Archive for July, 2008
July 31, 2008 at 9:52 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Gail posted about whale flatulence before on Neatorama, and there’s just no way I can top that bubble. So here’s something else: a Beluga whale blowing bubbles!
A beluga whale blows bubbles at an aquarium in Japan to the delight of visitors who have come by the thousands to view the spectacle.
The whale is one of three that learned the trick from scuba divers, who give the whales breaths from regulators to enable the whales to blow the bubbles.
Link - thanks Zella Panossian!
(Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Original post by Alex
July 31, 2008 at 9:50 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
To illustrate just how much automated translators still have to go, Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped used Google and Babelfish to translate Garfield from English to Chinese and then back to English. The results are fantastically non-sensical, and in some cases, probably funnier than what Jim Davis originally drew!
Link - Thanks Philipp!
Original post by Alex
July 31, 2008 at 9:50 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The Mona Leia by Jim Hance
Jim Hance of Strangely Drawn wrote to us about his pop-culture and parody art (a lot of Star Wars, Tarantino, and other movie-inspired paintings). This one above, titled the Mona Leia, is currently for sale for $1225.
Link - thanks Jim!
Original post by Alex
July 31, 2008 at 9:49 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
MyNeighbourhood is a Google Map-styled website that identify assaults, muggings, and burglaries in towns and villages in England and Wales.
The UK Home Office said that the website will give citizens the details of every crime in every quarters, while some are concerned that neighborhoods would be stigmatized and victims’ rights to privacy would be breached:
In West Yorkshire, one of the leading forces in the scheme, categories include anti-social behaviour and "youth nuisance" - such as street drinking, skateboarding, shouting & swearing, letting off fireworks, climbing on buildings, false 999 calls, graffiti and dropping litter.
Offences are identified using dots on maps.
In the West Midlands, householders can enter their postcodes and zoom into the map to a street level, where the different crime types would be represented in coloured zones, showing levels of monthly crime and how much they have increased in the past 12 months.
Links: MyNeighborhood website | Telegraph Article - [...]
Original post by Alex
July 31, 2008 at 9:48 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Photo: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn
This amazing photo of the Milky Way over Binbrook, Ontario, Canada, was taken by Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn of Weather and Sky Photography:
I was really lucky that the the water was beautiful and still enough so that the stars casted a nice reflection in the water. In this shot you can also see Jupiter, various nebulas in the MilkyWay, Rho Ophiuchus and the light dome from a distant town.
A little photoshoppery is involved, but the photo is outright gorgeous: Link (Don’t forget to check out the rest of her work!) - via APOD
Original post by Alex
July 31, 2008 at 7:48 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Despite the ho-hum and hu-ha of naysayers, telly and Internet ain’t such a bad thing. It sure gives humans more info and better survival capabilities.
Take this poor kangaroo for instance. For some inexplicable reason, he stared off into the vast horizon for a while before doing a few cute bounces into the big, scary sea.
You can see why this was be wrong on so many levels. Can he swim, the mildly finicky may ask. “What about horrid sea currents that pull you in”, the fretting parents who hover over their children will wonder. Of course, the avid movie watcher will say, “what about the damn sharks?”
Yea, apparently minutes into this swimming adventure little bouncy was attacked by a shark. Ouch. That’s terrible and you honestly feel bad for the kangaroo.
Sadly, the odds were all against him.
For instance, there probably was a “Watch out, no swimming, sharks about” sort of [...]
Original post by Maria
July 31, 2008 at 7:11 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Every August, as Japanese spirits return en masse from the otherworld, Tokyo’s Zenshoan temple exhibits a spine-chilling collection of 19th-century ghost scroll paintings. Here are a few. (Click the “+” under each image to enlarge.)
Ghost [+] // Sea Monster [+]
“Ghost” by Iijima Koga is a portrait of a floating, kimono-clad female apparition with all the ghastly physical features you hope to find in an undead spirit — bony hands, a head of stringy hair, and a pained grimace revealing a mouth full of black teeth. “Sea Monster” by Utagawa Hoen depicts an umi-bozu lurking near a boat anchored at shore, with the moon located precisely where the monster’s mouth should be.
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The Ghost of a Blind Female Street Singer [+]
Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Ghost of a Blind Female Street Singer” portrays the restless spirit of a street performer, one white unseeing eye wide open, carrying a shamisen [...]
Original post by Edo
July 31, 2008 at 5:51 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Courtesy of Reuters, which has other ancient jokes as well:
It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”
image via flickr user rosemanios
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Original post by John
July 31, 2008 at 4:19 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Yay! It’s time for our collaboration with the What is it? blog. Can you guess what this gruesome tool is used for?
Place your guess in the comment section - No prize (that’s next week!) you’re playing for fame and glory today.
For bigger picture, check out What is it? blog.
Original post by Alex
July 31, 2008 at 3:52 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The You Are Beautiful project made an installation on a fence using disposable cups in late 2003. They returned to find the cups had been moved over and over again, shown in a series of photographs. Click each picture at the link to advance to the next photo. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend
Original post by Miss Cellania
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