This weeks' collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this gruesome yet interesting picture, with translated caption from 20minutos.es: Selváticos. American Marine drinks the blood of a cobra after...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/blood-of-cobra/Lorenzo Marchi's tassellation tessellation origamis are absolutely gorgeous! This one is titled "Swirly Suns Hiraori". Definitely worth a look-see: Link [Flickr]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/lorenzo-marchis-tassellation-origamis/Pete Goldlust, who we covered before on Neatorama for his awesome carved crayons, also creates fantastic polymer clay sculptures! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/pete-goldlusts-sculptures/The following is reprinted from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader: World of Odd.Here’s the story of how scientists unlocked the secrets of the worst natural disaster in the history of the West Afric...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-strangest-disaster-of-the-20th-century/Jellyfish Lake, on the island nation of Palau, was once connected to the ocean through an underwater tunnel. At some point the tunnel closed off, trapping jellyfish in the saltwater lake. With no natural predators,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/jellyfish-lake/Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories and Because We Can collaborated to create this coffee table that responds to touch with twinkling LED lights. They are normally dim and constant-- the most you'll see in a dark room is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/interactive-led-coffee-table/Key events in British history, from the Neolithic to the present day. All presented on BBC's site in a nice easy-to-use interactive timeline. Link (flash) - via haha.nu There's also a non-flash version avai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/interactive-british-history-timeline/Scratch to see the message. Visit the Pyzam Flash Toys section to generate a scratch ticket for your own blog. Link - via The Generator Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/scratch-ticket-generator/Seventeen tons of silver and gold coins have been found in a shipwreck off the British coast. The cache could be worth up to half a billion dollars! Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. made the find, but company spokemen w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/shipwreck-may-be-worth-500000000/How to make a hovercraft out of a leaf blower. Push play or go to YouTube. Link to instructions. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/leafblower-hovercraft/Highlighting the artistic range of colors, shapes and beauty of the solar system. Mars As Art | The Sun As Art - via MetaFiler...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/space-art/Chaoscope is a freeware 3D strange attractor [wiki] rendering software that allows you to create beautiful fractals, like this one by Webshot member sandyckato: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/chaoscope/(Source: Hudson-Powell)(Source: Jethro Haynes)Hudson-Powell and Jethro Haynes were commissioned by Pointer Shoes to create a series of dioramas using shoes. The results are fantastic!Links: Hudson-Powell [Update 9/25/07:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/shoe-dioramas/Hours of Darkness has very cool photographs of modern ruins, taken at night for maximum creepiness, of course! This one above is of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital in Roosevelt Island, New York.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/20/hours-of-darkness-photos-of-modern-ruins/Mathematicians Pictures is a unique gift shop catering to mathematicians and math geeks. Some greeting cards, t-shirts, and posters are hard for a non-math person to follow, but this American Pi mug should appeal to ever...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/mathematicians-pictures/Taxidermy artist Sarina Brewer creates some fantastic creatures, like two-headed squirrels, chimeras (like this cat/chicken "griffin" to the left), as well as other more gruesome yet fascinating sculptures.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/gruesome-taxidermy-by-sarina-brewer/Some Norwegian guys doing a motorcycle burnout in their living room - or maybe it's someone else's living room, who knows? Link [YouTube] - via Videofeber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/burnin-indoor-burnout/Yahoo! Green, a site to motivate and help people creating their own plans to go green. Link - via soaphia.com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/yahoo-green/Photographer and fisherman Corey Arnold has an awesome photo esssay on his experiences as an Alaskan fisherman, considered one of the hardest and most dangerous jobs in America. http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?op...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/how-to-be-an-alaskan-fisherman/A competitive bodybuilder explains his diet in depth. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Knife Writer (Thanks, Jan!) (You may need to push "permalink" to hear this over the Deflector game)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/fish-and-rice-cakes/Sideshow World is an online museum and archive of the circus and carnival sideshows of the past. You’ll find pictures, stories, and links about performers and exhibits, and daily updates. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/sideshow-world/Microsoft is scheduled to release a special edition Xbox for 'The Simpsons' movie. Only 100 will be made. As seen on LA MJC....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/best-xbox-ever/[Embedded Flash Removed]Deflector is proof that a game can be simple and fun. The instruction is simple: draw a line to deflect enemy fires from your planet. Can't see the Flash game? Click here: LinkUpdate 5/19...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/deflector-flash-game/This guy turned his amputated hand into a finger with a giant tattoo of a fingernail!http://www.tattooartists.org/Gal9325_.THE_DIGIT..asp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/finger-tattoo-of-an-amputated-limb/This Pac-Man skeleton was developed by Le Gentil Garçon and paleontologist François Escuilié, modeled after skulls of predatory animals!Link (warning: site navigation is difficult and annoying, but t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/pac-man-skeleton/The Tamanoi Vinegar Robot, from buildup Co., Ltd., is the world’s first robot designed to make presentations about vinegar. The mouth of the 180 cm (nearly 6 ft) and 100 kg (220 lb) heavy robot moves in syn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/19/the-vinegar-robot/Researchers at Purdue University have developed an aluminum alloy that creates Hydrogen when mixed with water. This could be a breakthrough in the quest to turn Hydrogen into an economical and viable fuel since, pri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/18/easy-hydrogen-power-from-water/Irene Sendler posed as a nurse and smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto, saving their lives during the Nazi occupation in World War II. Now at age 97, Sendler is starting to reap the rewards of her actions as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/18/holocaust-hero/In 1991, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenerry endorsed the triple-star system 40 Eridani as the sun of the planet Vulcan, home of Mr. Spock. Now, NASA is planning a mission called SIM PlanetQuest that will scan 40 Eridani f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/18/nasa-looking-for-vulcan/Droid Soup-Part One is a new Star Wars movie remix done in the silent film style. Push play or go to YouTube. -via b3ta You’ll find a collection of ten silent Star Wars videos today at YesButNoButYes....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/18/silent-star-wars-2/
