Two art professors and a recent art graduate at Carnegie Mellon University have begun a year-long restaurant project in Pittsburgh called Conflict Kitchen, in which only foods from countries in conflict with the U.S. wil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/pittsburghs-conflict-kitchen/SFist blogger Brock Keeling posted a picture of three cramped San Francisco Muni passengers pass the time with a newspaper, Kindle and iPad. One SFist reader wondered about the symbolism of the empty seat. With...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/the-past-the-present-and-the-future-of-media/Matthew Inman of the webcomic The Oatmeal has some strong opinions about the computer competencies of users of different email providers. At the link, you can read his scathing criticism of Yahoo and AOL us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/what-your-email-address-says-about-you/This crocheted cap comes with a built-in beard. It was made by Etsy seller Tara Duff, who has several others for sale, as well. This leprechaun beard/hat is especially cute. Link via The Presurfer | Duff's Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/crocheted-beanie-with-beard/How would Cracked commemorate Memorial Day? By posting a list of The 5 Most Badass Prison Escapes in the History of War. These escapes took imagination, intelligence, and nerves of steel, plus a fair amount of desperatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/wartime-prisoner-escapes/There is a positive correlation between the sale of miniskirts and subsequent warmer weather: The rises and falls in the length of skirts are said to be a good way of forecasting what the weather will be like thre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/miniskirt-meteorology-used-to-predict-weather/The RUB BBQ Chopper, built by Orange County Choppers, would come in handy when you're in the mood of brisket, but don't want to stop riding. It's fully functional, and you can view pics of it in action at the link....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/grillmotorcycle/The friend of a poster at Overclockers, an Australian computer blog, created a piece of art resembling stained glass. But instead of using stained glass, he used old motherboards. You can view more picture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/stained-glass-motherboards/One day, Bhagavan "Doc" Antle of The Institute of the Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (yes, with the clever acronym T.I.G.E.R.S.) was taking Surya the orangutan on their daily elephant ride, when they happe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/the-orangutan-and-the-hound/Are you tired of people asking you questions that are easily answered by Google in the first place? If Let Me Google That For You isn't enough of a hint for them, why not play a little harmless prank? Behold Google Gravi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/oh-no-you-broke-google/In 2005, two Dutchmen named Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn came to the favelas (slums) of Rio to make an MTV film about hip hop. After the filming was done, the two decided to stay. They formed an organization c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/favela-painting/For years, people have complained about the way that Subway places the cheese wedges on their sandwiches. This is best explained by a 2007 comic from Left Handed Toons. As we suspected, it was a policy designed to en...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/subway-to-tessellate-cheese/When most of us think of someone riding a bomb, the image of Slim Pickens in the movie Dr. Strangelove comes up. But he was far from the first character to do so, as you'll see in this collection of photogra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/riding-bombs/What is now Arlington National Cemetery was once the home of Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary. Mary Lee dreaded the thought of abandoning Arlington, the 1,100-acre estate she had inherited from her father, George Wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/how-arlington-national-cemetery-came-to-be/This is a physics-based game in which you design your own tools to accomplish tasks and collect cogs (which help you accomplish more tasks). At first, I thought it might be difficult to understand, but there a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/sprocket-rocket/Can you spot the two dummy houses in this photo? They look like the other houses on this upscale London street, but they're just facade, only 5 feet wide, and the doors and windows don't open. Give up? They're the t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/31/the-fake-houses-of-leinster-gardens/The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces. For more than a century, "Taps" has been the bugle call to mark the day's end and evening rest in the U.S. mili...
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