Cartoonist Jamar Nicholas collects depictions of Wonder Woman as queen-sized. He started by sharing his private collection, but now artists submit pieces specially created for the blog BBWW: The Fat Wonder Woman Bl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/big-beautiful-wonder-woman/$85 Hello Kitty business card with a thin layer of 1 grams of pure gold on it. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/hello-kitty-business-card-in-gold/Jethro Haynes is a London artist who creates, among other things, sculptures from sneakers. http://www.jethrohaynes.com/index.html - via dérive EDIT: Sorry for the repost...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/the-shoe-art-of-jethro-haynes/1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice! This is not the final routine, and definitely not a punishment! just a teaser. Push play or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/inmate-thriller/Advances in bionics, transportation, and other technologies have put comic book superheroes a little closer to reality. This collection of videos looks at a few ways we can achieve “super powersâ€. Link -via R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/nine-super-powers-made-real-by-modern-technology/Herman and Candelaria Zapp drove from Argentina to Alaska in their 1928 Graham Paige Model 610 touring car. The car’s top speed is about 35 mph. The trip took almost three years, covered 43,717 miles, and produc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/driving-from-argentina-to-alaska-to-asia/Mark Malkoff visited all 171 Starbucks locations in Manhattan in ONE DAY. Of course, he made a movie about the entire project. http://www.171starbucks.com/ -via MetafilterMark Malkoff...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/every-starbucks-in-manhattan/Avowed atheist Howard Storm didn't believe in such things as life after death - until one day in 1985 when he had a near death experience:In 1985, Mr. Storm, 38, and his wife, Beverly, were in Paris on the last day o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/near-death-experience-of-an-atheist/Singapore is now exporting ... tattooed fish!At Steve's Wonderful World of Pets in Williamsville, N.Y., owner Steve Lane is selling tattooed fish for the first time. Some have polka dots, some have stripes and others...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/tattooed-fish/In 1581, In Heinrich Bunting drew this symbolic map of the world as a cloverleaf, with Jerusalem the central point:Heinrich Bunting (1545-1606) knew the world didn’t really look like this. There are enough maps...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/the-world-as-a-cloverleaf/In 1982, telephone monopoly "Ma Bell" (AT&T) was broken up into 7 independent telephone companies known as "Baby Bells". It didn't take too long before all these companies "congeal" back...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/att-reunited-and-it-feels-so-good/The Virtual Egyptian Museum has an excellent online collection of everything related to Egyptian antiquities.This one to the left is a Falcon sarcophagus with an Osiris mummy (which actually isn't a real mummy b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/virtual-egyptian-museum/If you’re looking to renovate, forget the do-it-yourself approach. Instead, why not just contract out the job to one of the best? Here’s a helpful guide for determining which architectural great deserve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/20/this-bold-house-5-architects-who-defy-convention/I see your talking raven and raise you one tool-fashioning crow. To obtain out-of-reach food, the crow repeatedly took a piece of straight wire and bent it to create a hook. According to the researchers, who repor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/well-crows-can-make-tools/There was some question in an earlier post about whether ravens could talk . . ....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/terry-the-talking-raven/Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/rice-paddy-crop-art/Wheeler "Johnny" Lipes, had neither the formal training, the equipment, nor the urge to become a surgeon. But when one of his ship mates came down with acute appendicitis 120-feet below the South China Sea, with e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/amateur-underwater-surgery/Yes - even stroke victims can be funny via the internet. Link at Salon.com's Video Dog....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/words-of-wisdom/Can you name all 43 US Presidents? You have ten minutes. I got 33 of 43, without looking any up. The first seven were easy, and I aced the 20th century, but some in between gave me a brain cramp. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/us-presidents-quiz/An article by Jeffrey Kastner in Cabinet magazine (via Bioephemera) features an "unusual artistic collaboration between the French artist Hubert Duprat and a group of caddis fly larvae":A small winged insec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/jewelry-made-by-caddis-flies/Carey Huffman designed and chrocheted this cute set of Pacman and Ghosts, and posted the instructions so you can make them yourself! Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/crocheted-pacman-and-ghosts/If you need proof that metal detectors work, you'll find it here, as the BBC reports:The most important Viking treasure find in Britain for 150 years has been unearthed by a father and son while metal detecting in Yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/viking-hoard/This painting went to auction with an estimated value of £300-£500. Two bidders really wanted it, and the final price was £205,000! Art dealers now think it’s an original Titian, dated between 1510 and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/a-bargain-for-a-masterpiece/Worth1000 had a contest to depict The Beatles in a different era from their heyday in the 60s. See the group as a barbershop quartet, 80s hair band, medieval minstrel show, metal group, American Idol contestants, and m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/anachronistic-beatles/Today's collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange object: can you guess what it is? Place your guess in the comment section (post no URL, please - let others play). No prize this week, y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/what-is-it-game-30/Image: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization StudioThe world's largest dam, the Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River, is two years from being completed but it's already changing the weather:B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/worlds-largest-dam-already-changing-the-weather/Flickr user dimsumranch has a neat collection of HDR photos of an airplane graveyard in Mojave, California. Link [Flickr photoset]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/airplane-graveyard-hdr-photos/Female superb starlings cheat. But they cheat for a good reason: they trade sex for the sake of their chicks!Some females mate with subordinate males from within their social group when they need help to raise their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/female-birds-cheat-for-good-reasons/Oh, the irony! Found at Tom 7's Photo Gallery....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/rusty-irony/The New Shelton Wet/Dry has a neat article on the Top 10 Radical Moments in Modern Art, for example:1953. Robert Rauschenberg: Didn’t get it?Rauschenberg bought a pencil drawing by one of Ameri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/19/radical-moments-in-modern-art/
