While out on a walk, a man came across a red cord hanging down from the sky. Naturally, he decided to pull it ...Watch "Dangle," a short film by Phil Traill, to find out what happened: Link [embedded Atom video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/dangle-by-phil-traill-what-does-this-red-cord-do/When the movie script calls for a product as prop, directors and writers often take this opportunity to create their own fake brand. Some are used only once, but quite a few become in-jokes that get propagated from movie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/fake-brands-in-hollywood-movies/What's more fun than playing Jenga? Why, playing Jenga with a Jenga Pistol, of course! Here's Matthias Wandel showing us his invention, a wooden pistol powered by a rubber band: The game of Jenga was possibly designe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/jenga-pistol/I spotted these in Auckland, New Zealand (where the show True Blood is only just starting on TV). They're made of wood, and the stakes are designed to snap off in case a vampire attacks. They're screwed dow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/true-blood-emergency-vampire-posters/Early March saw the annual spring Festival of Color, or Holi, in the Hindu world. If you are a clean freak, then Holi may not be for you. As part of the festival it is people's religious duty to spla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/holi-the-festival-of-colors/Mother Earth, although slowly deteriorating, still keeps on giving us beautiful pieces of art. The list shows us that after all this time trying to create wonderful Obra Maestras, Mother Earth still beats us at maki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/7-phenomenal-wonders-of-the-natural-world/Is there anyone who doesn't know at least 75 percent of the lines in Wayne's World? It gets busted out in our house quite a bit. As much as we quote it, though, I certainly didn't know most of the stuff below...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/movie-trivia-waynes-world-zang/Look closely: that's a wonderful OWLS sweater, made by Kate Davies of needled blog (who's offering the pattern for free). The buttons really made the design pop! Link - via NotCotowl, knitting, sweater, Kate Davies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/owl-sweater-by-kate-davis/Joe Dziemianowicz of the Daily News wrote that even though President Obama doesn't like to reduce America into a collection of red states and blue states, he wore only red and blue neckties in his first 11 days in office...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/why-politicians-wear-only-red-and-blue-ties/Gender equality and political correctness aside, Mother Nature has decided the answer: female neurons are more valuable.Writing in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a group of researchers found that nutrient depri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/which-is-more-precious-male-or-female-brain/If you think that getting $170 billion in taxpayer bailout money would embarass the AIG from giving millions in bonuses, think again: the beleagured financial company is going forward with plans for $165 million of bonus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/surprise-aig-gives-out-bonuses-despite-taking-billions-in-bailout-money/Ever wonder why some people can eat anything they want and never gain weight? UCSF (my alma mater!) researcher Robert Farese and colleagues have found that it may just be the absence of a "fat enzyme":The e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/fat-enzyme-explains-why-some-people-never-get-fat/First thought: "Is this Photoshopped?" The answer, my friends, is, "No." Fire rainbows, scientifically known as circumhorizon arcs, can be seen during summer solstice when it is close to noon, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/fire-rainbow/Astrophysicist Lowell Wood worked on the hydrogen bomb and Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" defense system to protect the US from Soviet missiles using lasers. Now, Wood and colleagues at Intellectual Ventures h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/wmd-weapons-of-mosquito-destruction/Quick - who knows the US government's current national threat level? (It's been elevated or yellow for quite a while, with domestic and international flights being with high or orange).Dan Piraro pointed out that Japan h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/japanese-homeland-security-advisory-system/Remember the memory game "concentration" that you play with cards?Well, Philipp Lenssen of Games for the Brain (Philipp is also the man behind the awesome Google Blogoscoped blog) and Nikolai Kordulla created a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/soundory-a-fun-aural-memory-game/Self-conscious about your weight? Think twice before sitting on a bench in a bus shelter in Amsterdam! To be more precise, some bus shelters in Amsterdam have been fitted with weight meters that show peopl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/bus-shelters-in-amsterdam-point-out-fat-people/Like Miss Cellania posted earlier, today is Pi Day. But did you know that someone really famous was also born on this day? It's only fitting that today is also the birthday of Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879).Neator...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/you-know-whos-born-on-pi-day-einstein/If you think the toy inside the box of Cracker Jack is cool, that's nothing compared that what you'll find in a box of the Japanese candy Glico caramel. Take, for instance, this fantastic Nikon F1 SLR miniature they incl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/glico-nikon-f-miniature-toy-camera/The accepted belief is that once destroyed, tropical rain forests could never be restored. But is that really the case or just a myth? In 1993, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Sciences at Corne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/resurrecting-rain-forests/March 14th (3/14) is National Pi Day, as officially designated by the US congress this year. Traditional festivities are to study the mathematical constant pi in school (which took place yesterday since 3/14 fell on Sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/happy-pi-day-2/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wi4lf5tsYY][YouTube - Link]Check out this cool faucet concept by the Kunst Zonder Kapsones company. As you move your hand from left to right, the water turns from hot to col...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/hidden-tap-faucet/They may look like a lineup from the Ku Klux Klan, but these white-robed, pointy hatted Nazarenos are commemorating Holy Week in Seville, the same way their predecessors have been marking the somber occasion for the past...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/semana-santa-in-seville/6-year-old Mihir Kumar of Ranchi, India was celebrating Holi when he slipped and fell off the roof he was dancing on. He fell on an iron rod, which pierced his body through the ribs from one side to the other! Mihir was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/boy-survives-impalement/Inamo, a Japanese-style restaurant located in the U.K., has a fascinating concept in self-service. Located above each dining table is a projector and computer; diners in turn can use the touch screen to order food, c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/14/is-this-the-future-of-restaurants/Here are a few panels of Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, as though they had been written and drawn by Frank Miller in the style of Sin City. By deviant art user ninjaink. Link via Popped Cu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/if-frank-miller-drew-peanuts/(Video Link) Only with your taxpayer dollars can Lex finally destroy Superman. Please call or e-mail your representatives in Congress and ask them to rescue the troubled LexCorp. superman, Lex Luthor, federal bailou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/lex-luthor-applies-for-a-federal-bailout/Surely you've heard of the Great Wall of China, but how about a Leaning Tower? Turns out, China's Huzhu Pagoda may just be the most tilted building in the world, beating out the Leaning Tower of Pisa ...The Huzhu pag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/leaning-tower-of-shanghai/Ever wonder how a fish sees its environment? It's probably pretty close to this panorama by Richard Chesher over at 360 Cities. Be sure to right click and select "stereographic projection" (it's nearly 360 degr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/underwater-panorama-of-the-new-amedee-coral-reef/Do you hate being the only person that doesn't bring lunch to work or school in a brown bag? Well, now you can keep up your old ways while following the bag trend with this entirely felt lunch set. If you're interest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/felted-brown-bag-lunch/
