Neatorama reader John Ralston wrote:In response to your post a couple of weeks ago about polyoramas, I made a couple of my own: Link [Flickr] A few other people started making them too, and they c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/more-polyoramas/Credit: Grundy & NorthedgeUrawaza or "secret tricks" is a concept that became popular in the '80s when video gamers swapped tips for beating Super Mario Brothers. Now, it's a central theme in a J...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/urawaza-or-secret-tricks/This Interactive Magnetic Letterboard is an online version of those refrigerator magnets shaped like letters. You can move them around, but be warned that other people online are also playing with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/magnetic-letters/Hauntworld has haunted houses and other Halloween events listed by state, or by distance from your zip code. You’ll find addresses, prices, hours, and ratings for most listings. There are a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/haunted-directory/Hotblack Desiato is a minor character in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, named after a real life real estate agency in Islington, UK: Hotblack Desiato is the ajuitar keyboard player of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/hotblack-desiato/Michael Cross' artwork, displayed in the 2006 London Design Festival, lets you walk on water:Bridge, by Michael Cross, is a series of steps that rise out of the water as you walk across them, as if walking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/walking-on-water-2/Archaeologist Julian Thomas of the Manchester University in England and colleagues excavated nine Neolithic-era buildings in Stonehenge:The buildings all had plaster floors and timber frames, and mos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/archaeologists-excavated-ancient-houses-near-stonehenge/Ah, the irony of nature: according to a new study by Douglas Emlen and Leigh Simmons, male beetles with the largest and most ostentatious set of horns apparently pay for it with smaller testicles!Dung beet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/the-horniest-male-beetles-have-the-smallest-testicles/Artist Kuniko Maeda uses food to create her artwork. See her (delicious) portfolio here: Link - via Why Not?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/19/kuniko-maedas-food-art/Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire [wiki] or UMP) is a French conservative political party. During the summer, besides handing out leaflets, activists for the party also wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/sandvertising/From Interactive Architecture:Hello world is an installation by Yunchul Kim that contains a codified audio signal that circulates in a closed (feedback) system, consisting of a computer, a speaker, 246 met...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/hello-world-by-yunchul-kim/Metro has got the story on Tina, the off-roading tortoise of the Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire, UK: Tina the tortoise has been given a lift after being fitted with a suspension system and a pneumatic tyr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/pimp-my-tortoise-tina-the-tortoise-goes-off-roading/eBay Motors has a M400X Skycar VTOL Prototype Aircraft for sale. Bidding was at $2.5 million last I checked. The prototype M400 Skycar®, is powered by eight air-cooled Rotapower® rota...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/m400-skycar%c2%ae/Meet Gong Duruo, a 105 year-old double PhD holder who's looking for Ms. Right on his blog:" I cannot live without love any more, and I want someone to spend the rest of my life with," thrice-divo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/105-year-old-man-blogs-his-search-for-a-wife/Former circus artist Eskil Rønningsbakken performed this handstand on the edge of the Pulpit Rock, Norway's most famous cliff (with a 604 m. or 660 yd. drop to the Lysefjord):Simply doing a conventi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/handstand-stunt-on-the-edge-of-pulpit-rock-norway/As an encore for bouncing 250,000 superballs down the street of San Francisco to promote its new Bravia TV, Sony blew up over 70,000 liters (18,500 gallons) of paint from a building in Glasgow, Scotland.The ad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/new-bravia-ads-paintsplosion/Fiberglass Animals, Shapes & Trademarks Corp., or simply F.A.S.T., is a company in Sparta, Wisconsin that specializes in making everything fiberglass. Check out some of their products: F.A.S.T.' website |...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/fantastic-fiberglass-sculptures-in-wisconsin/From the Top Ten Best Ghost Photo Ever Taken at The Knight Shift:Freddy Jackson was a mechanic in the Royal Air Force in World War I. Freddy Jackson's squadron served onboard the H.M.S. Daedalus. Freddy Jackson...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/ghost-photos/Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.), Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Former Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio)It's close to election time, and Radar Online has the scoop on the thing foremost on voters' minds: the politicia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/politicians-and-their-crazy-hair/Actually, the company has more than just this casket pool table, they have casket sofa, phone booth, pet bed, coffee table, and so on: Link - via 2dayBlog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/casket-pool-table/From the website:Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Econom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/18/humanity-to-split-into-two-sub-species/Giles Miller of Farm Designs, a UK design studio, created this laptop case from old carpet and corrugated cardboards, complete with personalized logo (made by changing the angle of the corrugated boards): Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/17/cardboard-laptop-case/Oops of the day: Las Vegas bazillionaire Steve Wynn was showing "Le Rêve", a 1932 painting by Picasso, to his friends when he elbowed the $40 million artwork:[Wynn] began to tell the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/17/oops-wynn-elbowed-40-million-picasso-painting/Road rage is so 2005. Web rage is finally here (well, in Britain anyhow):An internet user has been found guilty of what police said was Britain's first "web-rage" attack.Paul Gibbo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/17/web-rage/Bill Shannon has bilateral hip deformity as a result of Legg Calvé Perthes, a disease that affects 1 in 1,200 children. This, however, didn't stop Bill, who dances and skateboards with his crutches.Bill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/17/bill-crutch-master-shannon-dances-and-skates-with-crutches/This fantastic chair from old luggage is made by John Knott of Bent Fabrication. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/17/suitcase-chair/From Yamaha Motor, two downloadable papercraft models for Halloween: Jack-O-Lantern and Witch (both PDF).Link - via Paper Forest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/17/witch-diy-papercraft-model/Taliban fighters are using giant Afghan marijuana forests for hiding. You read that right: marijuana forest."We tried burning [the marijuana forests] with white phosphorous - it didn't work,&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/17/taliban-fighters-hide-in-giant-afghan-marijuana-forest/There are good cats and bad cats on video, but there’s something very appealing about November, who sticks with his treadmill routine longer than most humans. Hit play or go to YouTube....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/17/november-takes-a-walk/Check out this amazing mechanical sculpture of a tiger, called "Shiva" made by Kezanti Art Gallery in Brugge, Belgium. Artist's Website | Forum Post | Flickr photoset by Daniel M. Perez - via...
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