Designing those little icons is tougher than you might think. Check out how designer Felix Sockwell went through the creative process (and the review process, of course) to come up with the icons for the New York Ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/how-iphone-app-icons-are-designed/Your guide to dating, including this gem: "Hey Ann? Whatcha doing Saturday night?" "Well, I guess I'm busy." "Oh, yeah? Any chance of giving him the push-off for me?" "Well, of all the nerve!!!" I also enjoy t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/how-to-date-the-1949-edition/This is just a tiny little bit of the Picture of Everything by artist Howard Hallis. The story is, well, the guy started drawing and just kept on going. Originally, he was just drawing Marvel characters, but then he st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/the-picture-of-everything/I mean, if you find cockroaches cuddly. Or is it a roly poly? I don't know what this thing is supposed to be, and I can't find it on the IKEA site. All I know is that I was simultaneously repulsed and amused when I sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/cuddly-ikea-stuffed-animals/This is the tallest pyramid of glasses I have ever seen - when the camera pans down, it just keeps panning and panning... it's amazing. Watch as the guy puts the very last glass on top... will he make it? I was nervous...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/20/pyramid-of-glasses/I'm not one of those people that absolutely loathes Valentine's Day, but it's definitely low on my list of favorite holidays. I'm pretty sure Labor Day would make the list first. However, I love conversation hearts (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/20/forget-conversation-hearts-try-bittersweets/Or maybe it's just hard for me - I have perpetually shaky hands (it takes me two hands to play Boom Blox on the Wii) so I only got about halfway through before biffing it. Your job is to guide the little red dot through...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/20/maze-game-is-really-hard/You have an upside-down hat and you have some cards; you need to get the cards in the hat. It's just like a real-life card toss! The longer you hold down the mouse button,the more distance you'll cover with your card....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/virtual-card-toss/It's amazing what you can do with one little sentence. Just a few little words can make you wonder what the heck happened, like this one: "When I opened the door I noticed 2 things: one, someone had made cookies, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/stories-told-in-one-sentence/So you're ready to take over the world, but you're missing a few details. Never fear, help has arrived! Just answer simple questions, such as motive (options: money, love, power, revenge, madness, sadistic pleasure, to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/19/world-domination-mad-libs-style/

