1,000,000 things

Häagen-Dazs Loves Honeybees

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:01:00 +0000

Häagen-Dazs ice cream has been showing their love for bees lately. It's a bit of a marketing approach, but the end result is the same, regardless. You see, bees have been dieing off and the company (along with Mother Nature) needs the striped insect to maintain their use of 1 million pounds of almonds a year. To help save the bees, Häagen-Dazs is developing an area dedicated to bees at the University of California, Davis - an area that will include a half-acre, $65,000 bee-garden. Sweet! [via The Christian Science Monitor]

A Gamer's Mecca - World Of Warcraft-Themed Restaurant

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

World of Warcraft or WoW is designated as a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. As with a lot of games, players explore the landscape, fight monsters, complete quests and interact with other players. Worldwide there are more than 11 million monthly subscribers. China can claim at least one million of these. The country's capital, Beijing, has a new restaurant that hopes to cater to the city's WoW fans with "screens playing animations from the game, a full-sized suit of armor, fantasy-inspired murals, and menu items named after characters." Could this become an international gamer's destination? [via Jaunted]

Making Diamonds From Spit - DNArtistic

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:01:00 +0000

Science and art have combined to create a unique business - DNArtistic. The company uses advanced genetic techniques and a dash of creativity to produce personalized pieces of art. You send them some spit-soaked swabs and they send you a framed DNA fingerprint. Their newest undertaking is a line of jewelry that incorporates the buyer's DNA via a fusion of molecular biology and jewelry-making. The starting price will be 1 million Swiss francs ($852,878 USD) for the spit-filled gem.

Vanessa Hudgens Gives Away Free Trees

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Million Trees LA is an initiative to plant one million trees throughout the Los Angeles area. In cooperation with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the initiative is giving away up to 7 free shade trees to existing electric customers. High School Musical star, Vanessa Hudgens, showed her green side as she helped promote the program at the 2008 Environmental Youth Conference.

Bigger Than The Million Man March? - Obama's Big Day

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:01:00 +0000

On Jan. 20, 2009, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the President of the United States. A million or more people may show up for the inauguration of the country's first black president. Some have even estimated upwards of 5 million! The event has spun out of control with tickets and hotels selling out. If you want to be a part of it all, check out Crash The Inauguration - a site dedicated to attending the 'Woodstock of Washington'. [via The Associated Press]

Lighting One Million Firecrackers... At Once!

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Big Boys Toys is Australasia's largest and only complete male lifestyle event where you can see, try and buy the leading brands you love. This 1,000,000 firecracker display was part of the festivities this year. Could be a world record.

1,000,000 Pennies - A Wall Of Copper

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:01:00 +0000

Ever wanted to know what one million pennies would look like? Me neither, but you might as well look since you're here. Actually, it's 1,003,776 pennies. Whatever. It's close enough. This is a wall 4 feet wide and 5 feet high. And yes, that is a traditional penny-counter's uniform. [via MegaPenny Project]

Beer Bottle Building - Monks Advertise For Heineken

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Thai monks used over one million recycled glass bottles to construct their Buddhist temple. The monks obtained the bottles through a local cleanup effort. Apparently, Thai drinkers prefer Heineken and Chang, as the entire temple is made only from the green and brown bottles of these brands. [via greenUpgrader]

A LEGO-Maniac's Workshop

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:01:00 +0000

Sean Kinney doesn't work for LEGO, but he plays with the colorful building bricks everyday. You see, Sean is an artist who uses LEGOs as his art medium and with over 1 million Lego pieces in his studio, he is ready to prove that he can build anything... anytime. He has worked on portraits, sculptures, and scale models for companies such as Google, ABC, NBC, Mazda, Chase, and others. Interested in commissioning a custom LEGO sculpture? He does that too. [via InventorSpot]

Giving The Gift Of Trash This Holiday Season

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Christmas is a wasteful time of year. Wrapping paper and discarded packages. Month-old Christmas trees and leftover snacks. All of it gets pitched in the trash and eventually finds it's way to the landfill. The North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources says the holiday season increases the nation’s trash by an extra 1 million tons per week between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. [via WSLS 10]

Brighter Than The Sun - Canadian Mall Christmas Lights

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:01:00 +0000

The Green Team at British Columbia's largest shopping center, Metropolis at Metrotown, has published a list of 9 Ways to Greenify Your Holidays. Number 6 on their list is shocking to me. It says "All the energy we use to power our Christmas lights could power one million homes! Use LED lights, they consume 95% less energy than regular lights". When they say 'we', do they mean the mall, British Columbia, or all of Canada? We're talking a Griswold family Christmas, here! [via Metropolis At Metrotown]

Free Legal Music - SpiralFrog

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

SpiralFrog is a place to download free, legal music. I know what you're thinking - the music sucks or is from the early 1900s or is from no-name bands, right? Nope! The site is supported by advertising so, the more than one million songs available for download are well-known, desirable tracks. Some of the top downloads include:

Heartless by Kanye West.
Hot N Cold by Katy Perry.
Spaceman by The Killers
Lips Of An Angel by Hinder

[via The Bellingham Herald]

Google Like A Dr's Waiting Room - Displays Old Magazines

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:01:00 +0000

I remember Google saying that it would take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable. They're one step and one year closer as Google Inc. plans to serve digital copies of more than 1 million past magazine articles. Titles will include New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science and Ebony. [via redOrbit]

Pole-Climbing Serpentine Robots

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Engineers at Virginia Tech won the whooping grand prize of $1 million won (~$690 USD) at the 2008 International Capstone Design Fair in South Korea. They won with the entry of their three pole-climbing, serpentine robots designed to help construction workers inspect tall poles or beams. [via Science Daily]

Pizza On The Go - Papa John's Gets Techy

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:01:00 +0000

Papa John's Pizza is cutting-edge when it comes to internet and mobile marketing. They have a Facebook account, a mobile web site, online-ordering widgets and a suite of iPhone applications on the way. And guess what - it's working! Papa John’s has seen $1 million in mobile phone pizza orders. [via IntoMobile]

Humanitarians And Supercomputers - A Perfect Match

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Did you know that you can donate your computer's unused time to help save the world? The World Community Grid is an IBM-funded project that ties people's personal computers into a grid or supercomputer that is used to tackle scientific research projects. One such project is the Clean Energy Project. This one seeks to find new combinations of organic materials for the next generation of solar cells and later, energy storage devices. The Clean Energy Project will process over 1 million configurations of atoms in the next two years. The time it would take without such an effort - 20 years! [via CleanTechnica.com]

Whoops! - Useless Vasectomies

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:21:00 +0000

Okay... you and your wife have knocked out 3.5 kids and your wife thinks it's time for you to visit the urologist. That's right, the V-word. Vasectomy. You go through with it, but the unexpected happens. Now you've got 4.5 kids. As it turns out, about one in 100 vasectomies doesn't do it's job - the sperm count not being low enough. The magic number? Below one million per milliliter, according to the World Health Organization. [via Mail Online]

In Your Face, Facebook! - Coming December 15th

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:55:00 +0000

A group of disgruntled Facebook users have joined together to boycott their master and Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg, and the world he created. They have some beef with the new layout and the way Facebook works and blah, blah, blah. This is what I like to call OurWeb 2.0 - where the users of overpriced internet sites make all the business decisions (or think they do, at least). More than 1 million Facebook users have signed up to boycott Facebook on December 15th by not using Facebook all day. That will show'em. [via The New York Observer]

Putrid Pork - Ireland's Dioxin-Tainted Pigs

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:51:00 +0000

Don't eat the other white meat! There is currently a bill in the works to recall all pork products made from pigs slaughtered in Ireland. It is estimated that about 10 percent of Irish pigs were fed dioxins, a highly carcinogenic and toxic compound. Ireland exports about 1 million euros of pig meat a day [Bloomberg.com]. It seems the Irish will be the ones doing the kissing here - of their profits... goodbye.

P.S. this pig was dioxin-free.

Photo by: Brent and MariLynn (Flickr)

Out Of The Foot Locker - Gay Soldier Support

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:05:00 +0000

The United States has a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to gays and lesbians serving in the armed forces. This prohibits gays from openly serving. In other words, don't tell us your gay, we'll let you risk your life for us, and if we do happen to find out that you're gay, then we'll kick you out. This could someday change, however, as a group of retired general and admirals is actively seeking to change the current policy. It is estimated that there are approximately one million gay and lesbian veterans in the United States today [PinkNews.co.uk].

Photo by: StuSeeger (Flickr)

Keeping Aloe Vera Farmers In Business

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:49:00 +0000

As if global warming and holes in the ozone layer aren't enough, it seems a rather large segment of society craves that extra dose of ultraviolet radiation. The experts in leathery skin, the American Academy of Dermatology, say that more than 1 million people visit tanning salons on an average day [Salt Lake Community College Globe]. That's hot.

Photo by: shygantic (Flickr)

Stay Out Of The Woods - It's Hunting Season

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:32:00 +0000

The first Monday after Thanksgiving is always the beginning of rifle deer season in Pennsylvania. For months, men have dreamed of putting on their camouflaged coveralls and toting their guns into the forest. Nearly 1 million hunters were believed [The Maryland Daily Record] to have "participated."

Free Online Horror Films - FEARnet.com

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:15:00 +0000

FEARnet.com is a scary, nasty place and that's... a good thing. You see, this is where horror fans can watch free full length films, red carpet and convention coverage, trailers, shorts, and chat with other folks who love blood and guts. FEARnet.com averages around 1 million unique users per month [Multichannel News].

Chick-fil-A's Viral Cow Calendars - The Bovines In Blue

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:29:00 +0000

Quick-service US chicken restaurant, Chick-fil-A, produces a calendar each year that features their famous bovine mascots. The $6 calendar provides over $30 in coupons and supplies a steady stream of repeat customers. This viral piece of marketing genius is on track to sell more than 1 million copies [The News & Observer] this year. Get yours here.

Amy Winehouse's Divorce - Big Blackmail Buyout?

noreply@blogger.com (1000000things) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:57:00 +0000

Amy Winehouse's soon-to-be ex-husband only wants $1 million pounds [Thaindian News] of Amy's estimated $10 million pound fortune in exchange for a divorce. News of the World reports that this is a payoff to keep him from writing a tell-all book about the couple's time together.