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We’ve seen a tearjerker Thai insurance ad on Neatorama before, so here’s something to balance it out: a really funny ad featuring the ghosts of Thailand (can you guess whose ad it is for?)
Son: Can I have that banana?
Dad: No son, that belongs to the Banana ghost
Son: So, that’s a jackfruit ghost, right?
Dad: No, that’s a transvestite.
Those Thai ad people are very creative! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Emperor!
This one’s from a while ago: music mixed from the ding, chord, chimes and other sounds of old Windows operating system.
The soundtrack was made entirely in Sound Recorder. But that may be misleading, since it took more that just sound recorder to make the movie.
Structurally, the sound track is made of short clips of noises or combinations of noises. Each of these clips was made in sound recorder by distorting one of the four sounds used: ding, chord, chimes, and the Mircosoft sound.
Then sound recorder was used to mix each of these clips together into one synchronized file. Considering the amount of repetition in the song, this part was really quite easy.
Finally, the sound track was imported into Macromedia Flash, and used as the basis for the animation.
If you haven’t seen it before, it’s worth a look see: Link [Flash] | Mirror – Thanks Guyon!
UKTV Gold, a British television channel, conducted a poll to discover the top 10 most ludicrous laws still on the books in the UK and the rest of the world. Here are some examples:
1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%)
3. It is illegal for a woman to be topless in Liverpool except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6%)
5. If someone knocks on your door in Scotland and requires the use of your toilet, you are required to let them enter (4%)
6. In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet (4%)
Truly weird (I never knew how friendly Scotland is to travelers in need!) Definitely worth checking out: Link – Thanks Ellen Woods!
Consider replacing it with a sea cucumber. New Scientist reports::
Garrett Matthews, a biophysicist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, US, and his colleagues have come up with a design for artificial corneas that they say achieves this – using sea cucumbers.
Sea cucumbers are sausage-shaped echinoderms, most species of which live on the sea floor in a variety of marine environments around of the globe.
The team’s artificial cornea is made from tiny collagen fibres
extracted from these sea cucumbers. When placed in a centrifuge, the
fibres self assemble into layers in which the fibres are aligned
vertically, a structure that is very similar to the tissue in mammalian
corneas. The result is a thin layer of material that is transparent and
biocompatible, as well as cheap and easy to make, says the team.
Someone came up with the brilliant idea of combining different music album covers. The result is a series of fun pieces of collage art.
Josie’s Lalaland is a beautiful animation with an emotional touch, from animator Eb Hu. Link -via Transbuddha
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The Cassini-Huygens space mission is sending back loads of great images. Gordan Ugarkovic has taken some of these images and made some cool animations of Saturn and its moons Pandora, Prometheus, Daphnis, Janus, Mimas, Epimethius, Pan, and Atlas. Link via Bad Astronomy Blog
Image: TamanduaGirl [Flickr] – via Miss Cellania
Yay! Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey is back! And let’s get straight to it, okay?
Funniest caption for this crazy awesome photo of Pua the tamandua (a genus of anteater) wins a Free Monkey (or other critter) Drawing by Ape Lad of Hobotopia! Contest rule is darn simple: write your caption in the comment, one caption per comment please but you can submit as many as you’d like. You can also vote for your favorite comment, but not your own.
While you’re at it, you can read all about tamanduas here: Link | Tamandua [wiki]
Update 11/15/07: Congratulations to AnnaBee #24 for the winning caption:
“And then I told Lashonda, ‘girl, listen– I know you dig the airbrushing and bedazzle diamonds, but this Anteater’s got her own beat to jive to– you dig?’ I mean, there’s nothing wrong with going au natural when you’ve got nails as fine as this. Girlfriend, she was gettin’ all up in my grill– and I practically put her litter through Ant College with all the acrylic wraps and gel fills she’s done on these claws.”
That’s escape artist David Merlini who just broke the world record for longest time spent underwater:
With his hands tied by five sets of police handcuffs, Merlini was locked down with 60 pounds of chains.
He was then padlocked in a metal cage and lowered into a locked transparent tank of water. [...]
Entertainer David Merlini posted a dizzying time of 10 minutes and 17 seconds without a breath while chained and handcuffed under water in a glass tank.
Link – via Discovery with Yeinjee
Adam Bartholl and Markus Angermeier teamed together to bring you this, the "Are You Social" T-shirt, on which you can check off (with a pen) whatever web 2.0 social media/network/community you belong to!
Link – via Make and Uncivil Society
