Move over fat and obnoxious American tourists ... according to a new survey by Expedia.fr, the most obnoxious tourists from the Western world are ... the French!... the study also describes the voyageur frança...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/the-worst-tourists-of-the-western-world-oui-the-french/This is pretty neat: a kinetic sculpture (of steel balls on strings) at the BMW museum. Worth a look-see (it gets good at around 0:50): Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Renata Foucre!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/bmw-kinetic-sculpture/Officials in Musiri, a remote town in Tamil Nadu, India, came up with a novel scheme to get people to stop urinating on the street: pay them to use the public toilet!Dozens of people are queuing up to use toilets in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/it-pays-literally-to-use-the-public-toilet-in-india/Photo: weegeebored [Flickr]This sign in the streets of Lambeth, London, UK warns iPod users of giant street robbers targeting their music player!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/08/they-want-your-pod/You might know the name Cabrini – Cabrini-Green in Chicago is pretty infamous for being a rough public housing development. I'm sure the development's namesake, Frances Xavier Cabrini, AKA Mother Cabrini, would be pre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/eight-patron-saints-you-may-or-may-not-need/(YouTube link) Improv Everywhere recruited 16 sets of identical twins for their latest project. Twice, they loaded the twins onto a subway train for a performance. Eight sets participated in the first outing, ten in t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/human-mirror/What is it about bacon that is so awesome and why do Americans love bacon?Sarah Hepola wrote this interesting Salon article about some possible reasons for bacon mania: Sarah Katherine Lewis recently wrote a book cal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/why-we-love-bacon/We've seen examples of people putting Wiimote in unusual places (like the WiiSpray), but this is different: Ausome Candies [pdf] has put a candy dispenser into a Wiimote!Okay, okay, it's a candy dispenser that looks*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/wiimote-candy-dispenser/Doctor Who fans will get a kick out of today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. In the 45-year history of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, ten different actors have played The Doctor (not counting movies,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/who-played-doctor-who/Can anything be cuter than three baby ferrets in a cup? From Flickr user Dosh Dosh. Found at The Pet Blog. Link -via J-Walk Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/ferrets-in-a-cup/Who are these people eating apples at the Apple Store in the Big Apple? A week before the product is available, a line began forming Friday for the new 3G iPhone at the Apple Store in Manhattan. Who would stand (or sit)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/line-forms-for-3g-iphone/(YouTube link) 200-meter-long rubber snakes in the ocean could harness the power of waves to produce energy! The device is called the Anaconda, and is being tested by researchers at the University of Southampton. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/energy-from-a-giant-rubber-snake/If you've read Neatorama for a long time, you've heard of the Wife Carrying Contest and the World Beard and Moustache Championships, but did you know about the Gumboot Throwing Festival? And who knew there was a thing ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/8-crazy-championships/All those hundreds of TV channels may lead you that there's a true diversity and variety in today's television ... but you'd be wrong. A handful of large companies control what you see, hear, and read every day.Let's tak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/who-owns-what-on-television/Hey, any publicity is good as long as they spell your name correctly, right? Well, maybe not so much with this one:From the very funny Fail Blog - via Miss Cellania...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/this-new-business-announcement-wasnt-exactly-the-kind-of-publicity-desired/An aboriginal man ... in Japan? The 1920s photo to the left is that of a chief of the Ainu, an indigenous people of the island of Hokkaido, whose tradition and culture was completely different from that of the Japanese.T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/the-ainu-people-of-japan/Photo: origami madness [Flickr]Flickr user origami_madness created that awesomely simple yet brilliant "crumpled" paper origami titled "Frustration" - I wonder how many pieces of paper got tossed befo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/frustration-origami/Photo: brantastic [Flickr]Somewhere in Nova Scotia, in the front lawn of a nondescript house are these cutouts of characters from The Simpsons congratulating a family member's graduation. Flickr user brantastic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/the-simpsons-cutouts-congratulate-high-school-grad/Ah, India ... the land that brought us Bollywood also brought us this strange and disturbing video clip. Watch as a baby wrestles with a cobra (a cobra!) that either has been defanged or whose mouthseem to have been sewn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/baby-vs-cobra/(YouTube link) This is just silly, but it made me smile. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/techno-chicken/Psst! Wanna send your name to the moon? NASA is setting up a website where you can enter your name, which will then be entered in a database on a microchip that will be integrated onto the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/send-your-name-to-the-moon/Photo: huaxia.comMy, that's a lot of foot massages! Taiwan has set a new Guinness World Record for having the "most people receiving foot massage (reflexology) simultaneously": 1008 reflexologists and 1008 tour...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/reflexology-world-record/This is quite neat: Channel 4 in the UK has recreated the set of Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining - complete with crew and cast-member look-a-likes - for a TV ad:Viewers get Kubrick's point of view as he wal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/recreation-of-the-film-set-of-stanley-kubrics-the-shining/Photo: 2cauldrons [Flickr]Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is so iconic that her smiling face has even shown up on graffiti. WebUrbanist has a neat post about 8 such unauthorized appearances by La Gioconda in the streets al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/mona-lisa-graffiti/[Creative Commons licensed photo of Michigan Central Station (abandoned) in Detroit by Flickr user Matt Callow.] Jack White of the White Stripes hurt some feelings back home when he moved from Detroit to Nashville in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/jack-whites-poem-about-his-beloved-detroit/He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. The Nietzsche Family Circus is a randomized combination of Friedrich Nietzsche quotations and Family Circus cartoons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/the-nietzsche-family-circus/Just because earlier attempts of lawnchair ballooning went so well (the first one by Larry Walters, ended up with an arrest, fame, lost of fame, and then suicide; the second one by Brazilian priest Adelir Antonio de Carl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/couch-went-lawn-chair-ballooning/We've posted about Harry Potter's author J.K. Rowling's commencement speech to Harvard grads before on Neatorama - this time it's Conan O'Brien's turn.Here's a clip and transcript to Conan's commencement address for Harv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/found-video-of-conan-obriens-harvard-class-of-2000-commencement-speech/André Mintz of the Marginalia Project explains what "Chronotopic Anamorphosis" is all about: The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/chronotopic-anamorphosis/Allow me to introduce you to HAL - the "Hybrid Assistive Limb" from Cyberdyne. HAL, is a robotic suit or rather exoskeleton that can be worn by humans to potentially give them superhuman strength by multiplying th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/05/say-hello-to-hal/
