The Oops Awards (previously at Neatorama) are given to the ugliest, silliest, and most useless household products of the year. This year’s winners include the skin collection by designer Nacho Carbonell, which won...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/oops-design-awards/Stephen Von Worley created a map of the USA showing where McDonalds outlets are. As you can see, they are (almost) everywhere! You’ll have to go to South Dakota to get 100 miles away from a McDonalds. Link -via Buz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/where-is-mcdonalds/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8-kqovVjss][YouTube - Link]This projection show was presented by The Darkroom, a motion graphics company in Aukland, New Zealand. This performance was at “a secret festival...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/amazing-building-projection-show/I'm happy to see that VaroCMS, the engine behind VideoSift and Neatorama Upcoming Queue, continues to gain wider use on the InterWeb. Rommel Santor, the brainy genius and all round nice guy behind VaroCMS has just told m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/varocms-powered-upcoming-over-at-nextround-net/Ashleigh Brilliant, the most quoted author in the world (he's written over 10,000 wonderful quotes, all 17-words or less) is going to be on streaming Internet radio today, Wednesday Sept 23, 2009 from 9 to 10 AM Pacific,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/ashleigh-brilliant-radio-interview-today-wed-23-2009/Photo: Steve StealeyIs that a 55-gallon drum or a BBQ smoker? Actually, it's both! Steve Stealey of Steve's Services - BBQ division in Carthage, Mo. came up with the idea of using a steel drum as a smoker and BBQ grill w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/55-gallon-drum-bbq-grill-and-smoker/Some dogs are well-trained, some dogs are really well-trained. In this Very Funny Ads video clip, Thailand's Chaiphak Training Center shows just how well they can train dogs (unfortunately, making their masters...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/now-thats-a-well-trained-dog/Talk about computer viruses! Sculptor Forrest McCluer took salvaged 30 old PCs from the landfill and turned them into sculptures of viruses (the biological kind). This one above is inspired by the T4 Bacteriophage: ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/virus-sculptures-from-old-computer-parts-by-forrest-mccluers/Times are hard and even restaurants are penny pinching. But are these restaurant tricks valid or are they just cheating you, the customer? Ben Widdicombe told all in his Slashfood article 10 Dirty Little Restaurant...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/dirty-restaurant-secrets/What time is it? If you have trouble getting back to your cubicle on time, simply set this Will Return Clock (yes, it looks just like those ubiquitous "will return" signs ... but with a clock) fifteen minutes a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/will-return-clock/Their customers always told Randy Joubert and Gary Nisbet, co-workers at a furniture store in Waldoboro, Maine, that they look similar enough to be brothers. They always laughed it off, but when Joubert looked for his bi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/co-workers-found-theyre-actually-long-lost-brothers/Back in the middle ages, a popular form of torture is to force a poor sap to sit on a pointy stool called the Judas Cradle. You can imagine what that does to the guy's backside.Fast forward to modern times and lo, this t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/judas-cradle-as-trendy-furniture/Photo: Bolonchen Regional Archaeological ProjectArchaeologists have found new clues from the Maya ruins of Kiuic in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that may shed light on the collapse of the Maya civilization ten centuries ag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/archaeologists-found-mayan-ruins-frozen-in-time/Forget tranquilizer darts - that's the stuff of Hollywood. Real police officers use taser, even on a wayward emu:Authorities in Mississippi said they had to handcuff an emu and shock it with a Taser to remove the ost...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/police-tasered-and-handcuffed-an-emu/Photo: Shisberg [Flickr]Residents of Sydney, Australia woke up today to find themselves in the middle of a bizarre dust storm that made the city look like it was on planet Mars! Dust storms are nothing new in Australia,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/sydney-dust-storm/Improv Everywhere set up a portrait studio aboard a subway train and persuaded riders to have their pictures taken for the “subway yearbook”. Read the story behind this mission and see more pictures and a video a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/subway-yearbook-photographs/Fingers tapping on the tabletop are something you usually want to get rid of instead of something to reproduce. Nik Ramage, on the other hand, created a copy of his own hand with a motor that taps the fingers incessa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/tapping-fingers/A newly-identified species of ghostshark has been found living off the coast of California. The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark also exists in museums, but has only recently been named as a distinct species, says Dougla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/23/ghostshark-has-sex-organ-on-head/Slow Moscow from Andrey Stvolinsky on Vimeo. Here is an amazingly gorgeous slow motion captured video by Andrey Stvolinsky. The music by Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble helps give this video that added surreal noir fac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/slow-moscow/Tenerife, the largest of Spain's beautiful Canary Islands is home to an enormous amount of unique street art. See a small selection of the awesome graffiti at Direct Villas Tenerife. Link (image credit: Flickr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/the-graffiti-of-tenerife/Slate has an interesting piece up on the current state of that Marine Corps Army indoctrinator, the fearsome drill instructor sergeant. I have it on good authority from my nephew, who is currently serving valiantly,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/drill-instructors-not-so-scary-anymore/What happens when you take an ordinary piece of fruit and start to doodle on it? Banana Art! "Bananastein" shown here is just one of many examples. Link From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Baierman.banana, Arts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/banana-art/Ever noticed that drunk people who cause accidents that kill others escape harm? Well, the secret of their luck may actually be the alcohol itself. Dr. Ali Salim and colleagues from the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/booze-therapy-giving-alcohol-to-patients-with-head-injury/(YouTube Link) 90-year old Lonnie Holloway, of Saluda, South Carolina chose to be buried inside his old Pontiac Catalina. He was entombed with his collection of guns in the passenger seat and next to his wife (who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/man-buried-in-his-1973-pontiac-catalina/This Bizarro comic panel made me chuckle. I'm sure you can start a flamewar simply by mentioning the A-word (indeed, Dan Piraro's blog post on this comic panel has quite a bit of comments), so why don't we just laugh a b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/bizarro-at-the-atheist-cafe/Dmitri Williams of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, et al., conducted a census of video game characters and concluded that non-Whites and women were vastly underrepresented: Seasoned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/a-quantitative-study-of-ethnicity-and-gender-in-video-games/British jeweler Donald Edge was asked to create a gold, pearl, and diamond-encrustled bottle of Chambord raspberry liqueur. His work is estimated to be worth $2 million and contains 1,100 individual diamonds. It will b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/the-worlds-most-expensive-bottle-of-liquor/Natalie Avon writes in Popular Science that between 1995 and 2008, 82% of people in the US killed by lightning were male. The experts that she consulted agreed that this was due to behavioral, rather than biolo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/men-are-more-likely-than-women-to-be-hit-by-lightning/Cynthia Blair-Hoover of Granby, Colorado crashed on the way to Denver when her car went off a cliff near Central City. Although the fall left the 52-year-old woman with eleven broken ribs, broken vertebrae, and a punctur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/injured-woman-rescues-herself/You think big hair was big in the 1980s? In the 18th century, ladies of a certain station took hairstyling to absurd lengths -or heights, actually. Social critics and caricaturists of the day had fun with the trend, as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/the-rise-and-fall-of-big-hair/
