What do you give a 200-lb lean, mean killing machine to keep 'em cool and happy during a hot day? A lollipop ... made of blood!
That's what the keepers at the London Zoo gave their tigers to help keep them cool: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8466490/Blood-lollies-given-to-tigers-to-keep-them-cool.html
Bompas and Parr: Return of the Jelly Knights from Gestalten on Vimeo.
Anyone can slap some Jell-0 in a decorative mold and serve it up for dessert. But Sam Bompas and Harry Parr (AKA Jellymongers) have taken gelatin design to a whole new level. Using the jiggly, edible medium, Bompas and Parr sculpt intricate models of really complicated architecture like St. Paul's Cathedral and the Gherkin in London. This video doesn't reveal their secrets entirely, but it does give a better look at their process and some of their other fascinating work.Bacon Lollipop - $3.95
We know what kind of candy your hoping to get in your Easter basket this Sunday. Who can resist the sweet meaty goodness of the Bacon Lollipop from the NeatoShop! It's dripping with deliciousness.
Be sure to check out the Bacon Store for all your bacon needs!
Star Wars, LEGO and cake? It's like the trifecta of nerdery! We're impressed with this creation by Danielle's Delight on Cake Central: Link - via Between the Pages
See also: Star Wars Landspeeder by Daniel DeutschWe've got human rights, animal rights, ... but what about the rights of Mother Earth? That's right - Bolivia has just drafted a United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans:
The bid aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to "dominate and exploit" — to the point that the "well-being and existence of many beings" is now threatened.
The wording may yet evolve, but the general structure is meant to mirror Bolivia's Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, which Bolivian President Evo Morales enacted in January.
That document speaks of the country's natural resources as "blessings," and grants the Earth a series of specific rights that include rights to life, water and clean air; the right to repair livelihoods affected by human activities; and the right to be free from pollution.
It also establishes a Ministry of Mother Earth, and provides the planet with an ombudsman whose job is to hear nature's complaints as voiced by activist and other groups, including the state.
http://www.canada.com/technology/document+would+give+Mother+Earth+same+rights+humans/4597840/story.html
The beggar bot arms race has finally begun. In addition to DON-8r we saw earlier on Neatorama, there's another beggin' bot afoot: here's DONA, an "urban donation motivating robot" which looks cute while asking you for alms.
Fast Company has the story:
If robots like DONA became popular, then we would quickly become immune to their charms, and designers would have to step-up the technology--a charity robot arms race with no end in sight. In the future as robots get more sophisticated, one can imagine an evolution of DONA as a more fully-functioned android that actually engages you in conversation to try to persuade you to donate. Already DONA creates some interesting ethical and emotional questions about why we donate to a good cause. Is it due to the cause or because it makes you feel good? How would you feel about giving money to aid a human if asked to do so by a persuasive inhuman machine?
Photo: Jonathan Hobin
Is it art or just kidsploitation? Photographer Jonathan Hobin describes his photograph series In the Playroom as such:
In the Playroom is a metaphor for the impossibility of a protective space safe from the reach of modern media. The quizzical disposition of youth and the pervasive nature of the media are symbolically represented in my images through tableau-vivant re-enactments of the very current events that adults might wish to keep out of their child’s world. Just as children make a game of pretending to be adults as a way to prepare and ultimately take on these roles in later life, so too do they explore things that they hear or see, whether or not they completely understand the magnitude of the event or the implications of their play.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/In-The-Playroom/1245693 - via Nerdcore
Not everything is bad in the world today. Here's the story of a pet goose taking a blind dog under its wings:
Buttons the four-year-old goose leads her pal around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
Owner Renata Kursa, 47, of Lublin, Poland, was heartbroken when Bak was left blind after an accident last year.
'But gradually Buttons got him up on his feet and starting walking him around. They're inseparable now - they even chase the postman together,' she said.
Link via TheDailyWh.at
Remember the 1989 The Wizard about the greatest NES game player in the world, starring Fred Savage? (There's a memorable scene where the coolest kid on the block, Lucas Barton, says how he loves the Power Glove ... it's so bad).
Well, fast forward to 2011 and our pal Nerd Approved has got the T-shirt in their new online store (on pre-order for May 19). Notice how it pays homage to the 1989 movie while referencing the most famous boy wizard ever? Clever!
Check it out: http://splitreason.com/nerdapproved - Thanks Sean!
Is your car's front passenger seat uncomfortable? Whatever you do, don't do what this guy did:
A roadside seatbelt check on Wednesday took a back seat to a bizarre and potentially dangerous car modification spotted by Ontario Provincial Police: a recliner chair sitting in as a front passenger seat.
But the officers in Ottawa were not amused by the idea of comfort trumping vehicular safety, noting that the rocking chair wasn't even bolted to the floor.
As you can see, the typewriter is extremely complicated and cumbersome. The main tray — which is like a typesetter's font of lead type — has about two thousand of the most frequent characters. Two thousand characters are not nearly enough for literary and scholarly purposes, so there are also a number of supplementary trays from which less frequent characters may be retrieved when necessary. What is even more intimidating about a Chinese typewriter is that the characters as seen by the typist are backwards and upside down! Add to this challenging orientation the fact that the pieces of type are tiny and all of a single metallic shade, it becomes a maddening task to find the right character. But that is not all, since there is also the problem of the principle (or lack thereof) upon which the characters are ordered in the tray. By radical? By total stroke count? Both of these methods would result in numerous characters under the same heading. By rough frequency? By telegraph code? Unfortunately, nobody seems to have thought to use the easiest and most user-friendly method of arranging the characters according to their pronunciation.
"This bike is different from others because the engine doesn’t burn fuel, nor does the temperature rise. The air is compressed and transferred to the engine without any combustion. The piston reciprocates from the air pressure leading to an up-down movement, making the flywheel run and the bike move.”
Students say the basic concept behind the invention is to achieve an equivalent thrust of blast inside the engine without using any combustion.
The bike can run at a speed of six to 12 miles an hour for up to 370 miles using 100 liters of 300 PSI oxygen.
