To mark the opening of Tokyo's new Fukutoshin subway line, volunteers have created a 3.2 x 2.1 meter (10 x 7 ft) large pixel art of the Japanese manga character Astro Boy. The creation was made from 138,000 recycled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/15/astro-boy-made-from-recycled-metro-tickets/Rapper Tupac Shakur sure stays busy even after his death. Besides releasing six posthumous albums (with 8 top 10 billboard singles), apparently the prolific rap star also managed to open this eatery, spotted by Neatorama...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/15/tupac-shakurs-eatery-at-the-food-court/Meet the Damascene goat named Qahr, the winner of the "Most Beautiful Goat" award at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.And yes, it does look a little like Popeye! Link - via A Welsh View(P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/the-most-beautiful-goat-in-the-world/The Aphrodite Drawers by Tadao Hoshino look like a chest of drawers that is about to topple over ... but the piece actually has a bit of clever engineering in it:The Aphrodite is a highly original piece with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/aphrodite-drawers-by-tadao-hoshino/Remember the crazy story about the Austrian man who kept his daughter locked in an underground dungeon? Here's something alarmingly similar: a woman was locked in a filthy bedroom by her family and forced to live in squa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/woman-imprisoned-18-years-by-own-family-for-baby-out-of-wedlock/It's not easy being a billionaire, as Facebook founder and the world's youngest self-made billionaire Mark Zuckerberg found out: he and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan are holding a "series of negotiations" to ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/dating-terms-of-engagement-for-a-billionaire/Rachelle Jackson, a trained nurse, pulled two policemen out of their burning squad car ... and rather than being thanked for her heroic effort, she was arrested on charges that she robbed, battered and disarmed a peace o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/nurse-pulled-cops-out-of-burning-car-got-10-months-in-jail-for-it/Having had bad lucks with cane toads and rabbits, scientists in Australia are worried about the next animal that could wreck the continent's ecosystem: supercats!The Federal Government has been under fire after it wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/next-to-invade-australia-supercats/Dave Bruno looked around his San Diego home one summer and realized just how much of his family's belongings were cluttering their lives. So he decided to do something about it, in a project he called The 100 Thing Chall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/100-thing-challenge-living-with-just-100-items-in-your-life/The next time you pump gas, try to feel the pain ... of the gas station owners! Here's a report by Elizabeth Douglass and Ronald D. White of the LA Times about how gas station owners are being squeezed by high oil and ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/pain-at-the-pump-wont-someone-think-of-the-gas-station-owners/That, my friend, is what you and I and everyone else in this world started out as: the human oocyte. Dr. Jacques Donnez at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, was carrying out a partial hysterectomy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/say-hello-to-the-human-egg/Behold the best Star Trek mash up ever: the animated Star Trek + William Shatner's cover of Pulp's "Common People" = greatness!Done in the style of Kirk/Spock (or K/S) story:In the science fiction TV series...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/star-trek-cartoon-shatners-common-people-kirkspock-slashup/Images: TCFCStrawberry Shortcake is getting stale - the "it" doll of the 1980s just wasn't connecting with modern girls, so her corporate owner American Greeting Properties, is having pulling an extreme makeove...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/strawberry-shortcakes-extreme-makeover/The movie may be bad, but this review by Peter Bradshaw for the Guardian is pure gold:"Hulk. Smash!" Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/hulk-movie-review-a-smashing-good-fun-movie-not-so-much/We posted about the waitress who was fired for cutting her hair for charity before, but this one is even better: Darra Kollios got fired because she was laughing!"I had a customer at the bar and the owner came u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/fired-for-laughing/NBC News' Tim Russert died today in Washington of a massive heart attack. He was 58 years old. He will be missed....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/goodbye-tim-russert/The EM Brace, a thesis project by Nick Hasty, is a wearable device that lets you experience electromagnetic radiation emitted by devices and gadgets that are around us.Cell phones, computers, power tools - pretty much ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/the-em-brace-by-nick-hasty/You know what those swirly new energy-efficient fluorescent light bulbs remind me of? Ice cream! And apparently, I'm not the only one - here's Whippy (2006) made by artists Alex Garnett and Nahoko Koyama of Mixko:Link [F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/ice-cream-light-bulb/An update from my post the other day when I showed you guys a little taste of what the flooding is like here in Des Moines. Here's another taste - the picture on the left is what the Simon Estes Amphitheater looked like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/is-anyone-selling-a-rowboat-cheap/Photo: Naturkundliches Museum Mauritianum Altenburg [wikipedia]Rat King doesn't mean the King of Rats, rather it is a medieval legend of what happened when a lot of rats get entangled at their tails, became stuck togethe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/the-horror-that-is-rat-king/Ron of Totlol.com wrote to us about his new website, a community-moderated video website for toddlers and little kids (all the content on the site is submitted and screened by parents).This one to the left is Crazy Worm,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/totlol-the-online-video-website-for-kids/In 1942, in the middle of nowhere, an Army engineer posted the sign "Danville, Illinois, 2835 miles" to mark his hometown while building the Alaska Highway. That started the tradition of adding one's hometown s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/the-sign-post-forest/Neatorama's a week late on this (what else is new?) neat art project, titled WiiSpray, by Bauhaus University design student Martin Lihs.Martin created a spray paint-styled casing with a wiimote inside that he used to &qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/graffiti-wii-wiispray/Fun starts at around 1:09We've posted about a disk drive hacked to play the Imperial March and a scanner playing Beethoven's Ode to Joy on Neatorama. Now, listen to this: "Big Ideas (don't get any)" by James Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/big-ideas-dont-get-any-radiohead-nude-played-with-computer-parts/Artist and author Joel Schick has posted a fantastic gallery of "Great Art Parodies" (with a Sesame Street theme) on FamilyGorilla. He's responsible for all of the artwork on the site, and has illustrated a rather large...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/great-art-parodies/Have you ever been stuck behind someone who's too distracted to drive because he was talking on a cell phone? Well, up to 65% of California drivers have admitted they've done it (I personally believe the number is higher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/13/new-california-hands-free-cell-phone-laws/What do you get when you mash up Hell Boy with Mr. Potato Head? This awesome creation by Ash Ringrose of Mr. PotatoMash (Previously on Neatorama here)That's just one of many Hell Boy-inspired toys over at Super Punch: Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/hell-boy-mr-potato-head-hell-head-potato-boy/In his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway wrote about a bear's paw nailed to the old church door in a small mountain village in Spain. It turns out that there really is a bear's paw nailed to the ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/the-bear-paw-nailed-to-the-old-church-door/Have you ever declared your undying love to someone by creating a mix tape? Well, cassette tapes have gone the way of the dinosaurs, but home taping a compilation of songs is now easier than ever: with this USB Stick &qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/usb-mix-tape/Gizmodo has a really neat post about the top 10 Rube Goldberg machines featured on movies. Included are clips from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Wallace & Gromit (of course), and my favorite: Ernest Goes to Jail.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/rube-goldberg-machines-in-film/
