This awesome photo, taken from the space station MIR in 1999, shows the shadow of the moon on earth during a lunar solar eclipse! It’s part of a collection of pictures taken from satellites or space flights that capture weather effects, geographical changes, or other phenomema. Link
This list only deals with fictional computers. I’m not familiar with all of them, but I recall having nightmares as a child after seeing Nomad in the Star Trek episode The Changeling. Of course, more evil computers are suggested in the comments. Link -via Cynical-C
Posted by Alex in What Is It on November 1, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Yay! Here’s this week’s collaboration with What is it? blog: if you know what this strange object is for, then you can win a Free Neatorama T-shirt!
Contest rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section, one guess per comment but you can enter as many times as you’d like. Please don’t post any URL – let others play! First guess to get it right will win the free T-shirt.
For more clues (i.e. where this object is found), visit What is it? blog!
Update 11/02/07 – the answer is:
A piece of exercise equipment, to use, stand on a round plate, hold the handles tight with both hands, and turn the waist left and right.
I Hate Drake is a product of the Get Mortified project in which adults share embarrassing photos, diaries, etc. from their childhoods. I Hate Drake is from the diary of Will Nolan who read the story before a live audience. The video was animated by Bill Barminski. YouTube via Knee Deep in Mud.
Anne Gemkow of Chicago won a new Jeep in a Sweetest Day contest in Cleveland by licking a chocolate-covered Jeep grill clean! Seven Jeeps were covered in chocolate, and the first two contestants who licked their grills clean had to shuffle through a Jeep filled with candy to find the key. No word on how they removed the rest of the chocolate from the vehicles. Link -via Unique Daily
In 1947, this was how they disposed of hazardous materials. 20,000 pounds of sodium were dumped into Lake Lenore in Washington State. You may remember tossing small amounts of sodium into water in high school chemistry class, so you can guess what happens. -via Metafilter and Fully Geek
Now that Halloween is over, it’s time to think about what you will serve for Thanksgiving dinner. Instructables shows you how to make your pumpkin pie into a pumpkin pi! Link
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This list only deals with fictional computers. I’m not familiar with all of them, but I recall having nightmares as a child after seeing Nomad in the Star Trek episode The Changeling. Of course, more evil computers are suggested in the comments. Link -via Cynical-C
Anne Gemkow of Chicago won a new Jeep in a Sweetest Day contest in Cleveland by licking a chocolate-covered Jeep grill clean! Seven Jeeps were covered in chocolate, and the first two contestants who licked their grills clean had to shuffle through a Jeep filled with candy to find the key. No word on how they removed the rest of the chocolate from the vehicles. Link -via Unique Daily
