Archive for May 2007

Customized Welding Helmets

Customized welding helmets, because welders wanna look good too. Link - TrendsNow...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/customized-welding-helmets/

Golden Smiles.

"Lucania has white teeth, Thais brown. How comes it? One has false teeth, one her own. And you, Galla, lay aside your teeth at night just as you do your silken dress." -- MartialWe always knew Roman...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/golden-smiles/

How to use a telephone.

This is a wonderful bit of communications history. It is an instructional film designed to teach those in the Fresno, California area how to use a wonderful new service, a telephone that you could dial yourself.*...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/how-to-use-a-telephone/

iPod + iTunes = iTropical

Beautiful new TV ad from Apple - featuring Mi Swing Es Tropical by Nickodemus & Quantic featuring Tempo. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ads/ [Apple]...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/ipod-itunes-itropical/

Panda Chair.

The Panda Chair was designed by Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana. My daughter would kill for this, but its a limited edition of 25 chairs. Link -via Dump Trumpet...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/panda-chair/

Pilot Teddy

Pilot Teddy is remote controlled and is flying in an R/C plane with an attached video camera. This video will put you in a great mood. Link via: Ehrensenf...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/pilot-teddy/

A Place Between Us.

If you want to set up a meeting with a friend somewhere between where you both are, you can consult A Place Between Us. Enter your location, your friend’s location, and the type of place you want to meet. For ex...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/a-place-between-us/

Leo and Lisa.

Neatorama reader Roger wrote:Oscar prize-winner Kevin Spacey will be appearing exclusively on the virtual stage on the 16th of May 2007. On this day his short play “The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa” will be...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/leo-and-lisa/

Joshua Dalsimer - Photographer

Inspiring photos from Boston based photographer Joshua Dalsimer. Link - via swissmiss...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/joshua-dalsimer-photographer/

Ghostly Angel?

When retired policeman Andy Key took a trip to Rome, he took a photo of an address by the Pope and discovered a stunning image of a ghostly angel.Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/ghostly-angel/

Moon Lamp.

Architect Jeanne Scandura created this cool Moon floor lamp that seems to float while it glows ... http://www.modlivin.com/lighting/2126-FLOAT-Moon-Floor-Lamp.html...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/moon-lamp/

Spelling Y-M-C-A at the Finish Line.

From the website:The sport section of the 25th March, 2007 edition of the Sunday Herald Sun contained photos from the previous day's racing at Caulfield. The photos show the horses in each race at the 400m mark and a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/spelling-y-m-c-a-at-the-finish-line/

Whipped Cream, Spaghetti Sauce, Sour Cream, Clam Dip and Other Delights.

Herb Alpert, whose band the Tijuana Brass, whose renowned album (and album cover) Whipped Cream and Other Delights, has collaborated with electronic musicians to create a remix album called Rewhipped. (Source)But that's...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/whipped-cream-spaghetti-sauce-sour-cream-clam-dip-and-other-delights/

No Exit: Dating Resume.

I missed a couple of weeks of posting Andy Singer's cartoons (sorry!). Here's this week's pick: Dating Resume. For more of Andy's cartoons, check out: No Exit....

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/no-exit-dating-resume/

Mask + Sheep = Alienation

Some dastardly pranksters rig a sheep with a scary mask causing the rest of the herd to avoid it. While funny for a moment one has to empathize with the long term psychological impact. Poor Sheepy. You can also view...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/16/mask-sheep-alienation/

Funniest 911 call ever?

Warning: the subject of the 911 call is marijuana. "I think we're dead... Time is going by really, really, really slow." LiveLink (via DangerRoom). Update: The entire call - even funnier!...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/funniest-911-call-ever/

Scientists Map Dark Matter.

Today scientists announced that they had mapped a ring of dark matter around a galaxy cluster utilizing gravitational distortions observed in photographs taken by the Hubble space telescope. This is a groundbrea...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/scientists-map-dark-matter/

Plupon.

Plupon is an addictive math game. You get big points by combining three numbers to total ten or twenty. Smaller points if you go under, and you can combine small numbers to make a bigger number. Minus points if you go...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/plupon/

Volcanic Eruption on Io.

Tvashtar is a volcano on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. The New Horizons space probe captured five frames of an eruption, which became the first "movie" of an otherworldly eruption. The plume in the image reaches...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/volcanic-eruption-on-io/

Prague Marathon: Embeddable Panorama.

Mouse over image to start rotating. Click and drag to turn the image any way you like. Use mouse wheel to zoom. Not just any panorama - it's an embeddable panorama! How cool is that? You can view high resolution panoram...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/prague-marathon-embeddable-panorama/

Vintage Camera Museum

Living Image Vintage Camera Museum has got a wonderful collection with lots of information about old cameras. For most of the models they've even included samples of photos taken with the camera. Link - via Coudal...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/vintage-camera-museum/

Eating Bugs at Growabrain.

Our pal Hanan's blog growabrain is a fantastic resource of neat and weird links on all sorts of topics.Here's one such topic: entomophagy (that's eating insects for us cretins), featuring things like scorpion soup, cockr...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/eating-bugs-at-growabrain/

Caveman's Crib.

The Caveman's Crib is a Flash website where you can snoop around the posh penthouse apartment of auto insurance company GEICO's pitchmen [wiki].Supposedly, a TV series featuring the Neanderthals is in the works. Link [Fl...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/cavemans-crib/

Scratch: Programming Language for Kids.

Scratch is a new programming language created by Mitchel Resnick and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab. The software lets kids program interactive creations by "snapping" together snippets of code much like LEGO...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/scratch-programming-language-for-kids/

Fetal Art.

One rarely thinks of the human fetus as the subject of artistic treatment, but Carolyn Tate and Gordon Bendersky make a good case in Olmec Sculptures of the Human Fetus that this is exactly what one set of very peculiar...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/fetal-art/

Russian Tractor

Necessity is the Mother of Invention, or so the saying goes. This, however, is the mutant offspring of Necessity, Too Much Time, and Way Too Much Vodka......

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/russian-tractor/

The World Fatness Chart.

This chart was created by blogger Wellington Grey, it's based on recent obesity statistics. A larger version of the chart can be viewed here. As seen on Japan Probe....

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/the-world-fatness-chart/

European Queen.

Who knew there was a European version to Billy Ocean's wildly successful hit Caribbean Queen [wiki]? Click play or go to Link [YouTube]....

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/european-queen/

Terror on Wall Street.

New York City’s deadliest terror attack before 9/11 took place at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway on September 16, 1920, when a horse-drawn wagon was abandoned by its driver. A bomb consis...

https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/terror-on-wall-street/
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