BCNeta, an organization that deals with trash management in Barcelona, Spain, put out this public-service ads, shaped like giant speech bubble, to remind people to keep the beach clean! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/keep-the-beach-clean-ads/From the archives of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection, is this photo of a camouflage class in New York University in 1943,:... where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/camouflage-class-in-nyu-1943/Photo: Richard Hartog / LATSona Babai, a 105-year-old mother of 10 from Iran, pledged her allegiance to the flag yesterday and became a US citizen. Asked what she would do as a new citizen, Babai replied: "I'm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/105-year-old-woman-fulfilled-citizenship-dream/The image is the "Vita di Cristo" or Christ's Passion, a fresco on the partition ("Parete Gaudenziana") of the Santa Maria delle Grazie Church in Varallo Sesia, Italy, painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/largest-image-on-the-web-89-gigapixel-photo/Found at Design 3000.de - via dee-o-gee and Cribcandy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/scottie-broom-by-pico-bello/This printer will connect to the Internet and automatically print your emails (supposedly spam-free) without any need of a computer!From Hammecher Schlemmer: http://www.hammacher.com/publish/73357.asp# - via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/computerless-email-printer/From Ririan Project, a list of ten first aid mistakes you don't want to do (or have done to you!). For example:#5. Slapping a Raw Steak on a Black Eye In the movies, you always see someone p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/useless-or-even-dangerous-first-aid-myths/The Kakophone is an online ringtone generator for your cell phone (mobile phone, for the rest of the world).Generating your own music is quite simple: just a few clicks (of mysterious buttons, although I suspect you'll g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/kakophone-diy-ringtone/A clever set of warning signs you'll likely to encounter in the far future, made by Flickr user Arenamontanus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87547772@N00/sets/72157594323393196/ [flickr]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/warning-signs-from-the-future/Did you know that Homer Simpson has had over 100 jobs in addition to being a Nuclear Plant Safety Inspector?This includes:Ambulance driverActivist - Marijuana legalizationActor (5x)Agent (3x)Amateur-Division Professi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/homer-simpsons-jobs/Check out this awesome hand-painted skateboard deck, lovingly made to look like a band-aid (familiar, no doubt, to any skateboarder!) Link [flickr] - via Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/band-aid-skateboard-deck/Too cheap to go and buy your kids costumes for Halloween? Why, just print a Star Wars paper mask, cut out the eye and nose holes, tie a piece of string and voilà! http://www.starwars.com/kids/activity/crafts/f2004...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/star-wars-paper-masks/Do you remember Alvin and the Chipmunks? Then you probably know that a recording can be speeded up to make it sound squeaky like Alvin, Simon, Theodore.But, do you know that if you slow down a Chipmunk recording, you can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/26/slowing-down-the-chipmunks-reveal-actors-voices/Illegal Art website has a collection of video, visual, and audio works of artists that challenge copyright laws.The Illegal Art Exhibit will celebrate what is rapidly becoming the "degenerate art" of a corp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/are-art-made-with-copyrighted-materials-illegal/I don't recall featuring any abstract art on Neatorama before, perhaps because I don't understand any of it. Anyhow, here's a website of abstract paintings by Terry McCallum, a "self-taught abstract expressionist ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/terry-mccallums-abstract-art/Evil Mad Scientist Lab has a neat step-by-step guide on how to make your own radio-controlled Dalek pumpkin! Perfect for Halloween. Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/dalek-pumpkin/A chapter called "T-Shirt Underwear" by Logan Billingham explains how to turn a T-shirt into an undie! This how-to is just one of 40 DIY craft projects in the book "Craftivity - 40 Projects for the DIY Lif...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/diy-underwear-made-from-t-shirt/Found at David and Jennilyn's blog, complete with a play-by-play description on how to make your own.http://davidandjennilyn.homeip.net/2005/10/31/captain-jack-o-lantern/ - via Squirl's collection of Jack-O-Lanterns, *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/pirate-jack-o-lantern/Spluch found this restaurant in Beijing where all of the waiters have their hair shaved into "OK," "H," or the chinese character for 'noodles'. It's a practice enforced by the shop's owner in a bid to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/waiters-with-strangely-shaved-heads/From Daily Mail:An old woman from the Chin ethnic minority group in Myanmar, which borders India and Thailand, shows off the tattoos she was given as a young girl to ward off attacks - particularly by neighbouring pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/last-face-tattooed-woman-of-myanmar/The scary-looking RuBot II can solve any Rubik's cube in just 50 seconds, no matter how mixed up the cube is! This is the new version of RuBot by Pete Redmond from Dublin, Ireland. It's very different to the prototyp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/rubot-ii-rubiks-cube-solving-robot/JustElite got more photos of this Chinese guy who can girn his face (vocab lesson of the day: "girn", look it up) into grotesque forms, just like Popeye! Link - Thanks JustElite!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/the-man-who-can-suck-his-face-in/ChallengeSpot is a website where you can challenge your friends to a long distance game of Hangman (so far that's the only game): Link - Thanks Bill Poster!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/long-distance-game-of-hangman/Although chewing gum is an ancient practice, the US patent for chewing gum was granted in 1869 to a dentist! Bubblegum was invented in 1928. Watch the bubblegum manufacturing process, as well as vid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/how-its-made/That "house" on the roof of the Viennese Museum of Modern Art is actually an exhibition, titled "House-Attack" by Erwin Wurm: The art project, entitled House-Attack by top local sculpto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/house-on-a-museum/Don't let this Coors cowboy hat, made from real beer boxes, slip you by. They're just $45 right now at eBay: Link - via UniqueDaily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/beer-box-cowboy-hat/From the website: The world's only repository for the study and display of Zymoglyphic art, artifacts, and natural history. The creative output of the region relies mainly on the assemblage of natural objects. The mu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/zymoglyphic-museum/Another good mash up, in the same vein as The Shining: a Romantic Comedy, that got famous last year. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/must-love-shark/Wired Magazine wrote that Hemingway once wrote a story (his best, he said) in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn"). So they asked sci-fi writers to do the same. Here are some of the gems: Longed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/25/wireds-very-short-story/
