I wasn't all that impressed with these swirling colors until I started playing with the sliding controls. You can change the size of the colored splotches, the amount of blur, the color change rate, and other dimensi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/17/eye-candy/If you've ever wondered what's inside Hello Kitty, we now know there's a Valentine-shaped heart with a little bow as well as lungs that look at you and cute little intestines. Of course. Designer Dr. Romanelli made t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/17/hello-kitty-guts/Chris Jordan has previously created art pieces utilizing garbage and junk to emphasize the role of consumerism in modern society. For his most recent project he has photographed the carcasses of albatrosses on Midway Is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/17/death-by-plastic/Image: Anne Cavanagh and Dave McCarthy The Wellcome Image Awards are given annually for achievement in scientific imagery. The 2009 winners were announced yesterday in London. Among those winners was the above image...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/awards-for-outstanding-works-in-scientific-photography/1962, a NASA administrator named James Webb decided to give artists broad access to the agency's facilities and programs. In the ensuing five decades, a vast body of work was created by those artists. Many of their com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/nasa-art-work/Not only is the placebo effect becoming stronger, but it's now been imaged for the first time by researchers with fMRI machines. Falk Eippert at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany led the study:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/placebo-effect-caught-on-mri/Hit Play or You Tube link. Since I was always Scorpion, and never really got very good at Donkey Kong, this made Friday fantastic. Short & sweet. via UniqueDailywin, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong, Scorpion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/mortal-kombat-vs-donkey-kong/This week marks the 47th anniversary of The Cuban Missile Crisis, an event that spanned thirteen days and brought the world close to total nuclear war. It was also a valuable lesson in Presidential powers, and global n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/a-teachers-blog-the-cuban-missile-crisis/Letters of Note has a form letter from the 9th century found in western China produced by the Dunhuang Bureau of Etiquette. They had insisted officials issue letters of apology to dinner hosts after any embarrassing drun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/apology-form-for-drunkeness/When Mother Teresa died in 1997, she was buried at the Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta. Now that she is expected to be canonized as a saint, the government of Albania has asked that her remains be disint...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/india-not-giving-up-mother-teresa/Efforts are underway to revive damaged Pacific coral reefs by actively gardening them (propagating and transplanting the coral). This video was directed and produced by Jonathan Clay for the BBC's Natural History...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/gardening-coral-in-fiji/[caption id="attachment_26917" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Image: The Cellar"][/caption] The Axolotl is a rare type of salamander, closely related to the Tiger Salamander species. They are about 9 inches...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/axolotl-salamanders/Hundreds of kids dressed up as Max and cavorted with (attacked) a Wild Thing at a Wild Rumpus party held in Toronto October 4th in anticipation of the Where the Wld Things Are Movie, which opens nationwide tod...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/hundred-of-maxes-at-a-wild-rumpus/(YouTube Link) Klenginem is a German rapper who performs in the Klingon language, mostly modified Eminem songs. Here is his performance of "SuvwI'pu' qan tu'lu'be", which is known in English as "Without Me." Off...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/klingon-language-rapper/Photo: d.billy [Flickr]Shaun Usher wrote a nifty post about a few unusual air conditioners from around the world - from the high-brow art/AC unit from LG to the Dunstable Wind Catcher, which is based on ancient Persian t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/televox-a-clever-ghetto-camouflage-of-an-ugly-ac-unit/[YouTube - Link] Ah, the beauty of slow motion video...with a crazy Japanese twist. I ended grinning like a fool by the end of the video as each individual running has a unique and hilarious run. This certainly ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/16/slow-motion-running-in-japan/If this doesn't work, CLICK HERE College Humor presents an instant classic: A funny road trip on the Street View highway, with actual Street View shots used as animated backgrounds and settings.Funny, google, vide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/google-street-view-guys/Considering the earlier story of Falcon Heene and the flying saucer, this Public Service Announcement by Ebru strikes home. She named it "The Truest Venn Diagram I Have Ever Made." Link -via Buzzfeedfirearms, Venn di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/timely-venn-diagram/Recycle, reuse, rethink how we look at garbage. Tires are an especially volatile item, as they take up space and emit terrible fumes when burned. Check out Oddee's collection of creative sculptures made from disc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/sculptures-made-from-tires/Researchers Qiang Chen and Tie Jun Cui of Southeast University in Nanjing, China created a device that partially simulates the effects (to a limited scale) of a black hole. It bends light differently from a the way that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/scientists-create-pocket-sized-black-hole/Photo: megpi This cake inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night was created by flickr user megpi of Silver Lake, California. Link via Make | Starry Night at the MoMA UPDATE 10/14/09: In the co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/vincent-van-gogh-cake/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjlNrTc2oYw][YouTube - Link] A 6 year old boy climbed into a hot air balloon and floated away, and officials are scrambling to find a way to rescue him. The balloon has the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/6-year-old-boy-floats-away-in-a-hot-air-balloon/(YouTube Link) Princeton neuroscientist David Tank wanted to study individual neurons in a mouse's hippocamus as it moves. But the movement of the mouse's body prevented accurate readings. So he placed the mouse o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/mouse-runs-on-trackball-through-virtual-maze/(YouTube link) A skunk in Tulsa, Oklahoma got his head stuck in a jar. Now you'll know what to do when this happens in your neighborhood. -via Blame It On The Voicespeanut butter, skunk, jar, Tulsa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/the-skunk-whisperer/(Video Link) Artist Karolina Sobecka and software designer Jim George created Sniff -- a computer generated projection of a dog that responds to the actions of people passing by a storefront. Here's how it works:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/interactive-storefront-display/Photo: Motoblog.it An anonymous reader of the Italian-language site Motoblog.it made a Vespa-shaped rocking horse for his nephew Diego. Who wants to take it out for a spin? Link (Google Translator version) via Cru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/vespa-rocking-horse/Most people I encounter in my offline life do not surf the internet, and I think about all the rich content they are missing. The people I encounter on the internet work hard to spread interesting content, and are rarely...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/from-blogs-to-books-a-history-of-the-web-in-print/Jarrette Schule found a rocket launcher in his backyard in rural Comal County, Texas on Tuesday. Against all common sense, he took it in his house, then began calling authorities to report it. He called the FBI, the sher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/no-one-wanted-to-claim-rocket-launcher/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18usd0iV3eI][YouTube - Link]This amazing animation is a wonderful combination of real public space & cardboard animation filmed stop-motion, by Dutch animator Sjors Vervoort wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/cardboard/Possibly the most beautiful pigeon too, the Victoria Crowned is not at all what you might expect when used to the hordes that haunt our towns and cities. Thanks to the Dodo becoming defunct, these turkey sized bl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/15/the-victoria-crowned-the-largest-pigeon-in-the-world/
