"Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month." - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (1912 - 1977)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/quote-wernher-von-braun-on-crash-program/Who needs a shower stall when you’ve got Pluviae? A great design for a minimalist bathroom, or a very small space for one, from Matteo Thun & Partners. http://www.matteothun.com/content/pluviae.htm -via Ursi’s Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/pluviae/A collection of surreal animations about the misadventures of a couple of incarcerated bunnies. Scroll down on the site and click on a video image. The site is in Japanese, but the videos have no dialogue. Link -via Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/bunnies-in-prison/Engineers at the University of Washington are developing techniques to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. The lenses incorporate circuits made from layers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/contact-lenses-for-superhuman-vision/Just what you’ve always wanted -your very own tentacle arm! While we've been using our primitive, apelike arms like a bunch of jerks, the squids of the world have been clutching their prey with their superior te...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/tentacle-arm/A tourist who visited the Frank Aston Underground Museum at Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia in 1983 lifted an artifact and took it home to the US -a boomerang. Twenty-five years later, he mailed the boomerang back wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/boomerang-comes-back/In a series titled God's Eye View, artist collective The Glue Society created a series of scenes out of The Bible, as they would've been seen from Heaven:Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/gods-eye-view-scenes-from-the-bible-as-seen-from-heaven/When a dog found a human jaw bone in Pueblo County, Colorado, police launched a search that led to Charles E. Gross, who confessed:The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office says Charles E. Gross confessed to shooting a man...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/man-shoved-dead-body-under-mobile-home-forgot-about-it-for-7-years/Turns out squirrels are more devious than anyone realized:To protect their winter food stocks from potential thieves, they put on an elaborate show of burying non-existent nuts and seeds, a study has shown.S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/those-sneaky-squirrels-bury-non-existent-nuts-to-trick-rivals/A National Institute of Standards and Technology reflectance standard (left), a sample of the new darkest material (center), and a piece of glassy carbon (right), taken under a flash light illumination are seen in an un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/scientists-invent-the-blackest-material-known-to-man/We've finally found out (for sure) the identity of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa:Some suggested the master artist had amalgamated a variety of subjects to create his ideal woman, used his mother for a model, or even...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/the-real-identity-of-the-mona-lisa/In 2005, Konica Minolta used a laser measuring instrument to scan 3D data from the famous statue of Venus de Milo at the Louvre. They then used the data to re-create the statue digitally: Recreating the Venus de Milo on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/venus-de-mileo-digitized/In an effort to boost tourism, the Swedes are planning to build a giant 47 m (154 ft) long and 45 m (148 ft) tall "Trojan Moose" on top of the Vithatten mountain.Thorbjön Holmlund of the Big Moose ("...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/the-trojan-moose/It's no surprise that people are more honest when they know that they're being watched. But what about just reminding them of the idea of being watched, without them actually being watched?For years, pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/the-honesty-experiment/Nine years ago, John Lowe of Witchford, England, took up ballet after watching his daugher became a professional dancer. He's now set to star in his first ballet show at the age of 88!The retired teacher said: "It's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/eighty-eight-year-old-mans-first-ballet-performance/Since we posted about The Superest last year, about one hundred new "superheroes" have been added.If you don't know what it is, The Superest is an on-going art project by illustrators Kevin Cornell and Matthew...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/the-superest-revisited/Artist Stig Evans found a way to deter taggers to vandalize abandoned buildings with graffiti: paint images of sunny skies and white clouds on the windows!A Sussex Police spokeswoman said: "It's made a real diff...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/blue-sky-art-deters-vandalism/Brains are pretty scary to begin with: they're pinkish gray, they're lumpy, and they blank out at the most inappropriate times. But what would happen if your brain really turned on you?THAT'S NO FRIEND OF M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/6-mind-bending-ailments/Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories taught us how to build a fast-moving “bristlebot” out of a toothbrush last month. The sequel is another robot that moves using the same principle of vibrating fibers, but this “sna...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/velvet-bristlebot-racing-snail/In this video, Google’s parents are out of town and she throws a party, and many popular sites show up. Wikipedia takes notes, eBay wants to make a deal, Something Awful and eBaum’s World get into a fight, Facebook...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/the-internet-party/According to Wikipedia:Saint Guinefort was a 13th century dog that received local veneration as a saint after miracles were reported at his grave. His story is a variation on the well-travelled 'fai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/st-guinefort-the-dog/Code One Magazine, published by combat aircraft maker Lockheed Martin, has a special "Cockpit" issue. It features photos of cockpits from 32 military airplanes from the MB-2, the first US heavy bomber built in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/gallery-of-military-aircraft-cockpits/We've heard of criminals talking to stool pigeons before, but a cat? Here's the story of one David Henton, who was suspected of killing his lover but the police couldn't prove it. So they bugged his house, and found this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/its-out-of-the-bag-man-confessed-murder-to-pet-cat/"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/quote-steven-wright-on-black-holes/What? But Jupiter is in the 3rd house and Pluto is 21 degree from ascendant and is square to Venus! How could that be? Link - via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/astrological-magazine-closed-due-to-unforseen-circumstances/Chest of Drawers by Stanislav KatzBook shelves with a built-in benchThere are two reasons why we feature Stanislav Katz's website:1. The amazing furniture that he made, like the curvy Chest of Drawers and the bookshelf w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/furnitures-by-stanislav-katz/The American Marketing Association has taken upon itself to redefine the word 'marketing.' I've always thought of marketing as a corporatespeak for selling. Silly me!Before the "upgrade," the word marketing was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/that-marketing-was-old-and-tired-this-is-the-new-marketing-hotness/In the United States, pit bulls make up less than 3% of the dog population but cause more than 50% of serious dog attacks.Most dog bites are from mutts (mixed breed), German shepherds and chow chows. Most fatal attacks a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/trivia-pit-bulls-and-dog-attacks/The Pink Tentacle blog has compiled a post with a series of beautiful pictures from the Japan HDR (high dynamic range) photo pool at Flickr. Linkjapan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/japanese-hdr-photography/This remarkable video segment from a Science channel show on ants came through Digg today:The structure covers 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In it’s construction, the colony moved 40 tons of soi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/amazing-ant-colony/
