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Raisin in Champagne Posted: 07 Sep 2008 10:46 PM CDT (YouTube link) Why did I spent so much time trying to make a raisin milkshake when I could’ve been doing something fun like this? It turns out that you can make raisins dance in any kind of carbonated beverage. Link to an explanation. -via YesButNoButYes

Boue’s Big Day Posted: 07 Sep 2008 10:23 PM CDT (Flickr link) If you’ve ever wondered what your dog does while you are at work, this may enlighten you. Flickr user Bill Binns made a video of what his dog did from 8AM to 5PM. Relax, the time-lapse video is only about a minute long. Now I know the meaning of the phrase “It’s a dog’s life”! -via Unique Daily

Art from Pregnant Women’s Bellies Posted: 07 Sep 2008 09:21 PM CDT Artist Tisha DeShields and her company Original Belly Works make decorative fiberglass shells from the protruding bellies of pregnant women. There’s something especially beautiful about a very pregnant woman. But as my wife’s nine months pregnant, I’m partial. Link via Yahoo News, where there’s a video.

Home invasion victim assaulted with sausage; Dog eats evidence Posted: 07 Sep 2008 07:59 PM CDT [pic courtesy of Sausagefest] The Fresno Bee reports: A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed spices over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man on the face and head before running out of the house, Fresno County sheriff’s deputies said Saturday. The suspect, Antonio Vasquez, 22, of Fresno, was unknown to the victims. He was captured hiding in a nearby field minutes after the crime. His identity was confirmed by the police as he accidentally left his wallet in the victims’ home upon fleeing, according to Lt. Ian Burrimond of the Fresno Police Department. Even with his driver’s license seized as evidence, prosecutors may have difficulty convicting Vasquez: Burrimond said the money was recovered, but that the piece of sausage used in the attack was discarded by the suspect and eaten by a dog. “That’s right, the dog ate the weapon,” Burrimond said. Only in Fresno? [The Fresno Bee]

I’ll Never Join the Dark Side of the Moon Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:42 PM CDT What do you get when you mash up Star Wars with Pink Floyd? Here’s a neat wallpaper, titled "I’ll Never Join the Dark Side of the Moon" by James Lillis. Link: Wallpaper size (1600×1200, png format, 74KB) | More of James’ designs at RedBubble - Thanks James!

Green Bears! Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:41 PM CDT Thes bears aren’t early for St. Patrick’s Day - it got its fur stained by algae: Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae. High temperatures in July and August and less-frequent water changes because of the zoo’s conservation efforts caused an algae growth in the bear pond and safety moat, Kurobe said. Algae that enters hollow spaces in the bears’ fur is hard to rinse off, he said. The bears are expected to return to their natural color when the algae growth subsides in November, Kurobe said. Link - Thanks Zacharaius! (Photo: Shuzo Shikano / Kyodo News)

1959 Fiat Millecento: A Classic Car that Gets 40 MPG Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:41 PM CDT Think that you can only get great gas mileage if you buy a hybrid car? Here’s Jay Leno talking about the 1959 Fiat Millecento, who got a whopping 40 MPG - the same as a Prius! This car was bought by a gentleman in Pennsylvania in 1959. In 1962 for whatever reason he put it in his living room - single guy you think? And it stayed there until he died. Sat in his living room for 48 years … Link [video clip] | A list of gas-sipper classics at Cars that Matter - Thanks Renderanything!

Batman Shadow Graffiti Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:40 PM CDT Photo: Rosemary Travale [Flickr] Neatorama reader Rosemary Travale spotted this creative graffiti (technically graffito, I think) near the corner of Iriquois Shore on Trafalgar road in Oakville, Ontario, Canada: Some very creative person noticed the shadow the crosswalk box made resembled Batman’s head so they added in his face to complete it. Very neat street art to come across while walking home at night! Link - Thanks Rosemary!

Teenage Boy Taunted for Wearing Eye Make-Up Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:39 PM CDT Seventeen-year-old Orangeville, Ontario, Canada high school senior Sean Waring is fearful for his safety. So much so that he has taken different routes home every day so his followers won’t know where he lives. Why? He said he’s singled out because of the eye make-up he wears: “I’m not going to stop because of this; it’s just something that’s not going to happen,” Waring says of wearing eye make-up, which he acknowledges is “kind of unusual.” “I would say there’s only two guys in town that actually wear make-up.” The high school senior has been expressing himself through eye make-up for about nine months now. He says he was inspired to don a design on his face by the Jrock music movement in Japan, which he describes as a combination of emo and metal. “It’s all about emotions and what’s going on … but they express it through a visual way,” he says. “Commonly, when I go to school and stuff, everyone listens to the same kind of thing — Metallica and all that. I’m just not into that whole hatred kind of thing. When you listen to Jrock … it’s more exploiting the good side of someone.” Dirty looks, snide comments and threats are commonplace for Waring, who notes they come from a range of age groups. He says he’s even been told by a local business to either wash his face or get out. Of course, he left. Link - Thanks Edi!

Bug Love: Fantastic Photos of Mating Insects Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:37 PM CDT Photo: matteo86photonature [Flickr] Birds do it, bees do it, and the blue-tailed damselflies do it with the nimbleness of acrobats! Scienceray blog has an interesting gallery of mating insects: The incredibly elegant creature pictured above is the Ischnura elegans or the Blue-Tailed Damselfly and is found over much of the European continent. As its English name suggests, it has a large amount of blue coloring. Its eighth segment, however, is entirely blue and it is this which gives this insect its stunning look. The female has diversified in color and can come in pale green, violet and pink. Link - Thanks Taliesyn Jones and Jon Jason! See also Neatorama’s 30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits

TV Character Cubees Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:36 PM CDT Marco Altini makes Cubeecraft (or also lovingly called "cubees") papercraft based on TV series characters. He has characters from 24, Alias, Dexter, Heroes, and many more TV series for you to download, print, cut, and fold for free. Link - Thanks Marco!

The Lamest Supervillains in Comic Book History Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:36 PM CDT The International Society of Supervillains blog has the list of the 11 lamest supervillains in comic book history. For example, here’s Asbestos Man: History: Chemist Orson Kasloff became a criminal after years of being a respected scientist failed to pay off the way he expected. He envied his fellow scientists, who he often saw riding around in Maseratis and banging supermodels, like, every night, because that’s obviously what scientists do all the time. He didn’t get much respect as a criminal, though, and decided the best way to quickly gain a rep would be to defeat the Human Torch. So he challenged him to a fight in a letter and created an asbestos costume. M.O. The Asbestos Man created a flame-retardant asbestos suit to fight the Torch and used a fancy net to rope him in. The Torch rendered him instantly useless when he broke his net. Then he laughed at him for wearing a suit that would cause him to inhale particles of a known carcinogen. That’s just stupid, kids! Lame? With asbestos litigation costing over $250 billion in the US alone, I think Asbestos Man is the scariest supervillain ever: Link - Thanks EEM!

The Oddest Book Title Ever Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:35 PM CDT A big congrats to Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers book. It has won the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the past 30 years: In The Bookseller’s online poll to find the "Diagram of Diagrams", Derek Willan’s comprehensive record of a sector of Greece’s postal routes gained 13% of the public vote. Gary Leon Hill’s People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead finished second (11% of the public vote) and John Trimmer’s guide to avoiding maritime mishaps, How to Avoid Huge Ships (10%) finished third. Link - Thanks Martin Jordan! A complete list of the books that have won the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year: Link [wikipedia] (My favorite is The Joy of Chickens).

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