Archive for July 5th, 2007
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Do you think this might discourage a hijacking? -via Bits and Pieces
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Window blows at 20,000 feet.
Flight nurse Chris Fogg was transporting a patient on June 27th when the plane window exploded. The twin-engine piper turboprop was cruising at 20,000 feet at the time! Fogg was sucked halfway out the window, with only his legs and one arm inside the plane. He managed to hold one while the pilot dived to a lower altitude to stabilize the cabin pressure, then pulled himself back into the plane. Uninjured, Fogg flew again the next day. Link (includes video simulation)
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Octosquid.
What seems to be a new species of squid has been found in Hawaii. The creature was retreived from a deep-sea water filter at the Natural Energy Laboratory.
According to Richard Young, an oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the specimen tentatively belongs to the genus Mastigoteuthis, but the species is undetermined.
War, who termed the specimen “octosquid” for the way it looked, said it was about a foot long, with white suction cups, eight tentacles and an octopus head with a squidlike mantle.
Mastigoteuthis {wiki} is the whiplash squid. Link -via Metafilter
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You Hum It, We Play It.
In Anton Hecht’s world, regular people become part of the art performance. In his first video clip featured on Neatorama, titled Blinking Ballet, Anton captured random people in Newcastle, UK, dancing to Prokofiev’s Dance of the Knight.
This particular clip, random people of Durham were asked to hum their favorite tunes, which will then be played by a band. The band, obviously, didn’t know what they were asked to play beforehand – so the performance is like wonderful "a musical journey" into the unknown.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Anton!
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Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
The Brooklyn Museum has a very neat online exhibition of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, a woodblock prints depicting life in the mid-19th century Tokyo, created by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).
Definitely worth a look-see: Link – Thanks Mikolka!
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Trevor, the Mentos Intern.
College student Trevor is currently doing a stint at the Mentos US Headquarter in Erlanger, Kentucky, as an intern – but not just any intern: a Mentos intern.
You can see him live on webcam, call him up, and order him to do stuff for you like tell you how wonderful you are, prank call your friends and things like that.
Link – Thanks Rob Lambrechts!
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How to Marry a Billionaire.
From the website:
Work hard, take risks, maybe build your own business. That’s the traditional route to financial success. Of course, there’s another highly traditional path to acquiring wealth that isn’t talked about quite as much these days: Marry money.
Real money. As in not a mere millionaire (a dime a dozen these days) but an honest-to-goodness billionaire – make that 10 figures after the dollar sign, please.
Jean Chatzky of Money Magazine tells us some tips on how to marry a billionaire: Link – Thanks Tiffany!
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LOLMetal.
Although you might be tired of internet image macros, death metal or black metal band publicity photos lend themselves to some pretty strange captions. The link at the end of the article will take you to more images. Link -via Look at This
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Amputee Tiger.
A rare Sumatran tiger foiled poachers by escaping from a trap and surviving without his foot. The tiger was photographed in March and May by motion-sensor cameras in the Tesso Nilo national park.
In normal circumstances the beast would have been expected to die from blood loss or an infection, or simply to starve to death because of a severely reduced capacity to hunt.
However, to the astonishment of conservationists, the tiger appears to have recovered from the loss and is managing to catch enough food to keep it healthy. “His condition seemed quite stable,†Sunarto, a WWF biologist in Sumatra, said. “He has been surviving – I don’t know how. It’s very surprising he’s still alive.â€
The Sumatran tiger is the most endangered tiger in the world. Link -via Fark
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Aerial Archology.
Aerial Archaeology in Northern France has low-altitude photographs of the land and the often confusing images left by past residents. Clues to ancient land registries, past structures, and landscapes changes can often be seen from above. For example, what some would label as a crop circle in the picture above was identified as the traces of an Bronze Age funerary monument.
…this site is primarily a collection of images of the many ways that the past has left its trace, of the memory of the land observed from low altitude. You must first learn to decipher these “land hieroglyphics”, which at first will seem puzzling and strange.
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The Cupcake Table
Can’t stand the thought of having a traditional table in your home? Maybe the cupcake inspired “Birthday Table” from Jelio might be just the ticket.
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Traveler’s Phrase Book T-Shirt.
If you don’t speak the language, you can point to the symbols on this shirt to ask where to find what you need! Ladies may achieve faster results. Link -via Nag on the Lake
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Dead Body Guy.
Chuck Lamb wants to play a dead body in your next movie or TV show, so he posted an online resume and gallery. He’s had some success, with four movies listed in his imdb page. He also has a list of the “Top 10 Things that has happened to me since I started Dead Body Guy.â€
10. Winning the L.A. Indie Award
9. Touring CNN and slobbering on Lou Dobbs’ desk
8. Being in Wikipedia
7. My photo hanging at the world famous Carnegie Deli
6. Being in Penthouse Magazine (how many guys can say that?)
5. 2 page spread in the National Examiner TABLOID!!!!
4. Being a Jeopardy question
3. Playing dead on the red carpet at the Academy Awards
2. Selected as one of the best guest of 2006 on The TODAY Show
AND NUMBER 1!!!!
Hearing the legend Mickey Rooney say the “F” word
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The Ultimate Knot
How to tie a knot that is close to impossible to untie.
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What is It? Game 28.
Today’s collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange contraption – first one to guess what it is wins a free Neatorama T-Shirt!
Place your guess in the comment section – one guess per comment, you can guess as many times as you’d like. Post no URL, please, let others play. For more clues, check out What is It? Blog.
Update 7/6/07: The answer is the Protector Palm Pistol, 7 shot , .32 caliber gun made by the Chicago Fire Arms Co. Lox Lox guessed it right, but didn’t read the contest rule closely and posted an URL, so congratulations to b0rsuk who got the free Neatorama t-shirt!
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Car Runs on Giant Screws.
Check out this 1970 Russian armored military vehicle, which runs on a pair of giant screws! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | More info at Fulgerica
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Man Changed Middle Name to Childhood Hero: Megatron.
Check out the story of how Jason Michael Burrows changed his middle name to "Megatron" (for real!): Link [Flickr] – via reddit
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Clever Puzzle-Solving Orangutans.
Orangutans are really smart – either that or they’ve read Aesop’s Fable.
Faced with a vertical transparent tube, a quarter filled with water, in which a peanut floats tantalizingly beyond reach, what should you do? Five orang-utans from Leipzig Zoo in Germany all came to the same conclusion. Taking mouthfuls of water from a nearby bottle, they spat into the tube until the peanut floated into reach.
The apes’ ingenuity amazed the study’s leader, Natacha Mendes from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. "Before we started we thought this was really complicated," she says. "If you asked someone in an office to solve this problem many people wouldn’t be able to give a quick answer, and some probably wouldn’t be able to figure it out at all."
Mmmm… peanuts… Link
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Richard Ankrom's Freeway Sign.
Composite photo of Richard Ankrom in action. (Photo Credit: Jim Payne)
In 2001, artist Richard Ankrom had so much trouble navigating a particularly confusing stretch of L.A. freeway that he decided to make his own freeway signs and hang ‘em up as performance art!
Richard Ankrom, 46, an artist in Los Angeles, Calif., planned his latest masterpiece, a combination paint and performance work, for two years: he altered a major road sign on the Harbor Freeway in downtown. He put up his work in broad daylight, but was unnoticed because he was dressed as a road worker. The audience: 150,000 motorists per day. The payoff: no one noticed, not even state transportation engineers. The plan was to announce the project a year later, but a friend tipped off the press after 9 months. The modification, done to exact Federal Highway Administration specifications, helps motorists navigate a complicated transition ahead. "The experts are saying that Mr. Ankrom did a fantastic job," said a Caltrans spokeswoman. "They thought it was an internal job." The agency plans to leave the modification in place, since it is in fact helpful to motorists. Ankrom says helping out motorists "was the whole point."
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Hunting and Killing Whales With Their Bare Hands.
For the fishermen of Lamalera, a remote village in Indonesia, the way of life hasn’t changed for hundreds of years: they still hunt and kill whale with their bare hands:
Hunts are led by the Lamafa (boat captains), who purify themselves during the six-month whale hunting season by abstaining from sex. They are also banned from sleeping during a hunting trip. [...]
The Lamafa leaps from the boat holding a ‘kefa’ (a javelin-like bamboo pole with an iron-blade) which he uses to pierce the whale before swimming back to collect another pole.
The fishermen work as a team, stabbing into the whale flesh and working ropes around its massive body. The tiny boats, dwarfed by the bulk of a whale, risk being pulled under with every lurch of its huge tail.
Link – Thanks Aberron!
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