Welcome to our “12 Facts of Christmas” Infographic for 2011. Just a little something to wish you a Merry Christmas, give you some fun facts to use at your office party and to say a big thank you for being so inspiring to work with in 2011. We hope you have a great Christmas and a prosperous new year!
The program included 20 unmanned launches, followed by two suborbital and four orbital flights with astronaut pilots. Early planning and research were carried out by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), but the program was officially conducted by its successor organization, NASA. Mercury laid the groundwork for Project Gemini and the follow-on Apollo moon-landing program.
It’s amazing the torture a family will put its members through come holiday time, especially when the memories can’t be erased thanks to some fool snaping a picture to document the humiliation for posterity. On the plus side, at least everyone who got one of these pictures in a holiday card got a good laugh.
Have you ever wondered how your daily used/favorite websites such as Facebook, Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, and Flickr look like when they were first launched? Below are the screenshots of the most popular websites while they were still in their earliest incarnations. With comparison to their design today, they have definitely evolved greatly and will continue to improve. While, Google had recently rolled out a makeover for all of its products & services in an attempt to unify its products & services.
Thanks to the waybackmachine internet archive, we’re still able to see some of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 pioneers looked in their earliest forms.
ATPWorldTour.com reviews the Top 5 comebacks of the 2011 season, beginning with No. 5:
Soderling, meanwhile, had battled back from a two-sets deficit twice before, most recently in 2005 at Roland Garros. “I tried not to think about the scoreline,” he said. “Instead, I tried to keep looking forward. I know I was playing pretty well. I served well. And if I could just start to move a little bit better, start to return a little bit better than the first two sets, I knew I had a good chance.”
Two games away from defeat at 5-5 in the third set, Soderling broke Hewitt for the first time to begin his comeback, and he broke the Australian at the end of a tight fourth set to level the match.
Cruising a luxurious superyacht with your own custom-built limousine onboard, ready for offshore jaunts, sounds like an experience fit only for royalty.
Likewise, lounging in your very own salon designed by one of the biggest fashion houses in the world could perhaps come with a lifestyle limited to supermodels.
Long and slender, the Blue Whale's body can be various shades of bluish-grey dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath. There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda (also known as the Pygmy Blue Whale) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean. B. m. indica, found in the Indian Ocean, may be another subspecies. As with other baleen whales, its diet consists almost exclusively of small crustaceans known as krill.
Most Popular Cars of the Future. If you have been keeping up with sci fi movies in the past few decades, chances are you have seen plenty of futuristic cars. Thanks to the advancement of technology, cars of the future are becoming a reality. This infographic by compareautoinsurance.com shows some cool futuristic cars available today:
Researchers have created a new metallic material that they claim is the world's lightest solid material. With a density of just 0.9 mg/cm3 the material is around 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and lighter than the "multiwalled carbon nanotube (MCNT) aerogel" - also dubbed "frozen smoke" - with a density of 4 mg/cm3 that we looked at earlier this year. Despite being 99.99 percent open volume, the new material boasts impressive strength and energy absorption, making it potentially useful for a range of applications.
While the iPhone may have stolen the show when comes to casual handheld gaming, the Sony PSP still has some great titles if you’re looking for advanced game play with rich story lines. Here’s a short list of some of our favorites. If you think we missed a great Sony PSP game worthy of this list then please leave a comment below.
The Sony PSP has been around for some years but it shows no indication of reducing in popularity. The fact is with new games for PSP while in the pipeline it’s going from strength to strength. 31 million PSP sales worldwide actually.
The Sony PSP is very much more compared to a great hand held games system but let’s face it the key reason you brought yours would be to play great games. The depth of colors and speed of action are an awesome experience and out do contrary helds easily.
I’m just thinking of several of my personal favorite games there are plenty of, We have pretty much every game designed for the PSP. Here’s my top 10 games for PSP.
The worlds most deadliest plants. The good news, most of the deadliest plants will kill you only if you eat them. If you wanted to find the Top 10 Most Poisonous Plants then you have come to the right place.
Some plants cannot be touched without a resulting rash. It goes without reason that if it causes a rash, then you should not eat it. But other plants look good enough to eat. These plants will kill you.
Get familiar with the plants in this list. Some you know. Some you heard of. It is most important that you recognize them and avoid them.
It’s all started from Christopher Huet, a talented manipulation master who wants to have some serious fun on the human’s head, and he did it very successfully by making it bigger, yeah, just bigger. And what really shocks is just by enlarging the head, it’s really enough to make one burst out laughing!
Another Big Headache. It’s all the fault of the fork! But what makes my head so big, by the way? (Image Source: Patrick Hoff)
Halloween is one of the best times of the year to catch scary movies and get in the mood to have some fun with fear. We all have somethings to be afraid of. Have you ever wondered what goes on in your body when you feel fear? Sortable has put together an infographic that sheds light on that.
Halloween is the most favored holiday by AgencyNetters. Every year we have a pretty epic Halloween party full of creative costumes, candy and of course plenty of palatable potions.
This year, it’s sure to be better than ever. Halloween Trends for 2011. Enjoy!
The Hoshi Ryokan is a hotel and spa in Komatsu, Japan. It is almost 1,300 years old and has been owned by the same family since 718 A.D.
Photo: Hoshi Ryokan Website
The biggest, fastest, longest, weirdest and wackiest record breakers from the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records. The Guinness World Records 2012 Edition is available from the 15th of September.
Halloween is next week! This infographic compares budget, box office revenue, and rotten tomatoes ratings of most of the classics.
Doctors have been left baffled by a strange condition which appears to have caused a 23-year-old woman to age 50 years in a matter of days.
Nguyen Thi Phuong, from Vietnam, now looks like a septugenarian after the affliction took hold in 2008 leaving her with a puffy face and sagging skin.
However her husband, carpenter Nguyen Thanh Tuyen says his love has not faded for his once beautiful wife, who is now 26.
Star Wars fans from all over the East Coast crossed lightsabers at New York City's Washington Square Park for what might be the world's largest lightsaber battle.
Who's got the craziest supporters in their stands?
On the Friday before the 2008 Georgia vs. Florida game, classes were canceled in the Clarke County, Georgia school district because there wouldn’t be enough teachers. The year before, 137 had called in “sick” the day prior to the game, and the schools could find only 113 subs.
Togo Akodessewa Fetish Market is recognized as the largest fetish market in the world, a place where Voodoo practitioner can find anything they need for their rituals.
Global warming threatens glaciers. In the news time from time slips that one or another icy river is endangered. So the best way is to hurry in order to make sure that the photos do not lie, and the ice really is all shades of blue and pink colors, and not white, as it appears to those who saw it only in the form of icicles, hanging from the roofs of houses.
Not satisfied with creating a stop-motion animation of microscopic proportions, Nokia has gone in the opposite direction, this time turning a beach into what Guinness deemed the “world’s largest stop motion animation set.”
Do you belong to Team Ferrari or Team Lamborghini? Whether you already know which cars really turn your crank or you’re still on the fence, it’s imperative that you know the latest and greatest to come out of both showrooms. Imperative to you keeping your Man Card that is.
Even if you already know that chances are good you’ll never be able to afford to insure a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, you should still be able to rattle off a few stats about them. For example, how fast can their fastest cars go? Which models cost the most money to buy? These are the things that should matter to you hot blooded young men out there.
This infographic by Compareautoinsurance.com sheds lights on top car modifications and how much they could cost you:
Poised between inertial stability and the relentless force of gravity, these rock-steady rocks maintain a precarious balance between soil and sky.
This almost snow-like-sand is produced by the Tularosa Basin. The basin was formed by the collapse of a dome made up of the gypsum sand. The collapse occurred about ten million years ago and what remains of the sides of the original dome are what we now call the San Andreas and Sacramento Mountain ranges.
With mushroom dust, caviar and creme fraiche topping, it has an ingredient list fit for a Michelin star restaurant.
And at $80, a Massachusetts baseball stadium's new hot dog certainly has a price tag to match.
The new 'McMullen Dog' at Brockton Roxstadium is vying for the title of world's most expensive hot dog after going on sale last Saturday.
Fashion industry has introduced many super models in the past. Each year many new faces of male and female models are introduced. Here is the list of top 10 new faces of female models 2011.
There are a number of absolutely bizarre taxes in America, and we thought highlighting this would make a very informative and entertaining infographic for Intuit’s TurboTax.
Good antivirus software is an invaluable tool for keeping your computer, your personal information, and the security of your friends and family safe from hackers, identity thieves, and spammers. The damage a single virus can do is astounding.
Seamstresses in Peru set out to set a Guinness World Record for the largest pair of jeans sewn. The pair of jeans measures 141 feet tall and 98 feet wide and weighs in at 7.5 tons. The current record is held by the city of Medellin in Columbia. That pair was 114 feet tall and 82 feet wide.
It sounds like they are just waiting for their record setting jeans to be accepted by Guinness. There wasn't a Guinness representative present, but a notary who can send documentation to the group was.
Dogs, cats, turtles, wolves, you name it, someone has had it as a pet. But do you know what the top ten pets are? As you might have guessed dogs are ranked number one closely followed by cats. Personally, I consider dogs to be the best pet, cats, to put it bluntly, just aren’t as fun. A cat in my opinion is only cute when it is a kitten, where a dog simply becomes distinguished as they age.
Pub signs could also be an art expression. Web site waymarking.com was dedicated to finding these traditional pub signs. We are sharing with you 15 best signs in our choice. Enjoy!
They were always willing and able to burn some rubber. And they were anything but agile.
Big, heavy for the time, loud and rude, muscle cars embodied everything that was great about the American auto industry of the 1960s and 1970s. Here are the listed of what made each beast special.
Take a look at the graphic below, provided by our friends at Medical Insurance for a closer look at the shittier side of pooping.
The beers on this list are not made of your typical hops, these beers range from chipotle peppers to animal droppings. If you are interested in expanding your beer library I would recommend taking a look at this list.
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Here are some of the biggest Meteorite craters found on earth. I hope you will like it.
This infographic for Turbo Tax looks specifically at alcohol and it provides a comprehensive look at the money our Government makes from the beloved liquid.
