Archive for December, 2006
Girls of the NES.
Syd Lexia (a twentysomething slacker with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and more free time than he cares to admit – it says so on his about page) rates the 23 girl characters of the NES according to hotness and of course, inner beauty.
This one is Samus Aran [wiki] of the game Metroid [wiki], which the game intentionally lead players to believe is a male cyborg (even referring the character as such in the game manual) until the very end of the game!
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A Suitcase Full of Vintage Photos.
Neatorama reader Holli wrote:
I’m posting to Flickr the contents of a suitcase full of photos I bought at a yard sale. I’ve got, literally, hundreds of black-and-white snapshots of a family living here in suburban D.C., their friends, their extended family, vacations, all kinds of stuff, from the 1930s up through the late ’50s. There’s a hundred or so posted right now, and some are really cool– check out the kid pulling a gun on Santa!
Link [Flickr]
Why, that kid’s probably not afraid of Santa like these pansies.
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Teen Fights to Keep Bullet in Forehead.
A search warrant has been issued for a bullet lodged in a teenager’s head! Here’s the story (only in Texas!):
Prosecutors say the 9mm bullet became lodged in the soft fatty tissue in Mr Bush’s forehead in a shootout with the car salesman.
Police say Alan Olive returned fire after Mr Bush tried to shoot him.
They say Mr Bush was part of a gang that had tried to take cars from the forecourt.
Identified to police by other gang members, Mr Bush was interviewed.
Mr Olive, a competitive pistol shooter, said a man returned after the police had investigated, threatening to kill him if he gave evidence. The shootout followed.
"I just can’t believe I missed him at that distance," Mr Olive says in court papers.
The teenager with the bullet on his head, naturally, is fighting the warrant: Link
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Underwater Spa at Huvafen Fushi Hotel.
Huvafen Fushi is a small luxury hotel in North Malé Atoll, Maldives. The resort is quite remote: you can only reach it by seaplane or speedboat, but once you’re there, they have everything including the world’s only underwater spa! Link – via sellsius
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Funky Felt Scarf Shaped Like Leaves.
Why wear a bland scarf when you can put on this funky felt collar made by Candy Thief?
Available from Etsy: Link – via Stylehive
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Landscape Gardening in Birmingham.
With a twist. These Buddhist monks are making rubble for Eileen Sullivan’s patio. From the Daily Mail via Arbroath
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Helmut Smits' The Real Thing.
In some countries, it’s easier to get a bottle of Coca-Cola than drinking water. So, in this art installation called The Real Thing, Helmut Smits created a filter purification system to create drinking water from soda!
Link (you have to hunt around in the Dutch section, don’t worry everything they have is fun!) – via Houtlust
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Inflatable Club House.
Too lazy or inept to build a treehouse for your kids? Just get them this inflatable club house! Link – via Luxury Housing Trend
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Bowling Lane Dental Ads.
Found at Norman Roberts’ Innings
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"Pin Up" Typography.
UK Design company Taylor Lane created this twist of pin-up girl calendar by making all of the naughty images using typography!
Link [font "nudity", I suppose]
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Nepal Buddha Boy Found (with a Sword!)
Ram Bahadur "Buddha Boy" Bomjan, who disappeared 10 months ago when fans distracted his meditations, was found by hunters in a jungle. This time, he’s armed:
Apart from his customary long hair, Bomjan was also carrying a sword. Looking plumper than he was when he disappeared 10 months ago, the Buddha boy was meditating in the bushes. When asked why a person who believes in non-violence has ended up possessing a sword, he answered, "Gautam Buddha used to arrange for his security himself. I was forced to do so as well."
Previously on Neatorama: Nepal’s Boy Buddha | Nepal Buddha Boy Burst Into Flame? | Nepal Buddha Boy Missing
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New York "Sim" City.
Elliot of the New York City Journal is building an incredibly detailed model of New York city using the Sim City 4 Engine.
Check out the progress on his blog: Link
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The Real Rocketeer.
This Jet Man is Yves Rossy, a former swiss military pilot who jumps out of an airplane wearing a strange jet propelled engine strapped to his back. Rossy uses the rocket he designed himself to fly for 4 minutes before landing by parachute.
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Wooden Skyscraper Tower.
This 38-meter tall “skyscraper” in Arkhangelsk city is made from wood:
It is a wooden multi-stored building. It looks like a real skyscraper in Arkhangelsk city. All the houses in the town are mainly two- three- stored and here it stands – a twelve stored wooden tower, more than 120 ft high (38 metres).
There is not elevator and you can reach the top of the building climbing by a carved wooden stairs.
The building can be seen from all the town. The city authorities claim that the building spoils the town view and demand to reduce it by… 10 stores. But he refuses. He really likes his creation and most of the local people think that it looks nice.
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Accordion Bus Advertises ... Accordions!
This ad by the Norwegian Accordion Association advertising the World Accordion Championship is just so perfect for those accordion bus (also called articulated bus)!
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Guide Horse for the Blind.
The Guide Horse Foundation trains miniature horses to serve as guide horses for the blinds blind people! Link – Thanks Tiffany!
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Typo Lands Tourist in Sidney, Montana, not Sydney, Australia.
A 21-year-old German tourist named Tobi Gutt learned the hard way the cost of a typo: he wanted to go to Sydney, Australia but bought tickets online to Sidney, Montana!
Seems Gutt had accidentally typed the wrong name into his web browser when he ordered his plane tickets online and wound up flying 13,000 miles to a place called Sidney, Montana.
The oil town only boasts about 5,000 souls and promises tourists such exciting events as "The Best of the West Beef Showcase," "The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial" and "The Lone Tree Gun Show."
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How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Clandestine Drug Lab.
The Abbotsford Police Department has a public service page on its website titled "How to Spot Grow Operations and Clandestine Drug Labs".
Here’s how to tell if your neighbor is a "farmer":
- Rental Accommodations: Almost all marijuana growers will utilize rental property, residence & commercial to avoid damage to their own properties. E.g. high humidity levels & alterations to accommodate the grow.
- Discarded Equipment: Sometimes growers leave equipment lying around the yard such as nutrient containers, pots, wiring, soil, root balls, aluminum shrouds and PVC piping. On garbage day, a grow-op residence most likely will not put out any garbage due to the fact that grow houses are commonly used for the sole purpose of growing marijuana.
Here’s how to tell if your neighbor is a meth cook:
- Windows blackened out or curtains always drawn.
- Unfriendly tenants appear secretive about their activities. Tenants display paranoid or odd behaviour; watch cars suspiciously when passing by their residence.
- Coming outside to smoke cigarettes.
- Chemical odor coming from the house, apartment, garage or detached building.
Link | Or, simply surf over to the DEA website and see if you live next door to one!
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Ghost Riding the Whip.
Ghost Riding the Whip [wiki], or simply ghostin’ is a hip-hop car stunt in which the driver gets out of a slowly moving car to dance around and on top of the vehicle.
Apparently, it should also be called "thinning the herd" or the "Darwin Awards dance":
“Ghost riding the whip” — a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat — has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.
A fad among devotees of a West Coast strain of hip-hop music called “hyphy,” the stunt has been celebrated in song and performed in numerous homemade videos posted on YouTube.
“It did not take Einstein to look at this thing and say this was a recipe for disaster,” said Pete Smith, a police spokesman in Stockton. “We could see the potential for great injury or death.”
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Post-It Notes Jaguar.
Someone has waaay too much time on their hands! See the "making" of the Post-It Notes Jaguar: Link [flickr]
If you like that, you’d probably like the Post-It Notes Elvis or perhaps the Blue Tape Audi.
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Addictive Game: Gateway.
Fans of logic game rejoice! If you like logic games like Samorost, you’ll like this game called Gateway. Link – via digg
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Cat Embryo.
We’ve featured photos from the Eye of Science before, but the website is so gosh darned awesome that we just had to do it again. This photo is of a cat embryo at 2 weeks gestation:
The brain (upper right) and the eye (black, upper centre) are visible, with the spinal cord running along the back to the tail (left side). The limbs have started to form (centre and lower right), and the remains of the umbilical cord can be seen at centre just above the tail (red). Internal organs can be seen under the front limbs (centre).
At this stage of development the heart and liver would be forming. A cat embryo takes 63-68 days to gestate. Magnification: x10.
Link (image 1) | The Eye of Science website
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Family Guy - The Freakin' FCC Song.
p>Ah, here’s the funniest song about censorship yet: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]
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Upgrading the Space Station.
From Astronomy Picture of the Day:
The International Space Station (ISS) will be the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. The station is so large that it could not be launched all at once — it is being built piecemeal with large sections added continually by flights of the Space Shuttle. To function, the ISS needs trusses to keep it rigid and to route electricity and liquid coolants. These trusses are huge, extending over 15 meters long, and with masses over 10,000 kilograms. Pictured above earlier this month, astronauts Robert L. Curbeam (USA) and Christer Fuglesang (Sweden) work to attach a new truss segment to the ISS and begin to upgrade the power grid.
Link | ISS [wiki] | See also: Space Shuttle Discovery Fun Facts
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Ethical Dilemma of Buying Some Common Products.
If you think that buying diamond is an ethical dilemma, read this Foreign Policy article about the ethical issues of several common products.
Take for example, chocolate:
Beware of: Cocoa powder
The cost: Child labor. Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa (and most of the United States’) comes from West Africa, where nearly 300,000 children under the age of 14 toil in dangerous conditions on cocoa plantations. In the Ivory Coast, where more than half of the region’s cocoa is produced, more than 100,000 children work in near slavery, subject to both injury from the machetes used to harvest the plant and from toxic pesticides that are banned in the United States and Europe.
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Fossil Shows Camouflage Is At Least 47 Million Years Old.
A 47-million-years-old fossil of a leaf-imitating insect suggested that camouflage was an ancient and successful evolutionary strategy (that still works even today!):
The 2.4-inch-long insect had physical characteristics similar to the oblong leaves of trees living there at the time, including Myrtle trees, legumes, such as alfalfa, and Laurel trees.
It also shared features with modern insect relatives in size, shape, and the designs used for camouflage. For instance, the fossil had foliage-like extensions from its abdomen.
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Top 100 Sci-Fi Books of All Time.
From Sci-Fi Lists, here’s the Top 100 Sci-Fi Books of all time. See if you agree with the top 10 picks:
1. Frank Herbert: Dune (1965)
2. Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game (1985)
3. Isaac Asimov: Foundation (1951)
4. Douglas Adams: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
5. George Orwell: 1984 (1949)
6. Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
7. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932)
8. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (1954)
9. William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)
10. Robert A Heinlein: Starship Troopers (1959)
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Infinite Mario.
There are many Mario "clones" out there, but this one by Markus Persson is very good – since the landscape and maps change with every game play, it’s an "infinite" permutation of Mario!
Link [requires Java 5.0, may not work w/ OSX] – via Heavy Games
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Scott Smith's TEN.
In this 2004 short movie by Scott Smith (one of the finalists of Project Greenlight, an amateur filmmaking contest), this guy breaks every single one of the Ten Commandments (or is it the 7 deadly sins?) in just minutes, all before breakfast!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Scott Smith’s blog at Coudal – Thanks James!
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Stalactite Cave of Sorek.
Located near the Sorek River west of Jerusalem, Sorek Cave is the only showcave in Israel. The photographs on this Russian site show awesome formations that are the result of dripping calcite-rich water in the limestone-rich quarry area. The cave is open to the public year round. Link -via Dump Trumpet
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