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Neatorama and ViewBug Challenge: Neatest / Weirdest Thing About Your Hometown (Win $300!) Posted: 05 Nov 2008 07:00 AM CST Woohoo! I’m excited to announce that we have a new collaboration with ViewBug, one of the neatest photo, video, and art sharing websites on the Web today. Not only does ViewBug lets you upload your media to share with other people, it also rewards you for it! So far, ViewBug has given away more than $20,000 in cash rewards for winners of its creatives Challenges (for instance, there’s the Halloween Challenge 2008 where you can win money for sharing your Halloween photos!) Now, on to our collab: Got a weird building, event, street art in your hometown? Take a photo or shoot a video of it and upload it to ViewBug - you may just win $300 in the Neatorama/ViewBug Neatest and Weirdest Thing About My Hometown Challenge. It’s probably the easiest $300 you’ll ever win! Good luck! Check it out here on ViewBug: Link

Obama Won! Posted: 04 Nov 2008 10:43 PM CST Photo: No. Nein [Flickr] It’s official: Barack Obama has made history in being elected the 44th President of the United States! Congratulations to President-Elect Obama!

Build the Starship Enterprise from Office Supplies Posted: 04 Nov 2008 12:39 PM CST Boredom at work can be a dangerous thing. Instructables shows you how to turn that mind-numbing time to good use by making a Starship Enterprise out of supplies that are laying around. Link -Thanks, b chafy!

Candidate Cookies Posted: 04 Nov 2008 12:38 PM CST Since Canadians can’t vote in today’s election, they are doing the next best thing -eating cookies! Queen of Tarts in Toronto is offering Obama, McCain, and Palin cookies. The Palin cookies have been the top seller since September. BlogTo has a rundown of other election happenings, result gatherings, and celebrations around Toronto. Link -Thanks, Jerrold!

Squishy Animal with 8 Arms Once Ruled the World Posted: 04 Nov 2008 11:35 AM CST Photo: Dr Jim Gehling, South Australian Museum Before dinosaurs, this strange eight-armed creature ruled the Earth: Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature, which colonised a large section of the world’s oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged. The findings represent the first comparable animal fossils from the Ediacaran Period, 635 to 541 million years ago, which appear in two drastically different preservation environments - black shale of South China and quartz rock of South Australia. [...] The eight arms are clearly preserved in our specimens," says Zhu, adding that the arms were tubular and in close contact with each other, but not joined. He and his colleagues believe the animal was a soft-bodied, dome-shaped organism that lived on seabeds and fed by absorbing dissolved nutrients from the ambient environment. I, for one, welcome our extinct 8-armed overlord: Link

Caption Monkey 50: Overcrowded Train Posted: 04 Nov 2008 11:35 AM CST W00t! It’s time for this week’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game! But first, the story: believe it or not that’s a train covered with people (all men, it looks like) returning from a three-day Sunni Muslim festival in the ancient city of Multan, or the City of Saints in Pakistan. Organizers of the event claim that it’s the second largest gathering of Muslims after the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (Source) Now, on to the game: the funniest caption will win a free original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat cartoon by Adam Koford. To win, simply place your caption in the comment section below. One caption per comment please - you can enter as many times as you’d like. For inspiration, check out Adam’s blog (don’t forget to pre-order the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out book). Good luck!

Chief Justice Dissented. In Noir Style. Posted: 04 Nov 2008 11:34 AM CST Chief Justice William Rehnquist loved Gilbert and Sullivan (so much so that he added yellow stripes to his robe) but his successor John Roberts, Jr. prefers crime noir. Just check out his dissent in the Pennsylvania v. Dunlap: "Officer Sean Devlin, Narcotics Strike Force, was working the morning shift. Undercover surveillance. The neighborhood? Tough as a three­ dollar steak. Devlin knew. Five years on the beat, nine months with the Strike Force. He’d made fifteen, twenty drug busts in the neighborhood. "Devlin spotted him: a lone man on the corner. Another approached. Quick exchange of words. Cash handed over; small objects handed back. Each man then quickly on his own way. Devlin knew the guy wasn’t buying bus tokens. He radioed a description and Officer Stein picked up the buyer. Sure enough: three bags of crack in the guy’s pocket. Head downtown and book him. Just another day at the office." Tony Mauro of The Blog of Legal Times has more on the story: Link - via On Deadline

Bike Rack Art Posted: 04 Nov 2008 11:28 AM CST Why settle for boring bike racks? Cities across the United States are installing artistic bike racks, some of which look too good to chain your bike on to! This one above is created by artist Tom Crimboli of Eastpointe, Michigan. When creating streetscape such as artistic bike racks, Herndon says artists should follow "the 300-pound drunk moron rule." "Assume a 300-pound drunk moron is going to try to bend it, climb it or do something to it, because they will," he says. "It has to be built really, really well." Link | More bike rack art at Flickr

Mouse Cloned From Carcass Frozen For 16 Years Posted: 04 Nov 2008 11:26 AM CST Teruhiko Wakayama and colleagues at RIKEN, Japan, have successfully cloned a mouse from cells of a dead mouse that has been frozen for 16 years. Things brings up two questions: 1) When are we going to bring back the mammoth, and 2) WHO KEEPS A FROZEN MOUSE FOR 16 YEARS?!?! Oh, and it reminds me to clean out my freezer. Who knows what’s in there now … Link (with video clip) - via Gizmodo

Go Vote! Posted: 04 Nov 2008 09:20 AM CST (YouTube link) 4-year-old Truett knows how important it is for all US citizens to go cast their vote today. Now, out the door! -via Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub

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