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Cultural differences can manifest themselves in ways people never consider until they cross from one culture to another. In this clip, refugees from Sudan encounter America for the first time, and find it quite different from their homeland. This is from the 2006 National Geographic movie God Grew Tired of Us. -via reddit
It's time for the Fill in the Bubble Frenzy with boy genius Mal and his talking dog Chad! What is he saying in this empty speech bubble? Tell us and you might win any T-shirt available in the NeatoShop -take a look around, pick one out and tell us what shirt you’d like with your submission in the comments. If you don't specify a t-shirt with your entry, you forfeit the prize. Enter as many times as you like (text only, please), but leave only one entry per comment. For inspiration, check out Mal and Chad’s comic strip adventures by Stephen McCranie at malandchad.com. Have fun and good luck!
Update: This week's winner is Todd McCoy, who gave us, "WHO LET THE DOG DRUM?! Who..who..who..who!" Todd wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop!
If you like to wear your heart on your sleeve, but your heart just happens to rock a set of taped up glasses and a bow tie, then these fashion pieces are guaranteed to compliment your geekiest sensitivities. I’m sure you’ll notice that most of these are for women, but as I’m sure you know, that’s just because fashion is focused around females.
1. Etch-A-Sketch Skirt
The idea of this Etch-A-Sketch skirt by Etsy user SewOeno is pretty cool, but what really puts it over the top is the use of embroidery to create a picture that looks perfect for the subject in question.
2. Game Boy Dress
That same Etsy seller, SewOeno was also responsible for this exceptionally popular Game Boy dress.
3. Nintendo Controller Dress
For those who like old school Nintendo over Game Boys, you’re sure to love this awesome Nintendo controller dress by Liz Tan.
4. Mario Sweater Vest
This knitted sweater vest by Happy Seamstress is an accurate replica of a screenshot of the original Mario Bros game.
Jean-François Rauzier makes huge high-resolution pictures with amazing attention to detail. Hyperphotos are his way of combining "infinitely big and infinitely small things in one same image."
He found his way by juxtaposing, duplicating, twisting images with Photoshop, making it possible for him to reproduce human vision more accurately. This way, he generated a genuine numerical puzzle, in which the pieces, cut out, “drawn again”, come up along on top of the imagination of the artist.
From this technique is issued numerous fascinating and unusual details on which the spectator can dwell on.
For example, the picture here has a lot of people in it. At the site, you can zoom in and see them clear as daylight. http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/voyages-extraordinaires/ -via J-Walk Blog
Got a lemon? Then you'd understand this Chinese businessman's frustration when his Lamborghini Gallardo turned out to be a lemon.
But when he couldn't resolve his problems with the dealership (or even the company), the man didn't suffer silently. No siree, here's what he did (hint: it involved a few sledgehammers): http://luxutopia.com/2011/03/25/chinese-owner-destroyed-own-lamborghini-gallardo-after-bad-service/
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March Madness is sadly over, but the fun for you has just begun! With the Play More Notepad from the NeatoShop you can relive the dream (or your nightmare if you aren't a huge UConn fan)! Till next year March Madness, till next year.
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Who says that geeks can't dance? Well, maybe we don't have rhythm ... but our hands sure can dance! Here's Binary Hand Dance by Vi Hart (who brought us such gems as Doodling in Math Class and The Pi is a Lie).
It's sort of like Daft Hands for nerds!
That's "Toto Mitsumata no Zu," a drawing by artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi, showing a couple of men working to waterproof their boat. It's a fine piece of ukiyo-e style woodblock print and a rather mysterious example of time travel artefact.
You see, the woodblock print, which is dated from 1831, clearly showed the Tokyo Sky Tree being built today:
The ukiyo-e print drew particular attention over mysterious tower depicted on the left part of the work, leading some to surmise that the artist had predicted the emergence of Tokyo Sky Tree in modern times. [...]
The left side of the work shows two thin, high-rise buildings looking down on the town of old Tokyo across the river. The one on the far left is believed to be a fire-watch tower. However, experts say no building as tall as the mysterious one next to it existed back in those days.
Link - via metafilter
After recently updating the exterior queue at the Haunted Mansion, the good folks at Disney World have unveiled some new tricks on the inside as well.
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I offer four hypotheses to explain the awesomeness of this video:
1. A video editor carefully sifted through hours of floor speeches and spliced together the lyrics to Rick Astley's song.
2. The clerks working for the legislators are pulling a huge, well-orchestrated prank.
3. The legislators are reading letters from constituents, who are the true pranksters, into the House record upon request.
4. The legislators themselves are intentionally Rick Rolling their colleagues.
via The Agitator
I'd like to say that Jesse Yuan's guitar reminds me of school lunch food, but it looks too tasty and realistic. Still, an A for effort. Yuan's guitar is one of many submitted by graduate students in design at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Each of the students was given a brand new Fender guitar and told to reshape it according to their own visions. You can see pictures of the other students' work at the link.
Link via Walyou | Photo: Imprint Magazine
Cows that have been modified with human genes are producing milk very similar to human milk. The researchers responsible hope to produce and market a this product as a substitute for human milk. Lead researcher Ning Li explained:
Link via DVICE | Photo (unrelated) by Flickr user Joost J. Bakker IJuiden used under Creative Commons license
"The modified bovine milk is a possible substitute for human milk. It fulfilled the conception of humanising the bovine milk."
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, he added the “human-like milk” would provide “much higher nutritional content”. He said they had managed to produce three generations of GM cows but for commercial production there would need to be large numbers of cows produced.
He said: “Human milk contains the ‘just right’ proportions of protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins for an infant’s optimal growth and development.
Link via DVICE | Photo (unrelated) by Flickr user Joost J. Bakker IJuiden used under Creative Commons license
The picture blog Scaffoldage uses the tagline "Skeletal Archiporn." It's another project from Shaun Usher of Letterheady and Letters of Note. Some of the scaffolds shown are almost works of art; others can frighten or even make you feel woozy. There is no text, but each image is linked to its source. The scaffold shown here was used during construction of the Water Cube built for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. http://www.scaffoldage.com/ -via Metafilter
(Image credit: Flickr user dominique bergeron)
Wait -- a toothed gear that has only one side? Is that even possible? Aaron Hoover, a robotics student at Berkeley, says that it is:
[...] I convinced myself that this mechanism is indeed possible and that with right tools, a functional prototype could be built. (The entire mechanism essentially boils down to an oddly configured set of planetary gears. One can think of the black portion in the image as the ring with a fixed zero input velocity. A single blue gear is a planet, and the white strip is the sun. Output can be taken either from the sun or the planets (with no regard for practicality!). In practice, however, it’s easiest to actuate the Möbius strip (the white portion). So, using a combination of the Scene Language for Dynamic Environments (SLIDE), developed here at Berkeley, Tcl, Python, and Solidworks, I was able to create models of the constituent components. The base was fabricated on a Stratasys fused deposition (FDM) machine and took approximately 86 hrs. to finish. The “spur” gears were molded in silicone rubber using a two-part mold printed on a 3D Systems wax deposition machine (ThermoJet). And the central Möbius strip was also molded using molds printed on the 3DS machine. The Möbius strip was molded as a single linear strip then twisted and the ends were rejoined in a “guiding” mold and additional rubber was poured into that mold to bond the two ends together and form a single continuous ring. The end result is a functional prototype, but rotating the middle ring without having the blue gears pop out is a little tricky.
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ahoover/Moebius.html via Make
