You probably think I find these clips funny as per my previous post, the fact of the matter is, I don't. I just feel sorry for these models. I cringe every time I see them trip or fall. Set designers ought to work on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/more-catwalk-mishaps/(Daily Motion link) The Giant Amazon Water Lily, or Victoria amazonica {wiki} is the largest water lily in the world. And it throws its weight around, too! Sir David Attenborough narrates this time-lapse vide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/giant-amazon-water-lily/You may think you know a lot about Star Wars, but how much do you know about John William’s musical score? Try your skills out with today’s lunchtime quiz at mental_floss. I scored 70%, which set the average becaus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/star-wars-music-quiz/You probably prepare yourself for your children asking questions about the facts of life, but children are full of questions about everything, especially things you never thought about the answer to. Why does hair go gra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/eight-questions-about-the-human-body-that-kids-always-ask/Graffiti artist Banksy was at it again over the weekend, painting an indictment of closed circuit TV in central London. Despite the presence of a CCTV camera, he erected a three-story scaffolding and a plastic cover unde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/banksy-paints-while-cctv-observes/Photo: Karsten PetersenOn October 1977, the good ship "Stolt Surf," a chemical tanker, left Singapore on a routine voyage across the Pacific Ocean. The ship was advised by a weather routing agency to keep far t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/surviving-a-super-storm-at-sea/The Flora London Marathon was held yesterday, and was won by Martin Lel of Kenya who set a record time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 15 seconds. It was his third win in four years. See the list of winners, and read on for updat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/london-marathon-update/The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting interview with Edward Thorp and Bill Gross. When he was a young math professor, Thorp developed a (famous) system for wagering on blackjack that maximized winnings. He then...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/from-blackjack-to-wall-street-old-pros-talk-about-the-bond-market/When sailors Jeremy Smith and Tony McJonston aboard the USS Harry S. Truman were collecting Foreign Object Debris (FOD) in the cockpit of a fighter jet, they found something quite unexpected: a cute little screech owl!*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/owl-just-wanna-fly-a-fighter-jet/Ten Thousand Cents by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk (previously on Neatorama), where thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of a bil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/ten-thousand-cents-a-mechanical-turk-art/Wow! Alex Holden created this fantastic steampunk dalek sculpture out of a plastic Dalek bubble bath bottle:The main body is made from a plastic Dalek bubble-bath bottle I bought very cheaply at Woolworth's in the po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/steampunk-dalek/Those two amazing sets of stairs are from the Didden Village project by Dutch architectural firm MVRDV. The project itself is a rooftop addition in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The exterior is a stark contrast to its surround...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/awesome-floating-staircases/That's the Pedalofit, a clamp-on cycle for wheelchair users so they can a) exercise and b) look cool zooming around the neighborhood with their new ride. Link - via Boing Boing GadgetsFor those who want a little more spe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/pedalofit-turns-wheelchairs-into-tricycles/Jurors are often thought of as impartial and disinterested evaluators, but one jury in Fort Worth, TX recently reminded us that jurors are not only sympathetic, they can sometimes demonstrate that sympathy in tangible wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/jurors-open-hearts-and-wallets-to-help-out-crime-victim/Several years ago, Nick of Square America found some strange slides of young women with letters on their faces - and no one knows what the slides are for or why they came to be ...There are about 50 slides in all- al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/mystery-faces/That's not just any foosball table: behold the 11 the beautiful game, a prototype table by GRO design and Tim model makers: '11' is a collaboration of two companies - GRO design and Tim modelmakers – each contr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/11-the-beautiful-game-is-one-gorgeous-foosball-table/Well, it's not as big as the Firefox star, but this is still pretty cool: the Firefox bus, as taken by LiveJournal user Kalyan Varma around Mysore, India. http://kalyan.livejournal.com/204212.html...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/firefox-bus/If the story of Star Wars had been set in World War II, these would be the action figures sold to support the movies. This set of action figures was customized by Sillof. Yes, he could’ve cheated and substituted Indi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/13/wwii-star-wars-action-figures/(YouTube link) Try to figure out what these acrobats are illustrating before it's revealed at the end of the ad. Whatever they are doing, they’re good at it! -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/12/gymnastic-ad/Dark Roasted Blend has a collection of photos from various nuclear research facilities in Russia. Some of them are buried deep in the Caucasus mountains, others are lurking in abandoned salt mines underneath forgot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/12/russian-nuclear-research-facilities/[http://youtu.be/mHXBL6bzAR4] (YouTube link)Two engineers try to make sense of three cats. The result is pretty much what you’d expect. I especially enjoyed the game at the grocery store. -via Viral Video ChartEng...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/12/an-engineers-guide-to-cats/Waaay before eHarmony, there was "Match" - the original computer matchmaking service: Out of computers, faster than the eye can blink, fly letters stacked with names of college guys and girls—taped,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/12/the-worlds-first-computer-matchmaking-service/Gaffe a Minute is my favorite new find on the Web. It's a website dedicated to stories about embarrassing mistakes, clumsy blunders and kid's innocent sayings. Here're a couple of stories from the "Slips of the Youn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/12/gaffe-a-minute/An 85-year-old legally blind golfer from southern Arizona made a hole-in-one this week on a par-3 course. Playing with a group of fellow blind veterans enrolled in a Veterans Affairs health care system program, Dunha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/12/blind-golfer-gets-a-hole-in-one/It comes with a non-slip surface, a three-level color indicator system for fast and accurate quality information, an innovative curved design, and much more. Link [YouTube] - via Pushafruit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/12/behold-the-atheists-nightmare-the-banana/This photo of variable star V838 Monocerotis was taken by the Hubble telescope in 2002. At the time, no one realized how much it looked like the Firefox logo, since the browser wasn’t even named that until 2004. ht...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/12/firefox-logo-seen-in-deep-space/Outer space seems vast and empty, but the space directly above Earth is quite crowded with satellites and ... space junk!Between the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957 and 1 January 2008, approximately 4600 launches...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/space-junk-litter-earths-orbit/Parents normally fight to keep their children out of gangs, but not this one: the mother is a Crip, and the father is a Westside Baller. And they got into a fight over which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/parents-fight-over-which-gang-their-kid-should-join/Michael Alan Miller wrote an interesting post in his blog about ad blocking - and why he doesn't consider this "stealing":Look, when I visit your website, I didn’t sign any contract that says I have t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/are-ad-blockers-thieves/American Airlines has so far canceled nearly 3,000 flights this week due to wiring inspections, stranding a quarter of a million passengers.When it comes to flying, safety is paramount, but it seems that the wiring probl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/american-airlines-travel-woes/
