In this series called Starlight Meadows, Jason King is trying to tell us a story "about an imaginary world, a very small imaginary world populated with people that appear to be half-animal, like a primiti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/jason-kings-gorilla-warfare/This stock trading room's got some sweet monitors: 282,240,000 pixels spread over 147 21" LCD panels. http://homepage.mac.com/pillowcase1/PhotoAlbum60.html - via digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/lots-of-lcd-panels-here/Cooks by day, rappers by night: New York Chinatown's rap group Notorious MSG is hilarious. If you don't like rap or don't appreciate satire, then skip this one.If you can't get enough, see: Hot in the Kitchen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/notorious-msgs-straight-out-of-canton/Chronicle / Kurt RogersFrom the website:Petaluma animal control workers expected to find a horde of cats when they knocked on the door of a 67-year-old man whose neighbor complained of stench. Instead, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/living-with-1000-rats/Ah, funny retro fashion never ceases to tickle our fancy. James Lileks wrote about this one above:Don’t think we listen? Oh, we listen! We asked you, and you, and you: what’s the fresh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/lileks-dorcus-collection/This configurable, modular zig zag bench is made by Dutch wood sculptor Jan Peter Langkamp.http://www.jplangkamp.nl/HTML/furniture%20first.html | Jan's website - via cribcandy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/jan-peter-langkamps-zig-zag-bench/This went 'round the Net a month or two ago (we're very late on this one. It's one of the most watched clip on YouTube). Watch closely - do you think it's fake? Watch the pedestrians ...The intersection in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/chuck-norris-driving/Artist (and engineer!) Jenny Chowdhury built this portable phone booth to provide privacy for cell phone talkers...As I grappled with these issues of privacy, personal space and nostalgia for a "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/jenny-chowdhurys-cellbooth/If you can afford Boca Raton Resort and Club's membership fee of $40,000 and additional yearly fee of $3,600, then this $100 hamburger is probably cheap for you:Boca Raton Mayor Steven Abrams could barely...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/100-burger/Neatorama reader Richard Joslin suggested this photo of a blender powered by a V8 engine (?), built by Jim Mason:HOLY COW!!!! The gas-powered flame-throwing margarita mixer that puts the one you posted ear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/25/jim-masons-v8-blender/A neat collection of photos of Japan's futuristic flood prevention system called G-CANS [wiki] in Edogawa:The G-Cans project (Shutoken Gaikaku Housui Ro, means drain outer Tokyo metropolitan area.) is an u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/japans-futuristic-underground-flood-tunnel/A very cool photo from the talented Joel Sartore: Separated from them by a yellow wire he thinks is an electric fence, Whopper the trained bear impresses some Boy Scouts. His trainer dreams of sett...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/joel-sartores-close-encounter/This one's titled "Learning to Cook the French Way". Take a look at Nick's other fantastic photos: http://www.koudis.com/portfolio/index.htm#18 - via KingBoy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/nick-koudis-photography/If you think your job sucks, at least it's not this. See larger photo: Link - via grow-a-brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/made-in-china/What would happen if a large meteor hits the earth? This Japanese animation illustrates this doomsday scenario in terrifying clarity.The earth's crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is comp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/doomsday-illustrated-the-meteor-scenario/Harriet, who became famous for (probably) being studied by Charles Darwin, died at the age of 175.Senior vet Dr John Hangar told Australia's ABC that Harriet, a Giant Galapagos tortoise, had died of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/rip-harriet-the-tortoise-who-knew-darwin/This ad for Vodafone lets you destroy various office desks (so you can be mobile and work anywhere, of course!): http://mobileoffice.vodafone.co.uk/desks/ - via Milk and Cookies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/desk-truction/Saddam Husein ended his hunger strike after missing just one meal....The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch on Thursday in protest at the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen, but the spokesman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/worlds-shortest-hunger-strike/Remember the tree branch bike previously on Neatorama? Here's another cool wooden bike: Flickr user Kenpower snapped this photo of a working wooden bike with unconventional "handle bar" on his trip t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/wooden-bike-in-kashgar-china/Gary McKinnon hacked into NASA websites looking for evidence of UFO and found this:I had remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/24/gary-mckinnon-the-ufo-hacker/I've got just one word: AWESOME!How the Tankchair was builtIt took me 2 years and I tried everything I could think of. Pneumatic tires, bigger wheels, stronger motors, and my favorite, a hellish j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/tank-chair/An international research team has discovered three shell beads that are between 90,000 and 100,000 years old and suspect that they're ancient jewelry.Two of the ancient beads come from Skhul Cave on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/pea-sized-shell-worlds-oldest-jewelry/Photoshoppery? Anyhow, very interesting and morbid idea... Found at Across-the-Board....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/a-morbid-ceiling-art/From the website:During spring in Denmark, at approximately one half an hour before sunset, flocks of more than a million European starlings (sturnus vulgaris) gather from all corners to join in the incred...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/black-sun-millions-of-birds-block-out-the-sun/So, you're out in the boonies and you're jonesin' for some nice cold, blended margarita. What to do, what to do? Just pull out the gas-powered blender and you're good to go!The maker phinch wrote: You'll n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/gas-powered-blender/This ingenious device "helps you improve communication with other drivers and express yourself" said the maker. This means you can say thanks to the driver who let you into his lane, or flip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/driv-e-mocion-the-high-tech-thank-you-wave-or-not/From the website: Happy Ivy doesn't have a bathroom or a kitchen in the bus he calls home. He does, however, have a video-editing station.Living in a squalid, Woodstock-style bus p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/homeless-blogging/Matt Harding got the travel bug - and boy, did he travel. And danced. Badly. Well, anyhow, we think it's some form of dancing ...In February of 2003, [Matt]quit his job in Brisbane, Australia and used the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/where-the-heck-is-matt/It's like the nursery rhyme Goldilocks, but in reverse: a woman in West Vancouver came home to find a bear eating oatmeal in her kitchen!"It appeared to be a one to two-year-old bear - a juvenil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/23/the-reverse-goldilocks-story/Tom Zarrilli is a yard sale addict. He has spent nearly every saturday morning for the last 20 years going to yard sale in various neighborhoods in Atlanta (he rarely buys anything, but he always goes!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/22/yard-sale-addicts-blog/
