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Internet Celebrities Dallas Penn & Rafi Kam take an [R-rated] look at the world of breakfast cereals. FILMED ON LOCATION! Funny stuff. YouTube.
(note: this picture is just a screengrab of my attempt -follow the “link” to get to the game)
Like many of ten-year-old children, Diego Palacios didn’t want to go back to school after the Christmas break. So much so that he decided to … glue himself to his bed!
His mom called in the paramedics after she failed to free him herself, and she sent Diego to school a few hours later! Link – via reddit
Chidi Ogbuta of Allen, Texas, wanted a wedding cake like no other … and the bride got it: the wedding cake is a full-size likeness of herself!
CNN I-Reporter has more pics: Link (Photo: Uche Ogbonna) – via digg
Previously on Neatorama:The Ultimate Geeks Compilation, A True Gamer’s Wedding Cake, Mario & Peach Wedding Cake, Bride of Chucky Wedding Cake Topper, and Now That’s a Wedding Cake Topper.
In his 1960 masterpiece Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock used Bosco Chocolate Syrup as fake blood.
The “Quicksilver” is a retro-future scooter made from appliances and scrap metal.
I am a metal sculptor, and have absolutely no experience with scooters at all. What follows in this instructable is my experience of stripping down a mid 1980′s Honda elite 125cc scooter, and totally redesigning it with aluminum scrap metal. For the curious, please visit my web site: www.nemomatic.com to get a look at my other work and see how this beast fits into the bigger picture.
Link – via Boing Boing Gadgets
"I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy."
– Frank Zappa, musician (1940 – 1993)
Here is a neat website that allows you to swap hairstyles with celebrities. For example, how would Will Smith look if he sported Hillary Clinton’s hair? You can also upload photos of yourself for the fun of it.
Link: HairMixer
In 1983, at age 61, Australian farmer Cliff Young entered the 875-kilometer endurance race from Sydney to Melbourne, the world’s longest and toughest ultra-marathon.
“See, I grew up on a farm where we couldn’t afford horses or four wheel drives, and the whole time I was growing up– until about four years ago when we finally made some money and got a four wheeler– whenever the storms would roll in, I’d have to go out and round up the sheep. We had 2,000 head, and we have 2,000 acres. Sometimes I would have to run those sheep for two or three days. It took a long time, but I’d catch them. I believe I can run this race; it’s only two more days. Five days. I’ve run sheep for three.”
The athletes left Young in the dust -at the beginning. Over five days, Young overtook every single runner to win the race! His secret? He didn’t realize all the other runners were stopping to sleep each day! Young also didn’t realize there was a $10,000 prize, which he immediately gave away to the other runners. Cliff Young became a national sensation, and now almost all the runners of the annual race run straight through without sleeping. Link -via Reddit
Cracked has published The Drunkest Generation: 10 Reasons Your Grandpa Could Drink You Under the Table. Of course, they’re not referring to your grandpa, but the culture that made it seem like he could’ve. It’s a look back at the days when drunkeness was considered not only socially acceptable, but even entertaining! Link
Remember the sustainable gingerbread house contest? Nineteen entrants took the challenge to design and build environmentally-friendly gingerbread houses. You can see them all at Terry*, with links to more pictures and information on each. Link -via The World’s Fair
(Yes, I got the title from Neatorama reader VonSkippy’s comment on this post). Picture found at Linuxno.de via Boing Boing
Our pal Gizmodo, who is covering the 2008 CES* show like there’s no tomorrow, has a video of Bill Gates retirement from Microsoft.
If the star-studded farewell video was carefully crafted to project Bill as a goofy and lovable geek figure (and not the uber-competitive businessman he was supposed to be), I’d say it hit the mark:
Bill (playing Guitar Hero): Dude, wasn’t that the craziest rift you’ve ever heard?
Bono: Oh for f*ck’s sake! Bill, we’ve talked about this before, we’re full up in the band, Bill. All positions are filled …
Definitely worth a look see: Link [Flash video, 3:55 min]
[*That's Consumer Electronics Show for luddites, the Mecca for gadget fans]
Researchers at the Queen Mary, University of London (where else?) used virtual reality scenarios to discover that gay men navigate in a similar ways to women:
Dr Rahman used virtual reality stimulations of two common tests of spatial learning and memory, designed by researchers at Yale University. In the Morris Water Maze test (MWM), participants found themselves in a virtual pool and had to escape as quickly as possible using spatial clues in the virtual room to find a hidden platform. In the Radial Arm Maze test (RAM), participants had to traverse eight ‘arms’ from a circular junction to find hidden rewards. Four of the arms contained a reward, four did not.
Dr Rahman and his research assistant, Johanna Koerting, found that during the MWM test gay men and straight women took longer to find the hidden platform than did straight men. However, both gay and straight men spent more of their “dwelling time” in the area where the hidden platform actually was, compared to straight and lesbian women.
Dr Rahman explains: “Not only did straight men get started on the MWM test more quickly than gay men and the two female groups, they also maintained that advantage throughout the test. This might mean that sexual orientation affects the speed at which you acquire spatial information, but not necessarily your eventual memory for that spatial information.
Link – via Fortean Times
Warning: this is gross – skip this strange and gory story if you’re squeamish about cannibalism.
Christoper Lee McCuin, 25, killed his 21-year old girlfriend, mutilated her body and cooked parts of her flesh. Then he called the police and told them what he just did!
Police sent to the house in the town of Tyler, 110 miles east of Dallas, found Shearer’s mutilated body, with one ear boiling in a pot of water on the stove and a fork sticking from a pile of human flesh on a plate on the kitchen table.
Police said it was unclear whether McCuin had eaten any of her.
County sheriff JB Smith said: "He was either going to, had been, or led us to think that he was doing it."
Later, McCuin told investogators that "God told me to do it." Links: DailyMail | Tyler Morning Telegraph (Photo: Smith County Sheriff)
After creating the hugely successful Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales officially lauches an open source, transparent search engine called Wikia Search:
To Wales, this algorithmic transparency is key to what Wikia Search wants to do. Other search engines keep their algorithms hidden in an attempt to keep site operators from gaming the system and competitors from seeing how it works. But Wales believes that it’s important to know how the algorithm works, since each algorithm makes an editorial statement.
This isn’t the way that most people think about algorithms, which seem like the ultimate expressions of unbiased machine processing. Wales turns to an example to make his point: searching for "Thomas Jefferson" might return a page of ten links. Those links ostensibly represent the most important information about him, but are they? Who says so? The way the algorithm was tuned and constructed means that even these results are "an editorial statement" about the sorts of pages that are important. Algorithms of this kind aren’t neutral any more than the people who create them are.
While it’s fine to run a search engine this way, Wales thinks that users want more; they want real transparency about the way that the engine produces results, and they want a hand in tuning these results.
Links: Article at Ars Technica | Wikia Search homepage, search page
