Archive for October, 2006
A Valued Employee.
Erna Cartwright turned 100 years old on October 31st. That in itself is noteworthy, but she has yet to retire! Ms. Cartwright is a bookkeeper for the Oshkosh City Cab Company, where she has worked for 60 years. She has had jobs for a total of 82 years. She says she has no plans to retire. Link
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I Don't Have to Dress up My Dogs for Halloween
They dress themselves. This year, Charley dressed up as a piece of clean laundry, and Sami dressed up as an idiot.
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Vader Dog.
Must … post … one last Halloween pic! This one is Lola, Flickr user joevanwinkle’s pet dog: Link [Flickr].
If you like to dress up your dog for Halloween (or at least, like to see dogs in costume, especially Star Wars costumes), then check out Mike Freeman’s website: CostumeDogs – Thanks Mike!
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Weird Dummy Album Covers.
Will wonders never cease? Here are some weird viny album covers featuring dummies: Link – Thanks Roger!
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Neatorama Welcomes Gail Hapke of Scribal Terror!
I’d like to welcome Gail Hapke of Scribal Terror as a new author for Neatorama.
Gail started Scribal Terror as a place for intelligent discourse; an oasis, she called it, where visitors can voice their opinion away from the frenzied Internet (like, Neatorama perhaps?).
Anyway, Scribal Terror was the place I learned about obscure literary things like clerihew, cento, syllepsis and of course, dirty syllepsis. (A what? Look ‘em up).
It’s a pleasure to welcome Gail as a new author for Neatorama.
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Newspaper Rack BBQ Grill.
A while back, we featured Neatorama reader Steve Barker’s custom-made Muscle Car BBQ Grill. Now, Steve has come up with a new grill: propane-operated newspaper rack grill!
The door opens up to act as a table:
For those who are interested, please contact Steve and let him know you saw it on Neatorama!
Link: Muscle Car BBQ Grills – Thanks Steve!
Update 6/25/07: Some people have complained about Muscle Car BBQ Grill – see the comment section of our original post.
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Sketch a Furniture in Thin Air.
Designed by Swedish design group FRONT. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Justelite!
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Pi, Visualized by Color.
You’ve probably seen Pi visualized with color [Flickr]. Now, you can play around with it here (change color of digits) : Link [Java applet] – Thanks Martin!
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New Cosmetic Surgery is All the Rage: Eyelash Transplant.
Apparently, it’s a new trend in cosmetic surgery:
Using procedures pioneered by the hair-loss industry for balding men, US surgeons are using ‘plug and sew’ techniques to give women long, sweeping lashes once achieved only by glued-on extensions and thick lashings of mascara.
‘Eyelash transplantation does for the eyes what breast augmentation does for the figure,’ said Florida-based Dr Alan Bauman, a leading proponent of eyelash transplants.
Link – Thanks Samantha!
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Look Ma! I Skewered a Ship Through My Mouth!
From the website:
A Thai man carries a model of a ship,by a skewer through his cheeks, while participating in a parade during the vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand, October 28, 2006.
What? How is this connected to a Vegetarian festival? Link
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Killer Robot Chair.
If you see this chair, DO NOT sit on it! You’ve been warned: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Tinselman.
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Hippo Halloween
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Irish-American Vampires Take Note
Ananova reports:
Two Irishmen have set up a company selling dirt to Americans.
Alan Jenkins, 65, from Lisburn and agricultural scientist Pat Burke, 27, from Tipperary, say the demand for the “official Irish dirt” has been “phenomenal.”
The pair have just sold their first $1m shipment of muck to the US.
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Lies Your Mother Told You.
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The Lie: Lemmings commit suicide en masse. The Truth: Lemmings are stupid, not depressed. The myth of lemming suicide goes back a long way – at least to Freud, who in Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) examined the human death instinct in the context of the purported mass suicide of lemmings. But suicidal lemmings didn’t fully enter the pop culture lexicon until Disney made the "documentary" White Wilderness in 1958. Disney shipped dozens of lemmings to Alberta, Canada (where they do not live), herded them off a cliff, filmed the poor creatures falling to their deaths, and passed it off as nonfiction. Ah, the magic of Disney. In fact, lemmings aren’t suicidal. They’re just dumb. When the tundra gets crowded, they seek out new land. Sometimes they fall off the cliffs. |
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The Lie: When elephants get ready to die, they go to elephant graveyards. The Truth: When elephants are ready to die, they just fall down and do it, just like the rest of us. |
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The Lie: Throwing rice at weddings causes birds to explode. The Truth: Throwing rice at weddings causes birds to have something new and delicious and totally undangerous to eat. In fact, there are many species of birds in Asia who survive primarily on uncooked rice, which they take from fields. The myth had its start in a 1988 Ann Landers [wiki] column in which she discouraged readers from the practice. The USA Rice Federation (motto: "Proving There Is a Federation for Everything") immediately debunked Landers’s story, but, surprisingly, Ann Landers had a broader readership than the USA Rice Federation. |
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The Lie: Chewing gum stays in your digestive system for seven years. The Truth: Chewing gum, like anything else, stays in your digestive system for an average of about 20 hours. Like a lot of indigestible things people eat (fingernails, lettuce, Froot Loops), chewing gum gets passed through the gastrointestinal tract as roughage. |
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The Lie: If you don’t wait an hour after eating to get in the swimming pool, you will get a cramp and die. The Truth: Exactly 0 deaths have ever been attributed to entering a pool too quickly after eating. |
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The Lie: Walt Disney is cryogenically frozen. The Truth: Walt Disney [wiki] was the opposite of frozen. His body was cremated two days after his death in 1966. |
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The Lie: The original Harlem Globetrotters are from Harlem. The Truth: Not a single one was from New York. Almost all of the original Globetrotters were from Chicago, where the team was founded in 1926. They took on "New York" to seem more cosmopolitan as they toured the Midwest and changed it to "Harlem" in 1930. |
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The Lie: Adam and Eve ruined everything for the rest of us by eating an apple. The Truth: Adam and Even ruined everything for the rest of us by eating an unnamed fruit. The exact wording: " … the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden" (Genesis 3:3). |
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The Lie: Mussolini made the trains run on time. The Truth: When seeking to explain why masses of people will sometimes support evil regimes, you often hear folks say, "Well, Mussolini [wiki] made the trains run on time." Poor example. If you’re taking an indefensible position, well, Hamas does provide schools and medical care to Palestinians. Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, who conscript child soldiers and lead the world in suicide bombings, did give aid to Sri Lankans in the wake of the 2004 tsunami. But Mussolini never made the trains run on time. During World War I, the Italian rail system became woefully inconsistent, and it’s true that by the time Mussolini took power in 1922, the trains were more punctual – but mostly because of construction work done in the years before he took power. |
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The Lie: The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space. The Truth: Thousands of man-made objects are visible from space. Furthermore, the Great Wall of China is not among them. To quote austronaut Jay Apt, "Although we can see things as small as airport runways, the Great Wall seems to be made largely of materials that have the same color as the surrounding soil." |
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The Lie: Van Gogh cut off his left ear and mailed it to a prostitute. The Truth: He only chopped off the bottom half of his left ear – somewhere between a Tyson-Holyfield fight and a full-fledged ear-ectomy. And he didn’t mail it to a prostitute. Some claim he gave it away to a prostitute named Rachel (hey, we never said he was well adjusted), but he never mailed anything. Given his complete financial distress (in his lifetime, he only sold one painting), Vincent could hardly afford the postage. |
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The Lie: Hair grows back thicker and darker after you shave it. The Truth: Sadly, it does not – although balding men surely wish it did. hair may seem to grow back thicker because short hairs tend to feel and look dark and coarse, but it’s an illusion. Nor does your hair keep growing after you die. Nor does 100 strokes with the brush before bedtime improve the health of your hair. Nor can any fancy-pants shampoo repair your split ends (someone had to say it). |
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The Lie: You only use 10 percent of your brain. The Truth: You, beloved and brilliant mental_floss reader, use all of your brain. And so does everyone else. PET and MRI scans of the brain show that while you don’t use all of your brain all the time, you use all of it some of the time. Frankly, we’re offended on your behalf that anyone would ever say that your well-flossed, knowledge trap of a brain was only functioning at 10 percent capacity! Maybe those idiots think Van Gogh mailed his ear to a hooker, but not you! Again, even those idiots use all their brains as well, but we’re on a roll here. It’s totally bull! Incidentally, if you’ve ever wondered why we say "bull" rather than "cow" or "hog" or "three-toed possum" … |
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From mental_floss’ book Scatterbrained (highly recommended!) published in Neatorama with permission. Be sure to visit mental_floss‘ extremely entertaining website and blog!
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Vampire Finches.
Life on Wolf Island, a tiny speck of land 200 km north of the main Galapagos Archipelago, is so hard that birds there evolved to eat blood to survive.
But perhaps their most important source of food during the extended droughts is blood. The finches begin by landing on the tail of a seabird. They peck at the base of it’s wing feathers breaking the skin and causing it to bleed. As the blood oozes out the finches sip it every few seconds. Other finches line up behind the booby like a queue at a blood bank and as soon as one leaves it’s blood-sucking perch another takes its place.
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Sombrero Galaxy.
You’re looking at the combined visible (Hubble Space Telescope) and infrared (Spitzer Space Telescope) pictures of the Sombrero Galaxy [wiki], which was called that because of its resemblance to the broad rim Mexican hat! Link – via Spocko
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Mysterious Underwater Blob.
At first, scientists were baffled at this photo of a mysterious gelatinous ball, taken by undersea photographer Rudolf Svensen in Norway. Then they realized that it’s a large squid egg sack!
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Fire in the Classroom: Igniting Students' Curiosity with Science.
Chemistry teacher Neil Dixon showed that science in classroom doesn’t have to be boring:
In the experiment illustrated below, pupils at South Bromsgrove Community High School, Worcestershire are shown how the reactivity of a substance is related to its surface area. A material in powder form exposes much more of its surface to the air; as a result, normally inert substances can become highly reactive. Milk is scarcely combustible when it comes out of a cow, but if dried and powdered it becomes highly inflammable – as the images show.
‘It is an intriguing experiment,’ says Dixon. ‘You have a flame near the ground. Then you sprinkle the powdered milk over it. Then the milk ignites. You can create a fireball several metres high. The point is to show that storing powdered materials on a large scale, or letting dust build up in a storage facility, can be risky.
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PAMELA: A Pedestrian Lab.
In this special robotic platform called PAMELA (short for Pedestrian Accessability and Movement Envrionmental Laboratory), human guinea pigs are subjected to various walkway conditions like inclines, vertical and horizontal gaps, loud noises, wet surface, and other pedestrian hazards.
The University College London research project aims to better understand human reaction to these conditions, in order to make the streets safer for the disabled and everyone else. Link – via Pruned.
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Sinking a $63,000 Mercedes for Art.
Photographer Michael Muller sank a $63,000 2007 Mercedes GL450 in a giant water tank in the name of art (and publicity!) as part of a project titled "Quiet" which includes photos of people and things submerged in water.
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Let a thousand chickens fry
This nostalgic tip o’ the hat to socialist realism comes from Kentucky Fried Chicken,
which is trying to woo the Chinese market with tasty looking mannish fists. I don’t know about you, but this really makes me hungry for . . . er . . . public self-criticism. Via Exploding Aardvark.
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Sonic Fabric: Textile Woven From Audio Cassette Tape.
Sonic Fabric is a textile woven from recycled audio cassette tape. Interestingly, if you run a tape head over it, the fabric emits sound because it retains its magnetic quality.
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Paintball Tank.
Why run around shooting in regular paintball when you can use a tank instead!
Your tank of choice will be a unique 17 tonne FV432 armoured personnel carrier, with specially modified cannons capable of firing 40mm paint rounds.
Link | Daily Mail article: Weapon of Mass Decoration – via Core77 Design
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Kung Fu Baby.
This gave me a chuckle: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] via Say No to Crack.
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MP3 Player Shaped Like a Cross.
Too bad that the cross-shaped Saint B MP3 Player is just a concept (by Russian design studio Man Works Design): Link
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Impaled Garden Gnomes.
This is just so wrong: "Die screaming with sharp things in your head" is Mr. GnomeMaker’s collection of impaled garden gnomes. Link
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The Art of the Small
Yep. That would be the Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle. Follow the link to see more of these astonishing sculptures by Willard Wigan. H/t Rob B
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Crumpled Toaster.
This crumpled toaster is designed by Olivier Gregoire: Link – via MoCo Loco
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Spidiron.
In early 1970s, Hungarian artist Dániel Erdély discovered a geometric structure consisting of alternating, adjoining sequences of triangles, called a spidron.
When laid down like tiles on a flat surface, or on a three-dimensional surface, the lowly spidron evolved into intricate, astoundingly complex structures: Link.
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Funny Diet Food Ads for Fat Dogs.
This clever ad said "Perhaps it’s time to turn to Pedigree light dog food," done by TBWA/Paris ad agency – Found at I Believe in Adv
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