Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Daily Journal

Picture Of The Day
Meet the woman who spent half a year with her head in the clouds - photographing every letter of the alphabet in the space between buildings. Keen photographer Lisa Rienermann, 30, spent six months wandering around Barcelona trying to find every letter of the alphabet. Lisa, from Berlin, Germany, said: "I tried it here in Berlin but it didn't work because the houses and streets are too far apart. They are very awkward streets in Barca - it would never work in New York because the way the buildings are made arelike a chequer board."
Picture: LISA RIENERMANN / CATERS NEWS

 Fact Of The Day

20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Water




Water is everywhere—there are 332,500,000 cubic miles of it on the earth’s surface. But less than 1 percent of it is fresh and accessible, even when you include bottled water.

4  Cheers! The new Water Recovery System on the International Space Station recycles 93 percent of astronauts’ perspiration and urine, turning it back into drinking water.

5  Kurdish villages in northern Iraq are using a portable version of the NASA system to purify water from streams and rivers, courtesy of the relief group Concern for Kids.

 Ice is a lattice of tetra­hedrally bonded molecules that contain a lot of empty space. That’s why it floats.
 












10  Good gardeners know not to water plants during the day. Droplets clinging to the leaves can act as little magnifying glasses, focusing sunlight and causing the plants to burn.









11  Hair on your skin can hold water droplets too. A hairy leg may get sunburned more quickly than a shaved one.

14  Although many doctors tell patients to drink eight glasses of water a day, there is no scientific evidence to support this advice.

16  Call waterholics anonymous: Drinking significantly more water than is needed can cause “water intoxication” and lead to fatal cerebral and pulmonary edema. Amateur marathon runners have died this way.

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Quote Of The Day

“It's easy to be confident when you have control of the puck.
 It's very difficult to keep that confidence when you have to take whatever   strange bounces life throws your way.
 Don't be careless, but don't be too careful either. You cannot be afraid to lose.
 That's how you gain the confidence- attack the game when the puck isn't yours.”
        
         ~D3: The Mighty Ducks



Websites Of The Day
Send A Personalized Call From Santa – Get Started

Take a Break & Play

Poppable Cascade – Play
Remove groups of three or more like-coloured balls with a few twists thrown in along the way.

Crimson Room – Play
Escape the room.

Have a nice day :)

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Daily Journal

Picture Of The Day
Frugal Christmas in Madrid




































Fact Of The Day
The 20 Coolest Umbrellas You Will Ever See...

The Pileus Internet Umbrella Projects the Web

 












Ever noticed that the common texture of your typical umbrella canopy is not unlike a projector screen?  Designers Takashi Matsumoto and Sho Hashimoto once noticed the same similarity-- and upon that realization they created the Pileus Internet Umbrella.  Pileus is an umbrella that includes a mobile PC and a projector to display live internet content while keeping its user dry in the rain.  While you're singing in the rain, Pileus can play a Flickr slideshow, show a weather map update, watch youtube videos and even check out updates here on TheCoolist.com...  Don't plan on getting your hands on a Pileus any time soon, as this umbrella is still in prototype stages. 

The Multi-Unit Superbrella

 








Even the largest traditional umbrellas can't keep you dry in rains mixed with heavy winds.  In cities like Chicago, the rain comes at you sideways-- and the designer of the Superbrella has an idea that'll keep you dry in the toughest of rainy climates.  The Superbrella is made of five clear umbrellas-- one on top and four in each cardinal direction.  In the four corner triangles that were not covered by the umbrellas, the designer has inserted a patch with a rain-proof hole that allows for aeration.  Grab yourself a Superbrella and a pair of tall rain boots-- you'll stay dry in the toughest of rains.  Special Note-- if you're not a cute, trendy girl as shown above, exect to look like kind of a toolbox with this thing. 

The Bluetooth Mobile Messenger Umbrella

 













We've all been there-- you're walking in the rain and wind, struggling to control your umbrella and then your phone rings.  Can you spare a free hand?  With the Bluetooth Umbrella, you can.  The handle of the Bluetooth Umbrella features a touchscreen display with a caller ID, a speaker and mic to communicate with your caller and a radio receiver.  While Bluetooth mobile accessories have become a fashion faux pas, this one is functional enough to justify a few of your hard-earned dollars.  Or you could just wait until you arrive at your destination and then take the call... 

The Home-Made Electric Umbrella















While you could splurge on the rare light umbrella, you could also just make one yourself.  The people at Instructables have a guide on how to turn your basic umbrella into an LED-lit masterpiece.  Grab yourself an umbrella, some LEDs and a working understanding of electronics, you can wire up one hell of a cool umbrella on the cheap.

The Tandem Umbrella

 














The Tandem Umbrella design brings about a classic case of "why didn't we think of that sooner"?  If you've tried to fit two people under an umbrella before, you know that somebody is going to get wet.  The Tandem Umbrella solves this by adding two shafts and two canopies, woven together to allow a rain-bound couple to have equal protection.  We're curious, though-- how does the Tandem Umbrella collapse?

Quote Of The Day

“No matter what your dream in life, no matter what your goal, keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole.” ~Transsiberian (2008)



 Humor Of The Week






!!! Now, Frank Sinatra has something to sing for you. Enjoy and have a lovely day