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Urban light pollution made it impossible for you to see the Milky Way galaxy from your backyard? Here’s the next best thing: an outdoor chandelier made from gallon-sized milk bottles, made by Alexander Reh.
See also: Milky Way Galaxy over Arizona, Utah, Germany, previously on Neatorama
See Tim Fort’s amazing kinetic art (6 minutes worth!) using thousands of dominoes, sticks, papers, cups, and other objects. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Tim’s website – via Rob Monroe and Fazed.
The American Artifacts website has a collection of images of vintage treadmills powered by dog, horse, and sheep, once used to run machineries like lathes!
Link – via Kircher Society
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Photographer Sam Alfano of Pine, Louisiana, took photos of his wife Abigail hand-feeding these hummingbirds! Link | Snopes article – via Scribal Terror
After the Norwegian "shoot or save the rare white moose" debate, it’s the Germans’ turn: just months after Germany decided to kill of the cuddly, yet violent, Bruno the Bear, the country now has to decide what to do with an albino deer:
Roaming the 900 hectare deer range at the foothills of the Erzgebirge Mountains in eastern Germany is a snow-white deer with pink eyes and skin. An albino deer — one in 100,000 according to estimates by zoologists. Softened German hearts are bleeding. The animal should be protected, people say. "As a rarity and natural phenomenon, it should be allowed to live," a spokeswoman for the environment ministry of the state of Saxony said.
What she meant was, the cute little albino deer should be saved from death by rifle. Some hunters have already set their sights on the uncommon animal; a spectacle of nature to some is a freak of nature to others. Günter Giese, the president of the Saxony Hunting Federation, said: "The white deer is a mutation. It does not belong in the wild. It should be shot."
Before on Neatorama: Rare White Moose? Let’s Shoot it, Said Norwegians.
Japanese fishermen captured a dolphin with an extra set of fins (shown in the pic on the left):
Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
I’m so glad that election season is almost over! And what I hate more than those misleading political advertisements on TV are the persistent phone robo-calls!
Shhhh. Don’t drive too loud. Via Just Elite
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The basic idea of this webpage is quite simple: Take a vintage photo, take an identical photo of the site (with the same angle, etc.) as if the camera never moved and overlay the two. Must have taken a lot of time to get ‘em lined up right.
Update 11/6/06: That’s North Carolina State University campus – Thanks megmeg and CJ!
Any parent can tell you that ridding children of head lice infestation is a nightmare. But maybe not for long:
A hairdryer-like device can rid children of head lice by exterminating the eggs and lice, work shows.
Test results published in Pediatrics journal show one 30-minute treatment with the device is enough to eradicate infestations by drying the invaders.
Arbroath found this video clip from the 2006 Secret Policeman’s Ball for Amnesty International featuring David Armand [wiki] doing a mime-version of Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn (he was later joined with Natalie on-stage): Link – via Arbroath.
From the website:
Ned Troide was singularly famous for scoring 72,999,975 points on the video game Defender, the highest score ever recorded. What is less known is that he also created a curious set of Heavy Metal end tables.
The last one at the end is called, appropriately, the "Wenie Roller".
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Quick, what do you do when you travel? Take pictures? Buy souvenirs? Well, Michael Hughes buys the souvenir and then take a photo of the object in front of the landmark!
You’ll see what I mean: Link [Flickr] – via 30gms
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Photo: Peter Rae
It’s so hot in Tamarama beach, Australia that this ice cream truck melted! No, not really – that’s a sculpture for the 10th Sculpture by the Sea exhibition.
Link | Sculpture by the Sea website
Pete Carr has a nice tutorial on how to convert a regular photo into an HDR (or High Dynamic Range) image using Photomatix: Link
Previously on Neatorama: HDR Photography
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As if the world isn’t a dangerous enough place already, scientists decided that extinct is not forever, at least not for a retrovirus!
A team led by Thierry Heidmann at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France, near Paris, decided to try to awaken the ancestor of an entire family of HERVs called HERV-K(HML2). To "correct" for mutations, the researchers took dozens of known HERV-K(HML2) sequences and aligned them to create a so-called "consensus" sequence. Then they converted this information into a complete viral genome.
The researchers showed that the newly crated virus could infect a variety of human cell lines and replicate. But its infectivity was extremely low, perhaps because human cells have evolved resistance against such viral invaders.
Link – via Fortean Times
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South Korean artist Gwon Osang makes sculptures out of photos. See more of his fantastic work: Link – via Jaf Project.
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In an age where you can enjoy deep-fried Twinkies, pickles, ice cream, and even Coke, deep-fried pizza shouldn’t seem all that strange. The Atlantic ChipShop in New York shows how its done. The word is that its pretty good. Link -via Grow-A-Brain
From the website:
"Songs To Make Dogs Happy!" is the first qualitatively and quantitatively researched musical CD, based upon 200 canine participants’ responses to what THEY would like to hear in songs!
The Laurel Canyon Animal Company and Dr. Kim Ogden, a nationally known Intuitive Animal Communicator, worked together to create music dogs love to listen to! A CD with 12 songs that will make your dog happy!
In the infinite wisdom that is fark, I believe your dog wants steak.
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Photo: Gleb Garanich
Cellar Image of the Day has this pic of a pig in a suit, apparently all dressed up for the salo (pig’s fat) lovers championship in the town of Lutsk, 400 km or 249 miles northwest of Ukraine’s capital of Kiev: Link | Yahoo News
Agence France Presse reports via USA Today:
Some 79 garden gnomes snatched by a so-called gnome liberation group, were discovered Wednesday along the banks of a stream in the central Limousin region, police said.
The gnomes were hidden in some underbrush with a banner that read, “gnome mistreated, gnome liberated”, police said.
A national garden gnome liberation operation was announced on the group’s website in honor of the Nov. 1 French holiday, All Saint’s Day.
Of course, Neatorama readers are well aware of the oppression gnomes face in their day to day existence in gardens around the world.
I’ve got a preview copy of Larry Gonick’s new book, which picked up where his awesome Cartoon History of the Universe series left off, and I can tell you: it rocks!
The first part of Cartoon History of the Modern World describes the history of the ancient Mexico, the arrival of Columbus in the New World, the Spanish conquest, Protestant Reformation, the American Revolution and so on (it’s a history book, people!) and ends with the writing of the US Constitution.
Avid history readers, comic lovers and students who don’t want to read dusty history tomes rejoice! The book will go on sale in January 2007.
Links: Cartoon History of the Modern World (Part 1) at Harper Collins, at Larry Gonick’s website (includes sample pages!) Book courtesy of Harper Collins – Thanks Felicia! Please contact us if you want your book reviewed in Neatorama.
I quite like this painting by self-taught artist Lisa Strouss: Link – Thanks Lisa!
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At a glance, you’d probably think that the picture of a flower in a vase on the left is a photo of the real thing. It’s actually an artwork by Dale Chihuly, made from glass!
See more of Dale’s artwork: Link – Thanks Lionel Ash!
Watch Loic Jean Albert jumps, with a wingsuit, from a helicopter down the side of a mountain! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via digg
Jeffrey Meldrum, a tenured professor of anatomy at Idaho State University, is an academic outcast on campus.
Why? Because Jeffrey Meldrum is the world’s foremost authority on Bigfoot:
Meldrum, 48, spends most of his days in his laboratory in the Life Sciences Building, analyzing more than 200 jumbo plaster casts of what he contends are Bigfoot footprints.
For the past 10 years, he has added his scholarly sounding research to a field full of sham videos and supermarket tabloid exposes. And he is convinced he has produced a body of evidence that proves there is a Bigfoot.
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Neatorama reader Dougall wrote:
Just how fast are your cat like reflexes? This amusing but frustrating flash game sends sheep across the screen to be tranquilized by a mouse click – darn hard for me even with my finely tuned martial arts clicking skills (chartreuse belt in Prone-Fu and Sleeping Tiger Style)
Now, I must admit, I’m a Sluggish Snail: Link [Flash] – Thanks Dougall!
Inside the Sandia Lab’s Z Machine, even diamonds aren’t forever:
Sandia’s Z machine, by creating pressures more than 10 million times that of the atmosphere at sea level, has turned a diamond sheet into a pool of liquid. …
in the experiments, the applied pressure came from shock waves passing through the diamond. The waves were created by impacting the diamond with tiny plates hurled using Z’s huge magnetic fields at about 20 times the speed of a rifle bullet.
Link – via starspirit
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