In Japan's, oshiyas or "pushers" are employed to squeeze people onto the overcrowded subway and train cars. They also perform the job of a "puller-off," pulling off passengers who try to get on the tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/trivia-japanese-pushers-squeeze-people-into-overcrowded-trains/"Food?" is a Flickr photoset by Zach Kowalczyk where he takes photos of food that has taken the shape of its container!This one to the left is cranberry sauce, which comes in a can (I think this is obvious to U...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/food-that-takes-the-shape-of-its-container/Boing Boing Gadgets is having a pretty interesting competition in collaborations with Seagate: readers are invited to submit art, writing, code, whatever - as long as the size is 1 kilobyte or less!This one to the left i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/art-in-under-1k-contest/We've posted about the attack of Jedi Master Jonba Hehol (known to his friends and family as 36-year-old hairdresser Barney Jones and founder of the Jedi Church in Holyhead, Wales) by a drunken "Darth Vader" be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/attack-of-the-drunken-dart-vader-the-video-clip/Remember the people who throws those cans around with amazing precision? Well, thanks to viral videos, they've apparently managed to parlay their skills into making an ad for Max Havelaar, a non-profit foundation organiz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/thats-one-way-to-shop/"Don't worry about temptation. As you grow older, it starts avoiding you." - Elbert Hubbard, writer and artist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/quote-elbert-hubbard-on-temptation-and-getting-older/Part of Cracked.com's gallery of 30 Video Game Villain Recruitment Posters. Via Hip Today. Previously: How a N.Y. Butcher Became America’s Most Famous Face, i.e., Uncle Sam....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/ninja-recruitment-ad/(YouTube link) Sorry, we don’t know how many times the dog tried to run up the slide because the cameraman lost it. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/persistance/Meet Pierre, a 25-year-old Jackass penguin (because they bray like donkeys) who got too cold to swim because he was going bald. So, the biologists at the California Academy of Sciences made him a penguin wetsuit! Pie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/bald-penguin-got-himself-a-wetsuit/Chris of PyroElectro Microcontrollers has a DIY guide post on how to make your own Personal G-Force Meter:The main application of the accelerometer is either for sensing tilt or sensing acceleration. For thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/diy-personal-g-force-meter/In this Flash comic "Piggy Bank Pinko", Captain Capitalism explains why it's bad - heck, down right communistic - to save money.Kid: Captain Capitalism! Wow! What are you doing here?Captain Capitalism: I th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/captain-capitalism-on-why-saving-is-bad-for-america/This. Is. Just. Wrong.... Behold the Pimp Suit Halloween costume and, of course, the accompanying costume for mom.For more bizarre toys and products for kids, check out the list at Cole's Toys blog: Link - Thanks Joh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/kids-pimp-halloween-costume-and-other-bizarre-toys/Meet 46-year-old Robert Horsley, who tried to burgle a house and foiled by a 95-year-old woman in a wheelchair armed with only a screwdriver:It was 3 a.m. when a 95-year-old Bartlesville woman heard somebody break th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/95-year-old-woman-on-a-wheel-chair-foiled-a-burglary-with-a-screwdriver/I know, I know ... it's a little cubicle joke that may or may not be funny to you, depending on A) if you work in a dilbert-esque corporation, B) how secure your job is, and C) whether you are a Bizarro-lover or Bizarro-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/fired-while-thinking-outside-the-box/A lot of people liked Judd Apatow's latest comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," which billboards peppered many cities in the US with sayings like "YOU SUCK, SARAH MARSHALL" and "MY MOTHER ALWAYS H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/real-sarah-marshalls-mad-over-movie-ads/Photo: hungryghoast [Flickr]Flickr user hungryghoast snapped a photo of Flowing Pixels, a "pixel art" sculpture on the streets of New York University campus, by the Barney Building, in New York City.Link - ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/flowing-pixel-a-pixel-art-sculpture/Larry Langford, the mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, has declared today, Friday April 25th, 2008 as a "day of prayer in sackcloth and ashes" in response to the city's high homicide rates:Birmingham...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/day-of-prayer-in-sackcloth-and-ashes-in-birmingham-alabama/Charlie Bit My Finger, Again is a strangely mesmerizing YouTube clip (viewed over 20 million times!) about two boys having fun. Well, okay, one boy - Charlie - had slightly more fun biting the finger of his older brother...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/charlie-bit-my-finger/One minute he was having fun riding his bike, and the next he's sprawled on the driveway after wiping out ... and all captured by Google Street View:Link - Thanks Ian Andrew Bell (nice meeting you on Web 2.0 conferen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/google-street-view-captures-kid-falling-out-of-his-bike/The Three Twins Ice Cream shop in the Oxbow Public Market in Napa is selling the World's Most Expensive Ice Cream Sundae for $3,333.33 (a banana split made with syrups from three rare dessert wines, served with an ice cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/worlds-most-expensive-ice-cream-sundae/Last weekend, the 6th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational was held in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. The event was the Olympics of grilled cheese making: 140 competing teams, hundreds of cheese-hungry judges (those lucky peo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/grilled-cheese-invitational/Here's an excellent stop-motion video, called "Human Snake" by Get Out and Play. Yes, a viral ad by N-Gage for Nokia, but still neat nonetheless - check out the "making of" in their website: *stro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/human-snake-life-imitates-computer-game/The Spoon Museum has a wonderful entry on "Monkey Spoons," a type of unusual spoon used by the Dutch settler in the New York/Hudson River area to commemorate birth, marriage, and death:The English and some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/monkey-spoon/Remember the Cat Death Camp in China posted previously on Neatorama? Here's something along the same line, for baby seals in Arkhangelsk, Russia: Seal hunting is controversial, and there's a lot of propaganda coming...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/seal-death-camp-in-russia/GPS is a nifty and useful tool - I have a TomTom GPS navigation for Christmas that really helped me get around (I get lost easily). But apparently, there are some really weird GPS tools out there, like this one: the Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/micro-gps-device-to-track-snail-mail/That's Peter of Pooktre Tree Shapers, who specializes in shaping trees as they grow in pre-determined shapes (sort of like a living sculpture!): LinkCheck out more "twisted" trees at Web Urbanist's neat post: 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/pooktree-arbosculpture-and-other-twisted-trees/Woo-hoo! Neatorama is selected as today's cool site by Cool Site of the Day. CSotD has featured a unique site every day since August of 1994, making it the original (and for many, the best) website of its kind.Please vis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/neatorama-is-cool-site-of-the-day/LiveJournal user evendym snapped some really nifty photos of emerald-green auroras in the desolate Siberian outpost. Link [in Russian] - Thanks collin douma!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/siberian-aurora/Ellen of Creatures from El blog makes amazingly intricate fantasy creatures, like this Glacier Dragon above.Link (Don't miss the Mecha Critters) - Thanks Brandi!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/ceramic-fantasy-sculptures-by-creatures-from-el/Stick Figures in Peril is a Flickr pool about photos of real warning signs showing stick figures in dangerous - often life-threatening - and sometimes ... odd situations. Like this "no strutting" sign, by Flick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/stick-figures-in-peril/
