Over at Cartoon Brew, there is a YouTube clip of a 1930's wartime Japanese cartoon, featuring characters ganked straight out of Disney.Watch the brave Japanese warrior doing battle with "Mickey Mouse" army:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/wwii-japanese-propaganda-film-starring-mickey-mouse/We've posted about sorting books by color before (here and here), but it's nice to see it done on a more manageable scale: here's Neatorama reader Chad's chromatic arrangement of his son's Dr. Seuss collection. Astute re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/chormatically-arranged-dr-seuss-books/William Hakvaag, the director of a war museum in Norway, said that he had found drawings of Disney character drawn by Hitler!He found coloured cartoons of the characters Bashful and Doc from the 1937 Disney film Snow Whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/did-hitler-draw-disney-fan-art/From the Feb 1934 issue of Modern Mechanix, here's the locomotive French popcorn and peanut stand:All locomotive parts above the wheels are ingeniously made from sheet metal. A small boiler supplies steam for the loc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/locomotive-popcorn-stand/WebUrbanist has a pretty neat post about "transformer" furniture: things that unfold/unpack into beds, tables, chairs, and sofas. This one above, mobile furniture called casulo, is a complete bedroom set in a b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/transformer-furnitures/Some 40 million people worldwide take the antidepressant drug Prozac. But according to a new study, it's actually no better than placebo. What's even more damning is that the scientists got the data from studies that the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/prozac-no-better-than-placebo/Neil Harbisson is a color-blind artist who can now paint - in color - thanks to a cybernetic device called the Eyeborg which converts 360 colors into different sounds:As an art student at Dartington College of Arts i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/eyeborg-lets-color-blind-artist-paint-in-color/Scientists have known for some time that fish can tell big shoals from small ones, but now they've discovered that they do so by counting:'We have provided the first evidence that fish exhibit rudimentary mathematical ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/fish-can-count/Michael Jack is a recording engineer and music producer by day and an avid collector of transistor radios by night! His collection of vintage transistor radios, especially those made in Japan, are astounding and he's kin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/vintage-transistor-radios/John McClane is a hero. He’s saved America over and over. *In 1988, John McClane defused the hostage crisis at Los Angeles’ Nakatomi Tower. *In 1990, John McClane foiled a terrorist plot to seize control of D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/vote-for-john-mcclane/This article has nothing to do with the supernatural; it’s about real bodies that just can’t seem to rest in peace, or at least had to wait for their chance. You are familiar with King Tut’s mummy and Lenin’s cor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/6-restless-corpses/Waclaw Sierpinski was the mathematician who first described the fractal that became known as the Sierpienski carpet {wiki}. Andrew Pike has created a tile mosaic portrait of Sierpinski, using Sierpinski carpets! Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/sierpinski-carpet-portrait/A bank in Australia has a cute advertising gimmick. They want to make you happy, and figure singing kittens will do the job. Enter your name (as long as it isn’t too long), and the kittens will sing a song for you! h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/singing-kittens/This flash animation by Celarent stars Mario as a Soviet-style worker/hero who fights the evil mushrooms. The look is reminiscent of classic propaganda posters. Music by the Russian Red Army Choir, Proshchanie Slavianki,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/the-peoples-mario/If you want to cook something new, you know someone out there has done it before. Food Blog Search is a specialized search engine for recipes posted on food blogs. When you’ve got hundreds of recipes for “...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/food-blog-search/I was eight years old when the Blizzard of 78 struck Massachusetts 30 years ago in February of 1978. It was akin to a snow hurricane that got "stuck" over southern New England. My father was trapped in Boston for sev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/the-blizzard-of-78/Meet Satoshi Fujita, whose Pickup School for Men Who Can't Get Any, promises to turn any geek into a womanizing pro:Satoshi Fujita is not a good-looking man. He has oily skin, beady eyes, short legs and a bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/pickup-school-for-men-who-cant-get-any/By now, you've probably ran across the cryptic "Barack Obama is your New Bicycle" website (and the corollary Hillary Clinton one). Y'know, it's where Barack does only good things and Hillary does the opposite (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/the-man-behind-the-barack-obama-is-your-new-bicycle-website/Photo: SkyTruthBottom trawling for fish is so destructive to marine environment that its plume can be seen from space! "Bottom trawling is the most destructive of any actions that humans conduct in the ocean,&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/bottom-trawling-as-seen-from-space/Photo: Pierre J. [Flickr]There's something scarily beautiful about an atomic bomb explosion ... this one is from the nuclear test "Licorne", where the French Army detonated a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/licorne-atomic-bomb-test-beautiful-and-scary/Psst, here's a cool meme going 'round Flickr. It's called the Song Chart Meme, the graphical interpretation of songs, and here are a few examples (see if you can identify the songs):Pic: boyshapedbox [Flickr]Pic: slowbur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/song-chart-meme/Meet Hervé This, French physical chemist who, along with physicist Nicholas Kurti, founded the "Molecular Gastronomy" culinary movement (he wrote the famous book with the same title). Hervé is fam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/herv-this-the-man-who-can-unboil-an-egg/The always awesome Cute Overload has a few neat photos of a momma dachshund taking in a momma-less piglet.Everyone say "awwwww": Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/one-of-these-puppies-isnt-like-the-others/Sebastiaan de With of the Cocoia Blog was doing a little research for a project when he found the very first Photoshop icon:It’s actually a tiny little photo shop! I love it, and if I have some free time I̵...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/photoshops-first-icon/Saatchi Moscow ad agency created this excellent video clip explaining how Google's GMail works to lay people. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Google Blogoscoped, thanks corcholat!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/gmail-the-art-video/Freshome blog has an excellent post about 30 of the most creative bookshelf designs. Some of them have been featured here on Neatorama, but there are many that I haven't seen before: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/a-gallery-of-creative-bookshelf-designs/The Neatorama unFortunate CookieYou can make your own (un)Fortunate Cookie here: Link (Please share if you've made a funny one of your own in the comment)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/unfortunate-cookie/Psst companies, want to make your customers happy? Here's a secret: don't tell them too much about your product.Sounds paradoxical? Read on about a new study by researchers at the University of Iowa that seems to validat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/the-blissful-ignorance-effect-customers-are-happier-with-less-product-info/"Behold the fluorescent glory of the ECHO PARK TIME TRAVEL MART Marquee. Check it out in person at 1714 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. The store will open full time on January 15th, 2008."Just open...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/echo-park-time-travel-mart/Wherever Koreans go, kimchi goes with them - even to space:After millions of dollars and years of research, South Korean scientists successfully engineered kimchi and nine other Korean recipes fit for space travel. W...
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