From the website:The inside of your eye is one thing you’re guaranteed never to get a good look at. Even if you could, the pupil is far too small an aperture to allow you to see the entire interior. University...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/inside-your-eye-a-photograph/Here's a weird behavior of complex liquids, called the Kaye Effect [wiki], named after British engineer Arthur Kaye, who first discovered it in 1963. When a think thin stream of viscous fluid is poured onto a surface, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/kaye-effect-jumping-liquids/Popular Science has a neat article on how to make your very own version of platinum spark plugs using 1/10-ounce platinum coins for electrodes: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/8e69ee64bb7d1110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/diy-platinum-spark-plugs-with-coins/A landlord in Tacoma, Washington, found out that her house had been stripped bare after a fake ad was placed on Craigslist inviting people to "take whatever they wanted for free."Link (with video clip of the tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/craigslist-hoax-ad-stripped-a-house-bare/This amazing photo is of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Reunion Island as its lava drain into the Indian Ocean. Link | Article at Taipei Times...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/reunion-island-volcano-erupts/The top ten Worst Chips Ever list was compiled by the Chief Snacks Officer at taquitos.net, a snack review site. It includes such delicacies as Calbee Seaweed Potato Chips and Cuttlefish Flavored Snack (shown), and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/worst-chips-ever/This fantastic diorama was inspired by the album cover for Jeff Wayne's musical version of War of the Worlds, drawn by Mike Trim. (Trim is the sci-fi artist behind Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, and others).Links...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/war-of-the-world-diorama-based-on-mike-trims-artwork/EatLiver has a neat gallery of futuristic, vintage concept cars. This one above is the GM Firebird III (1958):A two-passenger, gas turbine-powered car, it was the first to feature a single stick control system which...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/vintage-futuristic-looking-concept-cars/Darren Di Lieto, founder of the illustration news portal LCSV4, started a new project called MAiLmeART, where you (yes, you!) can win prizes by mailing him your artwork. The catch is, the art has to be on the envelope it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/mail-art/Neatorama reader Humuhumu of Junk Yard Clubhouse wrote:I created this bacon costume for Halloween last year -- but bacon is worth celebrating year-round. I just typed up full step-by-step directions for making your v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/bacon-costume/SiteAdvisor, a web security firm owned by McAfee, recently released a study of the riskiest websites in the world. Here's some of their key findings:4.1% of all sites tested by SiteAdvisor are rated red or yellow. Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/the-big-bad-web-worlds-riskiest-websites/Can you really cut glass with scissors? Has anyone else done this? Even if were possible, I’m sure you’d ruin your scissors, wouldn’t you? Push play or go to YouTube. -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/cutting-glass-with-scissors/Bonham’s auction house has a coveted work of art for sale- Banksy’s self-portrait. The painting (oil and spray paint on canvas) by the renowned grafitti artist is expected to bring £30,000 - £40,000...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/banksy-self-portrait/All About African Clawed Frogs is a site for owners and breeders of African Clawed Frogs, or Xenopus. I didn’t know they made such great pets! These frogs have no teeth or tongue. They shove food down their thro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/african-clawed-frogs/A white cat nicknamed Macavity has the habit of boarding bus 331 in London Wolverhampton several times a week and riding to the next stop, where he gets off near a fish and chips shop. No word on whether he takes the s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/traveling-cat/Before she began serving her five-month sentence for illegal insider trading in 2004, Martha Stewart came perilously close to comparing herself to a somewhat more noble former inmate. "There's many other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/does-that-come-in-stripes-5-people-admired-for-their-jail-time/Here's a shirt for all you hard-to-please cynics (meh. It's just a shirt. And the color sucks.)Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/the-meh-shirt/Here's something fun: a flickr pool of pancake art! This one above is from JMZawdony, titled Mayflower Pancake for Thanksgiving Breakfast [Flickr].See the whole collection: Link - via Miss Cellania...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/pancake-art/Chinese chef Li "Noodle King" En-hai has created the world's thinnest noodles!Thirty nine strands of the noodle can be threaded through a needle. If a single strand of noodle is to be made from a kilogram (2.2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/worlds-thinnest-noodles/Swiss artist Felice Varini and his team created this anamorphic illusion of three ellipses at Cardiff Bay barrage, UK: Link - via A Welsh View...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/felice-varinis-ellipse-anamorphic-art/Marcelo Bezos embarked on his project to create the world's largest penny pyramid after the death of his father from colorectal cancer.Link - via Spluch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/penny-pyramid/Jim Miller and Fred Meyer have turned turkey basters into a musical instrument!Say No To Crack has the video clip: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/turning-turkey-basters-into-a-musical-instrument/From the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, here's Justine Cooper's "Saved by Science, a photograph exhibition of behind the scenes storage areas of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.http://daneyalmahmoo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/justine-coopers-saved-by-science-photo-exhibit/UnderGroundOnline has a Top 11 (one better than top 10?) adversaries of Arnold Schwarzenegger in all of his movies. Here's #6. Johnny Cab (from Total Recall):The film is set in 2084, and there have been some libertie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/top-11-adversaries-of-arnold/Usually, it's shark eats seal - but today, it's the other way around. As Gail wrote on her blog, in nature "turnabout is fair play." From copeg's flickr account: Link - via Scribal Terror...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/reversal-in-nature-seal-eats-shark/Car drifting is sooo lame compared to drifting using ... a tank! Here's a Swedish tank company having a "little fun" after a hard day at work: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Random Thoughts and Musings...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/10/tank-drifting/
