Arjan Verweij collects dice of all kinds, including this Egyptian pair made of bone which is around 2,000 years old. See other ancient dice made from ivory, lead, horn, wood, bronze, and stone. Dice are also categorize...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/ancient-dice/RTOOT stands for Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle. Membership is open to anyone in the Raleigh/Durham area who is not competent enough to play with other orchestras. Who are we? The Really Terrible Orchest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/rtoot/In the world of radio journalism, there's nothing better than "This American Life." With their remarkable focus on everyday people and their indescribable story selection, the hipster-friendly show is a unique radio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/this-american-life/Angelo Cammarata is finally retiring. The 95-year-old bartender has been serving customers at Cammarata's in Pittsburgh for 77 years. That puts him in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-serving bartender e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/worlds-longest-serving-bartender/U.S. News and World Report surveyed cities across the US to determine the best places to raise kids. They took into account crime rates, school system ratings, cultural opportunities, recreational activities, child-frien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/americas-10-best-places-to-grow-up/(Video Link) Frank Levine began running competitively at the age of 65 -- nothing big, just a marathon. He's run seventeen marathons since that time. Levine just broke a world record for the 5000-meter in the 95-9...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/95-year-old-competitive-runner/The EniCycle, invented by Aleksander Polutnik, has a three-hour battery charge and keeps upright through the use of gyroscopes (like the Segway). It's not yet in production, but there are currently two working model...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/the-enicycle-a-motorized-unicycle/The QLOCKTWO, created by the German design firm Biegert & Funk, spells out time in five minute increments. Four dots in the corners let you know precisely which minute it is. The clock retails in Europe for about $...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/clock-spells-out-time/(YouTube Link) It's cool enough to have a realistic Bumblebee costume, but what makes this one Neato is that it actually transforms from robot to car mode. I don't have any more information about this clip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/transforming-transformer-costume/IE7 and IE8 Crashes and Hang UpsI've received a few emails about a looping bug in some ad scripts on the blog that crashed Internet Explorer 7 and 8 (apparently, it didn't affect Firefox). I'd like to th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/neatorama-update-aug-2009/If you think about it, table manners are just one of the ways The Man has got us under his thumb. Separate forks for salad, fish, oyster and dinner? It's oppression, I tell you.Our BFF BuzzFeed is revolting against some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/stupid-table-manners/Photo: Carmen Freeman / Adidas and Planet TalkForget being squished between sweating tourists inside a hot jeep! Mountain bike champ Hans "No Way" Rey found a better way to go tour the Mashatu Game Reserve in B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/mountain-biking-through-the-mashatu-game-reserve-with-hans-no-way-rey/Hello everybody - it's my pleasure to introduce to you the newest Neatoramanaut in the family. Say hello to baby Georgia, who was born just a few days ago. No, no styling gel was involved in the 'do above - Georgie was b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/our-newest-neatoramanaut-say-hello-to-baby-georgia/What do you think is behind the door? A black hole? The realm before heavens in Mortal Kombat? Our friend Fernando took this picture in London, his hometown. All I'm saying is, if you don't want people wanderi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/beware-the-void-behind-the-door/WebUrbanist has a great collection of 15 neat school buses turned into artwork. My favorite is the one seen above based on the catbus seen in the anime movie My Neighbor Totoro. This cool art car was one of the many...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/21/cool-school-buses/Truth in labeling -- this t-shirt tells readers exactly what chemical elements they can expect to find inside. Link via Kinda UniqueTshirt, chemistry, ingredients...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/human-ingredients-t-shirt/Every breed of art deserves at least a short moment in the limelight. Microsculpting, however, deserves quite a bit more. Taking up to six weeks on a single piece, microsculpter Willard Wigan creates miniature versions o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/sculpting-in-the-eye-of-a-needle/Now That's Nifty has a post about the nine bridges where you will probably die if you try crossing them. I don't know about you, but I would look for the long way around. I'm fine crossing big, sturdy bridges, no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/bridges-you-will-probably-die-crossing/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b36Yi-Pb1wM][YouTube - Link]Forget Lance Armstrong! Carla and Henriette Hochdorfer, German Artistic Cycling champions, certainly take bicycling to a whole new level ... - via carla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/bike-dancing/How hard is it to walk in a straight line? Very hard, actually - according to a new study by psychologist Jan Souman of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, people who are lost in the woods or desert actu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/lost-people-really-do-walk-in-circles/An oak barrel of butter has been found in a bog near Gilltown, Ireland. Two workers, John Fitzharris and Martin Lane, noticed a white streak in the peat and uncovered the barrel, estimated to be 3,000 years old. Pádraig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/3000-year-old-butter-found/Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne programmed robots to move around an area, looking for particular rings designated as food, and avoid others designated as poison. Whenever they found foo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/the-robopocalypse-approaches-robots-learn-to-lie/This design, patented in 1945 by Henry Wallace, never made it into mass production (or, I suspect, even a prototype). Odd, that. From the text of the patent: One of the objects of this invention is to provid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/one-legged-hopping-tank/Navy chemists claim to have refined short chain hydrocarbons from seawater and hope to develop kerosene-based jet fuel from the process: The process involves extracting carbon dioxide dissolved in the water and co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/us-navy-developing-jet-fuel-from-seawater/The Good Afternoon Clock uses beams of light, alternating along the interior of the ring, to indicate hours, minutes, and seconds. It's a product of the Mile Project and was exhibited at the Salone Satellite interna...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/a-clock-that-uses-beams-of-light-for-hands/In 2000, Rich Hughes was diving near a shipwreck off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales when he spotted a shiny object under the sea. He retrieved a pocket watch with "Richard Prichard 1866 Abersoch North Wales" engraved...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/watch-returned-128-years-later/(YouTube Link) Onwards is a simple and elegant short film about a runner. It was created by James Jarvis and Richard Kenworthy and sponsored by Nike. Official Website (where there's a full screen, high...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/onwards/Yes, this week's collaboration with the always awesome What is it? Blog brings us ... a spike - but can you guess its specific purpose? (hint: it has a VERY specific purpose)Place your guess in the comme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/what-is-it-game-108/Brett & Kate McKay of the Art of Manliness Blog wrote a neat post about some of the worst products ever created for men, which included dubious products like hair in a can, chest hair toupee, prostate warmer and so o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/squirrel-lamp/Etsy seller GEEKitty hand crafts cat toys of felt with no metal or plastic parts. You can have a speech bubble made with up to four characters of your choice, or buy one ready made with “meh”, “srsly”, or “lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/speech-bubble-cat-toys/
