Archive for July 3rd, 2008




Twilight Movie House?

Posted by Alex in Movies & SciFi on July 3, 2008 at 3:52 pm

I snapped these photos a while back when a house nearby mine was rented by a movie shoot for a ridiculously large amount of money. Later, I found out that the house is supposedly (emphasis on supposedly, now) for an upcoming tween vampire movie Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel.

Anyhoo, here are the pics:

It took the movie crews one week to turn the house into what they wanted (complete with fake cactus as you can see in the background of the second photo) … and after the shoot, they converted the house back into what it was (but with new paint, etc). Overall, it was a pretty neat deal for the homeowners! Now, anyone want to rent my house for a movie shoot? :)

 
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Should I Stop or Should I Go?

Posted by Alex in Car & Vehicle, Pictures, Travel & Places on July 3, 2008 at 2:39 pm

This crazy traffic light is a 14 "lanterns" (that’s the official term) found in the Central Business District in Melbourne, Australia.

More traffic light shenanigans at Traffic Signals

Update 7/3/08 – Thanks to Neatorama reader Lindsey, we have a better pic of the monster traffic light:

Lindsey said that the traffic light, which is located at a major intersection, is for cars, trams and bicycle lanes.

 
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Man Planted Cannabis Hedges

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Home & Garden on July 3, 2008 at 2:39 pm

Talk about "cultivating drugs" – a couple in Nerang, Queensland, Australia, decided that the best way to grow their cannabis plants is to hide them in plain sight … so they made them into hedges!

Sen-Sgt Symons said he had never seen cannabis shaped and trimmed into a hedge in his 25 years in the police service.

Neighbours looked over the fence in amazement as police dug up the manicured crop and removed it to be destroyed.

"They are a lovely couple," said one neighbour. "Who would have thought that hedge was grass? It just looks like an ordinary hedge in a suburban yard."

Link

 
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No Ho Zone

Posted by Alex in Pictures, Travel & Places on July 3, 2008 at 2:37 pm


Photo: cloudedmaple [Flickr]

Flickr user cloudedmaple took this priceless photo on the corner of Court St. and Miller Rd. in Flint, Michigan. If you look closely, the sign also says "We are watching you" and features a "ho" running away from a dog.

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VideoSift: Bad Days at the ...

Posted by Alex in VideoSift on July 3, 2008 at 2:20 pm

Our weekly collaboration with VideoSift – the best video clip aggregator website on the Net, baby! – brings us the Top 5 Video Clips of the Week (note: all of these links will open in a new window – Thanks for the suggestion, Simon!)

Bad Day at the Warehouse
Note to all employees: THIS is why you shouldn’t be a dumbass while working in the warehouse.

Link (Fun starts at 10:26:00 mark. Real fun starts at 10:27:48 mark)

Bad Day with the Fans
So, how popular is President Bush right now? Here’s a clip of how his fans just love him! Keith Olbermann reports:

In Raleigh, North Carolina, the President learns first hand today exactly what a 26% approval rating feels like … Watch the two guys behidn the fence waiting for Marine One to land … As the president disembarks, he waves to his them and …

Link

Bad Day While Filming a Thunderstorm
This is why you shouldn’t go outside in a lightning storm. From the clip:

I was filming a thunderstorm when suddenly lightning hit my hand. I lost my hand but I survived. I only saved the tape. Caution: Don’t film a thunderstorm!

Consider us warned: Link

[Warning: really gross and disturbing image] (Fake? Yes, read the comments on the VideoSift page to see where the pic came from)

Bad Day on a Pogo Stick
Pogo stick + foolin’ around = really bad idea.

Here’s video proof…. And kids, please don’t try this at home (That must have hurt!)

Link

Bad Day at the Mall
Remember the girl spinning on the escalator handrail? Well, this guy decided that he’d repeat the trick … and ended up having a bad day.

Here’s what happened: Link

For more the web’s most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.

 
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If Earth was hit by a Meteor

Posted by Ali S. in Science & Tech, Video Clips on July 3, 2008 at 12:35 pm

What would happen if our planet was ever to cross paths with a meteor? Well, according to this simulation it would be bad news for everyone and everything. This is a small scene from a Discovery Channel program called “Miracle Planet” which details the scary thought of a 500 km (or 300 miles) wide meteor hitting our planet in our lifetime. The amount of kinetic energy released when it hits would be enough to cause a firestorm powerful enough to vaporize all life on our planet and evaporate all of the Worlds oceans.

After the jump you’ll see the same video except without the narration and some music that I think has more “impact” ;) on how powerful an image of a meteor hitting the Earth would be.

YouTube for 1st video – [Link]
YouTube for 2nd video – [Link]

 
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The Fattest States

Posted by Miss Cellania in Everything Else on July 3, 2008 at 11:20 am


Calorie Lab’s Fattest States rankings for 2008 are out, and Mississippi is number one for the third year in a row. Colorado has the smallest percentage of obese people.

West Virginia passed Alabama to become the second fattest state in 2008. The four states of Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama, and Louisiana have obese populations that exceed 30 percent over a three-year average and two-thirds of the citizens of Mississippi and West Virginia were either overweight or obese by CDC standards in 2007.

Link -via Digg

 
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Washington's Boyhood Home Found

Posted by Miss Cellania in Science & Tech on July 3, 2008 at 9:59 am

Excavations at Ferry Farm in Virginia have turned up the foundation of George Washington’s boyhood home. Half a million artifacts have been uncovered and are being studied for clues about Washington’s early life.

“When you look at the normal biographies of Washington, they start when he’s 23,” said David Muraca, who oversaw the excavation as director of archaeology at the George Washington Foundation, which owns Ferry Farm.

“This piece of the story is very difficult for historians to get their hands around,” he said. “This dig will let us start our stories much earlier.”

Washington first lived in the house at Ferry Farm in 1738, when he was six years old. After seven years of work, the team has identified the floor plan, despite the fact that stones were recycled when the home was altered and remodeled over time. Link

(image credit: L.H.Barker (c) 2008.  All rights reserved.)

 
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The Origins of Your Favorite Muppets

Posted by Miss Cellania in Mentalfloss on July 3, 2008 at 9:51 am

Many of the Muppet characters were inspired by real people or other fictional characters. Some Muppets changed over time as they became viewer favorites. Read the stories behind ten of them at mental_floss. Link

 
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How to Hide an Elephant

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on July 3, 2008 at 9:12 am


Worth1000 challenged Photoshop users to hide an elephant! Some of the entries are ingenious. Link -via Geek Like Me

 
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Satellite Imagery as Art

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on July 3, 2008 at 9:04 am


Satellites take pictures of the earth for mapping, weather, science, and security. Art is a low priority when you’ve spend this much money to launch the camera! But the earth is a beautiful place, and the pictures sometimes are works of art. See Environmental Graffiti’s 30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth.

The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.

Pictured are underwater sand dunes in the Bahamas. Link -Thanks, Tom!

 
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Peace One Day

Posted by Adam Stanhope in Politics, Travel & Places, Video Clips, Weapons & War on July 3, 2008 at 8:44 am


September 21, 2008 is Peace Day. Do you have any plans? YouTube.

 
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Groovy Google Earth interface

Posted by Adam Stanhope in Travel & Places, Video Clips on July 3, 2008 at 7:52 am


Holographic Google Earth from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

How cool is this? Google Earth projected into the air as a 2D hologram? From the Google Earth Blog:
The technology comes from UbiqWindow and lets a computer screen be projected in mid-air. They have devised a touchless way to interact with the “hologram”, and Google Earth is a great way to show off its capabilities. it’s not a 3D projection, just 2D. But, it sure looks cool.

 
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What is it? Game 69

Posted by Alex in What Is It on July 3, 2008 at 7:29 am

Yay! It’s time for our weekly game of whatchamacallit in collaboration with the What is it? blog.

Can you guess what the strange object above is? First correct answer gets a free T-shirt from the Neatorama online shop. If no one gets it right, then the funniest answer will get it instead. Contest rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section, one guess per comment please (but you can guess as many times as you’d like). Post no URL – let others play.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 7/5/08 – the answer is:

Bog shoes for a horse, for use in peat bogs or other similar terrain

Congratulations to Baz who got it right first!

 
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Mandalorian Dance

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on July 3, 2008 at 7:14 am


(Daily Motion link)

Bobba Fett does Flashdance. A film by Patrick Boivin. (via YesButNoButYes)

 
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