This week's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange rocket-shaped device. Do you know what it is for? For more clues and larger picture, check out the What is it? blog.No prize this week - you're playi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/what-is-it-game-67-rocket-thingy/In our recent post about the extreme (and painful) leg lengthening surgical procedure to become taller, a Neatorama reader named Jeannine commented about her own personal experience with the procedure (hers wasn't option...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/jeannines-story/Harvey, a 3-year-old bull terrier, couldn't get over the fence on his own, so the clever dog used the family's trampoline and bounced his way to freedom!"The fence isn't all that high, but he couldn't have climb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/dog-used-trampoline-to-escape-from-backyard/Wikipedia explains that the "nurikabe is a yokai, or spirit, from Japanese folklore. It manifests as a wall that impedes or misdirects walking travelers at night. Trying to go around is futile as it extends itself fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/nurikabe-sculpture-by-andrew-bell/Okay, we all know that shoplifting is a crime - but what about the reverse: shopdropping (or droplifting) where you go into stores and actually put things onto the shelves. Is that a crime?Here's a neat article on WebUrb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/is-shopdropping-reverse-shoplifting-a-crime/Meet Shigeo Tokuda, a robust 74-year-old man and rising (erhm) star of a strange yet growing niche of Japanese adult movie industry: elder porn!Michiko Toyama wrote this fascinating article for TIME Magazine:Besides...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/japanese-market-for-elder-porn-is-huge/A while ago, David posted about a neat YouTube clip of mashups of Coen brothers movies - it's amazing how well they sort of fuse with each other! - that left me wanting more (and strangely ... wanting waffles. Must have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/movie-mashups-by-paul-proulx/We posted the 10 Optical Illusions in 2 minutes viral ad for Samsung Soul cell phone a while ago - the first optical illusion (the dinosaur) was so popular that Claudio Branno and the rest of the ad team decided to bring...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/optical-illusion-dinosaur/Lonely men, listen up: Japan (who else?) has come to your rescue by introducing EMA (Eternal Maiden Actualisation) robot that can be your girlfriend:A Japanese firm has produced a 15-inch tall robotic girlfriend that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/japan-to-market-robotic-girlfriend-to-lonely-men/Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your sense of spacial geography. Ten US states have been taken out of context and rotated. Can you recognize the states by their shape alone? I scored 100%, but the cu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/altered-states/Six baby ducks fell into a storm drain in Gosforth, Newcastle. The mother duck couldn’t fit through the grate, so she walked along the path of the sewer pipe, following the sounds of duckling cries. She had to cross hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/duck-walks-miles-to-save-ducklings/Joshua Heineman of Cursive Buildings has been collecting and altering archived images from the New York Public Library. He makes them wiggle, which creates a three-dimensional effect. You’ll have to click the link to s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/reaching-out-for-the-out-of-reach/(YouTube link) I well remember the horror that was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I had nightmares for weeks afterward. Ha! This trailer illustrates again how important a film’s soundtrack is. -via Viral Video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/requiem-for-a-day-off/You know how people tell a story, and by the time they say “to make a long story short...” it’s already too late? It’s the same with written stories -they can always benefit from editing. Here’s a great idea -t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/one-sentence-2/A group of children in Terra Haute, Indiana were robbed of $17.50 at their lemonade stand. 18-year-old Steven Tryon grabbed the money from Dominique Morefield’s hand and ran off. Morefield chased the thief while callin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/lemonade-stand-robbed/If you feel you have too much spare time on your hands, you can always kill a couple of minutes by learning how to balance 17 dominoes on one upright domino. Link - via Digg domino...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/how-to-balance-17-dominoes-on-1/Movie critic TC Candler has a very neat post about the best movie posters all time. Here are his picks for the top 100: http://www.tccandler.com/columns/100_greatest_movie_posters.htm - via The Fire Wire, Thanks Larr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/best-movie-posters-of-all-time/I'm happy to announce that our VideoSift feature is back on again - here are the top 5 video clips at VideoSift from the past week that you've just have to see: S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/18/videosift-best-video-clips-of-the-week-1/Whoa! That's an awesome R2-D2 (red R2? Is it R2-M5?) birthday cake by Mark Randazzo of Mark Joseph Cakes. B-Side blog has photos from the build (the droid has Rice Krispy Treat legs!)http://www.bsideblog.com/2008/06/maki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/r2-d2-cake-by-mark-randazzo/Bad idea: Burgling a supermarketReally bad idea: Getting caught ... then escaping while still handcuffedNeatorama-worthy: Running to a police station to get the cuffs re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/thief-ran-to-police-station-to-remove-handcuffs-after-being-arrested/After the state's Supreme Court decision to legalize same sex marriage on May 15 took effect Monday evening (when most county clerk's offices were closed) - so today, the rush is on. One of the first gay couples that got...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/californias-same-sex-marriage-a-word-from-george-takei/Psychologists William Szlemko and his colleagues at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have made a link between road rage and ... bumper stickers! People who had a larger number of personalized items on or in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/road-rage-linked-to-bumper-stickers/Joe Meno, editor of the BrickJournal magazine, created this cute LEGO version of Wall-E, the hero of the newest computer animated sci-fi movie by Pixar/Disney.Here's what Joe wrote about his LEGO Wall-E: Wall-E uses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/wall-e-the-lego-version/We posted a YouTube clip about a guy going berserk in an office before on Neatorama ... but what happens when the entire office joined in? Here's The Great Office War by Runaway Box (looks like a lot of fun!)Who will win...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/the-great-office-war/How far would you go to become taller? Would you wear heel lifts ... or would you break your leg in a excruciatingly painful leg-lengthening surgery to gain inches?In Germany, Jeff’s femurs (thighbones) were se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/would-you-break-your-own-legs-to-become-taller/That's the Yamaha MT-01, a concept power cruiser that got motorcycle enthusiasts atwitter. But take a closer look at the photo above: that's not a real bike - it's actually an ultra-realistic paper model of the motorcycl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/ultra-realistic-paper-craft-motorcycle/As promised, here's the follow-up story to my board games article from last week, when we discussed Monopoly, Clue, Life and Scrabble. I guess I'm feeling nostalgic today, because I feel like writing about the oldies-bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/board-games-part-two-gumdrops-and-the-or-plus-three-more/It’s usually easy to figure out the city with the biggest number of people in any US state. The second-most populous city doesn’t get as much press about that fact. Can you guess the second most populous city in 15...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/coming-in-second/The “solstice moon” will be visible tomorrow night. It just might be the biggest thing you’ve seen in quite some time! There's no better time to see it. The full Moon of June 18th is a "solstice moon", comin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/solstice-moon/You see pictures of misspelled or otherwise wrong road marking on the internet all the time, but you don’t know how old they are or whether they are altered, and you rarely find out where they are. But this la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/lane/
