Britain’s first playground for people over age 60 has opened in Manchester. The specially-designed equipment provides not only fun, but movement and exercise to benefit the elderly. Residents' association chairm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/a-playground-for-grandma/The Panopticons are a set of four futuristic sculptures set in the rural settings of Blackburn, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale districts of East Lancashire, England. The powers-that-be commissioned the sculptures as gate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/the-panopticons/"My Fat Cat" photo by Annie Imboden [The Everyman]Every year since 2001, The Everyman holds an amateur photography contest with the belief that anyone who's ever taken a picture in their life has taken at least...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/my-fat-cat-photo-by-annie-imboden/We've featured one of Jennifer Zwick's photographs before (The Reader), but this one is too good to pass: The Explorers (2005), which celebrates the innate curiosity of every child to explore the world around, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/the-explorers-photo-by-jennifer-zwick/Photo: Radek Leski, StudiozupaDaryl van Wouw's Converse Extension 1 leaves me in a conundrum: are they shoes that are pants or are they pants that are also shoes? Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/shoe-pants-or-pants-shoes/Photo: Peter Parks / Nikon Small World 2007 CompetitionWe don't know how many angels can dance on a pinhead, but thanks to this fantastic photomicrograph by Peter Parks, we know that a drop of water the size of a pinhead...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/zooplankton-in-a-drop-of-water/The secret to a good cheeseburger is its freshness. Hot off the grill, with crisp vegetables if you like. Not the kind of food you’d think to put in a can. The graphics on this German site make it clear this product...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/cheeseburger-in-a-can/Montage-a-google is an online application that builds a montage of images from Google Search. Type in your search term, and the grid is generated automatically. The montage here was generated by the term “Neatoramaâ€...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/montage-a-google/helicoptere personnelUploaded by OXY67 This is probably the world's smallest personal helicopters. Unfortunately I don't have any information on the designers of these flying toys but it sure wou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/worlds-smallest-helicopters/Hurry! Today is the last day to enter in the Tokyoflash watch contest.The good folks at Tokyoflash are giving away watches to 4 lucky Neatorama readers. Winners will be announced tomorrow.For more details, check out Neat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/last-day-to-enter-the-tokyoflash-watch-contest/Conspiracy theorists rejoice! There's a new "automotive Bermuda Triangle," a five-block radius around the Empire State Building, where cars mysteriously die:No one is sure what’s causing it, but all r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/the-automotive-bermuda-triangle-is-the-empire-state-building-zapping-cars/Photo: Eisbeertje [Flickr]Flickr user Eisbeertje has a neat collection of photos from the Dutch Ice Sculpture Festival 2006/2007 in Madurodam and 2007/2008 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.This one above, titled Gouden Koet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/golden-carriage-ice-sculpture/A little known fact about me: I can't grow a moustache let alone a beard to save my life (curse these Asian genes!) So LOLstache, a Flickr pool where you can upload your own typographical moustache and beard, is as clos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/lolstache/Mel Kadel, whom we have featured before a while ago on Neatorama, has a few more new drawings. I particularly like this one, titled "Carrying the Load," as that's exactly how I feel some days...Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/carrying-the-load-by-mel-kadel/In the late '90s, two record producers had a bet on who could get the worst song possible into the charts. The result: Vanilla, a girl band from Barnet, London whose single "No Way No Way" peaked at number 14 i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/music-producers-bet-worst-song-placed-on-singles-chart/Now THIS is an awesome hot air balloon: the 156-ft tall Flying Scotsman. The balloon is skippered by one Muir Moffat, a retired logistics company employee (and 100% Scottish!).The Daily Mail's Robert Hardman recounts his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/the-flying-scotsman-hot-air-balloon/If you're squeamish, you may want to skip this one: In Peru, Extracto de rana or frog juice is a popular drink touted to cure asthma, bronchitis and .... impotence!You go to the market stall and you pick you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/new-cure-for-impotence-frog-juice/Nothing could stop Mass in a small church in Trento, Italy, not even death: Pio Lieta, 86, suffered a fatal heart attack during an early-morning service at the Church of the White Madonna last Sunday.An ambu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/death-in-church-couldnt-stop-mass/That little Martian humanoid we posted about before wasn't the only thing that was strange about the Red Planet. Turns out, it also has circular "crop circles" (yes, I know, there are no crops on Mars, but you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/martian-crop-circle-left-by-dust-devils/
