Since the 60s, there has been a large increase in the number of reported natural disasters. Does this mean that the world is becoming more dangerous or are people reporting more things?Link - via Digital Journal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/are-natural-disasters-becoming-more-and-more-common/This weird-looking device is the inflatable, portable steam sauna.Just fill the steamer with water, inflate the "bathtub," plug the steamer to an electrical socket and there you have it! http://www.shopping-emp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/portable-steam-sauna/Bee Flowers took some amazing photo of the Moscow Metro stations. This one is Electrozavodskaya, the larger pic at Bee's website is much, much cooler: http://www.beeflowers.com/Metro/-Startfiles-/index.htmIf you prefer t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/moscow-metro-above-and-below-ground/The Interweb's got everything, including the online museum of really old toilet papers! This is one of our oldest specimens, dating from the mid-1880s judging by the dates on the top. This puts it less than 10 years...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/vintage-toilet-paper/This is the Betamaze alphabet, created by artist Terrana Cliff. This maze below spells out "neatorama":http://www.omniglot.com/writing/betamaze.htm - via Kircher Society...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/betamaze-alphabet/Laura Cooperman made some amazing, intricately cut paper arts: LinkSee also: Paper art by Chris Natrop, Su Blackwell, Peter Callesen, Yee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/laura-coopermans-cut-paper-art/See more of Pete's Goldlust gallery of carved crayons: Link - via Boing Boing Like that? See also Carved pencils , previously on Neatorama (a long time ago) but I can't find the link....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/post-carved-crayons/This outstanding shoot'em up game simulates hand drawn sketches. The different elements are drawn using different ink colors and pen styles. Video and more screen shots following the link. Link [requires QuickT...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/sketch-fighter-4000-alpha/Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Via Haha.nu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/bottled-music/Enron - The Musical is coming to Houston:A celebration of Enron's untimely investment in Nigerian waterways inspires There's No Business Like Barge Business and the litigation arising from the company's spectacular r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/enron-the-musical/Emma Mærsk: The Largest Cargo Ship in the World. Emma Mærsk is the largest container ship ever built, and the longest one in use today. The ship's five engines weigh 2,300 ton and are capable of generating 11...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/large-ships-emma-mrsk-knock-nevis/Meet Black Starfish, a robot created by Josh Bongard, Victor Zykov, and Hod Lipson of Cornell University. What's different about this robot is that it can "sense" a damaged limb and then compensate (i.e. develo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/black-starfish-robot-senses-and-compensates-for-damage/A very clever and mesmerizing stopmotion video, with drawings all made on a whiteboard, made by swedish artist Kristofer Strom. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/minilogue-a-whiteboard-animation/Meet RoboSalmon, an underwater robot designed to spy on real fish (or so they say) by the Glasgow University.A key feature of RoboSalmon is its propulsion system. Since the robot will use its fins and tail for moveme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/robosalmon-spies-on-fish/Phillip West made some awesome Star Wars origami! Link [flickr] - via Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/phillip-wests-starwar-origami/Here's Richard Simmons peddling his new "steamer with a brain" on David Letterman on CBS. Guess they should've QC'd the piece before it went on national TV!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/richard-simmons-exploding-steamer/This is a paid review (see below). If you've been torpedoed while looking for a job when a prospective boss googled you and found an embarrassing MySpace or Facebook page, then you'd understand the importance of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/repvine-a-review/Alek Komarnitsky gained fame a few years ago with his website that allowed surfers to control his Christmas lights. Turns out that was a hoax. He had plenty of Christmas lights, they just weren’t controllable fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/03/controllable-christmas-lights/This collection of Japanese Medical Prints or Ukiyo-e is housed in the Clendening History of Medicine Library, at the Kansas University Medical Center. This group of prints is a small facet of the total donatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/japanese-medical-illustrations/This poor hamster is stuck in a video game! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/live-action-hamster-video-game/Scientists have created a genetically engineered blood protein that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen atoms:Professors Tsuchida and Komatsu from Waseda University, Japan, in collaboration with Imperial College...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/genetically-engineered-blood-protein-splits-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxygen-atoms/From one of my favorite blogs, The Presurfer:Close to Buescher State Park near Smithville in Texas you can find the world's largest text. By clearing forest so that a pattern would be visible to landing aircraft, a l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/worlds-largest-text-luecke/Material scientists are renewing claims that the great pyramids at Giza were partly made from cement-like blocks:But according to Professor Gilles Hug, of the French National Aerospace Research Agency (Onera), and Pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/are-the-pyramids-made-from-concrete-blocks/Photo: Craig Timberg / Washington PostSaid Jamal built made this airplane house for his wife Liza, who loves to travel:When the Jammals married in 1980, Said, now 48, taciturn and mustachioed, with a deep cleft in hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/the-airplane-house/Annette Banks spent more than 20 years to recreate the Bayeux Tapestry [wiki] all by herself to overcome hyperactivity (she has Cushing's Syndrome).Link - via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/recreating-the-bayeux-tapestry/How Not To Be Seen. How Not To Be Seen [wiki] [YouTube] is a popular sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus [wiki]. In it, the narator John Cleese stresses the importance of not being seen ...The sketch has been remade...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/how-not-to-be-seen/In a bit of political drama that made the US 2000 Presidential Election [wiki] look like a neighborhood misunderstanding, Felipe Calderón [wiki] of the right-of-center National Action Party took oath as the Presid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/when-lawmakers-attack/The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [wiki] set its own lifespan (or death, if you will). The world's largest (transparently operated) charitable organization decided that there's no life in perpetuity in its future:*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-sets-own-lifespan/Galaxies collide, it's the way of the universe. In about 3 billion years, our Milky Way galaxy will cross path and collide with the Andromeda galaxy (which is much bigger).This simulation shows what's in store for our po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/02/the-end-of-the-milky-way-galaxy/Here's a quick and fun 4x4 crossword puzzle, courtesy of The Loquacious Haruspex (what? look it up: loquacious haruspex).Across1. Sign of Cancer5. A "positive" electron?6. Feeling?7. "Over...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/01/quickie-4x4-crossword-puzzle/
