Now there's an online tool available that allows you to turn your photos into something that looks like tilt-shift, the technique that's been used in these videos for example. Link - via BB-BlogPhotography, tilt-shift...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/tilt-shift-photography-maker/The following is a guest blog by Kelsey Timmerman of Travelin Light | Blog During my research for my book Where am I Wearing: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/meet-the-people-who-made-your-clothes/This is a fantastic idea to build buzz in the blogosphere: the creators of Coraline, a movie inspired by the novella by Neil Gaiman, sent out 50 handmade boxes with items from movie to their favorite bloggers.Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/coraline-boxes/Robert Birming, the author of GeekAlerts, has decided to close down his gadget blog (because it simply takes too much time, a luxury he doesn't have at the moment).Robert, who is also an author on Neatorama and a rock st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/goodbye-geekalerts/It takes real talent to make test pattern cool, but film student André F. Chocron did just that. Here's a minute-long animation, titled Bars and Tones, set to Penguin Cafe Orchestra's Perpetuum Mobile.Link [embedd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/bars-and-tones-by-andr-f-chocron/Guys have been able to erhm, order, a mail order bride from Russia and Asia for quite some time now. But what about the ladies? Fulfilling an obviously under-served niche is this fantastic website, Mail Order Husbands.Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/mail-order-husbands-2/I learned something new today: the ugly concrete building style of the 50s to the 70s, exemplified by Le Corbusier, has a name. It is called Brutalist Architecture (the term brutalist originates from the French b&eac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/brutalist-architecture/From our pal mental_floss, here's a really fun post by Stacy about the origins of ... the Muppets! Here are two of my favorites:12. You have to love Statler and Waldorf. I couldn’t find much on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/fun-facts-about-the-origin-of-the-muppets/The following is reprinted from The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Dr. Norman Borlaug. Photo: khalampre [Flickr]Ever heard of Norman Borlaug? Most people haven't, yet he's c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/the-man-who-saved-a-billion-lives/Here's a papercraft for all of you who have learned to stop worrying and love the New World Order: the Illuminati Pyramid Papercraft, by Paper Replika.Just be careful where you place the papercraft, because it surely con...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/the-illuminati-pyramid-papercraft/These soaps are really cool, in a disturbing, nursing home kinda way. Apparently, they even have a nice minty scent.Link - via blogcrafts, silly, gross, sick, teeth, dentures, soaps...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/creepy-denture-soaps/How often in class or in a boring meeting or on the bus or waiting for a flight have you wanted to lay your head down for a few minutes, but all you have to cushion your skull is a hard-edged laptop? Designer Hafsteinn J...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/napping-on-your-laptop/What we now take for granted many people once took for granted could never work.The lightbulb. The telephone. Email. If you’re a specialist in your field, there are two ways to become a household name: create somet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/inventions-they-said-would-never-work/I could waste a lot of time at TotallyLooksLike.com. No, wait, I already have. Some of the comparisons are astute (Billy Mays really does look like Al from Home Improvement!), some of them are funny, and some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/pam-anderson-totally-looks-like-bride-of-chucky/For security reasons, we must remain circumspect about exactly how this video got to Neatorama headquarters from outer-space. It's footage of an act almost as heinous and terrifying as cat juggling. This time, it's a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/space-cat-in-zero-gravity/Our movie trivia posts have been so popular, we decided to make them a regular feature. When I talked to our fearless leader about this, he said it sounded like a great idea and nominated The Princess Bride for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/movie-trivia-the-princess-bride/VideoSift, one of our favorite-est websites on the Net, dug up this gem of a video clip: a young Yehudi Menuhin playing Habanera by Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate on the violin, with Adolph Baller at the piano.Link [...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/yehudi-menuhin-plays-habanera-by-sarasate/Wow - Neatorama made it to the TV show Who Wants to be a Millionaire ... wait a minute ... HEY! Actually, it's a rather clever generator by Remixito, where you can generate your own set of question and answers: Link - vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-generator/How much CO2 does a google search produce if a google search produces CO2? Well, Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross did the math: ... a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/googles-carbon-footprint/Robert Lount of Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business found out why first impressions are so important: people are more forgiving of a breach of trust later in the relationship as opposed as early on.Here'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/why-first-impressions-are-so-important/From the awesomeness that is Japanese television, here is Freddie Mercury singing I Was Born to Love You (complete with chest hair!) It's part of Monomane Battle, a show where Japanese celebrities impersonate other celeb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/japanese-freddie-mercury/Julian Partridge of Bristol University found something peculiar about the brownsnout spookfish: they have mirrors for eyes!Tests confirmed the fish is the first vertebrate known to have developed mirrors to focus lig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/fish-has-mirrors-for-eyes/You've got to admire Graham Parker's persistence: after 26 year's worth of attempts, he has finally solved his Rubik's cube: Delighted Graham, 45, from Portchester, Hants, has been tirelessly trying to solve the ridd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/26-years-later-man-finally-solved-rubiks-cube/Someone dubbed the "Byker Romeo" turned a 15-foot letter on top of a carpet factory into a romantic message for a sweetheart:Staff at Storey’s Carpets in Cut Bank, Byker, Newcastle, were surprised to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/byker-romeo-proclaims-love-on-rooftop/Rob Lammle has a new article at Mental Floss describing currently ongoing alternate reality games. I hadn't heard of almost any of them, including this site, which is related to the new Dreamworks movie Monsters vs....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/alternate-reality-game-roundup/A 20-pound lobster named George will be returned to the sea after a stay in a New York restaurant. From his size, the lobster is estimated to be around 140 years old. George was caught off the coast of Newfoundland, Can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/freedom-for-big-lobster/Milk at the this Wal*Mart store is $2.25 a gallon, or 2 for $5. A half-gallon of milk is $2.47. What would your purchase be? Link -via Bits and Pieces math, milk, prices...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/why-learning-math-is-important/A group of tough-looking tattooed tattoo enthusiasts rescued 180 abandoned cats and kittens from a foreclosed home last week. They say it will take about a week to rescue and rehabilitate the cats found in Moriches, New...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/tough-guys-have-soft-spot-for-cats/(Vimeo link) A time-lapse video by Till Credner. -Thanks Kiltak! nature, timelapse, sky...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/11/beautiful-skies/Just what the internet needs: more bacon! You can add a strip of bacon to any website at Bacolicio.us. Just add a URL to the end of theirs, Neatorama for example, and make any page more delicious. Link -Thanks, Nestor!...
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