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The Presurfer

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The Presurfer | The Laconia Incident

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The Atlantic Ocean can be an unforgiving place at the best of times. During the Second World War, combatants on both sides were at peril both from the ocean and the enemy. On 12 September 1942, the British ship RMS Laconia, which was armed, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat 156.

Yet that was not the end of the story. What unfolded was a tale of heroism and events both remarkable and ultimately truly unfortunate for many of those involved. The U-boat surfaced, its commander hoping to capture the senior crew of the ship. The horrified crew instead saw over 2000 people in the water. Then, the U-Boat commander Werner Hartenstein made an extraordinary decision that went beyond all protocol.

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The Presurfer | The bionic bodyshop

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bionic bodyshopWant to improve your body? Go to the Bionic Body Shop where you can buy a bionic eye ($30,000) to partially cure blindness, a cochlear implant ($95,000) to partially cure, a powered exoskeleton ($15,000), or a ventricular assist device($150,000).

Of course, there is no such thing as a Bionic Body Shop. Yet! This was made by IEEE, the technology magazine, and they show what a bionic body shop of the future would look like.

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The Presurfer | Unusual locomotion

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soort tractorUnusual Locomotion is a site about unusual off-road vehicles. Often, these vehicles will remain at the prototype stage because they are too eccentric, too expensive compared to the improvements, or too far ahead of their time.

Unusual Locomotion aims to summarize and share some more knowledge on the evolution of these vehicles and their techniques. It still includes documentation of classic 4×4, ‘unusual’ construction machinery and reports of visits of ‘old iron’ museums.

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The Presurfer | Shoe art

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rode duivelschoenen

American designer Gwen Murphy makes shoe sculptures. She’s a brilliant artist who collects pairs of old shoes and transforms them into wonderful works of art. By using acrylic paint and clay each pair of shoes gets a personality of its own.

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The Presurfer | But is it art?

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Performance by Danish artist Christian Falsnaes. He says: I make my body available for the creative output of the audience (I am the brush, the audience is the painter). Then we leave the gallery and take the street to dance. Everybody sings ‘Lose yourself’ by Eminem.

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The Presurfer | Not doing much

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international institute of not doing much

Don’t like to work under stress and pressure? Think life is rushing you and you want some more rests, relaxation, and recreation? Join the International Institute of Not Doing Much. Here’s their manifesto.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall slow down in the office, and on the roads. We shall slow down with growing confidence when all those around us are in a shrill state of hyperactivity. We shall defend our state of calm, whatever the cost may be. We shall slow down in the fields and in the streets, we shall slow down in the hills, we shall never surrender!

If you can slow down when all around you are speeding up, then you’re one of us. Be proud that you are one of us and not one of them. For they are fast, and we are slow. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly. Some are born to slowness – others have it thrust upon them. And still others know that lying in bed with a morning cup of tea is the supreme state for mankind.

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The Presurfer | Man Church

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Man Church is a church for men in Chandler, Arizona, USA. Women are not allowed in.

Man Church is church the way a man expects it to be done. No singing, short sermon, time to talk with other guys, no women present, and coffee and donuts. That’s the way men want to do church.

The topics of discussion will have a definite manly focus – being the best possible husband, father, employee, leader – being a real man. In fact, every aspect of Man Church is geared for men – not like any other church you have seen. This ain’t your mama’s church!

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The Presurfer | The Manslater

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A lot of men say they don’t understand women. They have difficulties communicating with their partner. I’m not one of those men because I know what to do. I listen. In order to listen you need to pay attention. And you have to make eye contact. You will be surprised how well you remember what she tells you when you pay attention.

But for those who still think that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, there’s the Manslater, a device that tells them exactly what a woman means.

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The Presurfer | Open

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The Open, by Mattia Casalegno, is a mask that wraps around your face and forces you to smell a fresh patch of grass and listen to your own breath.

Equipped with fresh sod and headphones, this mask inhibit the visual system while enhancing the olfactory by the proximity with soil. The device defines also a sensory territory constructed by the rhytm of the breath, which is diffused from the headphones with a 1.5 sec. delay.

The space defined by the sound of breathing is in a state of costant imbalance between the physical act and its sensory perception and traces an unstable relationship with the intimate environment the garment reproduces.

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The Presurfer | Killed by the internet

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Once television was the modern sensation that held our undivided attention for decades. Technology evolved and the first personal computers were released to public in 1977. Thereafter the World Wide Web was launched in 1990. Today there are over 2 billion internet users around the world.

Present day we can watch our favorite television episodes on the internet while connecting to our friends and family via social networks. We can also arrange dates online, play games online or converse with complete strangers in chat rooms or through private messages online. We are now all connected, but should we be?

15 People Killed By The Internet.

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The Presurfer | Murals

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Muralists and street artists bring gallery-worthy art to the streets where they can be enjoyed by all. Sometimes the murals are commissioned and sometimes they’re done guerrilla-style under cloak of night, but splashed across the surface of a bare concrete wall or the unadorned face of an abandoned building, they’re a welcome touch of color and character.

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The Presurfer | Egg

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egg house

Dai Haifei, a 24-year-old architect from Beijing, China, found an ingenious solution to live rent-free. He built himself a mobile egg-shaped house that is powered by the sun. The 6-foot-high structure, which is small enough to fit on a sidewalk, is made of bamboo strips, wood chippings, sack bags, and grass seed that’s expected to grow in the spring.

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