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Yay! It's time for some video clips from VideoSift and today's selection is all about comedians. Enjoy!
Bacon Jokes | |
Two-year-old Stephen Colbert Protégé | |
Would You Take Fruit from a Snake? | |
SNL Digital Short: Andy Punches Full Recovery! Link | |
Stephen Colbert for President '08 He's only running in South Carolina and he'd run as both a Democrat and a Republican, so he could lose twice! |
For more the web's most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.
Let's take a little break from LOLcats and take a look at what I think is one of the strangest scenes in exploitation film history: When Cats Attack in Sweet Sugar (1973) with Phyllis Davis.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks sal!
Argentinian-born artist Cesar Saez is building a giant banana, to be filled with helium and floated in a geostationary orbit over Texas:
Basically, the banana will be constructed like a blimp. Filled with helium, it will float between 30 and 50 km up in the sky. It will have a semi-rigid structure made of bamboo and a skin made with synthetic paper. Thanks to extra load in gas and a valve system, it will keep its shape at all times. The final size of the piece will be 300 meters in length. The expected launching date is August 2008 from around Baja or Sonora, north-west of Mexico. The total costs for this project is roughly estimated at one million dollars.
Link - via [flasher] and Boing Boing
Popular Science just released its annual Bottom 10 List of Worst Job in Science. Making its debut at no. 10 is this: whale poop researcher.
“Brown stain ahoy!” is not the cry most mariners long to hear, but for Rosalind Rolland, a senior researcher at the New England Aquarium in Boston, it’s a siren song. Rolland, along with a few lucky research assistants, combs Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy looking for endangered North Atlantic right whales. Actually, she’s not really looking for the whales—just their poo. “It surprised even me how much you can learn about a whale through its feces,” says Rolland, who recently published the most complete study of right whales ever conducted. “You can test for pregnancy, measure hormones and biotoxins, examine its genetics. You can even tell individuals apart.”
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0203101256a23110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html - via GorillaMask
Aberron of Fogonazos has an interesting article on Niagara Falls daredevils, like this one:
On October 1st 1995, Robert Overacker, a 39-year-old man from California, went over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls on a single jet ski. Entering the Niagara River near the Canadian Niagara Power Plant, he started skiing toward the Falls. At the brink, he attempted to discharge a rocket propelled parachute that was on his back. It failed to discharge. His brother and a friend witnessed the stunt. His body was recovered by a tourists ship.
Link - Thanks Aberron!
Thanks to Dan Piraro, we have another Bizarro caption contest. Funniest caption wins a Free Neatorama T-Shirt. Contest rule: one caption per comment, make it funny but please keep it civil. You can submit multiple comments.
Update 4/13/07: Wow! A lot of great stuff here, guys - Congrats to Sean Wagoner #11 who came up with the winning caption:
“On the weather forecast for the afternoon, clear, red skies with a chance of hellfire and brimstone.â€
This week's collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this amazing picture of a solar eclipse in 2006:
This photo was taken last year by Miloslav Druckmuller and Peter Aniol from the Libyan desert. It is a composite of 231 photos taken with a battery of 5 cameras on a variety of telescopic lenses ranging in focal lengths from 200mm to 1680mm.
The multiple shots were necessary to catch different aspects of the eclipse that one shot could not. One camera's exposure must be set to capture the face of the moon. Another must be set for the coronal rays, one to capture stars….etc etc.
Notice how far the coronal rays flare out!!
This small picture really doesn't do it justice: to see how amazing the pic really is, go to Cellar Image of the Day: Link.
In 2003, [redacted on request] and British artist Sasha Constable teamed up on a sculpture project to turn weapons destroyed by the Cambodian government into ... furniture!
Link - Thanks Kevin!
Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado created some really mind-blowingly awesome pencil carvings! http://www.infofreako.com/jad/enpitsu-e.html - via Say No to Crack
See also: Pencil Art by Jennifer Maestre and Carved Crayons by Pete Goldlust.
The heart cloud is from The Cloud Appreciation Society, blogged previously on Neatorama here.
Photo: George Fetting
Australian amateur pilot and flight sim enthusiast Matthew Sheil spent 10 years and $230,000 to create a homemade flight simulator that precisely mimics the 747 cockpit down to the last dial, knob, and switch!
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/0c17921ff7390110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/2.html | Matthew's website (tons more photos, but I can only see 'em in IE, not Firefox)
When Ben Underwood was 2 years old, his eyes were surgically removed because of cancer. Since then, he has somehow mastered echolocation, the way bats and dolphins use sound to navigate.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], or read more about this remarkable teenager: CBS News | People Magazine | ABC
News - via haha.nu,
Thanks Dan!
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