Fairy Tale Paintings.
Artist Melissa Lynn Johnson does charming, colorful fantasy-inspired paintings. You can check them out at her webpage....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/fairy-tale-paintings/Archive for April 2007
Big Dogs vs. Little Dogs.
Benjamin Lester of Cosmos Online reports:Much of the amazing variation in size of different breeds of domestic dogs stems from tiny differences in a single gene, say researchers. When the team compared the dog DN...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/big-dogs-vs-little-dogs/10 Strange and Obscure American Museums
1. The SPAM® MuseumOutside the Spam Museum. (Image Credit: jimmywayne22 [Flickr])The Great Wall of Spam (Image Credit: the queen of subtle [Flickr])If the on-site "wall of SPAM" is any indication, a tour through the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/10-strange-and-obscure-american-museums/Movie Title Sequences by Saul Bass
For if you didn't knew Saul Bass [wiki] is a well-known designer of various motion picture title sequences such as Spartacus, Casino, Vertigo and Anatomy of a Murder (the video on top). A complete list and Youtube v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/movie-title-sequences-by-saul-bass/Map of the Sky
WIKISKY is a map of constellations with detailed information on objects in the sky - you can click on the various stars or search the database. You can even see the constellations in the sky from your location. Click...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/map-of-the-sky/Wyoming's 2007 State Easter Egg: a Masterpiece!
I thought that the Wyoming Easter Egg masterpiece, as pointed out by commenter Smurf Kicker in Miss Cellania's previous post on the 2007 State Easter Eggs, deserves its own post. Here's the story from Chicago Tribune:*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/wyomings-2007-state-easter-egg-a-masterpiece/Missouri Man Ran Unopposed in Election, Got No Votes.
Joe Selle, 42, was running unopposed for a City Council seat in Missouri City, Missouri - and got no votes, not even from himself!Selle, 42, said he simply forgot that Tuesday was election day, and apparently so did...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/missouri-man-ran-unopposed-in-election-got-no-votes/Hulk Hogan Singing a Lullaby.
Now I've seen everything: here's Hulk Hogan singing a baby's lullaby for an ad in Japan. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via TV In Japan and Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/hulk-hogan-singing-a-lullaby/Giant 90-Year-Old Rockfish Caught in Alaska.
Fishermen caught a giant 90-year-old shortraker rockfish off the coast of Alaska:Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle measured, photograp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/giant-90-year-old-rockfish-caught-in-alaska/TV Through the Ages.
Wired has a nice photo collection of TV through the ages, from the early days (1928 G.E. Scanning Disk Television set) to Link: Wired | TV History.tv - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/tv-through-the-ages/From Land Rover to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Carolyn Pointing is a fanatic of the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and now, thanks to her husband Nick, she has her own replica of the magical flying car. Nick tried to explain his rational for building Carolyn the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/from-land-rover-to-chitty-chitty-bang-bang/This to That.
We all break things, and a lot of us like to make things, too. Which of all the available glues is best for your job? The site This to That will tell you. Enter what you are gluing to what, and the database will recomm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/this-to-that/Real Estate Roller Coaster
This video of a roller coaster ride was constructed using data from American housing prices over the last 117 years. Push play or go to Google Video. The graph used to plot the video can be found at Speculative Bubble...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/real-estate-roller-coaster/2007 State Easter Eggs
The 2007 Easter Egg Collection continues the tradition that began in 1994 where each state sends a decorated egg to the White House for display. Artists from across the United States created the decorated eggs, whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/2007-state-easter-eggs/Bizarro Caption Contest 2.
Thanks to Dan Piraro, we have another Bizarro caption contest. Funniest caption wins a Free Neatorama T-Shirt. Contest rule: one caption per comment, make it funny but please keep it civil. You can submi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/bizarro-caption-contest-2/VideoSift: Did That Just Happen?
Today's Friday, so it's VideoSift time! Let's check out a collective called "Did That Just Happen?" This selection of clips promises "Videos that cause your jaw to hit the floor, clips you have to watc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/videosift-did-that-just-happen/The Candiru Song.
Özi pointed us to a this excellent song about candiru, the most feared fish in South America (even over the piranha!). The song was done by Ray Troll, Ashley Byler, Patrick Troll, and Stephan Jackson.Why? The candir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/the-candiru-song/Prof. Solomon's Coney Island eBook, World's First Roller Coaster.
Professor Solomon, author of Japan in a Nutshell featured before on Neatorama, has released another free eBook Coney Island, a neat history of the seaside resort in New York that was once America's most celebrated amusem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/prof-solomons-coney-island-ebook-worlds-first-roller-coaster/Peep Destruction Party: Many Ways to Kill Peeps.
In similar veins to the famous T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. project, here's a Peep destruction party:A couple friends and I had a Peep Destruction party which I photographed. We had various destruction methods including a homebu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/peep-destruction-party-many-ways-to-kill-peeps/TARDIS Blueprint.
Neatorama reader Michael Sherrod saw the post about plans of fictional houses by Mark Bennet and offered his own: a plan based on the Metropolitan Police Call boxes. You know ... TARDIS.Link - Thanks Michael!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/tardis-blueprint/USO: Sending Rock Bands to Iraq (and the Difficulty Getting Famous Artists to Go There).
To provide morale and entertainment to military personnel during World War II, FDR created the USO [wiki] (United Service Organizations). In the past, the USO had put together performances featuring famous entertainers o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/uso-sending-rock-bands-to-iraq-and-the-difficulty-getting-famous-artists-to-go-there/Genetic disease linked to feud.
The notorious feud between the Hatfield clan in West Virginia and the McCoy family in Kentucky lasted for over 100 years. Over the past few decades, doctors have tracked a disease in the McCoys that may explain at leas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/genetic-diseae-linked-to-feud/Kamini redux
In a previous post, we were introduced to Kamini, France's "first agricultural rapper." His debut song and video Marly-Gomont has been an internet hit, thrilling HUNDREDS OR POSSIBLY THOUSANDS of fans around the world...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/05/kamini-redux/For Sale: The Real Knight Rider Car.
Knight Rider fans rejoice - K.I.T.T, the black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am from the popular TV series, is up for sale. Don't get too excited though, the Dublin, Ireland California based owner is asking $149,995 for the ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/05/for-sale-the-real-knight-rider-car/The Manga Bible
Hodder Headline will be selling a manga version of the bible. Ink and color are done by a guy called Siku of Marvel comics. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/05/the-manga-bible/The RSS Telegraph
This is the opposite of neat, it's a dumb idea but when it comes to computer retro-modding, its always things like this that get your name mentioned all over the Net. This machine produces old style pulses, transl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/05/the-rss-telegraph/Somebody send this man an iPod!
The iPod he had in his pocket apparently stopped an insurgent's bullet with his name on it!My wife’s uncle works in a military hospital and told me about this. Its pretty amazing. Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Divi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/05/somebody-send-this-man-an-ipod/Natural Swimming Pools.
Steven Kurutz of the New York Times writes:Natural swimming pools (or swimming ponds, as they are called in Europe, where the concept originated 20 years ago) are self-cleaning pools that combine swimming areas and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/05/natural-swimming-pools/World's Smallest Rubber Band Catapults Microbots.
Electrical engineer Sarah Bergbreiter of UC Berkeley has created the world's smallest rubber band (and catapult!): a nine-micron-thick, two-millimeter-long rubber band that allows microbot to catapult itself through the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/05/worlds-smallest-rubber-band-catapults-microbots/
