Do you want to be that someone who always got some party tricks to show off? Here's a top 20 list of magic tricks tutorial videos to get you started. Link - via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/magic-tricks-tutorial-videos/Do you have a problem with squirrels, chipmunks, or other outdoor critters? If so, there's now a solution - the squirrel catapult. Hit play or go to the http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6245089974900018205 [G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/how-to-get-rid-of-a-critter-problem/This week's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange contraption - can you guess what it is? Please place your guess in the comment section (post no URL, please - let others play). For...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/what-is-it-game-26/"Where there's a roll, there's a way" is the motto of the Duct Tape Server, which was built entirely out of duck tapes.Link (with video clip goodness!) - via Blue's NewsSee also: Neatorama's Ultimate C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/duct-tape-server/Reprinted from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Fast-Acting Long-Lasting. We couldn't find Uncle John's old Fart Bazooka, but we managed to find some other famous weapons. JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S GU...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/infamous-weapons/Photo: Nick Ut/APStreet racers Charles Hoang, Daniel Maldonado, and Sergio Zavala fought the law, and the law won - they got front row seat to see their illegally modified (many with stolen parts), souped-up cars crushed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/street-racers-souped-up-cars-crushed-by-the-law/Don't ever mess with Dale Rippy. The 62-year-old Florida man fought a bobcat and killed it with his bare hands!Having grown up on a farm, Rippy said he knew the bobcat would attack when it didn’t run a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/62-year-old-man-killed-bobcat-with-bare-hands/This is fantastic: in a project called "Sorted Books," artist Nina Katchadourian arranges books on shelves to create short narratives using only their titles!Link (Click on each image to see more) - via mental_...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/nina-katchadourians-sorted-book/The Maltese Falcon [wiki] is a $130 million high-tech sailing mega-yacht owned by American multi-millionaire Tom Perkins and made by Italian firm Perini Navi. You can rent it for a week for a mere €325,000.Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/the-maltese-falcon-mega-yacht/The funniest five-second video on the Internet EVAR!If you haven't seen this dramatic chipmunk prairie dog, you're missing out: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/dramatic-chipmunk-best-5-second-internet-video-evar/Popular Science just released its annual Bottom 10 List of Worst Job in Science. Making its debut at no. 10 is this: whale poop researcher.“Brown stain ahoy!” is not the cry most mariners long to hear, bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/worst-jobs-in-science-2/Daddy Types blog has this neat photo of a custom baby stroller mod: it's made to look like Star Wars' AT-AT Imperial Walker!Link - via Smidigt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/21/star-wars-at-at-stroller-mod/Last Sunday was my first Father's Day, and my wife gave me this card (a Hallmark, btw), which I think captured the spirit of fatherhood (or at least what us fathers feel all the time!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/fathers-day-card-got-fatherhood-spot-on/In our previous Dalek Cage post, Neatorama reader Jeff commented about Dr. MegaVolt, a character invented and played by physicist Dr. Austin Richards in "a performance pitting Man against Electricity" since 199...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/dr-megavolt/Remember the post about leather bag made to look like the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag? Here's a saner (and more environmentally-conscious, not to mention animal-friendly) variety: Robin Hendrickson made canvas tote b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/canvas-tote-printed-like-thank-you-shopping-bag/Retro lovers: check out this cool "old school" CD player phonograph created by Yong Jieyu (yes, it actually plays the CD!) ... Link - via Akihabaranews...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/retro-cd-player/You're looking at a 5-passenger prototype SeaPhantom ground-effect boat, by David Borman. The prototype uses only a small outboard motor to reach 70 mph (a larger motor can get it up to 100+ mph).Here's the SeaPhantom in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/seaphantom/We posted about the World War II Keep Calm and Carry On Poster in the UKAn enterprising guy has now put it on a T-shirt - but you'll probably get into trouble wearing this in the US for making a political statement!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/keep-calm-and-carry-on-t-shirt/Doris and Daniel Neeway had a gosh-darn cute baby last May, and they named him .... Georgebush Neeway! No, not George Bush Neeway. Georgebush is his first name.Link - Thanks Bobomojo!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/couple-named-baby-georgebush-no-not-george-bush-georgebush/What's to prevent a student taking online courses from cheating? Nothing much, apparently, until this gizmo hits the market:This fall, Troy University in Alabama will begin rolling out the new camera technology for m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/snitchcam-catching-distance-learning-cheaters/Quite a few years ago, Peugeot created a concept car called H2O, a stylish electric car that functions as a fire fighting vehicle (complete with a water tank and ladder!)Link - via deputy dog's Top 9 Emergency Service Ve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/peugeots-h2o-stylish-fire-fighting-car/For more of Andy Singer's comics, check out: No Exit....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/no-exit-gangsta-mouse/Lazybones sells teacups, coffee cups, and "your own logo" cups in classic anamorphic style. The image on the saucer is distorted, and the cup reflects a corrected image:[Anamorphic] refers to a distorted im...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/anamorphic-cup-and-saucer/Here's something fantastic from Chinese artist Ma Jun: ceramic TVs and boomboxes! See more of Ma's artwork here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/ma-juns-ceramic-tvs-and-boomboxes/Chicken stock is for wusses - real chefs use "Crocbest," the essence of crocodile in their soups: A Thai cook shows a can of essence of crocodile soup at the Samutprakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo in the outsk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/essence-of-crocodile-soup-its-crocolicious/We've posted about the geeky H-Bar (aw, too good to be true - it was photoshopped, see comment on post), but here's something real for sure: Fubar in Leicester, UK:And another Fubar in New York City:What's fubar? It's, u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/which-bar-do-soldiers-and-computer-scientists-go-to-drink/Here's something useful, created by artist Jacob Dahlgren: bathroom scales / mat combo, so you can be dismayed by both the dirt you're tracking with your shoes and how much you weigh! http://www.jacobdahlgren.c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/jacob-dahlgreens-bathroom-scale-mat/You're looking at a one-person Faraday cage, called the Dalek Cage, that allows a person to get close and personal to, oh, like tens of thousands of volts. It is constructed from fencing wire and a hanging basket pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/20/dalek-cage/Feed The Head is a wonderfully strange Flash website - I don't know if there's a point to it, but see if you can make the head walk.Link [Flash] - Thanks Dumidu!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/19/feed-the-head-a-creatively-silly-flash-game/Etch A Sketch artist extraordinaire George Vlosich is so awesome we've featured him three times on Neatorama before. But he never ceases to amaze us - so here's a video of George "sketching" a picture of NBA pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/19/video-of-etch-a-sketch-master-george-vlosich-in-action/
