Yay! Today's the day for our collaboration with What is it? Blog. Can you guess what this strange tool is used for?Place your guess in the comment section - one guess per comment, please, but you can submit as many as yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/15/what-is-it-game-62/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again Did you know that the word "cubicle" used to mean sleeping quarters (actually, it still is for some people), "suit" cam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/15/the-origin-of-words-you-hear-a-lot-in-the-office/The website for Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope, mentioned here at Neatorama a couple of months ago, went live yesterday. The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that en...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/15/worldwide-telescope-is-here/Meet John Hammons, a 19-year-old college freshman at the University of Oklahoma. He was just elected mayor of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in northeastern part of the state! Hammons, who will be sworn in next week, sai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/the-freshman-mayor-19-year-old-john-hammons-won-mayoral-race/In 2005, Aaron Koblin took all of the air traffic over United States data, as seen by the FAA, and visualized it in a beautiful animation. Aaron's work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the "Ce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/flight-patterns-by-aaron-koblin/Pablo Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish government to commemorate the Nazi Germany bombing of Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The result is Guernica, a black and white painting that depicts t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/pablo-picassos-guernica-in-3d/Just. How. Awesome. Is This. Behold, the Darth Vader typography, created by David Friedman of Ironic Sans.And another one by Justin Crisostomo: Also on Neatorama: Miss Baskerville Typography Shirt by Matt Sutter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/star-wars-typography/MUTO is a new short film by Blu: it's a time-lapse "wall animation" made in Buenos Aires and Baden, guaranteed to be the best graffiti you'll see today.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/animated-graffiti-muto-by-blu/...the character select screen would look like this. Art by Lysol-Jones. Visit his DeviantArt gallery or his personal site. I'd absolutely buy this game....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/if-the-fast-food-companies-teamed-up-to-make-a-fighting-game/Italian comic artist Donald Soffritti drew very funny cartoons of what super heroes and villains would look like in old age! Doc Ock above doesn't seem too thrilled having all those arms to carry grocery bags home.Tons o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/donald-soffrittis-comic-book-superheroes-and-villains-drawn-as-old-people/The Art of Manliness blog has a huge archive of the manly things manly man should do, like How to Break Down a Door, or How to Hug like a Man, so it's refreshing to see something different.Here's a neat list of the 100 m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/the-art-of-manliness-100-must-read-books/Adam Buxton of the British TV comedy show "Adam and Joe" showed us why you don't need a Bollywood song for funny song lyrics subtitle. Here's one that he did for Songs of Praise ("translations of popular h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/songs-of-praise-subtitled-by-the-hard-of-hearing-for-the-hard-of-hearing/Long before internet shopping, Wile E. Coyote got all his products via mail order from the ACME Catalog. ACME sold just about anything you’d ever need! You can take a look at the catalog yourself. ACME is a worl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/the-original-acme-catalog/The National Film Board of Canada, in association with the Cannes Short Film Corner and partner YouTube, presents the fourth annual Short Film Online Competition - Cannes 2008. Between May 9 and May 19, 2008, filmma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/vote-for-cannes-short-films/I've always been a fan of horror movies, but in the past couple of years I've really gravitated toward, you know, the living dead. Shaun of the Dead is pretty much my favorite movie of all time. George Romero?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/your-brains-er-movie-recommendations-needed/(YouTube link) Last year, Neatorama introduced you to Pua the Tamandua. Pua’s owner, TamanduaGirl also has Stewie, seen here eating from a spoon. Stewie can also walk on two legs, and he is a professional painter! B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/anteater-eats-from-a-spoon/Some people collect stamps, others collect comic books. The people on this list, however, collect things that are far, far stranger. Behold, Neatorama's guide to the 25 Strangest Collections on the Web:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/14/neatoramas-guide-to-25-of-the-strangest-collections-on-the-web/We've posted about Loic Jean Albert skydiving with a wingsuit a while ago, but this YouTube clip still took my breath away.Behold Loic and a couple of his colleagues BASE jumping with the wingsuit - they got so close to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/wingsuit-base-jumping/Photo: Pancake Blog - via Cute OverloadThat's Mr. Pancakes aka Cakes or Baby Cakes, a cute little bunny with his own blog. Your task for today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey, gentle readers, is to caption the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/caption-monkey-29-oreo-bunny/Gokhan Mutlu of Manhattan is suing JetBlue Airways for $2 million because a pilot made him sit on the toilet for 3 hours!Mutlu was traveling on a a "buddy pass," a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/pilot-made-man-sit-on-airplane-toilet-for-3-hours/Photo: Véronique HuygheNarcisse is an art project by French artist and designer Mathieu Lehanneur. It's a giant bowl with mirrored surface filled with water - as soon as someone comes close to see his/her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/narcisse-by-mathieu-lehanneur/Paul Loughridge of Lockwasher Design makes awesome robots, ray guns, and rockets out of vintage cans and other found objects (read: junk).We've actually featured Paul before on Neatorama a while ago, but this one sculptu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/sir-lube-of-can-o-lot-robot/That's fractal 23, a chest of drawers by Japanese furniture designer Takeshi Miyakawa. I'm guessing from the name that it has 23 drawers (indeed, if you count them, it makes sense) but to make use of them all,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/fractal-furniture-by-takeshi-miyakawa/This photograph, originally from Cute Otters, shows an otter mom proudly displaying her offspring. It was one of many incredibly cute images of different kinds of animal mothers posted at The Pet Blog. Link -via the Pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/mother-love/Neptune Memorial Reef, three miles off Key Biscayne, Florida offers a final resting place for those who love the sea. Earthly remains are cremated then mixed with cement and laid on the ocean floor, with a memorial plaqu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/underwater-graveyard-welcomes-divers-living-or-not/Some parts of the earth are more vulnerable to devastation by global warming than others. Tropical (and biologically diverse) regions like the Great Barrier Reef, the Galapagos Islands, and the Virgin Islands may be th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/20-places-threatened-by-global-warming/62-year-old rocker Neil Young has been honored with his own species, a trapdoor spider named Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi. An East Carolina University biologist, Jason Bond, discovered a new species of trapdoor spider...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/neil-young-gets-his-own-spider/The sport of cheese racing began in 1997 when a group of friends put individually-wrapped cheese slices onto a barbecue grill to see what would happen. To their surprise, the plastic did not melt or burn. But the chees...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/cheese-racing/The following is an article from Uncle John's Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader Downtown Modesto, California, on a Sunday night. One of the oldest corners in downtown Modesto is dominate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/the-worst-cities-in-america/Under Scots law, there are three potential outcomes of a criminal trial: "proven" (guilty), "not guilty", and "not proven."The "not proven" [wiki] verdict, also called the Scottish...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/trivia-the-bastard-verdict/
