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Knight Rider fans rejoice – K.I.T.T, the black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am from the popular TV series, is up for sale. Don’t get too excited though, the Dublin, Ireland California based owner is asking $149,995 for the car, and it’s not even street legal due to missing exhaust components. Link [Drive]
Short on cash, but still want one? For about $40K you can make your own K.I.T.T car.
Hodder Headline will be selling a manga version of the bible. Ink and color are done by a guy called Siku of Marvel comics.
This is the opposite of neat, it’s a dumb idea but when it comes to computer retro-modding, its always things like this that get your name mentioned all over the Net.
This machine produces old style pulses, translating the texts of your RSS feeds into Morse code. I don’t know if they’ll add the opposite functionality by allowing you to post in your blog clicking on the button. It’ll be a real monkey business uploading an image!
My wife’s uncle works in a military hospital and told me about this. Its pretty amazing. Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq (Tikrit I believe) and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side.The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hit in the left chest where his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor. Fortunately, Kevin suffered no wound.
Steven Kurutz of the New York Times writes:
Natural swimming pools (or swimming ponds, as they are called in The pools have skimmers and pumps that circulate the water through the regeneration zone and draw it across a wall of rocks, loose gravel or tiles, to which friendly bacteria attach, serving as an additional biological filter. Unlike artificial ponds, which tend to be as murky with groundwater runoff and sediment from soil erosion as the natural ponds they’re modeled on, in a natural pool the water is clear enough to see through to the bottom. The pools, which cost about the same as or slightly more than conventional ones, depending on landscaping, appeal to gardeners because of the great variety of plant life that can be grown in them, as well as to green advocates and others who don’t want to swim in chlorinated water.
Europe, where the concept originated 20 years ago) are self-cleaning
pools that combine swimming areas and water gardens. Materials and
designs vary — the pools can be lined with rubber or reinforced
polyethylene, as in the case of Total Habitat’s, and may look rustic or
modern — but all natural pools rely on “regeneration†zones, areas
given over to aquatic plants that act as organic cleansers.
Photo credit: Sandy Huffraker for The New York Times
Electrical engineer Sarah Bergbreiter of UC Berkeley has created the world’s smallest rubber band (and catapult!): a nine-micron-thick, two-millimeter-long rubber band that allows microbot to catapult itself through the air like a flea.
Peter McCready took this neat VR panorama photo of the Large Hadron Collider [wiki] at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. Impressive! Link
Photo: Denver Post / Richard Keen
The Denver Post a nice story about the beautiful and mysterious "night-shining" noctilucent clouds:
Noctilucent clouds appear only at night, when their altitude – 50 miles up in the atmosphere – lets them catch sunlight no longer visible from Earth’s surface, said James Russell, an atmospheric scientist at Hampton University in Virginia, the NASA mission’s principal investigator.
That makes noctilucent – "night-shining" – clouds appear almost iridescent, he said. Most normal clouds are less than 10 miles up.
"They’re very beautiful, they look very mysterious, but aside from all that, these clouds are changing in ways we don’t understand," Russell said.
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Want your kids to grow up just like you? Well, you have to start them young listening to cool music like Metallica, Coldplay, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and other rock bands. In lullaby, of course, silly!
Link – Thanks Eric!
Every May 1st since 1981, mysterious ads have been placed in the college newspaper Arizona Daily Wildcat.
Bryan Hance discovered the series of ads in 1997, and had been documenting it ever since: Link | Wiki – via reddit
From the website:
More than 125 joints and fittings form a plumber’s tree displayed by a Chester, Pa., firm. All the bends, traps, elbows and other parts comprising it are commonly used soil and water-pipe connections. The joints are packed with oakum.
That’s make one very cool Christmas tree! From Popular Mechanics 1950: Link – via Make
Who says video game and furniture don’t go hand in hand? Here’s one that screams "I’m a cool video gamer" (either than or "geek!"): a mushroom plushy stool just like in Super Mario Bros.!
We’ve featured Rob Sacchetto’s unique art before (he "zombify" your photo for a price), but we can’t resist his new works: movie posters as zombies! (More please, Rob!)
Link | Zombie Portraits [flickr] – Thanks JT Pednaud! (In fact, you can see a pic of Pednaud, The Human Marvel’s author, as a zombie here)
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Astronomers have caught a magnetar, basically a massive star with a super strong magnetic field, in the middle of a cosmic "hiccup"!
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This week’s collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange metal object – for dimensions and another photo from a different angle, check out: What is It? Blog.
Guess what this strange object is and win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt! Place your guess in the comment section, but please, post no URL – let others play. The answer will be revealed tomorrow!
Update 4/6/07: The answer is … nutcracker!
Nutcracker, placed on the knee when seated, a nut is set in the hole and then struck with a hammer. In the winter, these were warmed by the fire before using.
