If you like stacking up sugar cubes, then you'll probably dig this: the cinder block-shaped sugarblocks by Audrey Hasen Russell and John Truex of Spiceship studio.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/18/sugar-cubes-shaped-like-cinder-blocks/How's this for a t-shirt to wear while getting your mug shot taken? This guy was caught at a motel in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky during a drug raid. In June, officers received a tip about drug activity at the USA Motel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/the-t-shirt-gave-him-away/The ever enjoyable Dark Roasted Blend blog had recently put up this video which I fell in love with. Called "Work It Out" by artist RJD2 and directed by Joey Garfield the video is an interesting take on Live Urban P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/work-it-out/(Funny or Die link) The folks who brought you the Literal Take On Me followed that up with Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears. Smooth! -via beta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/head-over-heels-the-literal-version/Air Art from flip on Vimeo. Reminiscent of Festo's Air Ray the Fin-Fish R/C blimp floats like a big fancy silver fish market advertisement in the air. With the fins remotely controlled the Fin-Fish can gracefully...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/floating-fish-blimp/Wow! We had a great turnout for this month's Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt game. The answers are: negative, yonder, and rogue (wasn't that easy?) and here's the answer page.One lucky commenter was picked at random (using the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-5-winner/What do you get when you mix typographic creativity, social awareness, and a little bit of vandalism? Here's Tag a Dummer, a website where you can upload photos of "tagged" Hummers in protest of the gas-guzzlin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/tag-a-dummer/Our pal Muhammad Saleem (and web 2.0/social media maven) has just launched a new website called Tip'd. The digg-like website focuses on financial news, which is a timely topic in today's struggling economy.If you follow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/tipd-community-for-financial-news/I'm having a crappy day today - Neatorama's servers crashed (again) - but this little video clip cheered me up a little: a chimp doing sit ups ... and a dog helping it! From the wacky entertainment that is Japanese TV (w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/chimp-working-out-with-dog/Neatorama reader Sonia Zjawinski wrote to us about her blog, i heart tripods, which is dedicated to her dog Lulu who had a limb amputated because of bone cancer.Her blog (with the catchy motto "four legs is just gre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/i-heart-tripod-the-blog-for-dogs-with-amputated-limb/Korean artist U-Ram Choe who specialized in making wonderful, mechanical sculptures that look like futuristic biological organisms. Choe likes to incorporate scientific nomenclature into his artwork, and the art display...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/u-ram-choes-futuristic-bio-mechanical-sculptures/Even if you are a cat lover, you'll laugh when you see how well this works. You might feel guilty afterward, but you'll laugh. Have a cat that won't stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/blender-defender/This little robot plant stand moves around to find where the sun shines for the plant it holds! Link -Thanks, dave austin!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/sun-seeking-plantbot/Are you in college? Do you have a blog? College Scholarships.org is gearing up for third annual Blogging Scholarship giveaway. One blogger will win a $10,000 scholarship. You must enter by writing an essay and get it in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/17/the-blogging-scholarship/Long before Prince Charles proved that love is blind by cheating on his beautiful wife with Camilla Parker-Bowles, blue bloods had already proudly renounced monogamy. Over the centuries,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/a-pain-in-the-royal-horse-5-sex-rumors-about-royalty/Yay! It's time for our collaboration with What is it? Blog - can you guess what this strange contraption is for?Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you're playing for bragging...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/what-is-it-game-78-2/Back by popular demand, I give you the stories behind some of your favorite horror classics - Part Two!The OmenI'm watching The Omen as I type this - how great is Gregory Peck? And he almost wasn't cast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/the-stories-behind-three-more-horror-classics/Philantrophist Eli Broad had an idea on how to improve school children's test scores: bribe 'em with money!Here's a controversial pilot educational program called Spark, where children are rewarded with cold hard cash if...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/bribing-kids-to-study-actually-works/Who's responsible for the current credit crunch? According to Peter Hayes of the University of Sunderland, it's the pirates!Dr Hayes says: “Pirates elected their captain, voted on major decisions and distribute...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/whos-to-blame-for-the-credit-crunch-pirates/A 19-year-old teen formerly known as Jennifer Thornburg has legally changed her name to Cutout Dissection.com to protest animal dissection assignments in school:Cutout, now a vegan, said that after she finished the a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/teen-changed-her-name-to-cutout-dissectioncom/Brian Hubbard, a 72-year-old man from Herefordshire, England, got into trouble with his city's council because ... his garden is too tidy!A dedicated gardener has been banned from trimming the grass outside his house...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/city-council-reprimands-man-for-being-too-tidy-a-gardener/Maryland sex offenders got something in the mail this week: a scarlet letter in the form of a bright orange pumpkin:That is the symbol on a sign they are required to post on their doors with a warning, in capital let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/the-scarlet-pumpkin-sex-offenders-forced-to-post-warning-for-halloween/Photo: SWNSA £3000 "graffiti wall" installed in Cornwall, England, so youths could practice their graffiti art without vandalizing the neighborhood, got its first graffiti: a disgruntled taxpayer who snea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/graffiti-wall-vandalized-by-disgruntled-taxpayer/A promising study has shown that electromagnetic stimulation of the brain could "wake up" a person from coma:JOSH VILLA was 26 and driving home after a drink with a friend on 28 August 2005 when his car mou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/magnetic-field-wakes-man-up-from-coma/Here's an interactive point and click photo of Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office. Click on various items and be sure you turn your speakers on for the audio. Link Note: This not intended to take sides. There...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/palin-as-president/Ew, what's that on your floor? Do you know the feeling that you do not want to take a look at something, but you still do? The Road Kill carpet is a continues struggle between attraction and repulsion. It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/roadkill-carpet/(YouTube link) Ben Stiller mugs it up in a Japanese drink ad. It's just one of a slew of videos in The Top U.S. Celebrities as seen in Japanese Commercials. Also see Madonna, Harrison Ford, Britney Spears, Anthony Hop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/us-celebrities-in-japanese-ads/Imagine staying in a castle built several hundred years ago. If these walls could talk! But some are rumored to do just that ...or have ghosts of former residents walking the halls. This post details ten such locations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/haunted-castles-of-europe/Socyberty has a nice collection of vintage Halloween postcards from bygone days. Link -via the Presurfer (image credit: riptheskull)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/vintage-halloween-postcards/Have you ever wanted to live in a round home? There are plenty of ways to do it! Now, designers have planned dome homes, tents, personal mini-domes and fantastical structures that serve as beautiful homes, that sav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/25-incredible-personal-biodomes/
