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In the game Crazy Cat Scan, you have to keep your eyed peeled during the scan to see what crazy objects the patient has swallowed. Also, be aware that the patient probably swallowed two or more things! Link -via Ursi’s Blog
Snow fell in Baghdad this morning for the first time in over 100 years.
“For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad,” said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.
For a couple of hours anyway, a city where mortar shells routinely zoom across to the Green Zone became united as one big White Zone.”
Link (Photo: Shwan Mohammed)
An unidentified teenager, described as his teachers as a model student and an electronics genius, hacked a TV remote control so it control the Polish tram system like a "giant train set":
Miroslaw Micor, a spokesman for Lodz police, said: "He studied the trams and the tracks for a long time and then built a device that looked like a TV remote control and used it to manoeuvre the trams and the tracks.
"He had converted the television control into a device capable of controlling all the junctions on the line and wrote in the pages of a school exercise book where the best junctions were to move trams around and what signals to change.
"He treated it like any other schoolboy might a giant train set, but it was lucky nobody was killed. Four trams were derailed, and others had to make emergency stops that left passengers hurt. He clearly did not think about the consequences of his actions."
Link – Thanks Paul Sorene!
Here’s a new fun Flickr pool for you: the CD Cover Meme. If you’ve always wanted to be in a rock band, here’s your chance to design your own CD
cover … sort of.
1. First, get the name of your band: this will be the first article title on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
2. Get the title of your album: the last four words of the very last quote:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
3. The third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover:
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
My CD album cover is the top left corner: Goloring [wiki] is a cultural and spiritual monument of Iron Age era dating back to 1200-800 BC (during which time there was a widespread solar cult in Central Europe). The quote is from "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible" by Oscar Wilde. The picture, titled Doorman, is by Flickr user ms. donnalee.
Link – via subpar – Thanks KM Alexander!
Update 2/1/08 – Here’s a scripted version for the meme: Link – Thanks Christopher Palmer!
That’s Frank Koonce holding what is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving full-sized guitar (that thing is over 400 years old!)
The guitar has been attributed to Belchior Diaz, a Portugese builder who probably made the instrument around 1590. [...] This is a ten-string, five course instrument with a fine ornate peghead. Instead of regular metal frets, it has tied ligatures like those on a lute.
The guitar has been through a lot of restoration work, but it still retains the original parchment rose.
Link – Thanks Stratoblogster!
Freshome blog has a neat article about the 8 most amazing tree houses in the world.
I really like this one by Takashi Kobayashi, Japan’s leading treehouse creators (how many treehouse creators are there in the whole world, let alone Japan?):
This house was designed after an advertising agency in Tokyo, hired him to design a treehouse for a Nescafé commercial now running on Japanese television. Mr. Kobayashi built an oval bird’s nest of a house, 12 feet high and 9 feet in diameter, reached by a circular staircase, and the final price for this tree house was about $38,000. The house is located on a field there owned by the town of Kamishihoro, where it remains an enticing, if off-limits, gift from Nestlé, the makers of Nescafé, to the people of Hokkaido.
Link – Thanks Neatorama Reader!
Harry Sawyers of This Old House Magazine’s Hardware Aisle section sent in this one: an aptly named dog (and cat) grooming tool called the Furminator.
The "lab-rador tested" tool is not exactly a brush; rather, the teeth dig in to clear out the matted undercoat while leaving the shiny topcoat intact. The undercoat, apparently, contains as much hair as an entire pack of dogs.
I couldn’t help but imagine some hapless photo assistant sent down to the local Mutt Cuts, dragging a bag full of fur back to the studio to get this shot. The company insists, though, that these shots show actual results.
Egad! That’s a lot of fur! Link – via This Old House, Thanks Harry!
PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) has requested the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being “involved in any senseless killing” while incarcerated.
Yes, I know this guys actions are not neat and the whole thing is very disturbing. But I thought the whole premise of PETA being involved in this would spark some interesting discussion.
The question I pose is this… Is there, in some peoples minds, a correlation between eating meat and this guys horrible actions?
Link (Photo: Jaime R. Carrero)
Is it true that “paths are made by walking”? Well, these guys decided to find out.
In order to determine whether the above phrase was actually true, we kept running in a park for 5 days. In the fast-forward movie compiled from digital photographs taken one per second, a path the shape of ? (infinity) gradually emerges as we move with high-speed.
Camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from blowing sand.
Two of the eyelids (the upper and lower eyelids) have eyelashes. The third one is a thin membrane that they can see through in a sandstorm. Actually, cats and dogs also have three eyelids. No words whether they can see in a sandstorm.
Louis the octopus has a favorite toy -a Mr. Potato Head! Louis is an 18-month-old giant Pacific octopus at Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall, England.
“We wanted an octopus-friendly toy which had a compartment to hide food in,” said the aquarium’s Matt Slater.
He says Louis gets very excited when sees the toy, which he plays with for an hour at a time.
“Its bright colours, strange shape and moveable parts make it fascinating for Louis,” said Mr Slater.
The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus species, with a world record length of 33 feet. Young Louis is about six feet long, stretched out. Link -via Reddit
"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing."
– R. K. Milholland, author of Something Positive webcomic
In Hayden Idaho, a man in his mid 20′s whose name was withheld, who believed he bore the “mark of the beast” amputated one of his hands with a circular saw, then cooked it in the microwave then called 911.
According to sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger the man, was calm when he arrived at his northern Idaho town. “It had been somewhat cooked by the time the deputy arrived,” Wolfinger said. “He put a tourniquet on his arm before, so he didn’t bleed to death. That kind of mental illness is just sad.”
Via: msnbc
The demand for electric and hybrid cars is constantly increasing and a lot of new companies producing these vehicles have popped up. The people over at VentureBeat has compiled a nice list of 27 startups.
