(Video Link) If it's Wednesday, then it's time to drift your AC Cobra in your living room. No, sorry, your '74 Chevy Vega, though technically a classic car, will not look as cool. -via Jalopnikdrifting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/drifting-a-cobra-in-a-small-room/Michael Grab is an artist who works in an unusual medium: balanced rocks. He stacks rocks from rivers on top of each other with no additional connections. It is a meditative act for him, as well as an exploration of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/river-rock-balancing/Photo Credit: Jen Stark By now, most devout artistic-leaning internet surfers and of course, Neatoramans have seen Jen Stark's amazing 3D paper sculptures which consists of hundreds of sheets of paper meticulously...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/rainbow-art-by-stark/Photo Credit: WETA Workshops Chances are if you are a regular reader of Neatorama, you've already got your geek on and have seen this promotional still from the set of The Hobbit. Still--just in case. (And at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/httpwww-theonering-nettorwp2011071846307-thorin-and-company-full-body-rendering/Photo Credit: Tomin Taipei Here is a very graphic depiction of the Italians giving McDonald's a slight hint. That's fine. No McSpaghetti for us, and I don't think that's such a bad thing. Think the mob fina...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/david-vs-mcdonalds/There's always a new fried item at the Iowa State Fair, and every year it gets crazier. Fried Twinkies and Oreos are passé by now, so vendors at the fair have skipped a step in the process and are just frying straight u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/fried-butter-on-a-stick/The US Patent Office sees the a lot of strange inventions coming through their submission process, hoping to get a patent. However who knew that there was a whole category of “Self Defense Fashion?” This collecti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/self-defense-fashion-from-the-us-patent-office/It has long been a topic fascinating to some fans of the long running classic children’s television program Sesame Street; Are roommates Bert and Ernie actually a couple? Now a group , Change.org is petitionin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/should-bert-and-ernie-get-married/The Mars Opportunity Rover has made its way into the Endeavor crater where it will carry out examinations of the soil to test for evidence of life on the Red Planet. Opportunity is headed to Spirit Point which is named a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/mars-rover-looks-for-life/Real life “trolling” has taken the form of corporations who file many patents on products that they don’t actually produce in an effort to file patent lawsuits against others in hopes of getting large out of court...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/courts-fine-troll-lawyers-for-filing-phony-lawsuits/Today is the feast day of St. Lawrence, who tradition says was martyred by being roasted alive. He supposedly even made a joke about it: “Turn me over, this side is done.” St. Lawrence is now the patron saint of cook...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/the-feast-of-st-lawrence/An electric razor that shaves close to the bone! This x-ray, featured at Modern Mechanix, was taken in 1941, back when x-ray scientists and technicians didn't bother wearing lead aprons and spent their spare time com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/skeleton-shaving/If you are a fan of classic TV, you'll enjoy today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss! How well do you know the secondary characters on your favorite TV series? Almost every sitcom had characters that didn't appear in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/also-starring/Dracula Postertext - $31.95 Attention book lovers! Are you looking for a great conversation piece to hang on your wall? You need the Dracula Postertext from the NeatoShop. This fantastic poster is created using the fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/dracula-postertext/Aren't these donuts adorable? The text at the source is in Japanese, and the Babelfish translation didn't help, so I don't know who made them. They're like a sweet real-life version of Nekopan! Now I want a donut. ht...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/cat-donuts/Imagine a dragonfly the size of a seagull! You would have seen them 300 million years ago, as well as other B-movie sized insects. Why did they grow so large back then? A new theory says it's because of oxygen, which ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/why-giant-bugs-once-roamed-the-earth/Photo Credit: Maurice Mbikayi South African artist Maurice Mbikayi calls his keyboard skulls "anti-social networks" and says that the work "symbolizes the internet addiction and consequences that occur nowadays. It al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/keyboard-skulls/Minnesotastan's mother was a member of American Airlines 1941 graduating class for the fairly new profession called "stewardess." She passed along some interesting tidbits about the business in those days, such as ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/early-airline-customs/(Live Leak link) Some things are the same the world over. This one is from Pakistan. -via Arbroathpakistan, joke, practical joke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/how-to-step-over-a-rope-blindfolded/If today's latest meme craze is indeed the pop culture mashup, then what too someone so long to come up with Shakespere and Dr. Seuss? One wonders. English majors, avert thine eyes, or preparest thyself for Green Egg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/green-eggs-and-hamlet/(YouTube link) Have you been wondering what the most extreme thing to do in Toronto is? Me too! Let's wonder no longer: it's the Edge Walk at the CN Tower! For $175, some really enterprising Canadians will place...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/cn-tower-edge-walk/If the Industrial Age was ruled by industrialists and the Atomic Age was epitomized by nuclear scientists working in secret government installations, then the Information Age we live in today is surely the era of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/geek-wisdom-the-sacred-teachings-of-nerd-culture/Remember Mary Bale, a.k.a. the woman who was tracked down and harassed after someone uploaded a video of her throwing a cat into a trashcan? She's one of the many people who were taught a lesson by the throngs of ang...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/people-pwned-by-the-internet/I don't know about all of you, but I'm a sucker for vintage photos shot in color and these gorgeous WWII images from the Library of Congress are both fascinating and stunning. You can find more of them over at The At...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/world-war-ii-in-color/Did you know they made a National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2? Or that there was a sequel to American Psycho that didn't have anything to do with the film Christian Bale starred in? If not, then you'd probably enj...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/16-sequels-no-one-should-see/For those of you who think you have a terrible landlord, it's always good to remind yourself things could be worse. After all, you could have a landlord who is willing to load your home up with scorpions in order to push...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/the-worst-landlord-in-the-world/I recently came across artist James Hance's website and I have to say, I'm impressed with what he calls his "Relentlessly Cheery Art." Just look at this piece titled "Chester Copperpot's Goonie Clubhouse Band" and yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/james-hances-delightfully-geeky-art/Butt / Face Towel - $13.95 Are you searching for the perfect gift for your college bound friend? Get them the Butt/ Face Towel from the NeatoShop. After a hard night of partying studying this 44"L x 25"W Towel will...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/09/butt-face-towel/A Pokéball from Pokémon appeared in the night sky over Niigata, Japan. This brawl is going to be awesome. Link -via Geekosystemanime, fireworks, Pokemon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/09/pokeball-firework/Don’t let her fool you: she may look pretty good (OK, amazing) for her age, but Betty Boop is actually 81 years old today.She’s gone through a lot of changes over the years – as in, she’s complete...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/09/happy-birthday-betty-boop/
