Archive for April 2006

Hundreds of Dead Dolphins Off the Coast of Zanzibar.

Water turns red with blood as four hundred bottleneck dolphins lie dead or dying on the shore of Zanzibar on Saturday April 29, 2006. Although the exact cause is still a mystery, scientists ar...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/hundreds-of-dead-dolphins-off-the-coast-of-zanzibar/

Mark Holthusen Photography.

This one is titled "Knife Thrower". Don't miss Mark's photography portfolio, including the ones he took for the Ça Ira opera.http://www.markholthusen.com/ (The...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/mark-holthusen-photography/

Largest Online Stadium.

This website is building the world's largest virtual stadium - they have more than 35,000 fans. As a fan, you can reserve a free seat and dress up your avatar in various outfit...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/largest-online-stadium/

LA South Central Urban Farmers Fighting Eviction.

For the last 13 years, about 250 families in the depressed inner city of South Central Los Angeles have depended on an urban farm. Now, they are facing eviction as a new Wal-Ma...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/la-south-central-urban-farmers-fighting-eviction/

Peteena Doll.

What is Peteena? From the website: Technically, Peteena is a 9-inch, white, plastic doll that uncannily resembles a poodle. Peteena bears the shameful scars of her lowly, m...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/peteena-doll/

Helen Evan and Heiko Hansen's Brix.

From the website: Brix is composed of a wall of virtual bricks and a camera that sees what is happening in front of the wall. When one approaches the wall, the surface reflects the image c...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/helen-evan-and-heiko-hansens-brix/

The Ladybag: The Purse that Knows its Content.

Students at Canada's Simon Fraser University designed this cool purse called the Ladybag that can detect its contents and alert the owner when something is missing: To design...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/the-ladybag-the-purse-that-knows-its-content/

Bronwyn Wright's Cars in the Wasteland.

Definitely a weird (and interesting) choice of art medium: wrecked abandoned cars. http://members.ozemail.com.au/%7Etheswamp/index.htm (Thanks Yawfren!)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/bronwyn-wrights-cars-in-the-wasteland/

Mental Typewriter.

Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute and the Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany, have created a brain-machine interface that translates brainwave signals into letters...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/mental-typewriter/

"Frank Lloyd Wright's" Gingerbread House.

What would Frank Lloyd Wright's blog look like? What would he blog about? Well, his Gingerbread House, of course...Link (A part of the Lost Blogs, where people blog as their histo...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/frank-lloyd-wrights-gingerbread-house/

MooBella's Ice Cream Vending Machine.

MooBella invented a computer-controlled vending machine that makes ice cream on demand, from scratch (the ingredients are flash frozen in 10 seconds!).From the website:On the mach...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/moobellas-ice-cream-vending-machine/

Sean Kenney's Greenwich Village in Lego.

We've featured one of Sean's creation before (4-foot tall Lego Homer), now check out one of his other creations: New York's Greenwich Village built with 50,000 Lego bricks. Link | Brick Apple...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/30/sean-kenneys-greenwich-village-in-lego/

Phil Torrone Reviews Logitech Orbit Webcam.

We love Phillip Torrone of Make (Hi Phil!). Take a look at his funny clip reviewing Logitech's Quickcam Orbit MP webcam.Link (via Boing Boing)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/29/phil-torrone-reviews-logitech-orbit-webcam/

Danielle Aubert's Drawing with Microsoft Excel.

Definitely one of the more unusual uses of Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet software: Link (link maybe slow, via J-Walk Blog)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/29/danielle-auberts-drawing-with-microsoft-excel/

Winston Smith's Another Day at the Office, 1986.

Take a look at Winston's other montage artworks: http://www.winstonsmith.com/main.html (via Kingboy)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/29/winston-smiths-another-day-at-the-office-1986/

Mega Mona Lisa.

Mega Mona Lisa has a mega collection of hundreds of user-submitted Mona Lisa Art. Link (via Geisha Asobi)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/29/mega-mona-lisa/

Giants Throughout History.

See how you stack up against these giants of times past: http://www.stevequayle.com/Giants/pics/giants.html (Thanks Tim Mosley!)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/28/giants-throughout-history/

Remi Benali's Salt Worker Photo.

From the website: Salt is of crucial importance for life. It has served as money, played a vital part in the religious rituals of many cultures and has been the cause of bitter warfare.*/e...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/28/remi-benalis-salt-worker-photo/

Jaromir Bazant's Ham Violin.

From the website: So there it is. A violin, shaped like a fine leg of Serrano Ham, created by Jaromir Bazant, 'Maestro Luthier' of Valencia. The booth showing this was so keen...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/28/jaromir-bazants-ham-violin/

Precise Model of Mil 24 Hind.

They're not kidding when they call themselves Precise Modeling: Fully scratch built, this model took just over 15 years (8000-10,000 hours) to complete. Begun in Kiev (Ukraine), in 1986 th...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/28/precise-model-of-mil-24-hind/

Richard Brown's Einstein in Pencil.

Richard draws photo-realistic illustrations using only pencils. Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/28/richard-browns-einstein-in-pencil/

Pyramid Under Mexico City.

Archaeologists discovered a 1,500-year-old pyramid under Mexico City: The unnamed pyramid has the same sized base as the giant Pyramid of the Moon at the famous archeological site of Teotih...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/27/pyramid-under-mexico-city/

Visocica: the Bosnian Pyramid.

Seems like pyramids might be everywhere! Scientists have begun digging on what might be a pyramid hidden beneath a hill in Bosnia... Known as Visocica, the 650m (2,120ft) tria...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/27/visocica-the-bosnian-pyramid/

Skull Binding

From the website: Dated over 2,000 years old this skull is an extreme example of binding and elongation. Cranial binding is the shaping of the skull, when a child is very young, usually an...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/27/skull-binding/

Disney's Teen Tracker Phone.

From the website: Disney is launching a US service that will enable parents to monitor how their children use their mobile phones.They will be able to track voice, te...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/27/disneys-teen-tracker-phone/

John Kyrk's Evolution Time Slider.

Take a look at this edutainment-fun time slider: http://dl.xferla.net/mirror/ovelho.com/evolution.swf (via del.icio.us)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/27/ohn-kyrks-evolution-time-slider/

World's Map of Billionaires.

Forbes has created the world's map of billionaires. That big blue dot in Washington state is Bill Gates. Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/26/worlds-map-of-billionaires/

World's Longest Bunny Hop.

Nearly 1,900 people converged in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to bunny hop their way to claim the World's Longest Bunny Hop. During the afternoon, 1,880 people joined in Lake Geneva...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/26/worlds-longest-bunny-hop/

Bad Album Covers.

Another bad album cover, this time by Boston.com:This particular none-too-uplifting album to the left is by Freddie Gage.Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/26/bad-album-covers/

Body Building Robot.

Take a look at how Russian bodybuilder Alexander Vishnevskiy does the robot. Indescribable!You Tube video clip: Link (via Nothing to do with Arbroath)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/26/body-building-robot/




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