The World is the name of a group of about 300 man-made islands off the coast of Dubai designed for luxury living. There are planned communities, full utilities, and beachfronts for everyone. Seen from the sky, the grou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/the-world/A British scientist has developed chewing gum that dissolves in water! That could save millions in money municipalities spend to remove improperly-discarded gum. The gum, nicknamed Rev7, is produced by the startup compan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/non-stick-chewing-gum-2/This Yahoo Map mashup overlays a 1660 map of Manhattan Island with a more recent map of the same area. You can manipulate the opacity of the overlaid map at the Yahoo Map site. 400 years of landfill makes a real differ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/how-manhattan-has-grown/This fun and cute cat inspired fish bowl is available for $34 at UrbanPeel.com. Link - via cribcandy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/cat-fish-bowl/A solid vinyl scale train that comes complete with ready made decals with loads of graffiti and tags for you to create in your own style. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/your-own-graffiti-train/While the meanings of monikers such as Ethiopian, Hobokenite, and Earthling aren’t hard to suss out, it’s a little tougher to guess where to find a Moonraker or a Zonie. And why the heck are Oklaho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/10-nicknames-for-natives-what-to-call-elsewherians-and-why/Yay! Our weekly collab with VideoSift is here... Let's take a look at five of the most fascinating videos playing at the world's greatest video aggregator website: Turbo EncabulatorHere's a hilarious Chr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/videosift-pick-of-the-week/Image: chrisdyer41 [Flickr]Neatorama reader Chris Dyer spotted what is probably the first time "LOL" is used outside of the Web. Thanks Chris!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/lol-billboard/Etsy seller AmeliaMakesArt makes a mini-likeness of your dog out of wool:I am in love with making these little needle felted dogs and would love to make one for you! I can make a dog of the breed you love or I can ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/mini-me-for-your-dog/The Map of Humanity by Rex Libris and Nil creator James Tuner is a giant atlas listing human emotions, states of mind, characters and such, placing real and fictional locations in their (mostly) appropriate territories.I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/the-map-of-humanity/Can't come to coffee shop? Let the coffee shop come to you! Espressi is a Dutch company that brings mobile Italian espresso machines to wherever a cuppa is needed: http://www.espressi.nl/ [in Dutch, but you can just oggl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/mobile-espresso-machine-brings-the-coffee-to-you/The map above (click here for the large version) shows what the world would look like if each country's size was proportional to their proven oil reserves. I find it a little surprising that the world's largest oil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/the-world-according-to-oil-reserves/You have to admit, this movie has quite an agreeable cast. Push play or go to YouTube. -via YesButNoButYes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/fargo-the-short-version/Scientists have recently found a 260-million-years old fossil of a weasel-sized prehistoric reptile from Russia that had the first modern ears:Paleobiologists uncovered large-eyed fossils of these reptiles with surpr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/reptile-fossil-showed-first-ever-modern-ear/Jeff Gagliardi has drawn da Vinci's Mona Lisa using an Etch-a-Sketch toy (or lineography set, to you hoity-toity art crowd!)Gagliardi, who runs a graphic design company, has also drawn the Taj Mahal and the Vitruvian Man...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/11502/Earlier this week, waiter Juan Canales saw a woman being carjacked from a parking lot near the Florida restaurant he worked, ran out, and rescued her.Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, when he walked back to the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/waiter-fired-for-being-a-good-samaritan/An abandoned baby macaque was taken in by an animal hospital in Goangdong Province, China. But he was lonely until he made friends with a white pigeon. The two are now inseperable. And make a cute photo. Link -via J-Wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/monkey-and-pigeon/A Russian home made lawnmower made from a tricycle. This particular lawnmower still works and sometimes is used by this Russian man on his “dachaâ€, the summer wooden cottage where he spends some of h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/russian-lawnmower/Did you like the Super Coat Hanger? How about a matching laptop? The Superman Learning Laptop is meant as a tool for kids to learn spelling, mathematics, logic, and more. Link (with video demonstration)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/superman-laptop/Peter Feigenbaum reconstructs urban model train layouts with an eye for realism. He includes junkyards, slums, and graffiti! Some scenes are reproductions of actual city railroads; some are ficticious. http://www.vesta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/realistic-model-train-layout/Popular Mechanics has published a list of 25 skills every man should know. They are: 1. Patch a radiator hose 2. Protect your computer 3. Rescue a boater who as capsized 4. Frame a wall 5. Retouch digital photos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/25-skills-every-man-should-know/The water hoses used by firemen work under soem pretty serious pressure! Push play or go to Break.com. -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/lifting-a-car-with-water/Upload a photograph, and this application will generate a color palette, with hexidecimal codes! You can use it to match colors in your home decor, or generate pleasant colors for art projects or websites. These colors...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/color-palette-generator/While this is not the now infamous Hurtubise 'Trojan' suit, it is a remarkable Urethane Plastic prop previously featured on Spike TV, G4 TV, and in a Dell Commercial. The current Ebay bid stands at around $2000 US....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/halo-suit-on-ebay/Marry Our Daughter is an introduction service assisting families to arrange marriages for their daughters. Kyra A, a 14 year-old who hails from the southeast and loves the outdoors, comes with a bride price of USD 27...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/marry-our-daughter/This week's collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange tool: can you guess what it is?Since last week's game was solved in just 10 minutes after posting, we'll have another prize for this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/what-is-it-game-37/Everything's so much weirder in Japan ... their scarecrows are no exception:While frightening the birds away, about 60 scarecrows along a stretch of the Route 280 Bypass in Aomori are attracting the attention of pass...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/japanese-scarecrow/For his artwork, French illustrator Serge Kliaving mashed up cute cartoon characters with superhero and gore comics: http://www.serge-kliaving.info/pagecomixs.html - via who killed bambi?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/serge-kliavings-comics/CIO has a neat write up about the Seven Wonders of the IT World. For example:World's fastest supercomputer:IBM BlueGene/L (BGL)Powered by: 65,536 dual-processor computer nodes.Home...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/13/seven-wonders-of-the-it-world/Here's a hanger fit for a superhero: a "Superman" coat hanger designed by Roman Ficek:Link - Thanks Joe!...
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