Board index › Off Topic Discussion › Random Discussion

post something Quite Interesting..

Page 28 of 96 [ 1524 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 ... 96  Next

Previous topic | Next topic

Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

08 Apr 2011, 3:11 am

nice one, dunbots. thanks :)



Cornflake
Administrator
Administrator

User avatar

Joined: 30 Oct 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 73,341
Location: Over there

08 Apr 2011, 7:54 am

The iPod's ancestor:

Image

Quote:
The Radio Hat was a portable radio built into a pith helmet that would bring in stations within a 20 mile (32 km) radius. It was introduced in early 1949 for $7.95 as the "Man-from-Mars Radio Hat." Thanks to a successful publicity campaign, the Radio Hat was sold at stores from coast to coast in the United States.
Apparently it had a 20 hour battery life, which is probably around 19 hours and 59 minutes longer than the credibility of the wearer.

Technical details here, should you feel like building one.


_________________
Giraffe: a ruminant with a view.


Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

08 Apr 2011, 10:53 am

Cornflake wrote:
The iPod's ancestor:

Image
Quote:
The Radio Hat was a portable radio built into a pith helmet that would bring in stations within a 20 mile (32 km) radius. It was introduced in early 1949 for $7.95 as the "Man-from-Mars Radio Hat." Thanks to a successful publicity campaign, the Radio Hat was sold at stores from coast to coast in the United States.
Apparently it had a 20 hour battery life, which is probably around 19 hours and 59 minutes longer than the credibility of the wearer.

Technical details here, should you feel like building one.


that's awesome!! :) ipod is for fairies :lol:

good find, Cornflake



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

08 Apr 2011, 11:05 am

more nuts, or fewer..

Brazil nuts aren't nuts. Like horse chestnuts, they are seeds contained in a capsule or pod, which splits apart. True nuts don't split - the seed and the fruit are one and the same.
Brazil nuts mostly come from Bolivia (in Brazil, they are called castanhas, or chestnuts). They grow at the very top of enormously tall trees, in round wooden capsules packed with between eight and two dozen seeds. When the pods fall the seeds are released.
A Brazil nut is 65 per cent oil. In a packet of muesli full of seeds, nuts and cereal, Brazil nuts always end up on top if you shake the packet; this is called the Brazil nut effect.



Yowuza
Pileated woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker

User avatar

Joined: 22 Jan 2011
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Posts: 178

08 Apr 2011, 1:38 pm

The youngest person ever to become pregnant was 5 years old.



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

08 Apr 2011, 2:03 pm

Yowuza wrote:
The youngest person ever to become pregnant was 5 years old.
8O
thanks Yowuza, quite disturbing but quite interesting too.



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

09 Apr 2011, 3:24 am

QI Fact of the Day

The worst part of the world to fly in is Africa. In 2003, it generated only 3% of all the flights, but accounted for 28% of all the air crashes. Europe, by contrast, generated 30% of the flights but only 14.5% of the crashes.


QI Quote of the Day
"The United States is like (a) giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate."
WINSTON CHURCHILL



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

09 Apr 2011, 6:36 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvhGSEjSw8I&feature=related[/youtube]



CockneyRebel
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 17 Jul 2004
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Posts: 121,205
Location: In my own little country

09 Apr 2011, 6:57 pm

Bread always lands butter side down.


_________________
The Family Schlager


Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

09 Apr 2011, 7:58 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6-0JTXMPo&feature=related[/youtube]



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

09 Apr 2011, 8:00 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
Bread always lands butter side down.


unless it's attached, butter-side up, to a cat's back ;)



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

10 Apr 2011, 10:45 am

QI Fact of the Day

The main exports of Ghana are gold and cocoa.


QI Quote of the Day

"One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump."
GHANAIAN PROVERB



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

10 Apr 2011, 10:49 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA2M6ehUmEQ&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2-sVA4LSmk&feature=related[/youtube]

starting to forget which episodes i've already posted lol but nvm



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

10 Apr 2011, 12:36 pm

thought i'd post some fairly random images of Fudo, some traditional, some not..
interesting to me :)

[img][800:766]http://www.printsofjapan.com/images/Yoshitaki_Fudo_diptych.jpg[/img]
Image
Image
Image



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

10 Apr 2011, 12:39 pm

Image
Image
Image

Image

maybe more to come, hope it's quite interesting to you too.. :)



Fudo
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 May 2009
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,696

10 Apr 2011, 5:06 pm

glad to see everyone was as fascinated by Fudo as fudo.. :roll:


a particularly funny QI for everyone, where Alan gets even with Stephen. ;)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS6fy7nc6A4&feature=related[/youtube]