Multi-media artist Larry Carlson makes those "rollover" graphics you see on websites (where the graphics change as you roll your mouse over it) into an artform.Check out his North Vale Interactive Pictures: Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/larry-carlsons-interactive-pictures/The world's tallest roses, Ecuadorian "Forever Young" and "Red Intuition" roses, stand 5+ feet tall! They're about $250 per dozen: Link - via growabrain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/worlds-tallest-roses/If you ever watched a movie and then think "Huh, the book was better," here's a game for you: Pong, the Text-Based Game brought to you by Gregory Karber: Link - via mentalfloss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/pong-the-text-based-game/Bookgasm blog took a trip to The Bookman, a.k.a. the World's Most Dangerous Bookstore, in Oklahoma City:As we arrived, the chunky, braided proprietor – Bill – was seated in a folding chair in the swelteri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/worlds-most-dangerous-bookstore/How'd you like this as a neighbor? Estrella Benevides, 46, has until Feb. 14 to erase the painted script from her home in the 1800 block of Cottage Grove Avenue, which has been covered with an inscrutable text conta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/a-house-covered-with-writings/This is like asking for it:FORKLIFTS move all sorts of things — wheat, barrels, old crates — but is a $110,000 Maserati an old crate?A building worker in Sydney's Billyard Avenue, in Eli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/20/got-a-forklift-just-move-that-illegally-parked-maserati-what-could-go-wrong/Gail posted those McDonald India burgers, so here's something in the same vein: Wendy Japan's red bean burger with cheese: http://www.nihon-wendies.co.jp/wendys/menu_Campaign/annbgr.html - Thanks AC!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/wendy-japans-red-bean-burger/We had the pierced eyeglasses before on Neatorama, here's another one: a pierced wristwatch! Link - Thanks Henry @ Brohans Video Blog!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/pierced-wristwatch/It's a garlic grater, inspired by a credit card: Swedish chef Herman Rasmuson one day took out a credit card and began rubbing a clove of garlic against the embossed lettering. Voila! In almost no time, he had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/garlic-card/Here's our weekly collab. w/ Bizarro! Check out Dan Piraro's website for more of the fantastic comic strip! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/dont-pick-a-fight-with-death/Photo: Chronicle/Paul ChinnEagle-eyed Neato readers probably remember last year's post on this strange spider ship. Turns out, it's a Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel designed by Ugo Conti called "Proteus". It prem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/strange-spider-boat-the-proteus-in-san-francisco/Here's swedish swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung [wiki], the father of modern analytical psychology, talking about death and soul: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks AC!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/carl-jung-talks-about-death/Max Cannon began his popular comic strip Red Meat in 1989 in alternative weeklies and college newspapers - the comic and its recurring sets of twisted characters (like Papa Moai and Ted Johnson above) have been available...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/max-cannons-red-meat-comic/We've seen a couple of strange architectural posts on Neato before, but this takes the cake (so far): the weird yet beautiful Casa de Retiro Espiritual north of Seville, Spain. The "House of Spiritual Retreat,"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/casa-de-retiro-espiritual/Neatorama reader Laura wrote to us about her project "Find Satoshi":Is it possible to locate a man, given only his photograph and first name?A UK games company is testing the power of the Internet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/find-satoshi/As tornado-damaged St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Iowa City was demolished yesterday, the lone remaining resident, Ricky the Raccoon, refused to leave. This photo gallery tells the story. Link -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/ricky-the-flying-raccoon/From Fox News: A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police said Thursday. The woman — believed to be Rocho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/cambodian-jungle-girl-struggles-to-adapt/An Oklahoma TV station helicopter pilot rescued a deer who was stuck in ice-covered Lake Thunderbird. Local police asked CBS Channel 9 traffic reporter Mason Dunn if he could do anything to help the deer. Dunn pushed t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/ice-rescue/I'm happy to announce that we are starting a new weekly collaboration with VideoSift to bring you 5 of the funniest, weirdest, and most interesting video clips on the Net (all submitted and voted on by their registered m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/19/new-partnership-with-videosift-top-5-videos-youve-got-to-see/These knives are completely constructed from non-metallic materials. The blade is made from artificial sapphire, which is harder than any other gemstone except diamond, and the blade from bone. While the techno...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/knife-constructed-from-sapphire/Here's a collection of famous people yawning - their faces don't look quite as neat or cute with this expression. Also, as yawning is contagious, I hope Neatorama can make you yawn ^^. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/celebrities-yawning/As many videos as I sift through in one day, its not often one makes me cackle until my eyes water. Watch the horse and the chicken in the background of this video of a farmer talking about... I don't even know what he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/5664/Anders Thorsell compiled a remarkable list of Lenin statues around the world (ok, a lot of them are in Russia and the former Soviet Union). This one above is a discarded Lenin statue in Tartu, Estonia.http://www.connecti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/lenin-statues-from-around-the-world/From the old pages of Modern Mechanix "War Tank on One Wheel, Operated by One Man". Housed inside the armored body, the operator will steer the single main wheel by means of two small auxiliary wheels at th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/monowheel-tank/Habitat 67. Neatorama reader AC wrote:Habitat 67 is a one-of-a-kind housing complex located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Habitat 67 developed out of architect Moshe Safdie's 1961 thesis design project and re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/habitat-67/Neatorama reader Appelogen wrote:French artist Philippe Meste wants sperm. His artwork Spermcube is a transparant cube of one square meter, which can contain 1000 liter (or 264 US gal) of sperm.Meste asks all men all...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/philippe-mestes-gross-art-project-a-ton-of-sperm/Fixing your Motorcycle is GOOD. Fixing your Motorcycle during a thunderstorm is BAD. Via: VideoSift (Warning: Strong Language, Not Safe Around Impressionable Young Children...)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/heres-a-little-lesson-for-you/Got your Dramamine handy...? Via: VideoSift I swear on the graves of every departed relative in my family tree, that I shall never, ever, EVER take this ferry. *urp* Update 2/8/07: Ana Semways, the edit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/18/guaranteed-to-make-you-seasick/Dayalets are vitamin mascots from the 1950s. Make that crazy, surreal vitamin mascots that look like characters from Giuseppe Arcimboldo's paintings.See for yourself: Link - via The Seven Deadly Sinners...
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