The following is reprinted from Bathroom Readers' Institute's 17th edition Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader book. Haru Urara (Image: Educainc) Here’s the story of a poke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/worlds-losingest-horse/Social Science++ Blog has a very neat analysis of the names of various countries and how democratic they are:Sometimes it seems bad countries come with long names. North Korea is "People's Democratic Republic of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/names-of-nations-and-their-true-democratic-nature/Food makers in Japan came up with a new product that will surely create a buzz in the marketplace: the jibachi senbei, or the digger wasp rice cracker.Wasp hunters from the village, who are mostly in their 80's, catch th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/wasp-cookie/We saw the Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper steampunk (scrap metal?) sculpture before. If you like that, here is the Yoda sculpture. Check out this website for more: http://www.yumimodal.com/starwars.htm - via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/yoda-scrap-metal-sculpture/We had a lot of posts on the subject of tattoos, like the Anatomy Tattoos, the Science Tattoos, the Nerd Tattoos, and even the Star Wars Tattoos. Now, Yuppie Punk Blog has an article featuring the inked fans of TV sitcom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/tv-tattoos/Like riding your bike everywhere but wish that it had more cargo space? Here's a DIY guide at Instructables on how to make your very own shopping cart bicycle!Link - via Say No to Crack...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/shopping-cart-bicycle/The iPod Gramophone is a wooden case for your iPod that also has a built-in speaker handmade from wood.And to show you they mean business, this little contraption also has a built-in pencil sharpener!Link [in Korean] - v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/ipod-wooden-gramophone-case/I hope that this sign warning subway riders not to defecate on the train is a clever photoshop job, lest I fear that the world is really beyond all hope! Found at One Large Prawn....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/strange-subway-sign/See also here and here.Theo Jansen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/amazing-theo-jansen-kinetic-sculpture/Here's a video of the robotic fish, previously posted by Alex, in action. It's amazing how realistic it looks....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/robotic-fish-2/This commercial from the Netherlands had me in stitches. Apparently it's for an insurance company. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/ouch/Or, perhaps more accurately, not MY mom's Tetris. Back in the old days (the late 1980s), my mom loved Tetris so much that the old amber monitor on her IBM PC-XT actually had the Tetris screen burned into it (along w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/not-your-moms-tetris/From the Homemaker's Encyclopedia 1954, lovingly compiled by RetroLife, comes this picture of a prototypical husband of the 50's (notice the ever-present pipe) doing the dishes!http://retrolife.typepad.com/my_weblog/pear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/photographic-proof-husbands-of-the-50s-did-do-the-dishes/Danica McKellar ("Winnie Cooper" from the 80s hit TV series The Wonder Years) is living proof that brain and beauty can go hand in hand: she has written a textbook to encourage middle school girls to l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/brain-and-beauty-smart-celebrities/Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck created a series of amazing 3D bas-reliefs done with cardboard, called "Silent Interior":Silent Interior consists of six bas-reliefs done in cardboard and wood, each providin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/hans-op-de-beecks-bas-relief-artwork-silent-interior/Spotted over at the Nickelodeon Magazine, here are some cartoon interpretations of what is probably the world's most recognizable art: Mona Lisa by da Vinci.This one to the left is the Popeye Mona Lisa, drawn by Johnny R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/mona-lisa-redrawn-by-cartoonists/What do you do with old, burnt light bulbs? Throw 'em away? Recycle 'em? How about "creacycle" yourself a new light fixture with a kit from Bulbs Unlimited.The kit includes a device called the "Inkubator&q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/diy-stylish-lamp-from-burnt-bulbs/Dr. Thomas Südhof (left) and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have bred a mouse model for autism, nicknamed the "Rain Man" mouse: Mice containing a mutated human gene...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/scientists-bred-the-rain-man-mouse-to-study-autism/Photoshop smhotoshop! Artist Ophelia Chong makes art the honest-to-goodness way: with some paper, blades and a cup of tea! This one above is called Caterina Cries, inspired by Sposalizio Di Si Caterina by Bernardino Luin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/ophelia-chongs-collage-artwork/A classic clip of the best-named racehorse in history. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/hoof-hearted/The island on the left is in Canada, the one on the right is in the USA. http://deputy-dog.com/2007/09/09/the-worlds-shortest-international-bridge/ - via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/worlds-shortest-international-bridge/A video from the Hello Kitty Wedding that was featured at Neatorama earlier this year. Link [YouTube] - via Fanboy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/hello-kitty-wedding-video/Cool looking graffiti lamps from the California based furniture store Weego Home. http://www.weegohome.com/accessories_lighting5.htm - via BB-Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/graffiti-lamps/An updated version of the Blogosphere and Internet trends "subway" map. Link - via soaphia.com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/web-trend-map-2007-version-20/Found at Engrish, who has a huge collection of humorous English mistakes in (mostly) Japanese and Chinese designs and products....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/barf-detergent/Boring office meeting? Well, with this B-52 Ejection Office Chair, you can just pull the lever and abort!The chair is made by Donovan Fell III of MotoArt, who specializes in taking old airplane parts from the junk yard a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/b-52-ejection-office-chair/Image: Nick Woolsey spinning, photo by Alex Grunenfelder (Flickr)Remember how fun it was twirling things when you were a kid? These people never outgrew that - in fact, they combined their love of twirling with fire to c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/fire-dancing/Travis Millard (aka Fudge) of Fudge Factory doodles like he's on steroids! Check out his artwork here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/fudge-factory-travis-millards-artwork/Robotics and automation company Festo took a page from Mother Nature's design book and designed an air-powered robotic arm modeled on a human one. The result? Airic's arm with "Fluidic Muscle," a combination of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/09/festo-airics-robotic-arm/
