'Scuse me while I pick up my jaw from the floor. That is a fully functional wooden Vespa, named "Vespa Daniela," made by Portuguese carpenter Carlos Alberto. Gawk here: Link - via Blog on a Toothpickwood, vespa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/wooden-vespa-by-carlos-alberto/Okay, this is bad - but bad in a funny way. Mr Daz blog has created a sure-fire way of solving the age old problem at offices worldwide: how to get the perfect order of coffee for your officemates!In a busy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/the-michael-jackson-coffee-scale/In all honesty, I put up this post just for the title. But if your kids want their very own plush liver (and what kid doesn't? The liver - he's a good guy - he works in detox!), you can get one on sale at I Heart Guts: h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/im-a-liver-not-a-fighter/Richard Florida wrote an interesting editorial for The Atlantic about how the current economic crisis will shape the future for Americans:The historian Scott Reynolds Nelson has noted that in some respects, todayR...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/how-will-the-economic-crisis-reshape-america/Forget the clunky and boxy prototypical robot we see in bad Sci-Fi movies all the time!Behold The Rise of Discord, the sleek and sexy mechanical representation of Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/the-rise-of-discord-by-greg-brotherton/I <3 Doug Savage's awesome cartoon series Savage Chickens (featured previously on Neatorama here). I particularly like this one - because my computer does the same thing, except it's probably thinking of ways to cause...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/savage-chicken-poet-bot-loves-you/Electron micrograph: Claire J. HealyThat's Rhinebothrium sp., a species of tapeworm that parasitize stingrays. It was recently discovered by Claire J. Healy of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and her colleagues.Atten...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-tapeworm-overlord/Jane and Keith Crane of Akron, Ohio created an eight-foot square Scrabble board for their yard! He fashioned the board from pavers laid in a bed of sand — 225 of them, to be exact. He installed them all in one day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/big-game-of-scrabble/Waterfalls are such a powerful source that provide such a sense of serenity when looking at them. There are so many incredible waterfalls all over the world, but here are just a few located in the United States....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/ten-amazing-waterfalls-you-must-see-in-the-us/Hello, everybody! After writing about 100 articles for Neatorama in the past couple of years, I can't bear to write another Top 10 article - at least for a while (other Neatorama authors undoubtedly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/neatolicious-facts-apple/Clifford Stoll, astronomer, scientist and author of Silicon Snake Oil, is undoubtedly a smart man (he once caught KGB hacker back in the infancy of the Internet). But did you know that he has a very ... unique form of pu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/clifford-stoll-18-minutes-with-an-agile-mind/If you like the roses above, or just forgot about Valentine's Day until all the roses were sold out, there's an easy to follow instruction guide for them over on Instructables right now. LinkFunny, crafts, silly,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/duct-tape-roses-instructable/Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous wrote an interesting post about that on-again, off-again idea of micropayments (when the economy is bad and ad revenues are down, proponents of micropayments pop up like mushrooms after a rainy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/micropayments-rears-its-ugly-head-again/Dark Roasted Blend has a really neat post about some of the strangest medieval suit of armors ever made. This one is the the Armet of Henry VIII or better known as the Horned Helmet, made by Austrian goldsmith Konrad Seu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/the-horned-helmet/This is the winner of Craft Magazine's Valentine's Day craft contest and I love it. It's titled "My Heart Is Yours" and was created by Hine Mizushima. Some of the other winners are pretty cute too. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/craft-valentines-day-project-contest-winner/The Purchase Brothers (David and Ian) are commercial directors who created this fan-film adaptation of the uber-popular video game Half-Life called Escape from City 17. As you watch this, keep in mind that it is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/15/escape-from-city-17-a-half-life-inspired-fan-film-by-the-purchase-brothers/Nobody's seen a jaguar in central Mexico since 1900. Until now. Three photos of an adult male jaguar, taken by a camera trap in the Sierra Nanchititla Natural Reserve, have confirmed the big cat's existence in an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/jaguar-redux/Wow ... we all knew fast food was bad for us, but really? For starters, their burgers can apparently last for 20 years ... longer than the average vehicle. Next up: you would have to walk for seven hours to burn off a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/why-you-may-not-want-to-let-your-friends-eat-at-mcdonalds-or-yourself/Sometimes there are words that cannot be translated into another language without losing some of its meaning. According to the BBC and 1,000 linguists, the most difficult word to translate is "ilunga". A word...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/untranslatable-words/Have you ever wondered what happens to the corpses of the fallen on the upper slopes of Everest? Sometimes they move or are buried by snow, but often they are anchored in place - chilling monuments to their own demise....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/everest-climber-returns-to-everest-to-bury-the-everpresent-dead/Joel Watson of Hijinks Ensue made this printable Valentine's Day card that is oh-so-wrong if you think about it. If you don't get this, then it's obvious that you've never watched Star Wars before ...LinkStar Wars, Valen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/happy-valentines-day-hey-wait-a-minute/Corner Forest by Yuken TeruyaYuken Teruya sees art in everyday objects. Things like pizza boxes and toilet paper rolls. It takes a certain kind of genius to find beauty in something ordinary, but Yuken has done exactly t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/toilet-paper-roll-art-by-yuken-teruya/From ancient to postmodern, these spiral staircases span the spectrum from wonderfully worn to pristinely perfect. Warning: viewing so many in a row from above can have a dizzying impact on the onlooker. Don't trip! *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/16-spectacular-spiral-staircases-as-seen-from-above/Truman Capote's Black and White Ball - November 28, 1966Even though Truman Capote's masquerade was the hottest ticket in 1966, at the advice of Evie Backer, Truman purposely made the decor at his event as understated as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/three-famous-masquerade-balls/What would you do if you came home to find your house ransacked, and worse, that the burglar was still inside? A couple from Montgomery, Alabama, did what some people might find unthinkable - they made the burglar cle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/couple-make-burglar-clean-their-home-at-gunpoint/Remember the Cat Cam? A cat in Seattle wore a camera one day a week for a year, and now those photographs have their own exhibit in an art gallery! Cooper the tomcat has 16 framed photos displayed at the Urban Light Stud...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/cat-has-photography-exhibit/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWPAAgedh8w][YouTube - Link]The Oregon Zoo posted this irresistibly sweet video clip of a 5-month old baby Asian elephant named Samudra playing with a ball. I dare you to resist gi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/baby-elephant-moment-of-cute-zen/Plants grow too slow to see most of the time - making these videos seem like secret access points to a hidden world that operates at a radically different speed.For those of you unfamiliar with plants (they're a lot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/12-incredible-time-lapse-plant-growth-videos/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ehlw_phys][YouTube - Link]WGN news anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange have worked together for many years. They started making up these little coordinated dance routine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/chicago-news-team-boogies-during-break/Everland is a hotel with only one room including a bathroom, a king-size bed and a lounge. What makes it so different is that - because it is also an art installation - this hotel travels! The Everland has been '...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/a-hotel-with-a-unique-view/
