Junior, an agency in Australia, made a brochure for a criminology course at Griffith University that goes way beyond a trifold flyer. It's like an ad for CSI! Link via Super Punchuniversities...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/brochure-for-a-university-criminology-course/Image: Calsidyrose [Flickr] RadioShack was founded by two brothers who wanted to provide equipment for the then-new field of ham radio. Over the next few decades, the company...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/can-the-diy-community-save-radioshack/This one is pretty cool: a slow-motion video clip of a female Allen's hummingbird feeding, captured at 300 FPS by JCMDI.Take a look over at Anything and Everything blog: Link [embedded YouTube clip] Hummingbird, slowmoti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/slow-motion-video-of-hummingbird-feeding/In 1809, the Ottoman Empire wanted to warn the Serbian people not to attempt any more foolish rebellion*, so it created this macabre monument:Serbian forces dug new trenches under the local command of the Duke, Steva...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/the-skull-tower/The American philosopher Homer Simpson once praised the concept of the motorhome as "a car I can go to the bathroom in." The custom-built (no, sadly, this was not a production vehicle) Bath Tub Buggy made by George B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/bath-tub-buggy/Designer Lulin Ding has interesting ideas about makeup. She dreamt up this LED Eyeshadow contraption because she was "interested in the way women wear eyeshadow and how most of the time you can only see the details w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/high-tech-beauty-dont-led-eyeshadow/In what seems a bit like a modernist reenactment of the Mad Hatter's tea party, the venerable Stephen Fry sat down with Lady Gaga for tea and an interview for FT Magazine. It's a weird pairing, no doubt, but how can anyo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/tea-with-stephen-fry-and-lady-gaga/Moose Head Mobile Phone Stand - $7.95 Have you been searching endlessly for the perfect phone stand? Well, look no further! You need the Moose Head Mobile Phone Stand from the NeatoShop. This fabulous little stand s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/moose-head-mobile-phone-stand/Nature is always throwing weirdness at us, and today's helping comes in the form of a hermaphroditic goat--a breedable male that can be milked. A visitor to a goat show in Brazil did not hesitate to buy a hermaphrodite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/the-milkable-male-goat-of-brazil/It's Memorial Day weekend and just about everyone will be out grilling some burgers. But have you ever thought about the science behind the food you're eating (too much of)? Scientific American and NBC Learn have teamed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/the-chemistry-of-building-burgers/Sure, it looks like a wayward ball of fluff. Maybe a even baby tribble. But that little guy in the pic above is the White Flannel Moth caterpillar, and the photographer who picked it up? Not happy. Those tiny little...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/seriously-freaky-caterpillars/Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial beginning of summer, since many schools are out, pools are opening, employers are juggling everyone's vacations, and the weather is nice enough for a cookout. I hear there's a big c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/this-week-at-neatorama-53/(YouTube link) Back in January, Newsweek listed Grand Rapids, Michigan as one of "America's Dying Cities." Mayor George Hartwell did not agree, and said as much. The city responded by producing an epic LipDub video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/28/the-grand-rapids-lipdub/The American family has reached a milestone: according to the Census Bureau, married couples are now no longer a majority in American households. “The days of Ozzie and Harriet have faded into the past,”...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/married-couple-no-longer-a-majority-in-usa/Last week, it was marmite. Soon, it will be pot-smoking tourists who will be banned from Dutch cannabis shops:The Dutch government on Friday said it would start banning tourists from buying cannabis from "coffee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/dutch-government-to-ban-cannabis-tourism/"Signature scent" doesn't get any more personal than this, folks! If you love to hear the unusual things artists do in the name of art, "urine" for a treat:Conceptual artist Cherry Tree has a scen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/eau-de-toilet-artist-made-perfume-out-of-own-urine/An expedition off the North Carolina coast recovered the anchor from the wreckage of pirate Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge:The Queen Anne's Revenge is believed to have run aground in the shallow waters off B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/anchor-of-blackbeards-ship-found/(Video Link) Quickly! A wormhole will only open if the ocarina is played at 88 beats per minute! This ingenious fan film by Grant Duffrin explains and unites the stories of The Legend of Zelda franchise by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/link-to-the-future/Stress Beater - $7.45 Does work have you down? Do you need a way to channel your anger and frustration? Get the Stress Beater from the NeatoShop and show stress who is boss. Stress will be screaming for mercy at th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/stress-beater/We told you the story of Tama, the cat who became stationmaster at a train station in Japan (one, two, three, four, five times). Her success at bringing in new customers has spawned a series of non-human stationmasters,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/7-amazing-animal-stationmasters-of-japan/I don't have any information about this clever piece of street art except that it was discovered by Flickr user Bear in Mind. I wonder what material was used. Link via Craftpacman, street art, cross stitch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/pac-man-cross-stitch-in-the-street/The admission standards for the US service academies are incredibly demanding, to say nothing of the task of graduating. But success runs in the Robillard family. The four children of the family, who form two sets of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/air-force-academy-graduates-four-sisters/Whether they remind you of Princess Leia's hair buns or Princess Vespa's headphones (Spaceballs), redditor Jacquielonglegs did a great job with this craft project. She wonders if she should sell the set....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/princess-leiavespa-headphones/In the olden days of the Internet, it was fun to trip people up by linking to The Onion stories and acting as though they were real. Now, people are too Internet saavy to fall for this trick. Well, one would...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/questionable-news-sources/It's an AR-15 short-barreled rifle rendered in stained glass by Joe Thunstrom. I can so easily imagine it in a kitchen window in a picturesque country cottage. Link via Everyday, No Days Offstained glass, rifles...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/rifle-in-stained-glass/(Video Link) Here's how it works: the palm of your hand is in view of a depth camera. Wherever you point on your palm corresponds to an area of the screen on a touchscreen phone. The computer hooked up to the camera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/functional-imaginary-phone/There was a time when rich and powerful men were expected to have a few flings on the side--or, if they were really classy, a long-term mistress with her own conveniently located house. Those days are gone, though, and I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/sex-scandals-are-so-pricey-these-days/Being the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte wasn't an easy job. Joseph wanted to be a writer, but instead had to rule Naples and then Spain. When Napoleon was defeated, Joseph set sail for the United States, where he e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/the-suburban-life-of-napoleons-brother/The folks over at ComicsAlliance see a lot of great art, especially of the superhero variety. They run across so many great artists and designers that a few months ago, they started a weekly column called "The Best Art E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/awesome-comics-art-of-the-week/Which cities in the United States have the most bookworms? Amazon has just announced a list of the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities in America: After compiling sales data of all book...
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