Here's a neat math trick to impress your friends (especially after they've been drinking), inspired by our favorite mathematician Martin Gardner.The bristly-haired Brian Brushwood of Scam School explains how you can alwa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/nifty-trick-predict-the-outcome-of-any-tic-tac-toe-game/Art: TindThe World War II British Poster Keep Calm and Carry On has carried on till today as inspiration for countless Internet memes. This one is one of my favorites, by Tind: More on Flickr | Tind's official website (w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/word-of-wisdom-from-cobra-kai-keep-calm-and-sweep-the-leg/Garage rock bands are nothing special in most of the world, but the return of Afghanistan's first indie rock band shows just how far the country has gone since the days of the Taliban:Less than a decade ago, when the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/kabul-dreams-afghanistans-first-indie-rock-band/To the horror of his teenage Facebook fans and Hollywood screenwriters everywhere, After two years on the lam, 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore AKA the "Barefoot Bandit" was arrested after a high-speed boat chas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/barefoot-bandit-busted/Someone kept stealing underwear from clotheslines in Portswood, UK. The perpetrator, the victims discovered, was a cat who took the panties and brought them back to his owner as presents: Eager to please his new owne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/cat-burglar-steals-underwear/(YouTube Link) Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) was a composer of pops orchestral music. In 1950, he wrote "The Typewriter", a short piece that featured a mechanical typewriter. The above video is a 2008 performance of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/typewriter-music/LEGO Dynamo Torch - $23.95Afraid of the dark? Not with this LEGO Dynamo Torch! Best of all, no batteries are required - the giant minifig flashlight is powered by a built-in dynamo that is charged by turning the handle.L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/lego-dynamo-torch/Love typography? Want to teach your kids how to avoid the typographical faux pas of using Comic Sans? Norwegian design house Studio 3 has created just the book: behold, the Hyperactivitypography book, a clever kid's acti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/typography-activity-book/[YouTube Clip]What happens when our hero from the classic Contra video game finds himself trapped inside a Tetris game? Be sure to watch for the surprise ending :) - via Everlasting BlortIf you like this sort of stuff, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/contra-vs-tetris/First I laughed, then I cried in horror because I suddenly realized these people drive on the same roads as the rest of us. From Miss Cellania:These are statements from insurance forms where car drivers tried to summ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/accident-report/Could your friendly neighborhood Blockbuster be a relic of the past? Yes, according to Douglas A. McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. In fact, Blockbuster is just one of 10 national brands that may disappear as soon as next year:*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/goodbye-blockbuster/Gorgeous women in bikinis do not usually bring to mind the image of the arctic, but that's exactly what Canadian magazine Up Here wanted you to think about when it released its first ever swimsuit edition:Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/arctic-magazine-released-swimsuit-edition-to-fight-global-warming/Photo: adopt-a-bot [Flickr]I love, love, love Brian Marshall's robot sculptures assembled from found objects. Brian has got a huge gallery of various bots you can adopt (over at his Etsy shop), but I'm particularly fond...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/brian-marshalls-adopt-a-bot/One lonely evening in a yacht in Turkey after a cancelled meeting, Tom Barrack, a no-nonsense businessman and one of the richest men in the world, came upon a book on which "were writ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/11/alone-on-a-yacht-a-tycoon-discovered-twilight/(National Film Board link) The English title is From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning, a 2000 film by Quebec animator Claude Cloutier. -via Everlasting Blortevolution, animation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/du-big-bang-a-mardi-matin/Dave Crisp, using only a metal detector, found a hoard of more than 52,000 Roman coins in Frome, UK. They were sealed inside a pot about 30 cm underground: Somerset County Council archaeologists excavated the pot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/man-with-metal-detector-finds-1-million-in-roman-coins/Dr. Peter Kertesz is a dentist in London, England. He has a regular clientele of patients he takes care of during the day. But he also moonlights: Dr. Kertesz recently worked on the huge teeth in the powerful jaws of two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/treating-tiger-teeth/Nestled in a chest of drawers existed a list of names of those lives that succumb to the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory. For years, Bathory's sadistic killing spree went unnoticed as she left a trail of blood from Cac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/cachtice-castle-blood-countess-elizabeth-bathory-and-the-murders-of-vienna/Douglas Coupland made this pixelated sculpture of an orca. It's located at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Coupland is also a novelist and playwright, and we've previously featured his innovative trailer for a boo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/orca-pixel-sculpture/Now this is recycling! Artist Nick Georgiou from Queens, New York, folds newspapers and magazines into works of art, and then drops them off in random locations throughout the city:“Books and newspapers are bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/newspaper-sculptures-of-nick-georgiou/Oh, Snap! Mousetrap Cheese Board and Slicer - $17.95How do you lure people to come to your next wine and cheese party? Why, the same way you'd trap critters: with a mousetrap. Actually, it's a beechwood cheese board and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/oh-snap-cheese-board-and-slicer-that-look-like-a-giant-mousetrap/How has Britain changed in the past 10 years? Prospect Magazine has an interesting infographic detailing the transformation of Great Britain from 1997 to 2009:Richer, fatter, living longer, more indebted, drunker, be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/how-britain-has-changed-1997-to-2009/There's a London Underground station that never moves a single passenger. That's because it's a mock-up built to train new employees. The station, located in West Kensington, is designed to be as realistic as possi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/the-london-undergrounds-fake-station/(You Tube link) We don't know whether we should be terrified or overjoyed. We've just come across a video demo from the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab that shows an autonomous quadrotor helicopter pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/sweet-little-quadrocopter/There is so much going on a Neatorama, we sometimes forget that neato stuff happens outside the site, too! This week, our fearless leader Alex was a guest on The Social Blade Show. Yeah, it's an hour long, but it's a tal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/this-week-at-neatorama-11/LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya had a tattoo artist mark his thumb so that it looks like a LEGO brick: Every single day, I snap together bricks. Each day I am pressing down on the bumps of each brick to make sure th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/10/lego-thumb-tattoo/People can pick up skills in the strangest places. Georgia Durante learned evasive driving techniques when she was married to a mobster and drove a getaway car. Years of evading the police had taught Georgia how to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/6-people-who-turned-a-life-of-crime-into-legitimate-careers/(vimeo link) This is a sweet ballet -meaning the dancers are fruits, cupcakes, bonbons, and Gummi bears! This stop-motion video was created by Maira Fridman. -via Things I Think Are Kinda Cooldance, Food, animation, s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/doce-ballet/Four years ago, we wrote that the US Army was developing body armor that is normally a liquid, but turns into a solid when it's hit. Britain's military researchers have come up with something similar, but now there's cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/liquid-armor-solidifies-instantly/Rapper Snoop Dogg tried to rent the entire Principality of Liechtenstein -- all 62 square miles of it -- in order to record a music video: Snoop was reportedly trying to shoot a music video in the tiny Western Eur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/snoop-dogg-tried-to-rent-the-entire-nation-of-liechtenstein-to-shoot-a-music-video/
