WASHINGTON—Citing the fact that the series never really got the chance it deserved, the Federal Communications Commission announced Monday that it was immediately reversing the Starz channel’s decision to cancel the critically acclaimed TV show Part…

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WASHINGTON—”What those poor people have had to suffer through is a terrible, shameful travesty,” said Rolling Stone’s David Fricke. “Can you imagine being forced to listen to Deicide and Drowning Pool all day long?”

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Peter Wagner made this trike to go over or through any obstacles that it encounters. It even has paddle wheels to traverse water. It’s called the “Whymcycle Express”, and is much a sculpture as a means of transportation:

Stock fork surpassed by adding rear 2/3’s of a full suspension mountain bike as the springer front end. Double rimmed drum brake 16″ laced to 26″ alloy, get us height, braking and with plastic lawn sign in between the spokes, a dandy rudder!! Also tripled up on Torrington freewheeling axel bearings for the rear drive component. 3 of them with 6 all-thread bolts thru their sprocket teeth, making them act as one, ideally reducing by 2/3’s the strain on each one..also bolted by the 6 all-threads, a 65 tooth Schwinn Exerciser cog..dune/mud/hillclimb to test them this weekend @ the da Vinci Days Kinetic Sculpture Race in Corvallis. OR.
That fork innovation’s going onto my full suspension tallie Real soon….

Rear wheel ‘overwheels’ are 40″ trampolines for mud/sand/water paddle wheels….shall see if they survive the test weekend also….

Link via Make | Photo: Peter Wagner

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Here’s a list of YouTube clips that helped launch people’s careers, and the story of how a homemade video, or a collection of them, can get the attention of key folks in high places. The list includes clips of Justin Bieber, Soulja Boy, and Tay Zonday, among others.

When ’80s rock band Journey parted ways with their lead singer in 2007, they turned to YouTube to find a replacement. After seeing a clip of Arnel Pineda, from the Philippines, perform Journey’s ballad “Faithfully” with his cover band The Zoo, Journey’s guitarist Neal Schon was sold. After an audition in San Francisco, Pineda was named lead singer of the band.

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Photo: Agnes Milowka, Wes/Karst Productions

Our pal National Geographic has launched a very neat TV series and companion
book called Nat
Geo AMAZING! The series and book are jam-packed (you guessed it) amazing
facts and even more amazing photos and video clips.

Take, for instance, the one above, an exploration of underwater caves:

Blue holes can run extremely deep underground, with one Bahamian
blue hole exceeding 600 feet (180 meters) below sea level, and contain
a series of mazelike passageways going miles in many directions. These
cave systems can transition from giant rooms to tiny holes that divers
must remove all of their gear in order to squeeze through. To add to
the challenge, currents reverse in the ocean caves, making timing of
dives critical. All in all, a difficult place to explore and even more
challenging to achieve the range of scientific and filming goals that
the team has on their agenda.

Blue
Holes Project | Nat
Geo AMAZING! website | The book on Amazon

… or this one about scientist Valerie Clark whose job is to lick
frogs for a living:

And best yet, the folks over at National Geographic are kind enough to
spot 4 copies of Nat
Geo AMAZING! only for you, Neatoramanauts!

Take a look at our Neatorama
Spotlight feature for the book for details on how to win a copy: Link

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Tired of edited, poorly transferred duplications of Mel Gibson’s recorded phone rants? Then, join the original Harry & David’s Mel Gibson Audio Tape-of-the-Day Club! You, your family, friends and business associates will receive top-quality, full-length, digitally remastered audios of Academy Award-winner Mel Gibson going off on a variety of subjects that are guaranteed to be delicious! We have selected only the finest quality audios from thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of secret recordings made by Mel Gibson at his ripest; the audios are then rushed fresh from his phone to your ears!

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On Tuesday, workers digging a new level for a vehicle security center at the World Trade Center site ran into a set of evenly-spaced wooden beams. Had someone been building a boat in a basement?

“They were so perfectly contoured that they were clearly part of a ship,” said A. Michael Pappalardo, an archaeologist with the firm AKRF, which is working for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to document historical material uncovered during construction.

By Wednesday, the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street.

The ground where the boat was found had been undisturbed for 200 years. Back then, the site was much nearer the Hudson River. Link -via reddit

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