Birth of an Orangutan
(YouTube link) From the documentary series on endangered species called Before It's Too Late. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/birth-of-an-orangutan/Archive for January 2008
"Angels We Have Heard on High" Played on a Piece of Broccoli
This guy has lots of vegetables to play with. See the carrot pan flute at Kuromi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/angels-we-have-heard-on-high-played-on-a-piece-of-broccoli/Sneaker Speaker
The Converse sneakers are making a comeback in the shape of a speaker, designed by 3F Studio. The Converse Shoe design by 3F Studio is a large model of a Converse shoe that has incorporated speakers for listenin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/sneaker-speaker/The Lewis Hine Project
Photographer Lewis Hine {wiki} spent a decade documenting child workers for the National Child Labor Committee in the early 20th century. His famous photos helped to outlaw child labor in America. Joe Manning has spent c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/the-lewis-hine-project/10 Smurfiest Facts About The Smurfs
The Smurfs celebrated their 50th birthday (or rather, "smurfday") a couple of days ago - and that inspired Neatorama to smurf up some fascinating facts about the little blue creatures.Here are ten of the smurfiest facts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/10-smurfiest-facts-about-the-smurfs/Minas Tirith of Lord of the Rings in LEGO Goodness
A few days ago, we featured a fan-created model of Minas Tirith of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings made from candies. Now, here's the fabled fortified city in LEGO, created by Brickshelf user Astuanax. Pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/minas-tirith-of-lord-of-the-rings-in-lego-goodness/When Geeks Go to a War Protest
Thanks Bailey! Previously on Neatorama: Stop War Shadow Graffiti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/when-geeks-go-to-a-war-protest/With Friends Like These: The Darkside of Facebook?
I don't have and probably never will have a Facebook account - so I don't know what all the hoopla is about. But I read Tom Hodginson's op-ed about the phenomenon that is Facebook with great interest. Tom wrote about the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/with-friends-like-these-the-darkside-of-facebook/They Set Our Castle on Fire!
Before Lolcats became an Internet phenomenon, there was Married to the Sea. The comic, created by Drew and Natalie Dee, is basically irreverent and funny captions set to old prints. Somehow, it works!We've posted about M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/they-set-our-castle-on-fire/The Khmer Rouge Cafe and Other Political Ideology-Themed Restaurants
Seen at Trifter is a list of 7 political ideology and war-themed restaurants around the world. For example, this Khmer Rouge Cafe next to the once Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture chamber (better known as the Killin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/17/the-khmer-rouge-cafe-and-other-political-ideology-themed-restaurants/First Picture of Mercury's Unseen Side
The MESSENGER mission took this picture on January 14th just after its closest approach to Mercury -about 17,000 miles away. This is the previously unmapped part of the planet that was missed by the Mariner 10 probe, w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/first-picture-of-mercurys-unseen-side/How is the Writers Strike Affecting You?
Jim Avila of ABC World News Webcast interviews Dade Hayes of Variety about the on-going writers strike in Hollywood:So what does this tell viewers at this point about what they are going to see on television from now...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/how-is-the-writers-strike-affecting-you/Tom Cruise and Scientology: The Video Leaked on the Net
A four-year-old video of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology is making the rounds in the blogosphere. It's just in time for a new unauthorized biography by Andrew Morton, alleging, amongst other things, that his baby Su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/tom-cruise-and-scientology-the-video-leaked-on-the-net/Artwork Tribute to Stan Lee
Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight in Los Angeles is currently exhibiting Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee. There are over 90 artworks, including this fantastic Spider-Man stained glass piece by Chris Rot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/artwork-tribute-to-stan-lee/High School Students Discovered New Asteroid
Three high school students in Racine, Wisconsin, discovered an asteroid, temporarily identified as "2008 AZ28":Sophomores Connor Leipold, Tim Pastika and Kyle Simpson were able to make the discovery thanks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/high-school-students-discovered-new-asteroid/Man Converts Church into a Home
Flickr user fyngyrz lives in a 1940's era church converted into a house. He is in the process of making the big, empty box into functional spaces for his family.Check out the bedroom loft (with a bridge to the music stud...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/man-converts-church-into-a-home/Blue-Eyed Koala
Koalas, like some other animals, often have blue eyes as infants. But at nine months old, Frankie’s eyes never turned brown. He is therefore the world’s only known blue-eyed koala. His caretakers were so worried that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/blue-eyed-koala/Plantage
If you loved the lush images of Samorost, but don’t have the time or patience to play the game, Amanita Designs has the animation Plantage for your viewing pleasure. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/plantage/Teenager Makes Parents Proud (NOT)
(YouTube link) Corey Delaney, also known as Corey Worthington of Melbourne, Australia threw a party while his parents were gone. It got out of hand, 500 people showed up, and eventually involved the police. Corey appe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/teenager-makes-parents-proud-not/419 Scammer Scambaited to Re-Write Harry Potter By Hand!
419 Eater explains scambaiting as such: "Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/419-scammer-scambaited-to-re-write-harry-potter-by-hand/Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Stuffed Octopus Version
Miss Cellania posted a clip of HP ad featuring office workers playing Mozart with coffee cups and whatnot. Well, that was neat, but it couldn't possibly compare to Beethoven's Ode to Joy (Symphony No. 9) played with ......
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/beethovens-9th-symphony-the-stuffed-octopus-version/Why People Have Irrational Beliefs About Money
Ask yourself this question: Would you rather earn $50,000 a year while other people make $25,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 a year while other people get $250,000? Assume for the moment that prices of goods a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/why-people-have-irrational-beliefs-about-money/Quote: Oscar Wilde on Forgiveness
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde, author (1854 - 1900)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/quote-oscar-wilde-on-forgiveness/25 Years of the Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon
I'm a sucker for chronological photographs - like this series of photos Nicholas Nixon took of the Brown Sisters over a course of 25 years: Begun in 1975, Nixon's annual group portraits of the artist's wife Bebe and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/25-years-of-the-brown-sisters-by-nicholas-nixon/Diego Goldbert's Arrow of Time
Here's another great example: the Arrow of Time by Diego Goldberg. Diego has been taking photos of himself and his wife Suzy since 1976. When their 3 children were born years later, he simply added them into the mix!D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/diego-goldberts-arrow-of-time/Cigarette Lighter Laser Show
Cigarette Lighter Laser Show - Click here for this week’s top video clipsHere's a Metacafe "how-to" video clip with step-by-step ways to make your own laser light show using only a homamade laser pointer, 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/cigarette-lighter-laser-show/Trivia: The Gruesome Origin of the Barber Pole
The red and white stripes of the barber pole symbolize the bandage used during bloodletting, which in addition to cutting hair, was a service used to be performed by medieval barbers!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/trivia-the-gruesome-origin-of-the-barber-pole/Si Scott's Artwork
Artist and illustrator Si Scott has a very distinct style: he gracefully turned swirls of ink into true works of art. These ones above are poster packaging series Resonate for Silent Studios / Silent Records.Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/16/si-scotts-artwork/Darth Vader is Coming to America
(YouTube link) James Earl Jones is larger than life in whatever role he plays. In this mashup, the audio from Coming to America is used for Darth Vader. Ahaa! -via I Am Bored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/darth-vader-is-coming-to-america/King of the Rats Weighed One Tonne.
Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived -- a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America some four million years ago. The skull of the extraordinary beast which meas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/15/king-of-the-rats-weighed-one-tonne/
