Archive for August 2006

Craig Conley's Fortune Navigator Compass.

A fork in the road of life? Unsure what decision to take? Don't leave an important life decision to things like logic - instead, use this neat "Fortune's Navigator," an online compass that wi...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/30/craig-conleys-fortune-navigator-compass/

Make Your Own Headline.

Make your own headline at Add Letters' Newspaper Headling Generator: Link - Thanks Spluch!...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/30/make-your-own-headline/

Peugeot Parking Flash Game.

Can you park the new 107 Peugeot in this cute (and maddening) little Flash game?http://www.107.peugeot.co.uk/peugeot.swf - Thanks Kandra!...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/30/peugeot-parking-flash-game/

Antonio Riello's Weapons for Ladies.

Italian artist Antonio Riello decorated real weapons to make them fashionably (yet deadly) chic:"In 1998 I decided to focus my artistic research mainly about a "fashion-fiction" visual story...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/30/antonio-riellos-weapons-for-ladies/

Bridge and Other Things to Name After Stephen Colbert.

By now, y'all probably know that the Hungarian government is holding an Internet voting campaign to allow web users to to name a new bridge being built over the Danube in Budapest. The front runner used to be...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/30/bridge-and-other-things-to-name-after-stephen-colbert/

The Wonderful World of Early Photography.

If we take a look at the state of photography today, such as the advances of digital camera, artful image manipulation by photoshop, and even the role of paparazzi in media - and the pervasiveness of photographic i...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/29/the-wonderful-world-of-early-photography/

Tetrius Magnets.

Check out the Tetrius magnet set, inspired by the famous video game Tetris, avalable at Art. Lebedev Studio: Link - via MyNinjaPlease...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/tetrius-magnets/

Clumsy Reporter + Jenga Tower = Hilarity.

After two weekends building a 7-foot tower of Pisa using over 12,000 Jenga blocks, Northern Michigan University student Bryant Varney was looking forward to getting a representative from Guiness World Records...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/clumsy-reporter-jenga-tower-hilarity/

August: A Busy Month for Religious Sightings!

The Virgin Mary has been busy lately, in the month of August alone, she has appeared in chocolate:As a chocolatier to the rich and famous, Martucci Angiano has posed with many celebrities. But this month she he...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/august-a-busy-month-for-religious-sightings/

Tiger's Swing in Slo-Mo.

Nike used the Phantom v5 digital camera, capable of 4,000 still shots per second, a hardware usually reserved for military research, to transform Tiger Wood's perfect golf swing into this beautiful slow-...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/tigers-swing-in-slo-mo/

Coudal Partner's Booking Band.

What do you get when you mash up the name of a book with the name of a band?Here's a few examples:The Things They Might Be Giants Carried*The Who Moved My Cheese*The Old Man and The Sea and Cake*Charlie Da...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/coudal-partners-booking-band/

Twenty Greatest Equations.

PhysicsWorld has the list of the 20 Greatest Equation, listed in order of the number of people who proposed them.The winner? Maxwell's equations:... most votes were given to Euler's equation and to M...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/twenty-greatest-equations/

Natalie Jeremijenko's Feral Robotic Dog.

Feral robotic dog is an open source robotics project to mod toy robot dogs and release them in packs to "sniff out" environmental toxins: http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/feralrobots/ - via Interactive Archit...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/natalie-jeremijenkos-feral-robotic-dog/

Rick James' Tombstone.

From the website:Call it Rick James' final impression. A massive two ton jet-black tombstone, bearing an image of the funk legend clad in tight pants, jacket and clutching a guitar, was erected Sunday at h...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/rick-james-tombstone/

A Short History of Hacking.

Fiddling with modern technology used to mean prank calling the Pope. (Hey, Steve Jobs did it, and now he's the CEO of Apple!) But these days, it can mean hacking your way into some serious prison time, jeopardizing...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/28/a-short-history-of-hacking/

The Rarest Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon.

Behold, the rarest piece of Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip ever: the only one ever unreprinted, not even in the Complete Collection of Calvin and Hobbes.Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/the-rarest-calvin-and-hobbes-cartoon/

Siggi Eggertsson's Quilt.

For his graduation project, Siggi Eggertsson, a student at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, created this quilt based on his childhood memories (and his love for basketball!). The quilt is 2 by 2.5 meters and w...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/siggi-eggertssons-quilt/

Fire Ant Raft.

This living raft is made of thousands if not millions of fire ants - it is about one foot across in size. Kyle Pias, a BugGuide user who took this photo, wrote: This raft was seen floating in a flo...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/fire-ant-raft/

Star Trek New Voyages: Star Trek Lives On!

More than four decades after Star Trek was cancelled after its third season, James Cawley and fans resurrect the series - by acting as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy and financing the cost of production themselv...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/star-trek-new-voyages-star-trek-lives-on/

Balancing Point.

What's more awesome than rock stacking? Rock stacking in reverse! Danny Brown and Aaron Knapp produced this short video that played in reverse and showed the magical "reverse destruction" of balanced...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/balancing-point/

Paris Metro Art.

Created by Antoine+Manuel, see more of their work: LinkRelated: Animals on the London Underground....

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/paris-metro-art/

Geography Teacher Suspended for Displaying Foreign Flags in Classroom.

Geography teacher Eric Hamlin, was placed on leave by the principal Carmody Middle School in Colorado for refusing to take down several flags from other countries in his classroom:Eric Hamlin said th...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/geography-teacher-suspended-for-displaying-foreign-flags-in-classroom/

Nukuoro Atoll.

Located just north of the equator is Nukuoro Atoll, one of 607 islands that make up the Federated States of Micronesia, a UN Trust Territory under US administration.About 900 people live on Nukuoro, whose...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/nukuoro-atoll/

Intelligent Design Poster.

Ishkur has a nice collection of irreverent posters, like this one above: http://www.ishkur.com/posters/Related: Demotivation posters...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/intelligent-design-poster/

Don't Even Joke in Burma.

From the website:Once imprisoned and now blacklisted by the government, the Moustache Brothers’ comedy troupe continues to push the country’s political envelope.Working in the gravel yard w...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/dont-even-joke-in-burma/

Why Golf is Popular.

From the website:Ever wonder why golf is growing in popularity and why people who don't even play go to tournaments or watch it on TV?Here's why - in pictures, no less!: http://www.picturesonline.us/g...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/why-golf-is-popular/

Smallest Dice in the World.

Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe - but if he does, then he'd probably use the tiny die made by Iriso Seimetsu Co. of Japan: Billed as the smallest dice in the world, each...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/smallest-dice-in-the-world/

The Creative Bushido.

The introduction goes: "Year 2006. As the bubble era ended, the Japanese advertising industry entered an endless period of war, constant competition and strife for survival. The goal of each company,...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/the-creative-bushido/

Kung Fu vs. Yoga, Who Will Win?

With bone crunching goodness: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Fazed....

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/kung-fu-vs-yoga-who-will-win/

Old Wine Bottle as Egg Holder.

What to do with that old wine bottle? Georg Riedel found the perfect answer: reuse it as an egg holder! LinkRelated: How to work out a price of a wine bottle by measuring its dimple depth....

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/27/old-wine-bottle-as-egg-holder/
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