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This is how your cat sees the world. JP attached a camera to Mr. Lee’s collar and recorded his adventures. Link -original story via Cynical-C -updated link via Boing Boing
Here’s a neat billboard ad from Nationwide insurance company in downtown Columbus, Ohio (No, not photoshopped). Link [Flickr] – Thanks Hojimoto!
Jim Foster of Diet Blog wrote to us about a pictorial guide to healthy snacks. For example, this fruit:
Serving shown: 1 medium banana – 118g
Calories: 105Note: Nicely prepackaged.
Skip the HoHos and go for these instead: Link – Thanks Jim!
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Andrey Zubrilov of Art. Lebedev Studio set out to correct the gravest subconscious misprogramming of piggybank savings – that the slot is a "minus" sign – by making a "plus" piggybank! Genius!
Link – Thanks mika monioka!
Much had been written about Google Street View when it came out, particularly about the candid moments the Google VW beetle inadvertently captured (remember the cat it spied on?)
Mashable has a neat list of The Top 15 Google Street View Sightings, like this one to the left:
Maybe the guy just forgot his keys. Or he’s practicing for the free climbing contest. Hey, is that a lockpicking set dangling out of his pocket?
Can’t be that good of a lockpicker if he had to scale the fence!
Link – Thanks sickb*stard | More Google Street View coverage at Boing Boing.
Willy Volk of Gadling wrote a post (well, actually two) compiling the Weirdest Amusement Parks in the world. For example, the Suoi Tien Park, a Buddhist-themed amusement park in Vietnam:
In addition to a giant splash park and various thrill rides, the "amusement park" features Heaven Palace, the Park’s vision of eternal life for people who manage to escape the torments of hell after years of gambling, adultery, and taking drugs. If hell isn’t enough to scare you straight, the park also features "Bat cave with innumerable bats, Mid air cycling over crocodile farm with more than 1,500 crocodiles of all sizes which cause fearful feeling for tourist." Yikes.
Here are the links: Very Weird Amusement Parks | More Very Weird Amusement Parks – Thanks Willy!
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Neatorama reader Uw Moeder wrote:
The last couple of weeks, on Appelogen we’ve been collecting songs with colors in their title.
Today we make the round-up. On the suggested page you find the links to all the posts (Red – Orange – Yellow – Green – Blue – Purple – White – Black – Brown – Pink – Gold). Introductions are in Dutch, but the songs are quite understandable Also, if there are still songs out there which we’ve forgotten, everybody’s welcome to let us know.
Link [in Dutch, just click on the various color links] – Thanks Uw!
EnglishRussia has a collection of photos of Chechen homemade weapons confiscated by the Russian authorities: Link – Thanks mikolka!
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The T-Qualiser is a shirt with embedded graphic equalizer:
Simply wear it while the music is playing and watch the panel come to life as it flashes to the rhythm of the music. Yep – it really does have a graphic equaliser on it.
Link [Flash] – Thanks Hanah!
The Good Reverend wrote:
Can you spot the subtle differences between devices designed for physical fitness and those designed for sex? The words and pictures are entirely clean–the only thing that might be explicit will exist entirely in your head.
This photoquiz seems right up your guys’ alley.
All right, here’s the quiz – see if you are truly perverted: Exercise Equipment or Sex Toy? – Thanks Reverend!
Neatorama reader Steve wrote about The "B" Movie Celebration by The IndyFilm Co-op and CENEMA:
From August 17-19, Franklin, IN will be hosting its first annual B-movie Celebration. Over 40+ films will be screened as well as guest speakers such as Lloyd Kaufman, Jim Wynorski, and Tom Savini.
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe [wiki], shown to the left, is scheduled to be shown there:
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe -A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it’s back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov, this time with ready-made allies waiting: Prince Barin of Arboria and Queen Fria of the frozen northern land of Frigia; where, it so happens, is found polarite, antidote to the plague. But Ming will use all his forces to keep our heroes from thwarting his plans of conquest
Link – Thanks Steve!
Here’s an unusual sight: a mysterious skeleton jutting out of a melting iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland:
The six pictures show what looks like a brown rib cage and spinal column, slightly bent, sticking out of a crust of ice.
But researchers throughout Canada, Greenland and Norway are unable to determine the origin of the skeleton, said Garry Stenson, a marine mammal scientist with the federal Fisheries Department.
"It’s definitely unusual," Stenson said today. "It’s not something that I’ve encountered before."
His colleagues have been debating whether the carcass belongs to a bearded seal, a walrus or a beluga whale. But without the actual specimen in his hands, Stenson said he can’t resolve the mystery.
Here’s a Ferrari Enzo that you can crash without all the hoopla. Why? Because it’s made out of LEGO!
Plus, it’s waay cheaper than $1 million real Ferrari that crashed on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, last year.
Link | More LEGO Ferrari – via Oddee, Thanks Luke!
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Flickr user Manu created this fantastic artwork à la David Hockney: Link [Flickr] | If you like that, check out wikipedia’s page on photomontage.
A while ago Peter Stevens wrote about The Upside-Down-Ternet, his prank on his neighbors who were stealing his wireless internet access. Instead of encrypting his wifi, Peter decided to have a little fun by turning the images upside down! Link – Thanks sickb*stard!
Neatorama reader Özi wrote to tell us about this videoclip showing an interview with (then) the world’s oldest human being, a 131-year-old Russian lady from Dagestan [wiki].
Here’s the translation, courtesy of Ozi’s Russian friend Anastasia:
"Who is the oldest man in the world? How old is he and where does he live?
Now long ago we found out that there was an 126 year-old-man in Cuba, but now he is dead.
But the Dagestan people assured us that he was not the oldest one, because one 131-year-old lady lives in their country, and she was 42 years when 1917 Revolution happened. Her name is Grandmother Sarhat.
Grandmother Sarhat is always happy when her 2 years-old neighbour Nadin gets in her window. They drink tea and eat candies together.
Saahrad says that this child could have been her granddaughter in 7th generation.
Sarhat Rashidova is 131 years old. The proof for this is her passport, which shows the date of birth of 1875. Locals found this fact out during a passport exchange (we had that some years ago), but they believed it only after their own investigation.
The old lady doesn’t have any relatives, her husband died in the 50s and they did not have any children. Sarhat has been living in this clay house all the time. There is only one lamp at the ceiling and no socket in her tiny 2 by 2 meters room.
She was born during the reign of Alexander II, lived in 3 centuries and speaks only in Azerbaijan language:
‘There are not many families in this village now. But I remember the time when there were a lot of people. I lived all the generations over. I have seen tzar’s, Nicolay’s and Soviet times. When my husband died I promissed not to get married again and I kept my word.’
The only memory of her husband that is left is his shirt. Sarhat once sewed it into a pillow-case and sleeps on it for 50 years now.Despite of her age Sarhat runs the household, watches hens, and feeds the geese. When she saw our camera, she was always asking for a mirror, worried if she looked good. She was glad afterwards.
‘Longevity secret – old lady laughes – there is no such a secret. To live long you should be kind, you should respect the elders, you should work and do only good. Why do women live longer? Because man gives her all his power! My husband cared for me, brought water himself. If a man treats his woman good, the woman will live long.’
People love Sarhat for her kindness. Her neighbour, 70 years old Mardan, remembers how she gave him milk, eggs and flate cakes in his childhood. He helped her while he had the strength and now his son is helping Sarhat.
Mardan – ‘She is a good person, we help her to chop firewood, bring water’
I’m glad with my life, says Sarhat, everything worked out in my life.
She is going to live even more years.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube, in Russian] – Thanks Ozi!
Note: Sarhat Rashidova [wiki] died early this year (January 16, 2007). She was 131 at the time of her death.
This Russian office has found a unique way to keep its server from overheating. Via English Russia
Comments Off In Malaysia, top spinning, called main gasing, is a popular sporting activity for young and old — although the tops aren’t quite as big as the monster top in the video. Montague Blister of Strange Games writes:
The spinning tops (Gasing in Malay) are superbly hand crafted hardwood and lead creations. Each, individually named Gasing measures up to 10 inches in diameter and weighs 6-8lb. The throwers (tukang gasing) wind a 16 foot rope to the top, loop one end around their wrist and throw it at a 3 foot square clay platform where it is scooped up by the catch man onto a wooden paddle. This is lubricated with coconut oil to aid in the length of its spin. Teams, consisting of up to 40 people (throwers, makers, catchers), set their tops spinning at the same time and it is the longest spin that wins. A good length spin is a staggering one and a half hours. An excellent spin lasts an almost unbelievable 2 hours long.
Video and link via Bernie de Koven’s Deep Fun.
Adam Koford of Apelad blog has drawn this fantastic Neatorama Monkey, who is "high above the city in his starched white suit." Link [Flickr] – Thanks Adam!
If you want your very own monkey, go to Adam’s blog and get one for just $20 (original color artwork on a postcard will be sent to you). For more examples of monkeys, check out this Flickr photoset: Monkey!.
