Cool Picture Illusion

Wow this is a cool picture illusion by artist Craig Tracy.

View more work by this artist at http://www.paintedalive.com/homepage/index.html

Cool Guitar Hero Christmas Lights

Check out this cool video of Guitar Hero style Christmas Lights. Because here is every gamer's dream wrapped up in a Christmas paper so beautiful that you might never play Guitar Hero in a living room ever again. Please hail Ric Turner, who realized the holiday season was upon him and it was time not to keep up with the Joneses, but with the Brian Jones Massacre's.

If you are not utterly entranced by the skill and wonderment of this technological exercise, then your fingers are pork sausages and your emotions are boiled semolina.

How did he create it? 
Here is just the first part of his explanation: "Christmas Light Hero is using 7 light controllers from Light-O-Rama built from kits to control 21,268 lights and LEDs. Each controller has 16 outputs and 2-3 TTL level control inputs that are used by the game system to fire different programmed light sequences depending on what happens in the game."

He continued: "It relies on the fact that the game sequence is very consistent. If the game and the lighting sequences start together, they will stay in very good sync through the length of the song."


He said: "When you play, you watch only the Christmas lights, but the audio you hear is from the Wii, so your flubs are broadcast for all to hear (people in cars can tune 99.1 and crank it up as loud as they want.)"

If you happen to be passing Turner's house (a commenter on Daily What says it's somewhere near Disney in Burbank, Calif.), please know that it isn't so easy to get on the high score list. He said on his YouTube posting: "Optional TV screen is available if you get in trouble, but if you use the screen, you don't get your name in the high score list."

I know some of you will be wondering how many bulbs are being put to such good use here. The Daily What reveals that it is 21,268. May your neighbors be even one tenth as imaginative this holiday season.

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Mount Everest Pictures

A collection of cool stunning Mt. Everest pictures which also make cool desktop wallpapers. Mount Everest is the pinnacle of ever climbers ambitions and these pictures below show why this mountain in respected, loved and feared over all others. 

National Geographic Mount Everest Pictures
National Geographic always showcase stunning photographs are here are some of our favorites which also make great desktop wallpapers.

Not many people have had the opportunity to look down on the peaks of the Himalaya, but this 1963 picture from photographer Barry Bishop gave proof that Americans had finally reached the summit of Mount Everest. Bishop's teammates became the first Americans to summit Everest on May 1, 1963.

Himalayan peaks tower behind a cabin in Nepal. The Sherpa are the predominant ethnic group in this area, and their livelihood has come to depend on the tens of thousands of tourists who visit the Himalaya each year.

"The wind whips and tears at us as we perch precariously on Earth's highest pinnacle," said Barry Bishop after he and his team successfully made it to the top of Mount Everest in 1963.

Sprinkled with snow, Mount Nuptse stands in front of its Himalayan cousin, Mount Everest. At 25,790 feet (7861 meters), Nuptse falls a few thousand feet short of Everest.

In 1921, famed Everest explorer George Leigh Mallory wrote to his wife saying, "I can't tell you how it possesses me, and what a prospect it is." In 1924 he perished trying to reach the top. His body was not discovered until 1999.

At the peak of Mount Everest, atmospheric pressure is a mere 30 percent of that at sea level, meaning that a climber's breath takes in only 30 percent of the oxygen that it normally does, causing the body and mind to begin breaking down.

Upon seeing Mount Everest clearly for the first time in 1921 after weeks of travel, George Leigh Mallory wrote, "It was a prodigious white fang, an excrescence from the jaw of the world. We saw Mount Everest."

Before being named Mount Everest by the British in 1865, the mountain had gone by many names in many languages over the centuries. Tibetans call it Chomolungma, often translated as "mother of the universe."

Barry Bishop, who summitted Everest in 1963, wrote in a November 1988 National Geographic article: "We had been lucky that season: Everest had been uncommonly tranquil. In short, the weather had been only miserable, not impossible."

A Sherpa village in Nepal rests at the base of Mount Everest. Predominantly Buddhist, Sherpa continue to lead simple lives even as tourism brings more and more visitors to their land each year.

Mt Everest from Space 
Check out these two stunning HD pictures of Mount Everest from space 

This is a picture taken from Everest Base Camp.

Himalayan Experience Pictures

All the stunning Himalayan travel pictures below are from the Himalayan Experience Himex website. 
Read more information on trekking Everest from the Travelphant.com travel blog.

 

 

 

 

 

Mount Everest Summit Video



Flight around Mt. Everest Video

X Factor Rage Mash Up Video

Funny video of X Factor and Rage Against The Machine Killing in the name mashup song.

Cool Chameleon

A video of one cool chameleon! This little guy is a champion in the art of adapting to the colors of his environment.


Coolest Chameleon Ever - Watch more Funny Videos

15 Cool Twitter Background Pictures

A collection of cool Twitter background pictures to enhance your Twitter page. First impressions count so make sure your Twitter page looks cool to attract those all-important followers. A cool Twitter background is a key ingredient in creating a Twitter page that’s both eye-catching and true to your personality. Here are 15 of our favorite Twitter backgrounds you can use today:

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Arshavin at Anfield - Funny Video

As a Manchester United soccer fan, I'm loving this Arshavin at Anfield video using the back to the future 3 theme. Shame he's not a Man United player though.