Photo Link C'mon... you know you've wondered. Artist Walmor Corrêa answers that question in his series of anatomical drawings of mythological creatures. Also featured: the Cyclops, the Penguin and Spiderman. If you'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/24/how-mermaids-have-babies/Photo Link We've featured Ben Heine's 'Pencil vs Camera' project before, and he's back at it with a whole new series of photographs mixed with pencil sketches that mix reality and fantasy. Sometimes they're whimsical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/24/pencil-vs-camera-project/It took them a while, but the New York Times considered it a point of honor to ensure that the error-ridden 29 June 1899 obituary for Lt. M. K. Schwenk (USN) was publicly corrected. James Barron writes: If jo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/24/after-112-years-new-york-times-issues-a-correction/Male and female fruit flies. Drawing by Nan Swift, Improbable Research staff, in homage to T.H. Morgan. This poem is reprinted from the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Another in an endles...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/24/the-fruit-fly-genotype-nevermore/(YouTube link) Storytellers drew inspiration from the people passing through Aotea Square in Auckland, New Zealand. The stories were projected on a large screen, where folks could see themselves woven into the stori...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/24/live-writing-projection/(Video Link) It's a Heteropteryx dilatata, more commonly known as a Malaysian Jungle Nymph. At six inches long, these critters are among the biggest insects in the world. They eat bramble, leaves, and unattended chi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/giant-bug/I ran across these haunting, frightening images at Colossal last week. They're the work of Isaac Cordal, who creates and poses tiny cement sculptures to reveal a dystopian vision of a sinking world. When...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/into-the-abyss/Spitball Dart Decision Maker - $9.95 Life is full of choices. Do you need to make another spit decision? You need the Spitball Dart Decision Maker from the NeatoShop. This handy kit comes with 40 decision making s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/spitball-dart-decision-maker/(YouTube link) An otter at Sea World in San Diego has fun with an energetic toddler. Which is what otters really are underneath that fur! -via Buzzfeedzoo, aquarium, otter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/playing-with-an-otter/These marvelous sculptures of Star Wars characters have been attributed to an artist named Steve Thompson. The detailed work on the stormtrooper helmet is particularly nice. via blastr | Previously: Crayo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/star-wars-crayon-sculptures/Elevator technology is taking a great leap forward from what you're probably used to. Newer models can be accessed by swiping ID cards and programmed and controlled by managers, either to give priority to certain users o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/new-elevators-sort-users-by-rank/Snyder, a street artist in Carlsbad, California, added a bit of stencil work to a weathered wall to create this image. It's called "Eddie the Great Gray." Link via Copyranter | Artist's Websitestreet art...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/food-chain/What is this thing? I'm having trouble tracking down an authoritative source (or even the origin of this photograph), but here's what's written on the sign: This unusual item was captured by US forces during the P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/japanese-sword-pistol/(Video Link) What are you doing for the next hour? Good, because you've got a lot of entertainment ahead of you. YouTube user BloodyRenegadeX's channel is packed with great flipbook animations, such as this one abou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/sonic-the-hedgehog-flipbook/You wanted to get rid of some old clothes, but Goodwill is not yet open. There's a clothes donation box in the next parking lot, so why not put it there? After all, donating is donating, right...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/clothing-donation-box-donating-isnt-necessarily-charitable/Two women got into a drunken argument after a night's drinking at the bar, and decided that the only logical way to find out who's right is to let the police decide: Tro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/what-a-good-idea-drunks-decided-to-let-the-police-settle-their-drunken-argument/You ate food from that thing? You're braver than I thought. Appropriately, the truck is called the Grillenium Falcon, and there's a fried sandwich on the side is shaped like the Millennium Falcon. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/star-wars-themed-food-truck/(Vimeo Link) Parisian photographer Alexandre Dubosc created "Alimation" for the 2011 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Dubosc used crepes, candies and matches to create a yummy looking whirling animation t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/edible-zoetrope/Is your sweetheart a zombie? These delicious truffle brains are the perfect gift for Zombie Awareness Month which, in case you'd forgotten, just happens to be May! Once you've found a tiny brain mold you're ready to crea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/mmmm-zombie-truffles/Talking Dalek Alarm Clock - $29.95 Attention Doctor Who fans! Behold the fabulous Talking Dalek Alarm Clock from the NeatoShop! The clock features 3 soothing Dalek phrases: "You would make a good Dalek," "You are an e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/talking-dalek-alarm-clock/Marx, Thoreau, Mao and Lenin take a hike. This sounds like the set up for a joke, doesn't it?. These Mountain Men action figures from Mountain Research come equipped with rucksacks, walking sticks and cute little hiking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/action-figures-for-the-politically-inclined/Well, in their defense, they do look alike at that age! Via Arbroathbaby, greeting cards...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/its-a-new-baby-boygirl/Love, love, love this "Training Dresser" kid's cabinet by Seattle furniture maker Peter Briscol. But if you can afford the $1,500 price tag, I'm sure you can afford to hire a nanny to outsource that pesky task...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/training-dresser/As the real estate market continues to limp along, more and more homeowners are opting for strategic default - basically walking away from a mortgage you can afford to pay.Many describe it as a savvy business decision (e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/is-strategic-default-morally-wrong/Jaime O'Neill is an English teacher who penned this Dear Students letter for his last class after teaching for 40 years. Every student should read it, but probably won't and therefore will learn the hard way (ju...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/dear-slackers-teachers-last-letter-to-students-on-why-they-should-study/The Galileo spacecraft captured this fantastic color composite image of a volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io. APOD explains:At the image top, over Io's limb, a bluish plume rises about 140 kilometers above the su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/volcanic-plumes-over-io/This past Saturday Pope Benedict became the first pope to call astronauts in space. He talked to the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour along with those at the International Space Station. From space, "I think it mus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/first-pope-phone-call-in-space/It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s a flying cutout of a superhero remotely controlled. See video at the link. Due to the low weight to surface area and that it has a high wing like a Piper cub with a low center...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/remote-controlled-superhero/While we are busy trying to create and market the perfect electric car, the Japanese have gone the extra mile and plan to mass produce a car which runs primarily on water. What do you think, will this car be a viable a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/23/japanese-water-car/Austrian Death Machine is an Arnold Schwarzenegger themed side project band of heavy metal musician Tim Lambesis (of the group As I Lay Dying). Lambesis has released two concept albums with Austrian Death Machine; Tota...
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