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Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb wrote an article titled 10 Sites For Finding Wonderful Things, and guess who made it to the list?
Yup – it’s this lil’ blog! Here’s what he said about Neatorama:
Neatorama is a lot like BoingBoing, but a lot less high-brow and a little more fun. Regular games of "What Is It?" challenge readers to identify photographs of old and unusual objects. The whole site is almost a clearinghouse of weird and it’s a much quicker read than BoingBoing.
"Clearinghouse of the wierd," now that’s a tag line! (And do people really think Neatorama is like Boing Boing?) See who else made the list: Link
Photo: hatayanaorg favorite blog on all things LEGO (here’s one reason why), has a really neat post about the piece of Peace exhibit in Japan. It features UNESCO World Heritage sites built out of LEGO bricks by Kazuyoshi Naoe.
This one above is the Sagrada Familia cathedral, which looks just as impressive in real life.
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Divinely Designed Churches
Photo: Ben Ray at Environmental Graffiti (more there, and on Flickr)
Downtown Atlanta was hit with a giant EF-2 tornado with winds up to 130 mph on Friday. And if that’s not enough, today the city is hit with a massive supercell thunderstorm (with another tornado warning).
I hope all of you over there are okay.
Click play or go to Link.
Reuters has an article up about a recent survey of HR managers about the greatest interviewing mistakes that they’ve ever seen:
- When an applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn’t want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.
- A candidate for an accounting position said she was a “people person” not a “numbers person.”
- Candidate flushed the toilet while talking to interviewer during phone interview.
Commentors, what is the worst interviewing mistake that you’ve ever seen or done?
Link via Ace of Spades HQ
Lacey Henderson’s right leg was amputated when she was nine years old due to a tumor in her kneecap. But at her mother’s suggestion, she tried out to become a cheerleader in high school. Not only did she make the team, but she worked her way up to captain! Now she’s 18 and cheers for the University of Denver.
She says sometimes she blends in and people don’t even notice her leg. Of course, the stickers on the side usually give it away.
“Sometimes you just have to own having one leg and you can’t be afraid to show it,” she said. “My parents would get so mad at me and say ‘Lacey, it looks just like a tattoo!’”
Be still, my heart! Swedish designer Måns Salomonsen created this awesome bookshelf shaped like a heartbeat in an electrocardiogram.
Link – via Freshome (See also Freshome’s neat 30 Most Creative Bookshelves Designs we blogged about a while ago) – Thanks Julia A.!
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split."
– Raymond Chandler, author
This two-faced baby, born in a small rural village in Northern India just a couple of days ago, has already attracted a lot of worshippers:
Word spread quickly among villagers about the newborn baby girl.
The baby is seen as an incarnation of God and people make offerings and ask for the baby’s blessing.
Link (with video clip) – Thanks Emperor and Holly Schroeder!
Two pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached themselves on Mahia beach in New Zealand and conservationists had trouble trying to get them back out to sea.
That is, until Moko the bottlenosed dolphin, who is well known locally for playing with swimmers in the bay, stepped in (swam in?):
Mr Smith said that just when his team was flagging, the dolphin showed up and made straight for them.
"I don’t speak whale and I don’t speak dolphin," Mr Smith told the BBC, "but there was obviously something that went on because the two whales changed their attitude from being quite distressed to following the dolphin quite willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea."
He added: "The dolphin did what we had failed to do. It was all over in a matter of minutes."
Link – Thanks kyax!
Need a job? Jacob Share of JobMob posted a compilation of 36 beautiful resumes that stand out from the boring ol’ black-and-white ones job seekers everywhere make by the millions.
This one to the left is the resume of graphic designer and illustrator Kenji Enos.
I’m curious if they work: do beautiful resumes help you get the job, or are employers wary of people that stand out? Link – Thanks Jacob!
Meet the Radical Rodents, the "coolest and hippest mice in the world" and keen surfers from Down Under! Their owner, Shane Willmott of Queensland, takes the mice surfing when the sea is calm and said that they love it!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Ananova
Helen and Jerry Stathatos got a beautiful garden and they know that they’ve got the bees to thank for it. So, for 20 years, they’ve tolerated a colony of bees that live in the walls of their house!
The situation at the Stathatos house on Virginia Road is getting sticky. So many bees live in the walls of the stately Tudor home that honey drips out of the walls, discoloring the wallpaper in the dining room.
The bees had been good tenants, peacefully coexisting for years with the home’s human residents, Helen and Jerry Stathatos.
But lately the house has become a hive of activity, with bees buzzing around an upstairs bedroom, said Dustin Mackey, a bee removal expert with Bee Specialist. Mackey made a house call in late February to vacuum the busy insects from a window frame and seal the floor in the bedroom. "You walk into the house and it smells sweet," Mackey said. "I felt like I was in a jar of honey." [...]
Mackey said Stathatos decided against removing the bees because it might require them to pull down several interior walls, where "thousands, maybe millions" of bees have taken up residence.
Link – Thanks Preston Pittman!
If you like to go on vacations, move to Italy. The average number of vacation days every year there is 42 days.
In the United States, on the other hand, employees only get an average of 13 days of vacation each year.
The pic of Marvel Comics superhero The Thing of Fantastic Four is definitely one of the best examples of trompe l’oeil I’ve seen. It was drawn by Justen Ladda in 1981 at PS 37 in the Bronx, New York. Link
(click on the “Side View” to see how it was done)
Update 3/18/08 – Here’s the side view of Justen’s art. I hope it makes sense now
