Tom Coates of Plasticbag wrote about the fun and games at the O'Reilly FOO Camp: participants made giant space invaders graphics out of pieces of papers. The whole thing is supposed to be visible from space (or at least...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/giant-space-invaders-art/This photo illustration, created by John Blackford and Cameron Davidson for Vanity Fair, shows what Manhattan might look like if global warming continued until polar ice caps melted. http://www.vanityfair.com/magazi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/photo-of-manhattan-after-ice-caps-melt/How many M&M candies can you fit inside a Klein bottle? Apparently, 547 M&M's. That's weird because Klein bottles [wiki] are supposed to have zero volume. And they're one-sided with no edges, to boot.Link - via C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/how-many-mms-can-fit-inside-a-klein-bottle/Meet Milo, the cute Mexican Hairless Dog whose tongue sticks out all the time:What is that?A dog. He is a Xoloitzcuintli (pronounced; show -low- eetz -queent -lee), a.k.a. Mexican Hairless D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/milos-tongue/That's Dutchman Mirin Dajo, the Human Pincushion, which confounded doctors because he could have a fencing foil plunged right through his body (passing through vital organs) with no apparent harm. He even allowed doctors...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/mirin-dajo-the-human-pincushion/From the website:The 23-year-old girl from Alor Gajah had become an overnight sensation when TV3 aired the bizarre story of crystal-like stones popping out from beneath her toe nail.Her rubber-tapper mother Kamariah...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/girls-toe-jam-is-crystal-like-stones/Something in the line of Octavio Ocampo's Family of Birds we've seen before on Neatorama. Found at the ever-wonderful mentalfloss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/cool-movie-poster-premonition/Gary Reighn likes Star Trek so much that he built his very own Star Trek home theater, on a $15,000 budget (including furniture and equipments), no less!It's where no home theater has gone before: Link - via Born RichSee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/star-trek-home-theater/I'm really surprised that this didn't end badly! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Stuff on Fire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/human-slingshot/A red armoire? No, actually - that's a Meneghini antique refrigerator! Appliancist has got the scoop: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/meneghini-antique-fridge/This is a weird (and expensive) watch called the Cabestan from Vianney Halter and Jean-François Ruchonnet:Cabestan doesn't have a dial too, nor hands. Everything is shown with wheels and barrels. The functions...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/27/cabestan-watch-weird-expensive-and-impractical-but-probably-very-desirable/More photos of the cute Orange-Man at PJ Lighthouse - via Unique Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/orange-man/Ben Landis, a music student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, recorded these 15 cartoon themes on piano in one sitting (and with one facial expression as well). Most of them were popular in the 80's and 90's, h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/cartoon-theme-medley-on-piano/Check out this 24 foot tall waterfall that makes images just like an inkjet printer would (but using water instead of ink). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/waterdrop-pixels-the-jeep-waterfall/Dr Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at Salford University is trying to find out what makes annoying sounds so horrible ... the best thing is, you can vote for the worst sound ever: Fingernails scrapin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/searching-for-the-most-horrible-sound-in-the-world/Operation Plumbbob [wiki] was a series of nuclear tests conducted in 1957 in the desert of Nevada - it was the biggest and longest (not to mention most controversial) nuclear weapons test series in the US.The militar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/operation-plumbbob-1957-nuclear-blimps/Neatorama reader Tahir wrote about a new art project going on at Urban Retro:The new project is called 'The Mouse vs. The Brush' . The basis of this project is simple. We want to explore the difference between comput...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/the-mouse-vs-the-brush-an-art-project/Neatorama reader Kiera told us that Volkswagen is still making the "vintage" VW bus (the Kombi [wiki]) in Brazil!Link - Thanks Kiera!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/volkswagen-kombi-still-in-production-in-brazil/What do you get when you add Alka-Seltzer to a spherical water drop in microgravity?Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit performs a series of microgravity experiments with water spheres and effervescent ant...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/alka-seltzer-in-space/Finnish author Hannu Luntiala's novel "The Last Message" is about an IT exec who travels and communicates only through text messaging. In fact, the entire book was written in SMS!Link - via Gear Live...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/finnish-author-wrote-book-in-text-message/Congratulations to Anita at Say No to Crack for being one of the finalists in the Best New Blogs category of the 2007 Bloggies! Like I've said before, SNTC is one fun blog and Anita's hard work is well-d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/congrats-to-say-no-to-crack-2007-bloggies-finalist/A very cool example of contact juggling [wiki] - Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via smidigt.se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/contact-juggling/Paul Schmelzer, as signed by Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, Mayor Quimby and other Simpsons characters)Paul Schmelzer collects autographs, but not your usual kind. The story went like this:*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/man-collects-own-autographs-of-famous-people/Now you won't ever have to leave the bathroom anymore: play video games, check your email, watch a movie, listen to music without ever leaving the bathroom with this "Pimped Out John" by Roto-Rooter (yes, you c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/pimped-out-john/Hey, it worked for Hooters and betel nut, so why not coffee? That's the premise of Cowgirls Espresso, a Washington coffee outlets with scantily-clad baristas! Link [NSFWish, lots of bikinis] - via Didn't You Hear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/sex-sells-anything-even-coffee/Tobi Schneidler's "Ticker Chair" is networked to the Internet and dynamically displays stock market and news information on an illuminated chair!Here's the artist's interview with Gizmodo | Tobi's website...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/ticker-chair-displays-stock-info-as-you-sit/Kitty Washing Machine. Euphimistically called a "Pet Spa" - the cat looks like it was enjoying itself now, didn't it? Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Dave Barry's Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/kitty-washing-machine/Fantastic dog (and other) photos by Czech photographer Antonín Malý. This one's called 2007's Pour Féliciter (to extend congratulations) to commemorate the New Year. Link - via Jaf Project...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/antonn-mals-photography/That's New Zealand artist Maurice "Toastman" Bennett, whose art medium of choice is toast! This one above is a large 2.4 m by 2.4 m (about 8 foot by 8 foot) Elvis, made with 3,525 slices of toast. Link - via Sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/toast-art-by-maurice-bennett/From the website:A Dutchman dressed as the unpredictable master criminal The Joker from Batman managed to get himself a national ID card, despite supposedly stringent new rules which outlaw grins, funny faces, and he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/26/man-dressed-as-the-joker-from-batman-got-national-id-card/
