How awesome is this: a motorized walking Star Wars' AT-AT model made from LEGOs! The model can walk forward or backward, as well as move its head up or down.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | LEGO Store - via To...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/walking-at-at-lego-model/The Open School of Art, founded by artist Karoly Koffan, was a legitimate school, but also became a front to save Jews in Budapest during World War II. Lauren Krupa is collecting stories from teachers and students who wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/the-open-school-of-art/Sandy at mental_floss has compiled A Disturbingly Long List of Celebrity Motorbike Crash-ups. 28 of them, to be exact! You may remember some of these from the news, but I bet you will be surprised by some. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/celebrity-motorbike-crash-ups/Just for fun: Mt. Rushmore sings The Teddy Bears Picnic. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/the-singing-presidents/Here’s something you don’t see everyday. Picture found at Bits and Pieces....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/anachronism-illustrated/If you’re going to die, do it differently! Neatorama has featured strange deaths before, and here are more people who have died in bizarre ways, like the women who was choked by a fish, or the man who’s hea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/more-bizarre-deaths/Katie Cook's DeviantArt gallery is full of adorable Star Wars sketch cards she created for the Topps Star Wars 30th Anniversary trading card set (she draws an irresistible Chewbacca, but Garindan's my favorite). You...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/katie-cooks-adorable-star-wars-sketch-cards/Woot! Today is Miss Cellania's birthday! Quick, everyone go there to wish her a Happy Birthday.While you're at it, check out her top 10 posts on YesButNoButYes, her stories on mentalfloss (and her daily Morning Cup o' Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/happy-birthday-miss-cellania/Here's something that definitely don't show you on TV: two giraffes viciously duking it out, giraffe-style (I guess).So how do giraffes fight? You'll just have to watch the clip.Link [embedded YouTube clip]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/how-giraffes-fight/This Super Mario Brothers 1UP mushrooms is actually a cleverly designed candy tins! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/super-mario-bros-mushroom-candy-tin/What happen when germs go into space on a rocket and come back to Earth? They become stronger and deadlier than ever:Scientists wanted to see how space travel affects germs, so they took some along — carefully...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/germs-that-go-into-space-return-deadlier-than-ever/The Human Marvel blog has an interesting article about a bearded lady named Percilla Lauther, better known as "the monkey girl," who found true love:In the late 1930's, while performing with the Johnny J. J...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/how-percilla-the-monkey-girl-found-love/This Funtrak Mini Paintball Tank is just like the real war machine, just scaled down a little ... It even lets you fire paintballs through its cannon while you drive around terrorizing the neighborhood!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/paintball-firing-mini-tank/Want to see animals preserved in formalin? Sure you do. In the preservation of animal specimens for study, animals are usually preserved using formalin where the whole body would be immersed in the posture in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/animals-in-formalin-preservation/Doug Savage, who draws the funny Savage Chicken we've featured on Neatorama before did an amazing stop-motion animation for a music video contest.He decided to enter a music video contest for Laura Veirs, even though...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/savage-chicken-animation/This week's collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange contraption - can you guess what it is?Since no one guessed correctly in last week's game, we'll carry over the prize (a Free Live!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/27/what-is-it-game-39/Khoi Vinh knows how his dog Mister President thinks. He contructed this flowchart to show how he (and other dogs) think. Makes plenty of sense to me! http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2007/0918_think_like_a.php -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/dog-logic-flowchart/This ad must be a spoof. It's obviously set in the UK, but I can't imagine Volkswagen would release a tv ad like this. Personally, I like the sentiment......
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/volkswagen-polo-small-but-tough/flight404.com's cool algorithm-generated butterfly designs. Not as beautiful as real butterflies, but interesting nonetheless. Link to flight404 blog post here Link to high-rez 1 1/2 min. QuickTime movie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/biomimetic-butterflies/"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - Elbert Hubbard, writer (1856-1915)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/quote-elbert-hubbard-on-stupidity/Ah - the wonders of YouTube! Here's an old tv show I never thought I'd see again. Originally produced by the BBC back in the late 80's early 90's it was a mash-up of newsreel archive footage with a fictional comic stor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/the-staggering-stories-of-ferdinand-de-bargos/Princeton economist Alan Krueger and four psychologists found that men and women dislike pretty much the same activities like paying bills, but one thing really stood out:Men apparently enjoy being with their parents...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/the-happiness-of-men-and-women/In 1787, the Continental Congress of the United States authorized the official penny, with the motto:"Mind Your (Own) Business"Read more about it here: Mind Your Own Business [wiki]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/trivia-first-us-pennys-motto-mind-your-own-business/Oooh, here's the R2-D2 Pepper Mill. All you have to do is twist its head (dome?) and it'll crap pepper!http://mgrsti3030s.seamlesstech.biz/templates/frmTemplateR.asp?CatalogID=14149&SearchYN=N&subFolderID=177 - via techn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/r2-d2-pepper-mill/We all know this: when you got to go, you got to go. But usually, by the age of four most of us managed to control the urge. But not this guy:Bad: Urinating on the sidewalkReally bad: In...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/peeing-while-walking/The Star Wars slippers we recently posted on Neatorama too cute for you? Try these on for size: the rat slippers!Actually, just a clever ad for foot cream. More at 2wenty 4our: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/rat-slippers/Those who only knew “Crocodile Hunter†Steve Irwin from TV may forget that he was always involved in serious wildlife research. Just yesterday, a research paper was published listing Irwin as one of the autho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/steve-irwins-last-research-paper/Visionary director Michel Gondry has created a new commercial for Motorola's RAZR phone. The filmmaker, well known for his work with Beck and Bjork, takes us to a place we could only wish our phones took us. There is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/michael-gondry-creates-razr-commercial/What happens to all of those huge hulking ships, planes, trains and construction vehicles that are just too expensive to properly disassemble? Well, in many places of the World a little back-handed passing of money...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/where-vehicles-are-left-to-die/15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford was the first black student to attend a white school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Journalist Will Counts took this picture of Eckford’s entrance, with student Hazel Bryan shout...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/school-integration-in-little-rock/
