I'm not sure what it is about ghost towns and abandoned buildings that creates a deep fascination with most people. This "ghost BMW dealership" is no exception. Apparently it went out of business but the owner kept the p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/the-mystery-of-a-ghost-bmw-dealership/Aled Lewis has made pixelated, video game-style versions of several classic works of art. The above piece is a mashup of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure and Salvador Dali's Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/the-art-of-the-video-game/When people get together and cause trouble, it's very easy to blame the medium of communication instead of looking deeper. That's why social networking sites get cited as the cause of so many evils. Why, don't you know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/the-london-riots-and-7-other-things-blamed-on-social-media/People look at you funny if you roll around in public in a realistic R2R2 costume. This sweater by Etsy seller Erica Schoenberger is a more discreet and possibly even workplace-friendly alternative. Link -via OhGizmo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/r2d2-sweater/The loss of sphincter control is a common and humiliating problem for aging adults. Researchers led by Shreya Rhagavan of the University of Michigan Medical School may have developed a solution: a replacement sphinct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/scientists-grow-functional-anal-sphincter-in-petri-dish/Rhiannon Brooksbank–Jones of Beeston, UK, loves the Korean language and plans to study it in college. But she found that some sounds are hard for her to duplicate. So she's taking a surgical solution: Her parents ag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/woman-has-tongue-lengthened-to-speak-korean-better/This is a bronze sculpture by Sukhi Barber. That is possible to make such an object self-supporting is mind-blowing. One of Barber's major themes is "the transcendence of our limiting view of a solid reality." So,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/ribbon-man/(Video Link) The Frisian language is spoken by about half a million people in the Netherlands and Germany. It is the closet surviving relative of Old English, the tongue of Anglo-Saxon England. How mutually intellig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/buying-a-cow-in-old-english/A lot of people think their boss is a real "monster." However this list imagines if your boss actually was monster from TV or film. What monster would your boss be? Or what Monster would you WANT to be your boss....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/10-monsters-who-would-make-pretty-good-bosses/You may or may not have seen some warnings on your friends Facebook posts the past few days warning of the social network's importation of all your cell phone contacts. While this is true if you use the Facebook applicat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/facebook-users-raise-alarm-over-posting-of-phone-numbers/(YouTube link) Twenty years ago parents were upset at the high cost of the new Super Nintendo video game system. Today those kids can be happy buying two hundred dollar video game systems for their own begging child...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/news-from-1991-parents-upset-at-the-high-cost-of-the-snes/(YouTube link) Static electricity can be fun, when you have a long-haired puppy! -via Rue the Day!dog, static electricity...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/static-dog/(YouTube link) A guy in Johannesburg hired 100 singers to stage a flashmob at a mall, all to propose to his girlfriend. I cannot understand how some shoppers are in such a hurry that they can't stop and enjoy the mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/flash-mob-proposal/Four months ago, the SETI Institute announced the end of its search for extraterrestrial signals from space due to lack of funds (previously). But thanks to an infusion of funds from fans, including actress Jodie Foster....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/donations-revive-seti-quest/Xkcd, the popular "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language", recently posted a strip about the paradoxical in humans trying to create hard to guess passwords. Through 20 years of effort, we've successfull...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/paradox-of-passwords/Pucker up as we explore 10 smooches that changed religion, art, culture, and history. 1. The Kiss of Judas: A Betrayal or Just Misunderstood? Nothing ends a good "bromance" quite like flagrant, mur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/the-10-most-important-kisses-in-the-universe/Although only in a concept stage, the Flake car by designer DaFeng is--for the lack of a better word--cool--or at least it looks really cool! The plan is to cover a vehicle in carbon-fiber pieces with each one connec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/flake-concept-car/Link via YouTube Jet? Space shuttle? Bullets? Nope. All wrong. It's fungi. That's right. Everyday common field-growing fungi. Richard Hammond of the BBC's popular car show, Top Gear features the fungi in his trivi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/fastest-thing-on-earth/(Video link) "Air Swimmers" is the collective name of these fun and cool flying, radio-controlled toys that comes in the shape of a shark and a clownfish. Air Swimmers swim through the air with incredibly smooth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/12/rc-flying-shark/I read about a study that found people are less likely to steal things if they feel they are being watched -even if it's just a photograph of someone looking at them. If that's the case, no one would dare op...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/box-with-an-eye/58 billion paper cups are thrown out every year, and ceramics artist Rebecca Wilson has perhaps found a solution. Rebecca talks about her paper cup project, “The paper cup is an icon of the ‘throwaway cul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/rebecca-wilson-ceramic-paper-cups/Shane Waltener creates elaborate installations around his lace doilies, such as this one entitled Auntie Peggy Has Departed. To him, doilies represent dreamcatchers that make a moment in the past accessible...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/lace-spider-webs/(Video Link) YouTube user trpchaki made this amazing puppet that looks like Wheatley from Portal 2. She took many in-progress photos showing the amazing skill and inventiveness that went into building it --...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/portal-2-puppet/This sculpture by Olaf Mooji, appropriately dubbed "Braincar", expresses his belief in "the nearly psychological connection between drivers and their cars." There's a projection system inside that permits Mooji to pu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/braincar/Windoodles is a new Tumblr blog that compiles doodles that people have put on windows with dry erase markers so that the images project onto the scenery outside. This one is by a MTV employee named Gusto....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/window-doodles/If your gopher problem is getting out of hand, you may need to acquire one of Shawn Thorsson's decidedly robust garden gnomes. He casts his riflegnomes from scratch and offers them in standing, kneeling, and prone po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/combat-garden-gnomes/This brilliant print, inspired by a scene in The Princess Bride, was made by an artist named Rakka. He writes "like i had any choice as to what to make inigo out of." Well done, sir. Well done. Link -via red...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/hello-my-name-is-inigo-montoya-you-killed-my-father-prepare-to-die/As an aspiring screenwriter (how many years can you be considered “aspiring” before you're just expiring?) I can appreciate this writer’s plight, sending out countless script queries only to face rejection. Howev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/briefcase-destroyed-in-beverly-hills-after-agent-refuses-to-read-script/Photo Credit: Nieuwe Heren File this under the "Why didn't I think of that?" category! Nieuwe Heren, a Dutch design firm ran by two designers in their twenties, came up with a chair and lamp combo that could be accomm...
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