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Cool new commercial for the Toyota Prius by AB5TRAX. Via Notcot. Also amusing is this short ad by AB5TRAX for Mountain Dew.
*Previously: Prius stretch limo.
Cellar Image of the Day user wally took this photo of a sweet potato that looked suspiciously like his dachshund Brinks. Link (with photo of the dog checking out his doppelgänger)
Picnicface is Halifax’s most popular comedy troupe featuring Bill Wood, Kyle Dooley, Evany Rosen, Mark Little, Andrew Bush, Cheryl Hann, Brian MacQuarrie and Scott Vrooman.
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Image found via Miss Cellania.
Yay! It’s time for our weekly Neatorama and Hobotopia‘s Caption Monkey game!
The funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section (one caption per comment, please – but you can submit as many as you can think of).
Be sure to visit Adam’s blog for some inspiration and good luck!
Update 8/13/08 – congratulations to Jacoby87 who won with “Honey, Big Belly Deli’s reopened. That’s right. Bring me my lucky sweatpants.”
Millions of viewers were captivated by Lin Miaoke, the cute little girl who sang during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Problem was, she was lip-synching because the real singer, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, was deemed not cute enough:
"The reason was for the national interest," said Chen Qigang, the ceremony’s musical director, in a state radio interview. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feeling and expression. … Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects."
The decision was made at the highest levels, Chen said.
"We had to do it," he said. "We’d been through several inspections. They’re all very strict. When we rehearsed at the spot, there were several spectators from various divisions, especially leaders from the Politburo, who gave the opinion it must change."
Saudi Arabia has threatened a boycott of Nissan after the car company aired the following commercial on Israeli TV.
The new campaign by Renault-Nissan caused an uproar in the Gulf when it showed a group of Saudi oil barons screaming and attacking the Renault-Nissan vehicle.
The Saudis are shown leaving a hotel and encountering the new, fuel-efficient vehicle. One man pounds his fists on the car and is then held back by his companions as he shouts at it, “Hawks should peck at you day and night.”
At the end of the commercial, the voice-over says, “It’s clear the oil companies won’t like you.”
“It’s my opinion that Nissan made a huge error by igniting these [racist] instincts,” official Hani al-Wafa told MBC TV, a Saudi-run station headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. “We need to apply punishments… against these things. In order for Nissan to keep its interests in the region, it must apologize.”
As seen on JapanProbe
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Take it from Mohammed Bello Abubakar. The 84-year-old Nigerian man will tell you from experience that you shouldn’t have that many wives. How many? 86 to be exact!
Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, has advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86 women.
The former teacher and Muslim preacher, who lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children, says he is able to cope only with the help of God.
"A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them," he told the BBC.
He says his wives have sought him out because of his reputation as a healer.
"I don’t go looking for them, they come to me. I will consider the fact that God has asked me to do it and I will just marry them."
The full story is weird and full of intrigue: Link – via Look At This
Ever wish that you could combine the joy of popping bubble wrap with crossing off days from the calendar?
No? Well, someone sure did because they came up with this insanely awesome invention: the Bubble Calendar!
Link – via The Presurfer
No, seriously, it’s a pic of a woman welder all decked up in coveralls of flame-resistant cowhide suit from a 1944 Popular Science at Modern Mechanix, but I couldn’t resist the comparison.
Chris Harrison and a friend built these motherboard walls for Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Hudson:
Each motherboard wall took approximately 6 hours to assemble . The longest step by far was laying them out. Not only did we try to distribute the colors in an interesting way, but dozens of different sized boards had to fit together perfectly and not overlap the edges. Not an easy task I assure you. Additionally, we added a third dimension by stilting approximately one fourth of the boards at different heights.
Link – via growabrain
Where is Bob? is a blog about one person, one subject.
We have a manager – Bob. Bob is incompetent, overweight, unattractive, uncouth, socially awkward, and generally, not a very nice person at all.
For a while, we were convinced that Bob had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. But then, something happened – Bob stopped showing up for work on a regular basis. Several times a week Bob would take a vacation day, a personal day, a sick day. Sometimes he wouldn’t even bother explaining his absence, acting as if spontaneous five-day weekends were simply the norm. And that is how everyone came to wonder – where is Bob? The question became perpetual in the office and among the other people at BPU with whom we work. And that is when I took up my current hobby – keeping chronicles of Bob’s strangeness at the office, and away from it. What is lacking in facts has been more than made up for with an overactive imagination.
This blog is about us, Bob, and the bizarre things that he does instead of coming to work.
It only took reading one post for me to be completely hooked. Whether Bob is real or not is beside the point; the stories are a hoot! And quite believable, because all of us have had a “Bob” in our past. Or maybe several. You might even have one in your present. Link -via reddit
When a person tastes victory, such as Michael Phelps winning the gold at the Olympics, he will raise his hands and puff out his chest. Apes and monkeys do this, too. And you don’t even have to learn how to do it!
Scientists from the University of British Columbia and San Francisco State University looked at thousands of photographs of judo matches taken during the 2004 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games in Athens, for such classic in-your-face victory moves as clenched fists, thrown-back heads and outstretched arms.
The images of the 140 blind and sighted athletes from 37 countries revealed that Paralympic athletes blind from birth struck the same triumphant stance as sighted Olympic athletes. Since the blind athletes could not have learned the victory dance by watching others, the scientists concluded that the behavior was innate.
They found that the dance was the same for all, regardless of what culture or country they came from.
The converse gestures of slumping shoulders and downcast face when experiencing a defeat is also innate.
Blind athletes across all cultures slumped their shoulders and narrowed their chests, a posture that signals shame in humans and submission in other primates. Sighted athletes from most parts of the world did the same.
However, athletes from some countries tend to hide their feelings of shame in defeat by putting on a brave or nonchalant front. Researchers speculate this is a learned response. Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!
(image credit: Mark J. Rebilas/U.S. Presswire)
Ghost Recon begins in April 2008, with civil unrest in Russia. Ultra-nationalists have seized power in Russia, with plans to rebuild the government. Their first step is clandestine support of rebel factions in Georgia and the Baltic States. This is where the Ghosts come in: to silence the invasion. Armed with some of the most advanced weaponry in the world, the soldiers of the Ghost Recon force are covertly inserted into area of operations and given specific missions to curtail the rebel actions and overthrow their benefactors.
Precient? Let’s hope not: the further games in the series have the game characters fighting in Ethiopia in 2009, Cuba in 2010, Mexico in 2014, and in other grim scenarios. Link -Thanks, eLzo!
In a recreation of the movie Amelie, a garden gnome was kidnapped and photographed traveling around the world. But he is has been returned! Eve Stuart-Kelso of Gloucestershire found her gnome “Murphy” outside her home seven months after he disappeared. She also found a photo album showing the places he had been.
The album shows Murphy abseiling down a mountain, standing in a shark’s mouth and riding a motorbike.
Some of the pictures show a group of mysterious young men, who could be the ones responsible for the globetrotting stunt.
Also with Murphy were immigration stamps for all the shores he had been taken to visit – South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Laos.
Link -Thanks, Jeffs!
This isn’t the first time this has happened.
The Brando website has just released a new product that allows you to build your own polypropylene dinosaur lamp using “simple pieces of puzzle”.
There are two models to choose from: Triceratops and T-Rex.
Link (Triceratops) | Link (T-Rex)
