Archive for July, 2008

G.I. Joe Does The Thing

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Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann made this video for the song “Driving this road until death sets you free”, by Zombie Zombie. It’s a remake of the 1982 John Carpenter movie The Thing, using stop-motion G.I. Joe action figures. -via Gorilla Mask

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	The Large Hadron Rap What do we love more than nerds? Rapping nerds! Here’s a neat video by the physicists of CERN (is that a large Hadron collider or are you just happy to see me?) Link
	Bush or Batman? Sketch group Secret Pants went to National Park in Old City Philadelphia to see if people could tell the difference between quotes by President Bush … or Batman! Can you tell who said this: We’ve climbed the mighty mountain and I see the valley below and it’s a valley of peace. Link
	And the Winner is … Arrrr! Remember the Neatorama post about funny racehorse names? Well, this is a perfect example why they’re named like that (sounds like the announcer is having fun!) Link
	The Best Fight Scene Ever From The Ghost (2001) movie, here is the best fight scene ever recorded in movie history! The guy in the wheelchair is Henry Smalls, who lost his legs in a train accident when he was young. Henry is the world’s first legless Kendo martial artist. Link More clips on Henry
	Indoor Motorcycle Wheelie Goes Bad Bad idea: riding your motorcycle indoor Really bad idea: riding your motorcycle indoor, in a crowded room Neatorama-worthy: Tryin’ to impress the ladies by popping a wheelie … until this happened: Link

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Bubble-Blowing Beluga

Gail posted about whale flatulence before on Neatorama, and there’s just no way I can top that bubble. So here’s something else: a Beluga whale blowing bubbles!

A beluga whale blows bubbles at an aquarium in Japan to the delight of visitors who have come by the thousands to view the spectacle.

The whale is one of three that learned the trick from scuba divers, who give the whales breaths from regulators to enable the whales to blow the bubbles.

Link – thanks Zella Panossian!

(Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

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Garfield, Translated From English to Chinese and Back

To illustrate just how much automated translators still have to go, Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped used Google and Babelfish to translate Garfield from English to Chinese and then back to English. The results are fantastically non-sensical, and in some cases, probably funnier than what Jim Davis originally drew!

Link – Thanks Philipp!

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The Mona Leia by Jim Hance

The Mona Leia by Jim Hance

Jim Hance of Strangely Drawn wrote to us about his pop-culture and parody art (a lot of Star Wars, Tarantino, and other movie-inspired paintings). This one above, titled the Mona Leia, is currently for sale for $1225.

Link – thanks Jim!

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An Online Crime Map of England and Wales

MyNeighbourhood is a Google Map-styled website that identify assaults, muggings, and burglaries in towns and villages in England and Wales.

The UK Home Office said that the website will give citizens the details of every crime in every quarters, while some are concerned that neighborhoods would be stigmatized and victims’ rights to privacy would be breached:

In West Yorkshire, one of the leading forces in the scheme, categories include anti-social behaviour and "youth nuisance" – such as street drinking, skateboarding, shouting & swearing, letting off fireworks, climbing on buildings, false 999 calls, graffiti and dropping litter.

Offences are identified using dots on maps.

In the West Midlands, householders can enter their postcodes and zoom into the map to a street level, where the different crime types would be represented in coloured zones, showing levels of monthly crime and how much they have increased in the past 12 months.

Links: MyNeighborhood website | Telegraph Article – Thanks daveroy!

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Milky Way Over Ontario

Photo: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn

This amazing photo of the Milky Way over Binbrook, Ontario, Canada, was taken by Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn of Weather and Sky Photography:

I was really lucky that the the water was beautiful and still enough so that the stars casted a nice reflection in the water. In this shot you can also see Jupiter, various nebulas in the MilkyWay, Rho Ophiuchus and the light dome from a distant town.

A little photoshoppery is involved, but the photo is outright gorgeous: Link (Don’t forget to check out the rest of her work!) – via APOD

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World's Oldest Joke Traced to Sumeria in 1900 B.C.

Courtesy of Reuters, which has other ancient jokes as well:

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

image via flickr user rosemanios

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What is it? Game 71

Yay! It’s time for our collaboration with the What is it? blog. Can you guess what this gruesome tool is used for?

Place your guess in the comment section – No prize (that’s next week!) you’re playing for fame and glory today.

For bigger picture, check out What is it? blog.

Update 8/1/08 – it’s a muskrat den spear! No one got it exactly right, but I think LizPaul is the closest first guess.

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You Are Beautiful

The You Are Beautiful project made an installation on a fence using disposable cups in late 2003. They returned to find the cups had been moved over and over again, shown in a series of photographs. Click each picture at the link to advance to the next photo. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend

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Pygmy Slow Loris

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A pygmy slow loris shown being adorable, although very slowly. -via Arbroath

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The Original Google Storage

In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were Stanford University graduate students, working on their Digital Library Project, later known as Google. They needed a lot of storage, and the largest hard disk available was 4 gigabytes. So they connected ten of them together and built their own 40GB drive, in a case made of of Legos. It is now on display at the Stanford University Museum. Link -via the Presurfer

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CNN visits Japan's oldest porn star

Alex posted in June about Shigeo Tokuda, Japan’s septuagenarian porn star who was featured in a Time Magazine article about Japan’s “elder porn” industry. Now CNN has video of Tokuda – both in and out of costume. Fear not, it’s CNN and SFW- and rather tasteful. YouTube.

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Princess Chunk

How do you lose a 44 pound cat? Someone in Camden, New Jersey managed to do it.

Camden County Animal Control Officer Jim McCleery got the call Friday. There was a a stray cat prowling on a patio in the Ashley Run condominium development.

“We picked him up and I knew from the get-go it wouldn’t fit in the regular cat carrier, so we had to put him in a dog carrier. . . it was a big cat, the biggest one this year,” said McCleery of the Camden County Joint Municipal Animal Control Program.

Employees at Camden County Animal Shelter called the feline “Captain Chunk.” Realizing she was female, the name was quickly changed to “Princess Chunk.” Her “foster mom” — shelter volunteer Deborah Wright — calls her “Princess Chunky.”

Chunk had to be weighed on a dog scale, because the shelter’s cat scale only goes to 25 pounds, according to Jennifer Anderch, the shelter’s executive director. After a seven-day waiting period to give her owner a chance to claim her, they will run medical tests to see if Princess Chunk has diabetes or other medical conditions.

Shelter staff is hoping that the owner of Princess Chunky comes forward soon. If no one claims her by Saturday, Anderch is confident that she will be adopted quickly.

“We have gotten several adoption applications, from five or six people already, and we are going through them now. We will choose the one that appears to be the best for her,” said Anderch.

Princess Chunk will be a guest Thursday morning on the TV show Live with Regis and Kathy Lee Kelly. Link -via Metafilter

(image credit: John Costello/Inquirer)

Previously at Neatorama: Top 15 Amazingly Fat Cats.

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Comic Con Costumes

Jill Harness of Rue the Day blog went to Comic Con in San Diego last weekend (I’m so jealous! Maybe next year …), and took lots and lots of photos of people in costumes. This brave guy above even showed up in stilts! (Do you know what he’s supposed to be?)

Link – Thanks Jill!

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Don't Pee Here. Seriously.

Photo: The Hep [Flickr]

The Namibians are dead serious against you peeing on the quayside at Walvis Bay … Thanks Karan!

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Movies That Should Be Made Into Musicals

Pic: Gladiator (of course), from 4th "B"

Johnny Wright of our pal YesButNoButYes blog suggests that some movies should really be made into musicals. He’s given a lot of thought about it, and has written a post about Ten Films That Should Be Broadway Musicals (including potential songs for each of them). For example:

10. Gladiator – I think the song Are You Not Entertained? could be a potential showstopper. There should be a page taken out of the Lion King’s book with the way they have dancers as animals. That way, when Clay Aiken as Maximus is in the arena, he can battle the dancing tigers and bears and no actual tigers and bears will be hurt. I look forward to the ballad, On My Signal, Unleash Hell.

Other potential songs:
Busy Little Bee
I Like The Blood
I Can’t Wait For the Afterlife!

Link – Thanks Johnny!

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NES Controller Cake

Photo: bixwastaken [Flickr]

Neatorama reader Chris Marshall aka Bix got married on July 12th (Congrats, Bix!) and got this awesome re-creation of an old school NES controller as a groom’s cake.

The cake was made by Anika Kline from "Cakes by Anita" and the photo was taken by Maria from IQFoto.

Thanks Bix!

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Ugly Duckling Caterpillars that Morph into Beautiful Butterflies

Scienceray has a pretty neat article comparing the "ugly duckling" caterpillar that morphed into beautiful butterflies. These photos above are of the Common Nawab. The caterpillar stage is freakishly fascinating!

Link – thanks Jon Jason!

Previously on Neatorama: World’s Weirdest Moths

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Is Stylish Dog Poo Poo Bag Overkill?

Attention hip and design-obsessed conscious people! You’ve got a cute dog and great clothes to walk your dog in, but are you going to use a regular ol’ plastic bag to pick up its poo? Noooooo, of course not. You’ll want, nay need, these awesomely designed dog poo bags by Nina Dautzenberg and Andrea Gadesmann of Junge Schactel.

Link – via Notcot, thanks Paul!

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Foie Gras and Caviar Ice Cream

Japan is still the king of weird ice cream flavors, but France isn’t far behind after gourmet ice cream maker Philippe Faur released the … foie gras and caviar ice cream!

Link – Thanks Marilyn Terrell!

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Extreme Home Makeover House Foreclosed!

It took 1,800 people and six days to rebuild the Harper family’s home in
ABC’s 2005 "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

… but it took just one bad decision for the family to lose it all:

More than 1,800 people showed up to help ABC’s "Extreme Makeover" team demolish a family’s decrepit home and replace it with a sparkling, four-bedroom mini-mansion in 2005.

Three years later, the reality TV show’s most ambitious project at the time has become the latest victim of the foreclosure crisis.

After the Harper family used the two-story home as collateral for a $450,000 loan, it’s set to go to auction on the steps of the Clayton County Courthouse Aug. 5. The couple did not return phone calls Monday, but told WSB-TV they received the loan for a construction business that failed. [...]

ABC said in a statement that it advises each family to consult a financial planner after they get their new home. "Ultimately, financial matters are personal, and we work to respect the privacy of the families," the network said.

Some of the volunteers who helped build the home were less than thrilled about the family’s financial decisions.

"It’s aggravating. It just makes you mad. You do that much work, and they just squander it," Lake City Mayor Willie Oswalt, who helped vault a massive beam into place in the Harper’s living room, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

They need another Extreme Home Makeover, please! Link (Photo: ABC) – Thanks Geekazoid!

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Penguin Sauce Webcomic by Alan Yang

Alan Yang’s webcomic Penguin Sauce is all about a geeky penguin who’s obsessed with video games and sandwiches.

Alan started drawing his comic 10 years ago, but he has just started putting them on the web back in May, with new entries almost every day (it’s quite interesting to see how the Penguin and Alan’s drawing style evolve over time).

Link – Thanks Alan!

Update 7/30/08 –

Wow, that was fast! Alan of Penguin Sauce drew this for us after we linked to his blog – Thanks Alan!:

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Man Bet with ... Weed!

Bad idea: gambling
Really bad idea: gambling in a casino (the house always win!)
Neatorama-worthy: gambling in a casino, betting with … weed! And it was all captured on camera.

The man claimed that it was legal, because he had a medical marijuana card!

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Freshome!

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Steampunk Birds by Jim Mullan

Artist Jim Mullan took vintage hunting decoys shaped like crows and small birds and turned them into steampunk bird sculptures!

Links: Christopher Park Gallery | Left Bank Gallery – via Fire Wire, thanks Larry!

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Bloody Table by John Nouanesing

Sadly, this "bloody" table is only an art concept by John Nouanesing. Check the rest of John’s portfolio … someone gotta make these things for real! Link – via Geekadelphia

BTW, Eric Smith and Tim Quirino of Geekadelphia were interviewed by Philly Weekly, and were kind enough to mention Neatorama as one of their inspirations – Thanks Eric!

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Airplane House

One of my favorite blogs, WebUrbanist, has a neat post about homes "recycled" from other things. Like this airplane house, for instance:

Joanne Ussery, a hairdresser, was looking for a new mobile home to put next to the lake when her brother-in-law, an air traffic controller, had an unorthodox suggestion. She paid $2,000 for the 727 fuselage, $4,000 for a house-moving company to move it to her lot, and six months and $25,000 to renovate it. The resulting house has some unusual features, and is built to last; (Source)

Check out the rest of the 7 Superb Examples of Recycled Urban Architectures – Thanks Marilyn Terrell!

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Alphabet for Beginners by William Hone (c. 1832)

In 1832, English author William Hone (1780 – 1842) published The Year Book of daily Recreation and Information*, an almanac of sorts in which included this quirky and wonderful "Alphabet for Beginners" (amazing they still apply today):

*The complete title is: The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information;
concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merry-Makings, Antiquities and Novelties, Forming a Complete History of the Year; and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac. By William Hone. The book was re-published again and again, with longer and longer title each time.

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Bacon Alarm Clock

Invented by Matty Sallin, Daniel Bartolini, and Hsiao-huh Hsu, this alarm clock gently wakes you with the aroma of freshly-cooked bacon.  Here’s how it works:

A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n’ Bacon the night before. Because there is a 10 minute cooking time, the clock is set to go off 10 minutes before the desired waking time. Once the alarm goes off, the clock it sends a signal to a small speaker to generate the alarm sound. We hacked the clock so that the signal is re-routed by a microchip that in responds by sending a signal to a relay that throws the switch to power two halogen lamps that slow-cook the bacon in about 10 minutes.

Link via Double Plus Undead

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'Ello There!

Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss grew out of Sandy Wood doing an impression of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. That has nothing to do with the questions, however. They all have to do with people, places, and things with “ello” in the name. Good luck -I scored only 44%. Link

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