Barack Roll
(YouTube link) Better than Rick Rolling, you've just been Barack Rolled! -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/barack-roll/Archive for August 9th, 2008
Russian Troops Nearing Savannah
The automated features in Google News can be handy, but sometimes misleading, as the amusing screenshot above indicates. Link via DoublePlusUndead...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/russian-troops-nearing-savannah/The Shepard Scale Auditory Illusion
[YouTube - Link] Here's a cool auditory illusion that may or may not cause you to question your sanity. According to Wikipedia: A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/the-shepard-scale-auditory-illusion/Are Women Bloggers Taken Seriously?
Julie of wine me, dine me blog, was miffed when she read a local article that virtually ignored female bloggers. When her male friend asked her "does that really matter?" she replied: Yes, it does. Women's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/are-women-bloggers-taken-seriously/Lila Jang's Wall-Climbing Sofa
This wall-climbing sofa by Lila Jang is the perfect for that odd corner of the house where no other furniture fits :) It's part of the 2007 contemporary art exhibition Parcours Saint Germain in Paris - via basic_sounds...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/lila-jangs-wall-climbing-sofa/The Aurland Lookout
Photos: Saunders ArchitectureYou're looking at the Aurland Lookout in Norway - this amazing structure was designed by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen of Saunders Architecture, and is part of Norway's effort to get ri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/the-aurland-lookout/Monument to ... Martian Machines?!
This has got to be one of the strangest monument ever: a sculpture of a Martian invader (a Tripod, actually) in Working Woking, England (H.G. Well's hometown and the area in which the Martian first arrived in his novel W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/monument-to-martian-machines/Shark Pedicab
Photo: Jill GreenbergTo advertise its Shark Week, the Discovery Channel commissioned Stefan Paulos to create this awesome Shark Pedicab! Just wait till you see the bill for the ride ...Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/shark-pedicab/Photos from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony
The Big Picture blog by Alan Taylor at Boston.com has an excellent gallery of (huge!) photographs from the (4-hour long!) opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.This one to the left is taken by Vladimir Rys...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/photos-from-the-2008-beijing-summer-olympics-opening-ceremony/Vampire Bats are Deadly
There may be no such things as vampires, but there are vampire bats. And they're deadly:At least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/vampire-bats-are-deadly/1970s Timewarp: Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno on The Electric Company
I was born in January, 1970 and among countless influences that buoyed my childhood years was The Electric Company - an educational show that aired on PBS stations. The Electric Company was for older kids than the Ses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/1970s-timewarp-morgan-freeman-and-rita-moreno-on-the-electric-company/Rare Klaus Nomi cable access appearance
Count me in as a Klaus Nomi fan. Klaus Nomi was a German pastry-maker living in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. An accomplished working pastry-chef by training, he was also an opera singer. Within N...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/09/rare-klaus-nomi-cable-access-appearance/
