Archive for August 2nd, 2007
Expensive Junk You'll Never Need.
Oddee just compiled their list of the top 11 most expensive junk items that you’ll never need. This official platinum Hello Kitty figurine ranked #3 on their list, weighs a hefty 590g (1.3 lbs), and costs a mere $163,000. Only one set is available, so hurry before some spoiled Hollywood teen starlet buys it first.
Honestly, if I was going to sell my house for Hello Kitty paraphernalia (people do that, right?), I’d prefer the crystal Hello Kitty for the Rich shown here a couple days ago.
Link [Oddee] to even more expensive junk.
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Exploding Soap.
This video shows how three simple ingredients (soap, Hydrogen Peroxide, and dissolved Potassium Iodide) is all it takes to make a pretty neat, but relatively safe, chemical reaction. IMPORTANT – if you try this, make sure to wear goggles. As one of the commenters pointed out, hydrogen peroxide can burn your eyes.
Click play, or visit the Link [Metacafe], to see the instructions and results.
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Awkwardness Survival Guide
For all those who suffer from “foot-in-mouth” syndrome, Something Awful has prepared an awkwardness survival guide! Here’s an excerpt:
You lean back too far in your chair and almost fall over.
In a moment of idleness, you decide to create the mildly euphoric sensation of leaning back on two legs of your chair. You lean too far, and nearly fall over backward; you catch your balance after some amount of flailing, and the front legs of your chair land on the ground with a loud thud.
We’re hesitant to recommend faking a seizure to avoid awkwardness, mostly because its overuse is dangerous. If everyone became aware of the possibilities of the fake seizure, not a single social event could occur without at least a dozen fake seizures; they would become so commonplace that real seizures would go untreated, and thousands of epileptics would die every year from swallowing their tongues.
However, in this case, we recommend falling out of your chair and faking a seizure.
Link – via Andy’s Blog
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Chinese Flip Flops - So Cheap, So Dangerous!
An unsuspecting lady purchased a pair of cheap chinese flipflops from Walmart. Little did she know they would nearly rot her feet away!
Link [Story & Pictures] – via The Wvb
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Cueva de los Cristales
The Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) was once buried a thousand feet below Naica mountain in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexio. It was discovered by two miners when excavating a new tunnel for the Industrias Peñoles company back in 2000.
The cave is a purely natural formation consisting of enormous beams of translucent gypsum. Some of the beams are as long as 36 feet and weigh up to 55 tons!
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Proving Why His Last Name Happens to Be Blaine
Those of you skeptical of yesterday’s miraculous Criss Angel levitation might appreciate the more down-and-dirty street magic of this classic David Blaine short (complete with, and I cannot stress this enough, a fair amount of NSFW spoken and written language):
Skillfully palm Play or go to YouTube
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Rise of Mollusks an Omen of Mass Extinction
Pop quiz: when was the most catastrophic mass extinction in the history of life on Earth? At the collapse of the Age of Dinosaurs, 65 million years ago? Bzzt. It was nearly 200 million years earlier, when the end-Permian mass extinction killed off 95 percent of all the planet’s species. But it may not have had a sudden, extraterrestrial cause.
A team at Queen’s University in Canada is now pointing to fossil evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that the die-out lead to the rise of mollusks, such as snails, oysters, and the pictured nudibranch. Mollusks apparently took off eight million years before the mass extinction, which suggests that prolonged climate changes (and not, say, a comet hitting Earth) were to blame:
[T]hese findings support theories suggesting the end-Permian was triggered by ocean changes long in the making, “the climax of a prolonged environmental crisis,” [researcher Matthew] Clapham said.
The whole Permian period, stretching from about 300 million to 250 million years ago, saw gradual warming. This would have slowed down circulation in the ocean, eventually leading to very low levels of oxygen in the water. Massive volcanism near the end of the Permian might have wreaked even further havoc on the environment.
“Mollusks are better adapted to such stressful and changing environments, and so could have thrived,” Clapham told
LiveScience. “The abundance of mollusks we see are symptoms of the conditions that ultimately caused the extinction.”
My money’s on the rest of the animals being inconsolably weirded out by bizarre mollusk mating habits.
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Ikea Hostel
This month, two Ikea warehouses in Oslo, Norway will let shoppers sleep overnight.
“It will be like an alternative hostel”, said company spokesman Frode Ullebust.
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Highway to Hell
Would you dare making a right turn to find out what lies ahead?
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I wonder what's around the corner...
This place, supposedly an information center, needs a motto: “You got questions? We’ve got question marks!†Found at Bits and Pieces.
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World's Weirdest Animals.
You’ve seen some of these animals here and there; you’ve even seen some on Neatorama. Here are 24 of the world’s strangest creatures all together, with a bit of explanation about each. This one? It’s a bunny rabbit. Link -via the Presurfer
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What is It? Game 31
Today’s collaboration with What is It? blog brings you this strange object – can you guess what it is? First one to guess correctly will win a FREE Neatorama T-Shirt!
Place your guess in the comment section (post no URL, please – let others play). Check out What is it? blog for size and material information.
Update 8/3/07 – the answer is:
Fiber optic magnifier, made from over 15,000 tapered fibers. Created by heating the central region of a cylindrical bundle of fused optical fibers, pulling it into an hourglass glass shape, and then cutting it in the middle. Lots of drawings can be found on the patent page, number 5,600,751. These are also made to be used as part of night vision scopes.
Congratulations to chris #21 who got it exactly right. Close guess by libon #4, but I was looking for an exact match.
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The Controller One Turntable
Is it a turntable or a synthesizer? This new turntable called "The Controller One" is the first instrument that allows DJs to actually play music (rather than just "scratching.")
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Product page at Vestax – Thanks Blazer!
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Diet Sodas Are Loaded with Caffeine!
Think diet soda is healthier than regular? According to diet blog, it turns out that many diet sodas actually contain more caffeine than their sugar-filled counterparts …
Diet Coke
Per 12oz can: 46.5mg caffeineDiet Coke has significantly more caffeine in it than regular coke (34.5mg).
Here’s a list of the 10 most caffeinated diet drinks: Link – Thanks Jim!
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Atlanta Time Machine: Then and Now Photos of Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Time Machine is a fantastic website by history buff Gary Germani. After finding a treasure trove of old photographs of the city at the Georgia State University Library, Gary set out to take photos of the exact same location to give a neat "then and now" comparison for things that have (or have not) changed.
This one is the statue of Henry W. Grady, an influential editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper in the 1880s (left: postcard from 1951, right: 2005).
Link – Thanks Joe!
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Showbiz Pizza Robot Hacked to Play Hip Hop
In the early 1980s, Showbiz Pizza Place restaurants had a gimmick: an animatronic robot band called Rock-afire Explosion [wiki].
Gizmodo’s got a clip of the band in action (programmed to play Ms. New Booty by YouTube user christhrash): Link – Thanks Char!
(Who’s the gold-tuxedo-wearing gorilla? Why it’s Fatz Geronimo, the animatronic-twin of Fats Domino).
Update 8/6/07: Here’s another clip of Rock-afire Explosion playing Evanescence’s Lithium: Link – Thanks Another Jake!
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