Dave Umlas built a sculpture out of stainless steel and equipped it with propane gas and forced-air jets. The effect is hot! I wonder how well this would fit in with Alex's barbecue grill collection? See pictures of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/fire-sculpture/Disproportionately big eyes are a hallmark of anime art and comics. Now, you too can sport the somewhat creepy big-eyed look with oversized contact lenses sold in Japan. In fact, you'll look altogether Photosh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/anime-contact-lenses/Artist Jennifer Marsh wrapped an abandoned gas station in blanket fabric! Jennifer was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eyesore on the drive to her studio each d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/how-to-cover-a-gas-station-with-a-blanket/Wild honeybees in Nepal build ten-feet-long hives on the sides of high cliffs, but their honey is so rare that locals risk their lives climbing bamboo poles to harvest it. A film crew from the BBC watched the process in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/hunting-honey-in-nepal/Jim Hance, the artist behind Mona Leia, has a new creation he calls Oz Wars. If the scarecrow had carried a light saber, the Wicked Witch of the West would never have been a problem! http://strangelydrawn.com/blog/2008...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/oz-wars/Spiders are often solitary animals (some of them are even cannibals that eat their own species, so they tend to stay as far away as possible from each other). But in the case of Anelosimus eximius spiders, the more, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/social-networking-works-great-for-these-spiders/COLOURlovers blog has neat photo gallery and interview with Johanna Lundberg, Jenna Sutela and Timo Koro of thisissand.com, a Flash website that lets you play with colorful digital sand (remember that toy now?).Link | Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/this-is-sand/Ooh ... This. Is. Awesome. No, it's SUPER AWESOME: Dan Kressin made a Donkey Kong diorama, complete with Kong throwing barrels and Mario jumping over them out of LEGO MINDSTORMS:During a random discussion at the Apri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/donkey-kong-lego-by-dan-kressin/Something is not quite right with the pic above. Can you figure it out?Here's the story from Consumerist: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/a-math-puzzle-somethings-not-quite-right-here/Poor Bugatti Veyron: it wasn't enough that the $1.4 million car was dethroned as the fastest production car on the planet, it's now not even the most expensive one ...Here's the One-77, a $2.3 million hand-made coupe by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/aston-martins-23-million-one-77-car-who-will-buy-one-first/Our pal Marilyn Terrell of National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel blog told us about Flashback, a gem of a monthly photograph archive from NatGeo (some published before in the magazine, some never before seen)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/natgeo-flashback-photos-baboon-teaching-a-kitty-how-to-sit-properly-like-a-baboon-and-mowin-the-lawn-at-stonehenge/Where to begin? The Boston Globe has been leading the coverage of this strange and incredible story and has assembled links to numerous timelines, photos and articles at this link. If what has been reported to date...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/bostons-amazing-summer-media-mystery-who-is-clark-rockefeller/(Aniboom link) A love story of an animated origami couple, by Israeli animator Moshe Servatka. -Thanks, Bill! ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/hardcover-paperback/Eugenio Recuendo recreates Greek friezes by posing and photographing human models. Pretty cool stuff. More tableaux at TrendHunter....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/freeze/This lamp looks like a giant centipede in the outdoor setting, but it's just 19 inches tall (and over 30 inches long). The Nymph Lamp, from Site Specific Design, will set you back $2,600. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/nymph-lamp/I did not know that airlines are flying planes without full fuel tanks. To save weight, they calculate the least amount of fuel needed to get a plane to its destination. With fuel prices now their biggest cost, airl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/low-on-fuel/How well do you know the Middle East, West Asia, and Northern Africa? Try to drag each nation's name to it's location on the map. It doesn't keep score, but you'll know if you're on the wrong track by the annoying buzz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/time-for-another-map-game/No, the Google Street View cameras didn't cause the fire (at least I don't think so), but they were there in Sherwood, Arkansas when this house went up in flames. Now the images are saved for who know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/google-street-view-catches-house-on-fire/The picture here is just a small corner of the Periodic Table of Awesoments, since you need to read the kind of awesome elements it contains. Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental "awesome...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/the-periodic-table-of-awesoments/This seems scary. Two researchers speaking at different hacker conferences revealed that they have learned how to turn off implanted pacemakers by remote control. Kevin Fu, director of the Medical Device Security Center,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/10/hacking-a-pacemaker/Dark Roasted Blend takes a look at artistic photographs of smoke, both in its natural form and enhanced by Photoshop techniques. Also included are links to several artists' galleries of more smoke art. Link...
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