Archive for January 7th, 2007
"Vitrine" Steel Cabinet.
Pure Alice-in-Wonderland by John Suttman via The Artful Home.
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USB Chiller Plus Warmer
This neat little device can keep your coffee hot and your soda cool, all from your computer’s USB port. Seems like the perfect gift for someone who’s always on the road. The Chiller/Warmer is available for only $24 here. Found via HipTechBlog.
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Constructing a Wind Farm
Dark Roasted Blend has some great pictures of wind farms ranging from construction, to shots of wind farms in use (like the one above), to large scale failure of the blades. Until seeing these shots, I never realized the massiveness of wind turbines – some of the blades are each more than 200 feet in length!
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The Simpsonzu
What The Simpsons would look like if it was a Manga cartoon. Link – via Digg
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Talking Tape.
To “play” the recordings on the talking tapes, simply scratch it with your fingernails:
One method is to hold one end of the strip between your teeth. Then, when you run your nail along the strip you hear it talk, but no-one else does. Or you can stick one end of the strip to an inflated balloon or a paper cup using sticky tape. The balloon or cup acts as an amplifier, and you can then demonstrate it to anyone nearby. Never heard a balloon talk?
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Bunny vs. Snake.
In a fight between a bunny rabbit and a snake, who would you put your money on? Like the Energizer bunny, this one keep going and going! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath
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Hillbilly Beatboxing.
Eefin’ is the original hillbilly beatboxing. You might remember they did it on the TV show Hee Haw quite a bit. Now its been discovered by the internet community. Here’s how you do it. Another hillbilly tradition is a variation of yodeling we call whoopin’. Push play or go to YouTube. (via Metafilter)
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Album covers gone wrong.
The guys at b3ta challenged forum members to create Album Covers Gone Wrong. The results are quite funny! Link
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Castelo de Tomar "Belt" on a Column.
Flickr user Liudve uploaded the image that seems to be of a column in Castelo de Tomar (Tomar’s castle) in Tomar, Portugal. The sculpture perfectly simulates a belt encircling a cloth around the column.
Link – via Gatochy’s Only in Portugal
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Woman Falls in Coma Each Time She Says "I Love You"
It’s a pitiful illness:
Ever since her first grandchild Megan was born, Mrs Richmond has had to remain emotionally reserved.She said: ‘I want to just sweep her up into my arms and say I love you. But I am afraid it could be dangerous for both of us.
It could trigger an episode and I could collapse on the floor, injuring Megan and myself. ‘It is quite bizarre to think I can’t tell my family I love them without falling over.’
Mrs Richmond, from Pitsmoor, Sheffield, has suffered from sleeprelated illnesses cataplexy and narcolepsy since her late teens but was diagnosed only in her 30s.
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Cone-shaped Metropolitan Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro.
The cone-shaped Metropolitan Cathedral is located in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Its height and base diameter are at 75 and 106 meters, respectively. This unique, magnificent building with a capacity of 20,000 people is not only one of the Brazilian city’s landmarks, but also a masterpiece of modern art.
Link to Xinhua (in Chinese)
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Taiwan Scientists Breed Green-glowing Pigs.
From the website:
The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo. [...]
Taiwan is not claiming a world first. Others have bred partially fluorescent pigs before; but the researchers insist the three pigs they have produced are better. [...]
In daylight, the researchers say the pigs’ eyes, teeth and trotters look green. Their skin has a greenish tinge.
In the dark, shine a blue light on them and they glow torch-light bright.
The scientists will use the transgenic pigs to study human disease. Because the pig’s genetic material encodes a protein that shows up as green, it is easy to spot.
Link – via Tom Smith’s The Other Blog
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Baby Carrots Aren't Babies At All ...
Keeping the theme of veggies after gail’s post on celery straws, here’s the story behind baby carrots. Turns out, they aren’t "baby" at all:
Baby carrots aren’t babies at all. They’re grown-up carrots cut into 2-inch sections, pumped through water-filled pipes into whirling cement-mixer-size peelers and whittled down to the niblets Americans know, love and scarf down by the bagful.
We owe the whole thing to Mike Yurosek, the Father of Baby Carrot:
It all began about 16 years ago when Mike Yurosek of Newhall, Calif., got tired of seeing 400 tons of carrots a day drop down the cull shoot at his packing plant in Bakersfield. Culls are carrots that are too twisted, knobby, bent or broken to sell. In some loads, as many as 70% of carrots were tossed. And there are only so many discarded carrots you can feed to a pig or a steer, says Yurosek, now 82 and retired. "After that, their fat turns orange," he says.
Yurosek has always been a "think outside the carrot patch" guy. In the 1960s, Yurosek and Sons was selling carrots in plastic bags with a Bunny-Luv logo, a cartoon that got the farmers in trouble with Warner Bros., which was protective of its Bugs Bunny brand.
Instead of bringing in lawyers and spending a fortune, Yurosek recalls, "I said to my wife — she’s a pretty good drawer — ‘Hey, draw me up about 50 bunnies, would you? Then we’ll send ‘em to Warner Bros. and ask them to tell us which ones we can use.’ "
The entertainment giant picked one, and Bunny-Luv lived on for the price of a pencil.
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