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GUESS what this sweet thingy is. It really exists… it is no drawing or animation of any kind. You CAN touch it. These are the only things I am giving away…
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Keith wrote,
It looks like a ball of straws.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Mike wrote,
The sweet thing gave it away. Its Brittany Spears belly button lint
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Random Good Stuff wrote,
Mike.. loved your guess
But the 2 guesses so far are not right… keep guessing!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Dave wrote,
A grain of pollen.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
cara wrote,
I am going for the most obvious choice first and say some sort of massage ball? Maybe a really super senstive mouse that feels great on your fingers as you navigate? How about the underneath side of a super absorbent mop?
Whatever it is I could stare at it forever.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Jake wrote,
fiber optic cables
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
Kyle wrote,
It’s Mike’s belly button lint!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
james_riggs wrote,
the middle of a sunflower?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Dave wrote,
Or the center region of a sunflower. The part where the seeds grow.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Random Good Stuff wrote,
Maybe it’s Random Good Stuff Linkt.. or maybe it’s not…
No right answeres so far. keep guessing
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
DK wrote,
Koosh Ball
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Moose wrote,
I’m thinking its a sugar crystal
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
cara wrote,
Mike—I think Brittany Spears belly button lint would not be sweet at all—It would taste like cheetos or maybe cool ranch doritos
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
andycjw wrote,
a yoga ball?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Pablo wrote,
Is it real - looks like a computer generated image?
Pencil holder? Nonobot? A virus?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Pablo wrote,
Overpopulated world? Nanobot? Virus? Pencil holder?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Keith wrote,
The Hoof and Mouth aphtha virus magnified 35,000 times by electron microscope
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Boing Boing wrote,
Guess what this object is and win $15
Here’s the new guess-what-this-is quiz on Random Good stuff. If you think know what this is, post your guess here (don’t email me abut it, please). Link…
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
QBALL wrote,
Sunflower
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Francis wrote,
A kitchen gadget for cleaning mushrooms?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
josh wrote,
a sunflower?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Hans wrote,
A sea anemone.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
matty wrote,
I think it is an eye from an insect
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
A thinker wrote,
it looks like a koosh ball or something like it to me too. but i’m guessing it wouldn’t be anything so obvious. so got me. . .but it’s fascinating anyway.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Dan Coop wrote,
A head of a pin magnified to a stupidly high amount
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Dave wrote,
looks like lollipop sticks
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
matty wrote,
i think it is an eye of an insect
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
keruri wrote,
a diatom
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
JeepMcMuddy wrote,
Pollen?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Justin Ridgley wrote,
A paperweight with small holes in the bottom
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
justin wrote,
umm…very small rocks..no…churches…no, a duck!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
psilo wrote,
It looks like the center of a sunflower to me.
aloha
psilo
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Ansell wrote,
middle of sunflower… Defined as the nature constant or pi
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
Lee Belcher wrote,
It looks like the center of a sunflower.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
matt wrote,
Sucrose
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
steve wrote,
a bug’s eye? a diatom? a flower? a blastula? a clutch of eggs? plankton?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Nicholas Jackson wrote,
Im going to say cat toy.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Cynthia wrote,
A scanning electron microscope picture of a compound flower head.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
matt wrote,
That’s a fly’s eye.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Gregg Fuller wrote,
One grain of Sucralose or some other kind of artificial sweetener?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Cindy wrote,
Is it a piece of velcro?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
David Demchuk wrote,
I think it’s some kind of spore. From a mushroom maybe?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Cindy wrote,
Is it a piece of velcro?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Adam wrote,
All’s I know is that its probably organic as it seems to follow the same “fit as many seeds as possible in one the smallest space” algorithm that sunflowers follow. I’ll guess clover?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
kerolynn wrote,
the center of a sunflower
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
scott wrote,
Looks like some sort of nano carbon tube ball to me.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Ghia wrote,
Sea Sponge or Sea Anemone,
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Siobhan wrote,
It’s one of those koosh balls
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Drevs wrote,
It’s a jpg
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Nathan wrote,
It is a steel slinky turned in on itself in an artful pattern.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
bora wrote,
toothpicks - topview
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
cuora wrote,
coral.. or a sea urchin
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Skwid wrote,
The head of a pin as seen through an electron microscope (and after having scared off the dancing angels)?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Fred McCord wrote,
It’s a sphere made of pencils…with the points outward, of course
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
matt wrote,
sunflower calyx (florets)
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
michael Booth wrote,
definitely the disk flowers (center) of some aster (sunflower)…
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
will atkinson wrote,
Mesh wire.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Ian wrote,
A diatom?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Jill wrote,
It’s either a number ribbon, an expression of pi, a.k.a. divine geometry.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Kylis wrote,
Lizards toe
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Binky wrote,
See anemone?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Steve wrote,
Its a taste bud, WORD!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Binky wrote,
Sea anemone?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
robin wrote,
top of a microphone?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
juan wrote,
a toilet brush. Duh.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Mike wrote,
Looks like a heatsink.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Nicholas wrote,
looks like it could be a sunflower without the seeds… umm… what else? a personally created fractal with straws or some other slightly long object. the thing that’s left of a dandilion after all of the seeds have left? a ball of nanotubes? nanotubes that have been made into a fractal?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Alan Clifford wrote,
It’s a sunflower.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Michael wrote,
I’ts a lamp!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
lazlo toth wrote,
a mold spore?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Bonnie wrote,
a ball full of needles
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
shift8 wrote,
is it diatom?
http://www.acnatsci.org/kids/diatom.jpg
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Sheila wrote,
I think that the object is a flower.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Curtis wrote,
Pollen?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Ghia wrote,
Some kind of seed, the head of a scrub brush,
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
doctor fantastico wrote,
is it one of those pencil-sculptures that that one lady makes? because that’s all that springs to my mental imagery area.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Dave Buster wrote,
Sunflower?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Toby wrote,
I know! It’s a jpeg!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Trent wrote,
Looks like a ball of pencils with the eraser end staicking out. Anyone seen anything by the ArtGuys. Its looks like their work.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
smurph wrote,
the head (central part) of a daisy
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
lisa wrote,
a cup of toothpicks seen from above!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Terry L. Shriner wrote,
It’s a virus
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
tiltedkilt wrote,
It is an artificial fiber extruder.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Molly wrote,
It’s the center disc of a sunflower bloom, showing clearly its fibonacci spirals. Beautious.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Slobadon wrote,
It is the embryo of the returned elder god who will alone will shape the world and cast us all into an unending hell.
That or the top of a micro-phone, do I get credit for both guesses?
Damn!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Fisher wrote,
looks like the center of a daisy
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Chris wrote,
I’m with DK… first thought was Koosh.
But my guess is some sort of sugar molecule… glucose compound??? (biology wasnt my best)
Maybe its… what the world would look like if covered with skyscrapers.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
muchi wrote,
a diatom.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Jennifer Berkowitz wrote,
I also think it’s a koosh ball.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Mike wrote,
Looks like a heatsink.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
chris wrote,
how about insect eye?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
itsabecky wrote,
looks like the center of a flower
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Dread Pirate Robert wrote,
It’s a sunflower! Just look at all those Fibonacci spirals!
Nature + Math = Crazy Delicious
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Kevin wrote,
is it an orange?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Eddie Lee wrote,
a ball of carefully constructed cigarettes.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Tom wrote,
pollen?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Nate wrote,
It’s the middle of a dandelion?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Stephen wrote,
A spore?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
mike spiegs wrote,
It looks like one of those rubber balls that are often used as dog toys. not sure if they have a product name.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Matt wrote,
Inside out spere
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Boobo wrote,
Is it magnetic oil under the influence of a magnetic field?
Perhaps a colony of microorganisms.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Anne wrote,
Wrinkle reducer ball for your dryer
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
beemoh wrote,
It’s one of those. Obviously.
/b
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Mike wrote,
Looks like a scanning electron microgram of a tissue. Cochlear hair cells? Epithelial cells?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Chris wrote,
It’s a bug’s eye (magnified)
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Charles Laster wrote,
Either a grain of pollen, or a virus.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Gabe wrote,
A dandalion when it’s poofy
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
René Magritte wrote,
It’s a picture.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
TBone wrote,
Looks like a dandelion with all the seeds blown off. The leftover stem.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
PikaPikaChick wrote,
A microphone head?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Deyvis wrote,
its a sunflower, displaying a fibonacci sequence pattern. Right?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Mike wrote,
Sorry for the double post, but one more guess: SEM of tongue
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Suzanne wrote,
Showerhead?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
monk master wrote,
Looks like a microphone to me…
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
farmboy wrote,
It’s the golden ratio found in everything. This is a pollen grain.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
Lou wrote,
It’s a fibonacci sequence! SUNFLOWER!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
znutz wrote,
its the head of a microphone?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Jake Good wrote,
A sunflower without the petals.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Srikanth wrote,
Coneflower
Daisyblossom
primordia
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Evilsciencechick wrote,
A flower frog? For making flower arrangements?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
John wrote,
Its the center of a dandelion that has been gold coated, as viewed under a SEM.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Pinkas Zuckerman wrote,
Looks like some it could be some kind of diatom. But given its sunflower like Fibonacci pattern, I’d have to guess it’s pollen as one astute reader points out…
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
crystal wrote,
spaghetti?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Eric Ferguson III wrote,
An insect, possibly fly, eye.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
michale wrote,
I am going to guess that it is the yellow of a morning daisy.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Stubbs Wadderly wrote,
Is it your mom?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
brkily wrote,
i guessed pollen [too, before i looked at comments- so i guess if somebody else guesses right first, they win : ( ]
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
ayesha wrote,
sunflower?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
N wrote,
pollen
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Greg Briggs wrote,
The head of a sunflower.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Paul wrote,
Strawberry.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
jeshi wrote,
The center of a dandelion.
Or coral.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Ethic wrote,
Looks like a bunch of sticks getting ready to be made into suckers.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
sandro wrote,
Bunch of pencils photographed with a fish-eye lens.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
PCosmos wrote,
A Koosh ball?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Keith Blackwell wrote,
A ball from a ball-point pen.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Lucas wrote,
Head of a pin under an electron microscope …?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Matt wrote,
It’s a sunflower
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Curtis wrote,
Sucrose? splenda?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
nzruss wrote,
Its a ball made of carbon nano-tubes.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Keith wrote,
A ball from a ball-point pen, or a tastebud?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Nate wrote,
an anemone?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Dan wrote,
Diatom
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Keith wrote,
How about a mushroom or other fungus spore?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Rob Adams wrote,
the center of a coneflower
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
David Griebeling wrote,
I’m going with a Fly Eye
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Another Mike wrote,
How about a flower arranging base?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Robert G. wrote,
It’s the pattern of the dandelion.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Nick wrote,
A diatom, perhaps?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
morcheeba wrote,
A hair brush?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Mike wrote,
It sure looks like the center of a coneflower (ie: echinacea)
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Nom De Plume wrote,
Diatom? Aquatic lifeform?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Keith wrote,
How about a mushroom or other fungus spore?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Stacey wrote,
A really hip belt buckle
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
cristopher Ewing wrote,
It’s a frozen Koosh ball?
C
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Andrew Kern wrote,
I think it’s the center of a dandelion flower
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Robert G. wrote,
It’s the pattern of the dandelion.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Humuhumu wrote,
Center of a daisy?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Peter R wrote,
A donut! Hmmm. Donuts. If I’m wromg, I still love donuts, and I see one there.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Stacey wrote,
A really hip belt buckle
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
AP wrote,
Dish/pot scrubber viewed from the bottom. Boo-yah!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
charles wrote,
A taste bud
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Dan wrote,
It’s a brush!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
adam wrote,
is it a lens of some kind?
contact lens?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
BinodC wrote,
cotton wool ball
Or
Cleaning wire pad in Kitchen
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
justin wrote,
some sort of a sea urchin?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
dante wrote,
its an m&m silly.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Jme wrote,
sugar grain
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Ben wrote,
A micromaphone?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Jess wrote,
is it a dandylion?
my brother thinks it is a sea urchin, maybe?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Jeff wrote,
The inside of a golf ball!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Don B wrote,
Bloomin’ Onion!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
hostile wrote,
Kush ball.
Stress relieving thingy…my guess is, they go for about…$15!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
JoeK wrote,
I don’t know, some sort of spore?
Oh yeah, I’m trying to be more assertive nowadays….
It’s a damn spore, homes!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Craig Howell wrote,
Pollen!
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
UberSchatz wrote,
It’s one of those balls that kids like to play with. You know, the kind that looks like a sea urchin and is made of plastic? Wait a minute, maybe it IS a sea urchin or an enemy anemone.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Juan Camilo Bohorquez wrote,
It´s a microphotographic of capillary hairs, or sensors.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Matthew Davidson wrote,
Looks to me like a sunflower, minus the petals.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Keith wrote,
Sorry if this is a dupe, not sure if these guesses went thru on my linux machine:
A ball from a ball-point pen, a taste bud, or a fungal spore?
Thanks
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Alan wrote,
Is it a virus particle?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
robyn wrote,
a lamp
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Brenda Huettner wrote,
A round hair brush, looking down into the bristles.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Mike Alvord wrote,
It’s the center of a flower. Possibly a sunflower.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
André wrote,
could be an anemone or a thistle, if its a computer generated / drwan picture. just to mention its real doesn’t tell if its also a real, unaltered picture.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
David_t wrote,
a tastebud up close?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
HRR wrote,
a piece of diatomaceous earth, or the super-magnified shell of a small sea creature (a diatom, single celled marine algae)
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
cassandra wrote,
A lint brush?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Regina wrote,
Super close up of a lamprey?
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Jen wrote,
Looks like a spore.
Link | February 28th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Talie wrote,
A