It started out as a silly Halloween weekend in Vegas, and ended up being an Internet legend: the In-N-Out 100×100 burger.
It started innocently enough with a Halloween weekend in Vegas (2004). What started as a drunken, silly weekend..became quite legendary.
Throughout the weekend, Andy kept on saying: "We should go get a 100×100 at In-N-Out". Over..and over…and over again. Until we finally broke. So on Halloween night, we went to go chowdown.
Flying snakes are a small group of species of tree snakes that live in South and Southeast Asia. At rest they appear unremarkable, but on the move they’re able to take to the air by jumping from the tree, flattening the entire body, and gliding or parachuting to the ground or another tree.
Mary Woodbridge and her dog Daisy are training – intensely! – to climb Mt. Everest. She said:
I think, one constantly has to set himself new challenges. So despite my age of 85 years I’m sure, that Daisy (my lovely little Dachshund) and I can make it to the top of Mount Everest. We both go for a walk every day and keep ourselfs very fit!
Attagirl, Mary – good luck and don’t forget to wear warm clothes! Link (Thanks Urs Müller)
That one above is Daphnia longispina or the common waterflea. For more cool microscopy pics, see: The Micropolitan Museum of Microscopic Art Forms (where they proudly promote things less than one millimeter!)
Posted by Alex in Art, Pictures on January 28, 2006 at 2:03 am
From the website’s FAQ:
1.Yes, they are really books. I remove some of the paper and replace it with a sturdy armature of salvaged lumber.
2. The idea evolved from (mis)reading Nicholson Baker. His essays, Lumber, and, Books as Furniture, triggered me to figure out what I might build if I could turn books into lumber.
Good luck charms are usually worn around the neck, or on the wrist. But this year, Chinese Malaysians are wearing them under their pants.
Red men’s underwear emblazoned with auspicious animals and characters have become the rage among Malaysian Chinese ahead of the Chinese lunar New Year holidays, the New Straits Times reported Friday.
The characters printed on the briefs — in the front and at the back — read "attracting fortune," "golden fortune," "prosperous four seasons" and "swirling dragons."
Bill Weber knew that he wasn’t going to go for that $2000 commercial solar water heating units, so he decided to build his own:
First, build a glass-covered wood "hot box" to catch the sun’s heat.
Second, install a manifold of copper water pipes—inside this collector box—so the gathered warmth will heat water.
Third, hook the outlets from the manifold to a storage tank (this container should be set above the heat collector) so the thermosiphon principle will move water from the collector to the tank.
Dean Pomerlau and his son Kyle are president and vice president of Fish School with the claim to fame of teaching fish to "swim through hoops, jump, limbo, eat from your hand – even play soccer"
The eight-year-old monkey Gun-Mo and orangutan Eunbi skates and rides a sled on the ice during a promotional event for the 2006 Animal Academy show, which runs untill February 10 in Seoul , January 24, 2006. The monkey was drilled to go skating for two weeks, the animal trainer said.
Amongst all the fossils ever found in the world, there might be nothing more bizarre than this specimen. One Protoceratops, a herbivorous (plant-eating) dinosaur, perished in the struggle with a carnivorous theropod, Velociraptor. After their death 80 million years ago, both skeletons were fossilized, then finally unearthed in 1971 in fully articulated forms without having been smashed.
Update (Jan 30, 2006): Russian intelligence agency said that the communications device disguised as a rock by British spies is a "miracle of technology".
"It’s a piece of space-age technology, a machine that can withstand a fall from from nine floors up and prolonged submersion in water," said Sergei Ignachenko, spokesman for the FSB agency, as he showed off the object to the media.
Previously (Jan 26, 2006): Russian intelligence agency caught British diplomats red-handed fiddling with some sort of electronic spying device disguised as a rock.
Unfortunately for the alleged spies, the rock’s wiring was temperamental. In one clip, an agent was filmed pretending to relieve himself in shrubs as he fiddled with its sophisticated electronics. In another, the rugby-ball sized stone was picked up and carted away for repairs.
Maurice Kottelat, Tan Heok Hui and colleagues discovered the world’s smallest fish in an acidic peat swamp in Indonesia.
Mature females of the Paedocypris progenetica, a member of the carp family, only grow to 7.9 millimeters (0.31 inches) and the males have enlarged pelvic fins and exceptionally large muscles that may be used to grasp the females during copulation…
Harris reports several cases of bearded women, inmates of the Coton Hill Lunatic Asylum. One of the patients was eighty-three years of age and had been insane forty-four years following a puerperal period. She would not permit the hair on her face to be cut, and the curly white hairs had attained a length of from eight to ten inches on the chin, while on the upper lip the hairs were scarcely an inch.
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center has a set of marvelous scans of George Gould and Walter Pyle’s Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, first published in 1901.
This particular image is one of the mildest, folks – there are many, many much more interesting images and text of strange diseases and medical conditions here: Link (Highly recommended – if you click on only one link today, this should be it! Let me know your favorites …)
Leon Wright and his wife took home a 14.75kg lump of ambergris, found in the innards of sperm whales and used in perfumes after it has been vomited up.
Sought after because of its rarity, ambergris can float on the ocean for years before washing ashore.
Worth up to $20 a gram, Mr Wright’s find on a South Australian beach could net his family US$295,000 (£165,300).
Gold, on the other hand, is only about $18 per gram! Link
For the entire map, see: Link (Don’t miss Geist’s other maps of Canada, including The Doughnut Map of Canada, The Menstrual Map of Canada and many, many more.)
Did Google Earth uncover a secret Australian flying car? You can’t fool The Register:
Which leaves just one possible explantion: the Aussies have developed a gravity-busting hyperdrive, have bolted it into a second-hand Holden, and are seen here in the split second before their X-Motor made the transdimensional leap to hyper light speed.
Everyone loves their pet dog – but can your dog walk on water? Mine can. This photo was taken on December 31, 2002. The Rideau was experiencing some unseasonably warm weather and a layer of water had formed on top of the ice covered lake, resulting in a mirror-like surface. In this photo, doggie is on high alert since a ball is about to be tossed.
See more of Ken’s cool photos of Rideau Canal Waterway: Link
Vincenzo Balzani, J. Fraser Stoddart and colleagues at the University of Bologna in Italy and UCLA have created a tiny four-stroke engines that can run on sunlight and emits no pollutant.
The molecule, called rotaxane, forms naturally. It’s also autonomous, meaning that it will continue operating as long as energy is available.
It can work with others, or function all by itself. It can be driven at high frequency, and in mild environmental conditions it is quite durable, staying stable for at least 1,000 cycles.
Posted by Alex in Art on January 24, 2006 at 2:02 am
You’d never guess what Angel used to paint those cute bees:
In December 1995, I was looking for creative Christmas gifts for my friends. One day I was watching my sister Lyn use sponges to paint on canvas. I thought, "I wonder if my breasts could work like sponges?" Inspiration struck! So I bought some non-toxic paint and canvas, locked myself in the bathroom, and figured out a technique to paint with my breasts. Wouldn’t you know it? Breast Pals was born!
Angel said: 100% of the sales profit will go toward breast cancer charities.
Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on January 23, 2006 at 2:05 am
This is how Robert Cole escaped from his prison cell:
Cole, 36, also known as Andrew David Robertson, starved himself to drop his weight by about a fifth in a matter of weeks. He entered jail a 70 kilogram prisoner and left a 56 kilogram escapee.
Prison authorities seem not to have noticed that Cole had been starving himself. Nor did they see he had been chipping away at the brickwork outside his cell window to make enough room to squeeze between the edge of the window and its external bars.
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