Posted by Alex in Art, Pictures on October 5, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Back in June 2006, the 10th Annual North American Canstruction Competition Awards Ceremony was held in Los Angeles.
This sculpture won Best Use of Labels Award, it’s the CHICK-Can of the Sea, designed by Butler Rogers Baskett Architects and built with 8,012 cans of tuna cans!
American Inventor Spot has a list of 10 weird coffins. This one is the convertible entertainment center coffin – just loosen a few screws and voilà – it’s a coffin.
Posted by Alex in Religion on October 5, 2006 at 2:51 pm
From the website:
When was the last time your class saw how "HOT" God’s Word is? Open this authentic looking "bible" and begin to share the scripture for the day as real flames are seen coming from your "bible". This full size book comes with a battery operated ignition system. All you supply are the batteries, lighter fluid and composure as your class gets excited.
Someone on eBay is selling the log car used in the movie The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, built by the special effect teams at Universal Studios. Link [eBay]
That’s Nikolai the Walrus, who apparently likes to play peekaboo with his zookeeper Bert van Santen, who has a surprise for Nikolai for the World’s Animal Day. (Surprise, surprise, it’s fish!)
Corrected Link Who knows that the link to this is – it changes by the hour!
Thomas L. Cook, who died at 54 when he was fatally hit by a car Sept. 11, spent much of his life recovering from the misadventures that plagued him even in the womb.
"He was kinda accident-prone, I swear to God, even before he was born," said his sister, Mady Eitani.
"He was nearly miscarried. He had serious accidents as a child. Crazy things. Broke his collarbone. He was hit in the head one time by a teeter-totter and had to have blood drained out of his skull. Wrong place, wrong time. Story of his life."
After the first few visits to the emergency room, Cook’s family joked that he must have nine lives, an opinion shared by a neighbor, Dr. Arnold Silverman, a pediatric physician who became Cook’s de facto on-call doctor.
"Nine lives, and he certainly used them up," Silverman said.
Posted by Alex in Pictures on October 5, 2006 at 6:01 am
Kane Quinnell took this once-in-a-lifetime photo of a lightning bolt hitting his neighbor’s house:
After setting the camera for a four-second exposure he began shooting pictures, suspecting there was little chance of lightning flashing while the shutter was open.
"I hit the button … and there was nothing. I hit the button again … and nothing. On about the fourth attempt I hit the button again and I saw this lightning and heard the thunder. "It was like a crack. The next thing I was about two metres in the air – it scared the hell out of me."
Mr Quinnell estimated the lightning struck about 20 metres away. "I think it hit the house behind me." Unhurt, but buzzing with adrenaline, he rushed inside to check the photo on his computer.
"I was amazed. It was the first storm picture I had really taken."
Scientists from University College (isn’t that redundant?) London, United Kingdom analyzing the graves of indigenous Cubans who traded with Columbus found that they valued shoelace tags more than gold:
… the most common artefacts were small brass tubes thought to be cheap lacetags from European clothing.
These tags were used from the 15th Century onwards in Europe, to prevent the ends of laces fraying, and to ease threading in the points for fastening clothes.
The native Taino people of Cuba often threaded the tags into necklaces.
Early chroniclers report that pure gold was considered the least valuable metal among indigenous Cubans. It held significantly less esteem than copper-based alloys.
The Spangler family of Randolph, Ohio won the marquee prize in Disney’s "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration. They were chosen from 50,000 online entrants to win: a morning at the Magic Kingdom all by themselves!
Walking hand-in-hand on a red carpet, Raymond and Tammy Spangler and their two children seemed unsure of their steps Wednesday at Walt Disney World.
The Magic Kingdom was eerily quiet, with only the chirping of birds, piped in orchestra music and the sound of their footsteps filling the 125-acre park. They were about halfway up the red carpet to the Cinderella Castle when all that dissolved and 1,500 mouses, maids, baseball players and princesses came streaming out of hiding to welcome them.
"There were like thousand and thousands of people in the streets all of the sudden," 13-year-old Derick Spangler said.
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