Among the many neat things at his website, James has a very cool collection of vintage matchbooks. This one is captioned: Most of the matches in the 170-220 series come fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/james-lileks-matchbook-museum/At OfficerStore.com, you can buy police equipments, such as batons, handcuffs, tire spike systems, and even real-lookin' badges.The Internet is a wonderful place for cops wanna-be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/make-your-own-badge/This one is from Toronto Don Valley Brickworks, titled "Spider Ducts": a surreal photo of tunnel of ducts in an abandoned industrial plant.See more photos of "abandoned building...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/kendall-andersons-abandoned-places-photos/This one above is by Thomas Hart Shelby, titled "Just Married". See more winning photos of PDN Top Knot 2006 Wedding Photography Contest: Link (via grow-a-brain)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/top-knots-wedding-photos/Caption of the photo above: The night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/the-final-salute/Webcomic Tattoos has a lot of cool photos of webcomic tattoos - check it out: http://www.qwantz.com/tattoos/ (via virtualbloodhoun)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/webcomic-tattoo/King Tutankhamen's penis - long thought to be missing, turned out to be there all along...From the website: Photographed intact by Harry Burton (1879-1940) during Howard Cart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/king-tuts-missing-penis-not-really-missing-afterall/In early April 2006, University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research announced the near completion of the Super-Kamiokande, an underground neutrino detection facility: *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/04/super-kamiokande-back-in-action/Take a look at Faupel's other geometric-chic paintings: http://www.faupel-art.org/ (via Aegean)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/wj-faupels-fibonacci-seeds/By using alt-characters, you can make your passwords uncrackable by current password-cracking tools. http://www.combobulate.com/node/25 (via Evil-Clown)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/alt-characters-for-uncrackable-password/DJ Artyom, a Russian DJ and producer made this cassette tape mixing desk.http://soundresearch.narod.ru/diy_eng.htm (slow site - be patient or try Coral Cache; link and photo via DJ Amber)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/dj-artyoms-cassette-tape-mixing-desk/Greg Holwell, a researcher at Macquarie University in Australia, discovered that genitalia of male praying mantises hang either to the left or to the right: Holwell travelled to Queensland...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/praying-mantis-hangs-both-ways/Giuseppe Mitelli (1634-1718) is a famous Bolognese engraver, who drew fantastic alphabet illustrations. He also made this optical illusion, titled "Son testa son paese, case e gente"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/giuseppe-maria-mitelli/LiveScience has this article on how the Earth can be destroyed:#2: Eaten by von Neumann machinesYou will need: a single von Neumann machineMethod: A von Neumann machi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/top-10-obscure-ways-to-destroy-the-earth/Craig has over 800 mini pixel drawings of pop stars and other famous people.This one on the left is his drawings of the Beatles.Link (Thanks Yayo!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/craig-robinsons-minipops/Chris takes very cool photos of life in New York City. This one above is called "Snow Angel". From the website: New York City has an unlimited canvas for artistic expression. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/christopher-walkers-gotham-pixel/Amateur archaeologist Semir Osmanagic pointed to this recently-excavated geometrically cut stone blocks as evidence of an ancient pyramid buried under a massive hill in Visoko, Bosnia. Osm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/stone-wall-found-evidence-of-bosnian-pyramid/Get your own biscuit logo: Link (via Exploding Aardvark)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/your-name-in-biscuit/Bob Basset of Ukraine makes very cool things out of leather. Don't miss his cthulhu mask! Link (via Stuff on Fire)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/bob-bassets-dragon-bag/A company called New Age Diamonds is offering to make diamonds out of 1 to 2 grams of your hair or your pet's hair! Your Personal Diamond is a real diamond grown in the labora...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/turning-your-hair-into-diamond/Create your own virtual stadium grandstand complete with 1,024 cheering fans holding flash cards that looked like your logo.http://www.madin.jp/ouen/index-e.html (via Presurfer)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/03/your-own-cheering-fans/Watch the sand particles take cool shapes when the plate underneath is vibrated (Thanks Sergi!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/sand-art/From the website: The brochure on the nightstand explained that it is called a furo. Furo is the Japanese word for a single-person hot tub.The term "low tech" doesn't be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/diy-100-furo-japanese-hot-tub/From the website:Nor Che Musa said although there was a huge gap between his age and that of his bride Hukuntoh, he wasn't embarrassed introducing his wife to others.*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/104-year-old-woman-married-33-year-old-man/It's that time of the year again: the International German Beard Championships. From the website: The competition allows 16 categories of beards, the most popular one being freestyle becau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/elmar-weiss-windmill-beard/Ng Hak Beng collects over 400 Star Wars action figures and 50 vehicles in the past 28 years. Check out his massive collection: Link (via Fosfor and Unique Daily)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/massive-star-wars-collection/A very funny comic strip - check it out: Link (Thanks Matt FL!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/nicholas-gurewitchs-perry-bible-fellowship-comics/If you can't live without this awesome pink pig grill, then all you have to do is shell out $1495 and it's yours!http://www.traegergrills.com/novelty2.htm (via J-Walk Blog)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/pink-pig-grill-from-traeger-grills/A Japanese company called Sunamiya has developed a gun-shaped party cracker that shoots out a teddy bear. The teddy bear would then parachute down. Developers hit on the idea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/japanese-teddy-bear-gun/From the website: The operator of a local private shelter for cats says she's astonished by her latest charge - an affectionate six-legged orange tabby she's named Willoughby...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/02/willoughby-the-six-legged-cat/
