Well, whadaya know. Tomorrow is Earth Day (shouldn't every day be Earth Day?). Our very own Jill Harness wrote a neat post over at Inventor Spot about 8 weird but Earth-friendly products you can buy to celebrate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/21/thermoscope-earrings-and-other-bizarre-earth-friendly-products-to-help-celebrate-earth-day/Bypass clogged pipes with the Abisko Washbasin from Eumar. I remember seeing something similar to it at the newly-renovated terminal of the Jacksonville International Airport, where you could also get a Brazilian waxi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/you-dont-want-to-lose-a-contact-lens-in-this-sink/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ky6vgQfU24][YouTube - Link]Christoph Rehage had a plan: to walk from Beijing, China to his home country Germany. In November, 2007, he started walking. A year later, he walked 4,6...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/the-longest-way/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-UE1kN38wo][YouTube - Link]Lots of dogs howl when people play piano, but Porter likes to make his own music.From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.dog, piano, howli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/dog-accompanies-himself-on-keyboard/For their latest animation, Animal Planet and Aardman Animations (creators of Wallace and Gromit) interviewed the average (ok, some of them unusually lazy) working stiffs in America about working, birds, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/creature-comforts/More than 70,000 beads have been excavated on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, site of the northernmost outpost of the Spanish empire in the U.S. Consisting of French and Chinese blue glass, Dutch layered glass, and Balti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/beads-excavated-in-georgia-tell-of-ancient-chinese-trade-routes/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2WK44cH2J0][YouTube - Link]Holy moley. I remember jumping rope as a kid, and always thought I was pretty good; heck, I could get through most of the Alphabet (eg: A my name is All...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/kings-firecrackers-now-this-is-jumping-rope/The city of Yokohama, Japan is welcoming two giant spiders to celebrate Expo Y150, the 150th anniversary of the port city. The spiders are the work of La Machine and Artichoke. They did The Sultan's Elephant in 2006 an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/giant-spiders-attack-japan/Original names and working titles of movies, TV shows, companies, sports teams, and even people are often very different from what we know them as. If you read posts at mental_floss on a regular basis, you'll know the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/know-what-they-almost-called-it/CakeWrecks has a collection of really neat cakes that share the theme of classic board games, from chess to Operation! The Taboo cake shown was made by a 16-year-old named Melia. Link board games, cakes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/game-cakes/(YouTube link)Can you get any geekier than Bohemian Rhapsody played by an orchestra of vintage gadgets? I think not. From the YouTube page:Please note no effects or sampling was used. What you see is wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/the-gadget-orchestra/Barreleye Fish T-shirt modeled by Katie; Great Vocab Didn't Save the Thesaurus by ZacRemember the barreleye fish (Macropinna Microstoma) post on Neatorama? Y'know, the one with the transparent head and internal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/barreleye-fish-with-a-transparent-head-t-shirt/Pit bulls have a pretty crummy reputation these days. Between the myth of a pit bull’s “locking jaw” and the constant news stories depicting the dogs as ruthless-attackers of innocent children, it’s no wonder tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/heroic-pit-bulls/Zaskoda started out to mount a camera on a snowboard and ended up designing a steampunk model, complete with sails and a "generator"! Link -via Unique Dailysteampunk, snowboard...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/steampunk-snowboard/Love it or hate it, there's no denying that Comic Sans is an iconic (and very, very popular) font. Emily Steel of The Wall Stree Journal wrote a fascinating history of the creation of the font (by designer Vincent Connar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/the-history-of-comic-sans/Ah, Australians. First they introduced cane toads to hunt the greyback cane beetle pests - but the toads turned out to be a much bigger pest and their toxic kill many native predators and farm animals.Now, there's a prop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/next-in-australias-battle-against-cane-toads-meat-ants-what-could-go-wrong/Miss Cellania has a long running (and very popular) series of articles on our pal mental_floss where she chronicles the various local characters that became famous one way or the other. As you'd expect, there are quite a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/famous-local-characters/This seals it: Steve Martin has got the best business card EVAR! This even beats out the previous titleholder of best business card that I found on Matt Cutt's blog a while ago.http://www.thelaughtrack.com/2009/04/steve-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/the-best-business-card-ever-steve-martins-card/Columnist George Will is mad. Hopping mad about denim and how America's fashion sense is going to hell in a hand basket. He and Wall Street Journal writer Daniel Akst have joined forces in declaring jeans (and American o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/20/george-wills-war-on-denim/I missed last week's Movie Trivia because I was on vacation, so I figured I'd make up for it today by doing a Tim Burton double feature. First up? Big Fish. If you haven't seen it, it's about William, a son (B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/movie-trivia-big-fish/Number two on the Burton double feature - The Nightmare Before Christmas. I know; it's neither Halloween nor Christmas, but I think this is one you can watch year-round. Nightmare dates...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/movie-trivia-the-nightmare-before-christmas/Now this is a manly man's ad. Here's an advertisement for Makita power tool by Bennie Du Plessis of Saatchi & Saatchi in South Africa - if you look closely, the "pixels" are 20,081 carefully drille...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/makita-drill-ad-made-from-20081-drill-hole-pixels/What can I say. It's Sunday, so here's a cute video clip of a slow loris who loves getting tickled (see how sad it gets when the tickling stops?) Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Arbroathslow loris, tickle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/slow-loris-loves-getting-tickled/Researchers from the Universite de la Mediterranee-CNRS-EFS in France analyzed the DNA of Neanderthal fossils and found that the species might actually be composed of several "races":We tend to think of Nea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/multiple-races-of-neanderthals/Swiss twins Harold and Michael Lengen have found the perfect loophole to get out of paying parking tickets: Police say that in the last year alone the twins have collected 29 parking tickets on a car which they both...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/the-identical-twin-parking-ticket-loophole/If Twitter were human, what kind of a person would it be? And, more importantly, would you befriend such a person? Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum has an opinion about what she dubbed the "Age of Oversharing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/if-twitter-were-human-what-kind-of-a-person-would-it-be/Those wily Tasmanians have hit upon a gem of an idea that lets them: a) get rid of stuff no one wanted (i.e. wombat poo)b) make lots of money doing it (make it into paper)c) from people they don't like (tourists)Crea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/wombat-poo-paper/[YouTube - Link] Whoever said using the Internet will make life any easier obviously didn't think about the social consequences of people's actions when they type the wrong thing to the wrong person. A good example...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/18/facebook-manners/I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo. I've been on a slow motion/high speed/time lapse binge as of late, which may be a good thing since I noticed that you folks are tiring from the regu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/18/super-high-speed-video/As much as teen idols are adored and, well, idolized, not very many of them are able to sustain that kind of worship. Exceptions include Frank Sinatra and the Beatles, but the number of teen idols who faded into obscuri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/18/the-current-careers-of-six-former-teen-idols/
