PJM at Old Picture of the Day dropped out of the rat race and became a high school teacher. I can remember my first day of class, I had one class made up of a particularly tough group of students. These students did...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/picture-indians/Legomaniacs, you can do more than just build things from Legos! Display your passion in your home with furnishings made from Lego bricks, home products from the Lego company, and products that have that familiar (if no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/the-lego-lifestyle-home/(YouTube link) John Cleese, Eric Idle, and the rest of the Monty Python gang have decided to fight back against the unauthorized uploading of their material to YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/montypython -via Metafilt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/monty-python-strikes-back/Over the years, you've seen James Bond use amazing gadgets you wish you could have yourself. Walyou has a rundown of 15 such spy gadgets that exist in the real world! As someone said in the comments, even if you have a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/cool-spy-gadgets/(YouTube link) Bicycle + Guitar Hero = Bike Hero. This took some work! Kevin says he went through many takes before getting it right. The music is Prisoner of Society by The Living End. -Thanks, David Ros...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/bike-hero/Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/photos-from-life/(Video Link) Robert Burden is a San Francisco-based artist who composes paintings of toys from the 1980s, including depictions of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe, and The Teenage...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/1980s-toys-by-artist-robert-burden/Flickr user roguebantha_1138 built a huge Lego diorama that tells a story, set in the Star Wars universe! Welcome to Mustaneer! (it’s not as distant as Mustafar) Basically it’s a Rebel attack on an Imperial ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/rebel-attack-in-lego/[YouTube - Link] I have no idea who thought this was a good idea for a product and who in the marketing department thought this video would work to sell it. Oddly enough it makes me think of this as a Michael Myers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/beauty-mask-video/(Video Link) You may think that this Roomba-riding cat is cute. I'm more concerned about the implications of cats learning how to use human technology. What, do you think that cats will be loyal to us when the revolut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/a-roomba-riding-cat/Cats have rules for their lives, they just don't want to tell you about them. James S. Huggins has compiled a list of these guidelines. For example: The humans would have you believe that those lumps under the cover...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/guidelines-for-cats/Propaganda posters may or may not have served their purpose for the Soviet Union, but they sure have inspired artists in other parts of the world! The form has been co-opted and remixed with pop culture icons for laugh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/pop-culture-propaganda-posters/(Video Link) Here's a remake of the opening scene of the classic comedy film The Naked Gun using Grand Theft Auto IV. RT: 1 minute, 16 seconds....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/the-naked-gun-as-presented-by-grand-theft-auto-iv/For those of you (like me!) who look up into the night sky pondering hoping for the existence of alien civilizations in faraway galaxies here's something to bring it all a little closer to home. Galaxy Zoo.org is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/its-a-galaxy-zoo-out-there/[YouTube - Link] Using 200 Toshiba Gigashot cameras this advertisement called "Timesculpture" for Toshiba advances the Bullet Time method we all remember from the movie The Matrix. However, this was create...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/18/bullet-time-20-by-toshiba/Rare, Medium and Well Done Books is an "awesomely unorganized bookstore" in Lincoln Park, Chicago. If I'm ever in the Windy City, this will definitely be a place to visit.A fantastic photo by Doug Oldham [photo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/books-rare-medium-well-done/OK, I should totally be working on my NaNoWriMo book right now... but then my husband managed to distract me with this Muppets site. The videos are fantastic - I'm especially partial to the Secret Elevator Tapes fea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/all-muppets-all-the-time/I have the feeling this is the future of our school music programs. Surely they can't say they don't have the money to fund arts and music when it's all being made from veggies. The best part is, when you're done you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/man-plays-carrinet/With apologies to Johannes Vermeer. If you don't get this, then count yourself lucky because you're obviously not a nerdy geek ;) That is all. Move along....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/girl-with-a-perl-earring/If you were somehow bothered by the previous post of dancing squirrels than maybe you'll be one of the sick weirdos that would love these earings made of their feet. As a related note, you may be interested in these equ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/squirrel-feet-earrings/Maybe it's just me, but I think the whole stuffy lawyer image is ok. Stereotypical attorneys may not be people I'd want to hang out with outside of the court room, but they sure know their way around loopholes. That...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/worst-lawyer-ad-ever/How's everyone doing? I'm a bit behind - just over 22,000 words when I should be well over halfway at this point. But, I'm still chugging along, so that should count for something. Plus, I count on the weekends to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/nanowrimo-progress/You are QWOP, our small nation's sole representative at the Olympic Games. Use the QWOP keys to move your legs. Ideally, you will run 100 metres ...but our training program was underfunded. Remember, it's not wheth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/qwop/(Adnstream link) That's one lucky penguin! -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/penguin-escapes-hungry-whales/Recently Made by Makers had a workshop in which three designers had to come up with twenty original speaker designs in just three days. Each design should be modelled and rendered and also be easily communicated in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/concept-speaker-designs/If you're a fan of the original version of the game Monopoly, then you might do quite well with today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. How many properties featured in the game can you name in five minutes? You'll do b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/monopoly-properties/Here's an idea you might file away for next Halloween! This guy left an unlit but partially-cut pumpkin outside and enticed the neighborhood squirrels to come and carve a Jack-O-Lantern face for him. You'll have to adm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/squirrels-carve-pumpkin/Eri Yoshida is a 16-year-old schoolgirl, but she's been drafted to play professional baseball in a Japanese mens league! The 5-foot-tall pitcher will be the first female to play alongside men in Japan next spring when a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/female-drafted-for-mens-league-in-japan/Pedestrian crosswalks should be well marked, but they don't have to be boring! See what artists in different cities have done to bring a smile to those who walk the streets. Or drive them. The example shown is from Can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/crosswalk-art/(YouTube link) A short film by Patrick Smith. The protagonist makes a hand puppet, who apparently doesn't like his creator. -via I Am Bored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/17/puppet/
