The New York Times posted a profile of the webcomic xkcd and its creator, Randall Munroe. They titled it “This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix”. I beg to differ, since I don’t know Unix and I find his comics hilario...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/xkcd-in-the-ny-times/Check out this Homer Simpson made of balloons! It’s part of an extensive collection of balloon art at Toxel.com. Link -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/balloon-art/This is the way to carry coffee, much easier and safer than a tray! Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/coffee-bag/You have to wonder what they were thinking, but I suppose there are places in the world where you can get in more trouble for shooting pictures than for aiming a gun. Oobject has a collection of 14 cameras that look ju...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/cameras-that-look-like-guns/Frank Woodruff Buckles is the only living American-born veteran of World War I, as far as federal officials know. The 107-year-old veteran was honored at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City yesterday during Memorial Day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/last-known-wwi-veteran/Fireflies is a pleasant little game where you aim for as many fireflies as you can. Ricochet shots count, too! http://kungfugaming.com/play.php?game=fireflies -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/fireflies/(YouTube link) This is what to do when you find a raccoon in the dumpster. It happened several times at my former workplace, and we kept a plank nearby for such occasions. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/raccoon-rescue/Meet the original Indiana Jones, a small and weasel-faced Nazi archaeologist named Otto Rahn that served as inspiration for Spielberg's hero. And just like the fictional Indiana Jones, Otto was on a quest to find the Hol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/the-original-indiana-jones/In this '70s video clip by the office of Charles and Ray Eames for IBM, you can see the relative size of things in the universe. The clip starts with a view of a couple on a picnic, then the camera zooms out by a fac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/the-universe-in-powers-of-ten/I'm a big fan of Nick Kim's Nearing Zero science cartoons (blogged about 'em on Neatorama way back in 2006), so it's a neat treat to find that he's put all of his best cartoons (over 100!) in one page: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/the-best-of-nearing-zero-by-nick-kim/"Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/quote-george-carlin-on-leftover-food/Nick Bertke has created this unexpectedly hypnotic electronic music video remixed from sounds recorded from the Disney film "Alice in Wonderland": Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via A Welsh View Let's see if YOU...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/alice-by-nick-bertke-electronic-music-remixed-from-sounds-of-alice-in-wonderland/Design studio Transparent House has a neat new way of dressing up stark industrial bare concrete floors. Supposedly their floral patterns can be applied to both newly poured floor and that where the concrete is already s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/floral-patterns-on-bare-concrete-floors/With the help of a GPS device and DHL, Erik Nordenankar created the biggest drawing in the world: a self-portrait in a planetary etch-a-sketch scale measuring approximately 40,000 km2!17th of March 2008, I sent away...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/The Whizzinator is a fake penis urinating device to defeat drug tests.The device comes complete with dried synthetic urine, heater pack (so the urine will be body temp) and a realistic prosthetic penis in several skin to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/26/trivia-whizzinator-fake-penis-for-drug-tests/Thanks to Twitter, I know the Phoenix Mars Lander touched down on the Martian surface today with no problems. Like any Twitter addict, the lander has been sending constant updates. You can follow along, too! Link -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/phoenix-mars-lander-twitter-feed/So, what do you see in the LEGO Rorschach above? More by Shannon Ocean at MOCpages here: Link - via The Brothers Brick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/lego-rorschach/Behold Naho Matsuno's Cube 6. It's a set of stools impossibly packed into one Borg-like cube. (Now this is the guy to call when you have to pack your suitcase or something!) http://www.nahomatsuno.com/cube6.html...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/naho-matsunos-cube-stools/Jon Dyers is on a quest to grow every type of beard (and sideburn) known to man. This one on the left is The Anchor: "A beard without sideburns that extends along jawline and is styled into a point. It is c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/jon-dyers-quest-of-growing-all-beard-types-known-to-man/Why do casinos have such ugly carpets? David G. Schwartz of The Die is Cast blog and avid collector of casino carpet photos (amazing gallery here, blogged previously on Neatorama here) said that "Casino carpet is kn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/why-do-casinos-have-ugly-carpet/The crazy guys at EVil Mad Scientist Laboratories made this awesome fractal Sierpinski cookies out of contrasting colors of butter cookie dough. Who knew that fractal could be so yummy?Here's the DIY guide: Link - via Cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/fractal-cookies/Photo: Lilly McElroyLilly McElroy throws herself into her art project - literally! For her "I Throw Myself At Men" series, Lilly photographs herself leaping into the arms of male strangers in bars and restauran...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/lilly-mcelroy-throwing-herself-at-men/The moving image to the left is the winning soccer goal by Andreas "Andi" Herzog for Austria in 1997. The goal is a source of national pride as the Austrian national team defeated Sweden in route to their 1998...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/moving-images-stamp-by-austrian-post/John of Kid Overdrive spent 3 months measuring, stenciling, painting and retouching by hand to create this Megaman 2 wall for his bedroom: Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/megaman-2-bedroom-wall/Old Australian cookbooks are on exhibit at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney. Some of the recipes are pretty strange from today’s view. In "The Antipodean Cookery Book", first published in 1895, Mrs....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/australian-pioneer-cooking/(YouTube link) A compilation of many, many crash tests. You have to wonder what they did with the data on the rolling sushi and the sausagemobile. Warning: AC/DC music. -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/crash-tests/I first became truly horrified at America's addiction to plastic and its already-hugely deleterious effects when I read Best Life's stunning piece on our Plastic Ocean. One of the most dangerous elements of plastic is th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/25/16-year-old-boy-isolates-microbe-that-eats-plastic-potentially-saves-earth/When photographer Phillip Toledano (blogged previously on Neatorama here) started his project of photographing deserted offices of bankrupt companies, he found that it is "more archaeology than photography." Ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/24/bankrupt-offices-photography-by-phillip-toledano/Image: Erwan RousselJohn Parkes has been hunting for life in unusual places for over 20 years and recently, his discovery of bacterial life deep beneath the oceans might mean that we'd have to rethink the definition of l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/24/hidden-biomass-under-the-ocean/Untitled, 1950 - 1980 by Miroslav TichýWhat's so interesting about an old blotchy photo of a woman's face? It's a photograph taken by Miroslav Tichý, one of the greatest "finds" of unknown artists...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/24/miroslav-tichs-homemade-camera/
