(Biggify here)Inspired by the soaring price of oil and the continued devaluation of the dollar, artist Brian Romero designed the bill for the increasingly-worthless dollar: the Zero Dollar Bill!If you look at the bigger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/zero-dollar-bill-by-brian-romero/I know Kevin Cornell from The Superest, a fantastic illustrator's one-upmanship he ran with Matthew Sutter (covered here and here previously on Neatorama).Kevin has recently written a very neat post on his Bearskinrug bl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/an-artists-tools-pen-and-ink/Brayden Simms wrote for The Miami Herald's Heavy Thrifting, a column about saving money, when recently the newspaper decided to take a tip on saving money and laid him (and many other employees) off.But what's a little i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/blogger-paid-to-blog-being-laid-off-by-the-miami-herald/Here's a little cooking secret for ya: everything's better with bacon. Everything. Including chocolate chip cookies!Ooh, You Tasty Little Things blog has the recipe on how to make your own bacon chocolate chip cookies wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/bacon-chocolate-chip-cookie/Li Ching Yun had an advice for living a long life: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog" - and apparently, he followed his own advice, because Li died at a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/mans-secret-to-longevity-sit-like-a-tortoise-walk-like-a-pigeon-sleep-like-a-dog/"Now Showing" is an art exhibit at the Cosh Gallery in London where artists were given the task of creating their own interpretations of cult or classic film posters from the past. More than 40 creatives are di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/now-showing-movie-posters-re-imagined-by-artists/Neatorama reader Chet Gulland recommended this strange (and a little easy) little "Search Engine" spelling bee by Converse. It's a little experiment/viral ad using Google Adwords, where to get to the next round...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/search-engine-spelling-bee-by-converse/Some people never learn! This thief, James Milsom, 21, was filmed breaking into an undercover police car for the third time in four months. The police was familiar with his face, because before this latest heist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/third-times-the-charm-man-broke-into-undercover-police-car-again-and-again/Meet the CO2 gas-powered toaster, the highest popping toaster in the world and apparently some sort of art project by Freddie Yauner: http://www.freddieyauner.co.uk/index.php?/news/the-highest-popping-toaster-in-the-worl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/highest-popping-toaster-in-the-world/Photo: Eric LafforgueFrench photographer Eric Lafforgue took this photo of a Hagener, a Tjos warrior/tribesman from Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea. The Tjos people, who first saw a white man just 70 years ago, love to wea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/unusual-tribal-piercings-of-a-papua-new-guinea-tribesman/This animation of a beating heart by the people at Hybrid Medical Animation really blew me away! You can turn the "normal" opaque tissue into a refractory "glass" to see the inner workings of the valv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/heart-of-glass-amazing-animation-of-a-translucent-beating-heart/Meet Chris Coleson, a Richmond, Virginia, businessman who lost 86 pounds on the "McDonald's Diet""He said the idea was born out of his wife's skepticism at his ability to lose weight."I t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/the-mcdonalds-diet-man-lost-86-lb-eating-only-mcdonalds-food/I suck at golf, but here's a version that even I can be good at: appliance golf. Reuter's Oddly Enough blog explains:You know, it’s a lot like regular golf, but players use sledgehammers instead of golf clubs,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/new-destructive-sport-appliance-golf/According to a new book by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University in New York, and Vatican tour guide Roy Doliner, Michelangelo hid a secret code in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel:The c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/michelangelo-code-did-michelangelo-hide-secret-codes-in-the-sistine-chapel/This poster by Nicky Gibson can be downloaded here. I'd actually like to try my hand at sewing plush monsters. Can anyone recommend a good instructional book with patterns? (I have no sewing experience at all.)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/how-to-make-a-sock-monster-poster/Gory entertainment from magicians Barry and Stuart. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] -via Blame It On The Voices...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/suicide-in-c-sharp/Matt Sutter of Inkfinger created this awesome set "Typewomen," entirely out of type! Each Typewoman is created entirely with type (letters, punctuation, ligatures) in the typeface of their namesake and sit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/typewomen-by-matt-sutter/Reprinted from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Fast-Acting Long-Lasting.There are scientific findings that expand our knowledge and make life better for mankind. These, however, aren't such findings, but...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/proven-by-science/Comedian George Carlin has just passed away. Known for his acerbic wit and raunchy humor, Carlin was most famous for his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" routine, where he did actually say all 7 wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/george-carlin-rip/Oh, Kentucky. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this video clip of Ernie "I try not to smile, 'cause I got my teeth knocked out by a chainsaw" Brown, Jr. AKA Turtle Man.Here's a clip of him in action, in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/the-turtle-man/Flickr user rong_yiren created this fantastic LEGO minifig of the next logical step for Indy: Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Old Folks Home!Link - via Super PunchMore of rong_yiren's work: Post Empire Stormtroopers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/indiana-jones-and-the-curse-of-the-old-folks-home-lego-minifig/BornRich blog has a neat list of the top 10 high-tech coffee tables for your home. This one above is the interactive LED coffee table, called The Wave, which senses where over the table you put your drink and lights up a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/23/10-high-tech-coffee-tables/
