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This is a rather cute Nessie is no monster. This Nessie is actually a ladle that would be happy swimming around in your stews, soups and perhaps even a batch or chilli or not.
You can see how the two might get confused. Here’s the side by side comparison of the two.
This Lessie is designed by OTOTO and can be bought from Animi Causa. Just click I need this Nessie Ladle.
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Are you tempted to add Nessie to your kitchen collection? Perhaps it would amuse your own little monsters?
Okay, although you can see the wrinkles this illusion is simple and surprisingly effective. It was created by spraying paint onto foil and then wrapped around a tree outside Potsdam.
The painting was done by Daniel Siering and Mario Shu.
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Do you have any favourite illusion videos on YouTube? Why not share the links in the comments below.
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The 7 Secrets of Awakening the Highly Effective Four-Hour Giant, Today is a self-help book from the characters of the TV hit It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
In the big, bold, book the gang attempt their most ill-conceived, get-rich-quick scheme: publishing a self-help guide. The results are hilarious, sometimes dangerous and often revolting.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a black comedy that air the American TV channel FX and now, for the tenth season, is on FXX. The show is available on Netflix in the UK as well as BlinkBox. The popular show is also listed on iTunes.
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Spend a few minutes watching this short film and animation. It’s an interesting story that reveals how the unexplained might be explained.
Is the story true?
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Do you still listen to the radio? Or does the internet and TV take up your spare time these days? Or perhaps you’re a regular down at Maplin and buy parts for your own radio kit?
(Via Geek Native’s short film collection).
What do you buy for a paranormal investigator when they’re not out on the job? During an investigation most people dress up warm, go for lots of pockets and make use of layers. That makes sense but what about afterwards? The morning after a paranormal investigation you might still be in the zone, you might be hanging with the crew and talking over the discoveries from the night before. What do you wear then?
This list of 5 t-shirt designs offers up some suggestion. You can be fashionable even when you’re off duty.
This simple design speaks to the fact that paranormal investigators need to know a lot. They’re as knowledgeable as any librarian in their given field.
Check this out
It’s not easy being a paranormal investigator. This t-shirt lets you be proud of the work you do.
I’ll have this
Haunting jokes are common from those who regularly go out and investigate. Other paranormal investigators will get this one.
A perfect gift
It can be hard to introduce yourself as a paranormal investigator – even while you’re on the job. Let this t-shirt do it for you.
This must be mine
A wonderful design. This t-shirt has a classic haunted house. Fellow investigators are bound to admire.
Make this mine
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Do you have a favourite from the list?
All five designs are taken from Redbubble a site that ships to the UK, the US and around the world. If you
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The New Year is a popular time for huge public firework displays. Tens of thousands of people brave the weather, enjoy a drink or two and venture outside to watch the sky light up. If you can’t make it outside this year then why not re-live the 10 most popular firework display videos on YouTube.
At the time of posting this video has had nearly 10.5 million views. A DJI Phantom 2 drone with a GoPro Hero 3 silver was flown, without being damaged, through this fireworks display. The footage is incredible. No wonder Amazon has launched a Drone Store of its own.
The first of the BBC’s London New Year fireworks to appear on this list. This video has had almost 6 million views. We’ll see more of London in the top ten but sadly Edinburgh’s Hogmanay firework display doesn’t feature.
The footage here is better, crisper and tracks the action more carefully than the 2011 effort from the BBC. No wonder this video is catching up in terms of views with nearly 5 million views to its name.
Another video in the millions. The BBC are on to a winning formula here. Is it just the British who love to watch London light up with the fireworks on New Year’s Eve or are these viewers from all over the world?
Filmed in 2007 this video may show the last 24″ firework ever to be legally set off in America. It’s a shorter video than the London firework displays but more than one big bang.
If the 24 inch firework shell wasn’t large enough, this video with 3.5 million views, lets you see a 48″ shell launch from Katakai Niigata in Japan.
The BBC returns with last year’s London fireworks display. There are 18 tracks for this video including Pink Floyd, Ellie Goulding’s Burn, David Bowie’s Let Dance and Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust.
A third part of a collection of videos that shows fireworks from 2010 being launched in the Tochigi prefecture in Japan.
Still the biggest firework every made at 48″. Some say they can see a trollface appear in the explosions at around the 0:20 mark. Can you?
Filmed by tourists with a great view of the Magic Castle in Disney World. This video has had more than 2 million views from when it posted in 2007.
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Which is your favourite video? Let us know in the comments below or link to a better discovery on YouTube.
The team at Hybrid Medical Animation make storyboards, 3D models and offer expert medical writing.
They used an x-ray machine to show how a human body moves during yoga and then animated those x-rays to produce this video.
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Are you impressed? Do you think this shows yoga is helpful to the body or do you think some of the shapes are worryingly awkward when we can see them in x-ray.
If you want to learn more about yoga then sites like Yoga Download might be helpful. You can access hundreds of online courses from there. If you’re already well in to your yoga then sites like Everything Yoga offers a range of yoda clothes while in the UK Yoga Direct has a similar collection of newcomers and experts.
The video below is a response to this one in which a woman connects the dots between Satan and Monster energy drink.
As you can tell – the creator isn’t convinced that there is any connection between Satan, Lord of Darkness, and Monster, Lord of Headbuzz, at all. The suggestion is that any connections are just coincidence.
It’s a sobering thought. What if early man turned to supernatural explanations when they encountered coincidences they couldn’t explain? Wouldn’t that set back wisdom and science by creating a belief system that functioned on speculation rather than discovery?
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What do you think? Is Monster (or Red Bull) the spawn of Satan? Exactly what are you drinking when you pour the juice down your throat?
If Monster energy drink is evil what does that make Moshi Monsters and My Mini Monsters?
David Kane Garcia’s Fifty Shades: Real Women Confess is an inside look into the real BDSM world. Since the success of Fifty Shades of Grey the sexual side of dominance and submission has moved from a fringe counter-culture to a far more mainstream one.
The adult documentary uses real-life re-enactments, dramatisations and interviews with BDSM participants to explore what real woman have to say.
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