http://smoont.com Smoont.com posts some of the most interesting, amazing, bizarre, and fun stories, pictures, and videos on the Internet. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:45:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twitter too slow for you? Then you'll want to learn about Flutter - the way to speed up those antiquated twits. Found this pretty funny post over at Josh Spear. Flutter: The New Twitter Whether you fancy yourself an elite member of the Twitterati or you’d rather just give your friends ... http://smoont.com/flutter/ A Springer Spaniel falls nearly 300 feet down a cliff in East Sussex while taking a walk with his owner and actually survives!! http://smoont.com/one-lucky-dog/ Take a look at this jumbo sized art from around the world. Creativity certainly abounds with these flights of fancy. Japan Airlines - JAL - Boeing 747-446D. Southwest Airlines - Boeing 737-3H4 Continental Airlines - Boeing 777-224/ER. Alitalia - Boeing 747-243B - Advertising for Bulgari Designer Watches. Japan Airlines - JAL - Boeing ... http://smoont.com/jumbo-sized-airplane-art/ Everywhere you look these days you find Twitter or Facebook or Myspace. Up-to-the minute updates covering every aspect of someone's day. This urgency to update Facebook takes it to a whole new level though... http://smoont.com/official-in-gods-book-and-on-facebook/ Many of you probably heard about all the snow and associated issues the Mid-Atlantic Region experienced over the weekend. One of the worst snowstorms in the city's history. However, even in the face of adversity, people manage to find the bright side of a bad situation! The city's residents gathered ... http://smoont.com/the-great-dupont-snowball-fight-of-2010/ From the earliest times of human civilization there have been those that sought immortality. The chance to live forever. The story below is amazing in that apparently while our bodies can't live forever, maybe our cells can. [caption id="attachment_2499" align="alignnone" width="388" caption=" Courtesy of the Lacks family"][/caption] The Smithsonian recently ... http://smoont.com/the-immortal-cells-of-henrietta-lacks/ Gadgets can be clever, fun, quirky, and sometimes really very useful and practical. This video runs through some of the latest gadgets that will hopefully make your life a little easier... http://smoont.com/gadgets-that-make-your-life-easier/ I clearly remember this photo taken by Steve McCurry for National Geographic many years ago. It was so moving and somewhat haunting that it captivated many of us and lived in our collective memory over the years. Now it has taken on a new life as an optical illusion. ... http://smoont.com/famous-photo-turned-optical-illusion/ Have fun making your own gadgets! We are all used to DIY (do it yourself) for home projects, but what about for those of you that are highly creative and inventive in a techie kind of way? http://smoont.com/fun-with-diy-gadgets/ With all of the cold weather around the US recently, accidents to due to ice have obviously been a problem in many areas. That being said though, this video was pretty amazing. You don't want to laugh because it's probably not very funny to the owners of the ... http://smoont.com/out-of-the-way/