The passing of a cat has spawned a neighborhood memorial. The cat was known as Ginger, Dave, Atkinson, or Fonzworthy III. A shrine of flowers and notes have gathered at Holloway Street in Bath, England as the many who fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/19/rip-whats-his-name/(YouTube link) Concert pianist Wibi Soerjadi dressed as an amputee pirate to showcase a one-handed technique. He plays the theme from The Pirates of the Caribbean with his left hand only! This clip is part of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/19/unusual-renditions-of-theme-tunes/A south London junk shop displays life-size movie characters outside to draw attention. Recently, a metal sculpture of the Predator has joined their ranks. A junk yard is probably far too harsh a word for it. How...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/19/predator-in-london/(YouTube link) Stephen Hawking will return from the CERN collider today to unveil the new clock at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England. The unusual clock was designed by inventor John Taylor. For all its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/19/the-time-eater/Psychologist John B. Watson had a theory that humans are not afraid of anything until something causes us to fear. To test that theory, in 1920 he went through the process of teaching an infant (known as "Little Albert")...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/19/doctor-watsons-phobia-factory/How many miles do you do at the office? While you're making deals or crunching numbers, you may as well be using a treadmill at the same time. Dr. James Levine of the Mayo Clinic started the trend toward treadmills at wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/the-office-treadmill/Last Meals Delivery Service in Toronto will bring you a last meal (but only if you live in Toronto). Not your last meal, but the meal someone on Death Row chose as their last. They all cost $20 and must be ord...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/last-meals-delivery-service/David Kalb, a warehouse worker from La Habra, California, won a contest to compete against LeBron James in a game of H-O-R-S-E. Using some bizarre trick shots and benefiting from some lucky misses by LeBron, Kalb ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/video-of-lebron-james-losing-at-h-o-r-s-e/Add this to the list of potential harmful effects of cell phones: bad sperm qualities!Keeping a cell phone on talk mode in a pocket can decrease sperm quality, according to new research from the Cleveland Clinic.*/em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/cell-phones-affect-sperm-qualities/McCann-Erickson has produced a beautifully animated but disturbing PSA for the Portuguese organization Quercus {wiki} about global warming. Let the comments begin. http://www.fubiz.net/blog/index.php?2008/09/18/2229-gl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/dont-give-up/Tomoji Tanabe has seen many birthdays. Today he turns 113! Tanabe is the world's oldest living man, and the eleventh oldest living person in the world. He celebrated at his home in southern Japan with a visit from the ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/happy-birthday-tomoji-tanabe/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will find out how pop-savvy you are about musical groups that exist only in TV and movies. I scored 50%, because I am a pop-culture failure. Come to think of it, I did pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/im-with-the-fictional-band/A company called NeuroSky Inc, has built a prototype of a system that reads brain waves and uses them to control a mobile phone! They held a demonstration at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2008 in San Francisco last we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/brain-controlled-cell-phones/Well, this should be effective. Occasionally, even I run across a message, so clear and so profound, that design of the presentation would do little to make it any clearer. Link -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/warning-sign/Brady Clark and Mykle Hansen created a vest that lets bicycle riders show off how fast they're pedaling:How does the vest work?In a nutshell, it uses a sensor on your wheel to send a signal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/speed-vest/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Funky BeatTwo years ago, we have Lasse Gjertsen patching together his beatboxing clips to make the Internet sens...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/videosift-clips-of-the-week-6/(YouTube link) Jason at Hack A Day details an experiment using thermite to destroy a hard disk while still in a computer case. He also explains what thermite is and warns you not to try this. Link -Thanks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/18/thermite-destruction/Why Would You Knit That?! is a blog dedicated to the strange things that people have knitted. I personally like the Star Trek figurines, but I'm still scratching my head over the tissue box cover. Pictured is the Coat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/why-would-you-knit-that/Blend Creations has a line of metal pendants featuring monsters illustrated by your favorite artists. Only 100 of each pendant is available, and $16 of the $81 price will go to UNICEF. Pre-orders are being taken now fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/metal-for-monsters/This photo is so intriguing, Gizmodo is having a caption contest. Some of the lines in the comments are priceless! Link -Thanks, kid_icarus!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/darth-and-date/Military researchers have been hard at work developing mechanical suits that provide protection, strength, and endurance. A team at the University of West Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is also worki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/super-strength-cyborg-penguins/Chinese farmer Fu Haiwen has a strange duck: it has chicken feet and is afraid of the water! Fu said he bought the duck in June but did not notice its unusual feet for ten days, reports Laibin News.It was on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/duck-with-chicken-feet-is-afraid-of-the-water/Forty years ago, Christine Orchard and Chester Locke met at a youth club and fell in love. They had a child out of wedlock and were forced apart by Christine's parents. Tracey Orchard, the daughter they had together, spe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/forty-years-later-daughter-born-out-of-wedlock-brought-parents-back-together/Yumiko Matsui is a Japanese artist specializing in fantastic dioramas made out of paper. This one is of the Dotonbori Street in Osaka:Dotonbori is one of Osaka's main shopping areas and entertainment districts, and i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/papercraft-diorama-by-yumiko-matsui/If Tino Schaedler of NAU has his ways, then we will soon use this Star-Trek-holodeck-meets-Minority Report "immersive cocoon" for all of our computing:The Cocoon is a digital experience that is both intuiti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/holodeck-minority-report-immersive-coccoon/Spanish artist Jose Manuel Ballester took famous paintings and cleared them of all humans and people! The result is a collection of fascinating yet disturbing empty landscapes and spaces. Fogonazos has more pics: Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/de-humanized-paintings-by-jose-manuel-ballester/Today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game brings you this strange photo via Scribal Terror. Funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.Contest rules are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/caption-monkey-43-playing-horsey/The bomb squad responded to call about a suspicious package yesterday near the Columbia Heights Metro station in Washington, DC. Citizens had observed a polar bear rummaging in a trash can. They said he had been there fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/polar-bear-scare/Western scientists first referred to the Mongolian Death Worm in 1926, although the information had come from locals, not direct observation. Reported to be between two and five feet long, the deep-red coloured w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/in-search-of-the-mongolian-death-worm/Instructables has step-by-step directions for making an origami cube from six New York City Metro cards -or any other type of cards you may have. It might not be all that useful, but it could be a fun project or a way...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/nyc-style-origami-cube/
