JK Keller of c71123 blog created the American Manual Alphabet (the sign language alphabet) from matchbooks. If you watch closely, there's an "extra" letter in the picture above ...Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/sign-language-alphabet-matchbook/English Russia has a series of stunning photos of icicles that formed after a recent snowstorm in a small town in Estonia. Depending on who you ask, the brown tinge is either caused by pollution or natural minerals in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/an-estonian-winter-wonderland/I'm sure I'm not the only person here on Neatorama who is interested in our natural World around us, so, I imagine my surprise when I found this little video! Imagine under the grand Oceans there are underwater Lake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/an-underwater-lake-under-the-ocean/Behold a fascinating video explaining the Expanding Earth theory of geological change over time. The idea is that the earth was once far smaller than it is now with a surface consisting of land only. Over millions of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/expanding-earth-theory/(YouTube link) Those of us of a certain age will remember seeing this late at night when some TV stations used it as their sign off. It’s from J. Alan Wall’s TV Sign-Offs, a collection of achived footage from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/high-flight/(YouTube link) Phun is fun! Phun was created as a MSc project by Emil Ernerfeldt (who also created the music) for supervisor Kenneth Bodin, HPC2N/VRlab, Umeå University, Sweden. The program is free to download. http:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/phun-2d-physics-sandbox/The world of Hitchcock as recreated by Vanity Fair and a bunch of A-list actors. Link via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/vanity-fairs-hitchcock-classics/That gives a new meaning for Rickrolling [wikipedia]! Link [youtube] - via MetaFilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/the-new-meaning-of-rickrolling/Source: TattooSymbol and Wikipedia3300 BCE: Ötzi the Iceman dies in the Austrian Alps, where his frozen body is discovered by hikers in 1991 CE, making him the world's oldest mummy. His 57 tat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/tattoo-timeline/An artist named "Loki" had some fun with the big yellow ventilation ducts at The North Carolina State University campus. Found at Wooster Collective...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/one-of-these-things-isnt-like-the-others/Urban Legend has it that when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon, he said "Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky!"This is an oldie but goodie urban legend; supposedly when Armstrong was a child, he overheard his next door neig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/trivia-good-luck-mr-gorski/Dave Steward of Fort Madison, Iowa was fired from his job after seven years because he posted a Dilbert comic strip on an office bulletin board. In the offending strip, Dilbert compared company decision-makers to “dr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/dilbert-documents-dilbert-case/Steve James is serious about the environment. He built his own home near Dumfries, Scotland out of natural and recycled materials for a total cost of about £4,000. "Actually, you could make it for less than that,"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/eco-home-built-for-4000/Would you believe a dog that hitches a ride on a ski lift? A four-year-old collie named Guinness does just that at Glenshee Ski Centre in Scotland. He is owned by Graham McCabe, managing director of the ski centre,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/dog-rides-ski-lift/Photo found at One Large PrawnHooray, it's time for Neatorama and Hobotopia's weekly Caption Monkey game! This week's prize for funniest caption is the Meet the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats by Adam "Ape Lad" Ko...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/caption-monkey-21-kangaroo-knock-out-punch/Shapon Mitra of Bangladesh is a big fan of MacGyver, so to express his enthusiasm for his hero, Shapon opened a barber shop named "MacGyver Hairdresser." His specialty? The MacGyver mullet.No word if Shapon use...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/macgyver-hairdresser/Behold, the Oceáno, a collection of urinals for shy men by Roca, placed at descreet angle from each others that foil "peeking". Found at about:blank...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/urinals-for-shy-men/Now that's a cute cheese grater! Still a concept, "Scratch My Back" is created by Belgian designers Arnaud de Vicq, Bram de Baere, Luc Heylen, Ruud Belmans and Thomas Anden Abeele, part of designboom's desig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/cute-cheese-grater-scratch-my-back/Here's an art piece, made with tea candles as pixels, by Phil Hansen from August 2007 (theme: fire!). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via bog-brushArtwork by Phil Hansen previously featured on Neatorama:- The ABCs of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/tea-candles-as-pixels/Neil Neches of the New York City Transit's marketing and service information department gained fame when he inserted a semicolon in a public service placard:It was nearly hidden on a New York City Transit public serv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/the-usage-of-semicolon-is-confusing-most-people-are-afraid-of-it/Americans love pets. We pamper them and even consider them a member of the family, but at what cost? After spending more than a month's rent on vet bills, Ada Calhoun wrote this Salon.com article on how much is too much...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/whats-more-important-a-dog-or-a-car/One of my favorite blogs, Modern Mechanix has a scan from the 1930 Popular Science magazine on the first pictures of Pasteur Institute:Each day 8,000 tubes of vaccine and 12,000 tubes of serum leave one of the greate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/first-photos-of-the-pasteur-institute/"Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license" - Mark Twain, humorist and author (1835 - 1910)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/quote-mark-twain-on-voting/The Art of Manliness is a blog "dedicated to uncovering the lost art of being a man." As such, it has a collection of posts like How to Ask For (And Get) A Raise Like a Man, Talk Like Frank Sinatra and this par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/the-brad-pitt-rule/Dark Roasted Blend has a photo collection of playground sculptures that might give you nightmares. I’m sure they aren’t too frightening to the children who see them everyday, but at first glance you wonder, “What...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/nightmare-playgrounds/Aardvarchaeology has a nice article about abandoned treehouses. These sites and their formation processes reflect children's psychological characteristics. Kids have little sense of order, short memories and stra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/treehouse-archaeology/As Earth is unique in our solar system, so is our moon. Luna is the only planetary satellite formed by the impact of two protoplanets. What would be different if there was no moon? It acts as a gyroscope to keep Earth fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/our-unique-moon/The Secret Chamber of the Kremlin is the oldest Russian museum that house thousands of the rarest and most historic treasures of the Russian Empire. Here are just a few of the items displayed online so we don't have to t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/secret-chamber-of-the-kremlin/Plant company Syngenta has created "rainbow cauliflowers" that look like they came back from the neon-drenched '80s. Some scientists say that these veggies (created through selective breeding, not genetic engin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/colorful-rainbow-cauliflowers/Cartype, the king of car emblem and logography (is that a word?) has a neat post about Chinese car companies' logos that look suspiciously like established brands. Link - Thanks Aaron Larney! | See also: Evolution of Car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/car-logo-rip-offs/
