Your PIN number
| June 18, 2012
Author: luapo
Fail O’ The Day – Video
| June 18, 2012
Oh boy…talk about having a bad day, from something being bad to something getting worse.
Hide and seek Toddler POV – Video
| June 17, 2012
2 year old wearing a head cam, and playing hide and seek.
How to Memorize a Deck of Cards with Superhuman Speed
| June 17, 2012
In 2009 Ron White set a USA record for the fastest person to memorize a deck of cards. he did it in 1 minute and 27 seconds. This record stood for two years in the United States. Now this may seem freakishly fast. But the good news for anyone attempting to memorize a deck of cards is that the first time he tried—just a year before—it took him over 6 minutes! He was not born with a natural ability; instead, he perfected a system that anyone can learn to memorize a deck of cards with seemingly superhuman speed.
The system consists of two main ingredients:
1. Creating a mental map
2. Creating substitute images for each playing card
22 Facts About Coffee: The World’s Most Important Beverage
| June 17, 2012
4. The lethal dose of caffeine is roughly 100 cups of coffee.
Watercross: Racing Snowmobiles on Water
| June 16, 2012
What, you think that snowmobiles only go on snow? Joe Barrett of The Wall Street Journal explores the sport of watercross, where participants race snowmobiles on water:
Most people think snowmobiling is strictly a winter sport. Mr. McCurdy, a rider on the International Watercross Association circuit, disagrees. He and his fellow drivers wait all year to race their machines on northern lakes when there isn’t a snowdrift or a patch of ice in sight.
“It’s totally mind-blowing” for some people that snowmobiles can race on water, said Derek McPheeters, another driver and president of the association. “But they work excellent.”
