From Modern Mechanix, one of my favorite blogs, here's the Swami, a simple pattern you can cut out on a piece of plywood that will let you defy gravity!As mystifying as the Indian rope trick, this magic marvel defies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/defy-gravity-with-the-swami/Following a friend's suggestion, Jonathan Ryan made a Pandora station with artists and bands with foods in their names. Here's the result: Food Radio - via JonathanRyanFood, band, musicians, radio, Pandora...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/food-radio/From the "Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should" file, here's the DIY Tank Top made from men's briefs: Link - via BuzzFeedtank top, mens underwear, briefs, redneck...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/redneck-diy-tank-top/English painter David Hockney, who is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century, has had his iPhone for only four months, but he has already turned it into a hi-tech canvas.Beth Hale...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/david-hockneys-mini-iphone-masterpieces/In a corrupt society like Argentina, an honest man is hard to find. Yet, when an elderly couple left $32,500 in his cab, Santiago Gori hunted them down and returned every penny. Stunned by such honesty, Argentines began...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/cab-driver-becomes-star-for-good-deed/We normally associate space itself as being littered with the detritus of our nascent attempts at interstellar travel. The moon, however, is chock full of the remains of our various attempts to explore it. So...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/lunar-leftovers-how-the-moon-became-a-trash-can/Sliding down a mountain on a snowboard is a completely different experience when the mountain is an active volcano! The new sport is drawing snowboarders and surfers to the foothills of Nicaragua's Cerro Negro mountain....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/08/volcano-boarding/Army Major Phil Packer began the London Marathon when everyone else did, but his doctor will only allow him to walk two miles a day, so he is expected to finish on Saturday, 13 days after starting the race. Last year Pac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/08/runner-expected-to-finish-marathon-in-13-days/Get ready for Mothers Day by getting to know how animal mothers take care of their babies. From the jungles to the oceans, from the rainforests to the frozen poles, mothers in the wild can bear some similar resembla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/08/motherhood-in-the-wild/Even ancient folks expressed their appreciation for mothers -maybe not enough, but mothers have been celebrated for a long time. While some complain that Mother’s Day is a Hallmark holiday, celebrations of mot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/08/a-brief-history-of-motherhood/As most of you Neatoramanauts know, PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project in which the public mail their secrets anonymously on handmade postcards. This is a collection of PostSecret submissions as if t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/08/postsecrets-through-history/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo][YouTube - Link]The can also be titled "running after an animal for hours until it collapses from exhaustion." The persistence hunt is believed by some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/08/the-persistence-hunt/On May 8, 1970, construction workers clashed with students and anti-war protesters in New York in what became known as the Hard Hat riot. But it's far from the only riot to ever happen in New York City (as I'm sure resi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/08/five-new-york-city-riots/Look at the size of that saxophone! Pitched one octave below bass, contrabass and subcontrabass instruments are about as low as most instruments go. Aside from those massive pipe organs, they're also about as big...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/08/contrabass-and-subcontrabass-instruments/This week’s artist was quite a treat for me, although I’ve always loved Jane’s Addiction, I didn’t know much about their lead singer. Turns out he’s done a whole lot for the music community at large. Pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/music-tidbits-perry-farrell/Scientists have named a newly discovered species of beetle, Agaporomorphus colberti, in honor of humorist Stephen Colbert. One of the outstanding features of the species is the genitalia of the males. “Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/stephen-colbert-immortalized-in-beetle/I just love the whimsical designs of Polish artist Roman Klonek! This picture shown is a detail from an animation called Cheewing Gum. Link to artist's site. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/attack-of-the-kloneks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/roman-klonek/Bowen, Australia, a town about 700 miles from Brisbane, is seeing in influx of eastern tarantulas, also known as "bird-eating spiders". Dozens of spiders have crawled out of gardens and have made their way into public ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/giant-spiders-invade-outback-town/In any building, it's always good to know how you're going to get out in case of an emergency. As we all know now, it's not always easy in a skyscraper, or even a building with a few floors. Several innovative systems...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/high-rise-escape-systems/While cutting through some Egyptian limestone recently, stone masons in Italy made an interesting discovery. A whale fossil! They called in experts who confirmed this was a 40 million year old whale. Then the fun really...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/whale-fossil-discovered-in-unlikely-place/W00t! It's time for our collaboration with the always-fun What is It? blog. Can you guess what this strange contraption pictured to the left is for?Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/what-is-it-game-98/I've been waiting for this post since our last one numbered 12,345 back in January 2008. It took us a a little bit over a year to post the remaining 7,655 posts reach 20,000 (that's an average of 17 posts a day!). I'd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/neatorama-post-no-20000/Chris of Cynical-C blog has a nifty series called You Can't Please Everyone. In it, he collects one-star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music, and literature.Take, for instance, The Sound of Music starring Julie Andre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/you-cant-please-everyone/I can't get enough of this: The Simpsons theme song, the a cappella version sung by Canvas. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Land-O-LinksThe Simpsons, Canvas, a cappella...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/the-simpsons-a-cappella/Graphic designer and writer Megan Deal is moving to Greensboro, Alabama to build a design lab for young designers in Hale County, one of the poorest places in the United States. In preparation, Megan is selling everythin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/goodbye-waffle-maker-megan-deal-is-selling-everything-to-move-to-greensboro-alabama/I won't pretend that I'm "with it" when it comes to comic books, but it was a complete surprise for me to find out that, starting in 2005, Marvel began issuing limited series of comics in which the superheroes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/marvel-zombies/German urban art group Mentalgassi covers big glass-recycling containers on the streets of Berlin with something unusual: giant faces! The results are weird "metal heads" that creepily stare at you as you walk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/metal-heads-urban-art/We don't know much about Mexican artist Chiara Bautista ("Milk" on MySpace) - but we sure know this: from Lucha Libre to science fiction, her artwork is fantastic!You can view her latest illustrations here: Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/07/girl-walking-at-at-by-chiara-bautista/Make a YouTube video into a multiframe presentation with YooouuuTuuube. Enter the video's URL and set your specifications, than watch your creation. Here's an example, using a song Neatorama readers may remember. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/yooouuutuuube/Traditional concrete will only take so much pressure before it breaks. A team led by Victor Li of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has developed a new type of concrete that bends under such pressure and can repa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/bendable-concrete/
