If you're not tired of political ads, take a gander at Nerve.com's neat post of the 20 greatest political campaign ads of all time (yes, the Wazzup 2008 ad made it to the list, but the neat stuff are all the past campaigns. Oh, and by "great" they mean "effective" - some of the best are very, very negative.)

I was delighted to see this one, "Mrs. JFK" 1960:

John Kennedy had commercials starring Henry Fonda and Harry Belafonte, but his best booster may have been his Missus, who in her public appearances was eager to show that she wasn't just a pretty face: she was a pretty face who'd managed to retain some of her finishing-school Spanish. It may not be possible now to fully understand what a jolt it was for the country to see a future First Lady looking fairly hot while signing off with the announcement, "Viva Kennedy!" But Mamie Eisenhower must have had a funny feeling in her bones that her job description had just been rewritten.

http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveeditors/20-greatest-campaign-ads-of-all-time/index.asp?page=1 - Thanks Nicole Ankowski!

Photo: zerega [Flickr]

Actually, it only looks like a Soviet death ray gun. The rusting structure is actually part of the Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory near the Great Almaty Lake, Kazakhstan. Environmental Graffiti blog has more: Link

The Domestic Scientist has the plan for all you crafty video game lovers: free cross-stich patterns for "Home is Where The Controller Is," complete various video game controllers. http://thedomesticscientist.com/2008/09/08/home-is-where-the-controller-is/ - via Craftzine

This is pretty cool: artist Emmanuel Guibert draws ... with water! Check out the technique on this short YouTube clip (wait for it ... wait for it ...)

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Boing Boing | Interview with the artist at Newsarama

Hey! I just noticed that someone put Neatorama on Twitter. But who? (Certainly not me, I don't use Twitter) Does Twitter automatically create accounts for blogs?

Move over, Lassie - here's Skippy The Bush Kangaroo (from a popular Australian
TV series back in the late 60s).

Is there anything Skippy can't do? Link [Embedded YouTube Link]

Yes, Skippy was parodied by British comedy show Goodness Gracous Me as Skipinder the Punjabi Kangaroo [YouTube Link, a little NSFW language].

For Halloween, Andrew Lindstrom of Well Medicated Blog has something special for all of us. He's posting his collection of 100 vintage horror posters. The first 50 has a link to the rest: Link - via IZ Reloaded

I'm pretty sure this is a case of vandalism ... either that or a really clever guerrilla ad for Kung Fu Panda! Thanks Boots!

Photo: W. Woessner

That's a wire sculpture of an escalator by Fritz Panzer, as seen at the Krobath Wimmer gallery: Link

For her art project "The Pedestrian Project," costume designer Yvette Helin decided that she's going to bring to life the "lady" from the ubiquitous street sign.

She's done this since 1989, but stopped after 9/11 - now, she's restarting the project for Art in Odd Places in Manhattan: http://www.pedestrianproject.yvettehelinstudio.com/

It took Christian Bok 7 years to write Eunoia - the word is the shortest word in the English language containing all five vowels.

Eunoia means "beautiful thinking" and it's a very fitting title to Christian's book, in which each chapter uses only one vowel!

From CHAPTER A - FOR HANS ARP:

Hassan Abd al-Hassad, an Agha Khan, basks at an ashram - a Taj Mahal that has grand parks and grass lawns, all as vast as parklands at Alhambra and Valhalla. Hassan can, at a handclap, call a vassal at hand and ask that all staff plan a bacchanal - a gala ball that has what pagan charm small galas lack. Hassan claps, and (tah-dah) an Arab lass at a swank spa can draw a man's bath and wash a man's back, as Arab lads fawn and hang, athwart an altar, amaranth garlands as fragrant as attar - a balm that calms all angst. A dwarf can flap a palm branch that fans a fat maharajah. A naphtha lamp can cast a calm warmth.

Link - Thanks Ali S.!

Psst! The Moustache is Tiny Squid Roasts. And whatever you do, DO NOT get the Demon Moustache - found at Ectomoplasmosis

Photo: Firestarter by Dave Roth

In a long list of photos that went viral on the Net, here is: Disaster Girl. In a mere few weeks, the photo has been endlessly photoshopped into the newest Internet meme (why, there's even a YouTube video clip). Link

This is what every lawn needs: Moe the robotic lawn mowing sheep, made by Osman Khan at the Carnegie Mellon University.

Geeks are Sexy blog has the video clip:

The sheep, named Mower, has been designed by Osman Khan, a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon’s, with Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” in mind.

The robot features GPS navigation, obstacle avoidance sensors and lawn mowing teeth. It will move around your backyard on 6 little articulated legs, cutting grass wherever it steps.

Link

This slow economy has everyone cutting back ... even Ferrari is making their new Formula One race car out of cheaper materials like ... LEGOs! Actually, it's just a driveable 1:1 scale model for the annual LEGO World convention: http://www.0-60mag.com/online/?p=5552