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It wasn’t long before the Cadbury Gorilla ad was remixed with other songs. YesButNoButYes posted four new versions. I like this one the best, featuring Louis Prima doing “I Wanna Be Like You†from Disney’s The Jungle Book. Push play or go to YouTube.
Life for Vader is not all about building the Death Star. Buenos Aires-based graphic designer Esteban Diacono’s "The Real World: Darth Vader" photoset on Flickr gave a glimpse on the everyday life of the Sith Lord.
In this photo above, titled "The Circle is Complete," Vader is reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Link [Flickr photoset] – via The Official Star Wars Blog
Last year, the shirt of Peruvian soccer team D. Wanka (the D is for Deportivo or Spanish for "sport") became all the rage in the United Kingdom.
The team, however, didn’t get the joke:
The team is, according to UK tabloid The Sun, named after the Wanka tribe which once occupied Huancayo. A spokeswanka said: "It is very strange. Everyone in Britain seems to think we have a funny name." The team’s ignorance of the true meaning of its delicious moniker was confirmed by Subside Sports, which punts the kit online. "The club just doesn’t get the joke," the e-commerce operation admitted.
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EcoGeek blog has some gorgeous pictures of green roofs, which supposedly can also minimize heating and cooling bills of buildings while maximizing the the beauty of the urban landscape.
bunnyboy of monkeymonkeymonkey blog has a strange hobby. OK, maybe it’s an obsession: he reviews toothpastes. And not just any toothpaste. He finds and uses really, really strange ones.
Like this one above: the Monkey Brand Black Tooth Powder.
Close your eyes and imagine this. Charcoal, ground to a fine powder. Vicks Vapor Rub, in all it’s eye watering, nasal clearing goodness. Now imagine these two things together, in your mouth!
Monkey Brand Black Toothpowder – April 2007s Toothpaste of the Month.
Sure, at first imagining, Charcoal plus Vicks Vapor Rub may not sound too appetizing; and I will admit that it is an acquired taste. Once you have acquired the taste though, and the ability to stomach the gritty, dry, gagging texture, you have a toothpaste that gets your mouth clean like no other. It is a bit like sandblasting the gunk off your teeth. They are really squeaky clean after the rinse. And believe it or not, it is both a whitening toothpaste and an Ayurvedic Medicine! Oh Monkey Brand has it’s down side, the spatter of black dried spit that coats the sink and walls, the aforementioned texture and the container that is strangely hard to open.
Link to blog | Monkey Brand Black Tooth Powder
Ah, the manicured green rolling hills of golf courses – It’s always been my dream to have a backyard as beautiful as a PGA tournament-worthy golf course, but alas, a quick peek at my bank account is enough to quash that dream.
But not all hope is lost: here’s a fantastic carpet from moderntots which brings the greenery into your living room. Link
Alain Mailland carved amazing forms out of wood – his creation are so fantastically intricate, it’s nearly unbelievable that they were made by human hands!
Check it out here: Link
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That’s Maurice Ravel [wiki], a French composer. Although you may not know him, I bet you can hum one of his most famous piece of music: Boléro [wiki].
Frogsmoke blog has this very neat article about many different versions of the iconic music, from the Mexican version, the turbo version, to the one played by Frank Zappa.
Link [many embedded YouTube clips] – via Presurfer
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LA Times has a neat (or gross, your pick) article spotlighting four extreme eateries in Los Angeles, including a restaurant where the food is served in complete darkness, a restaurant that serves seafood so fresh it’s still alive, and one that specializes in serving insects as gourmet entrées!
Arriving on the scene ignorant of Korean, and finding no English-speaking servers, I might have had problems cornering my prey. But I came prepared, armed with the magic words "san nag-jik": live octopus.
The name is a bit of a misnomer — since the preparation involves relieving the poor ‘pus of his bulbous head, it should probably be called "dying octopus" — but there’s no mistaking the lively tentacles the waitress politely delivers. They’re moving, pulsing, writhing.
Fortified by a few shots of soju cocktail, I attempt to pick a segment up, but even with the chopsticks provided, it’s difficult. The suction cups are still working furiously, forming a tight vacuum against the plate. With a little elbow grease, however, I wrestle it free, dip it in the obligatory sauce — sesame oil and salt — and pop it into my mouth.
Link (with video) – Thanks Tiffany!
The term "street art" [wiki] has been used to describe graffiti and other illicit urban art, but in case of Roadsworth (Peter Gibson, in real life), it has more literal meaning:
Shortly after the events of 9/11, Peter Gibson (a.k.a. Roadsworth) began a playful dialogue with the citizens of Montreal through a series of artistic interventions. Using stencils and paint, he set out to transform a crosswalk into a row of birthday candles, and double lines on the street into a zipper.
He had to face charges for over 80 counts of mischief. His art has quietly aroused the imagination of passers-by, but media reports of his arrest thrust him into the limelight. What followed was a public dialogue on art and public space. Artistic communities support Roadsworth, but in the city’s eyes, he has crossed the line.
Links: Gallery at CitizenShift | Wooster Collective article | Roadsworth’s MySpace page – Thanks Miniature Brainwave!
From Brickshelf user OchreJelly, here’s Stephen Hawking in LEGO (it’s pure genius, according to Neatorama reader Dylan Bennett who suggested it. Get it? Pure genious? Hardy har har!)
Link to larger pic – Thanks Dylan!
Oooh, here’s a fun little Flash game: The Impossible Quiz.
Someone tell me how to get past the Neigh! Whinny! question #15….
Link | After you’re done, you can go on to Impossible Quiz #2 – Thanks Algonkin!
Baby born with Conan O’Brien style hair. At ten weeks old Katie-Lee Webster has the flowing locks of a child several times her age.
We’ve previously posted about beautiful libraries around the world – here’s some more from Curious Expedition (this one above is the Theological Hall of the Strahov Monestary Library in Prague, Czech Republic): Link – Thanks M!
Talking about libraries, here’s the winning design for the National Library of the Czech Republic by London architectural firm Future Systems.
Baby Wee-Wee is a strange, anatomically-correct toy doll for little girls, made by the Spanish toy company Famosa and sold in the UK many years ago. The whole premise of the toy doll is that it pees just like a real little boy does!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks LISALISA!
Can man lactate? According to this Scientific American article, the answer is yes:
Newman explains that medical disruptions involving prolactin, the hormone necessary to produce milk, have resulted in spontaneous lactation. Thorazine, a popular antipsychotic used in the mid-20th century, impacted the pituitary gland—the pea-size endocrine gland located near the base of the brain—often causing it to overproduce prolactin. If prolactin levels remained high, milk could follow. According to Newman, lactation is listed as a possible side effect of the heart medication digoxin. A pituitary tumor could also induce milk production: "It would be the same reason—increased prolactin levels&mdashin the one case drug-induced, in the other due to a tumor or some other sort of neurological problem."
In a 1995 article for Discover titled "Father’s Milk," Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one-time physiologist Jared Diamond reconciles the nipple stimulation and hormone quandary, pointing out that such stimulation can release prolactin. He also notes that starvation—which inhibits the functioning of hormone-producing glands as well as the hormone-absorbing liver—can cause spontaneous lactation, as observed in survivors of Nazi concentration camps and Japanese POW camps in World War II. "The glands recover much faster than the liver when normal nutrition is resumed," he writes, "so hormone levels soar unchecked."
Link – Thanks Scott Rosenblum!
Here’s ROBOT E6, an awesome Motorola MOTOROKR E6 Transformer mod, made from a display dummy.
Link | Original article at PhoneDaily [in Chinese] – via Thomas De Maesschalck’s blog, Thanks Mikolka!
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And I used to think that a woman with a moustache tattoo was a little weird.
Link – via kottke.org
The animated Spider-Man phone “shoots webâ€, talks and plays the Spider-Man theme song on incoming calls.
Link (with video demonstration)
Via Goody Blog.
And the original:
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1. The average human body comprises enough fat to make seven bars of soap, enough iron to make a medium sized nail, enough potassium to explode a toy cannon, enough lime to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sugar to fill a jam jar, and enough sulfur to rid a dog of fleas. 2. A complete skeleton is worth between $5,000 and $7,500 to a medical student; your skull alone would fetch only about $450. 3. Your mouth produces about one quart of saliva per day.
5. You have approximately 4,000 wax glands in each ear. 6. The average adult stool weighs about 4 ounces. And half of the bulk of your feces comprises the dead bodies of bacteria that live inside your intestines. 7. The average male foot exudes half a pint of sweat each day. 8. If it weren’t for the slimy mucous that clings to and lines the walls of your gut, your stomach would readily digest itself. 9. The average person will pass about 11,000 gallons of urine in a lifetime. 10. A man weighing 200 lbs. would provide enough meat to feed 100 cannibals in one sitting. |
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The article above appeared in the Scatterbrained section of the September – October 2007 issue of mental_floss magazine. It is excerpted from 5 People Who Died During Sex (and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists) by Karl Shaw. It is reprinted here with permission. Don’t forget to feed your brain by subscribing to the magazine and visiting mental_floss‘ extremely entertaining website and blog today for more!
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The new VideoSift is here, and the community-based video aggregator is better than ever!
There was quite a bit of improvement "under the hood," with a new custom software written specifically for the site and new servers to handle the load. Visitors will immediately notice the streamlined look, thumbnail preview of the video clips, and a longer list of clips per page.
Congrats to the VideoSift folks who did an excellent job (I know how hard it is to move a site, let alone upgrading a content management system!).
All right, let’s take a look at a few of the coolest videos playing on the ‘Sift:
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Bubbles in Space Link (yes, similar to this post on Neatorama, but it’s so cool you should see it again) |
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Jackie Chan’s Ten Greatest Bloopers And of course, these mishaps were captured on film, and then shown as bloopers at the end of his movies: Link (Is there a bone this man hasn’t broken yet?) |
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HAL Returns (as Hybrid Assisted Limbs) |
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Amazing Hand Puppetry |
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Police! Open Up! |
For more the web’s most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.
Here are some more incredibly strange LP album covers (I particularly like how Muhammad Ali fought Mr. Tooth Decay!): Link – Thanks Algonkin!
Previously on Neatorama: Whipped Cream, … and Other Delights, Weird Dummy Album Covers, Bad Album Covers, Iron Maiden Spongebob Album Covers, Bad Record Covers, and Neato Album Covers.
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Here’s something new from Dimitra and Bill of Up To You in Toronto, the Periodic Coasters:
Based on the standard periodic table this set of 8 elemental drinkmats allow you to send coded messages to your guests – arsenic for your love rival, gold for the object of your desire.
Hey! How come I get Boron? Link – Thanks Dimitra!
We get a wonderfully diverse crowd here on Neatorama – still, it’s a delight to read the first sentence from a website sent in by Marcelino Martins:
"I decided to add a handle to my PC to make it easier to carry it to a LAN party or even around the house when necessary."
Geeks FTW! Here’s Marcelino’s guide on how to install your very own handle to a PC case, just in case you gotta lug it around: Link – Thanks Marcelino!
Just when I thought we got the world’s dumbest criminal (the guy that left his resume during a bank robbery) another contender popped up: the robber that wrote his name on the wall at the scene of the crime!
Apart from writing his own name in black marker pen at the Toc H centre in Adlington, Cheshire, Addison also left his gang’s name on the wall – The Adlington Massiv!.
The teenager vandalised a Garden Birds of Britain poster by adding "R Gay". He then left a final message to the campsite owners – "thanks for the stay".
Police found him after entering his name in a computer system. Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: "This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table. "There are some pretty stupid criminals around, but to leave your own name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit.
Link – Thanks Laura Girdwood!
See also: The Duct Tape Robber
Here’s a cute one for our weekly collaboration with Bizarro! For more, check out Dan Piraro’s website: Bizarro
4. Demodex folliculorum has eight stumpy legs and a tail, is about a third of a millimeter long, and loves nothing more than to recline in the warm, oily pits of your hair follicles. Most adults have this mite, usually on the head, but especially in eyelashes. And often, they’re in nipples.
