Mechanical engineer and robot builder James Andrew Smith of McGill University's Centre for Intelligent Machines created this "bounding" robot named PAW that - perhaps one day - you can take out for a walk!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/paw-the-bounding-robot/Who knew you could get packing tape in so many different designs? See many designs at Reuben Miller. I particularly like the tape that says "Shut Up!" Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/designer-packing-tape/An Italian technology firm, HAL9000, has created an online mega-composite of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper at an incredible 16 gigapixel resolution (about 2,000 times more detailed than a standard digital photograp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/the-last-supper-now-online-in-amazing-detail/Jennifer Bain paints pretty and atmospheric paintings inspired by nature. The vertical (mostly) strips in her paintings are individually exquisitely composed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/jennifer-bain/Julien Notter and Sébastien Vigne of at-elier created this awesome optical-illusion poster inspired by HP Lovecraft:Now, one would think an op-art Cthulhu would be a lot more appropriate than just a plain ol&#...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/hp-lovecraft-inspired-poster/All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666, the Number of the Beast.According to legends, François Blanc, who set up the first casino in Monte Carlo, supposedly bargained with the devil to obtain the secret...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/trivia-roulette-and-mark-of-the-beast/We've posted about the awe-inspiring Kenova Pumpkin House with its 3,000 jack-o'-lanterns, but this particular home was actually built to look like a pumpkin!Steve Miller got interested in geodesic domes in 1972...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/steve-millers-pumpkin-house/The Southern California fire disaster has revealed another benefit of being rich: better protection against fires!Insurance company AIG has a private client group, an elite program offered only to homeowners with propert...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/private-firefighers-for-rich-homeowners/You may have heard the term "The Sleeping Giant" being applied to China, but as German photographer Bernd Hagemann found out, the term may actually have a more literal meaning: Chinese people can sleep anywhere...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/sleeping-people-of-china/Image: Nick Derington [Flickr]Cartoonist Nick Derington promises that this amazing drawing is just the first in the Stranger series, with meanings to be played out in subsequent panels. And what better way to st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/nick-deringtons-stranger-in-a-diner/Photo: Dave Fatella at WVPicsThis is an awesome story of a West Virginian man who, along with volunteers, carves over 3,000 pumpkins and display them on his house every Halloween!Ric Griffith, the man behind the famous K...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/the-kenova-pumpkin-house/In Spain, Popeye’s girlfriend is "Rosario". In Portugal, she's "Olívia Palito."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/trivia-where-olive-oyl-is-called-by-a-different-name/America is a nation that likes difficult challenges. Like how to put a man on the moon, or how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwich bad, and I mean really bad for your health:For years the fatty fanfare heat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/deep-fried-peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich/Werewolves aren't the only creatures affected by the moon - corals have a synchronized mass spawning just after full moon.But how do they know the phases of the moon, scientists wonder. Turns out, they have "eyes&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/the-moon-is-a-giant-sex-clock-for-corals/We've blogged about Jessica, the pet hippo of retired South African game warden Tonie Joubert and his wife Shirley. Today, I found a video clip of the hippo!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/jessica-the-pet-hippo-2/Photo: cheese lady [Flickr]Usually, the natives of a land hate tourists and foreigners ... but not in Thailand! This homemade sign on the back of a tuk-tuk in Chiang Mai, Thailand sums it up:Farang (foreigners) are a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/where-farangs-are-loved/Apparently, you can get drunk on hand sanitizers, though there is a downside to it:In the first incident, the young man had been admitted to the emergency department for abdominal pain. When the staff left h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/getting-drunk-on-hand-sanitizer/Here's a classic from The Joy of Tech: how to make your own geeky Jack-o'-Lanterns. I particularly like the Steve Wozniak carving - it's like he's the Great Geek Pumpkin, glowing eerily with his happy, billionaire smile....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/geeky-jack-o-lanterns/Halloween is nearly here! So, to prepare you for the festivities, here are five of the neatest Halloween-themed video clips on VideoSift: Cool Pumpkin C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/27/videosift-halloween-fun/This may look like a saw dripping with blood, but it’s a crocheted scarf! Lady Linoleum at Monster Crochet made it for Halloween. Link -via Need Coffee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/bloody-saw-scarf/In Yemen, the minimum age for marriage is 9. The Human Rights Watch World Report stated: "In 1999, the minimum marriage age of fifteen for women, rarely enforced, was abolished; the onset of puberty, interpreted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/trivia-minimum-age-for-marriage-in-yemen/Today's Bizarro matches up with our recent article Pirate Lore: 7 Myths and Truths about Pirates so well it must be divine fate! Well, if you want more Bizarrrrrro, check out Dan Piraro's website: Bizarro and BizarroArti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/bizarro-over-accessorized-pirate/Musicians make music videos to popularize their albums, so why not authors? Well, that's exactly what author Douglas Coupland is doing for his new novel The Gum Thief:“The book’s structure lent i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/book-videos-the-next-marketing-tools-for-books/Norwegian artist Mat Gullikstad of Oldemor Blog created this awesomely detailed model of Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin, according to a blueprint by cartoonists Don Rosa and Dan Shane.The building comes complete with three c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/fan-made-scrooge-mcducks-money-bin/In his 25 seconds animated clip called "The Grackles", Monte Bach of San Antonio Express-News illustrates for us exactly the thing we fear most from large, evil-looking birds a la Alfred Hitc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/the-grackles-the-real-birds-of-horror/Texas Governor Rick Perry recently endorsed Rudy Guliani for the 2008 US Presidential Election. The governor, however, likened his endorsement to buying a pickup truck - all the selections had at least one thing that he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/if-presidential-candidates-were-cars-what-kind-of-cars-would-they-be/Tim Maloney mashed up (re-wrote? dubbed over?) a classic 90's saturday morning cartoon Exosquad into this: VIOLENT COMBAT ROBOTS, a team of intrepid spacement who use the power of science to lay waste to everyone on the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/violent-combat-robots-a-saturday-morning-cartoon-mashup/Talking 'bout the election, Neatorama has finally endorsed its presidential candidate for 2008: the international superstar ... world's most photographed squirrel ... and news anchor of SNN (the Squirrel News Network) .....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/sugar-bush-squirrel-for-president/Tell me ... how close can you get your mouse cursor to this animated rabbit without getting your arrow grabbed by it? Warning: he's real fast!A neat little interactive Flash game by Andrius Kirvela: Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/dont-let-this-rabbit-grab-your-cursor/Everytime I turn on the radio, Nickelback's Rockstar comes on. The song is has a catchy tune and the lyric - if you listen closely - stereotypes the lifestyles of rock 'n roll stars. So what do you call it when someone p...
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