I’m sure this isn’t the first time you’ve been told that certain members of the ruling classes are weird, but this might be the first time you’ve heard some of these exceptionally strange tales of royal weirdness...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/10-examples-of-royal-weirdness/Can't ... resist ... posting ... about these Star Trek groaners compiled by our very own Miss C:Question: How many ears does Picard have?Answer: Three. A right ear. A left ear. And a final front ear.Question...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/star-trek-groaners/Forget those cutesy bento boxes! Here's Ichi the Killer bento box by Sakurako Kitsa:This is my obent-ode to Ichi the Killer, one of the most awesome, extreme movies in the history of ever. My rendition didn't do Tada...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/ichi-the-killer-bento-box/John Hawkins of Right Wing News blog wrote about 50 things that every 18-year-old should know. I wish I knew these two when I was younger, it would've saved me a lot of grief:When men have a problem and they tell you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/things-that-every-18-year-olds-should-know/Last month, our very own Stacy (who just survived a freaky accident involving a downed power line - glad you're ok, Stacy!) wrote a very neat post over at mental_floss about the background stories of 10 classic toys.Take...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/origins-of-10-classic-toys/Long before the "series of tubes" become a web parlance (thanks to former Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens), there was a real tubes technology: the pneumatic tube system.WebUrbanist takes a look at this fan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/pneumatic-tubes-the-original-series-of-tubes/Super Punch blog has a neat post about Papershapers, a paper art exhibition as sponsored by Scion Space and curated by Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot. The art exhibit features the artwork of Shin Tanaka, Polly Verity, Anni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/papershapers-art-exhibit/Nearly two years after it was introduced to the world, Osaka University's CB2 robot (which stands for "Child-robot with Biomimetic Body") has been developing social skills by interacting with humans and watchin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/babybot-develops-social-skills-by-interacting-with-humans/This is very cool: Paper Forest blog has a YouTube clip of a spinning papercraft. The original design is by Ramin Razani, as noted by Jeffrey Rutzky in his book Kirigami (more photos here on his Flickr acct).Link [embedd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/spinning-papercraft/And so it has begun: Honda has developed a new brain-machine interface technology that allows humans to control the Asimo robot simply by thinking: The BMI system, which Honda developed along with Advanced Telecommun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/thought-controlled-robot/To protect public propriety, Saudi Arabia has recently banned license plates whose Arabic characters spell out lewd words: Saudi plates normally have three Arabic characters and three numbers, but the growing fashion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/saudi-arabia-no-on-cheeky-license-plates-yes-on-child-marriages/Photo: NASA/CXC/SAO/P.Slane et al.Actually, it's the image of a nebula surrounding a young pulsar known as PSR B1509-58, as taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy blog explains:If you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/the-hand-of-god/Mel Milton's workspace, more at Melmade The BlogIt's always fascinating to get an inside glimpse into how art is made. Parka Blogs has a neat post about the creative workspaces and home offices of artists. This one above...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/creative-workspaces-of-artists/Fred Baier said that his furniture are inspired by "industrial imagery," but we're pretty darn certain that the deks above, nondescriptly titled Dual Quad, is some sort of a hidden robot that will rise and quas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/dual-quad-fred-baiers-robot-like-desk/I must've been living in a cave, because I missed this '08 post by Bonnie Burton of Star Wars blog on how to make your very own cuddly Bantha (y'know, the furry elephant-like animals ridden by the Tusken Raiders)http://w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/diy-cuddly-bantha/The remarkable Rainbow Finch is found in Australia yet there are only around two thousand of them left in the wild. Although conservation attempts are ongoing the question now seems to be whether or not this beauti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/only-2000-left-the-rainbow-that-can-fly/It's springtime and birds are building nests in commercial advertising signs. Inquiring minds want to know: do birds have a favorite font?Link - via dinosaursandrobotsFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/typographical-bird-houses/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90vnB6gUME][YouTube - Link]To the horror of spectators, this stunt plane begins to tailspin toward the ground when it loses its right wing in midair. Amazingly, at the last...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/pilot-lands-plane-with-one-wing/If you're like the most of us, what you do to your junk is just throw them in one bin. Of course, there are also these people that segregate plastics from this and that. And then, there's upcycling:The recyclers a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/16-creative-ways-to-upcycle-before-you-recycle/(blip TV link) Kacie Kinzer's Tweenbots experiment is less about robots and more about human nature. She designed small cardboard robots with smiling faces that will move only forward. Kinzer then would set a robot d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/tweenbots/Happy Easter everyone. For your viewing pleasure, here's an ultimately gentle pit bull with sweet little chicks. Link Via Cute Overloadchicks, Easter, pit bulls...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/pit-bull-hatches-easter-chickies/(Daily Motion link) 48-year-old Susan Boyle always dreamed of becoming a professional singer. When she walked out on the stage of the TV show Britain's Got Talent, no one expected her to do well. Miss B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/12/susan-boyles-got-talent/Jessica Silverman of Harlem won $25,000 for correctly guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar. This isn't the first time Jessica has done this: 21 years ago as a five year old, she won a stuffed dragon.Silve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/11/jellybean-guess-is-good-for-25000/Josh and Nina are two friends. Every day, they each take a photo. Operating under a pact of absolute secrecy, neither knows what the other is working on. Each morning, they post their photos on MintyForest side by side....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/11/2-photographers-365-days-of-random-pairings/After experiencing a stroke, a Swiss woman at Geneva University Hospital began experiencing phantom limb for an arm that didn't exist -- and never had. Doctors subjected her to a MRI: Researchers instructed the w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/11/mri-confirms-womans-third-arm/Last week marked the anniversary of the date that Napoleon abdicated and was then exiled to the Island of Elba. Thanks to high school history, we know plenty about Napoleon's military campaigns and political dealings, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/11/a-few-facts-about-napoleon/Don't let my kids see this: London architect Alex Michaelis has slide next to his staircase! Laura Housley of Cookie Magazine has the story:Not that there aren't plenty of kids' diversions elsewhere, including the cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/11/alex-michaelis-staircaseslide-combo/Photo: junlego [Brickshelf]We've posted about Spaceship Battleship Yamato in LEGO before on Neatorama, but as the old saying goes, the original is still the best: here's the namesake the battleship Yamato (also in LEGO)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/11/battleship-yamato-in-lego-by-jumpei-mitsui/Contrail is a fun little gadget developed by Studio Gelardi to let bicyclists "mark" their bike paths. As more an more bikers ride on the same path, the contrail lines get brighter. Ostensibly, they say that th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/11/bicycle-contrails/Photo: Sean O'Connor / Freesolo PhotographyPeter Beland of The Smithsonian Magazine has a fascinating look at Ascending The Giants, a unique "adventure group" led by arborists Brian French and Will Koomjian. Th...
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