Blue Tea blog has a neat round-up of unusual origamis (lots of neat pictures, too!). We've featured a number of the artists here on Neatorama, but it's neat to rediscover their work again and again while browsing the Net...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/unusual-origami-round-up/After watching Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Farmer John was inspired to try his hand at drifting. Unfortunately, he only has a horse and cart ... but apparently, that's not a problem!Link (embedded YouTube)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/drifting-with-horse-and-cart/Wilma Flintstone was the first animated character that was portrayed as pregnant....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/trivia-wilma-flintstone-the-first-pregnant-cartoon-character/Remember Choppy the two faced pig? He's got a friend: Cyclops.Born in Huimen village, Menla County, China, the piglet was unable to take milk from its mother, forcing farmer Yang Qiaofen to feed it using the mouths i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/cyclops-pig-with-2-snouts-and-3-eyes/The name "Acme" brings to mind the miserable products bought by Wile E. Coyote in vain attempts to catch the Road Runner, but this is something quite different: Last year, a company called Acme Portable unveil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/portable-computer-with-3-monitors-built-in/The California Supreme Court has just ruled that employers can fire workers using marijuana, even if they got it legally prescribed to them under the state's medicinal marijuana law.At the center of the case was Gary...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/california-supreme-court-its-okay-to-fire-employees-prescribed-medical-marijuana/Marijuana's making the news tonight... Thrillist reports that the world's first marijuana vending machine is in Los Angeles:AVMs are 24/7 machines housed in standalone rooms, abutting two dispensaries and protected b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/marijuana-vending-machine/Well now, medical marijuana ... schmedial marijuana. We all know that the real medicinal plant, according to Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (published 1861), is the tomato!THE TOMATO MEDICINAL.--...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/the-medicinal-tomato/"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." - Laurence J. Peter, "hierarchiologist" (1919 - 1990), Peter Principle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/quote-laurence-j-peter-on-worker-incompetence/Quick: how many hours are there in a day? If you answer twenty four, you're not Senator Mobina Jaffer:Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer is under investigation by the Law Society of British Columbia for allegedly overbill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/hardworking-lawyer-worked-30-hour-day/This YouTube clip starts with these simple words ...December 21, 2007: A slightly suspicious Stewart Douglas leaves Salt Lake City on a 3 week vacation to the Dominican Republic.Slightly suspicious because h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/the-ultimate-cubicle-prank/Our pal and Neatorama blogger GeekAlerts just got a shipment of ... Star Trek ties! Ooh, I'm jealous. Well, okay, maybe not, but still very chic in a geeky way: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/star-trek-ties/Fed up with jet noise and government bureaucracy, homeowners Michael Hall and Michaelene Buddy decided to take their protest straight to the top - of their roof, that is:Mark Twain once said: "When angry, count...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/rooftop-protest-against-the-faa/Watch this clip of Rafael Mendez playing the The Flight of the Bumblebee on the trumpet and weep! And just in case that's not cool enough, Mendez followed up with an excerpt from The Mexican Hat Dance, played entirely i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/rafael-mendez-plays-the-trumpet/Artist Daniel Edlen has an unusual canvas - he paints portraits of musicians on their LPs:Creating portraits of musicians on their original record albums, Daniel honors the music we all now listen to mostly on CD or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/daniel-edlens-vinyl-art/Found at Webupon is this brilliant list titled NO ESCAPE: 10 Pointless (But Irresistible) Websites. The list has a few websites we've featured on Neatorama before, and includes this particularly pointless (but irresistib...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/pointless-but-irresistible-websites/Ah, the crazy guys at Topless Robot blog just posted an article about - *snicker* - The 10 Greatest Dicks in American History. For example:7) Dick PoleIn this former major league pitcherR...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/top-10-greatest-dicks-in-american-history/Pistol ring (l), hand cannon (m) and lighter gun (r)Club Littlegun has a fantastic collection of unusual weapons, including some unusual gun/knife combos! http://www.littlegun.be/curios%20et%20antiquites/a%20a%20images%2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/unusual-guns-photo-gallery/Yes, it's a photoshop job that's been going 'round the Net for a while. But it's still funny (and I'm saying that as a parent). Found at Contrariwise ramblings...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/funny-clothing-care-label-give-it-to-your-mother/Global warming, acid rain, pollution ... the world is a wreck. Maybe it's time to call Jack Bauer. Actually, Fox's 24 executive producer Howard Gordon is making Jack Bauer do something about the environ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/jack-bauer-going-green/Check out this collection of 13 very different pool designs. This picture looks like a family underwater, which they are, but not really. The pool above them is contained by a glass bottom! Be sure to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/really-cool-pools/(YouTube link) Alaska also knows that if she argues enough, she’ll get what she wants. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/alaska-wants-to-stay-out/Here’s a handy collection of infographics to help new parents with caring for their baby. Link -via J-Walk Blog Update 1/24/08 by Alex - It's from the book Safe Baby Handling Tips by David and Kelly Sopp |...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/dos-and-donts-with-babies/19-year-old Rebecca Strachan from England and 18-year-old Sharon Schilperoord from the Netherlands met on an online forum and discovered they shared a love of singing -in Korean! They recorded a popular Korean song toget...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/korean-fame-for-british-teenager/This Flickr set of 44 famous works of art from paulthewineguy includes additions of html, emoticons, and other computer-based elements to explain them to geeks. Pictured is Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/understanding-art-for-geeks/You think you’re cold? One day in Snag, Yukon, Canada the temperature dropped so low that you could follow where someone went by the puffs of ice they left behind 15 minutes ago! In Yakutsk, Yakutia, Russia, you are wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/the-coldest-places-on-earth/An $11,000 coffeemaker that brews one cup at a time! There are only about 200 Clovers in existance so far, but their popularity is taking off at coffeehouses around the US. Designed by three Stanford graduates, it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/the-clover-coffee-machine/Ok I know Christmas is long gone but this is one really neat advertisement that is done with shadows. Another link of the genre can be found here Link: YouTubeShadows, Ad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/shadow-art-2/With super big high-definition flatscreen monitors available, people are reliving the movie theater experience in their homes. Some have taken the opportunity to create home theaters designed around their favorite movi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/ten-stunning-ultra-geeky-home-cinemas/The super-secret Area 51 has a new name: Homey Airport. I am not making this up. Capt. Jessica Martin, a spokeswoman for Nellis Air Force Base, which sits 85 miles south of Homey Airport and is responsible for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/homey-airport/
