A shop in a mall in Shenyang, China, lets women vent their frustrations by smashing household items: The venting store located in the fourth floor of a shopping mall has a sign "No Men" at the door. The store i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/new-business-in-china-lets-women-vent-their-frustrations-by-breaking-things/Kisai Tenmetsu Buckyballs (Original) Ice Invaders Ice Tray Occam's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-13-winners/After losing basketball star LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert posted an online rant about "the betrayal." Soon after, the Internet is abuzz, not because of what he wrote, but because of Dan's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/revenge-of-comic-sans-cleveland-cavaliers-online-rant/When 26-year-old Patrick Johnson woke up to discover that half his face had gone numb and was drooping did he a) immediately go to the hospital b) call his doctor or c) tweet about it?Patrick noticed his face was dro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/how-twitter-saved-a-mans-face/That's what 29-year-old Robert Edward Tyrrell Jr. told his mom, and when she refused, he pulled out his gun and took her hostage:"He wanted her to do some ironing, and when she said ‘no,' they got into an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/ironing-is-womans-work/One day, robots will rise up and exterminate all humanity, but until then, they can get us beer from the fridge. Just for fun (either that or to heap additional indignity), the robotics wizards at Willow Garage have prog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/the-beerbot/Quick question for you: how many nukes have ever been detonated? A few? A couple dozens? How about over 2,000.Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto created a video clip mapping every single nuclear explosion from 1945 to 1998:*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/mapping-nuclear-bomb-explosions/The Vincent substation along California's State Route 14 is crucial to bringing wind and solar power to the Los Angeles Basin. Photo: Joe McNallyIf you think about it, it's a marvel of modern engineering that m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/is-our-electrical-grid-dying/...or to gobbledegook, depending on what your phone number is. The website "PhoneSpell" will convert strings of 3-16 numbers to their phone-dial-equivalent letter combinations. The sequence 632867262, for example, c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/convert-your-phone-number-to-words/California-based artist Justin White (Jublin) made a coloring page so that kids can enjoy the unnatural wonders of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. He colored it in here, if you'd like to see one completed version....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/oil-spill-coloring-page/Stephanie Casper, a design student at the Pratt Institute, knitted a few meats. They're shrink-wrapped, so as long as they haven't been out of the fridge too long, they're probably safe to cook and eat. Link via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/knitted-meat/AIDS researchers discovered an antibody in one patient that is able to defeat 91% of all known strains of HIV: The HIV antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/newly-discovered-antibody-neutralizes-91-of-hiv-strains/Phoenix-based artist Emily Costello made this portrait of Frida Kahlo out of (apparently) pieces of aluminum cans. It currently hangs in the Halperin & Lake Collection. She plans to create a similar portrait of a M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/frida-kahlo-in-aluminum-cans/The work of art is called dimply, "Eye." The sculptor is Tony Tasset, who modeled it on his own eye. Folks in Chicago get to see this 30-foot-tall eyeball until the end of October. Watch it being built in a video at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/chicagos-new-eye-sculpture/(Live Leak link) This cockatoo's name is Billy, but they should have named him Houdini! -via redditBird, escape, lock, cockatoo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/jailbreak/Have you ever visited a casino on a Native American reservation? David Israel hasn't yet, but he likes to go prepared, so he found out as much as he could about the history and laws of Native American casinos. Here's a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-indian-reservation-gambling/Pulsate is a web toy that doesn't serve any great purpose besides possibly amusing you for a few moments. Click on the field to create circles. As they expand and contract, they'll make music as they bump against each ot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/pulsate/Sleeping while at work is generally considered to be unacceptable behavior by most U.S. employers. With some types of work falling asleep can be dangerous, while with other types such as office work, falling aslee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/09/sleeping-on-the-job/Bacon Air Freshener - $2.95What could be better than the smell of sizzling bacon? (Indeed, a recent survey showed that people prefer the smell of bacon to a newborn baby) But getting that yummylicious smell for your pers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/bacon-air-freshener/The Solar Impulse (previously at Neatorama), an experimental electric plane with rechargeable solar batteries, has completed a 24-hour continuous flight, with no fuel. The flight proves that the plane's solar collectors...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/solar-plane-completes-24-hour-flight/(YouTube link) Wait for it... wait for it... and let's hope he has a backup camera. -via Digg Wedding, fail, Photographer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/wedding-photography/Image Credit: Flickr user bound_4_freedom I miss going to the drive-in, a movie experience unlike any other yet a quickly disappearing icon of early American car culture. The differences between going to a drive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/in-the-movies-drive-in-movie-theaters/(YouTube Link) ...is about the size of a small bus. It was built by Joe Ciaglia of California Skateparks, and in this video, he and his friends decided to take it for a ride at Camp Woodard, Pennsylvania. via Ge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/worlds-largest-skateboard/21-year old Kevin Scott designed a bicycle that should be harder to steal than most conventional bikes. The frame can be folded in half and the whole bicycle wrapped around an immovable obstacle: The De Montfort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/bicycle-folds-in-half-to-deter-thieves/Entertainment and celebrity gossip site Gossip Cop is confirming rumors that Mike Judge and MTV are bringing back the 90s cartoon Beavis and Butt-Head: Series creator (and main voice) Mike Judge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/beavis-and-butt-head-returning-to-tv/Love him or hate him, one thing's for sure: street magician turned endurance stuntman David Blaine is endlessly fascinating.For its series "What I've Learned," Esquire Magazine interviewed David Blaine about nu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/what-ive-learned-david-blaine/Well, if you won't go to the opera, then the opera will just have to come to you. Here's a wonderful public performance by a group of very talented college students. Behold, the Bus Stop Opera:Public performances tak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/bus-stop-opera/Love the "I'm on a horse" commercials ... er, manmercials for Old Spice? Then you'll love this compilation of 42 of the funniest, strangest, and most wonderful Old Spice ads ever made, over at Ranker: Link - *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/42-greatest-old-spice-commercials-ever-made/Sculptor and engineer Stefan Bennedahl created a hook called the Clever Hook that truly lives up to its brainy name:Neatly packed into a translucent acrylic housing, the wall-mounted Clever Hook has a self-grabbing m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/the-clever-hook/You all know that Betty White is enjoying a red-hot resurgence of her career after a Facebook campaign to have her host Saturday Night Live succeeded. Now, America's Golden Girl has her...
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