Alex wrote to us on how to make a tripod out of ... string!This is an old photographers trick - here is my design. Sometimes referred to as a string tripod or string bipod or string monopod. Also known as a chain tri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/10/diy-string-tripod/A clever map illustrating the various "islands" of online communities, done by Randall Munroe of xkcd: Link - Thanks Kingsley Boey!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/10/maps-of-online-communities/Backspace Float and Unfold are two creative short videos (about floating typography and unfolding graphics in an urban setting) that you've got to see. Clever effect, that's for sure.Hit play or go to Links: Backspace Fl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/10/backspace-float-and-unfold-video-clips/I'm late at posting this Bizarro comic panel but it's too funny to pass up! For more Bizarro goodness, check out Dan Piraro's website here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/10/bizarro-puppet-boxer/Well... For non-believers it's just a plane firing countermeasure flares. Found at Microsiervos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/10/the-flying-spaghetti-monster-in-the-sky/The Encyclopedia of Life is a proposed website that will catalog all of earth’s 1.8 million known species. The project is expected to take about ten years to complete. The MacArthur and Sloan foundations ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/the-encyclopedia-of-life/Who could eat after finding what appears to be an alligator snout in their canned catfish? Yummy. http://xigre.com/datatxt/News.php?itemid=59 [xigre]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/russian-weight-loss-secret/Not many people think of Dubai -- where it often hits 120 F -- as a winter wonderland, but inside of this is this More info at Ski Dubai From Musings of a Pertinacious Papist, via Mirabilis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/skiing-in-dubai/Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has combined two of their favorite things, geeky gadgets and sweets, in the Candyfab 4000. It’s a solid freeform fabrication machine that prints three-dimensional objects made of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/candyfab-4000/NASA released this CGI trailer to promote awareness of their Constellation program, designed to carry humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond. Push play or go to YouTube. Link to NASA mission site. -via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/return-to-the-moon/Discovery Channel reports:A team of French and Austrian scientists found that cows relax, to the point that their heart rate lowers, when petted in body regions they often target when grooming each other. . . ....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/how-to-pet-a-cow/A pair of falcons (named Jose Fernando and Clara) are nesting in the city hall of San Jose, California. They've just hatched a couple of chicks!The good people of the City of San Jose and the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/falcon-cam/Father and son team Thomas and Stuart Mitchell have deciphered a musical score hidden in mysterious symbols carved 600 years ago into the arches of a church featured in "The Da Vinci Code":Years of research...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/mysterious-encrypted-music-in-the-da-vinci-code-church/We've previously blogged about The People's History, a website dedicated to history as remembered by ordinary people.Here's a video of Ed Kinowski from Amsterdam, NY, reminiscing about what it was like to grow up in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/the-people-history-remembering-the-great-depression/Joost keeps giving me the ability to send out more beta invites. I've done over 1000 already and they just gave me 999 more! If you're interested, or if you posted a message before and didn't receive an invite, ple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/even-more-joost-invites/Placed on each measured mile around the District of Columbia in 1791 and 1792, the Boundary Stones of Washington are our oldest federal monuments. This site has the history of the stones, the location of each, and a ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/boundary-stones-of-the-district-of-columbia/Kids, don’t try this at home! Click on the image or go to College Humor. -via Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/rube-goldberg-contraption-for-pyromaniacs/I didn't want to title this "What Is It?" because it's not a contest. I didn't know what category to file it under, either -gadgets? optical illusion? car and vehicle? So I settled for the pictures category. Chad sent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/identify-this-flying-object/The Price Is Right [wiki] is a television game show, originally created by Bob Stewart, then an employee of Goodson-Todman Productions in the United States. The 1972 American version, hosted by Bob Barker [w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/craziest-winner-on-the-price-is-right/Hello everyone,For a couple of weeks, I haven't been putting up as many posts on Neatorama as I used to (besides the pre-scheduled posts). No, I wasn't in jail ;) - rather, I was away on a family emergency: my father had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/stroke-symptoms-knowing-these-may-help-save-your-life/Meet Booger, Kitty and Mousie, who perform with their owner Greg Pike in a very cute "dog, cat, and mouse" balancing act:This is Booger, Kitty and Mousie. Booger is the dog, Kitty the cat and Mousie, natura...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/a-dog-cat-and-mouse-balancing-act/Nasal irrigation is as gross looking as it sounds. Here's Drew of Toothpaste for Dinner (he also made the very funny website Married to the Sea we've featured on Neatorama before) irrigating his nasal passages. Hit play...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/09/nasal-irrigation/You don't normally think of a tortoise as an aggresive animal. The copy with this video says the tortoise is defending his garden territory from invading cats. Or is it possible he just wants to play, like this little...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/08/the-killer-tortoise/The Mesoamerican ballgame was truly a "sport of life and death." Here is a fabulous interactive online exhibit where you can learn all about it. Photo credit: Justin Kerr, McClung Museum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/08/extreme-sport-the-mesoamerican-ballgame/Flickr User Jakedobkin has uploaded a collection of images taken in the Freedom Tunnel [wiki]. Among the dozens of photos is this one that attracted me, because I'm against graffitis but never ever thought that o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/08/the-third-of-may-1808-graffiti/In the Mathematical Lives of Plants post, astanhope left a link to this photo of a vegetable he snapped in Paris. It's called Romanesco Broccoli {wiki} and the picture is well worth posting for everyone to see. http://...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/08/broccoli-romanesco/Fun, fun, fun! As seen on Gizmodo. Click play or go to Link [YouTube]. Conan's visit to the Lucasfilm headquarters continues as he meets some Industrial Light and Magic staffers, becomes a virtual character, and l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/08/conan-obrien-visits-lucasfilm/Willy Volk of Gadling blog wrote a round-up of the best views from 13 urinals around the world.I quite like this one to the left, a creative use of metal bucket as a peeing pot at the Forty One restaurant in Sydney, Aust...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/08/urinals-with-a-view/Photo: Lance Corporal Andrew Z. Williams / US Marine CorpsThe pic above is two US Marine Corps KC-130 Hercules firing flares used for protection against surface-to-air missiles in Iraq.More "Angel Wing" decoy f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/08/angel-wings-decoy-flare/In 1924, Carl Eliason started making "Motor Toboggan," the precursor of modern snowmobiles. Carl hand built his creations using parts from Ford Model T cars and sold his first model for $350.Link - via Wheels T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/08/vintage-eliason-motor-toboggan/
