The creations of celebrity hairdresser Charlie le Mindu were on display yesterday during London fashion week. At left is a sample from a gallery of 14 images assembled at The Guardian. There are other entries in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/hair-today/September 22nd is Elephant Appreciation Day, celebrated since 1996. The official website has many suggestions for ways to celebrate the holiday, but you can use your imagination to honor elephants in your own way. Te...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/happy-elephant-appreciation-day/Whatever the occasion, someone will say it with a cake. Someone somewhere is probably very happy it was just a cold sore! See more embarrassing cakes at Stupid Idiots. http://bigstupididiot.com/2009/09/21/15...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/15-most-embarrassing-cakes/This working bicycle is also a work of art! The Forkless Cruiser is a graduation project by Olli Erkkila, a student at the Lahti Institute of Design in Finland. Link From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by oezi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/forkless-cruiser-bicycle/Lizards in the shades of Spiderman's superhero outfit are turning out to be the latest craze in pets. Rock agamas (Agama mwanzae) are high maintenance animals, in need of special diets and strict temperature set...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/spider-lizard-the-spiderman-copycat/Bacon Soap - $5.95 at the Neatorama ShopBacon - is there anything it can't do? Well, thanks to modern technology, we've got bacon belt to prop your pants up, bacon wallet to keep your money safe, bacon watch to tell time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/bacon-soap/For all fans of The Breakfast Club, and whether you love or hate cats, YTMND has a great post up, a video loop that further links humans and cats. Presenting, The Breakfast Cats. Looks like they're crackin' sku...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/22/the-breakfast-cats/A metaphor for life, I guess. Jeremy Hsu writes in Popular Science that Hiroo Iwata of the University of Tsukuba in Japan has developed robotic tiles that sense what direction a user is going in and move ahead...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/robotic-steps-let-you-walk-forward-endlessly-without-getting-anywhere/On August 20, 1974, scientists at Cornell University and the National Science Foundation used the radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico to beam a message into space. Encoded within the binary digits of the message wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/could-you-decipher-the-arecibo-message/These visually striking eggs are produced by hard-boiling an egg, cracking the shell, and then steeping the egg in a flavored tea or broth. The batik-like marbling effect is more prominent when teas with high level...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/tea-eggs-chinese-marbled-eggs/[caption id="attachment_26354" align="aligncenter" width="490" caption="Brian Bielmann"][/caption] 51-year-old Brian Bielmann has been photographing surfers for over three decades, and has quite an impressive portfoli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/a-surfing-photography-legend/Image: Job Voyager Job Voyager is a set of interactive charts showing changing occupations reported to the US Census Bureau from 1850-2000. It was made by Jeffrey Heer of the University of California at Berk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/150-years-of-american-occupations/Photo: Nathan Sawaya Here at Neatorama, we're big fans of LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya. His latest project is a functional cello made out of LEGO bricks. At the link, there are more pictures and a time-elapsed video of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/a-functional-cello-made-from-lego-bricks/Image: Fred Beneson Emoji are pictographs and emoticons common to text messaging in Japan. The scale of this language has grown so much that Fred Beneson of Creative Commmons wants to translate Herman Melville's ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/translating-moby-dick-into-emoji/If you’re going to wear a mask to prevent catching the flu, why not make it something worth looking at? Now That’s Nifty has a roundup of interesting face masks from all over. Linkmask, swine flu, virus, face mas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/fashionable-swine-flu-masks/New technologies are often blamed for the “dumbing-down” of new generations, but it’s hard to see that any generation is “dumber” than the one before it in a historical context. Professor Andrea Lunsford of Sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/the-new-literacy/If you recall the Tetris Shower and wanted one of your own, you’re going to love this. A tile supplier in England makes ceramic tiles in Tetris shapes! Pick up to seven colors for the six shapes and design your own...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/tetris-tiles/Tom Houk of Steamboat Springs, Colorado built a putting green in his yard, and got into the habit of leaving his golf balls where they landed until he returned. A few months ago, he woke to find all his golf balls gone!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/the-foxy-golfball-thief/Have you ever wondered what horizontal cross sections of the human body look like? Here is an animation of a full-body MRI from head to toe! Don’t blink or you’ll miss a vital organ. Link -via Blame It On The Voi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/full-body-mri/Photo: Kenny Irwin The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) has designed an inexpensive laptop computer that it hopes to distribute to children in developing nations. To promote the project, artist Kenny Irwin took...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/21/artist-creates-sculpture-by-microwaving-laptop-computer/James Bowthorpe of London pedaled his bicycle 18,000 miles around the world in 174 days, 20 fewer days than the world record holder. He arrived back in Hyde Park to complete the journey on Saturday. Mr Bowthorpe cyc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/around-the-world-in-174-days/Bibliophiles, you can now wear books around your neck! Etsy seller TheBlackSpotBooks offers this necklace with eleven tiny books made from a mix of antique and scrap leather. Each is hand-made and no two are alike. C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/library-necklace/We often describe our social relationships in temperature metaphors, like “cold shoulder” or “warm memories” or even “she’s hot!” This is no coincidence. An experiment last year from the University of Toron...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/the-social-thermometer/To give them their proper name, stabilimenta are quite literally web decorations. Some spiders, once their webs are complete, choose to further enhance them. While there are competing theories as to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/the-spiders-that-decorate-their-own-webs/The blog Instant Shift has compiled pictures of 84 bizarre and unique buildings scattered across the world. A few have already been featured on Neatorama, but most have not yet been posted here. Pictured a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/84-strange-buildings-around-the-world/First it was factory work to China, then programming jobs to India, and now, it seems that revenge can also be outsourced. Here's the story of Alibis and Paybacks, an unusual service business started by Adrienne Ferguson...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/alibis-and-paybacks-co-outsource-your-revenge/Was it a freak coincidence or proof of a vast lottery conspiracy? In Bulgaria, the set of 6 winning numbers were drawn twice in a row:Sports Minister Svilen Neikov ordered an investigation after the numbers 4, 15, 23...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/the-bulgarian-lottery-coincidence-or-conspiracy/First fool the humans with the cute kind of cats, and then when they're lulled into a false sense of security, the supercats will take over the world! Here's a story of the rise of a new breed of predator cats as pets in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/the-rise-of-the-supercats/Peter Jackson dug up a carrot from his home's garden, found that it was shaped like a hand, took a photo of it ... and ate it! Peter's daughter Lindsay said:'My dad just seemed to make some joke about it being 'handy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/20/man-found-ate-carrot-shaped-like-a-hand/[caption id="attachment_26320" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Photo: A. Butorin"][/caption] Not only is this park in the Siberian-Yakutsk region an extremely beautiful sight, but is also regarded as a histor...
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