Toronto photoblogger Matt O'Sullivan finds warmth in all this chilly winter weather with the latest post on his photoblog, The Narrative, entitled, simply, "tree huggers". As seen on blogTO....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/the-tree-huggers/What looks like an upside-down rainbow is actually a rare atmospheric spectacle called a circumzenithal arc. According to the San Francisco Chronicle: "it's an unusual phenomenon caused by sunlight shining throu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/an-upside-down-rainbow/A fan-made video clip, with a re-mixed "How to Save a Life" disses Sony's PS3. In a funny but true way. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via GorillaMask and The Last Boss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/anti-sony-fan-rant-how-to-kill-a-brand/Artist Deidre Scherer uses fabric and thread as her medium:Using fabrics as paints, Scherer "draws" with scissors and then layers shapes to give her two-dimensional images a sculptural quality. Using her se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/deidre-scherer-fabric-and-thread-art/If mornings make you want to grab a gun and shoot someone, you need the ... Mugnum. No, not Magnum, you dummy. Mugnum, a mug with a darn cool pistol handle, designed by Mohd Fizea Zaukefli.Link - via Things of Random Coo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/gun-mug-mugnum/Ever seen those stretch limousine? Well, that's the basic idea behind Yoshihiko Satoh's "Present Arms" guitar artwork! Either that or this is a guitar for Bodhisattva with 1,000 hands.Link - via Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/yoshihiko-satohs-present-arms-guitar-art/Add another thing to the already long list of what chimps do (like using a hammer to crack nuts): using spears to hunt other primates:Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller prima...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/chimps-use-spears-to-hunt-other-primates/It's time to welcome our shape-shifting "SuperBot" robot overlord, built by University of Southern California professor Wei-Min Shen: Link (with lots of wmv video goodness of the robot shape-shifting) - via Sci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/superbot-shape-shifting-robot/From the website:Spearmint tea may help to control excessive hair growth in women, say Turkish researchers.Drinking the tea twice a day, reduced levels of male sex hormones, which can cause excessive hair growth (hirsuti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/fembeard-try-spearmint-tea/Staffan Holm and Johannes Tjernberg made this handsome desk (out of beech and MDF) inspired by the "structural laws of LEGO-building bricks": http://cubeme.com/blog/2007/02/23/ceo-desk-by-staffan-holm-johannes-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/lego-inspired-table/As if the act of weighing yourself on a bathroom scale isn't traumatic enough, this "Bathroom Egg Scale" by Viceversa will add to the stress by making it seems you're walking on egg shells!http://www.viceversa....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/bathroom-egg-scale/A 330-foot-deep sinkhole swallowed about a dozen homes in Guatemala City:Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main. The two bodies were found near the enormous...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/giant-sinkhole-swallowed-dozen-homes-in-guatemala-city/Feevy is a dynamic blogroll, which allows you to display RSS content of your friends' blogs with a simple javascript. As their blogs get updated with new posts, they appear automatically on your Feevy.Link - Thanks D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/feevy-rss-based-dynamic-blogroll-in-a-jiffy/I stumbled across this list of the twelve "top" skyscrapers in the world. I'd assume that by "top" they mean by height. They're also including a few skyscrapers that have yet to be completed. The list doesn't na...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/24/twelve-top-skyscrapers/The Phoenix airport on Friday became the first in the United States to test new X-ray technology that can see through people's clothes and show the body's contours with blush-inducing clarity. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/security-scanner-can-see-through-clothes/A rare, 184-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence found by a bargain hunter at a Nashville thrift shop is being valued by experts at about 100,000 times the $2.48 purchase price. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/184-year-old-declaration-of-independence-for-248/I miss Paris. In 1976, 29 year old French filmmaker Claude Lelouch strapped a gyroscope-stabilized camera on the front of a high performance car and filmed a white-knuckle mad dash from Paris' western Périph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/rendez-vous/By architectural firm Arakawa and Gins, Tokyo. Sun Tsu at Weird Asia writes:Painted in eye-catching blue, pink, red, yellow and other bright colors, the building resembles the indoor playgrounds that attract todd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/reversible-destiny-lofts/A handbook for the aspiring dictator. As seen on numéro#. Available at Amazon....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/how-to-rule-the-world/Los Angeles cat breeder Judy Sugden has been working since the late eighties to breed a housecat that resembles a tiger. The result is the “Toygerâ€, a registered breed she is still working on. The b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/toyger/This is a classic and neat Metal Gear print ad. As seen on NES WORLD....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/gear-up/Sloche [wiki] is a frozen beverage sold by the convenience store chain Couche-Tard, mostly in the province of Quebec, Canada. While it is similar in concept to the traditional Slush Puppie, Sl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/dead-in-your-hand-alive-in-your-mouth/Montrealer Dave Cool (that's his real name!) is the owner of Stand Alone Records. He's also a first-time filmmaker. His first documentary tackles a question most sane music journalists loathe: What is indie?*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/what-is-indie/Here's this week's collaboration with Bizarro. For more, check out Dan Piraro's website: Bizarro....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/bizarro-secret-of-a-successful-job-interview/The folks at Insanely Great Tees were so excited about having a party to watch new episodes of LOST, so they made their own Dharma Initiative food labels.They're sharing the PDFs: http://www.insanelygreattees.com/news/?p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/diy-lost-food-labels/William Rehnquist: And the Chief Justice Rules in Favor of … Mischief(Supreme Gavel-Flinging: 1972-2005) Despite all outward late-in-life appearances, Rehnquist had a notorious wily strea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/the-secret-lives-of-supreme-court-justices/We took a look at VideoSift's geek channel last week and politics one the week before, so let's take a look at the cute channel: What is it with cats and laser pointers? And wha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/videosift-cute-channel/YouTube LinkHere's the YouTube clip that's going 'round the Internet: Greg Pattillo playing the flute and beatboxing the theme from Inspector Gadget at the same time! Thanks Chris Barr!He is also, by the way, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/greg-pattillo-beatboxing-flute/Are you addicted to your computer? Can you live without your it for just one day?The idea behind the Shutdown Day, a "global experiment" by Denis Bystrov and Michael Taylor, is to see if you can shut down your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/computer-shutdown-day-march-24-2007/Japanese bicycle company Shimano is launching an experimental bike with the bicycle equivalent of an automatic transmission, called "Coasting"Link - Thanks Rocky Thompson!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/23/shimano-coasting-an-automatic-transmission-for-bicycles/
