The winner of "let's take something simple and make it as complex as possible" prize goes to ... the US Postal Service: The postal rate increase that kicks in Monday is shaping up to be a big headache for many busine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/new-postal-rates-with-new-confusing-thickness-rules/You can write a message to these office workers online - your online message will appear on a scrolling sign in the office. When I did this, it was Sunday so nobody there was working. Lucky fellas! Go to Doubleyou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/say-hello-to-these-office-workers/More "modified" Last Supper at My Confined Space....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/zombie-last-supper/From now on, don't believe a word of tv advertising... or even a single image! Hit play or go to youtube video to view the transformation - via Things you don't see every day....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/weight-loss-with-photoshop/In 1944, Helen Duncan (1898-1956), a Scottish medium, was the last person to be convicted under the 1735 Witchcraft Act. A court was told she claimed to have conjured up the spirit of a sailor killed on HMS Barham du...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/the-last-witch-in-scotland/Studio Frederik Roijé's "Storylines" bookshelf, shaped like a city skyline, is fantastic! http://www.roije.com/studiofrederikroije.html [Flash, click on products, then storylines - don't miss the holyhom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/city-skyline-bookshelf/Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, discovered asphalt-munching bacteria trapped in the La Brea Tar Pit some 28,000 years ago."Asphalt is an extreme and hostile environment for life to survive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/asphalt-eating-bacteria/Here's something strange: turns out, bicycle helmets are car magnets!Last September a plucky psychologist at the University of Bath in England announced the results of a study in which he played both researcher and g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/bicycle-helmet-car-magnet/French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin suggested a controversial theory on how ancient Egyptians built the pyramids: from the inside-out!Last month, however, in an announcement that has divided the academic community, F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/pyramids-built-from-the-inside-out/Boing Boing is keeping track of what's happening to the guys charged with planting the "hoax devices" of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Moonite LED signs in Boston (which were misidentified as terrorist threats and spa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/mooninite-led-vs-fake-pipe-bomb-a-tale-of-two-hoax-devices/And I quote straight from YesButNoButYes:I know Mother's Day is just around the corner, but that doesn't mean it's too early to start thinking of what to get the your Dad for Father's Day. Here's a nice sugg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/stretch-lace-boxers-for-guys-o_o/From the website:Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer's &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/really-really-old-fabric-found-in-greece/My mother once opened a fortune cookie and read "You got the wrong cookie!" Have you ever opened a fortune cookie and wondered what was going through the mind of the person who wrote it? Here’s a collection...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/weird-fortune-cookie-collection/Mother and Robot: A cute little animation for Mothers Day. Link -via Everlasting Blort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/robots-love-their-mummys-too/After the ceremonial first dance, this wedding couple also had their ceremonial “first lightsaber duel†at the reception. Push play or go to YouTube....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/their-first-lightsaber-duel/Lackadaisy by Tracy J. Butler is a webcomic about cats who run gin joints in St. Louis during Prohibition. Not only a rollicking story, but awesome artwork! Link to website. Link to beginning of story. -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/lackadaisy/Here's Thomas Grillo playing a classic 1914 Mother song (written by Howard Johnson and Theodore Morse) on a Moog Theremin [wiki]. Happy Mother's Day, everyone!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Ralph Geiger!*/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/a-song-for-mothers-day-played-on-a-theremin/This gruesome print memorializes the last two heads to be impaled on pikes over the Temple Bar, a stone archway that traditionally set off the western boundary of the city of London. Throughout the eighteenth century, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/a-crown-or-a-grave/Creativebits blog has a collection of some really creative business card designs (many from the businesscards pool on Flickr): Link - Thanks Tara!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/creative-business-card-designs/That's a Tesla coil sculpture called Cauac Twins, built by Syd Klinge for the Coachella 2007. Here are more photos and build photos of the largest twin Tesla coil in the world - Thanks Jason Mika!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/cauac-twins-worlds-largest-twin-tesla-coils/Flickr user Mr Biscuit took these photos and wrote:Personal pics from the set of Back of the Future taken while I was a security guard at Universal Studios. Hey, I heard Steven Spielberg snuck onto the lot in a secur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/back-to-the-future-set/Being Five is a comic blog by George Sfarnas about a five-year-old boy who blogs using a voice recognition software (why? because he can't type yet, of course!). It's very cute: Link - Thanks George!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/being-five-comic-blog/Whenever my friends get together, they always joke that they'd get a drum set for my little Maddy. Apparently, that might not be such a bad idea - case in point: Julian Pavone, the World's Youngest Drummer (previously on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/worlds-youngest-drummer-got-a-reality-show/Element Labs, Inc. built this giant 45,000 square (!) feet LED display for the 2006 Asian Games ceremony in Doha, Qatar. The massive size of the display—covering over 4,500 square meters, or 45,000 square feet&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/giant-45000-square-feet-led-display-at-asian-games/The Chinese have built this swing on top of a 700 foot tall viewing platform in China. Swingers are propelled out over the edge of the platform for a terrific (or terrifying) view of Harbin city in the Heilongjiang...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/worlds-highest-swing-2/This is the weirdest Coke commercial. Click play or go to Link [YouTube]....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/weirdest-coke-commercial/Link to YouTube - via Bilfeber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/diy-car-air-conditioning-system/It's like a giant Chia Pet: the 100-foot walls of the National Theatre in South Bank, London are covered in grass.Which begs raises the question: how do you mow it?http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23395628-de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/how-do-you-mow-a-giant-wall-of-grass/Kludge Spot has a neat list of the Top 20 Signs You Might be a Geek: When someone says 'organized sports' you think 'LAN party' You have lost most of your social abilities. You never used them anywa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/signs-you-might-be-a-geek/From the website: This nasty rescue is no fish tale. Rescuers cut through a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/saved-from-a-giant-vat-of-fish-poo/
