Apple is crowing about how its iTunes App Store is about to hit its one billionth download today, but it has also quietly reached another milestone earlier this year: its first Trojan horse program. Until recently, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/23/apples-first-trojan-horse/Image: Liz HickokOur favorite Jell-O artist Liz Hickok wrote to us about her latest project - and yes, it does have a distinct political message:The piece is called "The First 100 Days: The White House in Jell-O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/23/liz-hickoks-the-first-100-days-the-white-house-in-jell-o/Yay! It's time for our collaboration with the always awesome What is it? Blog. Can you guess what this strange object is for?Place your guess in the comment section. Please post no URL or web links - let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/23/what-is-it-game-96/If you're going to spend 8 hours a day at work in the office, it might as well be somewhere healthy and inspiring. Unfortunately the characterless and insipid glass edifices that so blight our inner cities are far remo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/23/10-inspiring-green-office-blocks/Today is the 445th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. In honor of this occasion, today is Talk Like Shakespeare Day. Here are some ways to do it: 1. Instead of you, say thou. Instead of y’all,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/23/talk-like-shakespeare-day/Flight of the Bumblebee on a chromatic button accordion: YouTube LinkPreviously, Neatorama reader Minnesotastan pointed out an amazing performance of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor as played on an accordion by You...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/23/flight-of-the-bumblebee-played-on-an-accordion-and-a-banjo/Roman Charity by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (mostly), c. 1767, with apologiesTwo days ago, when Neatorama author named Alex was looking for an interesting story to post on the blog, he went to the Internet to research news art...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/23/blogger-writes-sensationalistic-post-title-and-was-burned-at-the-stake/A speech prepared in the event of the unimaginable happening during the Apollo 11 moon landing mission has recently surfaced. The document was prepared by President Nixon's speech writer for the President to read shoul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/23/man-on-the-moon/Ghost Riding - The best bloopers are here Now here's something you don't see everyday. The bike wanted to win with or without the rider! I wonder if he eventually got the bike?Funny, hilarious, bike, ghost riding, r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/the-bike-wanted-to-win/Writing for Popular Mechanics, Claire Martin has a list of jobs that she thinks can only face increased demand in future decades, including undersea welder, digital detective, and battery engineer. Here's the r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/10-future-proof-jobs/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmTG9wTfrzk][YouTube - Link]If you are familiar with this piece performed on an organ, you may be surprised by this virtuoso performance on an accordion - especially at about the 5...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/bachs-toccata-and-fugue-in-d-minor-played-on-an-accordion/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbRuKbOSqao][YouTube - Link]Who hasn't hesitated about going back to their high school reunion? Andrea Wachner decided that she's going to do something different. Instead of going...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/dont-want-to-go-to-your-high-school-reunion-send-a-stripper-instead/Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has quite a few neat things you can do with magnets. Some are really artful, some are great for teaching purposes, and here's one I'll definitely use sometime: Find studs in y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/17-cool-magnet-tricks/The actors who played characters in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation have names that are sometimes more difficult to spell than the alien characters they played. In to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/spellbound-star-trek-edition/When police found Jasmine she was shivering, filthy and malnourished. The greyhound dog had been dumped in a garden shed and left to die. Jasmine was brought to the Nuneaton and Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, where she...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/rescued-greyhound-returns-favor-becomes-surrogate-mother/Astronomers have recently discovered two planets that may point in the right direction towards finding life hospitable planets in our universe.In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/scientists-discover-a-nearly-earth-sized-planet/Environmental Graffiti is taking Earth Day literally with a roundup of artful and over-the-top world globes, including two made of chocolate! Shown is the walk-in Mapparium at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/10-most-incredible-globes/Hi, I'm Lisa Katayama — I write a blog called TokyoMango, and I'm also a freelance magazine journalist and editor at Boing Boing Gadgets. Last year, I published a book called Urawaza:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/22/urawaza-japanese-secret-of-everyday-tips-and-tricks-by-lisa-katayama/The Apache was a combination dagger, pepperbox, and knuckle duster manufactured and sold in the United States from 1870 through 1900. More pictures and history of this unique pocket weapon at the link. http://www.h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/the-apache-a-19th-century-personal-protection-gadget/After her father Tim was diagnosed with colon cancer, Georgia Browne went on the Internet to research ways to help save him. That's where she got a brilliant though a bit unconventional idea to feed her dad breastmilk:*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/daughter-helps-dad-fight-cancer-by-breastfeeding-him/Most of us can ride bikes, but I bet you not like Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill. Here's a video tape of a collection of what can only be described as parkour on two wheels: Link [YouTube clip]Kids, don't t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/parkour-on-two-wheels-danny-macaskill-rides-a-bike/Slumdog Millionaire may have won the Oscars a few weeks ago, but the drama didn't end when the curtains came down. Reporter Mazher Mahmood of The News of the World set off a firestorm of controversy when he went undercov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/oscar-child-for-sale-father-tried-to-sell-slumdog-millionaires-rubina-ali/Photo: Bree Bailey [Flickr]We've had our share of typsos here on Neatorama, so we understand how misspellings can happen even to the best of us. But misspelling the name of this lake in Webster, Massachusetts? Why, it's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/inconceivable-how-could-anyone-misspell-that/Gregory Cochran, physicist and professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, was puzzled at the unusually high prevalence of deadly genetic disorders in European Jews. Shouldn't natural selection flush these dange...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/faulty-genes-make-jews-smarter-says-scientists/The Big Picture Blog from the Boston Globe has pictures from NASA sent back by the Cassini spacecraft as it passed Saturn and its moons. Cassini has been functioning in space for almost five years now, and the pictures...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/saturn-by-cassini/For the person who has everything, here's SmartFaucet. Besides the features you've actually heard of in a faucet, it has a face recognition system so it can adjust heat and flow to your individual preferences....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/smartfaucet/(YouTube link) This is what we would have enjoyed if Jim Henson had produced the movie Ocean's Eleven. -via Unique Daily muppets, Oceans Eleven...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/hensons-11/This picture of tracks in Lakehurst, New Jersey looks quite intriguing. Can you guess what they are for? in order for a plane to safely land on an aircraft carrier without racing off the end, its tailhook needs to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/five-tracks/So, we all knew about Mentos and Coke (thanks, Jamie and Adam), but I didn't know that Alka-Seltzer could, in fact, kill a bird or that apple seeds have cyanide! See for yourself! As we get older, it’s eas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/fact-or-fiction-8-food-related-myths/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSORe5Bk55I][YouTube - Link]A captivating video of sneezing captured on high speed camera. This public service announcement is from Australia. Now you'll want to wash your hands an...
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