Christopher Goodwin's art project is to sell "curated" trash through gumball machines for a quarter a pop. His "Trashball" blog details many of the individual junk, er ... art items featured: Link - *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/christopher-goodwins-trashball-art-project/The Royal Canadian Mint has just created one heckuva change: a C$1 million (about US$923,000) gold coin. Link - Thanks mikolka!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/canadian-monster-gold-coin/Photojournalist Mark Resnicoff posted an extensive essay and photographs of his 2006 visit to Chernobyl, twenty years after the nuclear accident that shut the city down. http://nikongear.com/Chernobyl/Chernobyl_1.htm -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/chernobyl-20-years-later/From COLOURlovers blog comes this neat articles about why things come in certain colors, for example:Why is Red the International Color for Stop?Stop signs originated in Detroit, Michigan in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/reasons-for-the-colors-of-everyday-things/Venezuelan artist Hermann Mejía made this "Iraqi Quagmire Chess Set" for MAD Magazine. Check out more details of his artwork on his website: Link [Flash] - Thanks Jack!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/hermann-mejas-iraqi-quagmire-chess-set/This LEGO key rack is made with real LEGO bricks - who says you can't make practical things with the stuff?http://shop.lego.com/ByCategory/Product.aspx?p=851908&cn=13&d=443 - Thanks Lee!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/lego-key-rack/Artist Jared Steffensen creates landscape dioramas using ... shoes! http://www.jaredsteffensen.com/landscape%20shoes-shoe%20store%20installation%20installation.html - Thanks JustElite!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/jared-steffensens-shoe-dioramas/Here's a blog dedicated to collecting passive-aggressive (and many plainly aggressive) notes left by roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers: Link - Thanks Dumidu!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/the-passive-aggressive-notes-blog/From the website:Creating a nuclear reaction is not simple. In power plants, it involves splitting uranium atoms, and that process releases energy as heat and neutrons that go on to cause other atoms to split. This s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/natures-own-nuclear-reactor/Toogle Image Search finds an image of your search term, and builds it with the term in ascii. I entered my own name, and got back an image of myself wearing a Star Trek uniform. I entered Neatorama and got back the abo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/toogle/Pippy sees something and wants it. No matter what it is. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/the-begging-cat/An account of a date at the L'Enclume, featuring the “Underground Menuâ€, which turned out to be a five-hour, 24-course experience. The chef Simon Rogan is possibly the most innovative chef in the UK, pus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/the-underground-menu/Wake up with the pleasant tinkling sound of a wind chime. You can hear it in a video at the product site. Link -via Ursi’s Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/wind-chime-alarm-clock/Neatorama reader Lee Brazel wrote to us about a weird newspaper story from Sudan about a man who married a goat.Go on, you know you want to read it: http://pics.livejournal.com/nomadicshiner/pic/000247px...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/forced-to-marry-a-goat/Meet the executive team of a new Silicon Valley startup Elementeo, headed by its founder and CEO Anshul Samar. Oh, did we mention that he's just 13 years old?The company is all about making learning chemistry fun:Sam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/13-year-old-kid-founded-funducational-gaming-company/Got a persistent headache? This 77-year-old Chinese grandma did, until doctors finally found the reason: a bullet lodged in her brain! Jin Guangying, 77, of Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, went to Shuyang Leniency Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/headache-thats-because-youve-got-a-bullet-in-your-brain/How long does it take to evacuate a full Airbus 380 plane (873 passengers and crew total)? Believe it or not: just 77 seconds.Here's a video of an evacuation test: Link [Metacafe] - Thanks Papelera 21!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/evacuating-a-full-airbus-380-plane-in-77-seconds/IT manager David Grimes has a unique commute: he kite surfs, sailing past traffic jams on his way to work.Sailing past traffic jams is every commuter’s dream but David Grimes does that almost every day - litera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/kite-surfing-to-work/Neatorama reader Ola Lofgren wrote:When a friend of ours was in new york, we wrapped everything in his apartment in pink wrapping paper. Here's the result: http://www.pinkprankproject.com/ - Thanks Ola!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/pink-wrapping-paper-prank/Howard "Bubba" Ludwig is not just any 10-month-old baby boy. He can't walk yet, but he has a license to buy, own, and carry firearms!As a FOID cardholder, baby Bubba can own a firearm and ammunition in Illi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/10-month-old-baby-got-licensed-to-carry-firearms/Life Size Mouse Trap is a life-sized version of the Rube Goldbergian Mousetrap game, made by Mark Perez.The Mousetrap is impressive as a static sculpture but it is the motion, started by a human that is the heart of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/lifesize-mousetrap-by-mark-perez/Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei of Eye on DNA blog wrote about the top 5 things you can do with your genetic code, for example:#3 Preserve your DNA in jewelry form.The Perpetua Life Jewel Pendant is com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/what-to-do-with-your-dna/Aaron Johnson's "What the Duck" is a neat web comic strip about a photograph-obsessed duck. A large part of the charm of the website is the witty comments! http://www.whattheduck.net/ - Thanks Mind...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/aaron-johnsons-what-the-duck-web-comic/Weird Al Yankovic explains what eBay is all about (oh so, so true!) ... Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks özi!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/weird-al-yankovics-ebay-song/Sara of the Itinerant Poetry Librarian blog thought that the world needs a traveling librarian of lost and forgotten poetry, so one day she ditched most of her belongings and traveled to more than 10 countries to spread...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/the-itinerant-poetry-librarian/A collection of funny pictures of those who take pictures, both professional and amateur. One may be NSFW. Link -via Grow-A-Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/photographs-of-photographers/The 1988 film Kele is a tale of two little girls and a scary monster by Russian animators Mikhail Aldashin and Peep Pedmanson. It is based on a folk tale and art by the Chukotka tribe of far east Russia. Push play or g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/kele/Photo Credit: Lund University, SwedenScientists found out that bats fly very differently from the way birds fly, and underscored the different evolutionary paths bats and birds took in developing flight: A bat, Gloss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/the-way-bats-fly/VideoSift's "collectives" are neat, user-created groups of videos on a certain topic. This particular one, called That's terrible! Who gave that a green light? is all about clips tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/videosift-so-bad-theyre-good/AristophanesOverview: The inventor of comedy. The plot of his most famous play had the wives of dueling Athens and Sparta withhold sex from the warmongers until, finally, peace fell over the land...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/26/the-original-kings-of-comedy/
