The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named eight new natural wonders to the World Heritage List. They are: * Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Canada) * Mount Sanqingshan N...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/10/eight-new-natural-wonders/Art on toilet paper! Why didn't I think of that one? Artintimity is a collaborative, artistic and original photoblog concept where people from all horizons express what they are thinking about...while sitting alon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/10/artintimity/(Vimeo link) Magnetic Movie is an award-winning film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. It was shot at NASA Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. Link -Thanks, Lance!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/10/magnetic-movie/Photographer Steve Schofield takes pictures of British science fiction and fantasy fans in their homes. My practice is concerned with exploring the fascination that the British public has with American popular cul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/10/steve-schofield/Today's ABC World News Webcast features a look at Alex's post from last week, the Top 10 Strangest Anti-Terrorism Patents. Since Alex is camera-shy, I was recruited to fill in. Link to Neatorama segment. Link to entire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/neatorama-on-abc-world-news-webcast/We've been hearing about it for at least two years now. The documentary Nerdcore Rising is finished and making the film festival rounds this summer, bringing nerd and geek-flavored hip-hop to a screen near you. Visit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/from-here-to-awesome-nerdcore-rising-video/Photo: FilthyLukerPhotos: FilthyLukerdeviantART user FilthyLuker, in collaboration with Pedro Estrellas, created this awesome "Octo-pied Building" in France, from where dead Cthulhu waits dreaming ...Link | Che...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/cthulhu-fhtagn-octo-pied-building-by-filthyluker-and-pedro-estrellas/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test how well you can interpret Microsoft Office 2007 icons. A lot of people find them confusing. I got 58% (7 out of 12) just by guessing. Still, if I used Microsoft product...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/icon-iq/(YouTube link) Dopey the hamster has her own private elevator made of Legos! Watch her use it to get to her sleeping quarters, although it takes her a few tries. -via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/hamster-with-lego-elevator/Which animal is cuter? Give your opinion at Continuum of Cute. You are given 100 pictures of animals, and you arrange them so the cutest is in the bottom right corner and the least cute is in the top left corner. You c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/continuum-of-cute/(YouTube link) A scooter made from a beer box. This brings a whole new meaning to the term "case mod"! It was spotted near the city of Kaufbeuren in Germany. -Thanks, özi!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/beer-scooter/Isn't thing the cutest thing! Forum member WJN milled this tiny robot from brass, to see how small he could make one. As you can see, he's standing on a quarter to show the scale. Link -Thanks, amoebaboy!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/tiny-brass-robot/[http://youtu.be/qBjLW5_dGAM] (YouTube link) Western Spaghetti is wonderful new stop-motion short from the genius PES. You really should look through his entire portfolio. Link -Thanks, Jon Jason! PES, animati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/western-spaghetti/Add some fright to your flower garden with this resin sculpture by Alan Dickenson. Link -- Thanks, Tom Jackson!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/zombie-lawn-sculpture/BFF!: Best Friends Forever (or is it Best Family Forever?), matching adult and onesies/toddler shirts - $24.99. Also available in Pink.W00t! I'm happy as a clam to tell you guys that we have a new collaboration with the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/new-wry-baby-shirts-for-neatorama/Quick: who is the richest man of all time? Bill Gates? Warren Buffet? Not even close, though there's no denying they're very, very rich. The richest man of all time, when wealth is measured as a percent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/10-richest-people-of-all-time-and-how-they-made-their-fortunes/Note: Links open in new tabs/windows How NOT to Fake a Heart Attack During CourtKeison Wilkins, 33, only has an 8th-grade education, but he has successfully defe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/09/videosift-how-not-to-do-stuff/I tried it last night and was immediately hooked. It's a mix of strategy, hand-eye coordination, and luck, with the goal being to blow up blocks in the right order to gently lower the totem to the ground. You can p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/totem-destroyer-by-gabriel-ochsenhofer-super-addictive-flash-game/Journalist Earnie Pyle used to say "There are no atheists in foxholes" ... but in this case, he was wrong: Army Spc. Jeremy Hall lost his belief in God after two tours in Iraq ... and is now suing the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/atheist-soldier-sues-army-for-discrimination/Poor woolly mammoth! Twenty thousand years ago, when climate change made vegetations they eat ever scarcer, woolly mammoth had to resort to eating their own dung to stay alive (well, to stave off extinction anyhow): ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/woolly-mammoth-eat-own-dung-to-survive-went-extinct-anyways/Jason from Jailbreak Toys emailed us about their newest toy: Barack Obama action figure.(The photo was an approval shot sent by their factory for their recent run of the Obama Action Figure - which would explain the chin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/obama-action-figure/Energy Fiend has a neat write-up of 11 drinks inspired by cartoons and video games: Link - Thanks James!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/soft-drinks-inspired-by-cartoons-and-video-games/Freshome blog has a neat post about 17 home audio speakers that don't only sound good ... but they look good too! Well, actually I don't know about "good" ... how about "unusual"?This one above is the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/speakers-of-unusual-designs/Bizarre Magazine, to which I am an avid reader and subscriber, has tracked down Zombie Boy – the facially tattooed Montreal youth who stirred up much debate here on Neatorama regarding his sanity. Of course then the ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/zombie-boy-update/(YouTube link) A Google Maps application leads to mystery and intrigue. From The Vacationeers, the guys who brought you the video Google Maps. -Thanks, Andy!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/google-my-maps/There are monuments to women you've never heard of scattered around the world. In Greece, you'll find a monument to a village of women and children who committed suicide rather than be captured by the Turks of the Otto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/12-monuments-dedicated-to-amazing-women/A couple of dozen octopuses at aquariums around Europe have been given Rubik's cubes to play with. It's not to find out of they can solve them (although it would be SO cool if they did), but to see if the animal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/octopuses-play-with-rubiks-cubes/The frequency with which we use certain words can often serve as an interesting glimpse into our values, our interests, and our priorities. Perhaps it's with this rationale that Capitol Words was born. Capitol Words is a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/capitol-words-displays-most-used-word-from-daily-congressional-record/Photo: Bill Eichenlaub / National Park ServiceThat's the o'opu hue spotted puffer (Arothron meleagris), a fiash in the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in beautiful Hawaii.Yay! It's time for Neatorama a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/caption-monkey-35-puffer-fish/In the ongoing $1 billion legal lawsuit between YouTube and Viacom, a federal judge has recently ordered Google to turn over records of all users and videos ever viewed on YouTube. Privacy concern aside, that's 12 teraby...
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