At first glance, these appear to be conventional stained-glass windows with a modern design, but the components of the windows are a bit unusual: The site of the Grossmünster has been a place of Christian worship s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-stained-glass-windows-of-grossmunster-cathedral/The shapes of some of these plushies will be familiar to many Neatorama readers (standard normal distribution, chi-square, log normal...), but other, more uncommon distributions (Gumbel, Erlang, Cauchy) are also avai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/statistical-distribution-plushies/Have you ever seen someone open a champagne bottle with a saber? The act is called sabrage, used for ceremonial occasions. The cork and the glass collar of the bottle are removed in one smooth move, leaving the neck of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-noble-art-of-sabrage/This furniture dolly has a bookshelf built right in! Or maybe it's a bookcase that happens to be on wheels. Either way, it's a neat idea from StudioDz, available for sale at Etsy. Link -via Boing Boingbooks, bookshel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/dolly-bookshelf/Spock Cookie Jar - $49.95 Are you still looking for the perfect Father's Day gift for your Star Trek loving Dad? Well, look no further. You need the Spock Cookie Jar from the NeatoShop. This gift is the perfect way to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/spock-cookie-jar/The United States built a fence along the Mexican border, but the mud along the Rio Grande is too soft to support a fence. In Brownsville, Texas, that means it was built a couple of miles north the river, which cuts off...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/the-town-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-fence/(YouTube link) Charlie took his sister Ginny to the movies. What Charlie knew, but Ginny didn't, was that Ginny's boyfriend Matt had bought a slot during the previews. And we have her reaction on video during the wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/a-theater-experience/I don’t know about you guys, but I have a serious girl-crush on Tina Fey. It’s hard not to when the woman in question is unbelievably talented, smart, funny and beautiful. That’s why I’m so happy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/10-things-you-dont-know-about-tina-fey/(Video Link) Sam Seide likes making tiny versions of arcade games. His latest creation is a tabletop skee ball machine. It even dispenses tickets when you score! You can't trade them in for anything, though. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/17/tiny-homemade-skee-ball-machine/Remember the Alphabet of Superheroes by artist Fabian Gonzalez I posted a few weeks ago? Well, he's at it again, this time with the Alphabet of Video Game Characters. He says it's the last in the Alphabet series, so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/the-alphabet-of-video-game-characters/Zach Weiner's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is consistently one of the funniest and most intelligent webcomics available. Today's, though, was especially good. A Nineteenth Century British owner of an an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/babbage/Dueling home decorating themes find a way to work together: "Beware the wrath of the Tiffany Fetts." Link - Via Geeks Are Sexylamp, Boba Fett, Tiffany...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/tiffany-lamp-doubles-as-boba-fett-helmet/When using earbuds, the quality of sound transmission is impaired by the loose fit of the bud inside the ear canal. This new invention by Stephen Ambrose offers a solution: The ADEL currently comes in two flavors...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/inflatable-earbuds/(Video Link) The city of Terrassa, Spain, was graced with a huge analog version of Angry Birds, thanks to a promotion by Deutsche Telekom. People stood in line to get a chance to throw soccer ball-sized bir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/enormous-real-life-version-of-angry-birds/Elmar Weiss, a longtime beard champion, has once again captured the world title for best beard. Since the competition was held in Norway, he sculpted his long beard into a Norwegian flag and a moose. In 2005 he won wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/winner-of-beard-competition-has-the-norwegian-flag-and-a-moose-on-his-face/(Vimeo Link) Swan Lake retold by Greg Holfeld using only the traditional tools of paper, pencils and coffee. No swans or princesses, just graceful sumo wrestlers and dragons and very skillful animation. Link - Via Fu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/sumo-lake/Marvin The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Knit Doll - $14.95 Attention Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy fans! Behold the adorable Marvin The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Knit Doll from the NeatoShop. Who knew...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/marvin-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-knit-doll/Cats in Tanks from Whitehouse Post on Vimeo. Cat's in Tanks is the feline epic that shows cats in tanks with lasers. Win. NSFW language when the lady screams the f-bomb. link Cat, Video, tank...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/cats-in-tanks-felines-take-over-the-world/This EOLE concept watch is pretty cool. That red ring that looks like something from an electric razor commercial is actually a generator that creates the power needed to run the watch face when the wearer blows on i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/eole-wristwatch-concept-is-powered-by-blowing-on-the-face/I'm not a huge fan of the VW vans like this one, but when you put the van on a set of tank treads, you have my interest. Apparently the shell to the VW was riveted onto a WWII era tracked ATV called the Weasel. This...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/vw-van-shell-riveted-to-wwii-tank-chassis-for-serious-off-roading/EyeWitnessToHistory.com has thousands of accounts throughout history from the people who where there. These include testimony on events from the ancient world to the present. What is your favorite account? LinkHis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/eyewitness-to-history/Perhaps if our favorite social media websites utilized these propaganda posters as part of their marketing strategy, things would be a little more honest? See link for full gallery of vintage posters of online brands...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/vintage-posters-of-online-brands/The hit viral video “Charlie Bit My Finger” is now being turned into a feature length major motion picture. OK, maybe not but this short film imagines what a horror version of the video would be like. See full vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/charlie-bit-my-finger-the-horror-movie/Busuu is a language that is only spoken by eight people in the world (according to Wikipedia this may be as low as three people as of 2005) in Cameroon. To help save this dying language the folks at Busuu.com have cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/busuu-a-language-that-only-8-people-speak/The next time you have a pesky swarm of bees in your back yard, don’t call the exterminator. According to a recent study, apparently all you have to do is pull out your iPhone. The calls act as an instinctive warn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/cell-phones-are-killing-bees/(YouTube link) There are lot of road-crossing sloths on YouTube, but this little guy in Costa Rica gets a hand from a fellow who has done this before. I never noticed before how much longer a sloth's front legs are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/sloth-crosses-road/Photographer Guido Mocafico takes pictures of snakes, but it wasn't always so. He was once deathly afraid of them! The first time I photographed a snake up close, I nearly fainted. I’d always found them terrifying...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/serpent-still-lifes/DDT {wiki} is a pesticide that was used extensively in the US from 1939 until it was banned in 1972. It was very effective in controlling insects that spread typhus in Europe and malaria in tropical regions, but it a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/good-for-me/This poster for the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou was created by artist Chris DeLorenzo for the Silver Screen Society collection, where you can see it moving. Link -via Laughing Squidposter, movie, animati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/animated-retro-movie-poster/Joe Diffie had a song called "Third Rock from the Sun" about an unbelievable chain of events. A traffic accident in New Zealand is almost as strange. A motorist was traveling near the town of Kaponga Friday night when he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/cow-crash-coincidences-culminate-in-cowshed-conflagration/
