I have lots of ideas for inventions myself. Most of which I haven't created yet, instead focusing on the few "more likely" since I have a family and must control my risk taking. I've found a good place though that seems to be geared towards kids, but adults can use it too.
It looks like a great place to get some exposure for those kids at heart that never got a chance... I suppose most inventors are kids at heart right? How else do we keep seeing things with "new eyes?"
They need to clean up their Terms of Use (TOU) since paragraph one says ", we ... do not have any copyright to any original work submitted to Inspiring Invention" and paragraph two says "By submitting materials to the site, you automatically give The Ad Council and our partners nonexclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, and distribute your work." ... "We don't own your work, but we do." I feel it's a mistake on the wording of the TOU and what they probably mean is "we don't claim ownership of your inventions, but anything submitted to this website may be used to publicize it and our mission." I feel it was a mistake, because otherwise the US Patent and Trademark Office shouldn't and wouldn't be supporting them for trying to conclude work from anothers efforts, especially those who are younger which the ads are being marketed towards. Send them an email if you want to let them know their TOU contradicts itself in the beginning.
So the title isn't very creative for the subject, but it's very fitting! I found a diamond web site where specialization of making rough diamonds look beautiful is of course their speciality!
"A Diamond In The Rough" has taken the common phrase and turned it from a metaphor into reality. The flash interface makes looking at the jewelry very friendly. You can find rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets, all or at least most of course with rough diamonds inserted into them somehow.
This site has lists from 10 most shocking things found on people's stomachs to the 10 most amazing lost cities with lots more in between. I could spend hours at this kind of site and I've got a few more up my sleeve coming for you soon! In the mean time, be sure to kill some time at Oddee!
I know I have. I've seen advertisements on TV before that I thought were very original and funny. A lot of money, time, and ingenuity goes into ads, so it's no surprise they offer some entertainment that's really different than the rest, even if it's entertaining only for a few minutes. There's a new website out there realizing that, Firebrand.
Apparently they're in their "Beta" testing stages right now. There are definitely some interesting ads on there already!
http://elzr.com/imagery'Vampire' peacock attacked
A stray peacock had to be put down after it was attacked by a man in New York, who claimed the colourful bird was a vampire.
The bird was sitting on the bonnet of a car parked outside a Burger King on Staten Island, when the man attacked it, grabbing the bird by the neck before he hurled it to the ground and started kicking and stomping on it.
Asked what he was doing, the attacker explained, “I’m killing a vampire!”
Stated on the UK PETA web site,
"Painted in a Butcher's Diagram, Porn Star Zara Whites Urges Consumers to Go Vegetarian
Rotterdam – Stripping down to nothing but paint markings that mimic a butcher's diagram of body parts, PETA Netherlands supporter and former international porn star Zara Whites will pose in Rotterdam's busiest shopping district to remind consumers that "All Animals Have the Same Parts – Have a Heart. Go Vegetarian"."
The "All Animals Have The Same Parts" image, from the PETA pinup wallpapers page.
I suppose that's one way to protest. While searching for that image, I've noticed compared to most causes people stand for, the vegetarian cause seems to have a lot of nudity.
The Running Of The Nudes who are apparently against bull fighting, they say there is no competition between the matador and the bull's, that
"Bulls are intentionally debilitated by various means, such as having sandbags dropped on their backs.2 Drugging is also very common. A study conducted by scientists at Spain’s Salamanca University found that 20 per cent of the bulls used for fighting are drugged before they step into the ring. In a sampling of 200 bulls, one in five had been given anti-inflammatory drugs, which mask injuries that could sap animals’ strength.3"
Cheating? In the Spanish bull fights? I suppose it does get a little risky when "more than 40,000" bulls are killed in Spain.
WARNING: In the following video, animals a gruesomely killed after the vegetables are displayed in a sexual manner, the switch from sexuality to brutality happens early on in the Happy Orgasm Day video. I guess this is a way to get people to watch the video, then kind of throw them into the message that you really want them to see... Isn't that "bait and switch?"
There's a "I'd rather go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign where Joanna Krupa, a model poses barely covered.
I have wondered where all this nakedness has come from, and I assumed, based on my prior knowledge that it's because it's been supported so heavily by Pamela Anderson, a well known "nude artist" as I'll call it.
I did some research, and it appears the search trends on the internet indicate the popularity of Pamela Anderson is not as related to the popularity of PETA as I thought it would be, Pamela should learn from Tom Cruise promoting Scientology if she wants to promote PETA. Oddly enough, it seems the search term Pamela Anderson is more related to the search term chicken. I attribute this to the widely popular gruesome video involving Pam Anderson VS "Kentucky Fried Cruelty".
Another anti-fur campaign said "Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs." And here's a pile of naked PETA members. And another pile of protesting PETA members.
Honestly, I like vegetarianism, but I'm not a vegetarian. I know it sounds a little odd, but I cherish all life, plants as well as animals. Just because a tomato plant may be soundless without wind, and visionless without those looking at it, doesn't mean I consider it less important than animals. I eat most living things equally. I don't really like beef and I don't really like Brussels sprouts, but I eat them, because I'm thankful that I have it. I thank the Cow and the Brussels sprout equally.
Though I believe vegetables are important, I do still commend PETA for their strong opposition towards animal cruelty. I'm not really sure how I feel about vegetable rights, yet.
Since we started this off with an "All Animals Have The Same Parts" ad, I'll end it with one too.
The content has humor crazy glued all over it, but I believe pop-up ads are stuck to the crazy glue too =( The site is funny though. Apparently it's some Russian(s) taking popular Russian culture, especially their Internet culture and reproducing it in English for others to be able to view. Here's the crazy glued humor.
If you like witnessing tricks of the mind or are an illusionist at heart, you'll love this site. Not only is it a web site where illusions are displayed, but they have in depth explanations of how the illusion works.
There's plenty of free content to browse though, and there's even some you can buy to own an illusion yourself and show it off to your friends. Grand Illusions is the web site title, and there's a dash in their domain grand-illusions.com
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