Instructable user jopensopen is sick and tired of lugging his old Dell Latitude CPI laptop - it's heavy and awkward to carry as it has no handle. He probably has in mind the sleek Apple MacBook handle mod we've featured...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/laptop-handle-pc-style/So, you probably've seen the ad or trailer for Brendan Fraser's new movie based on Jules Verne's classic sci-fi novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth." Looks like it's going to be a neat movie, but what *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/what-is-at-the-center-of-the-earth/When Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch learned that he only had months to live, he turned his last lecture in September 2007 into a lesson on life. The lecture, titled Really Achieving Your Childhood...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/randy-pausch-last-lecture-professor-rip/That is the m-ch or micro compact home, a 2.6m cube lightweight compact house designed for one person or an agoraphobic couple. Its inventor, Prof. Richard Horden, wrote:The micro compact home [m-ch] is a lightweight...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/micro-compact-home/You've got to be a) really hungry or b) don't mind sharing food with your friends to dine at this soup bowl table! "Fruchtsuppe" soup bowl/table is designed by Professor Alexa Lixfeld and students from the HfbK...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/soup-bowl-table/Photo: Hans TanSome artists make cute little felted things - but not French designer Lise Lefebvre: for her art thesis project, titled "The aesthetics of domestic sound," she created a series of "acoustica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/felted-household-appliances/Turn that nasty scar from your childhood appendectomy into something way cooler, like a bear attack or something. Spin your own tale of machismo with (temporary) Tattoos for Heroes by Miss Geschick & Lady La...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/hero-tattoos/Dutch researchers are trying to channel the energy of people in dance clubs into electricity to power said clubs. Here's a one-minute video from the BBC and National Geographic: [YouTube Link] http://www.amazon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/eco-friendly-dance-clubs/After finding Chris Muth of Brooklyn barricaded in a neighbor's apartment, police took him to a psych ward, where he was confined for six days. He has the “bizarre delusion [that he] was trying to ‘save’ a ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/25/cat-sends-man-to-psych-ward/Remember the Mattel Hoverboard used by Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) in Back to the Future Part II and III? The movie prop is being auctioned off on eBay:This is one of the hero Mattel Hoverboards used by Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/24/back-to-the-future-hoverboard-auction/Logo Design Love blog has a pretty neat article about logos that look almost identical to each other. Is it stealing or just similar artistic influence? You be the judge: Link - Thanks Janeil Guters!Mental_floss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/24/logo-look-alikes/Hooray! It's time for our collaboration with the What is it? blog - can you guess what this strange contraption is for? Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, so you're playing for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/24/what-is-it-game-70/Neatorama reader Marcus JB sent us this clip of Ziggy, the dancing street cleaner in his neighborhood of Chiswick, UK. Mirror.co.uk has the story:Zbigniew Colbecki, or Ziggy as he’s known to friends, has attrac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/24/ziggy-the-dancing-street-cleaner/Apparently, fish pedicures (having fish nibble dead skin off your feet) are all the rage in beauty treatment: Customer Patsy Fisher, 42, of Crofton, Maryland, admitted she was nervous as she prepared for her first fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/24/fish-pedicure/While the Swedish Chef and Beaker of The Muppet Show have been singing Habanera, the aria from the opera Carmen, Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street have been trying something decidedly different ... like g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/24/bert-and-ernie-try-gangsta-rap/Assuming you've grown tired of playing Totem Destroyer, I have a great new free flash game to suck up your time. It's called Robokill: Titan Prime. Presumably it has some sort of plot, and I could belabor the style...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/robokill-titan-prime/We've featured quite a bit of wedding stuff on Neatorama, but never this: a wedding at a Waffle House!The lucky couple, George "Bubba" Mathis and Pamela Christian - both 23 and employees at the Dacula diner...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/waffle-house-wedding/It's easy, and politically correct, to attribute the "racial achievement gap" separating Asians and whites students from Latinos and blacks ones to socioeconomic status and class size.But Asian and Latino stude...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/why-do-asian-students-perform-better-in-school-than-latinos-hint-its-not-simply-socioeconomic-background/If you think the American economy is bad, take heart that it's nowhere near the ultra-super-hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, once one of the richest countries in Africa. The country's central bank has recently issued a Z$100...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/zimbabwean-crisis-z100-billion-note-wont-even-buy-you-lunch/People are confused how a Chinese couple managed to run a busy restaurant 21 hours a day without getting tired. Turns out the restaurant is run by two couples ... both the men and women are identical twins!Locals had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/robot-restaurant-actually-run-by-two-identical-couples/Talkin' bout identical twins, how about this: two sets of identical twins went on a double date, fell in love, got engaged, get married (yes, a "quarternary marriage") and ... begot identical twins!LinkPrevious...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/identical-twins-begot-identical-twins/I know, I know, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Indeed, there are so many tpyos on Neatorama that it's sort of a sport for its readers to hunt for 'em. But this one is precious: New Hampshire's Va...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/newspaper-misspelled-own-name/Miss C posted about an ancient Egyptian statue with an uncanny resemblance to somebody famous before on Neatorama. Now, it's my turn: check out this Roman Elvis from the 2nd Century AD!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/roman-elvis/Dan Glass, member of the Plane Stupid (an "action" group that wanted to end airport expansion) decided to take matters into his own hands when he met UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: he decided to glue himself t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/man-glued-self-to-prime-minister/Photo: tiagomuller [Flickr]Tom Davie of Environmental Graffiti wrote a very neat article about the 20 most intriguing light phenomena, covering such things as moonbow, fogbow, aurora, crepuscular rays and so on.This one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/22-halo-and-other-fascinating-light-phenomena/Who wouldn't like to get away from their responsibilities now and then? No kids, no job, no financial worries. Sounds nice, but these 10 people took it to the extreme by faking their own deaths. Although some of these...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/10-dead-people-who-werent-really-dead/After a few years of leading the world and receiving free rent, some ex-presidents and prime ministers go on to other, more lucrative careers. Harry Truman only had his $112 a month army pension when he left office, so h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/how-ex-presidents-and-prime-ministers-make-their-money/Note: Links open in new tabs/windows Yellow Sticky NotesAfter realizing that "to-do" lists were consuming his life, Jeff Chiba Stearns decided to creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/videosift-picks-of-the-week/Photo: Helena BangertWeb Urbanist blog has a neat post about 10 sand artists and their amazing artwork. This one above is a sand sculpture of Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies by Latvian artist Helena Bangert.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/22/hellraisers-pinhead-sand-sculpture-and-other-amazing-sand-art/It's probably not a good idea to get a Japanese or Chinese character tattoo if you don't speak the language, but something in English is safe, right? Well, perhaps not if you can't spell: The L Magazine has a round up of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/22/awsome-tattoo-man/
