Why Love is Like Pi
Photo: andrew.leThough I missed this one for Pi Day, I find Andrew Le's take on why Love is like Pi too cute (and true) not to post!love, pi, Andrew Le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/22/why-love-is-like-pi/Archive for May 2009
An Entire Site Dedicated Uncomfortable Family Photography
We all have them - those horrible moments when we are crowded, pushed and shoved into position so that Uncle X can take a photo of us. Rarely, however, is one enough. Sometimes this process gets repeated over and over ag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/an-entire-site-dedicated-uncomfortable-family-photography/Three Wolf Moon Shirt
Sales of the "Three Wolf Moon Shirt" are up 2300% after word got out that it was getting priceless customer reviews on Amazon. Hundreds of reviewers are vying to be the funniest. The first one says, in part: This it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/three-wolf-moon-shirt/Underpants Made from Beef Jerky
I hesitate to mention this lest it inspire another one of Alex's dress code edicts here at Neatorama's corporate offices. But: Brief Jerky -- underpants made from beef jerky. Wearing them, the seller says "will relea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/underpants-made-from-beef-jerky/Sorry I'm Late
Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong and you just can't get where you're trying to go? That's the idea behind this collage-style animation by Thomas Markovsky. Link -via Everlasting Blortshort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/sorry-im-late/Six Roller Coaster Records
I love a good roller coaster. It doesn't have to have a million inverts and upside downs or be the fastest for me to like it - I mean, I'll take those too, but I really just enjoy any roller coaster. Here are a few tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/six-roller-coaster-records/VideoSift Clips of the Week
(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Kitty's hand-eye coordination catches food This cat uses its binocular vision and amazing manual dexterity to catch stuff better than most lit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/videosift-clips-of-the-week-26/Typographical Art on Napkins
Photo: shch andreyAndrey of SHCH Graphics Group draws marvelous typographical art. My favorite is his series of wonderful typographical "doodles" done on napkins!Check out more of his work at the website above...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/typographical-art-on-napkins/Colorful Tombstones in Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Photo: susanhardman [Flickr] - via ok bye, the blogWho says that cemeteries have to be all somber? Check out these colorful tombstones in the cemetery outside of Chichicastenango in Guatemala, as taken by photographer an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/colorful-tombstones-in-chichicastenango-guatemala/The Rainbow Tunnel
Now this is a fantastic urban art: Artists Bar & Shay converted a drab tunnel in Tel Aviv into a rainbow tunnel! Wooster Collective has a couple of more pics, though sadly not a word about the background story: Linkr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/the-rainbow-tunnel/The Cookie Monster Interview
Elizabeth Blair of NPR has interviewed many people, but she may have just met her match in Cookie Monster. From a February 2009 All Things Considered interview: Years before Sesame Street, Muppet creator Ji...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/the-cookie-monster-interview/Horse Couture: Dirndl Dress for Horses
Bavarian designer Hildegard Bergbauer usually creates dirndl dresses for women, but she has recently branched out to other species like cats, dogs ... and even horses! She said she was inspired to create the outfits...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/horse-couture-dirndl-dress-for-horses/Star Wars AT-AT Cake
Photo: Da Clapper [Flickr]We've seen a number of very cool Star Wars cakes, but this one definitely takes the cake. Behold the AT-AT Cake by Jennifer Luxmore of Sin Desserts. Great White Snark has more: LinkStar Wars, Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/star-wars-at-at-cake/A Goose Flying Upside Down
Photographer Brian MacFarlane was taking pictures of a gaggle of geese flying during turbulent weather. This goose had a particularly strange style of flyin' in high winds:Your eyes do not deceive you - this puzzling...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/a-goose-flying-upside-down/Static : Pulse
static : pulse from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo. Back in April we had put up a time lapse video clip by Samuel Cockedey called Remanence : Variance and folks seemed to have enjoyed watching it. Samuel, was kind enough t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/static-pulse/Tear Gas and Tasers: Kids Get in on the ... Fun?
It is hard to resist a Florida joke here but really, it is a wonderful state ... for the most part. What is truly amazing is not that dozens of children were tazered in the same state, nor that it was all on the same day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/tear-gas-and-tasers-kids-get-in-on-the-fun/Croatians Voted for an Honest "Rip-Off" Politician
Croatian politican Josko Kraljevic Risa was elected as mayor in Prolozac with a uniquely refreshing political strategy: he opted to tell voters the truth that he'll rip them off at every opportunity! Bare-faced Josko...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/croatians-voted-for-a-honest-rip-off-politician/"Duck Man" a Local Hero For Saving Baby Ducks
Joel Armstrong, a loan officer at the Sterling Savings in downtown Spokane, Washington, became known as the "Duck Man" when he saved a gaggle clutch of ducklings from plunging from their nest on a 12-foot-high...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/duck-man-a-local-hero-for-saving-baby-ducks/Helping Geeks Meet Women
As the mangled saying goes and TIME Magazine proclaimed, the geek shall inherit the Earth ... but they have a little bit of trouble meeting women. So Neumont University, a computer-science only school, decided to help th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/helping-geeks-meet-women/Personal Trainer's New Year's Resolution: Get Fat!
Most people's New Year's resolutions usually involve losing weight, but Australian underwear model and personal trainer Paul "PJ" James's was the exact opposite: he wanted to become fat to better understand his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/personal-trainers-new-years-resolution-get-fat/Missing Link Connects Humans With ... Lemurs?!
Paleontologist Jorn Hurum lead a team of scientists to analyze a 47-million-year-old fossil above (named "Ida") and came up with this intriguing conclusion: it is a critical missing-link species in the evolutio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/missing-link-connects-humans-with-lemurs/Alan-Allan-Allen
Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss might be difficult. It was for me! You'll be given ten well-known men, all with the same first or middle name. Do they spell it Alan, Allan, or Allen? I scored just 40%, and I tho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/alan-allan-allen/Virtual White House Tour
Here's a site that can keep you busy for a long time! This virtual tour of the White House has current floor plans of each floor and section of the building as well as ground layouts -PLUS historical floor plans from v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/virtual-white-house-tour/Interesting Bridges
Dark Roasted Blend has a photo-heavy roundup of interesting bridge construction, beginning with views of several bridges being built across huge gorges in China. The bridge shown is part of the Jinji Expressway. Also s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/interesting-bridges/Doctor Uses Household Drill on Boy's Head
12-year-old Nicholas Rossi fell off his bike in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. His parents rushed him to the local hospital, where Dr. Rob Carson saw the child's brain was bleeding. The hospital did not have the equip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/doctor-uses-household-drill-on-boys-head/10 Failed Toy Lines Based on Movies
Because Star Wars created a demand for movie toys (and none existed when the movie premiered), toy companies now make them available before they know whether the movie is a hit or a bomb. This makes for lots o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/10-failed-toy-lines-based-on-movies/Clock Clock: Integrated Timepiece Created Using 24 Individual Clocks
This Clock Clock by Humans Since 1982 uses 24 individual analog clocks to tell the time! Technabob explains: It took me a second to figure out what was going on when I first got a look at this table full of analog cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/clock-clock-integrated-timepiece-created-using-24-individual-clocks/The Danish Free Newspaper War of 2006
Jon Lund of New Media Trends wrote a fascinating post about the Danish Free Newspaper War, which happened when newspapers tried to "out-free" a free Icelandic paper that entered their market. The whole thing en...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/the-danish-free-newspaper-war-of-2006/How Seashells Can Teach Us About Neural Networks
Image: Alistair BoettigerThe meticulous design of a seashell sure is pretty to you and me, but when UC Berkeley biophysicist George Oster looked at one, he saw something else entirely: neural networks. Here's why: Du...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/how-seashells-can-teach-us-about-neural-networks/8-Bit Fatalities by Steven Lefcourt
Image: TastyPaints.com [Flickr]Steven Lefcourt of TastyPaints was inspired by the controversy over the violence in video games to create this set of 8-Bit Fatalities: Before Mortal Kombat, violence in video games was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/8-bit-fatalities-by-steven-lefcourt/
