Bonnie, a 30-year-old female orangutan living at the Smithsonian National Zoological Part in Washington, D.C., started doing something strange one day: she started whistling!Scientists have long known that orangutans...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/the-whistling-orangutan/December 31st will be a long day this year. One second longer, to be exact. The earth's trip around the sun doesn't exactly correspond to our calendar, as it takes 365.2422 days. That's why we add a day for leap year eve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/leap-second/I didn't know you could do this. An owner of a Fuji apple orchard printed up custom stickers of iPods and the Apple logo. He then put the stickers on his Fuji apples while they were still young and on the trees....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/geek-fruit/With a title like Death Metal Puppy, you might want to think before you watch this video, since the music is, yeah, death metal. But it made me laugh! Turn your speakers down a bit and give it a chance. Link (embedded vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/death-metal-puppy/Amanda Palmer, from Boston MA, is performing the song "I Google You" by Neil Gaiman live at Spiegelworld in New York City. Link [YouTube] - via Google Blogoscopedgoogle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/i-google-you-live-music-performance/This "100 Tons Bomb" tissue roll cover looks like it came straight out of the ACME catalog. But don't let Wile E. Coyote light the "fuse", you may need the tissue to wipe tears from your eyes after sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/cartoon-bomb-tissue-roll-cover/To celebrate/honor/make fun of everything that happened on the Web in 2008, the staff at Urlesque blog made their own award (now that's a neat idea!), the 2008 Urlies.One of the funnest categories is the Meme of the Year...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/2008-urlies-meme-of-the-year/Japanese scientists at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs have successfully built a machine that can read your mind - or at least getting images straight from your brain:A Japanese research team has revealed it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/mind-reading-computer-takes-images-straight-out-of-your-brain/Whoa! Take a look at these super sweet shuriken (Ninja throwing star) magnets at epaulet. Want! http://www.epauletshop.com/servlet/the-92/Secret-Mark-Throwing-Star/Detail - via BB GadgetsMore cool stuff at Core 77's Ulti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/ninja-throwing-star-refrigerator-magnet/A military killer drone, er ... missile defense took one step closer to reality. Here's a video clip of a "multiple kill vehicle" completing its hover test:Objectives of the test included having the MKV-L h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/multiple-kill-vehicles-hover-test/Monster Crochet always has the neatest things. And now, just in time for the holidays, Lady Linoleum has created the pie-ret in three different flavors: pumpkin, pecan, and cranberry-orange. Looks like a pie, fee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/have-your-dessert-and-wear-it-too/Tilt-Shift Barcelona from joja on Vimeo.Ali posted a couple of really neat videos of tilt-shift+time-lapse photography before on Neatorama. Here's something along the same line: this time, it's Barcelona by Vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/tilt-shift-time-lapse-photography-of-barcelona/Need more room in your Christmas stocking for goodies? It's not a problem with this fantastic DIY expandable Christmas stocking, by Instructables user scoochmaroo: Link - Thanks Ed!Christmas, diy, stocking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/expandable-christmas-stocking/Barrett Haroldson of Colle+McVoy ad agency worked on Yahoo! Messenger's newest microsite: Emoticarolers, where you can "compose" your own Christmas ditty to be sung by four emoticons sent to the digital doorste...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/emoticarolers/Neatorama reader DHRECK wrote to us about his latest art creation: a fully functional Wii-mote/nunchuck completely covered with hemp strings! Made from 3 kinds of 100% natural hemp string on the outside, while remain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/wii-mote-covered-in-hemp-strings/This is fantastic: Google Book Search has full copies of Popular Science magazine, dating back to 1872, available for you to read online. The very first issue, May to October 1872, covers such topics as The Study of Soci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/popular-science-magazine-1872-now-in-google-books/Hans Andersson bought a LEGO Mindstorms kit for his daughters, but got caught up in making this spectacular robot himself. Meet Tilted Twister, a LEGO robot that does what most of us can't do: solve a Rubik's cube all by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/lego-robot-solves-rubiks-cube-all-by-itself/When we posted about Paul Nawrocki wearing a sandwich board advertising himself for a job, many of you say that it would never work.But such a tactic did work, at least for this guy: An out-of-work banker wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/sandwich-board-man-no-not-that-one-got-a-job/I love this group. The Isiserettes are a non-profit drill and drum corps from Des Moines headed to D.C. in January to perform at Barack Obama’s inauguration. The official group is made up of kids ages 7 to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/the-isiserettes-drill-and-drum-corps/Woohoo! It's time for the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt on Neatorama!For those of you who don't know how to play (what? how could you!), here's what it's all about: it's an online treasure hunt where you can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-7/To celebrate the release of mental_floss’ first iPhone application, a game called Big Fat Lies! every Lunchtime Quiz this week involves lies. Today’s quiz asks you to figure out which statements about Alaska are bi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/big-fat-lies-about-alaska/A rap tribute to the classic 80s Cyberpunk film RoboCop. This video was written and produced by DJ Mayhem, feat. MC Mouthmaster Murf - both from The Anomalies. Link [YouTube] - via Nerdcorerobocop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/the-robocop-rap/Maybe Debbie Goard of San Francisco's Debbie Does Cakes got inspired by this other Yoda cake when she decided to make her own Star Wars pastry contribution. Yoda’s head was made from rice krispies treats, modell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/yoda-cake-20/The folks over at Slashfood are giving their readers a recipe gift every day leading up to Christmas. They've had some really yummy ones - I'm definitely going to have to try out these Peanut Butter Fudge Krispy Treats...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/how-to-make-homemade-marshmallows/When Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlett of Carnegie Mellon University found out that Google Street View is coming to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the duo arranged a more "interesting" view of the street: they staged a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/the-google-street-view-prank/Photo: Red Cross of ArgentinaThis is a pretty clever guerilla marketing by the Argentinian Red Cross: a "melting" man passing out fliers urging spectators in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to fight global warming.Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/melting-man-wants-you-to-fight-global-warming/Antoinette J. Citizen created this art installation straight out of Super Mario Bros, complete with working question mark boxes with sound effects: Link - via Chunnelmario, super mario bros, room...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/super-mario-bros-room/Oh, how I love Flight of the Conchords. The crazy genius New Zealand duo are at it again ... and this time, you're all invited. All you have to do is learn the lyrics of "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" and vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/11/flight-of-the-conchords-invite-fans-to-lip-dub/We posted about Yahoo's top searches of 2008 before on Neatorama. Well, Google has just released its 2008 Year-End Zeitgeist, and the results couldn't be any different.Here are the highlights from Google searches from ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/10/google-zeitgeist-2008/Now this is a clever and entertaining classroom prank: here's Reach! A lecture musical prank by Prangstgrüp, starring Mike Barry with lyrics by Brian Jacobs. Even Prof. James Valentini, who teaches chemistry at Colu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/10/classroom-lecture-musical-prank/
