Hello, everyone! I'd like to let you know that we have a few new ambigram T-shirts on the Neatorama Online Store. Usually ambigrams are rotationally symmetric - but these ones are reflectionally special - they spell a di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/ambigram-t-shirt-designs/Just one more from the Neatorama Online Store for today, I promise! Here's an ice tray for your next cocktail party: the Gin & Titonic ice tray (get it?), which makes ice shaped like ocean liners and icebergs.The cle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/gin-titonic-ice-tray/In the Netherlands, there are not many natural places to practice the sport of rock-climbing. But oddly enough, the University of Enschede in the east of the Netherlands has a very active mountaineering club. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/climb-your-dorm/For independent farmers in Poland in the 1960s, it was nearly impossible to acquire a tractor. Any agricultural machines made in Poland during this period went to state-owned farms, and were too expensive for a private f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/diy-tractors-of-poland/Many years ago, monsters walked among us. Don't believe us? Here are the some photographic proofs from Flickr user Relleno De Mono. These are absolutely gorgeous renderings ...Link - via woostercollectiveFrom the Upc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/monsters-of-the-past/Dan Meth ranked some popular trilogy based movies based on enjoyment. His rankings seem fairly accurate. Do you agree?I know other movie geeks are going to have disagreements and that’s fine. And yes, I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/the-trilogy-meter/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecLOYK0WKCw][YouTube - Link]KK Projects re-imagines buildings in New Orleans that were ravaged by Katrina and turns them into site-specific works of art. "This video t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/kk-projects-turning-katrina-wrecked-houses-into-art/I posted this resume in my blog almost 2 years ago and suddenly is getting a lot of hits. I guess that with unemployment raising people are looking for good examples of resumes... and once you read this one, you can't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/best-resume-ever/It's been a while since we ran our last Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt - but the wait's worth it, because Tokyoflash has just released a number of really cool watches....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-8/(YouTube link) Heehee! Yes, you may kick me now. -via Buzzfeed obama, pun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/groaner-of-the-year-so-far/I somehow have a bad feeling about buying groceries at this store. http://epicfailwin.com/suspicious-supermarket-fail/ -via Buzzfeed engrish, grocery store...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/very-suspicious-supermarket/No doubt about it -these are horror stories. There's the 13-inch metal tool left in a patient's body, the women who underwent heart surgery scheduled for a different patient, and several cases of surgery on the wrong sid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/ten-unbelievable-medical-mistakes/Baron Karl Christian Ludwig von Drais de Sauerbrun of Germany patented a two-wheeled foot-driven vehicle on February 17th, 1818. It had no pedals, gears, or brakes. His invention was inspired by the shortage of horses, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/how-the-bicycle-was-invented/As the world's population continues to grow and cities become even more congested and resources dissipate, it might be time to start looking at remedies for the future. Eric Vergne's Dystopian Farm Project envisi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/17/skyscraper-farms-for-a-future-manhattan/Alex CF creates ghastly artifacts. Previous creations include an antique vampire hunting kit, and a werewolf corpse. His latest specimen is this rather toothy "taxidermied corpse of an extra dimensional entity know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/chesire-cat-specimen/Designer Bruno Frisoni presents a pair of shoes that will set you back $43,000! The Dovima, as the shoe is known, is beautiful (and slightly creepy) thanks to the rose pink-dyed taxidermy birds perched delicately...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/taxidermy-fashion/Let Hollywood Saloon take you back to a time before Stanley Kubrick was "Stanley Kubrick", before Spielberg was "Spielberg" and Scorsese was "Scorsese". The folks at Hollywood Saloon hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/early-works/I have no doubt that this will probably upset the animal rights advocates out there, but at least it will provide a little more happiness to all of you Japanophiles. That's right, it is exactly what the title post indi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/a-dalmatian-on-a-tricycle/After a year of drug wars that have taken the lives of at least 6,000 citizens, Mexico opted to fight violence the way the Beatles preached -with love. Almost 40,000 people gathered together on Valentine's day to break t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/mexico-city-breaks-kissing-record/Awesome? Or overkill? Either way, the tattoo artist did a really nice job. Link Update 2/16/09 by Alex - Here's the original link at Gizmodo: http://i.gizmodo.com/5153986/true-hate-the-darth-vader-kills-georg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/darth-vader-pwns-george-lucas/I missed the Movie Trivia post for last week, so we're doing a double feature today. Grab yourself a bowl of popcorn and some M&Ms and enjoy! By the way, if you're one of the few people who hasn't seen The Sixt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/movie-trivia-the-sixth-sense/I love most Tim Burton movies, but I have a special fondness for Beetlejuice. It still kind of blows my mind to see the young, skinny Alec Baldwin, and I can't quite reconcile that Beetlejuice is Michael Keaton. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/movie-trivia-beetlejuice/Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped, Nikolai Kordulla and Dominik Schmid have just released a nifty new website called Sketchory. The site features over 250,000 sketches (cartoons, scribbles and other fascinating artwo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/sketchory-shareable-collection-of-250000-sketches/It's been happening for the past 18 years. On the first Wednesday of every month, families in this neighborhood in Oakland, CA have been sitting down to dinner together. Everyone brings something, but the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/every-first-wednesday/Gone With The Wind won eight Academy Awards in ...I'm not supposed to tell the year. This week, the Lunchtime Quizzes at mental_floss deal with our favorite movies. How well do you know Gone With The Wind*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/gone-with-the-wind/Many people are aware that Harry Potter, The Anarchist Cookbook and Stephen King books have been banned from schools around the country, but as many civilizations have figured out, censorship is a slippery slope. It is p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/7-banned-classics/There aren't many who are ambivalent about aerial tramways - people usually either love them or hate them. Perhaps hate is too mild a word here, we could substitute loathe, despise or fear*/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/16/awesome-aerial-tramways-of-the-world/German street artist Edgar Müller created the 3D work called "Ice Age" on a street in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland last August as part of the Festival of World Culture. Müller, who makes the streets his o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/ice-age-by-edgar-muller/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lfkQ11amj0][YouTube - Link]This three and a half minute video encapsulates the five-plus-hour process of erecting an 18-foot tall, 3,700 pound lifesized replica of the Transformer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/in-depth-look-at-lifesized-bumblebee-build/[YouTube - Link] After almost 19 years of the classic Simpsons introduction scene today the brand new HDTV intro with brand new drawings and animation is being heralded across the interwebs. Being a life long fan o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/the-new-simpsons-intro/
