The I/O Brush is a cool graphic tool that allows you to take color, texture, and movement of any object and draw with that characteristics - kind of like the real life version of the eyedroppe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/05/io-brush/The Web Gallery of Art has a fantastic collection of European painting and sculpture from the 12th to the mid 19th century. The website also has a very useful search feature.Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/05/albrecht-drers-the-revelation-of-st-john-12-the-sea-monster-and-the-beast-with-the-lambs-horn-1497-98/"Was He a Man or a Monster?" is an exhibition by the New York State Historical Association and the Cooperstown Graduate Program, about the merchandising and sensationalizing of murde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/05/sensationalization-of-violence-and-crimes-in-the-19th-century/From the website: "In 1869 the craftsman Rousseau of Marseilles built this monocycle, which perches the cyclist on the inside of a 2 1/2 yards-high wheel. As there is no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/05/worlds-first-monowheel/William Miller, the professor of horticulture and the director of Flower Bulb Research Program (apparently there is such a thing) and Erin Finan at Cornell University discovered that liquor wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/05/alcohol-stunts-plant-growth-but-not-its-flowers/Astronomers using the UK MERLIN radio telescopes discovered a giant cloud - 300 billion miles across - composed of alcohol! Dr Harvey-Smith, principal investigator for the stu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/05/giant-300-billion-miles-across-alcohol-gas-cloud/The Audobon Society has released a list of 10 Most Endangered Birds in America:At number 1 sits the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Once this species made most of the southeastern Un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/05/ten-most-endangered-birds-in-america/Yep - that's what working for the man feels like! See more of Michael's cool illustrations at his website: Link (via Cthulhu ITP)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/michael-dashows-wage-slave/I can't say it any better:A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/indian-textbook-donkey-is-better-than-housewife/Mark Jenkins creates sculptures out of ... packing tape! Check out his artwork here: Link (via Belhoste)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/mark-jenkinss-tape-sculptures/Ryan Brooks made this fantastic clock with large Nixie tubes.What's a nixie tube? Wikipedia explains: "A nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/ryan-brooks-6502-nixie-clock/Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a German biologist who drew beautiful illustrations of weird animals, plants, and micro-organisms in his work Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Natu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/ernst-haeckels-discomedusae/David Maisel took these haunting photos of copper canisters containing the forgotten cremated remains of mental patients at the Oregon State Insany Asylum who died at the hospital from 1883 to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/david-maisels-library-of-dust/Wolf has a unique idea: he has the world's first paper flower shop! http://www.karnation.de/html/1.html (via Paper Forest)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/wolf-kleins-der-blumladen-the-flower-shop/A couple highlights from Science-A-Go-Go's List: 1. He Liked His Feet Naked"When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/albert-einstein-ten-obscure-factoids/Ann makes awesome animal robot sculptures from broken electronics. See more of her work here: Link (via Cthulhu ITP)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/04/ann-p-smiths-robot-moose/Apparently, if you live in Japan, you can now pre-order 10 stamp sheet of ¥80 stamps featuring Super Mario Bros.!Link (via Digg)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/03/super-mario-stamps-coming-to-japan/Why stop at helmet? Be safe and wear a body armor while riding! (Found at DeluxeBlog)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/03/medieval-bike/Robert and Herbert Thompson's horse "Patches" thinks he is human. "Patches rides in a convertible car, fetches beer, answers the telephone, sits on couch watch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/03/the-horse-that-thinks-hes-human/Jeff Luszcz wrote about making the (then) world's longest burrito (3,578 feet) in Mountain View, California for 1997 Cinco de Mayo's celebration. http://www.sfbg.com/Extra/aln/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/03/worlds-longest-burrito/In the space of one car, Adrien's bike rack parks 6 bikes. http://www.inoutdesigners.ch/pages/projects/config_01/vd_003.html (via RelentlesslyOptimistic)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/03/adrien-roveros-bike-rack/Sean Dockray's PACK-MAN is a modified version of the classic arcade game PacMan, in which 5 joysticks combine (majority rule) to move the PacMan: ... if three people move t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/03/democratic-pacman/From the website: It is not uncommon for elderly, injured, or handicapped animals to lose the use of their back or front legs. Nerve damage, DM (Degenerative Myelopathy), cancer, arthritis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/03/dogkarts-wheelchair-for-disabled-dogs/Raghav Mahato created his own pirate FM radio station from used and recycled items for just $1, probably the cheapest transmission equipment in the world. "It took a long...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/03/popular-indian-pirate-radio-station-made-with-1-equipments-shut-down/Guess who is visiting Area 51 on April Fool's Day?Link (via digg)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/02/visitor-to-area-51-captured-by-google-earth/The United Kingdom's National Archives has digitized and made available online (for a small fee) one million historical documents including the wills of Shakespeare, Napoleon Bona...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/02/united-kingdoms-national-archive-documentsonline/Rob wrote to me to introduce his blog: What is It? From the website: I've been collecting unusual objects for quite a few years and have just recently started posting them on this site as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/02/what-is-it-blog/From the website: This is a full-scale replica of England's Stonehenge built in the 1920's as a memorial to 13 Klickitat County men who died in World War I. According the t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/02/merryhill-stonehenge/Chris Heenan wrote to us about this weird-looking airship:Concept for heavy lifting bodys that are gas filled but "fly" rather than "float" as blimps do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/04/02/ohio-airships-dynalifter/
