I used to love playing with the Tesla Coils at the mall but never wanted to fork over the cash for one. Now this helpful guide will show me how to build my own Tesla Coil right at home. However please be careful: Brin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/how-to-build-a-tesla-coil/Shelby GT500 Wireless Road Mice - $54.95 | All Ford Road Mice Psst, is your Dad a Shelby lover? Here's the pefect Father's Day gift: the Shelby GT500 Wireless Road Mice comp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/shelby-gt500-wireless-road-mice/Mental_floss continues to have fun with the latest US Census data in today's Lunchtime Quiz. Of the 150 most populous cities in the United States, 11 have names that are only four or five letters long. How many can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/big-cities-little-names/Scientific Illustration is a Tumbler blog with 66 pages of scientific drawings and paintings from many linked sources. Find what you're particularly interested in seeing by scrolling through the archives -keep scroll...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/scientific-illustration/The Retroist reprinted some letters from the 1983 book Letters to E.T. Most of the letters are from children to the alien character, but this one is to Steven Spielberg himself. Link -via @LettersOfNoteFunny...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/letters-to-e-t/Old-fashioned sports trading cards came with a piece of gum (they actually were a bonus for buying the gum). The next generation of trading cards comes with a LCD screen and 20 minutes of video about the player! Oh, they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/high-tech-sports-trading-cards/(YouTube link) Ruger the Australian Cattle Dog is pretty good with a scooter, but in this case he was distracted, and the cat paid the price. See more at his Facebook page. Link -via Arbroathdog, Cat, scooter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/dog-gives-cat-a-ride/It may be the lowest form of humor, but we all like a good pun anyway! This Twaggie was illustrated by Donovan Santiago from a Tweet by @thesulk. You can buy a print or a t-shirt with this design. LinkGary Larson, Tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/why-steal-when-you-can-pun/Most of us have hobbies, but some super fans or super collectors go beyond the limits of what most of us have time for. You might call them obsessive. Rob Foster is in the running for the most obsessive collecting of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/8-people-who-are-seriously-obsessed/(YouTube link) "Fano flow" is a term used for some of the strange ways non-Newtonian fluids move. From the YouTube page: In the so-called ''tubeless'' syphon, a fluid can be made to flow up through an unsupported l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/fano-flow/The following is an article from Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader. There are countless superstitions involving cats, most of them focused on the bad luck that they supposedly bring. In Japan and o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/maneki-neko/(vimeo link) John and Sandra have an everyday love story, but it's the kind of love story that we all want. And it makes a great little movie. -via The Daily Whatlove, story, proposal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/luck/Plug Mug - $11.95 Are you tired of people stealing your favorite coffee mug? You need the Plug Mug from the NeatoShop. Just hide the mugs rubber plug and your favorite coffee mug is now useless. This makes a great...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/plug-mug/Do you remember the scene in The Return of the Jedi when Emperor Palpatine arrived at the second Death Star? Using a huge supply of minifigs and a detailed setting totaling 30,000 pieces, LEGO artist Jay Hof...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/enormous-lego-star-wars-diorama/At 2.7 meters in height, Krittayakorn Chaijit's sculpture of Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean is perfect for the tasteful living room. It's made from recycled car and machine parts and coat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/steel-jack-sparrow-sculpture/CatherinetteRings, an Etsy seller from Montreal, made this music box that looks like a robotic spider. When wound, it plays "Frère Jacques." I think that taxidermed eye really sets it apart from other steampunk spid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/steampunk-music-box-spider-sculpture/Barn Bocock remade six corporate logos for Star Wars fans. You can probably guess what Pizza Hut was turned into. Link via FanboyStar Wars...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/star-wars-brand-logos/A homeowner in Toronto called a wildlife control company when he saw a unidentified white animal in the garage. Brad Gates of Gates Wildlife Control thought it might be a skunk from the description. The crew found a litt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/three-albino-raccoons-found/Zazzle has a generator in which you can create custom pet cartoons that look like yours, or like a pet you'd rather have. The cats you see here are mine: Biscuit, Savannah, Marshmallow, and Gogo, although th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/cartoonize-my-pet/If you see mudflaps in the US, they would most likely be on a large truck and decorated with a silhouette of the "mudflap girl" or Yosemite Sam. In India, a mudflap is an opportunity to share one's favorite film! Mee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/bollywood-mudflaps/In July, Sotheby's of London will auction off the only handwritten Jane Austen manuscript in private hands. It's the unfinished novel The Watsons, which some say Austen might have completed if it weren't so clos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/22/jane-austens-unfinished-manuscript-for-sale/The EWE chart is a clever poster by Malaysian artist Lim Heng Swee. It's available as a print through Etsy. Link -via JazJazArt, design, eye chart, ewe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/the-ewe-chart/A hit-and-run accident five years ago left Rob Summers paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors said he would never walk again, but thanks to a new type of therapy, he can now stand on his own. Summers' injury disrupted t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/paralyzed-man-stands-up/BatBytes Sandwich Crust Cutter - $2.95 Do you hate having crust on your sandwich? Do you love bats and all things spooky? You need the BatBytes Sandwich Crust Cutter from the NeatoShop. Who needs fine dining when yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/batbytes-sandwich-crust-cutter/Back in the early 1970s, an illustrator named Phil Kirkland created some amazing textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books. Pictured above is his "Moving from Youth to Adulthood". I think that I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/phil-kirklands-surreal-textbook-illustrations/(Video Link) Back when I drove a forklift for a living, we had driving contests, like picking up and transporting an egg without breaking it. Helicopter pilots, however, are a more daring breed, as you can see from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/shaving-with-a-helicopter/German photographer Markus Reugels specializes in high-speed photography, and captures a lot of images of water drops. By adding chemicals to the water and raising his shutter speed to one sixteen thousandth of a sec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/markus-reugelss-water-drops/(vimeo link) Bran Thompson made this video from footage taken at the annual Holi Festival (previously at Neatorama) at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. The song is "Optimist" is by Zoe Keating...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/optimist/If you've got some free time this weekend, you'll want to catch up on everything you might have missed at Neatorama while you were working. We had some interesting articles this week! Tuesday was writer and comedian T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/this-week-at-neatorama-52/Emily Jagoda, an architect, designed this bathroom's tilework. It's for kids, but I'd love to have it in mine. Link via Technabob | Jagoda's WebsiteStar Wars, tiles...
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