Photo: get_debashish [Flickr]
Neatoramanaut Debashish Paul took a photo of a section of Hogenakkal Falls in South India that has a face of a mustachiod man. I know, I know, it's just pareidolia (the tendency of human brains to see familiar images and faces in objects), but it's still very cool!
Here's a tribute song titled Nugget Man by Paul Sabourin and Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo of the musical duo Paul and Storm, memorializing Robert C. Baker.
Robert who? You may not know the man, but you surely know of his invention: Robert C. Baker invented the chicken nugget (nicknamed the "Thomas Edison of poultry," he's also a member of the American Poultry Hall of Fame. Sort of like the Baseball Hall of Fame, but for chicken).
From the song:
Robert C. Baker died on a Monday
We all know his work, although few knew his name
A Cornell professor who taught poultry science
Forever enshrined in the poultry Hall of Fame
84 years worth of food innovations:
Chicken dogs, turkey dogs and turkey ham
Beyond them all stands Baker’s greatest creation
For Baker begat chicken nuggets for manO, Nugget Man
O, Nugget Man
Headin’ on down to that old Promised Land
Happy the meals all have been since the day
That the Nugget Man came our way
The Zeray Gazette has the video clip: Link
Our very own Stacy Conradt has some unwelcome house guests, so naturally she blogged about it.
We saw them in broad daylight on Sunday morning – it’s a mama and three babies. I don’t know if it had been the babies’ first night out hunting or if they fell off the roof or what, but there were two of them down on the ground and one of them up on the roof. The kids were too little to get back up on the roof themselves, so the mama was down on the ground trying to help them. The one up on the roof was freaking out because everyone else was down on the ground and he was trying really hard to get down to them – at one point he was hanging off of our gutter by one paw! It was amazing. And the whole time the babies were making these cooing noises; they kind of sounded like pigeons.
The mama finally climbed our magnolia tree to get to the one on the roof and dragged him off back to their hidey-hole in our roof. Maybe I am anthropomorphizing too much, but I swear she had this attitude like, “Look, I told you to stay put. If you can’t follow instructions, I’m putting you back to bed.” It was a very no-nonsense kind of a thing. So she got him tucked away and went back to the ones on the ground. They managed to shinny their way up the fence and run along the top of it, but one of them didn’t quite have his balance so she picked him up too. They disappeared over into the neighbors’ yard and that’s the last we saw of them.
Now I've never had the pleasure of hosting raccoons in my roof (and I hope I never will), but thanks to Stacy I now know that they can't resist marshmallows: Link
I've heard of their existence for years, but I've never seen one quite like this: behold the backpack vacuum cleaner that you wear.
Seems like it's a better idea than dragging a heavy upright model around the house, right?
GeekAlerts has the details: Link
After you've hunted your mate and got him to agree to marry you, what's a good huntress to do about her wedding dress?
Here's a custom-designed camouflage wedding dress by Erika Sárközi that will surely strike fear into the heart of the prey, ... er groom. (Photography: visual Images)
Many more Camouflage Wedding photos at Tacky Weddings | More Terribly Trashy Tuxes at Rue the Day!
Photo: pyza* [Flickr]
This week's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey photo of a hamster named Piórko came to us via the always awesome Cute Overload. I think there's more to this hamster than meets the eye.
As usual, the funniest caption will win a free black and white custom Monkey drawing from Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Game rules are simple: place your caption in the comment. One caption per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like.
And "You shall not pass" is taken, mmkay? Oh, by the way, that phrase is a variation of a World War I propaganda slogan "They shall not pass" made famous in the Battle of Verdun on the Western Front. J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, was himself a soldier who fought during World War I.
Be sure to check out Adam's blog for inspiration. Good luck!
Update 6/23/09 - Adam has picked the winner! Congratulations to JB who won with this caption: I don’t mind the baths, but do you have to BLOW DRY?!?
Photo: designboom
French designer Chloe Ruchon took the manly game of foosball and gave it a decidedly feminine twist: she used Barbie dolls as the foos men!
Chloe's table, Barbie Foot, was made in collaboration with Mattel and foosball manufacturer Baby-foot Bonzini. It was showcased in the DMY Berlin Design Festival 2009.
Think that the person yakking on his cell phone while driving in the car next to you is bad? He's nothing compared to this dancing Romanian driver! How on Earth did he get his license?!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Information Nation
The Chrysanthemum is a centerpiece designed by South African designer Michaella Janse van Vuuren. It's a combination of bowl/candle holder made with rapid prototyping (and manufacturing) using laser, so it's a perfect combination of art and engineering:
The centrepiece reflects my passion for the textures, shapes and patterns found in nature. I especially like to interpret those objects that have a repetitive mathematically founded pattern. Some objects are immediately recognisable, such as the Chrysanthemum, others are more abstract. Direct 3-dimensional manufacturing methods, such as selective laser sintering (SLS) used to create the Chrysanthemum allows me to design intricate textures and objects. These textures and objects would have been impossible to execute by hand, yet the centrepiece still retains the beauty and tactile feeling of a natural object.
The Chrysanthemum is directly manufactured with the EOS P380 using the PA2200 polyamide material.
Link - via Why Me Design
Finally! After all these years, the secret of the source of Donald Duck's laugh (rabid chuckle? mad chatter?) has been revealed! You'd never guess where it comes from ...
A Welsh View has the video clip: Link [embedded YouTube clip]
OK, we're way behind on this news but I think its sheer strangeness will help overcome our tardiness: food company Del Monte asked 1,000 British women which celebrity is the coolest and James Bond star Daniel Craig won the vote. So, true to their words, Del Monte made a Daniel Craig-shaped popsicle!
Del Monte Superfruit Smoothies, who produced the limited edition replica lollies, said artists ‘worked tirelessly’ to recreate a sculpture of 41-year-old Craig in the scene where he emerges from the sea in Casino Royale.
‘Daniel Craig topped our poll of Britain’s coolest celebrities and thanks to our Del Monte lolly replica he is officially immortalised as super smooth and licensed to chill,’ said spokesman Matt O’Connor.
Silly women, I'd have picked Ricky Gervais. More popsicle that way.
Link - via Dom's Weird News
After 10 years of teaching art at the Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia, Chuck Dillon has seen just about every type of art student. So, in a post is certainly going to be a classic, here's Chuck's classification of the 20 types of art student.
Which one are you? Link - via Laughing Squid
While it's debatable on whether marijuana will lead to harder drugs, it's now fact that it can lead to laziness.
Here's the story of a postman who got so lazy after smoking so much pot that he decided to burn mail instead of delivering it:
Neil Goddard, 32, was given a 12-month sentence after he set up a huge cannabis factory in his bedroom and managed to cultivate 8,000 pounds of the drug.
But he smoked so much of it over a year-old period that he was too high to bother delivering thousands of items of post.
So let's revise that (unofficial) postal service motto: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, but pot surely can!"
This week's collaboration with the always fun What is it? Blog brings us this strange tool. Can you guess what it is for? Hint: it has a very specific use, and it's not what you're thinking about.
Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you're playing for fame and glory. Please post no URL, so others can play.
Be sure t check out the What is it? Blog for more hints. Good luck!
Update 6/26/09 - the answer is: A life raft bullet hole plug, it was part of a kit for a life raft that was carried on an airplane or large ship.