Photo: Benjamin Reed / LA TimesLos Angeles has more homeless people - about 73,000 on any given night - than any other cities in the United States. But where are they exactly? In this interesting LA Times article by Jess...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/04/the-hidden-homeless-of-los-angeles/{YouTube Link} What would Star Trek: The Next Generation be like if the Enterprise was an interstellar cruise ship? RT: 1 min, 35 sec. Update 9/4/08 by Alex - original link [MySpace video] -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/03/star-trek-the-love-boat/With many thanks to Jürgen Köller of mathematische-basteleien, we now have an excellent I Love Math shirt on Neatorama's online store. (The equation is from Gabriel Taubin).I Heart (Curve) Math t-shirt, current...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/03/i-heart-math-t-shirt/Photo: Bob HalvorsenBehold the triplane Jules Verne, a fantastic flying machine made from drinking straws, Reynolds sandwich wrap, and a home-made motor by Carl Rankin of Flying Puppets.Link | Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/03/the-jules-verne-triplane-made-from-drinking-straws-and-sandwich-wrap/We read to kids, so why not let the kids read to to ... cats?! Here's the story of the Austin Humane Society's reading-to-cats program:"It's just a fun, positive experience for the kids and great socialization f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/03/austin-human-societys-reading-to-cats-program/The French Health, Youth, and Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot made a bet with the French Olympic athletes: if they came home with 40 medals from the Beijing Olympic Games, she'll wear pinc Crocs to work.The French athl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/03/french-sports-minister-lost-bet-wore-pink-crocs-to-cabinet-meeting/Ken of Onlyknives blog has just posted a how-to guide on making your own Jar Jar Binks out of jicama:Jar Jar Binks was easily the worst thing about The Phantom Menace. If I could create a scrumptious salad out of him...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/03/diy-jar-jar-binks-salad/Photo: lisascenic [Flickr]For today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game, you get to caption this cute photo of Lisa and Robb's cat Linguine:Lisa and I have been having a chuckle over the thought that this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/03/caption-monkey-41-strawberry-headed-cat/The word “Me” appears in the titles of dozens of Hollywood feature films. In today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, try to match 12 film titles with the 12 actors who portrayed the “Me” in each one. I scored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/03/look-at-me/Just in case parents didn't notice before, schools in the UK will send them an official letter saying that their kids are ... fat!Parents are to receive official letters telling them if their child has a weight probl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/letter-from-school-your-kid-is-fat/Lesson for today: Don't ever get between a kangaroo and its pack, mmkay? Here's what happened to a jogger who got attacked by a 'roo: Metropolitan Ambulance Service spokeswoman Christine Paterson says the man, in his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/when-kangaroo-attacks/It's long been known that babies of older moms can have more health problems, but studies have now linked mental illness to advanced paternal age: Researchers analyzed Swedish national registry data from more than 80...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/kids-of-older-dads-have-increased-risk-of-being-bipolar/Ted Hunter of Thin Air Press fittingly created this awesome set of skateboard deck stairs for the Roarockit skateboard deck woodworking school: Link - via Treehugger, Thanks Chris Tackett!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/the-skateboard-stairs/Coming hot on the heels of the Olympics (see what I did there?), here is Sydney's Stiletto dash! The world record for the number of high-heeled sprinters in a race has been smashed by a group of women in Australia.*/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/stiletto-dash/Like its name says, The Ghettoblaster Hall of Fame lists some of history's most excellent boomboxes. Like this one from Sharp: a radio, cassette recorder, and yes, a turntable combo!If you want a full stereo system t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/the-turntable-ghettoblaster-and-other-cool-boomboxes/National University of Singapore's Mixed Reality Lab is fast becoming my favorite in cutting edge (and a little wacky - okay, a lot) research. Take, for instance, this project titled Poultry Internet, where a ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/pet-your-chicken-through-the-internet/Forget cutesy papercraft, Spitfuls has just come up with disaster dioramas: a set of paper models you can download and fold to depict the sinking of the Titanic and the burning of the Hindenburg!Link - via Boing Boing, *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/disaster-diorama-papercraft/Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference in 1921Eugenics is the pseudoscientific belief of improving the human race through selective breeding. Though forms of it still exist today (proponents focu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/disturbing-facts-about-eugenics/In her (de)light project, Christina Ferraz Rigo creates a lamp that uses liquid as its source of light:In dark rooms, the liquid glows with intensity when the proper catalyst is mixed with water. Sure, it may not be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/delight-liquid-light-by-christina-ferraz-rigo/Pics or it didn't happen. This woman seemed to have taken the Internet phrase to heart by going to great lengths to take this photo.Check out what she's doing at the Oddly Enough blog: Link - Thanks Robert Basler!*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/02/shes-got-the-photo-to-prove-it/Photo: computationally.intractable [Flickr] The Royal Pingdom blog has a pretty neat run down of the 23 license plates for geeks: Link - via Miss Cellania...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/01/license-plates-for-geeks/If glossophobia is the irrational fear of public speaking, what is the unusual love of public speaking? Whatever it is, here's the gadget for it: a PA System in a briefcase! Link | Orator Briefcase PA System...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/01/pa-system-in-a-briefcase/Here's something you don't hear every day: the Klingon victory song "YIjah, Qey' 'oH" performed on the guitar and harmonica.Sing along:Bagh Da tuH mogh / ChojaH Duh rHoyIjah, Qey' 'oH (x3)majaq. 'o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/01/klingon-victory-song-on-the-guitar-and-harmonica/What's more awesome than a Klein bottle? Why, three Klein bottles inside (outside?) one another! Here's the glass sculpture by Alan Bennett for the Science Museum in London:It consists of three Klein bottles, one ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/01/three-klein-bottles-inside-outside-one-another/Aaaw! Star Trek: The Experience, a hoaky but charming attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton is closing:After a decade at the final frontier, Star Trek: The Experience is going where no Las Vegas Strip attraction wants t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/01/say-goodbye-to-star-trek-the-experience/What do you get when you supersize the ghettoblaster and attach it to a car? Behold, the DJ Mobile:The idea for the DJ Mobile is inspired by the song "God is a DJ" [from faithless] and the car of our HOLY-P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/01/ghettoblaster-car-dj-mobile/The medical discipline of plastic surgery (a reconstructive surgery, not to be confused with cosmetic surgery) has its origins in the horrors of World War I. The massive use of heavy artilleries in the war resulted not o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/01/project-faade-plastic-surgeries-of-world-war-i/Bad idea: robbing a storeReally bad idea: robbing a gun store ...Neatorama-worthy: ... with a hidden guard dog behind the counter.Here's what happened, as captu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/01/crouching-shopkeeper-hidden-guard-dog/
