Timm Schneider a.k.a. Kong, the German designer behind the Cartoon Eyes Street Art and many other projects, has a new thing going. This time he's putting up error messages on advertisements. The message reads: *s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/brain-error-street-art/(YouTube Link) These geektastic electronic musicians play the kind of songs that make you want to click your left mouse button excessively while nerding out online. They have a style all their own, part electronic, p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/brett-domino-trio-rocks-their-cover-of-earthquake/Have you ever wished for a way to filter through all the crap on YouTube and find the music videos you're craving in a world devoid of music television? (MTV is clearly no longer about the music, thanks guys). Wel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/tubalr-wants-to-change-the-way-we-watch-youtube-vids/The Interwebs are so full of goodies that every day is like Christmas day for those who are willing to dig around. One such gem is the Blade Runner sketchbook, chock full of production designs from the original movie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/long-out-of-print-blade-runner-sketchbook-is-now-online/If you thought your Christmas tree was outlandish this year, take a gander at these wild and wacky trees, created by some of the world's top fashion designers. There are trees designed by Gaultier (pictured above)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/fashion-designers-take-on-traditional-christmas-trees/The inventions that make up this gallery are strange, unquestionably handmade, and many seem quite useful. Like the one man paddle submarine pictured above, they look like clever and inventive ways to get around,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/a-gallery-of-weird-chinese-inventions/In 1968, the town of Gibellina in Sicily, Italy, was destroyed by an earthquake. Its residents decided to rebuild the town in a nearby (and hopefully more stable) location, thus turnin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/turning-earthquake-destroyed-town-into-art/What happens when your luggage pass through those black rubber flaps at the airport? Delta Airlines sent a camera through the conveyor belts to give you a glimpse of a day in the life...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/behind-the-scenes-journey-of-your-checked-bag/Lea Hernandez's bunny wabbit just wants to be loved. There's no reason to be afraid. Link -via The Mary SueDoctor Who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/dalek-bunny-just-wants-to-snuggle-you-into-extinction/(Video Link) Built in the 1950s, this bunker in Wiltshire could house and feed 4,000 people for three months. The United Kingdom designed it to house the government if the worst happened during the Cold War. Watch t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/for-sale-the-uks-enormous-bomb-shelter-designed-to-house-the-government-during-a-nuclear-war/The main problem with s'mores is that they break apart and get messy with the first bite. Fortunately, Nick of Dude Foods, the culinary innovator who introduced the world to the chocolate covered deep fried triple do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/smore-quesadillas/Professor Stephen Hawking is looking for an assistant. Originally, the job was to be for a technician who can maintain and troubleshoot his computerized voice system -and that's still the most important part of the job d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/geek-dream-job-opening/(Video Link) Or, more precisely, she's dancing to dubstep music. She's no Marquese Scott yet, but the 94-year old grandmother of YouTube user chucklepley can bust out the moves. -via Geekosystemelderly,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/dubsteppin-grandma/Rampaging around Liberty City builds up an appetite, so it's a good idea to stop at Cluckin' Bell for a burger. The folks at Gourmet Gaming decided to make that gaming experience real by making their own. You can fin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/grand-theft-auto-iv-burger-in-real-life/Tired of holidays falling on different days of the week year after year? So is former NASA astrophysicist Richard Conn Henry. That's why he designed the so-called rational calendar:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/the-rational-calendar/Have you ever heard of a game called Takeshi's Challenge? Probably not, since this game from 1986 has only been available for the Famicon (Japan's NES), and all the in-game text is in Japanese, up until now. Dedic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/one-of-the-hardest-nes-games-ever-translated-to-english/Want to tell people how you're really feeling about the coming of a new year? Then send out one of these hilarious Ecards from some ecards. They're guaranteed to make the recipient think twice about what is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/hilarious-sentimental-new-years-cards/(YouTube Link) This trailer for the upcoming video game release Kiki Trick will have you wondering just WTF is going on. The game is from the makers of Wario Ware, which is full of crazy moments and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/this-trailer-for-kiki-trick-is-utter-madness/Christopher Columbus may have brought smallpox that devastated the Native American populations, but according to some scientists, they've got him (and those Europe colonists) back by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/did-columbus-bring-syphilis-to-europe/These incredibly detailed sculptures were made by UK artist David Mach, who uses thousands of matchsticks pressed into a clay mold to form the likeness of Chaplin, Marilyn and Ben Kingsley, among others. Mach uses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/these-amazing-sculptures-were-made-using-matchsticks/The Government told us that the Great Recession ended in 2009, but why does it still feel like we're in one? That's because we are actually still in a recession, silly! Well, according...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/are-we-still-in-the-great-recession/If you've eaten at a Wendy's fast food joint recently, you've noticed that their restaurants have a bit more customers. Indeed, Wendy's is set to outpace Burger King to claim the num...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/the-secret-to-wendys-success-round-ish-burgers/(YouTube link) The Cup of African Nations for Amputee Football (CANAF) concluded last month in Ghana, and Liberia won the tournament by defeating Ghana in the final game 4-2. Link -via BuzzfeedSports, football, socc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/canaf-championship/It's not such a simple question, considering the history of the movie franchise. Are bad Star Wars movies better than no Star Wars movies? All of these questions are very much tied together. We all wan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/would-you-want-george-lucas-to-keep-making-star-wars-movies/When you watch a movie or TV show featuring characters in your own profession, it's natural to criticize the fact that the writers are not as familiar with that profession as someone who actually does it for a living. It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/newsflash-fiction-is-sometimes-medically-inaccurate/(YouTube link) Elvis the crocodile lives at Australian Reptile Park near Sydney. He did not appreciate the noisy lawnmower that was invading his territory, so he captured it and pulled it into his underwater home. E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/crocodile-captures-lawnmower/Images: Viktor Hertz/Flickr We posted about Viktor Hertz' Honest Logos on Neatorama before, but a post by Alice Yoo of the always neat My Modern Met reminded me to c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/more-honest-logos-by-viktor-hertz/Alexander Graham Bell and his Volta Laboratory Associates began research into recording sound in the early 1880s. They tried a variety of recording mediums, such as glass, wax, rubber, and metal. The experimental materia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/130-year-old-sound-recordings/The Polish city of Kraków has a rich tradition of building fanciful and elaborate Nativity sets, known in Polish as szopki, that dates back to the arrival of Franciscan friars in the city in the Thirteenth Century....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/29/krakows-amazing-nativity-sets/(Video Link) In his Republic, presents an allegory of the value of philosophy and the nature of knowledge that is popularly known as Plato's Cave: to the unenlightened mind, the world is filled with confusi...
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