Neatorama reader David Nakamura saw our post of the pop culture Mona Leia painting and sent us a photo of this drawing made by his art school friend: a rendering of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring with Lisa Simpson!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-drawn-with-lisa-simpsons/Smashing Magazine, the uber-web design blog on the blogosphere, did a really nice study of the 50 most popular blogs (as ranked by Technorati) in terms of their design, information architecture, functionality, and so on....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/neatorama-oh-my-god-its-full-of-tables/When Advertising Age employee Matt Kinsey went shopping in New York, he ran across this curiously labeled "rock 'n' roll" assorted cheese: it has Van Halen's "Aint Talkin' 'Bout Love" on the label!Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/rock-n-roll-cheese-has-van-halens-lyrics-on-label/Neatorama reader Bruno and friends went camping at Lake Rabun, Georgia, and ran across this charming little country souvenir store/grocery called "Goats on the Roof." As you can guess, the store got its name fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/goats-on-the-roof/When their owners handed over two fox terriers named Bert and Ernie because they could no longer care for them, the SPCA was astonished to see the fat dogs: Bert (pictured above) weighed 32 kg (71 lb) and Ernie weighed 4...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/really-really-fat-dogs/Hot dogs aren't health food - in fact, most of them will slowly kill you with their high levels of fat and other yummy yet deadly ingredients. But some dogs will kill you faster than others.Al Dente blog has a run down o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/breakfast-hot-dog-wrapped-in-bacon-goodness/Now that is a large cup of coffee! Vinacafe Bien Hoa, Vietnam's largest coffee producer, has just been awarded a new Guinness World Record for the largest coffee cup:The stainless steel structure was constru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/worlds-largest-cup-of-coffee-952-gallons-of-java/Yup, that CD on top spins!Neatorama reader Ashley Holt made this giant turntable cake for a farewell party for her friend Preston Craig, DJ and founder of the Decatur Social Club (A great accomplishment, considering that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/dj-turntable-cake-by-ashley-holt/Photo: Ian NicholsA team of National Geographic photographers went to the Bioko Island in Equitorial Guinea for two weeks to record the island's diverse (and threatened) wildlife. Along the way, they encountered this fri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/how-do-you-do/The New York Times has a very interesting article by Mattathias Schwartz about Internet trolls: what they've done and what made 'em tick:“Lulz” is how trolls keep score. A corruption of “LOL”...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/inside-the-minds-of-internet-trolls/(YouTube link) Edgar Allen Poe animated by Jim Clark. See other poets at his poetryanimations YouTube channel. Link -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/the-raven/Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts recreated Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in cross-stitch! Ten years of labor are now committed to a 40x80 cloth containing over 600,000 stitches. The results, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/michelangelo-in-cross-stitch/The new cartoon short from Pixar is about a hungry bunny and the revenge he takes on a stingy magician. Presto can be seen in high definition at Gamaniak. Link -via Andy's Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/presto/Debbie Herot arrived at the veterinary clinic she managed last week to find a dog and a note on the doorstep. "Dear Drs., please forgive me for this horrible transgression. I have no where else to turn so I ask you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/kaiser/Writers agree that pens are mightier than swords. And apparently, tyrants and despots agree that jails are mightier than pens. The following are a few of the writers, poets, and playwrights who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/despots-to-dangerous-authors-jail-is-mightier-than-the-pen/It's Friday and so it's time for our weekly Bizarro feature - for those who are going to college soon, congrats! (And to their parents, our sympathies). And yes, it should've been Roma, but why be picky?For more Bizarro,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/01/bizarro-roman-chariot-bumper-sticker/
