150 Street Artists Covered an Old Tunisian Village in Beautiful Murals

For the past two months, 150 artists from 30 nations have been busy in the village of Erriadh, one of the oldest in Tunisia. They have been covering its buildings, gates, windows — almost any flat surface — in murals, in hopes of enticing tourists and infusing the area with new life. Their graffiti is part of a street art project called Djerbahood, an open-air museum curated by the artist Mehdi Ben Cheikh and Galerie Itinerrance. A Tunisian woman walks past a mural by Spanish artist Btoy as part of the street art...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 24 September 2014

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Belgian City to Build Underground Pipeline for Beer

In an effort to eliminate disruptive delivery trucks driving through its picturesque streets, the Belgian city of Bruges approved plans Tuesday to create an underground pipeline for transporting beer. Agence France-Presse reported the pipeline is set to connect the historic De Halve Maan brewery to a bottling factory two miles away, eliminating the 500 trucks that drive down the city's small streets each year. De Halve Maan, a major fixture in Bruges, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that hosts 100,000 tourists each year....

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Slow-Motion Tattooing Might Permanently Scar Your Brain

A video showing tattooing in slow-motion takes the prize for today’s list of things that make you say “Oh, this shouldn’t be that ba...oh god. NO! STOP! CLOSE THE LAPTOP! NONONO!” Skip ahead to 3:00 and watch an up-close look at what actually happens when someone gets a tattoo.  Spoiler: Needles covered in ink pounding into human skin is as brutal as you think....

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NASA’s Space Launch System is officially all systems go for Mars and Moon landings

NASA’s Space Launch System, the USA’s first exploration-class spacecraft since the Space Shuttle, has officially passed the whiteboard formulation stage and moved into full-scale development. The SLS, which will be the most powerful rocket ever built, will allow NASA to land astronauts on Mars and captured asteroids, and perhaps other planets and moons throughout the Solar System as well. The first SLS mission should lift off no later than 2018, sending the Orion capsule around the Moon. Asteroid- and Mars-bound...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Saturday, 30 August 2014

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25 Unsettling Face Swaps That Will Make You Want to Die Inside

If your worst fears involve a giant baby, look no further. While most people scour Reddit and Imgur for face swaps to get a good laugh, there are a few very special creations that just make you want to crawl into a dark place and never come out. You have been warned. Just remember to hug your loved ones before you crawl into the abyss. 1. IMAGE: IMGUR, SKYDIVE17 2. IMAGE: IMGUR, IGNORE_MY_TYPO 3. IMAGE: IMGUR, MRPURPLEMONKEYDISHWASHER 4. IMAGE: IMGUR, REDDIT 5. IMAGE:...

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9 Nearly Worthless Gadgets You're Hanging Onto for Dear Life

You can't put a price on childhood memories, which explains why most of your favorite toys and gadgets from childhood aren't worth squat. Now, you can still make a nice profit off unopened, exceedingly well-maintained or rare items from your younger days, but the majority of your prized possessions are too new to be artifacts and too old to be useful Before you try to sell your childhood dreams away, check out the nine items that have much more sentimental value than market value. And if you decide to junk them, think about donating...

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