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You can actually do a version of this trick at home, using stuff that you either already have or can get a the grocery store: You can blow bubbles and float them– apparently in mid air– atop a layer of carbon dioxide; a not-very-exotic heavy gas. You’ll need a big pot, pan or storage bin (made of plastic or metal), some dry ice, and bubbles.
Complete instruction are posted, plus a video of the trick in action. Now, if we could get hold of some Zubbles, this would be just too cool! Link
I think I might actually be willing to eat there if there’s no good Indian restaurant nearby. But what are the chances of that?
The daughter of this Flickr user wanted a Link (from Zelda) cake for her birthday… This pixel composition is easy but it’s that cool!
Link (yes, a pun!) – via Urban Retro Style
In 1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot filmed Picasso as he painted – the result is a time-lapse photography of the fantastic way Picasso created his artworks. Hit play or go to Link [Google Video] – via Tinselman
See the explanation here: Link – via Projectionist
For his performance art, David Greg Harth stands outside of a McDonald’s restaurant in New York City for 2 1/2 hours. With a budget of $600, he treated random customers to their meals, until the manager called in the cops (it’s kind of long, so skip to around minute 11)! See what happened: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | David’s website – via IZ Reloaded
That’s Dieter Markus Stein, setting the new world record for largest common carp hooked and landed, on December 17, 2006 in Germany. Link – via Endless Parade of Excellence
We had the gallery of public transport vehicle seat patterns a while ago on Neatorama, but that pales in comparison to the gallery of Las Vegas casino carpets!
This one to the left, complete with the abstract unicorn image, is from the Fiesta Rancho: Link – via 30gms
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John Lamouranne is the "Egg Man" – he creates fantastic artworks using wooden egg as his medium of choice!
This one above is 14 Dead Musician Egg Art Sculpture, currently being auctioned at ArtByUs:
This one-of-a-kind unique egg art sculpture is created with 48 wooden eggs. The eggs are mounted on a two step stage with the three drummers Dennis Wilson, Keith Moon and John Bonham mounted on the back stage. On the front row is Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, John Lennon and Jim Morrison. Playing piano is Freddie Mercury. Background singers are Ronnie Van Zamp, Janis Joplin and Cass Elliot. Playing guitars are Dwane Allman and Jerry Garcia and on base is Felix Pappalardi. All drummers
are playing the exact type and color of drums they played on. The size is 16 inches wide, 15 inches long and 12 inches tall.
Links: John Lamouranne’s website – via WFMU Beware of the Blog
Found at Accordion Guy (with a larger pic – impressive!)
How much does the Internet weigh? Russell Seitz of ADAMANT blog calculates:
Parts of the original DARPAnet were built like a tank to survive a thermonuclear holocaust. But much post-modern net construction is utterly gossamer, all air and microwaves. Wherever the two come together, boxes full of integrated circuits bear labels that specify how much power they can handle, and solid state textbooks reveal how much of the silicon gets hot, and how much just sits around . In short, you can do the math.
A statistically rough ( one sigma) estimate might be 75-100 million servers @ ~350-550 watts each.. Call it Forty Billion Watts or ~ 40 GW. Since silicon logic runs at three volts or so, and an Ampere is some ten to the eighteenth electrons a second, if the average chip runs at a Gigaherz , straightforward calculation reveals that some 50 grams of electrons in motion make up the Internet.
Applying the unreasonable power of dimensional analysis to the
small tonnage of silicon involved yields much the same result. As of
today, cyberspace weighs less than two ounces. It’s hard to gauge its heft more exactly ,since devices vary in speed, but to get a handle on The Whole Web instead of just the suburbs we’re wired to , try tripling that figure-there are maybe ten times more mostly idle CPU chips in PC’s than servers, and fewer very busy ones in the world’s comparative handful of supercomputers.
Link – via collision detection
In an article on the trends and spread of world faiths, Spiegel Magazine included a great atlas (above) displaying the dominant religions for all geographic locations in the world. Click here to see the entire picture, or here to read the article.
Here’s an eyecandy video I found at Norwood Matt’s Stuff on Fire: the SR-71 Blackbird or known by its crew as Habu. How awesome is the plane?
1. Prototypes were flying as early as 1962.
2. It cruises at Mach 3. On afterburner. Really. It’s designed to do that all the time. This thing is the Real Ultimate Power of planes.
3. It’s skin is titanium, purchased from Russia, to spy on Russians. Pwned!
4. The pilots wear pressurized space suits. This is a good idea given its operational ceiling is higher than 80,000 feet.
5. Thousands of missiles have been fired at it. None have ever caught it. Pilots watching enemy missiles drop away behind them describe the experience as “very gratifying.”
6. The SR-71 is one of the first stealth planes. Based on its ginormous size (over 100 feet long), it should have a RADAR print the size of a barn. Instead, because of features such as its inward-canting stabilizers and hard chines, it has the RADAR print of a door.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] The song is Saltwater [YouTube] by Chicane [wiki] (with Moya Brennan [wiki] of Clannad. She’s the sister of Enya.) Link: Stuff on Fire
From Reporters Without Borders, a web page spotlighting the censorships by "13 Enemies of the Internet". You can vote which one you think is the worst. Link – via Betuman
Comments Off So, after watching this, are you any happier or just annoyed that you’ve wasted 2 minutes and 38 seconds? Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival
A worker displays a handmade cloth shoe which measures two meters in length as part of a blessing for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at a shoe factory in Yichang, Central China’s Hubei Province January 15, 2007. It takes workers 208 days to finish the shoe weighting 49.5 kg.
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It’s Skype and USB compatible, costs $29.95 and features the latest in IP phones such as data encription, low power consumption and that old fashioned design that makes it a must have for your desktop.
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Those women on the sidewalk trying to “catch” clients are actually selling betel nuts. They are Betel Nuts Beauties!
Their kiosks are heavily adorned with modern neon lights and they dress in those cute short skirts… It’s actually the traditional way of selling those nuts to the public.
There are no men selling betel nuts and the pastime became actual or futuristic pieces of atrezzo that not even a movie could compare to.
See more pics and videos in Otomano: Link
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The world’s first test-tube baby, Britain’s Louise Brown [wiki], has become a mother on December 20, 2006 of her own baby son Cameron John Mullinder who was naturally-conceived but born by Cesarean section. Below are snips of the excited mother’s interview from Dailymail:
….He’s tiny, just under 6lb, but he’s perfect. We were lucky in that Wesley [Louise's husband] and I were able to conceive naturally. We’d only been trying for about six months so it was obviously much easier for us than for Mum and Dad. I don’t know if the fact that they tried so hard to have a baby had any effect on me but I have always wanted children. I worked as a nursery nurse for three years and I always knew that one day I would want to have my own.
Lots of people have asked me if I had to do anything differently because I was born by IVF, but I didn’t. I didn’t have to take any extra precautions or have any extra checks. I was meant to have a natural birth but, as Cameron was breached, and they were worried about the amount of fluid in the womb, I had to have a caesarean.
It’s not how I’d wanted to do things but the main thing is that he’s safe and healthy….
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From The Human Marvel:
Tai Djin was born in China in 1849. He was born unique, afflicted with hypertrichosis. Unlike Jo-Jo, who would be born a few decades later, Tai Djin was born into a highly superstitious family. As A result they saw his affliction as the work of demons and he was left in the forest to die.
A Shaolin monk traveling through the forest discovered the child and took him back to the Fukien Shaolin Temple. There Tai Djin was raised by the monks.
He was trained in martial arts and it quickly became apparent that he was exceptional in both appearance and ability. The boy must have been a sight practicing kung-fu with his face covered in fine fur. He quickly became a favorite of many of the Shaolin masters and, as a result, each master passed their knowledge on to Tai Djin.
He was a sponge and mastered every technique shown to him. He became the first to master over 200 different empty hand systems and over 140 weapon systems. His various specialties included the infamous Chi Ma, or ‘Death Touch’. After several years of extensive training he became the first Grandmaster of Shaolin and one of the first to master all skills of the seven Shaolin temples.
Vintage Skivvies is a website dedicated to (you guessed it) old underwears! They’ve got some fascinating images, like the old Gotham underwear ad in the early 1900s above.
An oldie but goodie: Link – via Mira y Calla
College Saga is a funny video by Mark Leung of life in college, done in Final Fantasy style. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube (a loooong clip)] – via Brohans
This is an oldie but a goodie: a large collection of logic puzzles, archived and arranged in order of difficulty by William Wu (since Spring of 2002).
For instance, take this one called the Cork, Bottle, and Coin (easy):
If you were to put a coin into an empty bottle and then insert a cork in the bottle’s opening, how could you remove the coin without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle?
The fantastically weird cork and bottle is the swedish dog decanter by Hugo Gehlin, from hi+lo modern glass
Got antlers? Here are some furnitures, chandeliers, and lightings made from antlers: Link – via growabrain
Here’s a video clip of the world’s first successful machine gun called the Gatling gun [wiki], invented by Richard Jordan Gatling in 1861. Hit play or go to Link [DailyMotion] – via Paperholic
Australian scambaiter Taryn pulled off this beautiful prank where she tricks Nigerian scammers into painting their faces with butterflies!
Links: The Butterfly Bait | Taryn’s blog | The Age article – via digg
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Today’s Cellar / Neatorama Image of the Week comes from the art exhibition Floodwall by artist Jana Napoli:
"Floodwall" is artist Jana Napoli’s responseto Hurricane Katrina, which she lived through in New Orleans. It consists of hundreds of empty drawers, salvaged from trash heaps in flooded neighbourhoods.
Napoli says she had to empty the drawers of ruined, wet clothes
before she collected them.The exhibit is now on display at the Liberty Street Bridge, a pedestrian bridge that connected the World Trade Center to the World Financial Center across the West Side Highway.
Be sure to visit Cellar Image of the Day and check out their five year’s worth of strange, beautiful, and ultimately all interesting images.
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This is what happens when you cross a Non-Newtonian Fluid with an 80Hz speaker. I wonder what would happen if you turned it to 11?
Now I’m eyeing my husband’s old speakers with renewed scientific interest…
This photo taken at sunset shows a rainbow and lightning occurring at the same time. A rare and fantastic shot! Link – via Reddit
