Daniela Sanziani of the italian zine Pigmag wrote this Top 10 Best Inventions in the Movies. No. 3 is the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future.See if you agree with the list: Link - Thanks Daniela!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/22/best-inventions-in-the-movies/A Japanese research team filmed a live giant squid (although it died while it was being caught):The research team, led by Tsunemi Kubodera, videotaped the giant squid at the surface as they captured it off the Ogasaw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/22/giant-squid-captured-on-film/Before going to the DMV to get their driver's licenses, Will Carsola and Dave Stewart decided to play a little prank. Carsola spray-painted his face and neck bright red and Stewart painted his head black and wore fake bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/22/dmv-license-prank/Somewhere on Highway 55 in Buffalo, Minnesota, there is a giant pac-man gobbling a giant dot painted on the road.The whimsical "street art" (if you can call it that) reminds drivers how far apart to stay from t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/22/giant-pac-man-on-the-road-saves-lives/Advances in prosthetic science have allowed a man in Scotland to be fitted with a bionic hand with individually-powered fingers. Donald MacKillop, who lost his right hand nearly 30 years ago, is pleased with the new ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/22/bionic-hand-2/Think your boss is cheap? Slate Magazine asked its readers to submit reports of horrible office Christmas parties, gifts, and bonuses. Of nearly 200 submissions, they’ve chosen quite a few tales for Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/22/workplace-scrooges/The Dilemma: Two thick white dressings with similar flavor in similar-looking jars are bearing down on you from your refrigerator, and you're asking yourself just one question: "Do I feel lucky?&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/22/whats-the-difference-miracle-whip-vs-mayonnaise/Those artists at Industrial Light and Magic sure can make us wonder whether is a scene in a movie is real or fake. Go to their website and take the little quiz to see if what your eyes are telling you is or isn't tru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/real-or-ilm/If you visit the village of Paga on your next trip to Ghana, you can do just that. According to ABC News Travel, via Strange Ark: The people of Paga swim joyfully and wash clothes in the same village pond that 110...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/would-you-like-to-ride-a-croc/In Bob Dob's "Rough Night Out", Mario and Luigi are showing their true colors: http://bobdob.com/art34.php - via Capn Design...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/bob-dobs-video-game-artwork/Kamila Richter and Pavel Nƒõmec's I Deal Solution project visualizes trading data from the New York Stock Exchange in 3D art: the sphere size corresponds to stock price, color to change, vibration to relative...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/nyse-trading-data-as-3d-art/Here's a puzzle from Coudal Partners, titled "Whose Fish?" supposedly created by Albert Einstein: This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/einsteins-fish-puzzle/Here's a neat video clip on how to draw the Man of Steel , Bruce Timm [wiki] style, using Photoshop: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/how-to-draw-superman/This sure beat those typing tutor games ... type the word next to your enemies as fast as you can, before they kill you.Link [Flash game] - via Alert (but not alarmed)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/word-shoot-type-faster-or-die/Gifter.org is an online experiment in social giving. Gifter will donate a dollar to charity for every comment you leave expressing your wish for the world at The Million Dollar Blog Post. They are also looking for dono...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/the-million-dollar-blog-post/This week's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this object - obviously, it's shaped like a duck, but what is it for?For 7 more objects for your guessing pleasure, please visit What is It?Update 1/11/07: It's a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/what-is-it-game-5/The giant panda, long a symbol of the world's endangered species, is no longer threatened with extinction, according to China's foremost expert. After a record 31 births in captivity this year, Zhang Hemin, the di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/giant-panda-no-longer-endangered/Here are the various masthead versions of The Times newspaper, from 1785 till today. Link - via Subtraction...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/mastheads-of-the-times-newspaper/Physicists have finally worked out the secret of the perfect golf swing: What happens when a golf-loving researcher injures a shoulder and can't play for three months? Rod White, a metrologist (measurement scientist)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/secret-of-the-perfect-golf-swing-revealed-by-physics/Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, 35, went missing for 24 days while going climbing with his friends at Mount Rokko, western Japan. He survived in cold weather without food and water by falling in to a state of "hibernation"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/japanese-man-survives-24-days-of-cold-weather-by-hibernation/Remember the polyorama posts we had before on Neatorama? You know, a series of cards that can be placed in any order, thus forming an "endless landscape" ...Here's another one: a series of paintings by Alice An...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/21/magnet-polyorama-by-alice-angus/Look closely, that's not a dog ... it's a human (wearing a blindfold, earplugs and gloves) following a scent trail through the grass:In a paper appearing this week in the advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/humans-can-scent-track-too/Scientist discovered that the star-nosed moles can smell while underwater:Biologist Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, US, says he became intrigued when he observed star-nosed moles (Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/star-nosed-moles-can-smell-underwater/Phantasmaphile described Tomoko Konoike's artwork:She does huge canvases, amazing animations, and divine mixed-mediainstallations. Like a post-modern fairy tale, her work tells stories of girls, wolves, knives, fores...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/tomoko-konoikes-artwork/Star wars, done in silent film format (the editing and visual effect on this is fantastic!) : Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via smidigt.se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/silent-star-wars/Drop Dead Gorgeous is a photograph series on the sinister subject of death by everyday food and things (follow the link and you'll see what I mean). This one above is Death by Oreos.An interview with the artist (and gall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/drop-dead-gorgeous-by-daniela-edburg/Flora the Komodo dragon laid some eggs that will hatch around Christmas. Here's the neat part:Tests revealed their eggs had developed without being fertilised by sperm - a process called parthenogenesis, the team wro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/komodo-virgin-birth/China is building what is to be the largest mall in the world: 3 times larger than the size of the Mall of America in Minnesota!Already, four shopping malls in China are larger than the Mall of America. Two, includin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/the-great-malls-of-china/NASA's Spitzer space telescope took this photo of bizarre objects that existed more than 13 billion years ago:An Australian astrophysicist, Ray Norris, said the NASA team may have found "the holy grail" of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/the-oldest-objects-in-the-universe/Wikipedia has a neat list of the origins of the names of "Springfieldians," many of which came from people and places familiar to Matt Groening (the show's creator): Lisa Marie Simpson – Lisa Groening (Ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/origin-of-the-simpsons-names/
