HOME |
RSS | 
Just in case you haven’t seen enough of the creepy King from the Burger King advertisements, he’s about to make the jump to the big screen. Burger King has confirmed that the feature length movie could hit theaters as early as the end of 2007, although there’s no word yet on a title, plot, or casting. Via Cinematical
Scientists have created a new state of matter, and a possible picture of the nature of space-time itself:
Xiao-Gang Wen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Levin at Harvard University ran with Laughlin’s ideas and have come up with a prediction for a new state of matter, and even a tantalising picture of the nature of space-time itself. Levin presented their work at the Topological Quantum Computing conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, early this month.
The first hint that a new type of matter may exist came in 1983. "Twenty five years ago we thought we understood everything about how matter changes phase," says Wen. "Then along came an experiment that opened up a whole new world."
Link – via Blue’s News
Comments Off
World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring group, said that this tiger bone wine – made by steeping carcasses in large vats of rice wine – can cause tigers to be hunted to extinction. Link
As a part of the evidence collected in the case against Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, is this homemade gun: Link | More gruesome pic of homemade bombs here: Link – via Cellar IoTD
Henry the Hamster got stuck in a kitchen pipe and had to be saved with … a vacuum cleaner!
After the RSPCA failed to reach him, help was sought from two council wardens who tied a number of hamster ladders and Curly Wurly bars together.
Finally, a narrow attachment on the vacuum was used to retrieve him.
Link – via Fortean Times
I feel my arteries clogging just reading the Stuff Magazine recipe on how to make this bacon, cheese and beer hot dog.
Link – via Supersize Meals and eBaumsWorld
Only the Japanese can make the video game Breakout this much fun (played with 32 marshmallow blocks!). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via The Last Boss and Gorilla Mask
Comments Off 
Tired of rowdy teenagers, malls across the United States have adopted a new strategy (that seems to be working): no teenagers during evening hours unless accompanied by adults!
In 1995, the Mall of America had more than 300 incidents such as fights, says spokeswoman Anna Lewicki Long. In the first year teens under 16 were required to be with an adult starting at 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, there were two.
"It wasn’t just adults being intimidated, it was teens," she says. The change didn’t drive teens away: The number of stores catering to them has doubled to more than 75.
Comments Off 
This is weird: Australian researcher Gary Cass of the Micro ‘be’ Seamless Wear project and colleagues have perfected the science of making dresses from fermented fabric.
The researchers used bacteria to "grow" slimy dresses from wine and beer!
To ferment fabrics, Cass and his colleagues deliberately let vats of wine go off to produce cellulose.
And to get the shape of a dress, they lifted the layers of slimy cellulose off and laid them over a deflatable doll.
After each dress was complete, they deflated the doll and removed it, leaving the dress intact.
"It’s the bacteria that are weaving all these fibres together," says Cass. "We’re not using any machines, sewing machines and so forth."
The secretive clouded leopard of the Borneo rainforest are actually a new, separate species:
"Who said a leopard can never change its spots? For over a hundred years we have been looking at this animal and never realized it was unique," said Adam Tomasek, head of WWF’s Borneo and Sumatra program. "The fact that Borneo’s top predator is now considered a separate species further emphasizes the uniqueness of the island and the importance of conserving the Heart of Borneo."
Comments Off 
Carmaker Renault has introduced a dashboard mat called "Grass Mat" that really works for holding your iPod, cellphones and other gadgets. Link – via Gizmodo
Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo met as 12-year-old students at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music. Their music/comedy show, A Little Nighmare Music has played all over Europe, but they have never performed in the United States. Push play or go to YouTube. More videos are available at their site. Link -via Videosift
This week’s collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange object – can you guess what it is? For more fun guessing game (and for dimensions clue on this object), check out What is It? blog.
[No prize this week - congrats to Kent who won last week's game]
Update 3/16/07: The answer is:
Aerial spacer cable insulator, allows the running of a three phase line in a minimum amount of space. The hook on the bottom left is hung on a steel messenger cable and the conductors are placed in the large inner grooves, with the small outer grooves being used for tie wires.
Congratulations to Chris who got it right!
Congratulations to one of Neatorama’s authors: Anita of Say No to Crack for winning the 2007 Bloggies for Best New Blog! Yay!
Proposal Gone Wrong is having a video contest about marriage proposals that didn’t exactly go as planned (ouch!): Link
More links about marriage proposals at Miss Cellania: Link
Last year, then 72-year-old Chinese grandma Wang Xiaoya pulled (with her mouth!) a 4-ton truck loaded with people. This year, she outdid herself: she towed two vehicles with a combined total weight of 5 tons: Link
The Anatomical Museum in Modena, Italy, has a very cool collection of obstetrical models made by Giovan Battista Manfredini in 1775.
Link [warning: teratology section at the bottom of the page is gross and distrubing, but now that I told you this, can you resist?] – via Scribal Terror
