Kirk Demarais from Arkansas has created a series of lovely paintings of notable movie families as his contribution to this year’s Crazy 4 Cult art show.
What a strange and wonderful television commercial! Ray Bradbury predicts travel via pneumatic tubes by the year 2001 - and becomes an unwitting prune spokesperson to boot. [YouTube]
Talk about getting your photo’s lighting right! Lightmark is a fantastic series of playful photographs by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke. The duo took long exposures of lights to create some amazing effects.
This one above, humbly titled No. 24, was done in Diasec, Harz, Germany.
A woman accused of killing her two-year-old nephew may have found a strange way to avoid jail … by being too fat:
Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, from La Jola, Texas, is bedridden and weighs nearly 1,000lbs. But she cannot get through her front door to be taken to jail and, later, court. [...]
The morbidly obese woman has since been photographed and finger-printed at home but released on a "personal recognizance bond" because of the logistics problem.
The local sheriff at Hidalgo County, Lupe Trevino, says it would be impossible to keep her in jail pending her trial because she needs extensive medical care.
The authorities in ShanXi province, China, have had enough of people speeding so they decided to build the ultimate "speed bump":
In an effort to stop speeders once and for all, they built a 100 foot long and 2 foot high winding speed block in the middle of the Jing Zhuang highway.
Unfortunately for the drivers, the speed bump is so narrow that a large number of cars end up scraping against the side even when driving careful. The speed bump has also taken the 2 lane highway down to a single lane, which has resulted in daily traffic jams.
A 61-year-old woman in Japan has just given birth … to her own granddaughter!
The unnamed woman, who is now thought to hold the record as the oldest Japanese woman ever to give birth successfully, undertook the controversial treatment at the Suwa Maternity Clinic – an institution that has already sparked fierce debate over the rights and wrongs of surrogate motherhood. [...]
Yesterday’s successful treatment involved the woman having her daughter’s already fertilized egg implanted in her womb. The entire family is understood to have agreed to undergo the process, despite its difficulties, because the woman’s daughter was born without ovaries and unlike many young women in Japan, was keen to have children.
It’s by no means scientific, but the poll at YesNoGod.com is trying to illuminate how belief in God differs around the world: Link - via Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival
If you’re overweight and work for the State of Alabama, it’ll soon cause you $25 to work every month. Alabama, ranked third fattest in the nation (behind Mississippi and West Virginia) will be the first to charge state workers for not slimming down:
The state has given its 37,527 employees a year to start getting fit or they’ll pay $25 a month for insurance that otherwise is free. [...]
The State Employees’ Insurance Board this week approved a plan to charge state workers starting in January 2010 if they don’t have free health screenings.
If the screenings turn up serious problems with blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose or obesity, employees will have a year to see a doctor at no cost, enroll in a wellness program or take steps on their own to improve their health. If they show progress in a follow-up screening, they won’t be charged. But if they don’t, they must pay starting in January 2011.
We all hate spam, but this particular text message advertisement from a debt management company turned out to be deadly:
A text advert from a debt management company may have led to a young man’s death, an inquest heard.
Distracted John Daglish, 22, walked into the path of a car, seconds after receiving the message.
His mobile phone, which had been in his hand when he was struck, was found smashed on the carriageway beside him. His family revealed the text that flashed on his phone was an unsolicited ad from a debt company.
Maysam Ghovanloo of Georgia Tech and colleagues are working on a new type of "keyboard" for the disabled: the human tongue!
Georgia Tech researchers believe a magnetic, tongue-powered system could transform a disabled person’s mouth into a virtual computer, teeth into a keyboard — and tongue into the key that manipulates it all.
"You could have full control over your environment by just being able to move your tongue," said Maysam Ghovanloo, a Georgia Tech assistant professor who leads the team’s research.
The group’s Tongue Drive System turns the tongue into a joystick of sorts, allowing the disabled to manipulate wheelchairs, manage home appliances and control computers. The work still has a ways to go — one potential user called the design "grotesque" — but early tests are encouraging.
The system is far from the first that seeks a new way to control electronics through facial movements. But disabled advocates have particularly high hopes that the tongue could prove the most effective.
We featured Oleksiy’s homemade latte art printer before on Neatorama. Now, due to overwhelming response, he and Josh Grob have formed a company called OnLatte to market the Latte Art Machines!
Wanderlust is an excellent web feature by GOOD Magazine where you can trace and explore some of history’s most celebrated journeys.
Included are Lewis and Clark’s expedition, the flight of Amelia Earhart, Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe, and more: Link [Flash] - Thanks Jon Jason!
During the Cold War, the Unites States and the Soviet Union raced to see who would reach the moon first. But they also competed going the other way -drilling down through the earth. Both countries wanted to bore all the way through the Earth’s crust to reach the mantle. The Soviets went down seven miles, and dug the earth’s deepest hole.
At the Kola Institute, pictured, the Russians drilled for more than 15 years to reach a crust depth of 40,226 feet, a record that’s never been broken. But however successful the mission was as an exploration, the geological findings from the site remain murky and obscured by the way they emanated out of the fading Soviet scientific machine.
Stanford geologist and drilling expert, Mark Zoback, said that the Kola borehole was “an anomaly” even within the rather grandiose field of superdeep drilling projects.
Martha Stewart has put her name on an astounding array of products, from the truly mundane to the totally inexplicable.
Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to guess which products can be found and purchased at Martha Stewart’s website. No fair peeking! I only guessed four out of ten, because I didn’t peek!Link
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A woman accused of killing her two-year-old nephew may have found a strange way to avoid jail … by being too fat:
The authorities in ShanXi province, China, have had enough of people speeding so they decided to build the ultimate "speed bump": 
A 61-year-old woman in Japan has just given birth … to her own granddaughter!
Hot or not? An Italian priest invites readers to decide:
If you’re overweight and work for the State of Alabama, it’ll soon cause you $25 to work every month. Alabama, ranked third fattest in the nation (behind Mississippi and West Virginia) will be the first to charge state workers for not slimming down:
We all hate spam, but this particular text message advertisement from a debt management company turned out to be deadly:
Maysam Ghovanloo of Georgia Tech and colleagues are working on a new type of "keyboard" for the disabled: the human tongue!
We featured Oleksiy’s 
Wanderlust is an excellent web feature by GOOD Magazine where you can trace and explore some of history’s most celebrated journeys.
During the Cold War, the Unites States and the Soviet Union raced to see who would reach the moon first. But they also competed going the other way -drilling down through the earth. Both countries wanted to bore all the way through the Earth’s crust to reach the mantle. The Soviets went down seven miles, and dug the earth’s deepest hole.
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