Experts in Great Britain are overwhelmed by both the magnitude and the quality of the objects, which include not only coins but beautifully-crafted works of art. There are 1,500 items, most of which are warfare-related...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/immense-anglo-saxon-gold-and-silver-hoard-discovered/Some of the buildings you know from your favorite TV shows are real brick-and-mortar places, although the signs are sometimes different. Super Tremendous has video of eight of them and addresses for those who want to go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/8-iconic-tv-show-buildings/As they say, the third time is the charm. Three different missions to the moon have relayed back evidence of water. There were traces of water in the moon rocks brought back by Apollo, but that was attributed to contamin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/water-found-on-the-moon/For weeks, Armando Del Manso found dead snakes with teeth marks on his property near Cairns, Australia. He assumed his dog was killing the snakes until he saw two rabbits killing another snake! “We were watching f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/killer-rabbits/Priya Ganapati writes in Wired that researchers at MIT are developing an eye implant that can feed visual imput past damaged cells and directly into the brain. Patients will wear a camera that downloads images...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/an-artificial-eye-for-the-blind/This 18th Century French Chateau is only 1:12 scale (your 6 foot tall liveried footman would be represented as 6 inches tall here). The chateau was the central display in the 2009 South Australian Miniatures Enthusiast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/miniature-18th-century-french-chateau/Hundreds of couples are living underneath the US gambling mecca Las Vegas and living off the scraps left behind by its patrons. It's claimed that up to 700 people call the network of tunnels beneath the casinos home....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/beneath-the-neon/W00t! It's time for this week's collaboration with the always awesome What is it? Blog. Can you tell us what this strange and menacing old timey batarang is used for?Game rules are simple: place your gue...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/what-is-it-game-110/The track and field events of 100 m dash, long jump, high jump, and shot put can get kind of boring after a while. But how should they be improved?How about with a sumo suit? The people behind the Sumo Suit Athletics Wor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/sumo-suit-athletics-world-championships/This coming winter, ditch the slanket and get yourself warm the good ol' fashioned geeky way: with USB hand/foot/eye(!) warmers and blanket. GeekAlerts blog has got your (chilly) backside covered with this article: 10 US...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/monkey-gloves-usb-warmer/Meet the Ophryotrocha craigsmithi, a newly discovered species of bristleworm that eats only dead whale bones. But there's a plus side to eating a carcass of an animal that large: a single whale can provide food...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/newly-discovered-species-eat-only-dead-whales/Lenore over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories blog created this bra-ket bookends perfect for your quantum mechanics textbooks. Dirac would've been proud though Heisenberg would've warned about the uncertainty of having...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/dirac-notation-bookends/This one is fantastic: take a look at this very cool computer graphic animation of self-playing musical instruments, titled Resonant Chamber by Animusic. Link [embedded YouTube clip] - by the way, The Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/resonant-chamber-by-animusic-animated-self-playing-musical-instruments/Photo: MJ, via WooWork's Flickr photostreamWe've blogged about Howie Woo of WooWork before on Neatorama, but the genius goofball of crochet is back with this awesome Sat-Track Surveillance Watch (complete with Remote Bug...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/crocheted-sat-track-surveillance-camera-by-howie-woo/(L) B3ta user Mighty Nibus; (R) hYpeBack in July, the B3ta community created some of the most creative movie poster mash-ups I've seen in a long while. As the two examples above show, sometimes the simplest ideas are the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/movie-poster-mash-ups/Wha...? Is that ...? Really? Yes, it is. Behold the reusable Pokémon-themed maxi pad, made by Etsy seller NaturallyHip. I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere. And while we're at it, this product certainly doe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/pokemon-maxi-pad/For those of us who simply don't get Twitter or are tired of the Web's fascination with the 140-character microblogging platform, here's the anti-Twitter. Introducing macroblogging wonder Woofer, where each post has a mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/24/woofer-the-anti-twitter/A collection of strange animals that were bred for commerce, including the Giant Guinea Pig:Peruvians eat about 65 million guinea pigs per year. With meat in mind, scientists in Peru set out to supersize the cuy....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/7-strange-animals-bred-for-business-purposes/A look back at what should be viewed as the second golden age of cartoons, the 90's, including TaleSpin:Using characters adapted from the 1967 movie The Jungle Book, Talespin was set in the town of Cape Suzette. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/the-20-greatest-cartoons-of-the-1990s/The largest piece of cloth ever made from spider silk measures four feet wide and eleven feet long. To make it, 70 people collected golden orb spiders over four years! The spiders were then hooked up to a machine that ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/fabric-made-from-spider-silk/There's something amazing, yet terrifyingly creepy about this fantastic 1882 deep sea diving suit. It is currently on display in the Musee de la Marine in Paris. Link Via BoingBoing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/1882-diving-suit/(YouTube Link) This video is in Japanese (?) so I can't offer any information about it. But it's clearly about a man who has cut and styled his hair to resemble a front-brimmed hat. Perhaps some Japanese-speaking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/mr-hair-hat/Photo: Jon Sarriugarte Jon Sarriugarte, a metal sculptor, and Kyrsten Mate Comoglio, an Oscar-nominated sound effects designer, have been previously featured on Neatorama for their fanciful snail car built out of an o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/trilobite-vehicle/Here's a neat video of what's possible with the Particular 2 plug-in for After Effects. Very imaginative street test! Link via BoingBoing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/particular-2-test/Artists use sketchbooks to store ideas for future use. Bloggers have folders of bookmarks. And some authors keep notebooks or "commonplace" books. One well-known author recorded "ideas, images, & quotations ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/can-you-identify-the-author-of-this-commonplace-book/Asylum blog has a pretty nifty post about 10 really old dudes and their jobs. For example:Oldest cop: Manuel Curry, 84Sadly, Sergeant Major Manuel Curry died earlier this summer. But he did so as Ame...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/worlds-oldest-workers-and-occupations/Web Designer Depot has a good round-up of the most controversial magazine covers that have graced the newstands. While some controversial covers have worked and sold more magazines, or won awards for the editors who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/most-controversial-magazine-covers/Lots of artists are entering the contest “Where the Wild Things Ought To Be”, placing characters from the Maurice Sendak classic into other worlds, real and fictional. The entries include Max and his buddies in *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/where-the-wilds-things-ought-to-be/Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is for Seinfeld fans. The character of George Costanza held many different jobs during the run of the show. How well do you remember them? I scored abysmally by guessing, so y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/george-costanzas-jobs/The Museum of Animal Perspectives gathers videos from inside animal nests, cameras carried by animals, camera traps, and remote vehicles. You could spend days watching these! I suggest starting with the armadillo cam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/museum-of-animal-perspectives/
