Belgian designer Jens Praet created this little cabinet called "One Day Paper Waste" from shredded paper waste:I was so shocked about the enormous office waste and amount of shredded documents, that I wante...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/furniture-made-from-shredded-paper/Kyle Downes of Ultra Awesome blog made a giant NES controller coffee table/storage place. What's so neat about it is that the controller actually works! (Imagine hitting a 3.5 inch / 90 mm wide A and B buttons repeatedly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/giant-nes-controller-table-fun-and-functional/"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx, comedian and actor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/quote-groucho-marx-on-mans-best-friend/Dave Chappelle's (NSFW) "Wrap-it-up box!" is my favorite spoof commercial in this list of the 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time on Nerve.com. It's a great post - they've tracked down and embedded the video f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/wrap-it-up/Cat odor scares mice away ... and yet, it's also like an aphrodisiac. It seems like a mouse who smells like cat urine is particularly popular with the ladies!To see if a whiff of cat might serve as a mouse repellent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/cat-urine-is-an-aphrodisiac-for-mice/Remember the Flash game Cursor*10, where you get to play with your (temporally displaced) self?Here's another one of the same ilk: Chronoton by Scarybug at Kongregate.It’s about a robot that goes back in time f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/chronoton-flash-game/Twenty six year old Jero looks like he's trying to break into the music industry. With his decidedly urban, hip-hop look, you'd be forgiven if you think that he's a wannabe rapper... That is, until he starts singing!Jero...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/jero-the-first-black-enka-singer-in-japan/It’s hard to buy something different for Mom when she 1) already has a lot of things, 2) doesn’t ask for anything, and 3) you’ve bought her all the traditionally sentimental gifts you can think of over the years. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/top-5-relatively-quick-and-geeky-last-minute-mothers-day-gifts/Just exactly how much food are we throwing away uneaten? Ursula Hirschkorn, 36, of North London kept a diary for a week to discover just how much food her family throws out, and the amount is staggering:The average f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/how-much-food-are-you-throwing-away/According to the new "Rough Guide to England" travel book, England is a nation of "animal-loving, tea-drinking charity donor who love nothing better than forming an orderly queue."That, and "an i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/new-rough-guide-to-self-important-and-irritating-england/Watch out beer-loving, porn-watching, iPod-listenin', yacht owners! The big meanie State of California is out to tax you:As state leaders hunt for politically palatable solutions to the swelling budget shortfall, some De...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/beer-loving-porn-watching-ipod-listening-yacht-owners-california-wants-to-tax-you/Arthur Shapiro is an associate professor at Bucknell University, Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience. Now that academic obligations are winding down for the school year, he’s started a blog about opt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/illusion-sciences/The NmG (No More Gas) car from Myers Motors is an electric car that can go 75 miles an hour! Plug it into a 110 or 220 volt outlet and charge it up for a few hours. The three-wheeled vehicle holds one person and has a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/no-more-gas/This very interesting 14 minute video demonstrates the functionality as well as the effectiveness of Germany's infantry weapons during WWII. Listed is a description of the Karabiner 98K, MP40 Machine Pistole, the fam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/wwii-german-infantry-weapons/If you hit the "Play" button you can listen Peppe Giorri playing this beautiful Gran Vals para Guitarra a.k.a. Valse Grande... If you listen carefully, just after the 15-second mark you'll probably...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/the-most-listened-to-melody-in-the-world/Car ads usually feature cars so clean you can eat off of the hood, not one so dirty we wouldn't even dare write "wash me" with our fingers. Well, leave it to Volkswagen to advertise its Touareg SUV with ... mud...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/mudvertising-for-vw-touareg/In December 1975, Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the world's first digital camera:It had a lens that we took from a used parts bin from the Super 8 movie camera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/worlds-first-digital-camera/Photo: blueblythemonster [Flickr]Flickr user blueblythemonster has the best craft project EVAR: a hand-dyed and embroidered felt Underwood typewriter! Actually, she has more. Lots more: LinkAnd congrats to blueblythemons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/embroidered-underwood-typewriter/Not all comic book chracters are loveable or honorable, or even fathomable. The comics wouldn’t be interesting is they were! But some are so over the top, they’ve made Cracked’s list of the six creepiest. Pictured...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/the-6-creepiest-comic-book-characters-of-all-time/Have you ever considered planning your vacation around the places that made nuclear history? The Traveler's Guide to Nuclear Weapons illustrates 160 important homes, offices, laboratories, factories, mills, and bomb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/09/the-travelers-guide-to-nuclear-weapons/Sure the price of gas is hurting a lot of us right now, but there are some that say $120 oil is actually good for consumers in the long run:"Nobody at Goldman Sachs wants to see a fuel truck pull up and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/is-120-oil-actually-good-for-us/Emily Jo Cureton has a fantastic blog featuring her NY Times Crossword Drawings. These are illustrations inspired by the daily New York Times crossword puzzle, where she cleverly incorporates two or more answers from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/ny-times-crossword-drawings-by-emily-jo-cureton/Attention gamers: do you have a hard time firing? Perhaps you're suffering from a medical condition called P.D. (Projectile Dysfunction). But worry not, there is a cure: Stroyent (humanifil killemal).Here's the viral ad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/suffering-from-pd-projectile-dysfunction/"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde, author and playwright...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/quote-oscar-wilde-on-cynics/Artist Elsa "Elsita" Mora created these fantastic (and cute to boot!) sculptures out of bits and pieces of flowers and leaves, called "Flower Girls."Check out many more examples at her blog: Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/flower-girls-by-elsita/UK online retailer drinkstuff.com has this clever drink coaster set shaped like an "American burger" (I suppose us Yanks just call it "burger"). The buns, tomato, meat patty, cheese, and lettuce all f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/american-burger-drink-coaster/This creepy (but kind of neat - in a creepy way) baby face tile is made from clay by Sue Kniffin Davidson. You can check out her other "baby" ceramic sculptures (don't miss the baby face planter) at her Etsy sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/baby-face-tile/Le Train de Nulle Part (The Train From Nowhere) is a 233-page French novel written by Michel Thaler. It is written without a single verb.Sample (from Wikipedia):Quelle aubaine ! Une place de libre, ou presqu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/le-train-de-nulle-part-a-novel-written-without-verbs/The Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests your knowledge of movie sequels. There are 12 sequels, but only six of them are real. Can you decide which one are the fakes? I only scored 50% on this one, well below the avera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/part-2-or-not/Yay! It's time for this week's collaboration with What is it? Blog: can you guess what this strange spiky tool is for?Place your guess in the comment section. Please post no URL (let others play). You're playing for fun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/08/what-is-it-game-61/
