Our gracious host Alex posted earlier with a Cibo Matto reference. Sure, Cibo Matto taught me how to know my chicken, but they are so much more important than that. Check out this amazing video of their tune "Sugar W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/cibo-matto-sugar-water/Here's how to torment telemarketers with one word - is it a gem? Yes! (Make sure you wait till the very end ...). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Grow-a-brainAlmost as good as this classic one, by Tom Mabe, previo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/how-to-torment-telemarketers-with-one-word/Blogging is like exercise or a diet program. It's easy to start but very hard to keep up. But most people usually give it a couple of weeks or months before they quit blogging. There are, however, a select few for which...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/one-blog-post-wonder/The researchers at the ICT Graphics Lab at University of Southern California have created a low-cost 3D holographic display system ... and what image did they choose to showcase the technology? The TIE Fighter from Star...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/3d-holographic-display-system-is-almost-here/Here's our weekly collaboration with Bizarro (perhaps inspired by the recent spate of severed foot washing ashore in Canada?). For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's website and blog!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/bizarro-canadian-csi/Joey "Animal Style" Mariano, a Philadelphia chiptune artist, created this awesome Gameboy foot controller to create some amazing 8-bit madrigals:Using the power of the Gameboy sound chip, Mariano’s ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/gameboy-foot-controller-plays-chiptune/Some famous people were born on notable days like Christmas, or The Ides of March. Which one of the famous folk in today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss was NOT born on a notable day? I scored 50%, which surprised me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/notable-birthdays/I've always been bad at that game where you look at clouds and see shapes in them. I said this to a friend a few weeks ago on a day with perfect blue skies and lots of fluffy clouds to scrutinize. Me:*/stro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/grans-canyon-and-other-human-looking-pieces-of-nature/These smokestacks in Bagnolet, France were transformed into a work of art by Frederic Gracia. You'll also see artwork on a dam and nuclear cooling towers in France at deputy dog. http://deputy-dog.com/2008/06/25/how-to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/how-to-disguise-an-industrial-eyesore/Between 1850 and 1950, most electronics used glass vacuum tubes, such a cathode ray tubes (CRT). Henk Dijkstra has an extensive collection of such tubes on 28 pages, with the history behind them. Pictured is a liquid-f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/the-cathode-ray-tube-site/Ladies Day at the Royal Ascot races in England was last week. Tradition dictates that you wear your best hat for the occasion. Best Week Ever posted the Top 10 Silliest Hats in England spotted at the event. Link -via D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/silly-hats/This is from the Cattle Network, so the prices are wholesale for farmers. But the real story is the change from a year ago. The post also has prices for livestock, fruits, and vegetables. Lemons are up 155%! Looks like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/the-price-of-food-2007-vs-2008/The biggest, prettiest, and most interesting bridges all have stories behind them. Frikoo has ten of them with pictures and history, in a continuation of an earlier post also linked in this article. Pictured is Stari M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/10-stunning-bridges-from-around-the-world/Technology has always played a big role in fighting terrorism. Some inventions are truly useful and will undoubtedly save lives, whereas others are so bizarre that one wonders how in the world they got...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/top-10-strangest-anti-terrorism-patents/Almost every aspect of war spawns new words, and, over time, many of them slip into everyday use. Sometimes, they even become downright peaceful in the process. For instance, triumph used...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/27/how-war-increases-our-vocabulary/Do you remember the insanely great Frozen Grand Central prank? Well, Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere, the guy that did it, replicated this stunt at a suburban Taco Bell Grand Opening. The facial expressions of the unsu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/frozen-taco-bell-prank/Eminence Orchestra wants to open up classical music to new listeners, especially younger people who think that a symphony is either a milk chocolate bar or music for old people. So they don't play Bach or Beethoven - rat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/eminence-orchestra-classical-music-from-video-games/Ah, South Korea: a major economic powerhouse of Asia, world leader in technology and a .... superstitious country?Here's a particularly strange urban legend of "Fan death" where an electric fan, if left running...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/fan-death/Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when Norfolk civil commissioner performed a wedding ceremony for the young couple ... except that later on they found out the bride actually wasn't a woman!"Holy crap," Al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/virginia-is-for-lovers-but-not-for-the-wrong-type-of-lovers/Jenna Wortham has compiled a pretty neat gallery of 13 best robot love stories, from Wall-E to Weird Science, for Wired Magazine. Who remembers this from Blade Runner:Bounty hunter Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/gallery-of-robot-love-stories/Hello Neatoramans! I've just finished reading a novel and have got a question for you: what books would you recommend for summer reading?I'm kind of a light reader, mind you - so no treatises for me. My favorite books ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/what-book-would-you-recommend-for-summer-reading/Woohoo! It's time for our top 5 video clip picks from VideoSift - today, we've got some great ones! Girl Spins on EscalatorWhat do you get when you lie down on the handrails of up and down escalators? A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/videosift-best-video-clips-of-the-week-2/The notion of an arranged marriage seems so foreign to the Western world that it evokes an image of a time long, long ago - but the tradition is alive and well in certain parts of the world.In India, arranged marriages t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/arranged-marriage-vs-love-marriage/We've posted a video post on contact juggling before, but these performances by Okotanpe and Mister Om are pretty trippy!See how Okotanpe makes the ball seem to float in place ... [YouTube Link] - Thanks Justin!*/em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/contact-juggling-is-insanely-cool-either-that-or-dorky/We all know that the real estate market is really bad right now, but apparently it's also very difficult time for finding love. So, single mom and real estate agent Devon Traboscia came upon a brilliant (or brilliantly c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/home-for-sale-wife-included/Now that is the way to travel in style! The guy must've really love his Volkswagen Beetle to create a custom trailer modeled after the car ...Found at Daily Motorcycle News...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/volkswagen-beetle-trailer/Photo: rent-a-mooseJowling (also known as slap n' flap) is a fun portrait photography where you get your subject to relax their facial muscle completely and then shake their head from side to side. Then you snap away (ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/jowling/After 200 years of debate, the Supreme Court has finally ruled that the Second Amendment means that individual Americans - as opposed to state militias - have a constitutional right to own guns (at least in their homes)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/us-supreme-courts-the-right-to-bear-arms-is-for-individual-americans-not-only-state-militias/Throughout most of medical history, doctors thought that itch was a mild form of pain - then in 1987, scientists found out that it's a completely separate form of sensation. Still, itching can be extremely aggravating, e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/the-neurobiology-of-itching/Matthew Stromberg is a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). He also creates "explosive art". Matthew Stromberg uses a wide variety of powerful and volatile substances, including rocket fuel,...
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