Part of the fun in writing for Neatorama is all the blogs I get to visit in search for posts. In three years of editing this blog, I've looked at and bookmarked quite a bit of blogs - but call it blogging fatigue, time-c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/got-a-blog-come-tell-us-about-it/Tired of chasing and feeding on the living alone? Need someone to share the apocalypse with? Sign up for a free account with ZombieHarmony. Link via Double Plus Undead...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/zombieharmony-a-dating-site-for-the-undead/Unicycling - a sport long relegated to clowns and weirdos - have gone hardcore: a small but growing cadre of unicyclists have "ruggidized" (is that a word? It is now!) the whimsical device and created the new s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/mountain-unicycling/Apparently, art school made Rutger de Vries of Perongeluk decorate this destroyed building with paint and graffiti: http://www.perongeluk.com/?cat=5 - via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/art-school-made-me-do-this/Necktie sales may be skyrocketing in the UK, but it's a bad time for tie makers in the good ol' USA. Many American men have stopped wearing ties, and now, even the tie guys are calling it quits. The Men's Dress Furnishin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/american-tie-guys-untie-own-association/Flickr user roxydynamite went to an estate sale in a 60's modern house and found this gorgeous wall made from ... bricks of cork! I know that you can find thin sheets of cork to make your own corkboard, but this is somet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/wall-of-cork-bricks/In the mid 1930s, the U.S. Government launched the Federal Writers' Project to support writers during the Great Depression.As part of a project documenting American folklores, a guy named William Zimmerman told the story...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/mysterious-chinese-tunnels-of-the-pacific-northwest/Photo: Steven Goodwin [Flickr]Every kid knows that if you place a ruler over the edge of a desk and flick it, it'll "twang" - and by changing the amount of the overhang, you'll change the pitch. Steven Goodwin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/rule-organ-musical-device-made-from-rulers/The Mentos Kiss Fight game was surprisingly fun. It's like a 2d fighting game, except instead of punches and kicks, you throw high and low kisses. Kissing while backing up throws fireball kisses, and catching a fal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/mentos-kiss-fight-online-game/News in Science reports:Scientists have photographed a giant gas bubble emanating from a whale, suggesting that flatulence is just as common for ocean mammals as it is for humans and many other terrestrial animals. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/whale-flatulence-aerial-view/Consider this bit of startling finding: once people have an annual income of about $10,000 per capita, more money doesn't go far in making them happy. (We're talking about worldwide per capita income, not US).Indeed, a g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/the-economics-of-happiness/Marc Schiller of Wooster Collective, one of my favorite street art blogs, posted this photo of a pay phone on the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Now that's vandalism at its best, folks! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/string-can-public-phone/In their art exhibition titled It's always six o'clock, artists Eva and Franco Mattes of 0100101110101101.org took some familiar cartoon charactes and subverted them just so ... all in the name of art: Link - vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/its-always-six-oclock-by-eva-and-franco-mattes/This unassuming set of Toto Bar boxes by Isay Weinfeld unfolded to reveal cleverly designed storage spaces for an evening's cocktail party. It stores everything you need from liquors to glasswares! Link - via Mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/toto-bar-by-isay-weinfeld/Do you ever kick your lawnmower in frustration when it won't start? Well, Keith Walendowski took it a step further when he got pissed at his lawnmower ... the inebriated 57-year-old man took a shotgun and shot it!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/27/man-shoots-lawnmower-voids-warranty/Ever wonder why tigers grow up to be such fierce hunters? You would too if you're constantly badgered by the prank monkey when you're growing up!This is easily the funniest monkey video you'll see today: Link [embedded F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/prank-monkey-torment-tigers/You'll never count sheep again to sleep after you see this nightmarish (yet fascinating) drawing, titled The Way of the Sheep, by German art student Markus Neidel.Link [Flash](Yes, it's like the horror version o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/the-way-of-the-sheep-by-markus-neidel/[YouTube - Link] I've always been a fan of the great classical pieces of music from Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, to all the other great composers. However, one holds a special place in my heart by Claude Debussy with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/seeing-the-music/[View from Voyager: Jupiter's Great Red Spot (NASA) [flickr]] The glorious planet Jupiter is back in the news again: the less than a year old "Baby Red Spot" in Jupiter's atmosphere was consumed by the better-known...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/the-big-picture-16-great-views-of-jupiter/You thought that it could only happen in the movies, but James Wakefield had a plan to win back his girlfriend's love: have a friend kidnap her, so he could be a hero and rescue her!And as if that's not strange enough, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/the-dalek-kidnapping-plan/Swimmer Marc Lewis of La Jolla, California, did something that no one had done before: he was the first to swim from Santa Rosa Island to the beach of Goleta (a 30-mile swim):Lewis completed the swim in 15 hours, 47...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/man-swam-30-mile-across-ocean-said-left-shoulder-hurts/Homer Simpsons got the Spider Pig, but Feng Changlin of Fengzhang village in rural China got something even better: a Monkey Pig! "It's hideous. No one will be willing to buy it, and it scares the family to even...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/monkey-pig/How does one explain teh InterWeb to children? Kevin Fanning and Kean Soo of Jellaby have boiled down everything we know about the Net into a series of nursery rhymes for kids, with great illustrations:Do not stop to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/babys-first-internet-nursery-rhymes-about-the-web/Sixty-two-year-old Italian scuba diver has just set a new world record in ... underwater cycling!Nine minutes later he reached the 65m mark. ''It was tough because I ran into more mud than I expected,'' he said. ''I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/new-world-record-in-underwater-cycling/(YouTube link) BBC Sport is using the traditional Monkey King character in the marketing campaign for their Olympics coverage. Produced by Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn. Link -via Viral Video Chart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/bbc-olympics-coverage/Stained glass art is not just for church anymore! deputydog has a collection of stained glass featuring subjects from videogames, comics, and science. This Darth Vader pane was recreated from a Christmas card drawn by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/26/stained-glass-for-geeks/[YouTube - Link] It's Friday. So, what does this mean? Time to drown ourselves in furry Otter madness. I present to you baby Otters and tons of them squeaking and quieting down in unison at the New Forest Otter, O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/otter-nonsense/The lemurs of Madagascar are millipede junkies. Who knew?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/lemurs-find-a-natural-high/MINSK, BELARUS: Twin brothers Michael and Vladimir Iariga, 16 years old. Michael, with hydrocephalus, is 5 minutes older than Vladimir, who is deaf. (Photo: Robert Knoth)The Chernobyl disaster may seem like a distant mem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/nuclear-nightmares-twenty-years-since-chernobyl-by-knoth-and-de-jong/We posted about the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas before, where teenager Nicole Ruhter found a 2.93-carat "Pathfinder Diamond." Well, it turns out that the state park is living up to its moniker as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/kid-found-275-carat-diamond-in-the-crater-of-diamonds-state-park/
