Optimus Prime Dances!
(YouTube link) The Evolution of Dance is the most-viewed YouTube video ever. In this relatively short parody, Optimus Prime shows off his moves! -via Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/optimus-prime-dances/Archive for February 2008
Haramaki
Could the traditional Japanese belly warmer become a new fashion trend worldwide? Probably not, but they could help you stay warm in the winter. The idea is that if you keep your torso warm enough, the blood flowing to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/haramaki/"Box": Carton Boxes Take Over the World
"Box" is a fantastic yet slightly creepy short film about carton boxes and how they're going to take over the world ...Great special effects! Hit play or go to %3Cdiv%3E%3Cobject%20width=%22420%22%20height=%2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/box-carton-boxes-take-over-the-world/Ken Butler's Hybrid Musical Instrument Sculptures
Artist and musician Ken Butler makes hybrid musical instrument sculptures out of boots, weapons, tools, furniture. He has even staged performances where he played his eccentric instruments: Link | String Hybrid Instrumen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/ken-butlers-hybrid-musical-instrument-sculptures/Spam Headlines Turned into Art
Spam has been the inspiration of many art projects, and turning spam headlines into art is nothing new. But still, I'm quite taken by the wonderful illustrations by Kipling West at Fresh Spam Blog. Her interpretation of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/spam-headlines-turned-into-art/Mobius Climber
I'd tell you that the Mobius Climber, a playground set inspired by the Möbius strip, is like every kid's dream come true and every parents worry that they'd fall and conk their heads, but you'd say I'm being one-sid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/mobius-climber/Trivia: ZIP Code 12345
The ZIP code 12345 belongs to the world headquarters of General Electric in Schenectady, New York.Every year, GE gets thousands of mails from children who believed that it's only logical that Santa Claus has the ZIP code...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/trivia-zip-code-12345/Cutting Down A Tree With A Minigun
The folks at Mythbusters are at it again. This time Kari Byron tested to see how long it would take for a M-134 Minigun to fell a tree. This neat clip demonstrates the gun's amazing rapid rate of fire. Oh! and yes......
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/cutting-down-a-tree-with-a-minigun/What Is It? Game 54
Hooray! It's time for our collaboration with What is it? blog. If you can guess what today's strange object is, you'll win a Free Neatorama T-shirt (old design). Place your guess in the comment. One gues...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/what-is-it-game-54/Flu Vaccine Failed: Flu Now Tearing Through 49 Out of 50 States
I've been sick as a dog the past few days, but now I feel a little bit better now that I find out that I'm not alone: Packed emergency rooms, empty classrooms, and bustling college infirmaries are all signs that the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/flu-vaccine-failed-flu-now-tearing-through-49-out-of-50-states/Flowers and Trees Silly Symphonies: First Oscar for Animated Shorts
The clip above is Flowers and Trees, a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon directed by Burt Gillett and produced by Walt Disney. It was the first film ever released in full color (three-strip Technicolor process) and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/flowers-and-trees-silly-symphonies-first-oscar-for-animated-shorts/Improv Everywhere's Mobile Desktop Prank at Starbucks
Those clever pranksters at Improv Everywhere have done it again! This time, they went into a Starbucks with their giant desktop computers and CRT monitors, bought coffee, and worked at their computer as if they were lapt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/improv-everywheres-mobile-desktop-prank-at-starbucks/Movie Box Office Receipt in the Past 20 Years
The New York Times has an interesting graph depicting the movie box office receipts from 1986 to 2007:Summer blockbusters and holiday hits make up the bulk of box office revenue each year, while contenders for the top Os...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/movie-box-office-receipt-in-the-past-20-years/Norwegian Sunset ... at Midnight!
Photographer Thomas Laupstad took this amazing photo of a sunset in Northern Norway ... at midnight!Scenes like this one above is why Northern Norway is known as the Land of the Midnight Sun. Being north of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/norwegian-sunset-at-midnight/Exchange Student Came Back With Extreme Weight Loss
When Jonathan McCullum left last summer to spend a school year as an exchange student in Egypt, little did he knew that he'd also undergo an extreme weight loss / starvation diet too!Jonathan McCullum was in perfect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/28/exchange-student-came-back-with-extreme-weight-loss/Mary Poppins, the Liar
Whaaaat? Did Mary Poppins lie 40 years ago? Robert Krulwich of ABC World News with Charles Gibson's webcast investigates in this hard hitting piece: [The mystery] involves the world's most beloved nanny, Marry Poppin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/mary-poppins-the-liar/Garfield comic without Garfield
Garfield minus Garfield is a surprisingly funny fan-mod of the popular comic strip, where Garfield the cat is erased from every panel, leaving a flustered and somewhat crazy-looking Jon Arbuckle:Who would have guesse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/garfield-comic-without-garfield/Flash Game: Bug Battle Combat
Bug Battle Combat by FineFin Games fulfills my two criteria for a fun Flash game: 1) it's easy to play 2) it's mindless fun!In this game you're a square swat paddle that squishes bugs on contact. You've got to protect yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/flash-game-bug-battle-combat/Cute Sock Zombie Wants to Eat Your Brain!
ZOMG! This sock zombie plushie by Etsy seller underroos is SO cute! This one is the Blue and Brown Toehorn Zombie:You know what you need? A zombie made out of socks. It's better than an ACTUAL zombie in so many ways!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/cute-sock-zombie-wants-to-eat-your-brain/It Pays to be Bilingual
This photo of a sign in Argentina was posted by Dan Harris. Link -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/it-pays-to-be-bilingual/Cloud Streets
Via Pink Tentacle. According to Wikipedia, cloud streets are rows of cumulus or cumulus-type clouds aligned parallel to the low-level wind. The most favorable conditions for their formation occur when the lowerm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/cloud-streets/The Original Scientology
Enturbulation.org (a website dedicated to expose Scientology) user dr3k just uploaded some scans of a 1934 German book "Scientologie" that appeared to be the inspiration of L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientolog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/the-original-scientology/"The Monster": This Dino Could Bite A Car in Half!
Scientists had uncovered a 150-million-year-old fossil "treasure trove" in an Arctic island chain of Svalbard.Among the find is an immense sea creature 50 ft (15 m) long, a new species of pliosaur aptly nicknam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/the-monster-this-dino-could-bite-a-car-in-half/ZIF Crystals Trap 80x Its Weight in CO2
Photo: Omar Yaghi and Rahul Banerjee/UCLAResearchers had developed a new nanoscale crystal called ZIF (zeolitic imidazolate framerwork) that can trap 80x its volume of carbon dioxide:This particular crystal has excit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/zif-crystals-trap-80x-its-weight-in-co2/Surveillance Screensaver
This is a intriguing yet creepy idea for a screensaver: SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver which shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. Yep, when your computer is idle you’ll get...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/surveillance-screensaver/Whole Shrimp Cheese Pizza
Oooh, Pizza Hut USA so got nothin' on this! Behold the whole shrimp cheese bite pizza, created by the pizza chain's counterpart in Japan and south Korea:For the pizza lover who also craves shrimp and cheese...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/whole-shrimp-cheese-pizza/The Purple Nurple Optical Illusion
WARNING: IF THE IMAGE BELOW MAKES YOU DIZZY, LEAVE THIS PAGE, SCROLL DOWN OR JUST LOOK AWAY.The Purple Nurple Optical Illusion by Walter AnthonyNeatorama reader Walt Anthony shares with us his blog, gear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/the-purple-nurple-optical-illusion/Dance of the Scientists
Now this is something that tickled my inner geek (not that my outer geek is any less geeky): a dance competition for scientists called Dance Your Ph.D. contest.Organized by Ph.D. studnet Nilay Yapici at the Research Inst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/dance-of-the-scientists/Nubrella: The Hands Free Umbrella
Nubrella, the hands free umbrella, looks like a giant transparent Pac-Man chomping down on your head. The company hailed it as "the umbrella of the 21st century" and "the ultimate weather protector."T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/nubrella-the-hands-free-umbrella/Eclipse 2008 Photos
If you weren't lucky enough to see the spectacular lunar eclipse last week, Regina Rickert of At Close Range Photography has a neat collage of the event.Link - Thanks Regina and sorry I was a bit late in posting it (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/eclipse-2008-photos/
