One of the habits of the folks on the b3ta forums is for folks on there to create new animals in Photoshop by combining the traits of a couple animals. Somebody has gone through the effort of putting several hundred of them online for your browsing pleasure.
Category: Cool
These Guys Are Frickin’ Nuts
Check out the incredible videos of these nuts racing on their bikes through traffic. The drag race NYC is especially crazy. Link via Waxy.
Handy People Finder
Something for the bookmarks, quoting Al’s Morning Meeting:
Eliyon Networking uses corporate, personal, and government websites to track where people work and where they used to work. The site says it has information on more than 21 million “former co-workers.”
Just enter a company name and let the fun begin. Think how useful this would be if you were investigating a company and wanted to find former employees, just for example.
The website says that every day, it scans millions of corporate websites, SEC filings, and other online sources for information about people and the companies for which they work. It is completely computer generated. No humans search for information.
The site is free, but for a fee you can expand your search for people who have a specific degree from a specific university, for example, or you can search for a person by name. You can also find “current” employees in companies using the premium edition.
This is really handy site, and I’ve looked up a few old friends of mine to figure out where they were working now.
Russian Logo Site
One for the bookmarks. If you’re ever looking to steal/plagiarize/edit/copy/whatever a corporate logo, keep this site in your bookmarks. It’s based out of Russia, which is why it’s still alive and not getting shutdown by overzealous copyright lawyers here in the U.S.
Restaurant owner bans anyone under the age of 25
The guy had his reasons, but primarily because he was sick of screaming babies and irresponsible drinkers. Honestly, I’d think I’d go there more often if I didn’t have to deal with that — of course, I don’t drink, but that’s beside the point.
The World Needs More People Like This
Anonymous lottery winner sends multi-million dollar winning ticket to local government to assist disaster victims of recent heavy rain storms and flooding. Full Story.
Jeopardy contestant breaks $1-million
I know, slightly old news, but after winning 38-games straight and $1,321,660 on “Jeopardy”, we’ll have to wait until next season to see if Ken Jennings will win any more. Waxy‘s got an image of all the various ways he’s drawn his name on the show. And there’s also a cult following.
Now That’s Art
Each of Jason Kronenwald’s portraits are made entirely from chewed bubblegum on a plywood backing; no paint or dye is used. The stuff is fairly impressive.
The Dog That Walks Like a Human
It has no front legs, but it’s been trained to walk upright on its back legs. Cool! Picture on this BB post as the linked site is down.
The Way It Should Be
Eight soldiers flying home from Iraq for two weeks of R&R flew in style instead of coach after first-class passengers offered to swap seats with them. Full Story.