Retro Sabotage is a collection of classic arcade games with a twist. I would tell you what the twist is, but it’s different for each game. The Pac Man games made me laugh! The Tetris game called Compromise is a chall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/retro-sabotage/I love the fact that YouTube has become a truly global and multilingual phenomenon and I'm fascinated by the videos that people around the world are watching that make it onto the Top 100 videos of today list on the si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/looting-in-belgrade/Problem: poor condom salesSolution: Bend the rules and slap on a photo of soccer star David Beckham and watch the profits roll in ...Yes, it's true: a Chinese manufacturer named its cond...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/david-beckham-condom/Now this is cover version: Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water ... played in ancient Japanese style by Ooedo No Hikeshi. Excellent!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/smoke-on-the-water-ancient-japanese-style-by-ooedo-no-hikeshi/Jeff Haber had been collecting pennies for 30 years, and this year, he decided to do something about his collection: he and his son Danny made a portrait of Lincoln out of 2,400 pennies (that's just $24!): Danny Habe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/abe-lincoln-in-pennies/Deviant Art user Amoebabloke made this super awesome steampunk beer-barrel R2-D2 sculpture: Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/beer-barrel-r2-d2-steampunk-sculpture/Yvonne Sullivan, 28, fell into a coma during childbirth (after hearing that her newborn son died during a traumatic birth). Weeks later, after doctors told her husband that they might have to switch off her lifesupport m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/husbands-rollicking-woke-up-woman-from-coma/German company Floating Homes, as its name implies, makes homes that float on water. But don't call them just plain ol' houseboats - these are sleek pieces of modern architecture: LinkLots more floating homes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/stylish-floating-homes/Particularly if you're a crab. As Kevin Zelnio at Deep Sea News explains, "Imagine you have a beach ball attached to your . . ." Um, yeah. Rhizocephala are curious creatures. They are actually in the Cirripedia, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/rhizocephalans-will-ruin-your-sex-life/Kevin McKinney built a treehouse for his two daughters on top of an 8 foot wide Giant Redwood stump. The house has a cantilevered porch, observation deck, sink, closet, and interior stalactites! McKinney is documenting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/stump-house/(Live Leak link) Charles McCowan parked his truck in front of a convenience store, leaving his dog Max inside. When he came out, the truck was gone! McCowan called police to report the theft. Officers found the truck...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/dog-pranks-master-by-hiding-truck/Water balloon exploding in slow-mo is so last year! Here's something just as cool: a water balloon NOT exploding in slow-mo.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Bits & Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/balloon-not-exploding-in-slow-mo/The Last Calligrapher is a film by Premjit Ramachandran about The Musalman, the only handwritten paper in Asia that still operates today (it got started in 1927). "For centuries, handwriting was the def...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/the-last-handwritten-newspaper-in-asia/Move over, Helvetica! Here comes Tomatica, the font made from ... Heinz tomato ketchup! Also available are gelventica (made with a L'Oreal hair gel) and heldentica (made with Aquafresh toothpaste).http://www.autobahn.nl/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/tomatica-tomato-based-font/Eskilstunarevyn, a Swedish comedy group, played Bach's Air using ... 31 (beer?) bottles! The bottles were filled with different volumes of water in order for each to produce a distinct note.Hit play or go to Link [YouT...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/bach-bottle-music/Ranjit Bhatnagar of Moonmilk was so inspired when he saw a 99-cent coconut at the supermarket that he bought it and made this awesome one-string coconut banjo! The frets are bamboo skewers - I tuned them by ear so th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/coconut-banjo/"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato, Greek philosopher (424 - 348 BC)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/quote-plato-on-politics/Artist Roger Rocha was commissioned by Jelly Belly Gourmet Beans Company to immortalize George Clooney in ... 10,000 jelly beans!The piece - which features Cotton Candy beans for George's cheeks and Buttered Popcorn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/george-clooney-in-jelly-beans/Listgasm has a neat list of the 20 most strangely named real weathermen (and weatherwomen). Take this one above for instance. His name is Storm Field, and he's a meteorologist for WWOR New Jersey.Link - Thanks ryanr!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/storm-field-and-other-strangely-named-tv-weathermen/Neatorama reader Chris Samson wrote to us about stealthdesk, his senior project for high school for design and technology:... essentially its a desk that i made, then i put the computer in a drawer and enclosed a 22&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/stealthdesk-computer-desk-and-case-mod/Czech designer Martin Žampach created Tetrice, a silicone ice tray that makes ice cubes in the shape of Tetris blocks.http://martin.zampach.com/detail/tetrice-ice-cube-maker - via Fubiz, thanks Fred!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/tetrice-tetris-ice-tray/The urge to make oneself beautiful by make up and fashion is a pretty universal one. For his book "Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa," Hans Silvester of Rapho/Camera Press captured these stunning &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/natural-fashion-of-african-tribes/In his book, titled simply "Bears," Kent Rogowski took photos of stuffed bears that have been turned inside out.While browsing his website, I ran across a list of comments that his visitors had left him. I find...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/inside-out-stuffed-bears-by-kent-rogowski/In her art series "Black Bag - American Philosophy of Composition," Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito created artwork out of ... tissue paper pinned to a board!The Foley Gallery has more: http://www.fol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/andrea-mastrovitos-tissue-paper-art/A few days ago, our pal mental_floss blog put up this epic Ill-Advised Business Names post, filled with photos of bad business names as taken by the blog's readers. I quite like this particular one: Stuff Mart. It's kind...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/stuff-mart-and-other-ill-advised-business-names/Contrariwise Rambling blog has a scan of an excerpt of the July 1943 issue of Transportation Magazine on how to hire women, as written for male supervisors of women in the work force during WWII.For example:1. Pick y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/a-1943-guide-to-hiring-women/If your kid can draw it, FAO Schwarz and the North American Bear Co. can make it. A custom "build-a-monster" kit is only $249 - but hey, nothing's too good for your kid, right?Make-My-Own-Monster Design Kit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/make-my-own-monster-design-kit/For her friend's birthday, Britta Peterson baked this awesome edible iPhone from modeling chocolate.Here's a build log on how the Edible iPhone was made: Link - Thanks Ian Dahlberg!In other news, I'm still eatin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/edible-iphone/This year is the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year. The finalists for the annual award have been announced by The Bookseller. They are: I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Quee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/oddest-book-titles/(YouTube link) If you watch this karate chop shown slowly enough to really see what happens, you may decide not to take up martial arts. -via Cynical-C...
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