Remember the 70's toy Weeble ("Weebles wobble but they don't fall down")? Well, no matter what position you place weebles in, they always sproing upright. They do this because their bottom end are weighted.But...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/gomboc-worlds-first-self-righting-object/"Avalanche" system for Russian OMON (special police)Our pal Avi Abrams Dark Roasted Blend blog has a round-up of riot control vehicles from around the world, including a brief history of how they came to be:*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/gallery-of-anti-riot-vehicles/Jim, a Gentleman of Elegant Leisure (says so on his business card) at Sweet Juniper blog, was walking in Mount Oliver, Pittsburgh, when he ran across a street art that put all street arts to shame: an anonymous painting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/the-ghetto-pieta/Truck Bearing Kibble, a webcomic by Jeremy Kramer and Eric Vaughn, is one of those delightful treats I come across while surfing teh Interweb every once in a great while.You'll find various pop culture references (always...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/truck-bearing-kibble-webcomic/EVOL is an amazing short film written and directed by Chris Vincze. It shows the life of two people who spot each other across a crowded street and fall in love ... in a backward world! Starring Rick Warden and Lucy Bark...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/evol-a-love-story-in-a-backward-world/Remember The Scarecrow, the villain in Batman Begins that made fear-inducing toxin? Well, his weapons may soon be a reality, thanks to Pentagon scientists who are trying to isolate and harness the chemical scent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/scientists-trying-to-isolate-the-scent-of-fear/That's LEGO masterbuilder Mark Kelso posing in front of his latest creation: the Invisible Hand, General Grevious' spaceship from Star Wars Episode III. Kelso's ship is huge: 73 inches (185) long, 13 inches (33...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/mark-kelsos-mega-lego-sculpture-the-invisible-hand-spaceship/Thousands of Robert Capa's negatives, taken during the Spanish Civil War and thought to be lost forever, have been found - and the world of photography is abuzz:TO the small group of photography experts aware of its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/capas-negatives-found/Italian artist Maurizio Savini uses a very unusual material for sculpting: pink chewing gum! Chewing-gum, as a matter of fact known in Italian also as “ American gum “, was introduced by American soldiers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/maurizio-savinis-gum-sculptures/Oh noes! Thanks to Neatorama reader Christophe, I've just found out that Minazo, Japan's largest Southern elephant seal and Internet superstar, actually died in 2005 (what can I say, Neatorama's always behind the time!)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/walrus-found-stolen-bucket-kicked-it/Kolmanskop in Namibia was a booming town after diamonds were discovered in the region in 1908. But diamond sales dropped, and the town was abandoned in the 1950s. Mother Nature took over, and the shifting sands invaded...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/a-ghost-town-buried-in-the-sand/Joel Richards’s meat house was featured here previously. Now, check out his latest creation: a meat ship made out of 20 sausages, 48 rashers of bacon and 1kg of pork minces among several other ingredients. Link with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/meat-ship/A local news guy is reporting on a Canadian brown finch infestation got daring and walks under a tree teeming with birds. You can guess what happes next!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Gorilla Mask and digg//Yes,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/revenge-of-the-canadian-brown-finch-news-reporting-gone-horribly-wrong/Found at the Art of AlexCF blog: a fantastic Martian Botanical Device steampunk, a state-of-the-art "botanical preservation device that contains the exact mixture of chemicals present in the martian atmosph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/martian-botanical-preservation-steampunk-device/Digger, a 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) tall Clydesdale, is one big horse. - the biggest in Britain, in fact (and he's still growing!):Eileen Gillen, farm manager, said: "He is the largest horse we have ever had. He is the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/digger-is-one-huge-horse/Here's a MADtv's take on the television ad of the popular US restaurant chain The Olive Garden. Now if you've ever eaten in this fine Italian bistro, you'll know that it's funny because it's sooo true!The Olive Garde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/madtvs-olive-garden-ad-skit/"What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue." - Thomas Paine, philosopher (1737 - 1809)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/quote-thomas-paine-on-taxation/The Web is Agreement by Paul Downey [Flickr]The Web is Agreement is a fantastic hand-drawn poster by Paul Downey, created on behalf of Osmosoft for the 2007 BT Open Source Awareness Day.The poster, drawn in the style of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/the-web-is-agreement-by-paul-downey/Photo: Frank O SmedegårdHooray for global warming! Melting ice has created a fantastic "ice cathedral" in a grotto under the Nigard Glacier, one of Norway's major glaciers:He described the ice grotto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/fantastic-ice-cathedral-grotto-under-norways-glacier/The holes in Swiss cheese are known as "eyes."These holes are caused by bubbles that are produced by bacteria called Propionibacter during the late stage of cheese production. The larger the eyes, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/trivia-the-holes-in-swiss-cheese/Fit Nation, a special report at CNN has a map showing how the United States is becoming fatter and fatter over the past twenty years. Notice how good ol' Mississippi leads the way in obesity (30% of Mississippians are fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/the-united-states-of-fat-a-map-of-obesity-in-the-usa/(YouTube link) This awesome 3D display was held to promote the Japanese release of the movie The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. The 15-meter long Nessie is an impressive combination of water screen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/26/monster-emerges-from-the-water/An Iranian bear was adopted by Polish troops in World War II. Named Voytek, the bear was enlisted as a soldier in order to be transferred to Italy with his unit. "He was just like a dog - nobody was scared of him,"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/voytek-the-soldier-bear/I love the Super Punch-Out game on the SNES! It was my favorite game, hands down! Maybe that's why I got such a big kick ot of rackeboy blog's compilation of artwork inspired by the game: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/punch-out-artwork/When Fox News featured a story about sex and digital nudity in the video game Mass Effect for Microsoft's X-Box, "psychology specialist" (what does that mean?) Cooper Lawrence - despite not having played the ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/mass-effects-game-for-the-sex-box/Marine Lance Corporal Joshua Bleill's legs were blown off while on patrol in Iraq. Now, thanks to new prosthetics outfitted with Bluetooth technology, he can walk again: Bleill, 30, is one of two Iraq war veterans, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/soldier-walks-again-thanks-to-bluetooth-prosthetics/Slice - a "weblog about America's favorite crusty, saucy, cheesy meal; pizza" - has put together a list of different styles of pizza offered around the United States. What's your favorite? Linkpizza...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/us-pizza-styles/Maybe dolphins cavorting around is nothing new to those of you with season passes to Sea World, but this Iowa girl is pretty entertained. YouTube Link - Cute Overload...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/dolphin-bubbles-too-soothing-zzzzzz/The history of computing spans thousands of years - from the primitive notched bones found in Africa, to the invention of abacus in 2400 BC, to Charles Babbage's Difference Engine in 1883, to the rise of the popularity o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing/Sibling rivalries are as old as time. We all know about Cain and Abel, but what about Jesus and his brothers? Or the falling out between Jimmy and Billy Carter? Here are 6 of the most interesting examples o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/mom-always-liked-you-best-sets-of-mismatched-siblings/
