Today's collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day (hey, better late than never!) is this giant suggestive poster for a job fair in German: Link - via Boing BoingBe sure to check out Cellar Image of the Day for more fun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/09/one-way-to-get-a-job-in-germany/Michelle commented on the Joshua Bell post that Saw Lady had a busker’s response to the Washington Post article. I think you should read that article and more! Saw Lady is Natalia Paruz, who plays the m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/09/the-saw-lady/According to The Sun, scientists have determined the precise formula for the perfect bacon sandwich. The research was done at Leeds university, where four scientists spent 1,000 hours testing over 700 varietie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/09/formulating-the-perfect-sandwich/To add to our growing collection of “animals on treadmills†videos, here is a penguin on a treadmill. It may seem cruel, but it’s part of a legitimate experiment. Scientists at Birmingham University...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/09/penguin-on-a-treadmill/When you are up the creek without a paddle, you might use your steam shovel to propel the barge! This video is entitled Загребущий ÑкÑкаватор, which ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/09/zagreb-excavator/After 9 weeks and 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, Martin Strel, a 52-year-old Slovenian, successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River. That's almost as long as the drive from Mia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/09/slovenian-man-swims-the-amazon/In an instant, the grinding of the Earth's tectonic plates in the 8.0 magnitude earthquake forced the island of Ranongga up ten feet. It's sad the fragile coral reef is going to die, but what a reminder of how pow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/09/quake-lifts-solomons-island-ten-feet-out-of-the-sea/This Viper Fish lives about a mile deep in the ocean, which is fine with me. It’s one of Ten Horrible Deep Sea Ceatures listed at Odd Week. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/09/ten-horrible-deep-sea-creatures/For those of you who would like a somewhat larger Cadbury Creme Egg, here’s an oldie but goodie: Pimp My Snack’s recipe for making your own giant creme egg at home! Insulin not included. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/giant-cadbury-egg/The scene shown here is Alessandro Botticelli's illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto XVIII. It is a colored drawing on parchment, 320 x 470 mm, dating from the 1480's and is part of the collection of the Staatliche Mus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/botticelli-illustrates-dante/When we last met Speak (the Hungarian Rapper), he was "speaking" to us about the futility of war. If you missed the post, it's worth checking out. Everywhere I go, people ask me: "Adam... Who is Speak the Hungari...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/speaking-of-speak/At the Bloomberg offices in London, employees can leave each other messages using these Scrabble cushions, designed by Stephen Reed Industrial Design and Alistair Willmott. The end tables serve as double and triple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/scrabble-furniture/Here's a particularly, um, hilariously suggestive clip from the UK gameshow "Catchphrase," where the contestants have to guess a phrase suggested by the animation.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via VideoSif...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/can-you-guess-the-catchphrase-a-funny-clip/When the keychain on his USB Drive broke off, instead of throwing it away, Russell Jones saw opportunity to create the indestructible drive by making an aluminum case for it! http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Ejones37/usb_armor.html...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/indestructible-usb-drive/Internationally-known violinist Joshua Bell played busker at a Metro station in Washington, DC during morning rush hour recently. It was an experiment to see if anyone would recognize him, recognize the talent behind t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/genius-in-the-subway/You may have noticed that Cadbury Creme Eggs are a bit smaller this year. The Cadbury website denies it, saying the size of the egg hasn’t changed. But BJ Novak of the TV show The Office appeared on *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/the-shrinking-cadbury-egg/Richard Pulfer of the Comic Book Journal wrote a really nice article about the Top 10 Accidental Comic Book Discoveries. For example:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Unlike Stan Lee or Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Kevin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/comic-books-that-accidentally-made-it-big/The Dialectizer is a neat website that takes text from a website and "translates" it into various dialects such as Hacker (top one above), Cockney (the one below it), Redneck, Jive, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/website-dialectizer/Must ... get ... Peep .. out ... of ... blogging ... system... Ah, what the heck, here's one more Peep fan site about Peep Surgery:One of the great mysteries of the Peep species is that these creatures are always bor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/peep-surgery/To help you celebrate Easter, how about some Peep haiku? Ten brown beady eyesIndestructible gazesAwaiting their fate Popular yellowMost chosen of all the peepsLike eating sunshine Ranks of unwrapped...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/08/peep-haiku/Rethinking New York’s taxis. The Design Trust for Public Space put together Taxi 07 Exhibit, a showcase of taxi prototypes and concepts, at the New York International Auto Show in ce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/07/taxis-of-the-future/Have we been posting a lot of Peeps post lately? Well, here's one more from the Candy Blog: Peeps Mash Up!Peeps Nerds - when you look at it, a Peep is really just a giant spongy Nerd with a pointy nose. Oh, and eyes....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/07/peep-and-candy-mash-up/FanTent has a neat collection of YouTube videos featuring rap songs covered by non-rap artists. See Nina Gordon cover Straight Outta Compton by NWA (believe it or not, Neato covered this a while back!), The Gourds cover...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/07/rap-covered-by-non-rap-artists/Japanese company Ko-sin Printing has developed a printing process that allows you to incorporate your DNA into the ink used to print a book.Once DNA is extracted from a human (or animal) hair or nail sample provided...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/07/printing-with-dna/Everything you want to know about Peeps in two minutes and a half, courtesy of ABC News webcast: In these weeks before Easter, known to fans as peak Peep season, some 600 million will be gobbled up. That's enough Peeps t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/07/how-they-make-them-peeps-and-more/Is that blood on Interstate 495 in Massachusetts? Nope, just some spilled wood-chip dye:"I thought it was blood at first -- then I almost slid into the big metal canister that was oozing orange stuff," Stir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/07/blood-on-the-i-495-nah-just-red-dye/Something "neat" from Google! Google introduced an experimental (but functional!) "Voice Local Search" today in Google Labs. "Voice Local Search" is Google-speak for "free 411 business listing service that works us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/google-411/[https://youtu.be/HqbVbPvlDoM] (YouTube link)Carolyn Scott & Golden Retriever Rookie are masters of Canine Musical Freestyle, which is competitive dancing... for dogs and their owners. The pair were the top-ranking A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/canine-musical-freestyle/These peeps don’t come in a box, or an Easter basket. They aren’t even made of marshmallow! Evil Mad Scientist shows how to make your own meringue “pseudo-peeps†in your own kitchen. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/meringue-peeps/Rapitinui has a way to recycle the foil wrappers on your chocolate Easter eggs. Here are step-by-step instructions for making a lovely hat for your cat! Link -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/hats-for-cats/
