Leonard McQueeny holds the Guinnes book of records for the most extensive facial prosthesis. Nearly half his face is silicone rubber that he can snap on and it has changed his life.
This segment is taken from the 1998 American television show Guinness World Records: Primetime.

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How tempted are you going to be to follow this lady’s example the next time you are at the mall?

More spinning examples after the jump
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Take a look at this awesome 3D animation of a beating heart. You use the slider back and forth to change the opacity of the heart from a perfectly textured heart into a gorgeous refractive glass material so you can see the valves and chambers etc.

Its just 2 pre-rendered 3d movies fading from one to […]

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Have you ever been to France and felt awkward when one of them kisses you on the cheek?
Exactly how many kisses do you give? When do you stop?
One? Two? Three? Do you stick the tongue in on the last one?

This map should help clarify how many “bise” (kiss on the cheek) you give […]

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Ive seen the title “Where the Hell is Matt” thrown around a few times over the last few days but it never really grabbed me so i skipped over the item and onto the next one…until i finally realised that the Matt in question is Matthew Harding, the globe trotting dancing maniac.
You may remember […]

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This great Flickr set, by Paul The Wine Guy, explores what happens when geek iconography escapes into the real work.via
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Way too much time on your hands girls?
Keep an eye on the girl on the back left…the leg work is all too much for her!

Its actually a viral for russian site Maestro.via
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A new technology that can convert aerial photographs into a 3D world similar to that of Google Earths renderings of some major cities has been showcased in Stockholm, Sweden.
But unlike Google’s laser-measured rendering, this technique took less than 8 days (including the photography) to automatically generate the 3D-model of Stockholm — which includes every […]

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..how they get the coloured stripes in my toothpaste.

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Those of you (and thats probably most of you) who watch the UK BBC Top Gear show will be more than accustomed to Chicago Corner, The Hammerhead & Gambon Corner.
You can now drive the Laceti around the test track online in this rather nasty looking official game.

I could be mistaken, but wasn’t the Top Gear […]

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