Oh my -a play pretty that plays music! Click the tiles to not only make designs, but listen to them as well. This might take your entire day away. Link -via Bits and Pieces
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Oh my -a play pretty that plays music! Click the tiles to not only make designs, but listen to them as well. This might take your entire day away. Link -via Bits and Pieces
Instructable user randofo outfitted his office chair with a gas detection sensor, then programmed it to publish updates on Twitter whenever a fart is detected! "Office Chair" now has 2,395 followers on Twitter. Here is a sample of the results:
Link to instructions. Link to Twitter feed. -Thanks, Emily Farris!
# I wish I were some other chair
about 15 hours ago from web
# He farted right on me again
about 17 hours ago from web
# allow me to repeat... ppppfffffffffftttttttttttt
about 18 hours ago from web
# Ugh. That was a gross one
about 18 hours ago from web
Link to instructions. Link to Twitter feed. -Thanks, Emily Farris!
Who knew there were so many types of trombones? Douglas Yeo has pictures of all kinds of trombone configurations. Pictured is a buccin, a trombone with a bell ending in a zoomorphic head. Link -via Metafilter
I'm amazed at the different reactions we get from the variety of posts here at Neatorama. Some items have no comments at all; others have discussions that go on for days. The same thing happens at the Neatorama forums and in the Upcoming Queue section. Some discussions are overwhelmingly positive or negative, others feature a lot of differing opinions, and some veer off-topic into something completely different. What kind of web commenter are you? Veteran journalist Michael Malone takes a look at the different types of commenters.
There are a couple of dozen types identified altogether. Link -via Geek Like Me
(image credit: ABC News)
The Troll -- Everyone knows this guy (and it's usually a guy), who intentionally visits sites in order to stir things up, provoke a furious reaction from other posters and then disappear. Classic examples are the Free Republic types who visit Daily Kos and vice versa.
The Skimmer -- The commenter, usually sour, who reads only a headline or sentence of a piece, draws exactly the wrong conclusion, and then embarks on an embarrassing rant.
The Kumbaya -- These folks always show up two-thirds of the way through any heated on-line debate and ask, "Why can't we all just get along?" They are inevitably ignored or trashed.
The Parser -- What would we do without the Internet Grammar Police? These folks assiduously correct the online writings of others -- never quite catching on that the Web is designed to be fast, fresh and sloppy.
There are a couple of dozen types identified altogether. Link -via Geek Like Me
(image credit: ABC News)
Enter your birthdate at Dead At Your Age, and you will find out which famous people died at a younger age than you are now. I don't know if this is supposed to make me feel good or bad, but I found out that I have already outlived Rod Serling and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. I'm sure that I have outlived a lot of other famous people, but those died closest to the age I am today. http://dead.atyourage.com/ -via the Presurfer
People talk about the "misconceptions" they had as children concerning sex and reproduction in the film Kinda Sutra.
Cute and funny, but probably NSFW unless you wear headphones. Link -via Metafilter
Where exactly do babies come from? And how are they really made?
Mixing humorous animation and interviews, Jessica Yu poses these questions to a variety of adults and youngsters who explore their earliest understanding of sex, conception and how the two, uh, intersect.
Cute and funny, but probably NSFW unless you wear headphones. Link -via Metafilter
Colors and flavors come in such a variety that they need super descriptive names. Can you tell which of these twelve names are colors of Pottery Barn paint and which are flavors of Ben & Jerry's ice cream? I went by the rule that if it sounds really delicious, it's probably paint. However, I didn't score all that well, so don't take my advice! http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24573
I made this nifty little word search puzzle featuring Neatorama authors, features, and favorite subjects! See if you can find these words:
You can make your own custom word search, too! Link -via Bits and Pieces
When Bailey the retriever went to the veterinary clinic in Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England, the doctor thought he had a tumor. What veterinarian Keith Moore found inside the dog was five golf gloves, ten socks, one stocking, and part of a towel!
Moore believes Bailey must have been eating laundry for years to accumulate such a mass. The dog has fully recovered from surgery and acts like a puppy again. Link -via Arbroath
"Vets obviously do a fair number of foreign object removals but I doubt I will ever see anything like this again in my career.
“Even for us, from a vet’s point of view, it was pretty amazing.
“It was like doing a magic trick. We were just pulling out one sock after another,” he joked.
Moore believes Bailey must have been eating laundry for years to accumulate such a mass. The dog has fully recovered from surgery and acts like a puppy again. Link -via Arbroath
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Kacie Kinzer's Tweenbots experiment is less about robots and more about human nature. She designed small cardboard robots with smiling faces that will move only forward. Kinzer then would set a robot down in an area of New York City with a flag that indicated its destination. The only way it could get "home" was with the help of passers-by. People really came through! Over several months and many missions, each time a robot got stuck or headed in the wrong direction, someone would set it straight or otherwise helped it along its way. My question is: would people have helped a robot that wasn't so cute? Link -via Gizmodo
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48-year-old Susan Boyle always dreamed of becoming a professional singer. When she walked out on the stage of the TV show Britain's Got Talent, no one expected her to do well.
Miss Boyle told presenters Ant and Dec that she lived alone with just her cat Pebbles for company. She said: ‘I’ve never had a boyfriend. I’ve never even been kissed.’
She then stomped across the stage and began clumsily gyrating her hips towards the judges, prompting laughter from the audience.
But you can't always depend on first impressions. Link
One of America's largest bra makers says that three years ago, the most common size in the country was 36C. Last year it was 36D. In 2009, Wacoal predicts that 36DD will be the size more women purchase than any other.
Link -via Digg
Illustration by Alison Seiffer.
Theories abound as to why women’s cups seem to be (forgive the pun) spilling over. Some ascribe the difference to a confluence of health and beauty trends that have accelerated over time. A 2007 study of adult women by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the prevalence of obesity — someone having a body mass index of 30 or more — has increased 2.1 percent since 2004, to 35.3 percent. Breast augmentation, too, is still a popular procedure, despite the recession. And age and hormones play havoc with baby boomers’ bust sizes, as well. But most manufacturers and lingerie shop owners say the phenomenon is due to the fact that more women are being fitted correctly. They call it the Oprah effect. Since 2005, when Oprah Winfrey devoted a show to how to buy the right size bra, the number of women seeking bra fittings has soared.
Link -via Digg
Illustration by Alison Seiffer.
The US Postal Service will begin selling stamps featuring The Simpsons on May 7th. The first-class stamps will be worth 44 cents each.
“This is the biggest and most adhesive honor The Simpsons has ever received,” said Matt Groening, creator and executive producer of The Simpsons.
Link -via J-Walk Blog
Great-grandmother Josephine Mandamin, an Anishinabe elder from Thunder Bay, Ontario has seen the decline of the Great Lakes due to pollution, and decided to do something to bring the world's attention to the problem. She began walking around the lakes six years ago, and has covered 17,000 kilometers so far.
The Great Lakes provide drinking water to 35 million people. Link to story. Link to Mother Earth Water Walk website. -via Nag on the Lake
Illustration by Brian Hughes.
In the Anishinabe tradition, women fetch the water. So, in 2003, when Mandamin was "moved by the spirits" to speak out for the Great Lakes, it was natural for her to pick up her copper pail and start walking. She decided to circle the lakes and tell people that "the water is sick ... and people need to really fight for that water, to speak for that water, to love that water."
Every spring since, Mandamin and a small band of followers have walked around one of the lakes. Next weekend they depart from the Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre here to walk up the St. Lawrence River. Their mission will end where the lakes' water pours into the Atlantic Ocean (bearing so much poison that a quarter of the male beluga whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence have cancer).
At every tributary, Mandamin stops and talks directly to the water, offering prayers, tobacco and thanks. "I've heard so many times, `You're crazy...'" she says. "But we know it's not a crazy thing we're doing; we know it's for the betterment of the next generations."
The Great Lakes provide drinking water to 35 million people. Link to story. Link to Mother Earth Water Walk website. -via Nag on the Lake
Illustration by Brian Hughes.
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