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Easter is nearly here, and with the holy day, we get … Peeps! Here’s a neat list of movies, history, and diorama featuring Easter’s favorite snack.
This one above is The Lord of the Peeps – if you can’t guess which movie it features, then you must’ve been living under a rock.
Link – via Miss Cellania (don’t forget to check out her incredible list of Easter-related links!)
Here’s a cute video clip of The Muppet Mobile Lab with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker visiting Pixar studio.
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I don’t know which is scarier, this Tiger Fish above or the Candiru fish … In either case, don’t ever swim in the Congo River!
Cellar Image of the Day has more pics: Link – via Random Good Stuff
Here’s a publicity stunt for ya: a business park decided to pay a farmer to spray his flock of sheep bright red then release them to graze next to a highway!
Link – via A Welsh View
Toxoplasma gondii, a brain parasite spread by cat feces, can target and alter its host’s feeling of fear!
Rats usually have an innate fear of cat urine. The fear extends to rodents that have never seen a feline and those generations removed from ever meeting a cat. After they get infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, however, rats become attracted to cat pee, increasing the chance they’ll become cat food.
This much researchers knew. But a new study shows the parasite, which also infects more half the world’s human population, seems to target a rat’s fear of cat urine with almost surgical precision, leaving other kinds of fear alone.
Here’s a trailer for Future by Design, a film by director William Gazecki about the vision of Jacque Fresco. Jacque wants to build fantastic new cities from the ground up (or in the sea), complete with flying cars and maglev trains.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Future by Design Website – via The Bad Rant
See also: The Venus Project by Jacque Fresco, previously on Neatorama.
In 2004, Joe Malia created clothings for people who are obsessed with computers, mobile phone texting and privacy! Link – via Say No To Crack
What happens if you press the big red button on this Cox & Forkum’s cartoon? Find out for yourself: Link – via Who Tends the Fire
Found at Scribal Terror and Arbroath
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We’ve featured the creative coffins (caskets, if you want to be technical, I suppose) from Ghana before. Here’re some more: a Ferrari, Nokia cell phone, and even a Microsoft mouse!
Link – via Random Citations
The Stripe Generator 2.0 is a neat little web tools to create stripes (don’t laugh – it’s really quite well done). You can select the size, spacing, color, and other details about your stripes!
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This crocheted tardis by LiveJournal user meredee is just one of many pics (and patterns) posted of fan-made projects by the Fandom Knit community.
Don’t miss: NES Afghan, R2D2 knitted beanie, tribbles, and the Wrath of Khan shrug.
Link – Thanks Tiffany!
Cartoons took away the clouds of sadness that the war brought … and they sold war bonds!
You can buy the guide to cartoons at war here: Link
Comments Off The world’s largest TV is (currently) the Toshiba 2651:
Built for the Japan Racing Association (JRA) by Mitsubishi Electric, the screen measures 11.2 meters (37 feet) x 66.4 meters (218 feet), is about 4 stories high and has a surface area of 744 square meters (8,000 square feet)
In this video, a Fuji TV news reporter runs from one edge of the screen to the opposite end in about 13 seconds:
This DIY light kit (designed after famous lamp designs) comes complete with cutout figures ready to assemble. It’s designed by Mark McKenna and you can buy the complete set at Collete for 40€ (about $45).
Link [Flash, with loud music] – via Retro To Go
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In a very suspicious manner. Link
For his art series "Nature Watercolors" German artist Mario Reis soaked his canvas in various rivers to truly capture the "color" of a river:
Slowly, sediment is deposited, minerals are soaked up and pollutants settle out of the surrounding water. After collecting these canvas ‘traps’, the artist unstretches the works and freezes interesting results with spray adhesive.
Link – via Moon River
Harvesting wind energy used to be limited to large conventional wind turbines, until Lucien Gambarota invented micro-wind turbines for private use called Motorwind. The turbines are small (25 cm or about 10 inch in diameter) and can generate energy with wind speeds as low as 2 m/s.
Link – via Instituto Futurista and Inhabitat
If ancient Rome had the Internet, here’s a list of what would’ve happened:
- The destruction of Pompeii in 79AD is the most viewed video at YouTube. The first comment is…"OMG so cool! Volcanos ROCK!"
- Attila the Hun has his own MySpace page. Nobody ever rejects his "invite a friend" emails.
- The soothsayer’s "Ides of March" email fails to get Caesar’s proper attention as it’s inadvertently filtered into his junk folder.
-"Naked Cleopatra" is the top search term on Google.
If you drink designer water like this one, then it just won’t do to – gasp! use tap water for ice.
Enter aquaICE, purified water in ready-to-freeze sealed ice trays.
What will they think of next? Link – via The Bachelor Guy
Here’s a springy bed made from recycled car suspension springs. Supposedly it’s quite comfortable to sleep on. Erhm. Yeah. For sleeping.
Thanks Dimitra Doufekas!
Update: I’ve been asked to find this guy’s website but I have been unable to do so. Are there any Hungarian readers who are up to the task?
Update II: We’ve got more info thanks to Peter in comments below! Please visit the new post/thread.
Here’s a new cartoon collaboration, with Andy Singer of No Exit. Definitely check out Andy’s website and new book!
At first glance, Jeremy Mora’s artwork look like an abstract pile of something – but you’ll be delightfully surprised when you look closely and find neat little figures doing something in the sculptures! Link – Thanks Jeremy!
Say you want to share your photos with family and friends but you don’t have a website, don’t want to email the pics, and you don’t want to sign up for a flickr account.
Here’s something else: picupine, a simple pic sharing with no sign up. You can upload your photo and get a URL you can email – the link will stay active for a week, then it will automatically expire.
Link – Thanks Luke! (I wonder what they get out of it?)
Here’s a list of 7 hi-tech pillows/speaker combo for your iPod. Probably good for people who like to sleep to music.
If you like our previous post on the Black Hole of Los Alamos, you’ll like the space junk at Norton Sales – they’ve got rockets, real rockets!
Dave Bullock has some photos of the place: Link | Norton Sales website – Thanks Dave!
In this deranged Flash game by [adult swim], you’re an office worker who is sick and tired of meetings – so, to stick it to the man, you stick it to yourself. And oh, you’ve only got 5 minutes to kill yourself.
The X Prize Foundation, which Ansari X Prize [wiki] for a privately funded spacecraft was won by SpaceShipOne [wiki] in 2004 (left pic), is now offering a new prize: the Automotive X Prize.
The contest will require vehicles to meet tough emission requirements and get 100 miles per U.S. gallon (about 42 kilometres a litre). The current average fuel economy of U.S. vehicles is about 20 miles per gallon (nine km/l).
The competition is intended "to inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change," the foundation said on its website.
Link | Automotive X Prize website – Thanks David R!
This is why you shouldn’t go skiing for the weekend, forgetting to lock your dorm room’s door. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube].
For more college prank, check out this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education:
A Chronicle employee — OK, fine, it was me — spent hours sifting the semi-funny from the truly idiotic in order to bring you five of the best college prank videos. While none of these pranks involve duct tape or shaving cream, they are all pretty juvenile.
Link – Thanks Daniel Kim!
