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The concept is so simple it’s genius! Here’s the see-saw bookshelf created by designer BCXSY: Link – via Smidigt
That’s one crazy Japanese baseball pitching technique! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Say No to Crack
It’s not unusual for clubs and chic restaurants to have "themes," but The Clinic in Singapore steps it up a notch: their theme is hospital (complete with wheelchair dinner chairs).
Hope their food is better than hospital cafeteria’s!
Link [Flash] – via Random Good Stuff
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That’s a migaloo, or a white humpback whale (which may or may not be an albino, scientists aren’t sure):
Record numbers of humpback whales are on their annual migration up Australia’s east coast, including the rare white whale Migaloo, scientists say.
Migaloo, whose Aboriginal name means "white fella", is believed to be the only completely white humpback whale in the world.
Link – via Scribal Terror
Archaeologists discovered an 1,800-year-old mummy of a 3rd-century man, a salt-mine worker from northwestern Iran, whose body is preserved in salt.
During the Roman Empire period, just after the fall of Parthia, a salt mine worker from northwestern Iran lost his life following a catastrophic rock collapse. Approximately 1,800 years later, the man’s body — preserved in salt — was discovered in the very spot where he died, according to recent Iranian news service accounts and to a report issued by the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies.
At YesButNoButYes, a whole lotta dancing traffic cops:
Traffic cops need to draw attention to themselves, and I respect anyone who can take a boring job and make it worth uploading to YouTube.
Link [a bunch of embedded YouTube videos] – via Miss Cellania
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The elusive recurve-billed bushbird or the "smiling" bird was recently rediscovered by scientists in Colombia after a 40-year absence.
Here’s a story about Jazz, a 6-year-old transgendered kid:
On the surface, the Jennings and their four children are a typical American family. But their youngest child, Jazz, is only in kindergarten, and already she is one of the youngest known cases of an early transition from male to female.
"We’ll say things like, ‘You’re special. God made you special.’ Because there aren’t very many little girls out there that have a penis," said Renee. "Renee and I are in 100 percent agreement as to how we should raise Jazz," said Scott. "We don’t encourage, we support. And we just keep listening to what she tells us."
From the moment he could speak, Jazz made it clear he wanted to wear a dress. At only 15 months, he would unsnap his onesies to make it look like a dress. When his parents praised Jazz as a "good boy," he would correct them, saying he was a good girl.
Here’s the funniest airline complaint ever, complete with artistic depiction of how sucky seat 29E truly is.
"I constructed a stink-shield by shoving one end of a blanket into the overhead compartment – while effective in blocking at least some of the smell, and offering a small bit of privacy, the ass-on-my-body factor increased, as without my evil glare, passengers feel free to lean up against what they think is some kind of blanketed wall. The next ass that touches my shoulder will be the last!"
And yes, this was Continental Airlines, who recently made news for flying "poop plane": Link
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Neatorama reader El Arcano took this pic of the pi-nuts bar in Gent, Belgium. Link [Flickr] | Pi-Nuts website – Thanks El Arcano!
Previously on Neatorama: H-Bar (yes, photoshopped, unfortunately), Fubar and Foobar, and Pi Bar.
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The British police is launching "Footwear Intelligence Technology" system to track footprints left at crime scenes. Apparently, crooks prefer Nike: 6 out of the 10 footprints left by criminals are from Nike shoes.
Link | Photos of the shoes – Thanks Bucky Turco!
Here’s Bizarro comic for today! For more, check out Dan Piraro’s website: Bizarro.
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Here’s something new from SolidAlliance: a USB engine hub complete with vibrating motor.
Link (with video goodness)- via Engadget, Thanks Eric!
Two years ago, Eben Bayer was given a college assignment to create a sustainable insulation. Since he grew up on a mushroom farm in Vermont, he immediately gravitating to growing mushrooms as eco-friendly insulation. He and colleague Gavin McIntyre used a “fire-retardant board made of water, flour, oyster mushroom spores and perlite, a mineral blend found in potting soil” to create their now patented “Greensulate” technology.
The former Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduates expect the product to be ready for development in about a year. Link [abc news]
Discovery Channel reports on a study designed to trace the lineage of the modern house cat. The results:
Cats’ ancestry was traced to five types of wild cats [which] managed to interbreed at various times, with the result being Felis silvestris lybica, which appears to be the ancestor of modern house cats.
"This was an amazing experiment when animals came out of the wild,"
O’Brien said. "Cats are known for their ferocious, deadly nature,"
O’Brien said, so this is an extraordinary change for them.Cats may have been domesticated once or many times, he said, adding
that the most likely case is they were domesticated once and other wild
cats bred with the domesticated ones."I wasn’t there, but all the data supports that," he said.
The researchers found wild cats, with DNA identical to domestic cats, in Israel, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
By studying the mitochondrial DNA of 979 domestic and wild cats from
Europe, Asia and Africa the researchers concluded that the origins of
the species — what O’Brien calls a feline Adam and Eve — developed
between 130,000 and 160,000 years ago. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down from mother to child.
Photo of Felis sylvestris lybica from Noorderlicht
An enterprising Australian guy turned a classic Holden Monaro GTS into a barbie!
Link – via Born Rich | See also Neatorama’s Top 10 Coolest BBQ Grills (And Then Some!)
Holy moly! Someone made a Pepsi Ultraman! Does this make anyone thirst for a Pepsi? Found at Tigers and Cranes.
We’ve posted the couchmouflage, catmouflage, carmouflage, and satmouflage before, but the Brits got ‘em all beat. In fact, they’re so well camouflaged you just have to take my word that there are two – TWO! – British soldiers in this picture.
Found at Modern Mechanix (Jul 1939)
Leave it to the Japanese to make a robot for … removing dead bodies from the street! Must be preparing for Zombie Walk [wiki] Tokyo or something.
Found at Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth
We’ve featured Christopher Conte’s mechanical sculptures before – but this one is so cool we just have to do it again: Lethal Injection Attack Droid Prototype.
Link (Don’t miss the Unmanned Attack Helicopter, a radio-controlled helicopter modified to carry and remotely fire model rockets!) – via Jaf Project
The catchy-sounding De Dion-Bouton et Trapardoux was built in France in 1884, and amazingly, it’s a three owner car. Among its many credentials, “La Marquise†is a steam-powered four-wheeled car that is believed to have won the first automobile race.
This car will be auctioned off at Pebble Beach in August. It is expected to bring in 1.5-2 million dollars. Link -via Fark
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Cincinnati artist Hilary Wiezbenski designed these melting wall clocks, reminiscent of Salvadore Dali’s Persistence of Memory. Clocks can be ordered in several shapes and many colors, and you can have your clock embellished with an ant or fly if you like. Link -via J-Walk Blog
Attention, architects, designers, and engineers! Italy needs more public toilets, so port-a-potty company Sebach is holding an international competition. Get your chemical toilet cabin design in by August 4th and you may win €5,000 ($6,600)! Link -via Grow-A-Brain
These are twenty-nine-inch platform shoes, called chopines, from sixteenth-century Venice. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Developed in the early sixteenth century and especially popular among Venetian women, the high-platformed shoe called the chopine had both a practical and symbolic function. The thick-soled, raised shoe was designed to protect the foot from irregularly paved and wet or muddy streets. But the enhancement of the wearer’s stature also played a role.
The chopine’s height introduced an awkwardness and instability to a woman’s walk. The Venetian woman who wore them was generally accompanied by an attendant on whom she would balance. Despite the obvious expense, Venetian sumptuary laws (laws regulating expenditure on luxuries) did not address the issue of exaggerated footwear until it reached dangerous proportions. It was once thought that very high chopines, twenty inches as seen in the example from the Museo Correr di Veneziani, were the accoutrements of the courtesan and were intended to establish her highly visible public profile. However, sixteenth-century accounts suggest that the chopine’s height was associated with the level of nobility and grandeur of the Venetian woman who wore them rather than with any imputation as to her profession.
How to read a woman’s facial expressions. For clueless men. This explains a lot. We women tend to assume you guys know how to do this already, since it’s so simple for us. Link -via the Presurfer
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