San Francisco’s Lombard Street, full of hairpin curves and known as “the crookedest street in the world” was turned into Candyland Wednesday to celebrate the game’s 60th anniversary. Children from from UC San F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/candyland-on-lombard-street/There's an article in Popular Mechanics describing the history of pinball. Did you know that pinball used to be illegal in many places in the United States? Pinball was banned from the early 1940s to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/11-things-you-didnt-know-about-pinball-history/(YouTube Link) Concert Hands is a gadget designed to replace traditional piano instruction by controlling the user's hand and finger movements: The software takes the song file and converts it to a proprietar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/25739/(YouTube Link) Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who creates sand drawings in front of audiences. Here she is performing on Ukraine's Got Talent: Here, she recounts Germany conquering Ukraine in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/the-sand-animation-of-kseniya-simonova/Zombaritaville is a Seattle-based blogger who writes parodies of popular songs, reimagining them as zombie-themed. Here's a passage from the lyrics for his song "Rippin' Off Your Skin", based on Bob Dylan's "B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/zombie-song-lyrics/Maybe bacon as an internet meme has jumped the shark, but it still makes all kinds of food taste fabulous! Fine, the bacon lube and bacon bras are a little creepy. Maybe we’ve gone too far when we’re literally...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/100-ways-to-use-a-strip-of-bacon/Personas is an application that searches your name on the web and returns a profile of what it finds. Mine is pictured. Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/personas/For kids with xeroderma pigmentosum, sunshine is deadly. UV rays cause them to develop cancerous tumors. They stay inside and covered, except for rare occasions late at night. Patients travel to Camp Sundown in New York...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/baseball-in-the-dark/The ultimate backyard status symbol is a tree that has been to the moon. There are hundreds of them, and most are unaccounted for. Astronaut Stuart Roosa took a packet of tree seeds on the Apollo 14 mission to the moon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/moon-trees/There are hundreds of motorcycle clubs in the US, most of which never make more than local headlines for charity work. Then there are the “one percenters”, the gangs whose criminal activities set a poor reputation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/the-top-ten-notorious-american-biker-gangs/A writer at Wolf Gnarls calculated that Bill Murray spent exactly 8 years, 8 months and 16 days stuck in a time loop in the movie Groundhog Day. According to Heeb Magazine, the writer and director of the 1993 fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/19/harold-ramis-responds-on-groundhog-day/If you wondered how people actually made some of the cakes in the Threadcakes contest, previously featured on Neatorama, then you'll love this time-lapse video of a Threadless tee shirt being made into a cake. The pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/threadcakes-contest-entry-video/If you love MJ and kid's toys, then you're certain to love this great Etch-A-Sketch artwork of him created by artist George Vlosich III. It took over 150 hours to complete. Now that's some dedicated etching. He also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/michael-jackson-etch-a-sketch/A laboratory at Nucleix, a life-sciences company, was able to manufacture DNA that would be accurate enough to pass forensic scrutiny: "You can just engineer a crime scene," Nucleix founder Dan Frumkin told The Ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/scientists-create-fake-dna/This summer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction on a barrier and pumping station designed to protect New Orleans from flooding. The pump will be capable of moving 150,000 gallons per second: ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/the-worlds-largest-water-pump/Although it's not as stylish as the UFO Cap Umbrella, the Umbrella Shoulder Holder lets you keep both hands available. Just plug your umbrella into one end and wrap it around your shoulder. Link (in Japanese) via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/the-umbrella-shoulder-holder/Researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have broken the record for the number of calculated digits of the constant pi: The T2K Tsukuba System is a 640-computer cluster with a processing speed of 95 t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/researchers-break-pi-calculation-record/The Soviet-designed An-225 -- the world's largest operational aircraft -- was originally designed to transport the USSR's space shuttle. That program is long gone, but one An-225 just broke the world record for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/worlds-largest-aircraft-breaks-airlift-record/What happens when two smoke rings of equal size and different colors meet head on? It's almost like art! http://technology.todaysbigthing.com/2009/08/04 -via Metafilter You'll find a discu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/vortex-smoke-ring-collision/The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States rendered in personalized license plates from each of the 50 states. Created by conceptual artist Mike Wilkins in 1987, the installation now resides in the Smi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/the-preamble-in-license-plates/I love looking at ancient maps. Even those that are relatively correct feature fantastic artwork in the spaces that would otherwise have no information. But some of those extra decorations had a purpose. The richl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/unusual-and-marvelous-maps/You've heard of spontaneous human combustion and you may have read about frogs raining from the sky, but have you ever heard of earthquake lights? Or star snot? How about the Naga Fireballs, glowing red eggs that shoot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/17/7-unexplained-acts-of-nature/The Arkeg combines two necessities of life: beer and arcade games. For a mere $4,000, you can have a chilled 5-gallon keg, a 24-inch screen, and a console loaded with 104 classic video games. It also comes with a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/17/beer-arcade-games-arkeg/Gizmodo has a photogallery of ten extraordinary cameras, such as the the above picture of the world's largest camera. Constructed in 2006, it consisted of a modified aircraft hangar at the former Marine Corps Air St...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/17/10-extreme-cameras/Puppet Rodeo (Atom Films Link) Puppet Rodeo is a silly new short film by Kevin Maher about puppets riding dogs in a rodeo. Via Urlesquepuppet, Atom Films, Puppet Rodeo, rodeo, Kevin Maher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/17/puppet-rodeo/The burning question everyone (or at least those who have seen the movie) asks: how long does Bill Murray spend trapped in a time loop in the movie Groundhog Day? Wolf Gnards took clues from the film to come up...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/17/how-long-does-bill-murray-spend-in-groundhog-day/Love is hard when you're a little robot in a big world. A little bit creepy and a whole lot of cute, Little Big Love is a bittersweet short film from Tomas Mankovsky. Linkrobot, animation, love story...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/17/little-big-love/Researchers at Toyota and Tohuku University in northern Japan have announced progress in their efforts to extend the charge in the batteries of electric vehicles: Existing lithium-ion batteries have a cathode that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/17/new-batteries-for-electric-cars-could-last-ten-times-longer/10-year old Kyle and 8-year old Bryce Billingslea found a kitten along a country road in Michigan. The kitten was missing his front paws! The 10-week old cat's injuries were rotting and full of maggots, but he still ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/17/howard-the-combine-kitty/When Stand Up Frank's in Minneapolis closed it's doors ealier this year, no one could foresee the undead rising in it's place. Donny Dirk's Zombie Den in Minneapolis is a zombie bar! In the corner, a small chainsaw...
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