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From National Geographic’s extensive photo archives, here is an intriguing photo of a burrfish on a mic. Too bad it wasn’t singing karaoke or anything like that:
"You don’t think of fish as making noises, but many do. They grunt, purr, drum, croak, and grind their teeth!" wrote F. Barrows Colton in the January 1945 Geographic, where this photo first appeared. As part of an experiment to record fish noises at a New York aquarium, photographer Lilo Hess used a pinch of fish food to lure this striped burrfish to the microphone. Despite its resemblance to a big band crooner, however, the bug-eyed burrfish doesn’t vocalize through its lips but by grinding its teeth to display distress or aggression—or attract mates.
Link (Flash, ninth photo in the gallery) – Thanks Marilyn Terrell!
As US debt exceeded $10 trillion for the first time and caused the National Debt Clock … to run out of digits!
The national debt clock, the unofficial tracker of the federal deficit maintained by the Durst Organization in New York, has reached its limits. Last month, as the national debt exceeded $10 trillion for the first time, the clock ran out of digits to record the number.
The dollar sign in the clock had to be deleted and replaced with a one to record the massive number. The clock’s owners say a new model — with space for two extra digits — will be in place early next year.
Now here’s a brilliant idea: a woman decided that she wanted to bring something special for halloween, so she packed a human skull in her checked luggage! Guess what happened next:
Tucson International Airport security were greeted with quite the surprise Wednesday morning when they discovered a human skull in a piece of checked luggage. [...]
The female passenger who owned the luggage had already boarded her flight, but was pulled off by security personnel for questioning.
According to TSA, the woman says the skull was brought back by her boyfriend after his military deployment in Okinawa, Japan. The woman says she was taking the skull to Philadelphia for halloween.
No, that’s not a mistake. Nor is it a photo from a year ago. That truly is gas for under $3 – but to get it, you have to travel all the way to Georgetown, South Carolina:
AAA of the Carolinas reported drivers were snagging the best deals on Wednesday at the Winyah One Stop on Highmarket Street, as cars lined up for the $2.86 bargain for unleaded regular gas. Gas prices dipped even lower than $2.86 Thursday morning, dropping 8 cents in one night.
The owners of Gene’s Country Store saw much of the same activity earlier this week after dropping the price of gas 20 cents on Monday. Prices opened the week at $3.15 before falling to a steady $2.95 per gallon. As of Thursday morning fuel reports, the store, also located on Highmarket Street, has continued the bargain for locals into the beginning of the weekend.
Tired of seeing renters who are caught in the mortgage meltdown being kicked out to the curb, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart of Cook County, Illinois, took a brave step: he’s going to stop serving eviction notices!
"These poor people are seeing everything they own put out on the street. … They’ve paid their bills, paid them on time. Here we are with a battering ram at the front door going to throw them out. It’s gotten insane," he said.
Mortgage companies are supposed to identify a building’s occupants before asking for an eviction, but sheriff’s deputies routinely find that the mortgage companies have not done so, Dart said.
"This is an example where the banking industry has not done any of the work they should do. It’s a piece of paper to them," Dart said.
"These mortgage companies … don’t care who’s in the building," Dart said Wednesday. "They simply want their money and don’t care who gets hurt along the way.
"On top of it all, they want taxpayers to fund their investigative work for them. We’re not going to do their jobs for them anymore. We’re just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today."
| The following is reprinted from The Best of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.
HOW THEY STARTEDThere are so many different stories about the Stooges’ origin that it’s
There was a vaudevillian named Ted Healy, a boyhood friend of Moe and
In 1925, the trio was on the lookout for another member and spotted Larry
In 1931, Shemp quit and was replaced by his younger brother, Jerry. Jerry Three years later, after a bitter dispute, the boys broke up with Healy. Here’s the very first Three Stooges short film, “Woman Haters” Over the next 23 years, they made 190 short films – but no features.
From the ’30s to the ’50s, the Stooges had four personnel changes: In INSIDE FACTSTwo-Fingered Poker Profitable Experience So What If He’s Dead? Meanwhile, Columbia, hoping to get a few bucks out of its old Stooge |
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The article above is reprinted with permission from The Best of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute had published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. If you like Neatorama, you’ll love the Bathroom Reader Institute’s books – go ahead and check ‘em out!
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This radical new breed of vehicle has been precision engineered to the most exacting standards. It has undergone an extensive safety testing programme and complies with appropriate marine and road safety regulations.
Entry to the water is via beach, boat ramp, slipway or directly from the water’s edge. Once afloat, the transition from road vehicle to High Speed Amphibian (HSA) is effortlessly achieved.
Simply press a button and drive into the water. The wheels automatically rise and as you press the accelerator nearly a tonne of thrust pushes the Aquada onto the plane. The whole process takes less than 12 seconds. The Aquada can plane at over 30mph.
Link -via Been Seen -Thanks, Megan!
Have you ever wondered what became of the people who found fame and maybe even fortune on the internet? Some became sensations through no effort of their own. Some faded into obscurity and some embraced their notoriety. Find out what Judson Laipply (The Evolution of Dance), Gary Brolsma (Numa Numa), Randy Constan (Peter Pan), Jay Maynard (Tron Guy), and others are doing today. Link -Thanks, Geeks Are Sexy!
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Whether “audio preview” will make any difference to someone whose entire comment reads “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” (actual comment from a featured video) is to be seen. I’m guessing most commenters will skip right past it in an effort to get their “first!” comments in there.
The placement of the button is interesting. It’s exactly where the post message button used to be, meaning quick commenters will discover it only when they accidentally click the new button. Hopefully they’ll do this with their speakers up at work.
New experimental technology comes to aid of the disabled in many forms that will knock your socks off! Mobility Now looks at ten mobility robots.
A mobility robot is a robot that is designed to help handicapped and disabled people move around. It might have wheels, but most often it will have legs so it can climb stairs and uneven ground. It might also take the form of a mobility suit, which is a kind of robot that surrounds the shape of your body, arms and legs.
Most of these innovations are from Japan, the robotics capital of the world, where a growing elderly population creates a huge market for such devices. Link -Thanks, Jesper!
Hooray! It’s time for our collaboration with the What is it? blog – can you guess what this strange "bucket" is for?
First correct guess will win a free Neatorama T-shirt. If no one gets it right, then the funniest guess will win. Please enter your guess in the comment section – one guess per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of. Please post no URL – let others play.
For more clues, including an intriguing photo of some small notches at the bottom, please visit the What is it? blog (please note the new website address for the What is it? blog). Good luck!
Update 10/10/08 – The answer is:
A bee hive or bee gum, the two notches are doors and the rods in the center are for support. From this site:
Honey was not the only reward for cutting a bee tree. The hunter could also claim the bees. They were kept in home-made structures called gums, made by cutting 3-4 foot sections from hollow sweet-gum logs (or some other type of wood), burning the interior until the surface was slick, cutting one or two small inverted V’s in the bottom as passageways for the bees, and covering the slanted top with a rough plank roof. A cross piece was nailed in the middle for the bees to fasten their comb to.
Congrats to breezy who guessed it right!
…I’d love to be under the sea,
in an octopus nautilus’ garden in the shade
Here at Neatorama we love neat nautilus news. Recently we’ve brought you diving to meet a nautilus and nautilus snow sculpture but this latest contribution takes it to the next level wherever that may be.
The creative crew at Senosiain Architectos designed a sculpture perhaps taking inspiration from a certain Beatles song (although if we’re getting technical, it’s the right class- Cephalopoda- wrong subclass – Nautiloidea – their mortal enemies!). The construction involves steel reinforced chicken wire with several inches thick concrete spread over to create smooth curved surfaces, resembling the internal abode of a snail.
The house located in Mexico city and currently occupied by an open-minded family, though some hermit crabs have been eyeing it out as a potential future residence.
Check out more of these amazing abodes at Habitat Organico including a serpent and shark!
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