GalaxyZoo

"Welcome to GalaxyZoo , the project which harnesses the power of the internet - and your brain - to classify a million galaxies. By taking part, you'll not only be contributing to scientific research, but you'll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of the glorious diversity of galaxies that pepper the sky." - Link

Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire

Truer words were never spoken. This guy is really on the ball. He should run for office... Oh, wait... the last seven years. - Link

The Best Geek Quotes

"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't." "Windows has detected you do not have a keyboard. Press 'F9" to continue." "Well It looks like an ID10T Error." "What do people mean when they say, 'The computer went down on me?'" - Link

Woman Arrested for Not Watering Lawn

"A widow and grandma spent the morning in jail, arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard. The woman hasn't watered her lawn in more than a year, and the condition of her yard violates an Orem zoning ordinance." Nice. Crime doesn't pay! - Link

Playgreen - Wiki Green Living!

"'We' are smarter than 'me'. The central premise of this assumption is that large groups of people ('We') can, and should, make a fantastic resource site to foster responsible consumption habits in our daily life, economy, industries." - Link

Tire Tote - Maneuverable Wheel Covers

"I've been using these Totes for more than a couple years now to store snow tires I swap on for only a fraction of the year. I also use one for the spare I keep in my trunk. They make moving the tires around really easy and the clean factor is definitely part of the attraction, for both the trunk and the garage." - Link

250,000 Mile Continuous Motorcycle Trip

"She has been traveling solo around the world on her motorcycle continuously for the past five years. She has logged over 250,000 miles on this trip and is still going. She has toured every continent, most countries, and has been hospitilized three times due to accidents, and yet she still keeps going. As of May 8th, she is in the South West U.S. and is now headed through Texas to Key West then up the Eastern Seaboard, across Canada to Alaska, then back down to California." - Link

The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks

"When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio - meaning 'question' - at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem - readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark." - Link

ASCII Google Maps

"Google Maps in ASCII characters. Pure silliness for your enjoyment by the good people at Poly9 and the invaluable Markus Gebhard (whose software and timely help were put to good use)." - Link

Richard Ankrom’s Freeway Sign

"Richard Ankrom, 46, an artist in Los Angeles, Calif., planned his latest masterpiece, a combination paint and performance work, for two years: he altered a major road sign on the Harbor Freeway in downtown. He put up his work in broad daylight, but was unnoticed because he was dressed as a road worker. The audience: 150,000 motorists per day. The payoff: no one noticed, not even state transportation engineers. The plan was to announce the project a year later, but a friend tipped off the press after 9 months. The modification, done to exact Federal Highway Administration specifications, helps motorists navigate a complicated transition ahead. 'The experts are saying that Mr. Ankrom did a fantastic job,' said a Caltrans spokeswoman. 'They thought it was an internal job.' The agency plans to leave the modification in place, since it is in fact helpful to motorists. Ankrom says helping out motorists 'was the whole point.' (Los Angeles Times)" - Link