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More than 200 people participated in the sixth annual No Pants! Subway Ride on the 6 line yesterday.
Participants gathered at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station, boarded a 6 train, “de-pantsed” and exited at different stations. Then they reboarded other uptown trains to the shock and amusement of fellow subway riders.
“I’m standing here with no pants on,” said Melissa Poles, 31, of Manhattan, who crocheted a blanket while confused onlookers tried to make sense of the stunt. “I’m awesome.” Link
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Omar Figueroa “Turcios” was born in Colombia and now lives in Spain, where he paints those weird but easily recognizable abstract caricatures. Also, here’s his caricature of Pinochet.
This cute model belongs to the Carlo Giovani gallery of papercraft and illustrations.
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Mikro Mart has some fantastic Mikroworld [Flash] artworks by designer Sam Buxton, all made from single sheet of metal! (They’re shipped flat with fold-out instructions) Link – via Ursi
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Stockholm-based designer Marie-Louise Gustafsson created this fantastic bean bag-like "Slacker Chair":
‘Slacker’ adds a new flexible sitting experience as
its users have to find their own sitting position.
Material: Cast aluminium frame with a seat made of polythene pellets in a sack of imitation leather.
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YesButNoButYes is beginning a new semi-regular feature: a comic to tell the true stories behind those sleazy tabloid headlines! Here’s the first one, on the saga of (who else) Britney Spears: Link
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Photo: George Steinmetz
That is an ice tower (fumarole [wiki]), and Mount Erebus in Antarctica has hundreds of them:
The flanks of Erebus are spiked with ice towers, hundreds of them, called fumaroles. Gas and heat seeping through the side of the volcano melt the snowpack above, carving out a cave. Steam escaping from the cave freezes as soon as it hits the air, building chimneys as high as 60 feet.
Comments Off A mashup of Gollum and Smeagol from the Lord of the Rings singing Barry White’s classic: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via SugarJar
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From the website:
The Knitting Machine is just one of artist Dave Cole’s large scale projects that consist of ambitiously knitting unconventional materials. In this particular piece Cole uses two excavation tractors equipped with 20′ knitting needles to assemble a giant American flag in time for the 4th of July (2005).
Link – via Unique Daily
Would you believe it, weeks later, the body of soul singer James Brown is yet to be buried!
The body of soul singer James Brown has yet to be buried as attorneys and his children work to settle issues surrounding his estate, including where he will be laid to rest.
For now, his body lies in a sealed casket in his home on Beech Island, said Charles Reid, manager of the C.A. Reid Funeral Home in Augusta, Ga., which handled the services.
Brown died of heart failure Dec. 25 at age 73. His will has yet to be filed, said Buddy Dallas, an attorney for the singer.
The room where Brown’s body lies is being kept at a controlled temperature, and security guards keep watch, Reid said.
Link – via Bits & Pieces
Our pal Shurebit found this tissue dispenser shaped like Easter Island Moai or head statues! Link
This Oregon Scientific weather station changes color to forecast the weather!
Link – via topblogposts
Ah, England’s drinking … all captured on film by photographer Peter Dench: Link – via Look At This …
Yes, a deck cassette converter exists! Also there’s a USB turntable. So, retro lovers, you still can use your old tape and LP collections and live in the 80s forever.
Link – via Ursi’s Blog
I’d like to welcome a new guest author to Neatorama, Juergen Horn of Random Good Stuff.
No doubt many of you are familiar with Juergen’s neat blog, but did you know that he’s also an avid photographer (with a photoblog, of course) and the creator of two very useful websites on the Net: Criticker (a personal film recommendation engine) and Last Minute Auction (which lists all eBay auctions under $1 that will be over in 1 hour or less! Quite useful for cheapskates like me!)
It’s a pleasure to welcome Juergen to Neatorama.
Paul Collins of the Weekend Stubble wrote about one of his favorite freelance assignment, an article on New Scientist about the edibility of really old foods. And he means old: decades or even centuries old!
The photo above is a 106-year-old Cadbury chocolate bars …
Link – via Kircher Society
This t-shirt design from Frogbite uses clever typography, don’t you think?
Link – via Didn’t You Hear
See also: Love/Hate Shirt
Two brothers from Fordham, UK were found guilty for … overfeeding their dog!
Derek Benton, 62, and his brother David, 53, were found guilty of providing their pet Labrador, Rusty, with an inappropriate diet.
Vets said Rusty was like a walrus after his weight rose to 11 stone (69.8kg).
Link – via Dave Barry’s Blog
Pepsi is giving away a $100,000 jewel-studded Pepsi can to a lucky Super Bowl XLI fan:
"The can is all blinged out," Pepsi-Cola (PEP) North America Chief Marketing Officer Cie Nicholson says of the sterling-silver can crusted with 300 diamonds, 100 sapphires and 100 rubies. The design was inspired by past Super Bowl rings, as well as by the Vince Lombardi Trophy for the winning Super Bowl team.
Link – via happy ant’s blog
From the website:
A baby boy weighing 15.7lb has been born in Poland. Kacper, who is more than two feet tall, was born to Bozena Skulska, 44, in Szczecin.
Buying a new mattress? Confused about all those weird product names and their infinite permutations? Slate has got the scoop on how to cut through the silliness:
The secret to mattress shopping is that the product is basically a commodity. The mattress biz is 99-percent marketing. …
Here’s the lowdown: Mattress makers rename identical products for each different retail store. Different labels, exact same guts. Why? Obfuscation. It’s hard to shop for the lowest price when you can’t compare apples to apples. Lucky for you, they’re all subtle variations on the same apple—not only within each brand, but even among different brands.
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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist [wiki], a global security and public policy watchdog magazine and keeper of the Doomsday Clock [wiki] has just moved it forward to 7 minutes to Midnight to reflect the worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world.
Honda had just "taught" the bipedal Asimo robot to run (both feet are off the ground for 0.8 0.08 sec) [YouTube Link]. That’s quite remarkable, since not long ago, Asimo Fell and Can’t Get Up [YouTube].
For ten years, magician and skeptic James Randi had offered $1 million to anyone capable of demonstrating paranormal ability under scientific scrutiny. But recently, Randi is revising the Million Dollar Challenge.
Why? To avoid the crazies:
Ten years after stage magician and avowed skeptic James Randi first offered a seven-figure payday to anyone capable of demonstrating paranormal phenomenon under scientific scrutiny, the 79-year-old clear-eyed curmudgeon is revising the rules of his nonprofit foundation’s Million Dollar Challenge to better target high-profile charlatans, and spend less time on unknown psychics, who too often turn out to be delusional instead of deceptive.
"We can’t waste the hundreds of hours that we spend every year on the nutcases out there — people who say they can fly by flapping their arms," says Randi. "We have three file drawers jam-packed with those collections…. There are over 300 claims that we have handled in detail."
Link | Randi’s One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
Why, Neatorama can make 5 minutes of your time and productivity disappear easily, do we get the $1 million?
