How do you take your coffee? This mug may not be too useful for any particular individual but would certainly be handy for having guests. They can simply twist the metal rings to show what they want and leave them in place for refills.
These would of course also be ideal for commercial applications – save a barista time and headache trying to remember who ordered what and how they wanted it.
COSMIC MOTORS - The Pilots - Future Cars
Daniel Simon is an internationally established former Bugatti and Lamborghini designer who has worked on futuristic vehicle concepts. Simon wrote a sci-fi 176 page book called Cosmic Motors where he engages the readers in a futuristic escapade of visionary and fantastic vehicles in a world many centuries in the future. Cosmic Motors contains text in English and German and was also released in Japanese by publisher Born Digital.
P.S- Check out the female pilot ‘droids. This is irrefutable and undeniable proof that sex will continue to be a force to be reckoned with in the year 8965.
She's electric!
What are your New Year’s resolutions? Mine are to do more yoga, practice the banjo, and to write about more smoking hot women with tattoos. At least I can kick one resolution off with the Nina Kate photoshoot.
This feisty young lass poses with neon light bulbs and religious icons all while wearing a latex bikini and having blue hair.tattoo.