Mark your calendars for August 28th. Early in the morning, a colorful lunar eclipse will be visible from five continents. To explain the orange color of the eclipse, you are asked to imagine yourself on the moon. Wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/colorful-solar-eclipse/This Jack Nicholson caricature, and other really great artwork at the link (Flash Required). Please be sure to look at the Bruce Willis one!! Really amazing! Link - via Frederik Samuel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/j-exhibit-caricatures/If you liked Pacman, The movie [youtube]... Here's Minesweeper, the movie! Hit play or follow the http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138 to College Humor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/minesweeper-the-movie/Here's what has got to be one of the craziest roads in the world: the Stelvio Pass [wiki], with its 48 hairpin turns to the top!The Stelvio Pass is one of the highest Alpine Passes of Europe with its 2758 m. There ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/stelvio-pass-48-hairpin-turns/Remember the classic arcade game Asteroids? It has been "reborn" as this Flash game by Alex Kaplan, who made it for the Gameplay Design Competition at Jay is Games:Space Pilot is a keyboard controlled, miss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/space-pilot-flash-game/Image Credit: omphalina [Flickr]After seeing the House of Hung picture, Neatorama reader Loneconspirator told us about this one: Hung Far Low in Portland Oregon - Thanks loneconspirator!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/funny-business-name-hung-far-low/Jeff of HydroSlider sent this one in: a strange device that lets you glide on water with speeds up to 17 mph. With a bit of skills, a HydroSlider can be launched in as little as 9 inches of water.http://hydrosliders.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/hydroslider-a-strange-contraption-for-walking-on-water/Jesus León blog has a neat post about the top 10 moments in sport history.I quite like the clip about the 5' 6" tall (diminutive by NBA standard) Spud Webb [wiki] at the 1986 slam dunk contest. Link [a bunch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/notable-moments-in-sport-history/Tired of finding stopped clocks in public places (in UK), Neatorama reader Alfie started a blog to identify these clocks and hopefully get them fixed.http://www.stoppedclocks.com/ - Thanks Alfie!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/blog-wants-stopped-clocks-idd-and-fixed/Found in Poland - Thanks norberto!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/funny-anglers-store-name-fart/Square Deal, Teddy bears, Nobel Peace Prize, Mt. Rushmore... There could have been a list of thirty or more reasons why president Theodore Roosevelt was the coolest U.S. president ever. More cool things about T.R. follow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/ten-reasons-why-teddy-roosevelt-is-the-coolest-president-ever/Mark Applebaum is a musician and composer who teaches at Stanford University. He's built a variety of "sound-sculptures," electronic musical instruments built from found objects, which look bizarre and sound even more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/mark-applebaums-sound-sculptures/English Russia has a sampling of the photography of Pavel Bezrukov, featuring Russian villagers. Link. More photos here. -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/portraits-of-rural-russia/A list of 19 great movie projects that were proposed, or even started, but never made it to theaters, with explanations for most and links for more information on each. Link -via Grow-A-Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/the-best-movies-never-made/Self-Sustainable Chair, a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. The dress slowly transforms into a chair with each step...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/self-sustainable-chair/Earvolution ranks ten bands that only existed in the media, but don’t you wish they were real? You may be surprised at how Spinal Tap ranked. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/the-ten-best-bands-that-never-existed/Need to change your wallpaper? Social Wallpapering is a public effort to classify, rank, and distribute high-resolution images for use as desktop backgrounds; it is an attempt to create the greatest high-resolution w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/social-wallpapering/It's time for a Caption Monkey game! You can win a Free Monkey Drawing by Ape Lad of Hobotopia, simply by submitting the funniest caption.The rules are simple: write a funny but civil caption in the comm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/caption-monkey-4-sense-of-impending-doom/The Hover Skateboard in Back to the Future Part II [imdb] could be a viable gadget in a future by this discovery. But perhaps a better and more feasible application are faster, cheaper and more powerful maglevs all o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/a-step-forward-for-levitation/Remember the $99 million diamond and platinum skull by Damien Hirst last June?Turns out Christoph Steinmeyer had created something like it in 2004: a "Disco Inferno" skull!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/christoph-steinmeyers-disco-inferno/Image Credit: Droste Effect: manyone1, Original: svacherFlickr user Pisco Bandito wrote a tutorial on how to create your very own Droste effect [wiki] photo using Mathmap for Windows and GIMP.Or you can just gawk at the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/10528/Neatorama reader Den Holmes who made the nifty Noah's Ark diorama, just sent this one in: a super awesome 17th-century 64-gun British ship model.The model is 100% SCRATCH BUILT, MADE OUT OF CHESTNUT WOOD, CUSTOM MADE...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/17th-century-64-guns-british-ship-model-by-den-holmes/If you've got it, flaunt it! Taken @ Singapore last month....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/funny-business-name-house-of-hung/Gimme Friction Baby by Wouter Visser is a fun, addicting game of angles. The omission of instructions was deliberate - Wouter believes that including instructions on such an abstract concept could potentially be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/gimme-friction-baby/Neatorama reader Dean Mackey wrote to us about his website, The Online Paper Airline Museum (with links to over 800 paper airline designs - some his own and others he found on the Net).Link - Thanks Dean!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/07/online-paper-airline-museum/
