Calligrams are poems (or a phrase or even a single word) where the form is just as important as the words. If you've ever made a tear-drop shaped poem in high school, you've made a calligram.Here're some fun examples by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/calligram/Some artists use canvas, others use paper. Joe Bravo uses tortilla!See more of Joe's tortilla art here: Link - via Shurebit....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/tortilla-art-by-joe-bravo/Stacey Whaley of Intergalactic Art is a talented fractal artist. This one above is a particularly striking Julia variation. Check out more of her wonderful fractal creations here: Link - via Cliff Pickover's RealityCarni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/stacey-whaleys-fractal-art/Yes, that's David Hasselhoff fighting a droid with a lightsaber, in a 1979 movie Starcrash. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Look At This ......
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/hasselhoff-lightsaber-starcrash/Here's a toy for you: Create-A-Commie by "painting" metal shavings with a magnetic wand (like etch-a-sketch) to create your favorite communist!Link - via Unique Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/create-a-commy/Here's something cool from Dutch designer Demakersvan: a wind-powered outdoor lamp! Link - via Inhabitat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/wind-powered-lamp/Tired of losing at Desktop Tower Defense? Here are the various winning strategies (they are brilliant! I am so going to try 'em ...) Jamo's strategy: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Waxy 100 Level Challenge: Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/desktop-tower-defense-strategies/See more of Wite-Out's clever ads at Sandeep Makam's fantastic advertising blog 2wenty 4our: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/clever-wite-out-ads/This is what a cute Flash-based website navigation is supposed to be like! Check out Belgian ad agency Dubois Meets Fugger.Remember, there are 5 hidden clickable easter eggs! See if you can find 'em all.Link [Flash]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/dubois-meets-fugger-a-cute-flash-interface/(Image: Peter Tuthill/University of Sydney) This is a bipolar nebula, about 5,000 light years distant, which appears as a red square but is in fact "an hour-glass shaped cloud of gas and dust."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/the-red-square/Here's how *not* to blow down a door with explosives! From a State Police SWAT Team training exercise video at i-am-bored: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/a-little-too-much-explosives/Meet Don "The Voice of God" LaFontaine [wiki]. You may not know him, but if you've ever gone to the movies, you've heard his voice. (And yes, he's in the Geico ad!)Here's an ABC News webcast with the feature: L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/don-voice-of-god-lafontaine/Here's something really neat: mechanical sculptures by Robert McRay. I looove the cute baby dragon "Artemus" (above).http://www.robertmcray.net/galleryx.html (page loads slowly, but worth it) - Tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/robert-mcrays-mechanical-sculptures/Chris Abraham wrote to tell us about the upcoming PostieCon 2007 in Florida, where they will showcase the winners of the Blogger's Choice Awards. You can nominate your own blog (it's a popularity contest ...) They even h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/bloggers-choice-awards-postiecon/More Than Fine has this Top 5 Viral Videos that Changed Someone's Life (For the Worse).For example:5) Gray Brolsma's "Numa Numa" - Gary Brolsma was just a normal kid who knew how to get down with a webcam....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/viral-videos-that-change-life-for-the-worse/This fantastic light/sculpture artwork was created by British artist Conrad Shawcross, as part of his exhibition called "The Steady States"Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/conrad-shawcross-artwork/What's the name of the store again? Flickr user Jeff Carlson spotted this in the University district of Seattle, Washington.Link [Flickr] - via digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/wtf-mac-store/Were you a kid in the early 90s? Then chances are, you'll remember this: the multi-ethnic Burger King Kids Club.The members of the gang were: * Boomer, a sports loving tomboy with red hair;* I.Q., male nerd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/burger-king-kids-club/Andy and Tom of the Cinnamon Hill Folk Art have created some neat doorbells that double as "wall art." Check out their fantastic creations like the wine bottle bell (left), pipe organ doorbell, and a strange co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/weird-and-wacky-doorbell/The Perception Laboratory at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland created a software called Face Transformer that lets you change the age, race or sex of a face photograph.Neatorama reader Quito used the software on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/face-transformer/The Alzheimer's Association has an easy-to-understand slideshow about how Alzheimer's Disease affect the brain:Here is another view of how massive cell loss changes the whole brain in advanced Alzheimer's disease. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/brain-with-alzheimers/The American Museum of Natural History has a flash presentation for kids that explains how sea creatures use bioluminescence to hunt, attract mates, and defend themselves, with catchy sing-a-long tunes! Link -via Metaf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/bioluminescence/I don’t understand the narration, but this is apparently a USB cable program for a shoe to make it dance at your command! Push play or go to YouTube. -via b3ta Update: The concensus is that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/dancin-shoe/The average age of The Zimmers is 78. Lead singer Alf Carretta is 90 years old! Other band members are 99 and 100 years old. The single will be released on May 14th, with proceeds going to Age Concern, an advocacy orga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/my-generation-by-the-zimmers/Today is Friday the 13th! This is considered to be the unluckiest day on the calendar. You’ll find more on Friday the 13th here. But NASA says that 22 years from now, on Friday, April 13th 2029, we will all f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/friday-the-thirteenth-2029/Hamlet for the Shakespeare-Impaired is a translation of the tragic play in modern language. For example, here’s Polonius saying goodbye to his son in the original: And these few precepts in thy memory Se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/hamlet-for-the-shakespeare-impaired/Here's today's Bizarro panel! For more bizarro goodness, check out Dan Piraro's website: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/bizarro-see-like-a-pirate/John Morrissey: The Boxing LoserWhen it comes to grudges, Dirty Harry has nothing on former Tammany Hall politician John “Old Smoke” Morrissey [wiki]. The Irish immigrant got his start in New York as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/sour-grapes-some-of-historys-sorest-losers/Let's take a look at VideoSift's Science collective (excellent choices there, by the way, highly recommended). The trap-jaw ants can"jump" by snapping their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/13/videosift-science-collective/Here's the best PC mod EVAR: Compubeaver by Kasey McMahon, made from taxidermied beaver!Link - Thanks Kasey! | If you haven't seen it, check out Neatorama's own Ultimate Case Mod List.[Update 5/14/07: Kasey has...
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