Archive for July 6th, 2007
Staring Down Superdog.
You wouldn’t know it by looking at her, but Wendy (yes, this dog is a she) is friendly and “likes nothing better than a good back scratch and isn’t shy about sitting in your lap to ask for one”. The Whippet’s herculean appearance comes from two gene defects which cause a condition called “double muscling”, which can occur in any animal species. Link
There’s even an unnamed German boy running around with this genetic defect (the only recorded human case), who as a toddler had the strength of some adults.
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Mugshot Fashion.
The Smoking Gun has an extensive collection of mugshots, which they arrange occasionally into humorous sets. This one features people who were arrested wearing shirts with slogans that give a clue to their personalilty. Link -via Fark
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Aaron Larney's Urban Camouflage Hoodie.
Aaron Larney made these urban camouflage printed hoodies, just in case you need to blend into your dorm’s notice-board.
Previously on Neatorama: Désirée Palmen’s Camouflage Clothes
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Someecard: Funny, in a Mean and Brutally Honest Way.
Why send a plain vanilla ecard when you can send one that is funny in a brutally-honest sort of way?
Link (Warning: some have NSFW language) – Thanks Dumidu!
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Blogger Won Hero Dad Contest.
Congratulations to Robert Pedersen of DaddyBlogger for winning runner-up in Best Life Magazine’s national Hero Dad contest!
Michigan’s custody laws give Robert Pedersen just 6-8 days per month with his two children from a previous marriage. Driven by the painful separation from his family, Robert created the website A Child’s Right (www.achildsright.net) — proactively advocating EQUAL parenting rights by BOTH fit parents. Robert also volunteers his time to numerous children rights’ organizations while maintaining a political stance with representatives across the state and at the federal level. This August, Robert will bike 600 miles from Lansing, MI to Washington, D.C. to help raise awareness and generate mass media attention in support of equal parenting rights.
Link – Thanks Robert and Angela!
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Melted Vinyl Flower.
Artist Chanel Freire of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada created this fantastic flower and pot sculpture out of melted vinyl records!
Check out more vinyl artworks, which were donated by local artists for a fund raiser, here: Link (click pics for larger photo) – Thanks Jeff McLennan!
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Eyeball Tattoo.
Here’s something that even most tattoo enthusiast consider a little extreme: eyeball tattooing.
Apparently, you can tattoo an eyeball (it has been done on blind eyes to "hide" corneal defects). In this case, Pauly Unstoppable, Josh, and Shannon Larratt tattooed their pefectly healthy eyes, just to see if it could be done.
Link: Three Blind Mice at BME, Update on Josh’s eye, Update 2, Shannon’s Blog entry – Thanks esa!
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Awesome Old School Animation
The “About Face” animation is the beautiful non-computer results of a 9 months long process with 800 drawings created per month.
Animal and human facial transformations including caricatures of Henry VIII, Mick Jagger, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, The Marx Brothers and the many faces of David Bowie. Written and drawn by Chris James. Music by Claude Jouven.
Link [YouTube] – via Videofeber
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The Skier of Insanity
was (allegedly) used to gauge incipient lunacy in an asylum, depending on how long it took the subject to see why it is funny.
How long did it take you? In another “Skier”-insanity legend, Addams himself would periodically suffer mental breakdowns at the New Yorker, his employer, and begin drawing and redrawing “The Skier,” at which point he would be carted off to the nut house.
Link (NYT login required) / Link to Wikipedia article
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NASA Installs $19 Million Toilet on the ISS, Won't Let Russians Use it.
NASA is installing a fancy new $19 million toilet on the International Space Station, but it isn’t letting the Russians use it!
Tension is bound to flare over the $19 million toilet NASA purchased from Russian aerospace firm RCS Energia, as only half of the International Space Station will enjoy the upgrade—the American side. The toilet justifies its steep price by being able to recycle urine as drinkable water, Waterworld-style.
The Russian half of the station is stuck with the old latrine. They’ll have to continue to load up one of their unmanned cargo vessels with boxes of their leftovers and send it to burn up in the atmosphere, which is pretty much the equivalent of flushing right now in space.
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Little Girl Called 911 300 Times Found: Police Used McDonald's as Lure.
Police used a fake offer of McDonald’s to find a 4-year-old girl who called 911 nearly 300 times!
Unbeknownst to her mother, the girl used a deactivated cell phone to call dispatchers 287 times in June — sometimes as often as 20 times a shift.
Dispatchers heard the child’s voice but could only track the phone’s signal to the apartment complex. So authorities used a ruse to pinpoint her.
"We asked (the caller) what she wanted. She said she wanted McDonald’s," said Steve Cordes, executive director of QuadCom’s emergency center, which covers Carpentersville.
"We talked with her and we convinced her if she told us where she lives, we would bring her McDonald’s," he said. "She finally gave us her address. So we sent the police over — with no McDonald’s."
Link – via Unique Daily
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Portable Typewriter Laptop Mod - Awesome!
Mary Robinette Kowal used stickers to mod her boring laptop into a gorgeous old-fashioned portable typewriter!
Link – via Boing Boing
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Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars.
A unidentified clerk (center) tries to bring to an end a great edit war involving dozens of respected editors. At her feet, three bewildered newcomers are seen lost in the middle of the dispute. PHOTO: SABINEWS/J.L. David
Humans fight over the smallest things, and Wikipedians are no exception. Here’s a list of the lamest edit wars in free online encyclopedia, which anyone can (and sometimes, unfortunately, do) edit.
Link – via mentalfloss’s Morning Cup of Links sidebar, an excellent source for surfing. A top notch feature from an excellent website (and friend of Neatorama!). The art above is actually Intervention of the Sabine Women by Jacues-Louis David [wiki].
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Brand Irony by Sharad Haksar.
Photographer Sharad Haksar (and head of the ad agency 1pointsize) has a neat series of photographs depicting ironic use of brands in India.
Here’s one for all you computer geeks:
Link [Flash, click on the portfolio button on the lower right-hand corner, then select Sharad Haksar from the list of clients]
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Ten amazing facts about the earth.
Did you know that gravity is not the same over all the earth? That the moon is moving away from Earth? That the moon pulls at our air like it pulls the seas? Fogonazos has more fascinating facts, with links to further information on each. Link -via Look at This
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Kid Doodles.
From a 12th century Russian schoolboy. Via Futility Closet, which — besides Neatorama — is just the place to be these days. I’m amazed at the stuff Greg Ross keeps turning up.
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Electrocute Your Hot Dog.
See how it’s done at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Deals Depend on the Day of the Week
Smart Money magazine presents a list of the days of the week sellers tend to offer the best deals on certain products. This makes me want to plan out a whole week of bargain shopping (but even with the discounts it would get expensive):
Cars
When to Buy: Monday.
Why: “Car dealers live for the weekend, which is when they make most of their sales,” says Phil Reed, consumer advice editor for Edmunds.com. “On Mondays, the low foot traffic makes it seem like the weekend will never come.” That dealer desperation, paired with fewer consumers on the lot, give you more negotiating power.Gas
When to Buy: Thursday, before 10 a.m.
Why: The price of oil isn’t the only factor influencing costs at your local pump. Consumer usage plays a role, too — and weekend demand is high, says Jason Toews, co-founder of GasBuddy.com, a price-monitoring site. Prices usually swing upward on Thursdays as travelers fuel up to head out the following day. By hitting the pump before 10 a.m. (when many station owners change their prices), you’ll beat the rush and the price jump.
Link – via the Consumerist (Image Credit: Dania_H)
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Samsung Dance.
Specially-designed costumes, discipline, and computer-generated choreography combine in this pixel dance in South Korea celebrating Samsung. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Videosift
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Hang Nga's Tree House.
Hang Nga’s Tree House, or the Spider Web Chalet, is a hotel in Da Lat, Vietnam. Built by the daughter of an ex-president, it resembles a tree made of concrete. Link More pictures here. -via Grow-A-Brain
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Música da Lagoa.
Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal and O Grupo play water bottles, water jugs, and the lake itself. Push play or go to YouTube. Hear more of Pascoal’s music on his MySpace page. -via Metafilter
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Dinosaur Bone Soup
Paleontologists excavating for fossils in central China’s Henan province came across a find of bones from dinosaurs. This was news to nearby villagers, who, assuming the bones were from flying dragons, had been digging up and preparing them for decades as a traditional cure-all:
The calcium-rich bones were sometimes boiled with other ingredients and fed to children as a treatment for dizziness and leg cramps. Other times they were ground up and made into a paste that was applied directly to fractures and other injuries.
The villagers could have confirmed the theoretical link between dinosaurs and modern birds had they claimed that the soup “tastes like chicken.”
Link – via Fortean Times (Image)
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Detachable Playhouse for Children of Divorced Parents.
Ben Forman designed a unique playhouse called the Detacho Playhouse that incorporate the issue of divorce, something a lot of children face everyday yet is ignored by toy makers.
The reconfigurable playhouse lets children of divorced parents "play out" complex domestic issues – it can be configured into separate houses for each parents, and can even be configured to have a separate house for the new partner!
Link – via Random Good Stuff
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Sisters Sent Hot Dog to Each Other for 54 Years.
From the website:
Flora Zimbelman says it all started 54 years ago when she put an uncooked hot dog in her sister’s suitcase. [...]
Flora’s sister, Rose, found the hot dog when she opened the suitcase back up in Idaho, where she lived at the time.
"She mailed it back to me telling me to keep my garbage at home," said Flora.
The game was on.
In the years that followed, Flora would find a way to sneak the hot dog back into Rose’s life. And Rose would find another way to sneak it back to Flora.
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Hatshepsut the Female Pharaoh Was One Sickly Lady.
Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh whose mummy was recently found, turned out to be one sickly lady:
Preliminary examination of the 3,000-year-old mummy has now revealed that Hatshepsut was obese, had decayed teeth and possibly suffered from a skin disease.
‘Her mouth shows the presence of many dental cavities, periapical (root) inflammation and pockets,’ said Ashraf Selim, radiologist at Cairo University, who examined the mummy.
The mummy also showed signs of a rather disgusting skin disease on the face and neck, which, Selim believes, might have added to Hatshepsut’s health problems.
Link – via Scribal Terror
Here’s a picture of the mummy, if you’d like to see it: Link
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iPal, the Creepiest iPod Accessory.
If this isn’t the weirdest iPod accessory, then I don’t know what is … Meet iPals, a docking station complete with plush animal print covering and speakers as eyes with bendable eyestalks!
Link – via GeekAlerts
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Cadaver Calculator: How Much is Your Corpse Worth?
Ever wonder how much your body is worth to science if you were to donate it right now? The Cadaver Calculator will find out how much money your corpse is worth, based on "overall health and the level of interest your corpse holds to the medical research industry."
Link – via Say No to Crack
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Boomshine Flash Game.
Boomshine is a deceptively simple and maddeningly fun Flash game. The object is to create a chain reaction and burst as many bubbles as possible – it’s easy at first, but gets much harder at later levels.
Link [Flash] – via Miss Cellania
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VideoSift: It's Raining Cats and Dogs.
It’s Raining Cats and Dogs is a VideoSift collective or group of user-selected videos, that is perfect for everyone who love the cutest and furriest video clips on the ‘Net (despite the name, there are clips of other animals than just dogs or cats …)
Here are five of the cutest videos I found (yes, some were on Neatorama before, but heck, they’re SO cute, you can watch ‘em again and again)
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Sleepy Meerkats |
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Ticklish Koala Here’s a very cute clip of a ticklish koala in Sydney, Australia. |
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For more the web’s most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.
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Bizarro: How to Really Hurt a Boxer.
For more Bizarro comics, check out Dan Piraro’s website: Bizarro
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