Archive for May 2006

Steve Beatty's Full Throttle with the Blue Angels.

From the website: Before their April 2006 performance at Naval Air Station Atlanta, AJC staffer Steve Beatty joined Lt. Kevin Davis for a fun-filled afternoon of barrel rolls...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/13/steve-beattys-full-throttle-with-the-blue-angels/

Jay D. Dyson's Rumsfeld Reloaded.

Made in 2004, still very relevant today! Found at Sacred Cow Burgers (via Spocko)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/13/jay-d-dysons-rumsfeld-reloaded/

Soviet Union Propaganda & Ad Posters.

Flickr user bpx has a nice photoset of Soviet Union propaganda and advertisement posters from 1917 to 1991. Link (via Huge Entity)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/13/soviet-union-propaganda-ad-posters/

Eugenio Recuenco's Photos.

Eugenio Recuenco is a very talented Spanish fashion photographer for Vogue magazine. Take a look at his other fairy tales-inspired photos: Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/13/eugenio-recuencos-photos/

Jason Kronenwald's Gum Blondes.

Jason has a weird choice of media for his artwork: chewing gum on plywood. From the website:Each Gum Blonde is 100% chewed bubblegum on a plywood backing. No paint or dye is used. The colo...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/jason-kronenwalds-gum-blondes/

Top 10 Strangest Watch by TechEBlog.

TechEBlog has compiled its Top 10 Strangest Watches. This one above is Louis Vuitton Twilight Watch, which features: 46 flourescent blue sapphires on a mother of pearl dial to create a bea...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/top-10-strangest-watch-by-techeblog/

Dutch Store Hema Celebrates Its 10,000th Shoplifter.

Dutch Store Hema celebrates its 10,000th shoplifter. YouTube user FatAlbert420 translates:'kan je het zien' [can you see it?]'die daar' [that one]'kijk, kijk, gaat ze' [look, look, there sh...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/dutch-store-hema-celebrates-its-10000th-shoplifter/

Making Light Go Backward.

(photo credit: University of Rochester)Robert Boyd of University of Rochester, New York, and colleagues had accomplished something very strange: they managed to send light backwards! In th...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/making-light-go-backwards/

Judson Laipply's The Evolution of Dance.

Neatorama reader Loopy Loo (hi Loopy!) suggested that we take a look at Judson's dance routine: Inspirational Comedian Judson Laipply is the creator/dancer of the “Evolution of Dance...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/judson-laipplys-the-evolution-of-dance/

Oppression of the 'Fro.

Dave Jurgenson, a disabled student has accussed Reading Borough Council for failing his cultural needs because they don't allow him more time to care for his Afro. Mr Jurgenso...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/oppression-of-the-fro/

Cat Smith's Gothic Barbie Bridal Cake.

Cat explains how to make this gothic Barbie bridal cake: First thing to do is prepare the Barbie. I used Gel pens, but you can really use any art supplies you are comfortable...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/cat-smiths-gothic-barbie-bridal-cake/

Corbett Griffith's Tire Man Sculpture.

Corbett got a school assignment to create a sculpture, so he went to a junkyard to find some tires ... See the "build log": Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/corbett-griffiths-tire-man-sculpture/

Wayne Harris' Illustrations.

Ahoy, landlubbers! These characters of Wayne Harris be o-the finest quality, so weigh anchor to his website right now for a merry yarn or ye be wantin' me to get me hook, savvy ye scallawags?...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/wayne-harris-illustrations/

Rungwecebus kipunji, a New Monkey Genus.

Tim Davenport of the Wild Conservation Society and colleagues in Tanzania, Africa, just discovered a new genus of monkey - the first in 83 years! Known locally as Kipunji, it stands at abou...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/rungwecebus-kipunji-a-new-monkey-genus/

Chewy Has a Blog.

Everyone on the darned Interweb has got a blog, including Chewy (What are they doing on the photo above anyway? Wait, don't answer that!)Link (via Winkles)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/chewy-has-a-blog/

Jesus in Asparagus Fern Roots.

Martin Gregory was enjoying a Sunda morning gardening when he found the face of Jesus in the roots of his asparagus fern! "The roots are fantastic. You can actually make out a thorn cr...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/jesus-in-asparagus-fern-roots/

Electric Cinderella Shoes.

Gizmag has an interesting article about an electric Cinderella shoes with built-in stun gun! The Electric Cinderella shoes idea began as part of Simona Brusa Pasque's thesis at the Interact...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/electric-cinderella-shoes/

Garnet Hertz' Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot.

Garnet has this to say about his RoachBot: "Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" is an experimental mechanism that uses a living Madagascan hissing cockroach atop a modified trackb...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/garnet-hertz-cockroach-controlled-mobile-robot/

Juza Nature Photography.

This one above is a Mandarin duck - amazing color, isn't it? See more of Juza's photos: http://www.juzaphoto.com/eng/photo_galleries.htm (via Ursi's Blog)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/juza-nature-photography/

Plasma Table.

From the website:A dust cloud of silicon micro-spheres that was illuminated by laser light scattering from the cloud is suspended in a plasma. The dust cloud is approximate...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/plasma-table/

Titan: A View from Huygens.

In this 4 minutes and 40 seconds movie released in January 2005 by ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, you can see the Huygens probe plunging through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/titan-a-view-from-huygens/

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Sold for $11.7 Million.

Andy Warhol's "Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot)", a hand-painted work from 1962 showing a large soup can with torn label (duh!) was sold for $11.7 million at...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/12/andy-warhols-campbells-soup-sold-for-117-million/

Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid.

Hunters on Bank Island in Canada's Northwest Territory shot this bear that turned out to be the world's first grizzly-polar bear hybrid: Officials seized the creature after noticing its wh...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/11/grizzly-polar-bear-hybrid/

Star Wars Deleted Scene (Luke & Biggs)

Caption of the video clip: This is a rare deleted scene from "Star Wars: A New Hope". When Luke sees the Star Distroyer attacking Leia's ship hig...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/11/star-wars-deleted-scene-luke-biggs/

World's Largest Digging Machine.

From the website: This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its de...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/11/worlds-largest-digging-machine/

Meet the Gallows Salesman.

Meet David Lucas, a farmer from Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK. He has been selling gallows to African countries with deplorable human rights records for about 10 years. The executio...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/11/meet-the-gallows-salesman/

Mandala Sand Paintings.

Take a look at this time-lapse sequence of photos of Buddhist monks creating a mandala sand painting in 10 days, and then destroying it.Link (via Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/11/mandala-sand-paintings/

Volkswagen's New Car Storage Facility.

Volkswagen has a new storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany - the multi-story parking garage can store the same number of car as a comparable facility in the US, but takes only 20% of the spac...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/11/volkswagens-new-car-storage-facility/

Klaatu Barada Nikto Road Sign.

From the website: This was the first time I had attempted a prank like this, so I expected the control box to be locked, and the programming functions password-protected. I was wrong. Firs...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/11/klaatu-barada-nikto-road-sign/

Man Survives Nails to Head.

Yet another reason why you should stay away from drugs: An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attem...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/11/man-survives-nails-to-head/
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