We have seen Microsoft Excel used as a drawing tool before, but not like this. YouTube user and artist shukei01 put this time-lapse video together that shows almost 13 hours of work. "Autoshape can be used to do line...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/excel-as-illustrator/If I weren't all thumbs, I'd definitely give this one a try: Hardware hacker Limor Fried (Ladyada) of Adafruit Industries has released an open source retro Pong clock for two called the MONOCHRON. She promised that "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/diy-retro-pong-clock/Forget Alice in Wonderland! This is Tim Burton's masterpiece remake of the year. Behold, Weekend at Bernie's. I'd give it an 8.3. Hit play or go to http://www.babelgum.com/4025144/tim-burton-remakes-wee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/tim-burtons-new-remake-weekend-at-bernies/A fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine explains that knowlege about and usage of Braille by visually impaired people is declining as they shift to electronic means of acquiring information. The trend is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/the-death-of-braille-appropriate-or-ominous/The two great theaters of Elizabethan London were the Rose, where Christoper Marlowe's plays were performed, and the Globe, home to the works attributed to Shaksper. Ongoing archaeological work at the sites is revealin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/elizabethans-enjoyed-oysters-and-crabs-at-the-theater/The final day of the Winter Olympics this Sunday has only two events: the gold medal men's hockey game and the 50km cross-country skiing race. Brian McKeever will be skiing for Canada. This race will make him the first O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/skiing-blind/Obviously. Linksnow, sculpture, feet, visual pun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/two-feet-of-snow/Alan Tansey of Brooklyn tracked the movements of his mouse over the course of a day. This galaxy-like image was the result. Link via Makecomputer mouse, Alan Tansey...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/mouse-usage-visualization/(YouTube link) This catchy song was born at TEDActive 2010, where attendees were invited to contribute their ideas on what the world needs. The entire production was put together in just four days. Jill Sobule,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/what-the-world-needs-now/Tattoo artist Holly Azzara created this enormous back and arm tattoo that depicts the entire Alice in Wonderland story -- well, the Disney version, anyway. Additional pictures at the link. Link via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/the-entire-alice-and-wonderland-story-in-one-tattoo/Anton Hecht (previously on Neatorama) sent us a new video of a performance piece where musicians tired of Muzak got together at a neighborhood shopping center to perform Maurice Ravel's Bolero, much to the delight of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/undercover-orchestra-plays-ravels-bolero/Infographic: GOOD Magazine and Column FiveDoes believing in God help make you wealthy? If so, can a particular religion make you wealthier than others? GOOD Magazine in collaboration with Column Five takes a look at Amer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/the-almighty-dollar-distribution-of-income-by-religion/(YouTube Link)We've previously featured the first video in John Boswell's Symphony of Science autotuned music project. This video, the fifth and latest in the series, features Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowsk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/symphony-of-science-v-the-poetry-of-reality/Treo, a nine-year old Black Labrador Retriever who served in the British Army, was awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. He's repeatedly saved the lives of his comrades in Afghanistan: Now he is be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/labrador-retriever-awarded-britains-highest-military-honor/Back in 2007, Howard Davies-Carr uploaded a video clip featuring his two British sons Harry (then 3 years old) and Charlie (then 1 year old) to YouTube so their godfather who was living overseas could watch. Little did h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/charlie-bit-my-finger-again/If you can't fit into that old sweater grandma gave you ages ago, don't throw it away! For $30, computer programmer-by-day and fashion-maven-by-night Gayane Avanian, and her son Haik Avanian, will take your old sweaters...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/reknit-turn-old-sweaters-into-new-things-you-can-wear/Hate cleaning the refrigerator? You're not alone - most Americans clean their fridges only once or twice a year.Instead of changing our habits, appliance makers are coming up with new technology that keeps fridges cleane...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/technology-that-allows-you-to-clean-your-fridge-even-less-often/Good news: Tiger Woods return to advertising. Bad news: Involuntarily and for PETA. ;)Moments after his sex scandal was revealed, companies pulled their Tiger Woods ads and the golfer went from ubiquitous to pretty much...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/tiger-woods-peta-billboard-ad/This application will give you a lesson in how difficult it is to control the universe. Select how many planets you want and adjust their orbits and other parameters. Then set it in motion and watch your planets crash...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/my-solar-system/An unnamed 35-year-old female inmate broke out of a prison in Breda, the Netherlands. She was housed on prison grounds in a special building for inmates preparing for release. To escape, she dug a tunnel with a spoon! *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/convict-digs-out-of-prison-with-a-spoon/Our pals over at boingboing have just unveiled their latest masterboing: a full-page feature page. Kicking off the feature is our friend Maggie Koerth-Baker with an amazing post on NASA's Cassini space probe. In 199...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/boingboing-rolls-out-feature-story-page/The term "Indian" for native North Americans is of course wildly inappropriate, based on a 500-year-old error in geography, but the term is now thoroughly embedded in language and literature. Americans tend to have a pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/the-indians-of-russia/Several months ago major news sites reported that a Belgian man, paralyzed for 23 years and supposedly in a vegetative state, was interacting with caregivers through the use of "facilitated communication." James Randi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/efficacy-of-facilitated-communication-not-confirmed/Artist Valerie Lamontagne made dresses that respond to weather data transmitted wirelessly to them. The dresses respond by variously illuminating or vibrating: the project is titled ‘peau d’ane’ after a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/weather-changing-dresses/Artist Kim Burke makes tiny food miniatures from polymer clay: From a very young age, I've been enthralled by miniatures and was delighted at how wonderfully addicting it is to make them. It's truly remarkable...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/kim-burkes-food-miniatures/Kelly Kulick is a 33-year-old professional bowler who won the Professional Bowler's Association Women's World Championship. A new PBA rule allowed her to qualify for the men's tournaments. She entered arguably the mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/is-this-the-greatest-moment-in-womens-sport/This week's collaboration with the What is it? Blog brings us this sinister looking contraption. Can you guess what it is for?First correct guess and the funniest but incorrect guess will win Neatorama T-shirt of their c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/what-is-it-game-129/This clever "Disappearing Civil Liberties" mug features the complete text of the Bill of Rights that disappear (thanks to the Patriot Act) as you add hot beverage. From the Neatora...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/disappearing-civil-liberties-mug/Plenty of people talk about helping Africa, but never actually do anything about it. But not our very own Neatoramanaut Zavatone! When he wasn't busy correcting my tpyos and grammatical errors, Zavatone and his friends a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/neatoramanaut-zavatone-bought-a-school-and-donated-computers-in-africa-what-a-good-guy/Beautiful women , drug trafficking, and an international manhunt (womanhunt?) of a lingerie model - I would be surprised if Hollywood doesn't have a movie in the works already. Police is looking for Angie Sanselmente Val...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/25/lingerie-model-set-up-drug-smuggling-ring-using-beautiful-women-as-mules/
