This nightlight by Sun Young Lee will go off by itself as you drift off to sleep. The light only stays on while the sand in the hourglass passes by! To turn it back on, just flip it over. Link -via Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/hourglass-nightlight/in celebration of the 2008 Olympics, the city of Mudanjiang, China erected streetlamps shaped like athletes! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/olympic-streetlamps/Furoshiki is a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth that came into use during the Edo period (1603-1868); it was used in public bathhouses for spreading on the floor while undressing and for wrapping bathing articles....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/furoshiki/Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist adapted the traditional “tumbling blocks†quilt pattern and made a pieced quilt based on the videogame Q*bert! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/quiltbert/Khian Sea barge docked in Florida in June 2002 (Image: Nature)Almost by definition, garbage is stuff nobody wants. You usually have to pay someone to take it off your hands. Sometimes, if the garbage is really u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/worlds-most-unwanted-garbage-cargo-of-the-khian-sea/Hamutsun Serve is a delightful Japanese "popper" duo who performs a street dance style known as popping [wiki].Check out their performance here: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | More Hamutsun Serve [list of Y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/hamutsun-serve-popping-duo-from-japan/Don't believe the photo above? Trends in Japan got a video clip of this incredibly crowded wave pool in Tokyo Summerland: Link - Thanks Michael!Other crowded places: crowded beach in China, Korea; crowded subway...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/crowded-pool/Dark Roasted Blend has posted another edition of weird signs, including this scary infographic from an Israeli bus. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/maximum-occupancy/Pic-Tac-Toe is a nine-picture grid puzzle where the three pictures in each row, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal, share a common theme. You figure out what they have in common! The middle square has to pertain to four...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/picture-tic-tac-toe/It’s Walk vs. Don’t Walk in this video by Joeri Holsheimer. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Viral Video Chart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/dont-stop/Birthday Stars is a generator that will find a star whose distance matches your age in light years from earth. For example, if you are 28 years and 6 months old, it will find a star 28.5 light years away from earth. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/birthday-stars/Origami Resource Center will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about Toilegami - the origami-style folding of toilet paper. Link - Craftzine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/toilet-paper-origami/-The future is right around the corner. -The future is now. -The future is in the past. Link [YouTube] - via Macfeber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/ms-paint-parody/In 2002, just after his 13th birthday, Justin Schwartz was bitten by a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake. Here's his story, complete with gruesome photos of the wound and more than 10 surgeries he endured to finally get we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/rattlesnake-bite-story/If one bullet is good, then a million bullet has got to be better, right? At least that's the thinking behind Metal Storm weapon systems, which got its inspiration from an ink jet printer...Hit play or go to Link [YouTub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/metal-storm-gun-fires-a-million-bullets-per-minute/This Chinese man has a particularly electrifying way of keeping his body fit: he let electric current pass through his body! Zhang, who controls the voltage, once cooked a fish which he held in his hand as the curren...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/man-keeps-healthy-by-zapping-self-with-electricity/Michael Tavarez created this awesome animation where Pablo Picasso's painting the Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier) came to life ...Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Michael's website...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/picassos-girl-with-a-mandolin-animated-by-michael-tavarez/How cute is this?! A magnetic paper clip holder shaped like a porcupine by Korean designer Mika Kim.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/15/porcupine-magnetic-paper-clip-holder/Damaris B. Sarria is a Thermal Protection Systems Engineer on the Space Shuttle Orbiter, and is pursuing her Masters in Aeronautical Science. She is documenting her work and progress towards her goal of becoming an ast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/how-i-am-becoming-an-astronaut/People in Russia say that there is no wedding without a fight. That’s not right, there are. But not this one. From English Russia, with love video. http://englishrussia.com/?p=1228 -Thanks, Jan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/wedding-brawl/There is no end to the ideas people have for decorating their bodies. Neatorama featured science tattoos recently; now here is a gallery of anatomical tattoos! Link -via Respectful Insolence...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/anatomy-tattoos/For once, I think our President is starting to make a little sense. Hit play, or go to the Link, to watch this amusing press conference. via The Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/bush-vs-zombies/An Egyptian mummy known as Demetrios at the Brookyn Museum is wrapped in linen decorated with rare red paint. X-ray fluorescence revealed that the paint matched the chemical analysis of lead from Spain’s Rio Tin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/spanish-paint-found-in-egyptian-mummy/Wired Blogs is looking at who is editing Wikipedia entries in order to protect or shape their own image. Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial Wikipedia search tool that threatens to l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/wikipedia-spin-jobs/Hands down, here's the dumbest criminal of all time: the Duct Tape Robber:Robbery is a serious problem for retail stores across our region. But the employees of Shamrock Liquors in Ashland, Kentucky, can't stop laughing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/duct-tape-robber/German researchers are developing a fire-fighting beetle robot to battle forest fires:Scientists in Germany are hard at work on an autonomous, pill-bug-like robot to be used to fight forest fires. It's got legs like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/fire-fighting-beetle/Jessica Vitkus of AlternaCrafts created this colorful "threat levels" security blanket:Endorsed by the White House and Fox News, this colorful scrap quilt is a guide to our ever-changing security alert leve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/threat-level-security-blanket/The Wright brothers were the first people to fly, right? Well, according to this excellent article at our pal mental_floss, that may not be quite true. For example:French inventor Clément Ader disting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/before-the-wright-brothers-french-batwing-plane/Inspired by The Big Lebowski Phonetic Alphabet, grupthink user skrrrriti wrote this article to solicit users to contribute to the Internet Phenomena Phonetic Alphabet - Thanks misterblister!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/internet-phenomena-phonetic-alphabet/Here's why it's a bad idea to drink too much coffee:Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family's sandwich shop.*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/14/espresso-overdose/
