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One of the amazing things about our “identify the colorful blob” contest was how many of you wrote in with answers that were technically wrong but scientifically feasible. According to you guys, the thing at left could have been a corneal map, a storm on Jupiter, bone marrow, Hurricane Katrina, or “obviously … the absorption of a food particle into the cell lining of a blood vessel using infrared, multi-chromatic x-ray technology.” We’ve got some serious convergence going on here — why do so many types of scientific images look alike? Is it because all the imaging techonologies operate on the same principle? Or are we seeing some sort of fractal-ish unifying pattern in nature? Ruminate on that for a minute…
Okay, never mind, it’s Monday morning and far too early for this deep stuff. Back to the point, which is: We have a “most creative answer” winner! These two made it to the finals:
After years of better living through chemistry, it’s what Keith Richards sees first thing in the morning.
A moodring that’s being worn by a bipolar person.
In the end, we had to agree with Wendell, who submitted a whopping seven entries but was particularly attached to:
The terrible scene after Rainbow Brite jumped off the Empire State Building.
We love this too. Wendell, send us your contact info at tips-at-mentalfloss.com. Everybody else, keep an eye our for our new contest this afternoon!
[takes acceptance speech I’ve been saving for just such an occasion out of pocket]
I can’t tell you how honored this makes me feel, but my therapist has told me I should be able to after a couple more years of twice-weekly sessions. Unfortunately, he used to be Woody Allen’s therapist, but I digress. I’d like to thank (the academy/the committee/the voters/the 20-sided dice) that decided I was deserving of this honor, as well as my agent (how he’s gonna get ten percent of this book I have no idea) and I’d especially like to thank my parents for making all of me possible, but that’s another issue I’m working on with my therapist. And finally, I’d like to thank the Asteroid Vesta, the NASA technicians and their dealer and especially the lovely Rainbow Brite, without whose horrible death this wouldn’t have been possible. On behalf of partially-warped minds with cable internet access everywhere, I’d like to say, get off the stage; I won this all by myself.
posted by wendell on 8-28-2006 at 4:33 pm
YAY!!! That was my favorite! I practically snorted up my seltzer over that!
posted by nrkii on 8-28-2006 at 8:22 pm