A young Korean man named Wan saved all of his money for one year to embark on his dream journey: traveling across the United States (about 3,868 miles) on his tiny 50cc Honda Ruckus!Wan started in Fayetteville, North Car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/motoring-across-the-usa-on-a-ruckus-scooter/Rug by Mark Mothersbaugh, Photo by Eric StonerWho knew Mark Mothersbaugh, singer and co-founder of Devo, is also a "rug" artist!LA Weekly has a slideshow of Mark's woven rug artwork series "Rugs During War...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/rug-arts-bymark-mothersbaugh/High-speed chases may soon be a thing of the past. Eureka Aerospace of Pasadena, California, has developed a high-power electromagnetic system that uses microwave to let police disable your car's engine from a distance!h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/microwave-ray-gun-turns-off-car-engines-from-a-distance/I'm a sucker for math songs! Here's a video clip of Prof. Steve Sawin of Fairfield University rapping about Perelman's Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture [wiki], to the tune of Snoop Dogg and Pharrell William's &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/rapping-the-poincar-conjecture/Whoa! A Hello Kitty fan blinged out her bicycle with thousands of crystal beads (Hello Kitty Hell blog said that there were 50,000 pieces of crystals, but I'm skeptical it was that many. Maybe 5,000).Link (with video) -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/hello-kitty-bike-blinged-out-with-thousands-of-crystals/Strange Map blog has this map above, showing the distribution of blondes in Europe (which may or may not be a country, depending on who you ask):According to this map – and if you really believe that blondes ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/blondes-map-of-europe/Things we've learned from teh Interweb: 1) Never film yourself dancing (Star Wars kid, anyone?) 2) If you do, for whatever reason, NEVER let the dog be in the same room.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Edwar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/dancing-girl/Bobby Henderson of the Flying Spaghetti Monster fame would like to wish you a Happy Holiday... You can send the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday e-Card (artwork by Andrew Shaffer) here: http://www.venganza....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/flying-spaghetti-monster-holiday-ecard/Swedish illustrator Mattias Adolfsson of Mattias Ink (featured before on Neatorama) created these fantastic drawing of the "baroque" version of Star Wars characters: Link - Thanks Casey!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/star-wars-the-baroque-version/DailyBits featured an article called the Top 6 Bizarre Online Gaming Incidents, including real life murder, kidnapping, theft, virtual rape, a plague and even death ... all because of online games!Like this one, for exam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/bizarre-online-gaming-incidents/Thirty seven years ago, back when he was 14 years old, a bloody tumor appeared on Jose Mestre's lip. Because of his religion (Jose is a Jehovah's Witness) prohibition on blood transfusion and distrust of doctors, Jose re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/man-refused-surgery-for-religious-reason-face-got-swallowed-by-bloody-tumors/It's Christmas season, so it's time for another one of Core 77's Design Gift Guide. Allan Chocinov of the blog wrote:... we've just just launched our 2007 Designer Gift Guide. As the name in the subject line suggests...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/core-77-design-gift-guide-for-christmas/Nathan Sawaya created this Toys for Tots train with 43,100 bottle caps and 825 glue sticks! The sculpture was commissioned by Coca-Cola, who is donating 100,000 gifts to the charity. You can also donate your My Coke Rewa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/nathan-sawayas-toy-for-tots-bottle-cap-train/That's Mister Jalopy of Hoopty Rides, riding his now famous Urban Guerrilla Movie House (movie projector and complete wooden entertainment center atop a bike, as featured in the cover of Make Magazine vol 11).You can tou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/tour-of-mr-jalopys-secret-hideoutgarage/Aspiring engineer (and ten-year-old boy) Ian Culhane won $10,000 for designing a 7-foot-tall toy roller coaster using K'NEX parts:Ian began the project last summer, using 6,000 plastic parts from his collection of 15,000...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/boy-won-10000-for-building-toy-roller-coaster/By the way, you can win original art and a vegan dinner date with Dan Piraro of Bizarro and his lovely wife Ashley in this auction benefiting Farm Sanctuary.To see more Bizarro, check out Dan's website: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/bizarro-hand-puppet-pianist/Gizmodo reader Rob Hoffmann sent in a photo of his Halloween costume: a giant LEGO minifig!The head is made from chicken wire (1/4 in. square mesh), yellow vinyl, some cotton batting (the mesh would have shown throug...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/lego-minifig-costume/In the Siam Ocean World in Bangkok, Thailand, there is a unique aquarium on display: a gigantic fish tank made out of ... a car!Link [embedded Metacafe video] - Thanks Jon Jason!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/car-aquarium/Spotted at D3 blog, as part of the Thursday Thirteen meme (must be one of the oldest Internet memes around now), is a list of 13 geeky knitting projects.Like this one to the left, the Jazzy Coffee Cup Cozy, made by kdk o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/geeky-kitting-projects/(YouTube link) Cello trio Melo-M and the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra (of Latvia) perform Europe’s The Final Countdown. -via I-Am-Bored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/09/the-final-countdown/(image credit: Flickr user petrst) deputydog found some really impressive fire station designs from all over the world, and posted his seven favorites. I am partial to the Hill Street Fire Station in Singapore, in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/09/7-of-the-coolest-fire-stations-on-earth/Each Urban Collectable car is completely unique and has been individually hand burnt. The range includes The Joy ridden 2-door Hatchback, The Mini Van/Insurance Scam and The Petrol Bombed Jeep. $49.95 each. h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/09/urban-collectibles/[YouTube Link] A compilation of more realistic love songs for the modern American male....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/09/louis-lavreaus-love-songs-of-the-real-man/Get ready! Last Saturday is Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day. Do fun things like this: Walk up to random people and say "WHAT YEAR IS THIS?" and when they tell you, get quiet and then say "Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/09/international-pretend-to-be-a-time-traveler-day/[YouTube Link] A faux commercial for the credit card dependent lifestyle....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/09/credit-card-national-bank/Jason wanted to stage a memorable proposal to his girlfriend Maui. He pulled it off, with the help of their favorite author, Neil Gaiman (previously on Neatorama), when he autographed one of his books for her. It took...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/09/book-signing-proposal/From 1923 to 1986, American automobiles ran on ethyl, a gasoline that prevented engine knock due to its lead content. Within days of its introduction, refinery workers began dying. However, the oil industry managed to ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/09/the-story-of-ethyl/New Christmas Cards from Cara Scissoria this year include Fred and Ginger, as well as seven other designs that made me giggle! Be sure to check out "Poe Ho Ho". http://www.carascissoria.com/sept07/index.htm -via Everla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/08/fred-and-ginger/(Live Leak link) Psychologist Mitchell Spero trained his pet turtle to do dog tricks! Florida can sit, stay, and roll over (turtles in the wild do their best to avoid the rollover). Spero uses his turtle as an example...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/08/trained-turtle/The Movida nightclub in London has launched a new cocktail that will sell for £35,000. That’s roughly equivalent to $71,000 US dollars. They call this drink the Flawless, and it will be mixed and served under the supe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/08/35000-cocktail/
