Hunter Stabler is a Philadelphia-based cut-paper artist who slices up sheets of paper in order to create elaborate sculptures. Above is "Baba Yoga Misquotes the Face to Steeleye Span." Link via Fallon and Rosof...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/the-cut-paper-art-of-hunter-stabler/Behold Swiss/French artist Guillaume Reymond's new art installation: a "real life" Transformer robot made using a dozen or so cars and trucks: Link - via Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/real-life-transformer-by-guillaume-reymond/Photo: Patrik Riklin (Source: Aftenposten Reise)Whereas Dubai has gone upscale with the world's first (and only) 7-star hotel, Switzerland has gone the opposite way: it has opened (for a trial run) the world's first zero...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/the-new-swiss-zero-star-hotel-a-converted-nuclear-bunker/Australian musician Josh Pyke has a curious boat: it's shaped like a giant guitar!Josh's voyage on board the SS Maton - named after Australian guitar manufacturer Maton, who designed the curious vessel - was caught o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/guitar-boat/Talkin' bout boats, here's another strange one - this time, from China:A Chinese schoolteacher is preparing to cross the 112 mile-wide Taiwan Straits in a paper boat. Zhu Yalin, a chemistry teacher in Meisha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/man-to-cross-the-taiwan-straits-in-a-paper-boat/Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times / Manipulation by Tommer LeyvandTommer Leyvand and colleagues have created a "beautification engine," a software program that uses a mathematical formula to alter a pers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/the-beautification-engine/Being blind usually stops someone from driving - but not a Belgian man named Luc Costermans. He's just set the world's blind speed record:Mr Costermans topped 308.78km/h (192 mph) while driving a Lamborghini Gallardo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/new-blind-speed-record/Jack Newton, 23, is one big fan of physicist Stephen Hawking. So much so that he decided to get his right leg tattooed with Hawking's face after reading A Brief History of Time - even though he didn't understand a word o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/the-hawking-tattoo/Mary Ann Foster is one lucky woman - she survived a bonk in the head from a "space ice" that crashed through the roof over her bed!Mary Ann and her husband think that the ice is from outer space, and so they're...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/woman-survived-bonk-in-head-with-space-ice/The next time your computer is on the fritz and you feel like smashing something, take a little tea break and "reset" with these Ctrl, Alt, Del tea cups!Link - via Gizmodiva...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/ctrl-alt-del-tea-cups/How well do you know the US states? They all have nicknames, but in today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss you'll only be tested on 15 of them. I scored 53%, and I kicked myself a couple of times when I found out the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/state-nicknames/Mark Shields took a 1978 Corvette and turned it into a 1989 Batmobile! Link -via Dark Roasted Blend See more pictures at Shields' website....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/do-it-yourself-batmobile/If someone told you there was a nice job for you IF you got a tattoo on your face, wouldn't you want to confirm it first? Two men in Indonesia didn't question the offer. The pair had their faces permanently inked a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/job-seekers-stuck-with-tattoos/(YouTube link) This surreal video is an ad for a clothing line. I don't see that. -via Ursi's Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/the-fly-and-the-eye/Brain surgery often is done with the patient awake, so he can provide feedback on what section of the brain is being affected. A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo througho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/banjo-used-in-brain-surgery/The following is reprinted from The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Some people call them roadside attractions; we call them tourist traps. Either way, it's an amazing phenomenon: There's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/if-you-built-it-tourists-will-come/Dear smart people: do you think that you know everything? See how you'd do at Miss Cellania's short little quiz for know-it-alls. For example:1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/a-quiz-for-know-it-alls/Super Punch blog has a neat round up of spooky Halloween food you can make.This one is a spider cake by Megan of Not Martha blog (the "legs" are Pockys - yum!)Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/halloween-food-ideas/Rumors, according researchers, aren't just idle or malicious gossips: instead, they are driven by real curiosity and the desire for knowledge. Even negative rumors often serve as a "glue" for social networks (i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/13/rumors-why-they-persist-and-how-to-squelch-them/Photo: Jule Berlin [Flickr] | more hereHow do you make an abandoned building an extra air of mystery? Take a photo of it in HDR! Our pal WebUrbanist blog has compiled some of the most interesting HDR photographs of aband...
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