A Day in the Life of a Trappist Monk.
From the website: 3:45 AM Vigils6:30 AM Lauds and Eucharist8:45 AM Terce11:30 AM Sext1:30 PM None5:05 PM Vespers7:45 PM ComplineLink...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/25/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-trappist-monk/Archive for February 2006
Jim Victor's Chocolate Harley.
Jim created this full-scale 1957 Harley-Davidson Sportster out of 1,700 lbs of chocolate for ChocolateFest at Burlington, Wisconsin.See more cool food sculptures here: http://www.jimvictor.com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/25/jim-victors-chocolate-harley/World's Largest Frying Pan.
An interesting collection of photos and short articles from Delaware's Public Archive 100 Stories Online Exhibition. From this particular photo: Governor Elbert Carvel and Delmarva Chicken...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/25/worlds-largest-frying-pan/Infiniti Interactive Mirrors.
If you like our previous posts on the Multi-Touch Interaction Screen and Future Office Table, you'll love this interactive mirror:The installation consists of three 8’ high by 3.5 &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/24/infiniti-interactive-mirrors/Nano-guitar.
Behold the world's smallest guitar, made by Dustin Carr and Harold Craighead of Cornell University's Nanofabrication Facility. The nano-guitar is 10 micrometers long, about the size of a singl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/24/nano-guitar/Jurassic Beaver Fossil Found.
Newly discovered fossils of Castrocauda lutrasimilis, a beaver-like animal, suggests that mammals swam with dinosaurs during the Jurassic era. "Its lifestyle was probably...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/24/jurassic-beaver-fossil-found/J Marimba Ponies.
J Marimba Ponies is a music group composed of 10 kid percussionists between 4 to 12 years old! They're quite awesome.http://www.j-marimba.com/indexe.htm (Don't miss the video sect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/24/j-marimba-ponies/Eve Reaven's A Slice of Life Scarves.
From the website: The scarves from this new company are designed by Eve Reaven who is a cell biologist in Palo Alto, California.Dr. Reaven has used an electron micro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/24/eve-reavens-a-slice-of-life-scarves/Color Fusion Shower.
From the website: Generated by water pressure, LED attached to a shower head glows. Since the color of LED changes depending on the water temperature, you can tell the water temperature in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/24/color-fusion-shower/J. Edgar Hoover Loved Lucy.
It turned out that J. Edgar Hoover, perhaps the most famous director of the FBI, loved the classic TV show "I Love Lucy".He wrote a fan letter to Lucille Ball:"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/24/j-edgar-hoover-loved-lucy/Future Office Table.
Ars Electronica Futurelab is developing what promises to be a very cool table for both collaborative work and communications. The prototype features a personal workspace for e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/24/future-office-table/Animated Paper Models.
An awesome collection of paper animation kits for sale at Flying Pig (via Paper Forest)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/23/animated-paper-models/Funny, Real Church Signs.
A great collection of funny, real church signs: http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/churchsigns.php...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/23/funny-real-church-signs/Ronn Le Feuvre's NES Duck Hunt.
Awesome Flickr photoset by Ronn (aka skinny coder) on video game scenes in Lego. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/23/ronn-le-feuvres-nes-duck-hunt/Parkour.
Parkour or free running is an extreme sport (not to mention a dangerous one, too) founded by David Belle, in which traceurs (those who practice parkour) go from point A to B like a freakin nin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/23/parkour/Igor Sergeev's Cigarette Packs Collection.
Igor has the biggest collection of full, unopened cigarette packs in the world. He has collected them since 1976 and has got over 20,000 packs now. For more, see: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/23/igor-sergeevs-cigarette-packs-collection/Mother's Voice and Monkey Call Sound the Same to Baby.
Infants are acute listener - they perk up more to people talking than to white noise. And we've all heard that infants recognize and react to the mother's voice.But research by At...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/23/mothers-voice-and-monkey-call-sound-the-same-to-baby/What George Washington Really Looked Like.
Washington at 19?The real George Washington may not look like the guy on the dollar bill. Jim Rees of historic Mount Vernon said that Washington and the artist who painted him actually didn't l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/23/what-george-washington-really-looked-like/A Funny Name for a Company!
Yes, it's a real store in Warrington, Pennsylvania. Here's their website: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/a-funny-name-for-a-company/Launch a Part of Yourself into Space for as Low as $35!
From the website: Even if you can't afford the $20 million for a launch into Earth orbit, you can still put a little piece of yourself into space for as little as $35.*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/launch-a-part-of-yourself-into-space-for-as-low-as-35/Flatworm Kills By Engulfing Prey with Toxic Water.
Raphael Ritson-Williams of the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, Florida discovered a new species of saltwater flatworm that kills in a unique way: By engulfing its p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/flatworm-kills-by-engulfing-prey-with-toxic-water/John Iver's Blue Flash Roller Coaster.
John built his own roller coaster in his backyard - it goes: Over the tool shed, under the elm tree, and around the rose bushes - all in 30 seconds.Link to The Next Big Thing (via Mak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/john-ivers-blue-flash-roller-coaster/New Frog Species Found in Cueva del Fantasma.
Cueva del Fantasma, Spanish for "Cave of the Ghost", is so big that two helicopters can fly into it and land inside (Did you see them in the pictures above?).Recently, scientists dis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/new-frog-species-found-in-cueva-del-fantasma/Greg Valentino, the Most Hated Man in Body Building.
No, that's not photoshopped - it's a real photo of bodybuilder Greg Valentino, who has a 27-inch arm in his peak. He was featured in the recent The Learning Channel documentary on steroids and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/greg-valentino-the-most-hated-man-in-body-building/Growing Neurons.
Douglas H. Smith of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues created a new way to engineer nerve structures in a petri dish. Smith's group showed that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/growing-neurons/Catherine Chalmers' "Electric Chair".
Catherine doesn't just pick up a can of Raid like the rest of us, she executes 'em roaches. Check out more of Catherine's gross, er ... engrossing insect-centric art: http://ww...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/catherine-chalmers-electric-chair/3D Image in the Air Using Plasma Laser.
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Keio University in Japan, in collaboration with Burton Inc. have created a plasma laser device to create 3D images in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/3d-image-in-the-air-using-plasma-laser/Banksy's Banksus Militus Ratus.
Banksy, a grafitti artist from Bristol, UK, smuggled this dead rat in a glass box into the Natural History of Museum in April 2004, where it was "exhibited" for sever...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/22/banksys-banksus-militus-ratus/Man Killed Over Toilet Paper Dispute.
Police arrested and accused Franklin Paul Crow of Marion County, Florida, of beating his roommate to death with a claw hammer. Why? Because there was no toilet paper left...Cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/21/man-killed-over-toilet-paper-dispute/
