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Artist Jeremiah Palecek of Net Surrealism, whom we've featured on Neatorama before, wrote to us about his new project: painting Internet memes!
This one is the famous Dramatic Prairie Dog. He's also got the diet coke with mentos, Tom
Cruise's scientology video and the techno viking.
Link - Thanks Jeremiah!
Regina Rickert of At Close Range Photography sent us this amazing picture of an albino alligator named King Louie just hangin' at the Louisville Zoo:
King Louie is a six foot long white alligator. I took this photo of him at the Louisville Zoo this summer. He is an albino American alligator. According to the zoo's website, he doesn't move very often or very far. This proved to be true the day I visited him. He never moved once. =)
Link - Thanks Regina!
Sean Ragan created a visual map of his favorite choose-your-own-adventure book, The Mystery of Chimney Rock by Edward Packard (1979). In this directed graph, each page is a node and the arrows are page choices.
Link - Thanks Sean!
Hooray! Today's Neatorama and Hobotopia Caption Monkey is a special one: You get to caption what Pip and Meowlin Q. Kitteh are saying in this Laugh-Out-Loud Cats drawing by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.
Funniest caption will win the original drawing, with caption inked in. Game rules: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, but you can enter as many as ou can think of. You can also vote for your favorite caption, just not your own (duh!)
Need an inspiration? Check out more of Adam's excellent work on his blog and Flickr pool. Good luck!
Update 3/13/08: Adam has picked teh winnarz!Congrats to v.dog #179 who won the original drawing!
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! This 6-month-old baby, born at normal weight in Tehran, Iran, weighs 20 kg (44 lb). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] (does anyone know what they were saying?)
"Who invented the brush they put next to the toilet? That thing hurts!"
- Andy Andrews, author
New Zealand artist Lisa Black does a little taxidermy work - but she doesn't do just any stuffed (I suppose professional taxidermists prefer the term"mounted") animal ... they're borgs!
See her steampunk baby crocodile, duckling, ferret and of course the fawn above here: Link - via porphyre
Previously on Neatorama: Gruesome Taxidermy by Sarina Brewer | Fiendish Curiosities | Unusual Taxidermy of Dr. Seuss
When he was growing up, Kirk Demarais of Secret Fun Blog always had the funnest birthday cakes. His mom is quite talented when it comes to baking and decorating cakes.
Kirk shares with the world the fantastic cake his mom made for the first 14 birthdays he had. I quite like the low-key, yet so deliciously retro (well, now - I suppose at the time it was pretty modern) Asteroids birthday cake above.
In his blog, Rex Parker solves and dissects the New York Times crossword puzzle.
In fact, he's a little obsessed with this crossword puzzly thingy (every day he solves the New York Times, New York Sun, La Times, CrosSynergy, Newsday, Universal, and USA Today puzzles. That's not all, there are other special puzzles that he solves on a daily basis - those are just the ones he solves regularly)
I can't even solve Monday's NYT puzzle. I'm a weakling.
Link - via Pop Culture Junk Mail
In case the original 7 deadly sins aren't enough for you, the Vatican has come up with seven additional "social" sins to be wary of:
The seven social sins are:
1. ``Bioethical' violations such as birth control
2. ``Morally dubious'' experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty
While we're on the subject, Harvard psychology professor Daniel L. Schacter has classified memory's failings into the 7 sins of memory: transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias and persistence.
PsyBlog has a neat (and long) dissection of these various "sins," some which I know I commit all the time (absent-mindedness, I'm talking to you!):
"Memory itself is an internal rumour." --George Santayana
The word rumour captures an aspect of memory perfectly. When we delve backwards, moments never return in their original clarity; they return as rumours of the original event. Faces have been switched, names deleted, words edited - sometimes it's as though we weren't even there.
Psychologists have found that right from the moment an event occurs, is laid down in memory (or not), to the moment we try to retrieve it (or can't), our minds are fallible. Harvard psychologist Professor Daniel L. Schacter has classified memory's slips, ambiguities and downright lies into the 'seven sins of memory': transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias and persistence (Schacter, 1999).
But despite these 'sins', we still get by. Memory is what makes us who we are. Practically it enables us to function in everyday life. Without it we would be lost, like those with severe amnesia who can't remember who they are or achieve even the simplest of tasks. So how can memory's fallibility be reconciled with its abilities?
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/7-sins-of-memory-complete-guide.php - via Mind Hacks
Superman has a pet monkey named Beppo.
Beppo was originally a test animal used by Superman's father Jor-El to develop a spaceship. The monkey stowed away on board of the craft when it launched baby Kal-El to earth.
Because it's from Krypton, Beppo the monkey had super powers ... that it used for mischief! Superboy had to lead the super monkey into deep space and left him there.
Barbara Sue Manire, who died in 2005, had a great sense of humor. Her tombstone has a parking meter with time expired (of course). Snopes has the scoop:
blockquote>The above-displayed [picture does] show the Okemah, Oklahoma, gravesite of one Barbara Sue Manire, who passed away on her 64th birthday in 2005 and is now interred at Highland Cemetery beneath a whimsical symbol of time expired: a parking meter with a "64 year time limit." (Her headstone also bears the legend "OUR MOM ... HER HUMOR LIVES ON.")
As Barbara Sue's daughter, Sherri Ann Weeks, explained, the unusual decorative feature at the gravesite was indeed her mother's idea:
Mom always said she wanted a parking meter with 'time expired.' And she watned to be on the front row of the cemetery so she could see what was going on. We gave her what she wanted.
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