Photo: CapeNatureThe penguins on Dyer Island near Cape Town, South Africa, are getting fiberglass igloos because mining had stripped the island of guano, which the penguins used to build their nests:Dyer I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/fiberglass-igloos-for-penguins/A clever criminal hacked a gas station ATM into thinking that it's dispensing $5, when in reality it's dispensing $20 (he used an untraceable ATM giftcard). What's worse, the thief probably got the master pass...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/criminal-hacked-atm-into-giving-20-instead-of-5/Skip Solberg and Jay Francis built the world's longest slide rule dubbed the Texas Magnum:It measures 352 feet long, weighs 300 pounds and takes three men to slide. Skip Solberg and Jay Francis said...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/worlds-longest-slide-rule-texas-magnum/Back in Skinny Jeans blog explains RSS the Opray way:The technical acronym for RSS is “Really Simple Syndication”, an XML format that was created to syndicate news, and be a means to share cont...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/what-is-rss-anyway-explaining-rss-the-opray-way/The creators of Cabinet Magazine have put together a book called Presidential Doodles: a collection of two centuries of scribbles, scratches, squiggles and scrawls from the Oval Office.This one is the 23...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/presidential-doodles/Turns out you can make paper out of elephant dung.That's good, because on average an elephant will eat 200-250 kg (440-550 lb) of food per day and produce 50 kg (110 lb) of poo. This is enough to make 115 shee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/elephant-dung-paper/Make your own iPod dock from a cardboard box, from flickr user flickrflick151: Link [flickr] - via Sdamy.com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/redneck-ipod-dock/From the website: A new energy drink that crashed runway parties last week is called Cocaine, and its makers are billing it as "the legal alternative" to the white powder drug. The drink's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/cocaine-the-legal-drink/These Japanese people are masters of the art of pen-twirling... Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Pink Tentacle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/pen-swirling-masters/The Internet Craftmanship Museum has a nifty collection of exceptional miniature models of guns, clocks, engines, and more.They also feature craftsmen from around the world - which is where the man on the top...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/internet-craftsman-museum/Here's a Space Channel spot featuring old sci-fi characters ("they were A-listers at one time or another"). Featuring costumes by the awesome costumer makers Kropserkel.Hit play or go to Link [YouTub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/sci-fi-talent-agency/Design studio to22 decided to take flower arranging one step further by dissecting several flowers and reassembling the parts to create a "one flower bouquet."http://www.to22.net/ (don't miss t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/the-one-flower-bouquet/Charging cell phones is a hassle, so Splashpower has developed a new way to power up mobile devices - just put the splashpower-enabled device on the SplashPad:The Splashpower solution is based around...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/splashpower-charge-your-mobile-devices-without-wires/Working from home but need to project a professional image during a video conference with top executives? Don't go out and get yourself a suit - just get a Businessbib and you're good to go!In a word...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/businessbib/Jane Bolsover had a plan - a crazy plan - to knit a life-sized English Garden, right down to the flowers, vegetables, squirrels and insects:The project has been painstakingly completed by more than 300 con...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/the-knitted-english-garden/Never forget anniversaries anymore with the Remember Ring. This ring uses a "hot spot" technology that warms up to 120° F for 10 seconds, every hour on the hour, beginning 24 hours before t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/the-remember-ring/An Israeli start-up company, Magink is set to revolutionize billboard advertising: it has developed "digital ink," basically a helix-shaped molecules that when stretched to a certain length,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/magink-full-color-digital-ink-billboards/If you're really into the Christmas spirit, be sure to line your walkway with these mini Christmas trees. A set of 12 prelit walkway trees will set you back $250!Link - via Luxury Housing Trends...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/christmas-tree-walkway-lights/From How Advertising Spoiled Me, a neat blog about all kinds of creative ads by Arvind R is this entry: Chilean ad agency Perfil BTL created fake cigarettes that were then placed on the streets. The cigarettes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/22/fake-cigarettes-ads-tell-people-they-need-help/Jem Finer, an ex-member of The Pogues, won some money from the PRS Foundation's New Music Award to create an art installation that plays the sound of dripping water in a forest through a giant gramopho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/jem-finers-score-for-a-hole-in-the-ground/There it is! Er, how badly do you have to go again? Found at Factum....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/wheres-the-bathroom/From the website:All of a sudden her agitation and thrashing about seemed a lot more important than it had a few minutes before. How the hell were we to get the gun out without the damn thing discharging?*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/delicate-moments-in-the-er-is-that-a-gun/Found at Arvo's Brickshelf collection (don't miss the lego bikes from the anime movie "Akira") - Thanks Yayo!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/vintage-typewriter-built-with-lego/Found at believe-or-not, which has even more photos of this sort of things: Link - Thanks Salman!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/tongue-twister/Can't have mini golf without windmills (why is that, anyway?) The Mini Golf Enthusiast blog has a collection of windmills found in various mini golf courses:Link - Thanks Better Living Through Miles!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/mini-golf-windmills/Check out Hong Kong's newest tourist attraction: The Golden House, built from 2 tons of gold at a cost of $38 million!Link - Thanks Spluch!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/the-golden-house-in-hong-kong/Hans Holbein the Younger was famous for his Dance of Death (Danse Macabre [wiki]) woodcuts. But that's not his only morbid artwork, he also created the Alphabet of Death, which was originally published in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/the-alphabet-of-death/Steve de Brun of Squirl wrote to us about his website (still in beta), which allows users to showcase their collections online (and to meet people with similar interests). Squirl is a freemium (free for the fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/squirl-shows-off-your-collections/Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist is making a remote-controlled boat that uses magnet as a propulsion device.Rember the silent caterpillar drive from the movie The Hunt for Red October? The caterpi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/diy-magnetohydrodynamic-drive/Neatorama reader yawfren pointed out that the recent hubbub over Eris the dwarf planet (used to be called Xena), is a great intro to Eris the goddess of chaos, which is the goddess of Discordianism [wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/21/the-discordian-coloring-book/
