E.T.A. by JUNK from Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen on Vimeo. JUNKworks has released another great short for Vimeo, set in the distant realms of space. It premiered in 2008 at the Bingen, Germany Breakpoint demoparty, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/e-t-a-by-junk/The process of freezing to death is presented in horrifying detail in this classic article. It's not just a matter of getting cold and dying. For example, just before they freeze, people with hypothermia tear their cloth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/the-cold-hard-facts-about-freezing-to-death/Well, they wanted it. That's the reason Jo-Jo Marsh gave for tattooing her own children (one as young as ten years old) with a home-made tattoo gun (with a guitar string as a needle, no less):"We were making it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/mom-tattooed-kids-as-young-as-10-years-old-because-they-begged-for-it/When Derick wanted to propose to his girlfriend Emily, he decided to do it in a big way. A really big way: by creating a light writing proposal that covered several blocks in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/creative-light-writing-proposal/(Video Link) German percussionist Michael Vorfeld creates sound installations by turning different light bulbs on and off. The popping bulbs and flashing lights create a uniquely rhythmic experience for his live au...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/the-musical-light-bulbs-of-michael-vorfeld/People in Yosemite: A TimeLapse Study from Steven M. Bumgardner on Vimeo. Steven Bumgardner's video clearly shows the impact of people on Yosemite, but it also shows how the magnificence of the setting reduces peopl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/timelapse-video-of-people-in-yosemite/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laty3vXKRek][YouTube - Link] If you don't find this optical illusion of two lug nuts by YouTube user brusspup amazing, you're nuts! From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Bopple.o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/this-optical-illusion-is-nuts/This isn't quite how I remember the Battle of Yorktown, but presumably artist Joseph Griffith did careful research for this painting marking the 225th anniversary of that battle. This image is part of a post full of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/kool-aid-man-at-the-battle-of-yorktown/(YouTube Link) When he gets bored with doing double backflips on his bike, skydiving without a chute, or inventing new sports like the Hydrojump, Travis Pastrana takes life easy with a casual drive in Long Beach, CA....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/travis-pastrana-flies-a-car/No, it can't. Microwaves work by speeding up atoms in an object, thus generating heat. "Microwaves can only speed up atoms, not slow them down," writes Sandeep Ravindran of Popular Science. But Ravindran was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/can-microwave-technology-make-things-cold/(YouTube Link) Matthias Wandel used LEGO Technic parts to build a machine that distributes dominoes in rows. His website is filled with other similar gadgets, most of which are made out of wood. Link via Make |...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/lego-domino-row-building-machine/(Video Link) Parkour is a sport consisting of running, climbing, crawling, and jumping over any obstacle in a path through an urban environment. Vimeo user saggyarmpit, a graphics design student in Singapore, creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/parkour-flip-book/Find hundreds of ads going up to a couple hundred years back with the Vintage Ad Browser. I spent a lot of time looking around, but kept coming back to this perfume ad from 1890. The picture has nothing to do with th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/vintage-ad-browser/A star actor's final performance should be something memorable, but that doesn't happen often. In many cases, the actor probably didn't know it would be their final performance. For others, their career was already f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/farewell-performances/At first you think: it's "free" and "this machine accepts all credit cards", that's not right. And then you think "Oh..." This clever recycling idea was submitted to There, I Fixed It. Link -via redditplastic, recycl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/guitar-picks/42-year-old Roberto Carrillo didn't want to be in jail for New Years Eve. He tried to escape the cell in Valle Hermoso, Mexico by squeezing through a gap he saw where the roof met a wall of bars, but there wasn't enough...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/escaping-prisoner-becomes-stuck/Jeff Kisseloff interviewed grocer Harry Dubin about an article written about him in 1947, but then found something much more interesting about Dubin. I picked up the album and opened it, and my eyes nearly jumpe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/harry-dubin-at-work-in-old-new-york/When Alistair Hodgson was 21, he was a British paratrooper stationed in Northern Ireland. A booby trap exploded and tore him apart. His horrific injuries healed, except for the leg that was blown off and the other leg wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/amputee-skydiver/(YouTube link) I had to find out who sells that pacifier. You can get one at Perpetual Kid. Video via Unique Daily.baby, heavy metal, pacifier...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/heavy-metal-baby/The wedding planner blog Wedding ABC has pictures and information about fifteen weddings that were designed around unusual themes, such as a Halo wedding, a Nazi reenactors' wedding, and one in which attende...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/15-strange-thematic-weddings/It seems strange that a man best known for creating the quintessential detective, who based his deductions solely on reason, would also be one of the biggest proponents of Spiritualism around the turn of the last century...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/the-end-of-a-beautiful-friendship-houdini-and-arthur-conan-doyle/Hello, Neatoramanauts! Boing Boing did it, Engadget did it, and now it's Neatorama's turn. Yep, we're going to give the blog a makeover. It's time to shake things up a bit....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/neatorama-redesign-help/Photo: Pat Shannahan/Wired.comWhat do you get when you cross a taser with a machine gun? Behold the Taser Shockwave, a weapon that fires 24 electrified probes at the same time in a single direction. It's one example of A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/taser-shockwave/Every year, Lake Superior State University publishes a list of overused words that should be banned: Word "czars" at Lake Superior State University "unfriended&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/banned-words-of-2010/[YouTube Clip]Remember the 1984 movie Karate Kid with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita? Well, it's going to have a remake, featuring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith (Will Smith's son). From Monsters and Critics:Jaden Smith'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/karate-kid-the-remake/Dying usually puts a dent on one's travel plan, but not Ralph B. White's. His friends at the Adventurer's Club of Los Angeles have taken him (or rather, his ashes) to some of the world's most remote places:In the las...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/traveling-while-dead/Like many foster children who "age out" of the system, 23-year-old John had given up hope of ever being adopted. Then he met Mark Hauck and his partner, Tim Ferraro, who became his friends ... and later, parent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/adopted-at-23-years-of-age/Remember the case of the "missing" sea lions of San Francisco's Pier 39? Well, they have been "found":Marine experts now believe that the Pier 39 sea lions have gone to Oregon. A couple thousand C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/missing-pier-39-sea-lions-are-found-in-oregon/Perhaps it has something to do with their field of choice, economics AKA the dismal science, but many of the world's most famous economists share one extraordinary trait: they're cheapskates! Some economists may be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/economists-are-cheapskates/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAkvrykpHZo] YouTube link. Sadie is a Pomeranian who ran away from her home in Iowa after being frightened by fireworks. "Sadie was swooped up by an owl in the woods," the AP...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/04/the-dog-was-discovered-when-she-fell-out-of-the-sky/
