Archive for September 6th, 2007
Internet People
No doubt you’ll recognize some of the Internet People, if not all of them. Many have been featured right here on Neatorama! Animation by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Reddit
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Bacon Costumes (updated with instructions)
Perfect for accompanying the Sunny Side Up Rug. Direct link to photo here. And here’s more “bacon” “costume” tagged photos on Flickr.
*Update: Garth points the way to instructions for making the bacon costume.
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"The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever " (Updated)
Amazon says:
World-famous after his pioneering 1927 nonstop transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh, says Friedman, thought he was a god, and after a 1928 otherworldly experience in the Utah desert, he committed himself to exploring the science of eternal life. His sister-in-law’s damaged heart valve led Lindbergh to seek out Nobel laureate Alexis Carrel, whose vascular-suturing technique made open-heart surgery and other advances possible. The pair embarked on an immortality project at New York’s Rockefeller Institute. Utilizing Carrel’s expertise with tissue culture and Lindbergh’s mechanical engineering genius, they kept extracted organs alive and functioning for weeks at a time. As Friedman (A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis) demonstrates, these biological experiments were integral to the pair’s obsession with eugenics, their belief that the white race was endangered by lesser organisms and to Lindbergh’s later enthusiasm for the Nazis. Friedman, who has written for GQ and Esquire, makes complex science accessible and serves as an absorbing cautionary tale on how two heroic reputations were marred by fascism and anti-Semitism.
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
Spotted in the LA Times book review, although it seems like something Warren Ellis put in Planetary.
*Update: Charlie suggests links to vintage articles about Lindbergh and Carrel. Click through to see some incredible devices including “a science achievement that permits doctors to measure life expectancy through the super-eye camera.”
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Finally, a Swiss Army Knife with all the features I need
Another terrific Threadless design. Follow the link below to vote for it.
You can see more of my Threadless picks here. And no, I didn’t design any of them.
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Acid Violence
Journalist and blogger Scott Carney wrote about something that is only happens in cheesy action movies here in the West, but unfortunately is quite a common reality in South Asia: acid violence.
Last week a young woman from Mysore was doused with a bottle of hydrochloric acid and then forced to drink a mixture of acid and alcohol. No one was surprised. Her husband had abused her for years, she had even lodged a series of complaints with the police in the months before the final attack. Two days ago Hina Fathima died in a Mysore hospital.
Acid violence is increasingly common across South Asia and cases like Fathima’s are common enough that they often don’t even make the front page of local newspapers. The Campaign and Struggle Against Acid Attacks on Women, or CSAAAW, has recorded 61 acid attacks in Karnataka since 1999. While most of the women die from their injuries or from suicide some survivors have come out to try to change local laws that make acid cheap and easily available at any corner grocery store. The women who do survive often have to bear terrible medical costs and often lose their eyes, noses, ears and any semblance of facial expression.
Link | Gallery | NPR Story and Podcast
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Nick Foley's Pear Light
Artist Nick Foley created this beautiful steel tree lamp that doubles as a charging base for three glowing "pears":
Each pear contains ten ultrabright white LEDs, an autonomous charging circuit, and rare-earth magnets that allow it to be "picked" from the tree and remain fully illuminated for over an hour
Simply gorgeous – you must see the larger pic at Nick’s Coroflot portfolio: Link – via Make
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Pogo-Copter
In 1969, Harold C. Bush patented one of the most ingenious transportation device EVAR: Jumping Device with Driven Airlift Blades or better known as the pogo-copter!
Link [Google Patents]- via JonathanRyan, who wants to improve this awesome device by adding a gas-powered turbine.
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Why Bears Rub Their Backs on Trees
Ever since I saw Baloo the Bear [wiki] in Disney’s adaptation of Kipling’s The Jungle Book, I’ve always thought bears just like to scratch their backs on trees.
Turns out, they may be doing more than just scratching an itch – they do it to communicate with each other:
Nevin, who will present his findings at the Sept. 10 annual meeting of the British Ecological Society, thinks that by marking the trees with their scent, the male bears get to know each other better, which could reduce fighting among the bears over female mates.
"Big male bears can seriously injure or even kill each other when they get into a fight," Nevin said. "If one recognizes the other from the scent marks on the rub trees in the area, he knows he’s in for a tough fight — he’s on the other guy’s patch so to speak — so it might be better to back away than make a serious challenge."
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Happy Birthday on Mario Paint
I’ve never played Mario Paint [wiki] on the SNES, but apparently the game comes with a neat little music sequencer for you to make your own music.
Naturally, there’s a butt-load of ‘em on YouTube now. Here’s one that perhaps you can use: Happy Birthday on Mario Paint, because I’m sure it’s someone’s birthday today!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks sal!
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Jeff Mermelstein - Photographer
A look at how photographer Jeff Mermelstein work. “Don’t think too much” is the key.
-It’s got to be quick. Because if you don’t do it quick, then it’s gone – and then you’re really pissed.
Jeff Mermelstein (Media Matters) Part 1a [YouTube link]
Jeff Mermelstein (Media Matters) Part 1b [YouTube link]
Jeff Mermelstein (Media Matters) Part 2 [YouTube link]
Via Beta Alfa
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Real Life Simpsons House
We have covered the real life Kwik-E-Mart, here’s the Simpsons house.
Link [Update 9/6/07: Original article and photo gallery - Thanks Eliot! Also previously posted on Neatorama here]
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Chewbacca Hoover
It doesn’t look like Chewbacca, but it sure sounds like him.
Link [YouTube] – via Tech Digest
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Two-Headed Tortoise Turns Ten
10-year-old two-headed tortoise Janus, named after the the Roman two-faced god of gates, meets crowds at the Natural History Museum in Geneva on his birthday.
Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head. A variation is an animal born with two faces on a single head, a condition known as diprosopus.
In human beings such conjoined twining is commonly called dicephaly. Interestingly, conjoined animals are generally regarded as being one creature, while conjoined twins like the Tocci Brothers are generally perceived as two separate individuals fused together.
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Operation Babylift
Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam is a documentary scheduled for release in 2008. It was directed by Tammy Nguyen Lee, founder of Against the Grain Productions. To view the trailer, push play or go to YouTube.
“Operation Babylift” was a $2 million dollar US initiative that airlifted over 2,000 Vietnamese orphans out of a war-torn country to protect them from the impending threat of the Communist Regime. Coined by some as “one of the most humanitarian efforts in history,” it was also plagued by lawsuits and political turmoil. Even with the best intentions, these adoptees grew up facing a unique set of challenges in America, including prejudice overshadowed by a controversial war and cultural identity crisis. Now, over thirty years later, this documentary takes a candid look at a significant yet untold event as seen through the eyes of the volunteers, parents, and organizations directly involved, as well as uncovers the “lost” stories of the the adoptees and who they have become as adults. This documentary is not just a a historical piece, but gives a contemporary voice and perspective on international adoption today through the eyes of the adoptees themselves.
Link (Thanks, Kris!)
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Voyager Turns 30
The space probe Voyager I was launched 30 years ago, and is still operational. Voyager is more than 103 astronomical units away from Earth (an astronomical unit is 93 million miles, so that’s roughly 9.5 billion miles away). Signals from the probe take 13 hours to reach earth, traveling at the speed of light. A Wired slideshow features some of the better images taken from the Voyager program since 1977. This image is a composite of photos of Jupiter and its moons taken in 1979. Link
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Mark’s Art
Attorney Mark Goodall creates science fiction sculptures from antique and art deco appliances and toys. This rocket ship is made from two professional hair dryers! See eight pages of spaceships, trains, weapons and more. Link -via Everlasting Blort
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Topiary Designs
Topiary Art Designs Ltd. is a company in Suffolk, England that mades topiaries and frames in amazing shapes. Browse their gallery for more like this elephant family. See the FAQs to find out how they do it, and how you can try it, too! Link -via Arbroath
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Lunar Eclipse from Taipei
A neat photo composition of the total lunar eclipse on August 27.
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What is It? Game 36
Here’s our weekly collaboration with What is it? blog: first one to guess correctly what is this strange device above wins a Free Neatorama T-shirt!
Game rule is simple: place you guess in the comment, one guess per comment, post no URL please (let others play). You can submit multiple guesses.
For more clue, check out What is it? blog. Good luck, guys!
[Update 9/7/07 - the answer is:
Used for a bookmark and for holding a book open with one hand, called a Thumb Thing.
Congratulations Matt #2 who got it right!]
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RIP Pavarotti
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. To honor the man, let’s hear him sing the crowd favorite Nessun Dorma ("Let no one sleep") from Puccini’s Turandot: hit play or go to Link [YouTube].
See also: Articles at CNN | MSNBC
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Planetarium-Tellurium
This amazing clock is called the Planetarium-Tellurium. Made by Richard Mille over a 7-year period, it has a perpetual calendar that shows not only the Earth’s position, but also that of Venus, Mercury, Sun and Moon.
It even shows the rotation of the earth on its axis, the phases of the moon, and the Zodia signs. The materials used in its construction include titanium, steel, brass, gold, silver, and red corundum.
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