Here’s a brief, excruciating video of cars losing traction on Seattle’s Capitol Hill during this week’s snowstorm and caroming downwards, out of control (the clincher is a city bus, and what appears to be the same white SUV that just keeps on trying…

Photo: Stephen Messenger

Wildlife in Florida have an unlikely new ally in the fight against poaching — a remote-controlled buck lovingly known as Robo-deer. Although he can do little more than flick his tail and turn his head, Robo-deer is so convin…

Homeowners in the region outside the town limits of South Fulton, TN, have to pay $75 to come under the protection of the town’s firefighters. Late in September, the house of Gene Cranick, who had not paid his $75 for the year, caught fire. When the fi…

The Ninja is coming back with a buttload of daily episodes starting 10/4/10.

Simon writes in regarding the Jeep-apart-in-4-minutes…

Yep, nice little demo but do any proper driving in it and it would fall apart in well less than 4 minutes! Doesn’t compete with the old Royal Navy Field Gun competition for some quick assembl…

The mythical god of the sea would be proud of his new clean energy-generating namesake. Danish company Floating Power Plant will be announcing plans for their prototype Poseidon 37 power generator today at the Nordic Green II a conference in Merino Park, California. The 230 meter long commercial plant borrows technology used to keep oil [...]

Photos via National Geographic I was going to say this fish has a face that only a mother could love, but chances are she just laid some eggs and got the hell out of there. But it turns out that this fish, a “longhead dreamer” anglerfish, is not alone when it comes to Read the [...]

Capturing the contradictions in everyday life, Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian draws on her environment and culture to create her work. Born in 1974 in Tehran in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ghadirian “fell into photographing women” after completing a B.A. at Azad University. Soon after, Ghadirian gained an international audience for her innovative images, depicting [...]

Digital Art by Kunstdrom! (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)

A member of our Flickr group submitted his latest acquisition, and it’s a humdinger: an ES 102 Intermediate Swivel Arm Chair. This is an Eames design I’d never seen before. A close relative of the Executive Chair, the ES 102 office chair was born in 1968 but discontinued five years later due to “high production [...]