Inspired by Noah Brier's awesome Brand Tag (blogged previously here on Neatorama), Jane of Dear Jane Sample blog decided to create a visual representation of her typical Friday in brands ... It certainly reveals a lot ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/a-womans-day-in-brands/Photo: University of South Florida, Institute for Research in Art, Graphic Studio. Marco Castillo and Dago Rodriguez, better known as Los Carpinteros ("The Carpenters") are two Cuban artists who designed furnit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/awesome-furniture-art-by-los-carpinteros/(YouTube link) An orangutan looks for work in the entertainment industry, but things are tough all over. This is a viral for Levi Strauss from Benzo Theodore, who also did the “jumping into your jeans” video. -vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/orangutan-in-hollywood/The video shows level one from Gradius. Don't worry, it advances slow enough to read everything. I've played Gradius so many times that my mind filled in the appropriate music as the volcanoes erupted. Via these...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/20/if-gradius-was-a-text-adventure/High on the Rotterdam Weena Tower, Benjamin Verdonck is nesting. Literally. Here's a strange art project called "the Great Swallow" involving a nest, a man, and a giant egg (yes, why do you think he's nesting?)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/20/man-nesting-in-a-rotterdam-tower/The following is an article from Uncle John's All-Purpose Extra-Strength Bathroom Reader. Did you know that there's a version of the Golden Rule in most (maybe all) major religions? Here are eight trans...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/20/8-golden-rules-and-1-not-so-golden-one/This blurry YouTube video shows a strange phenomenon in Saudi Arabia: a 9-meter (~30 feet) tall sand fountain or geyser near the city of Al Ahsa. Notice that the sand don't mound up, as if there is a giant hole underneat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/20/sand-fountain/Here's a nother strange news from Saudi Arabia: a woman wants a divorce, because her husband tried to look at her face after 30 years of marriage!After 30 years of marriage, cynics might say most husbands and wives w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/20/saudi-woman-divorcing-husband-for-sneaking-a-peek-to-look-at-her-face/Photo: kjdrill [Flickr] Today's Caption Monkey game from Neatorama and Hobotopia is special: it's the last Caption Monkey with Adam "Ape Lad" Koford's Meet the Laugh-Out-Loud Cat as a prize. B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/20/caption-monkey-30-panda-rolling-in-snow/There’s an instruction guide for every human activity imaginable. Some are quite unnecessary, others are written in fun. And some people even buy them! See the list of The 10 Craziest How-To Books You Never Knew Exis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/20/crazy-instructional-books/Admit it – you've thought about what life would be like if you ruled your own country. I would make an awesome Queen, just for the record. Diet Coke would flow from kitchen faucets, scientists would put all of the vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/20/six-micronations-you-can-join-petoria-anyone/For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's website and blog.This Bizarro comic inspired me to look for bad (but real) names on the Web - and boy was I floored with the result that Google returned for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/10-strangest-names-evar/I was indulging my fascination with Astronomy this afternoon when I stumbled upon this cool little video. The folks of Expedition 6 on the International Space Station (ISS) were taking digital pictures of the Earth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/cities-at-night-an-orbital-tour-around-the-world/(Break.com link) Accident or malicious prank? Someone tied a rope in the wrong place, or failed to untie it, or something. Oops. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/ferry-tale/How well do you remember the guests on Sesame Street? Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you which news anchors and reporters made a guest appearance on the PBS kid’s show. I didn’t even finish...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/news-icons-on-sesame-street/Robert Maddox sells jet engines. He attached a 50 pound pulsejet engine to a bicycle, and now it can go 75 mph! It makes a LOT of noise, and might not be all that safe. Gizmodo has the video. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/jet-powered-bicycle/Tim posted a tutorial on how to cast molded polyurethane. He included a couple of his own projects as examples, including these LED cube lights, made in an ice cube tray. Even more interesting is the next set of lights...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/polyurethane-cube-lights/Robert Garside was the first man to run all the way round the world. With almost no money to his name, he started running. His adventures during the trek included being shot at in South Africa, almost shot in Panama...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/running-around-the-world/On May 19, 1780 the skies grew dark at midday in New England. There had been reports of smoky skies for a few days already, but then it became so dark that animals returned to their sleeping quarters. It was dark...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/dark-day-in-new-england/These guys built a boulder using five million Lego bricks, then sent it rolling down a hill in San Francisco chasing a guy dressed as Indiana Jones! The boulder met its match in a car parked along the way. See...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/lego-boulder-chases-indiana-jones/Ukrainian brothers Mykyta and Egor Zigura are great sculptors, but this sand sculpture of Yoda sitting on the lap of Darth Vader, and R2-D2 snuggling next to the Sith lord is not right! Link - Thanks Philippe Tambwe!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/disturbing-yoda-darth-vader-and-r2-d2-sand-sculpture/Artist Michael T. Rea designed this wooden mecha-suit sculpture and cheekily called it "A Prosthetic Suit for Stephen Hawking w/ Japanese Steel."Actually, I can totally see Stephen Hawking in a giant r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/mecha-suit-for-stephen-hawking-sculpture-by-michael-t-rea/"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein, physicist and Nobel laureate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/quote-einstein-on-miracles/Here's something you can try at home: how to make your eye feels like it's closed, when it's actually open. Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily explains:This morning I went into the darkest room in our house (the kids' ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/how-to-make-your-eye-feels-like-its-closed-even-though-its-open/In Japan, it's a common insult to call someone "one-cellular" for being stupid, but that put down may not actually be true: In 2001, Dr. Toshiyuki Nakagaki at Riken Institute, Japan, discovered that slime mold*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/slime-mold-solves-a-maze-unicellular-intelligence/Dave of Davario blog asked fellow bloggers to draw themselves as teenagers and post the drawings on their own blogs ... the result: 400 and counting people participated!Check it out: Link - Thanks avital!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/bloggers-draw-selves-as-teenagers/Here's something unexpected about the rising price of gasoline: old mechanical pumps were designed during the time when $4 per gallon was simply unthinkable, so the rotary dials didn't have gears to go beyond $3.99 a gal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/old-gas-pumps-cant-display-4-a-gallon-price/Comedian Yakov Smirnoff painted the mural "America's Heart" on the World Trade Center's ground zero.Smirnoff was an art teacher in Odessa before he came to the United States and became known as a comedian. Afte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/trivia-americas-heart-by-yakov-smirnoff/Noah Brier's latest project, Brand Tags, shows you a logo and asks you to write the first thing that popped into your head. The result is a brand perception, displayed in the style of a "tag cloud" we often see...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/19/brand-tags-what-pops-into-your-mind-when-you-see-this-logo/This is a bit of fun for a minute or two! Control the spider with your mouse. That curious six-legged thing with a dog’s tail and a beak isn’t so easy to control. Link -via Le Web ...et le reste....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/18/interactive-spider/
