Martin Miller at Photography Served gives us a look at some historic weapons of mass destruction under an artistic light. His striking black and white photographs transform some of last century's most horrifying...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/beautiful-and-deadly-wmds/The winter of 1709 was the coldest in 500 years. All across Europe, from Scandinavia to northern Italy, and to the western coast of France, livestock died in their barns, fish froze in the rivers, millions of birds...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/the-year-europe-froze/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSQeMBzHR0o][YouTube - Link]Here's an all-star cast of comedians - John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman - lampooning the stereotypical "rich peopl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/the-four-yorkshiremen-sketch/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vaA38NUvo][YouTube - Link]See if you can spot what's wrong with this video of a company advertising their skills in ... video production! The irony of it sort of reminds me of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/a-slight-technical-hitch/The Ponginator is a three stories tall robot that can fire ping pong balls at up to 170 miles per hour. Its inventor, Vernon Graner of the Austin Robot Group explains:Ponginator is a robot, and as far as robots go,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/the-ponginator-a-giant-ping-pong-ball-shooting-robot/Dr. Pepper lovers rejoice, here's a way to "winterize" your favorite soda by turning it into a delicious hot beverage. Instructions are from a vintage recipe advertisement published in the 60's. E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/hot-dr-pepper-who-knew/Every Sunday afternoon at Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon in Austin, Texas, customers clutching numbered slips of paper gather around a pool table, anxiously waiting for a chicken to defecate. Your $2 bet could win...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/chicken-bingo/Back in the day we just used to put our tooth under our pillow, and the next morning it would be replaced by a dime. But it looks like the Tooth Fairy has taken her business to the next level with this official $16 Too...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/official-tooth-fairy-kit/[YouTube clip] Other people have made guitar sculptures out of glass before, but glasscutter by day, rock drummer by night Brian Chivers of BC Glass Studio went one step further: he actually created a glass guitar (ye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/rock-the-casbah-with-a-glass-guitar/Susan Goldin-Meadow and Meredith Rowe of University of Chicago have found a link between gesturing and improved vocabulary in toddlers. We all know that toddlers will gesture long before they form words, such as r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/gesturing-improves-a-toddlers-vocabulary/In 1968, a white firefighter named William Carroll from South Boston saved the life of a black baby during a fire at the Roxbury housing development. This was a time marked by deadly racial riots across America....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/40-years-later-a-thank-you-for-saving-a-life/Blogger 'brb' of the Bouncing Red Ball website has posted 12 fantastic photos of various factories in Japan. They look like something out of a sci-fi or anime movie.Lately, I’m having a “factory fetish”,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/12-amazing-photos-of-factories-in-japan/Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City, Utah, was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest fingernails in the world. Totalling over 28 feet long, she was once offered $10,000 by a Japanese televis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/woman-with-worlds-longest-fingernails-lost-them-in-car-crash/The Amish are often portrayed as anti-technology Luddites, but in fact they often accept non-electrical forms of technology, as long as they can remain "off the grid" and independent. The photo shows...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/how-the-amish-hack-technology-to-meet-their-needs-and-beliefs/Not only is there no gold at the end of the rainbow but, frankly, driving straight toward one sounds slightly scary. No, there was no pot of gold nor any other mythical or fantastic phenomena. However, the lucky winner...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/14/end-of-the-rainbow-finally-found/Our pal What is it? Blog just put together a whatchamacallit quiz of farm tools. We've seen many of these strange tools before on our What is it? feature on Neatorama - but many are new (not to mention strange!)If you li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/the-farm-tools-quiz/There's a little part of me that waits with bated breath every time I buy something from the vending machine downstairs at work. Will the little spirals twist enough to let my delicious snack out, or will it get stuck o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/the-ultimate-vending-machine-challenge/This is an interesting concept - just for February, the Little Bay Restaurant in London is letting diners eat their meal and then pay whatever they think that meal was worth... including nothing (excluding alcoholic beve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/the-bill-at-a-london-restaurant-whatever-you-want/A collection of cross stitch awesomeness. This blog features works by Shanna of "St!#ch Out Loud." Sure these pieces may have hearts and flowers, but they also feature sexual innuendos, profanities and Da...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/sending-awesomeness-and-obscenities-into-the-world-one-stitch-at-a-time/IBM has filed for a patent on technology that would heighten reflexes, making it possible to actually dodge bullets. This body armor continuously scans the area for incoming projectviles. When one is detected the system...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/ibm-files-for-bullet-dodging-bionic-body-armor-patent/I did a little digging around and created a list of facts that tell the history of the great sport of miniature golf.The Ladies' Putting Club in St. Andrews, Scotland is considered the very first miniature golf cours...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/the-history-of-miniature-golf-in-10-fun-facts/Bucking the trend of miniaturizing everything (case in point: how cell phones get smaller and smaller over the years) is the biggification of stuff. The logic is deceptively simple: If that martini is good, it's going to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/great-big-stuff/Anthea Chrome is the miniature knitter who made the tiny clothing worn by the characters in the new animated movie Coraline. She knits up to 50 stitches per inch to make the items so small! Don't Panic has an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/knitting-for-coraline/Scientists have found an alternative use for cotton candy. It can be used to grow replacement human tissue! First, you pour a thick liquid chemical over a wad of cotton candy. Let the liquid solidify into a chunk,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/cotton-candy-in-the-lab/Retired USAF Major General Chuck Yeager is 86 years old today. From Wikipedia: Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of 1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/happy-birthday-chuck-yeager/(YouTube link) A brave little voodoo finds a way to save the day in this award-winning short from Joaquin Baldwin. See more of the winners of Aniboom's annual competition. Link -via I Am Bored animation, voodoo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/sebastians-voodoo/Chris Walker, a police sergeant with the Petersburg police force, was shocked to find out the man listed on his birth certificate was not his father. After his mother gave him the name of his real father, Clayton...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/two-cops-on-the-same-force-discover-they-are-father-and-son/Diabetics monitoring their glucose levels may soon put the days of painful finger-sticks behind them. Instead, they can go through the one-time ordeal of getting inked with a nanoparticle tattoo. Heather Clark, a scienti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/diabetes-monitoring-nanoparticle-tattoos/If you love Star Wars as much as I do, you'll love Robert Saccenti's culinary creation, "He's No Guac to Me Dead." If only Luke Chipwalker could stop by and help unfreeze him by gulping down all of that delicious lim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/13/guacamole-hans-solo-carbonite-sculpture/Ah, the Pringles can. Is there anything it can't do? It works as a container that keeps not-potato chips crispy for years (yes, a court has ruled that Pringles aren't potato chips for tax purposes), act as a Ya...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/12/pringles-can-ipod-dock/
