Called the “White Wing,” this design concept uses a modernistic island to house (and hide when not in use) a refrigerator, dishwasher, induction cook top, oven and sink. Several images show how the concept works.
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Written entirely in Javascript, it is a 3D-ish version of the opening screen from Yoshi’s Island. Neat concept
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Norway is planning to build a “doomsday vault” inside a mountain on an Arctic island to hold a seed bank of all known varieties of the world’s crops.
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Apparently Johnny Depp bought an island for around $3,000,000 a while back. And, since there aren’t exactly power lines running to the tiny island, he had to figure out how to power is (ridiculously posh) home. For the green-minded Depp, diesel generators just weren’t an option.
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Bittorrent tracker PirateBay.org, currently based in Sweden, plans to purchase the man-made island-country, Sealand, off the coast of the UK. Sealand is its own country, and the PirateBay would not be subject to the jurisdiction of any nations if it relocated to the island. TPB is seaking donations to help go through with this plan.
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Greenland, the world’s largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet (seven meters).
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The Cyclone, the famous Coney Island roller coaster, and the 150-foot-tall Wonder Wheel, a Ferris wheel, are separately owned and landmarked by the city so they are unaffected by the closing. News that Sunday would be the last gasp for Dante’s Inferno fun house, 22 other rides and three arcades drew hundreds of nostalgia-minded visitors…
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Beautiful aerial photos of islands and download free desktop wallpaper from National Geographic.
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Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it! We covered some otherwordly places before (see, for example, Bolvian Salt Lake, or The Richat structure), but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered “normal” for a landscape on Earth.
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Breathtaking … though the neighbors might be a bit snooty.
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