This is pretty neat: a fountain at the Kanazawa Rail Station in Japan uses small streams of water to spell out words and even tell the time!Link [embedded YouTube clip]japan, water clock, Kanazawa Station, fountain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/kanazawa-station-fountain-water-clock/Photo: Olly Moss [Flickr]UK artist Olly Moss is currently conducting a Guerilla Sloth Propaganda, in which he reworks Shepard Fairey's iconic Obey André the Giant posters. I quite like the smiley sloth! - via Supe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/olly-moss-pwns-shepard-faireys-obey-giant/Like its name said, DogsInOutfits.com is a website about dogs wearing things nature didn't intend them to wear. This one looks like a greyhound wearing some sort of a psychedelic pajama. One look at its face should tell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/dogs-in-outfits-2/What would it be like if noteable moments in history were run by committees and their endless strategy planning sessions?Here's the short 2 minute YouTube clip, titled Association Professionals Through The Ages, by Dan M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/association-professionals-through-the-ages-by-dan-meth/Mental_floss blog has a very entertaining post about the 10 strange fashion of yore. This one to the left is the motoring hood, which people used to wear to go driving!Other gems include a steel collar (gorget), transpar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/strange-fashion-of-yore/Datamancer was commissioned to build a computer keyboard for some friends who are Scrabble fans. Most of the keys are actual Scrabble tiles, and the ones that had to be custom-made look just like the real thing. Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/scrabble-keyboard/Marko Calasan of Skopje, Macedonia is the world's youngest certified computer system administrator at the age of eight. He could get a high-paying job, but he hasn't yet completed third grade! Marko learnt to read...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/worlds-youngest-it-whiz/Ahhh, Shaun of the Dead, the ultimate rom-zom-com. I could watch this over and over and never get bored. If you haven't seen it, and you a) like zombie movies and b) have a dark sense of humor, you must immedi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/movie-trivia-shaun-of-the-dead/[YouTube - Link] Made in the early thirties, here's a video clip of a man with a rifle testing an early version of the bulletproof glass ... by having his wife hold the glass to her face while he shot at her! No ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/husband-tested-bulletproof-glass-with-his-wife/If you want something original and a little ironic on your shirt or baseball cap, perhaps a unicorn spearing a fairy, or a bald eagle making off with a baby, check out the website of digital embroiderer Jimmy Bradshaw, w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/jimmy-bradshaw-edgy-embroiderer/[YouTube - Link] A selection of book titles and covers so boring they're interesting. I bet Alex has some of those in his library. Book amp Literature, boring, esotheric...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/neatly-boring/PuzzleMuseum.com has the story of Harry Eng and his amazing handiwork. The story behind the bottle seen here:One evening Harry was in a London hotel and decided to visit the Puzzle Museum the next morning. When he an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/harry-eng-the-master-bottle-filler/Wow! Johannes Muecke designed a full size spaceship, and had a team of architects from Different Futures build it in a huge "hangar." Complete with slides, floor markings and more, I'm amazed this p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/secondsolar-mmp/Ed Kaspriske is an air horn enthousiast - he collects diesel locomotive air horns. If you want to put a big horn on your Geo Metro you'll find something interesting in his website. You'll find pictures, sounds and a li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/honk-if-you-like-horns/Wanna know what happens in a movie, but don't want to take the time to watch it? Movie-A-Minute can help you. Sort of. OK, it's really more for people who have seen the movie and want to be entertained by a brief syno...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/movie-a-minute/If you're anything like me, you can open your fridge and immediately find several condiments you haven't used in months... maybe even years. I know we have a bottle of soy sauce lurking in ours that's probably from, oh,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/table-of-condiments/I've been entertaining myself with this for way too long this afternoon. You get a bunch of elements - squares of different colors, vertical lines, horizontal lines, diamonds, dots - and then can place them wherever you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/make-your-own-virtual-kaleidoscope/Photo: James Frankham / NY TimesI've always wanted to visit New Zealand ever since I saw The Lord of the Rings movies, and this feature at the New York Times by Robert D. Hershey Jr. just added a lot of fuel to my wander...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/the-fiordland-national-park-in-new-zealand/In the Clan Kincaid DNA Project, 140 people with the surname Kincaid (or variations thereof) have taken DNA test to find their ancestors and trace their family tree. But among the cool stuff (like finding out war heroes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/the-kincaid-dna-project-reveals-ethical-dilemma-of-paternity-test/Is Facebook isolating its users socially? Or does the popular social networking website actually enhance social interaction?Those are the questions that Lisa Selin Davis of TIME magazine is asking: Jenny has not retu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/are-you-a-facebook-hermit/Korean artist Jungyun Yoon created this Inner Message Ring, a metal band with raised text on the inside surface. After a while, the message ("Marry Me" and "Always") will imprint itself on th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/inner-message-ring-by-jungyun-yoon/It may not be exactly the same as standing in front of masterpiece paintings by the Old Masters, but if you can't make the plane trip to Madrid, Spain, it's still pretty darn neat.Google just launched a Google Earth fea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/the-prado-museum-masterpieces-in-google-earth/This video from the BBC features a flight simulation program's recreation of US Airways flight 1549 including the simulated view from the cockpit of the approach and landing on the Hudson River. [YouTube]New York City...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/simulated-cockpit-view-of-us-airways-hudson-river-landing/Last month, we started a new feature on Neatorama: an open forum for Neatorama readers. In the blog post introducing the forum, I promised that the best posters will win a mystery prize, and since I'm a man of my words,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/neatorama-forum-top-posters/I Wish I Were the Moon is a refreshingly different and genre-defying Flash game by Daniel Benmergui of Ludomancy. It is inspired by Italo Calvino's short story The Distance of the Moon and has been sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/i-wish-i-were-the-moon/Can't go anywhere without your cuddly teddy bear? Sebastian Errazuriz made a coat for people who can't part with their stuffed animal for just one second: http://www.meetsebastian.com/english/ (Flash Website, click on Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/teddy-bear-coat-by-sebastian-errazuriz/Love, love, love these cute marzipan sculptures by Glenn D'Hondt, Sylvia Meert, and Tinne Mermans of Eugene and Louise Bakery (it's a fictional bakery for an art show): http://www.eugene-and-louise-bakery.be/ (don't miss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/marzipan-sculptures-by-eugene-and-louise-bakery/Photo: Second City Warehouse [Flickr]Neatorama reader lir wrote an interesting account of the abandoned Uptown Theatre in Chicago. The ornate theater, the second largest in the United States, has been abandoned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/18/the-abandoned-uptown-theatre/Superuseless Superpowers is a blog by an anonymous cartoonist who has taken up the task of chronicling the most useless superpowers. Above is his picture of the superpower 13th Bullet Proof -- being completel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/17/superuseless-superpowers/An Obama-branded cell phone has hit the market, but alas, for the time being at least, it is only available in Kenya. The "Mi-Obama" phone costs around USD$30 in Kenya and more than 1000 have reportedly been sold to d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/17/introducing-the-obamaphone/
