There are good cats and bad cats on video, but there’s something very appealing about November, who sticks with his treadmill routine longer than most humans. Hit play or go to YouTube.
It Punkin Chunkin time! The 2006 World Championship will be held November 3-5 in Sussex County, Delaware. Contestants build complex contraptions to shoot or fling pumpkins to amazing distances. For a demonstration from 2004, hit play or go to YouTube. There’s also a pumpkin cooking contest, a chili cookoff, and a concert. Link -via Miss Cellania
Enter your first name and last name, and the database will tell you how many people with your name live in the USA. You’ll also get some interesting trivia about your name. I entered my legal name and my professional name and got similar results, common, but not too common. Then I entered my online persona, Miss Cellania and got a big fat zero! Link -via Yesbutnobutyes
Computer user Sc4freak experimented with “submersion-cooling†and made himself some French fries at the same time. He literally deep-fried his computer while using it! Link
This 5-year-old girl named Muskaan skated underneath 40 cars last Thursday in Gwalior, India, demonstrating awesome flexibility, control, and courage. To see the feat, hit play or go to YouTube. More details about her are available on this earlier video...when she was only four!
Most people are familiar with Michael Jackson’s groundbreaking video for the song Thriller. Lately, we’ve also seen the video in different forms, such as the Thriller in Legos, Thriller in Second Life, and the Bollywood style (although its a different song). But nothing beats a live public recreation! Every October, Mecca Dance Studio and Gallery stages a resurrection of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video in the streets of downtown Lexington, Kentucky. See a video of last year’s performance here, and a Flickr photoset here.
This year’s event is set for October 22nd. Participation is free and open to the public. However, they would like you attend the rehearsals.
Every room at the Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin is decorated in a completely different style. These rooms are works of art! You can see each room at the website. Here’s just one:
In both coffins you can even slumber beneath closed lids! Exclusively connoisseur room for all those "Nosferatus" who cannot wait for that which awaits us all. Whosoever has second thoughts can creep to the bedplace below, safe within the labyrinth. Not only a unique experience for Gothic die-hards...an exquisite location on top of that!
I found quite a few rooms I'd prefer over the coffin room!
One of my favorite online toys is the Anagram Genius. Enter a word, phrase, or your name and see what anagram it gives you. Remember, the more letters you give it, the more clever the anagram should be.
'Neatorama' anagrams to 'O Man! A rate.'
'Henry David Thoreau' anagrams to 'Another heavy druid.'
'Miss Cellania at Neatorama' anagrams to 'So alienate maniacal smart.'
I hope that last one doesn't mean anything.
An ad from the Dove Real Beauty campaign, highlighting the difficulty of looking like a model. Other Dove videos on the subject of young girls’ self-esteem can be found here and here, plus my thoughts on the campaign from last year.
via J-Walk Blog
Lend an extra-special spooky touch to your Halloween party or haunted house with a jar of glowing water. You can make it yourself, with step-by-step directions from Instructables.
Link | via Grow-a-Brain
Since you’re going to throw dirty clothing on the floor anyway, throw it in the general direction of the Laundry Rug! When you’ve accumulated a decent pile of dirty laundry, just pick it up by the side handles. A drawstring around the edge converts the rug into a bag, as you head to mom’s house... or the laundromat.
http://www.urbanjunkie.co.uk/product.php/189/0/ | via Swiss Miss
The First International Collection of Tongue Twisters has thousands of hard-to-say phrases in 108 languages. See if you can wrap your tongue around these:
Romanian
S-a suit capra pe piatra si a spart-o-n patru, de s-ar sparge capul caprei ca si piatra-n patru.
Vietnamese
ba` ba ba'n bou'n bo` bien bo? bien?, ba` bi. ban. bo^- bit. ba` ba~'n be^? bo^.ng ba^u ba`.
Somali
waxaan faley waan faleyba
waxaanaan falin waad fashey
maxaad iigu fashishay
English
Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.
Link | via Ursi’s Blog
Turn a regular pumpkin in to something special with Ray’s Pumpkin-Carving Tutorial, featuring wonderful 3-d carved images. If you can recreate these works of art, you’ll be the envy of the neighborhood! http://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm | via J-Walk Blog
The Whitney Music Box is a musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "Digital Harmony". The dots are arranged to trigger notes on a chromatic scale when they pass the line. The dots are each timed to a different speed, but they synchronize themselves at constant intervals. Its a bit hard to describe, but you'll love seeing it in action. There are 17 music box variations.
Take a look at your calendar. Tomorrow is Friday the 13th!
You may not take drastic safety precautions every Friday the 13th, but are you totally immune to the superstition? Given the choice, would you get married, start a new job or close on a house on Friday the 13th? Most Americans wouldn't, even though they don't put much stock in the idea. Superstition has a way of creeping up on people when they're in a particularly vulnerable state.
How Stuff Works explains why we associate Friday the 13th with bad luck. Link
