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https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/speechable/July is National Hot Dog Month, and the Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test how much you know about hot dogs, the food and as a pop culture reference. I only scored 50% because I am a pop culture weinie. http://ww...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/hot-dog-quiz/It happens with almost every President – people name their children for whoever is in office or whoever had a profound influence on them. But sometimes those children go on to be famous in their own rights. Here are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/eight-presidential-namesakes/The Atomic Age began 63 years ago today, when the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in a remote part of New Mexico. The Trinity test, as it was known, was the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/the-trinity-test/Take a look at this great 50s/Cold War-esque "trailer" for the post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 3. Don't forget to Duck and Cover! [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/groovy-retro-fallout-3-video-game-trailer/Be-A-Doll makes custom action figures that look like you! Or have one made for a gift, or modeled after a person you want to keep around (maybe to stick pins in). Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/your-very-own-action-figure/Some parts of the town of Baarle-Hertog, Belgium belong to The Netherlands. Which part? For that, you'll need a map. Baarle-Hertog borders the Netherlands – but, because of its unique history of political divis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/baarle-hertog/Grace Acosta makes steampunk jewelry from authentic vintage materials. Each is one-of-a-kind, like these magnified gear cufflinks. Vintage lucite magnifying cabochons were set over old letters and genuine brass wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/steampunk-cufflinks/It must be a conspiracy: for the fifth time in the last 35 years, Americans will elect a lefty to the White House. No, not necessarily a Leftist liberal - rather, a southpaw:Both major party candidates are southpaws,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/a-leftist-conspiracy-disproportionate-number-of-us-presidents-are-left-handed/By Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Photo: Walker Art CenterThe Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota is celebrating its 20th anniversary of its Sculpture Garden (with the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/the-spoonbridge-and-cherry-is-good-art/Leave it to the Italians to set priorities straight: for the 6 million Euros DEXMART robot project, which focuses on the development of robotic hands, a Naples University team created ... a coffee-making robot!The ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/more-bad-news-for-starbucks-employees-italians-develop-robotic-baristas/For her art installation "Sunny Day," Aleksandra Stratimirovic poured colored liquids into 4,464 small medical glass vials set in front of a fluorescent backlight to create the 2 m by 3 m (~6 1/2 by 10 ft) imag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/sunny-day-by-aleksandra-stratimirovic-art-made-from-thousands-of-small-glass-vials/Last year, paleontologist Loic Costeur and colleagues discovered a strange set of fossilized footprints that suggest that dinosaurs can swim:The underwater trackway, which is well-preserved in sandstone, is made up o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/16/fossilized-track-suggests-dinosaurs-can-swim/(YouTube link) Simon Tofield has a new animation featuring his irresistible cat. My personal cat does the same lap thing while I'm on the computer. Previously at Neatorama: Cat Man Do and Let Me In! Tofield is an anim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/tv-dinner/(YouTube link) If you enjoyed the ad for epMotion, you'll love this! I think this is an ad for Agilent Technologies' 6520 Accurate-Mass Q-TOF LC/MS. I have no idea what it's for. Link -Thanks, Navs!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/reach-that-peak/Would getting sexually aroused by the dolphin show at Sea World ruin your marriage? Salon.com's advice columnist Cary Tennis responds to a letter writer describing precisely this situation. The consensus appears to b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/best-advice-column-letter-ever/(YouTube link) Watch Bee Boy do a hip-hop dance for his hive! It is a fact of nature: When a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good source of nectar, it will perform a unique dance for its hive mates,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/the-bee-boy-crew/This little picture doesn't look like much, but it performs well. At the linked site, take the dark striped section at the right and move it slowly over the picture section. Here's a post that explains how this type of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/stripes/(YouTube link) The National Library of Belarus in Minsk is just a sample of 6 of the most illuminated buildings on earth. deputydog takes a closer look at the history and artistry of illuminated buildings from Belgium...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/highly-illumunated-buildings/One of Victoria Kochowski's assigments as a senior at the Glasgow School of Art was to map out her day. At first I was going to make a poster, but decided to just take the piss and make a giant drawing pin and c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/mapping-my-day/A 35 acre subterranean Cold War City that lies 1000 feet beneath Corsham. Built in the late 50s this massive city complex was designed by Government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike. A former Bath stone q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/burlington-underground-cold-war-city/(YouTube link) This is astonishing. Japanese company Kajima Corporation is using a building demolition method called daruma-otoshi in which they replace the support columns on the bottom floor with huge computer-contr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/daruma-otoshi-building-demolition/Octopuses are highly intelligent and probably more intelligent than any other invertebrates. The exact extent of their intelligence and learning capability is much debated among biologists but maze and problem-solvi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/octopus-escape/I'm in awe with Dan Mumford's amazing artwork - he managed to turn colorful lines (noodles, I think!) into fantastic images. This one above is a CD cover art for Gallow's In the Belly of a Shark single. http://www.dan-mu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/dan-mumfords-artwork/Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, is mapping the island of Manhattan (or Mannahatta, as it was called by the Lenape Indians who inhabited it) in 1609, before the arrival of the E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/mapping-manhattan-c1609/If you like to talk on your cell phone, then you have Marty Cooper to thank for it - he's the father of the mobile phone:Cooper filed a patent for the 'radio telephone system' in 1973, while working at Motorola, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/fathers-of-technology/Hans Bleken Rud of Norway's NorthernLighting designed this pendant lamp, made to look like a giant incandescent light bulb that has just exploded!Link [Flash, click on Products, then Scheisse]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/exploded-light-bulb-lamp/Got a table? Any table? Never mind its shape or size - you can turn any table into a ping pong table with this ingenius tablecloth and net. It's an art project by Tithi Kutchamuch and Luka Stepan. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/15/any-table-ping-pong-table/Spanno at Al Dente lists his five favorite foods from movies and TV that he'd like to try someday. I agree that Futurama's Bachelor Chow always seemed like a good idea. The sheer simplicity of Bachelor Ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/14/five-favorite-fictional-foods/One of my favorite sources, Metafilter is nine years old today. They reposted the first public link, as they have done almost annually. The link is no longer active, but tradition is tradition. Here's to at least nin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/14/happy-birthday-metafilter/
