Someone has gone and mounted a birdcage inside a fish tank, do you call it a fishcage or a birdtank? Link
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Oops! The Navy’s Coronado amphibious base and barracks, built in the 1960s, actually look like a giant swastika from the sky – as recently discovered by Google Earth.
Now, the US Navy is going to spend as much as $600,000 on landscaping and architectural modification to hide the shape.
Link – via FP Passport, Thanks Jennifer and esa!
Previously on Neatorama: "I am Not a Nazi" Swastika
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If you’re ever in Nairobi, Kenya, you’ll see a fleet of private buses and old vans called the matatu ("tatu" is "three" in Swahili, the original fare in shillings).
Each bus or van is "branded" with its own paint scheme and individual names, inspired (mostly) by Western culture. This one above is the "Princess Diana" with the motto "Thay [sic] Shall Bow …"
Link to a gallery of Matatus – Thanks Rick Spencer!
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Following up on Miss C’s recent post of strange deaths, here’s one suggested by Alistair Strachan of Fortean Times, the case of a misplaced faith and atheist lion!
A man shouting "God will save me if he exists", lowered himself by a rope into the big cats’ enclosure in Kiev zoo, Ukraine, on Sunday, 4 June, when the zoo was packed with visitors. He then took his shoes off and went up to the lions. A lioness knocked him down and severed his carotid artery, killing him instantly.
For more strange deaths, see Fortean Times’ collection, Strange Days: Strange Deaths – Thanks Alistair!
And of course, check out Neatorama’s own 30 Strangest Deaths in History
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Masayuki Sumida and colleague at the Hiroshima University, Japan, had created a frog with transparent skin!
The researchers say the see-through frogs can help in the study of diseases and in the development of medical treatments by allowing laboratory scientists to check the status of internal organs and blood vessels while the frogs are alive and without having to dissect them.
According to Sumida, the transparent frog is the result of breeding two specimens of Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica) that had a genetic mutation giving them pale skin. By selectively breeding their offspring, the researchers were able to create a frog that remains transparent for its entire life cycle. Most of the world’s known transparent creatures live underwater, and transparent four-legged animals are extremely rare.
Link – Thanks Andrew!
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Images: superlocal (left) and shezzz (right), both from Flickr
That’s the tornado potato, a new snack found on the streets of Seoul, South Korea: take a spud and carve it into a long spiral and deep fry it to a crisp. Yum!
Link – Thanks pockette!
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"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."
– John Bartlett Brebner, Canadian historian (1895-1957)
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Firefox sure has a devoted user base, some of whom go through great lengths and cost to promote the open source browser. Take for instance Nathan Lineback of Toasty Tech, who made pencils with Firefox logo and give ‘em out to his office mates.
Here’s his account on how to make (buy) your own Firefox logo pencil: Link – Thanks mikolka!
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PC World has a gallery with some amazing images from Google Sky.
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The ingenuity of College and University students continues to amaze me again and again. So, what have the kids at Dordt College in Iowa done that is unique? Well, how about a mural completely created from Post-It Notes! After 6 days since it was put up “The Man” (Dordt College Authorities) took it down. Boo!
Hit Play or check it out on Youtube.
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Behold the 17 lb (7.75 kg) baby born to a Siberian woman in Russia!
A Siberian woman who gave birth to her 12th child – doing more than her fair share to stem Russia’s population decline – was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 17.1 lb (7.75kg). [...]
"We were all simply in shock," said Nadia’s mother, Tatyana Barabanova, 43. "What did the father say? He couldn’t say a thing – he just stood there blinking."
"I ate everything, we don’t have the money for special foods so I just ate potatoes, noodles and tomatoes," she told the reporter, adding that all her previous babies had weighed more than 5 kg.
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Two criminals, believed to be women, went into and robbed a Pittsburgh suburb gas station dressed as ninjas! Their weapon? Swords, of course!
Link [YouTube] – via Fortean Times
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American media mogul Ted Turner owns more than 2 million acres of land in 7 states.
He owns nearly 2% of the state of New Mexico. Combined, his land is larger than the state of Delaware.
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We’ve featured Janus, the two-headed turtle before on Neatorama, but this one is slightly different: this mutant turtle is joined in the butt!
Jay Jacobi, the shop’s exotic reptile manager, said: "The two heads seem to have their own thoughts, operating independently.
"But sometimes they seem to put their two heads together and
move in the same direction, feed together, walk together."
The owner is yet to name the turtle: Link
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When Crystal Adams and James Chandler’s mobile home caught on fire, the quick-thinking couple grabbed their pet dog and fled. But they left their young boy inside!
Police said the firefighters learned that the boy was still inside the burning mobile home when Chandler and Adams told firefighters that they had forgotten the child. Police said that was about 20 minutes after the couple had gotten out.
"They were asked numerous times by law enforcement — I overheard at least once or twice — ‘Is there anyone else in these trailers?’" Brucker said.
The boy was conscious when a firefighter found him in a bedroom, Brucker said.
"You tuck your kid in bed, you should remember that he’s still in there," Brucker said.
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Only my second day of authoring posts here at Neatorama – thanks Alex – and I’m already doing self-promotion. Here’s a spoof ad gallery I put up as a bit of fun at my ad agency site. Non-North Americans may not get the joke as it is a spoof on a product called HeadOn – a homeopathic headache remedy (“Apply directly to the Forehead”) which is heavily advertised here on prime time tv. The ads are repetitive, annoying, have minimal production values or visual appeal, but are incredibly successful.
Here is my spoof gallery
Here is the original HeadOn in all its glory at YouTube:
and here is a NBC Nightly News piece on the ads
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Clever macro photography of backlit oil and ink mixed together. (Presumably water too.)
flickr set by Paritosh Narayan here
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How awesome is this: a motorized walking Star Wars‘ AT-AT model made from LEGOs! The model can walk forward or backward, as well as move its head up or down.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | LEGO Store – via Toysrevil
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The Open School of Art, founded by artist Karoly Koffan, was a legitimate school, but also became a front to save Jews in Budapest during World War II. Lauren Krupa is collecting stories from teachers and students who worked to protect and save friends during the German occupation of Hungary in 1944 and 1945, in order to make a documentary film. Here is one such story:
Precise information from an informer led an officer of the Arrow Cross militia to search for a Jewish man who had slipped away from the ghetto at the studio of painter Lajos Szentivanyi. There was no time to arrange a proper hiding place, and the Jew simply concealed himself behind a screen in a room that was bad for hiding in, his yellow shoes peeking out beneath it. Fortunately, in the room was a spectacular nude painting that Szentivanyi was working on and from which the officer could not look away. Whether or not he saw the shoes, he stopped searching, spoke a few words to Szentivanyi and left.
Read more at Haaretz.com. Link -via Fark
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Sandy at mental_floss has compiled A Disturbingly Long List of Celebrity Motorbike Crash-ups. 28 of them, to be exact! You may remember some of these from the news, but I bet you will be surprised by some. Link
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If you’re going to die, do it differently! Neatorama has featured strange deaths before, and here are more people who have died in bizarre ways, like the women who was choked by a fish, or the man who’s head was twisted by a robot. Link -via the Presurfer
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Katie Cook’s DeviantArt gallery is full of adorable Star Wars sketch cards she created for the Topps Star Wars 30th Anniversary trading card set (she draws an irresistible Chewbacca, but Garindan’s my favorite). You can see more of her work at her sketch blog, and contact her here to request a commission.
(I have no interest in the regular cards in the set, and don’t care about having a one of a kind. Please Mr. Lucas, stop selling sets that only help Ebay speculators. Sell a book with all of the sketch card designs.)
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Woot! Today is Miss Cellania’s birthday! Quick, everyone go there to wish her a Happy Birthday.
While you’re at it, check out her top 10 posts on YesButNoButYes, her stories on mentalfloss (and her daily Morning Cup o’ Links feature), and her second blog Miss C Recommends. You can also find her posts on Neatorama every day.
Happy Birthday, Miss C!
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Here’s something that definitely don’t show you on TV: two giraffes viciously duking it out, giraffe-style (I guess).
So how do giraffes fight? You’ll just have to watch the clip.
Link [embedded YouTube clip]
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This Super Mario Brothers 1UP mushrooms is actually a cleverly designed candy tins!
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What happen when germs go into space on a rocket and come back to Earth? They become stronger and deadlier than ever:
Scientists wanted to see how space travel affects germs, so they took some along — carefully wrapped — for the ride.
The result: Mice fed the space germs were three times more likely to get sick and died quicker than others fed identical germs that had remained behind on Earth.
Link – via Super Punch
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The Human Marvel blog has an interesting article about a bearded lady named Percilla Lauther, better known as "the monkey girl," who found true love:
In the late 1930’s, while performing with the Johnny J. Jones Exposition, Percilla met fellow marvel Emmitt Bejano, the Alligator-Skinned Man. Despite her heavy beard and his ichthyosis a sweet romance blossomed between the unique couple. The pair saw past their physical differences. Emmitt was a man with calloused skin who spent performance intermissions submerged in vats of ice water because he could not sweat. Emmitt was quite literally ‘thick skinned’ and he had a ‘hard shell to crack’ but beneath he was a compassionate, gentle, charming and passionate man. Percilla, despite looking more beast than beauty, was elegant, eloquent and possessed and enchanting singing voice. Before long Percilla realized that the gentle Emmitt was the love of her life and the two eloped in 1938.
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This Funtrak Mini Paintball Tank is just like the real war machine, just scaled down a little … It even lets you fire paintballs through its cannon while you drive around terrorizing the neighborhood!
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