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By all accounts, Kurt Cobain *loved* ukelele music, so he’s definitely spinning in his grave over this performance – spinning for JOY, that is. YouTube.
Photo: Sonny Radio – via Look At This
What do you think the dog is smiling about?
With sky-high gas prices, we’re all for carpooling but Abraham Gniwosch of Tottenham, London, took the concept to its extreme: he stuffed 13 people (mostly kids) in a Volvo stationwagon!
In the back there were two women with infants on their laps, the other six passengers, all young children were either sitting or standing in the centre section of the back seat. None of the passengers was wearing a seatbelt.
The defendant denied his action was dangerous saying he had been driving sensibly at no more than 20 mph. "I’m not a quick driver, I’m a slow driver," he said. "I’ve been silly in what I’ve done, but not dangerous."
Link (with video re-creation of the feat) – via metafilter, thanks Paul Cooper!
Freaking News has a neat photoshop contests where the faces of celebrities are mashed up with those of national figures on money. Some look so dead-on they’re freaky!
Link – via Blue’s News
Previously on Neatorama: Money Portrait Origami
Photo: manicmaiden [Flickr]
Flickr user manicmaiden created this super-awesome Dig Dug pillow for her brother’s birthday. No word whether she used inflatable pillow for the Pooka monster …
Link – via Boing Boing Gadgets
That’s what women with long fingernails are complaining about the iPhone. Because the iPhone multi-touch screen works by detecting electrical conductance of your finger, fingernails or stylus don’t work:
She and other women who have long nails — as well as people of all genders with chunky fingers — have real trouble typing on the iPhone. The 39-year-old consultant and lecturer, who says her fingernails are typically between one-eighth and one-quarter of an inch long, wants the iPhone to include a stylus.
"Considering ergonomics and user studies indicating men and women use their fingers and nails differently, why does Apple persist in this misogyny?"
Yay! Today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia Caption Monkey game brings us this Laugh-Out-Loud cat strip by our pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Thanks to Adam, funniest caption will win the original art (with the winning caption in it!).
Contest rules: One caption per comment, but you can submit as many as you can think of (so make ‘em good!) That’s it! Adam will pick one winner tomorrow.
Need an inspiration? Check out Adam’s blog and Flickr photoset of the Laugh-Out-Loud cats (over 900 panels! Man, he’s productive). Good luck!
Update 6/25/08 – Adam has picked the winnarz! Congrats to Brad who won with this caption “U sed U pakd theez!” Priceless!
Discovery News features a "tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed
to be more than 385 years old, [found] during the search for a shipwrecked
Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys." Don’t laugh. If you were going halfway across the known world to a place with no gold earwax spoons that would also function as toothpicks, you’d find a place for this in your baggage too.
A silver “ear picker” — thanks Michelle! –is featured at the Historic Jamestown site, according to which:
Ear pickers, though not all of silver, were used by all levels of society in medieval and post-medieval England. As was the fashion for many of these tools, this one is double-ended. The pointed end was used to clean teeth and nails, and the spoon-shaped end was used to remove earwax. The 17th-century English knew about plaque, which they called “scale” or “surf,” and they were encouraged by their doctors to scrape their teeth frequently. They also knew that a buildup of earwax could cause deafness. As gross as that may seem to us today, the earwax was often saved and used for coating sewing thread to make it stronger and easier to use.
Gizmodo has published a video from their visit to LEGO’s Memory Lane – a “secret vault guarding almost every Lego set ever manufactured”.
…the impressive view of the 4,720 Lego sets inside this lair. These weren’t just simple boxes full of bricks. These were tickets to ride a time portal to emotions and simpler days long forgotten.
Remember the "lost" Amazon tribe that got everyone excited? Well, it turns out that the existence of this "undiscovered tribe" had been known for nearly a century, and that the mission to photograph them from the air was poltically motivated:
Survival International, the organisation that released the pictures along with Funai, conceded yesterday that Funai had known about this nomadic tribe for around two decades. It defended the disturbance of the tribe saying that, since the images had been released, it had forced neighbouring Peru to re-examine its logging policy in the border area where the tribe lives, as a result of the international media attention. Activist and former Funai president Sydney Possuelo agreed that – amid threats to their environment and doubt over the existence of such tribes – it was necessary to publish them.
But the revelation that the existence of the tribe was already established will provoke awkward questions over why a decision was made to try to photograph them – a form of contact in itself – in order to make a political point.
Link – Thanks geekazoid and Moshe!
I’ve been thinking of giving my old digital camera to my two-year-old daughter so she can learn how to take photos (and to see what things are interesting to toddlers) when Neatorama reader Daelan Wood sent me this: a link to a website showcasing his three-year-old son’s photos!
I see a lot of feet and pets’ butts, though some of the photos are actually very well done!
