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The French are confident that the Hydroptère, a 60 foot sailing yacht that barely touches the water, will help the country capture the title of world’s fastest sailing vessel. The “boat” has already crossed the English Channel in half an hour, holds a couple short distance world speed records, and has reached over 47 knots (55 mph) in training.
Link [Times Online] via gizmodo
Today’s collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day is actually a series of neat photos that tell an amazing story of a couple of buddies who went fishing in the ocean and caught a deer instead: Link
Ladies: want larger breasts? Forget implant surgeries, just eat this F Cup Cookies from Japan (where else?). Apparently, the cookie contains some sort of "breast enlarging" herb 
. Either that or by eating the cookies, you’ll be larger everywhere anyways!
Thailand has come up with a unique way to discipline bad police officers: make ‘em wear pink Hello Kitty armband!
“A pink ”Hello Kitty” armband wrapped around a khaki-clad arm is shouting for attention at the police Crime Suppression Division.
It is a new disciplinary measure introduced especially for police investigators who refuse to play by the rules.
Starting this week, the warning will come in the form of the popular Japanese cat cartoon sitting on a heart on a pink background.
”The same old warnings no longer work for some officers,” CSD acting chief Pongpat Chayaphan said.
”This new approach is intended to engender a feeling of guilt and discourage them from repeating the offence.”
Link – via Hello Kitty Hell, Thanks HKH!
The Phonofone II by Science and Sons is a prototype amplifier designed for your iPod:
Without the use of external power or batteries, the Phonofone inventively exploits the virtues of horn acoustics to boost the audio output of standard earphones to up to 55 decibels (or roughly the maximum volume of laptop speakers)
Upon connecting active earphones to the Phonofone their trebly buzzing is instantly and profoundly transformed into a warm, rich and resonant sound.
Philadelphia is home to over two thousand murals, more than any other city in the United States. Much of this development over the past two decades is thanks to the Mural Arts Program, which arranges for teens convicted on graffiti charges to apprentice with mural artists.
The above image is one of many trompe l’oeil illusion murals in the city, but other murals’ subjects range from political causes to nature to faces of the community.
Link to Flickr group
Link to Time‘s photo essay – via BoingBoing
Link to Wikipedia article
A look at the future, as predicted in the past. Or maybe, a look at what the present would have been like if the predictions of the past came to pass. Anyway way you look at it, the future ain’t what it used to be!
Assuming that we dodged the 1984, Brave New World bullet, our future was supposed to be a sort of technocratic, atomic-powered, computer-controlled, antiseptic, space-travelling Jerusalem that would at last free us from the curse of Eden and original sin. We expected some how, some way that we would be on the road to being freed from the human condition. We expected a sort of bloodless, benign French Revolution with Hugo Gernsback as our Voltaire and Carl Sagan as our Robespierre. And what did we get? The City of Man with Tivo. The fact is, science fiction and popular science had set the bar so high that only the Second Coming with ray guns would have satisfied.
Link via the Presurfer
Does your dog try to hump everything around it? Protect your leg and other valuables by purchasing the Hotdoll. This “love doll for dogs” is a natural way to control a dog’s sexual urges.
Designed to be grabbed easily from behind, the Hotdoll comes in 2 sizes and its body is covered with a 1cm technogel skin to create a soft touch. For obvious reasons, the pink hole at the rear end needs to be washed regularly.
At Miss Cellania, here are the Rules of Hollywood:
A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
Link (scroll down)
GeekAlerts has a neat post about 10 fun and weird door stops. I particularly like this "James the Doorman" one!
Here’s a perfect reason why you shouldn’t do a victory celebration while still driving in a race:
He’s cruising to victory and he’s not afraid of pumping his fist in the air. He’s talented enough to lead the race, but not talented enough to drive with one hand …
Link [embedded YouTube]
Inspired by this comic strip on xkcd, a bunch of people submitted their own photos playing chess on roller coasters! Link – via The Good Reverend
Giornale Nuovo blog posted 8 fantastic paintings (circa 1626) by Adriaen van de Venne [wiki], a Dutch Baroque painter. This particular one above is A Game of Balloon, apparently a volleyball-like game of the Renaissance period.
Link – via Scribal Terror
This is why you shouldn’t let them play with sharp objects! Thankfully, the little guy seemed to recover all right, with only a little scarring to remind him what not to do with forks: Link
At the China Reproductive Health New Technology & Products Expo, fashion models strut wedding gowns, evening dresses, bikinis, hats, and other clothes made entirely of … condoms!
Link – via Random Good Stuff
Doctors were successful in re-shaping the deformed skull of Liu Jing, a 9-year-old Chinese boy:
A combo picture shows Liu Jing before and after a surgery to reconstruct his deformed skull at a hospital in Xiamen, East China’s Fujian Province, August 2, 2007. Liu Jing, 9, suffering from hydrocephalus at his birth and later the deformed skull, received a 13-hour surgery on July 15, 2007 and is in stable situation now, Xinhua said.
For more, check out Dan Piraro’s website: Bizarro
This one’s for perfect for the “I can’t believe they’ve invented it!” section. Yes, that’s a pillow protector for dogs that stick their heads outside the car window while traveling …
Link – via Compradicción
Neatorama reader Yunyu sent this one in: her music video "Lenore’s Song," a stop-motion movie made with over 16,000 digital photographs, where each frame is a photograph!
Apparently, the music video claimed some lives – seven machines (2 external hard drives, 1 Apple Powerbook G4, 1 Mac Desktop G5, and 2 Digital betacam transwer machines) kicked the bucket. Presumably, they couldn’t process that many hi-res photos, or maybe it’s something in the song …
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Yunyu!
Yay for duct tape! Medical research has now proven that duct tape beats cryotherapy in treating warts!
In patients treated with duct tape, 85 percent of the warts completely resolved, compared with 60 percent in the cryotherapy group. These results were statistically significant. Resolution of warts treated with duct tape usually occurred within the first 28 days of therapy. If there was no response within the first two weeks, the warts were unlikely to respond to a longer course of therapy. The main adverse outcomes with duct-tape therapy were difficulty keeping the tape on the wart and minor skin irritation. The main adverse effect in the cryotherapy group was mild to severe pain at the freeze site during and after the treatment.
The authors conclude that duct tape occlusive therapy is more effective than cryotherapy in the treatment of common warts. They also state that duct tape therapy is less expensive and has fewer adverse effects than cryotherapy.
Link – Thanks Dmanww!
Poor Merry Miller … She’s a one-time ABC News Now interviewer who became an Internet sensation when her first (and only!) interview with Holly Hunter turned out to be a disaster!
Haven’t seen it? Here’s the YouTube clip:
Now, Merry Miller tells us what it feels like to be notorious on the Net: Link [ABC World News webcast]
Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times
Duke Riley, a heavily tattooed Brooklyn artist, was arrested after his homemade submarine that looked like an 18th century Bushnell Turtle drifted near the restricted waters near the QE2 Queen Mary 2 ship.
Mr. Riley built his eight-foot-tall submersible not from oak but from cheap plywood, coated with fiberglass and topped off with portholes and a hatch bought from a marine salvage company. Pumps in the bottom allowed him to add water for ballast or remove it.
On Thursday evening, he and the two friends, Jesse Bushnell and Mike Cushing, scrambled around in the murky Red Hook water — avoiding the occasional condom or dead rat — to make sure that the sub, called the Acorn, was seaworthy and would submerge. (It never did so completely.) They had loaded several thousand pounds of lead into the bottom and were adding rocks to further lower the moss-coated vessel, which resembled something out of Jules Verne by way of Huck Finn, manned by cast members from “Jackass.”
Links: NY Times article "An Artist and His Sub Surrender in Brooklyn" | Duke Riley’s website – Thanks Roy Tweedy!
How would you stand out amongst a bazillion luxurious vehicles roaming the-now-rich capital city of Moscow, Russia? How about painting a trio of buxom vampires on the hood of your Mercedes Benz? That’ll get anyone’s attention!
Haha.nu has photos of a gathering of such painted cars, taken by Antoshkin Evgeniy (in2urist): Link – Thanks kaparo!
Danny Botkin fell in love with the DeLorean,which was made famous by the blockbuster movie "Back to the Future" when he was a teenager in the early ’80s.
Since then, the company that made the DeLoreans had gone bankrupt, and its owner was convicted (he was acquitted) on a cocaine trafficking charge – which he purportedly did to keep on making the cars.
Now, Botkin is laying plans to bring the iconic car back into limited production. LA Times has the story: Link – Thanks kerozene!
Previously on Neatorama: Cars That Became Metaphors | Back to the Future in (Mod) Style | Back to the Future DeLorean Replica
Neatorama reader Aaron Russell wrote:
This is a description of a group of 21 "Davy Crockett Almanacks," dating from 1835 through 1856. My boss, Dorothy Sloan, will be selling these at auction sometime in the next couple of months. I’ve posted a page with zoomable images of the front and back covers of each almanac. They are illustrated with really amazing woodcuts that I thought you might like looking at and sharing.
They’re fantastic: Link – Thanks Aaron!
Tate Modern’s current exhibition, titled Global Cities, makes artwork out of population density statistics of twelve of the world’s largest cities:
Overcrowding never looked so attractive. As part of the Tate Modern’s current exhibition, Global Cities, on display in the gallery’s vast Turbine Hall, is a series of intriguing “density models”. The plywood structures were created by a team of designers and architects at the London School Of Economics, led by Professor Richard Burdett. The models are shaped around the outlines of each city, with each layer of plywood representing an extra 200 people per square kilometre.
Link | Global Cities official website – Thanks Patrick Burgoyne!
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