Web Urbanist just put up a nice collection of art installations on buildings. They're all great designs, particularly the tentacle piece above: An artist calling himself ‘FilthyLuker’ installed inflatable octopu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/12-fantastic-architectural-art-installations/Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has figured out how to recreate the "Crunchy Frog" confection made famous in the classic Monty Python sketch ("If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?") using Gummi frogs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/crunchy-frog-recipe/The diving bell spider breathes air, but spends its life underwater! To achieve this feat, this spider spins a cocoon that works as an aqualung. The spider traps tiny bubbles of air in the hairs of her legs and brings...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/the-spider-with-an-aqualung/Marvin Heemeyer spent a year and a half modifying a Komatsu D335A bulldozer into an "armored vehicle of vengeance". On June 4th, 2004, he rampaged through the town of Granby, Colorado, smashing vehicles and buildings, in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/the-wrath-of-the-killdozer/These incredibly lifelike paintings were created by John Pugh who calls his artwork "trick of the eye." The Californian-born artist said: 'It seems almost universal that people take delight in being visually tricked...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/intricate-3d-paintings/It was 34 years ago tomorrow that Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. Ever since then, the rumors have been flying about where he might be - he's almost certainly dead, but who did it and what they did with the body is the mystery...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/what-happened-to-jimmy-hoffa/Jake Bronstein of Zoomdoggle (featured previously on Neatorama) set a record for longest whisper chain, passing a message successfully through 59 people. The message was a marriage proposal to his girlfriend! Link (embed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/whisper-chain-marriage-proposal/Cheeming Boey creates small pieces of art by sketching on foam coffee cups! His friends told him they would never sell, but that was before Marion Meyer saw them. “I personally liked them,” says the former pre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/coffee-cup-art/Robots that served in Afghanistan by remotely detonating explosives are now repurposed as "firebots" in London. These machines can safely get much closer to the source of the fire than human firefighters, which is partic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/bomb-detonators-become-robot-firefighters/These drones include both aerial and surface craft intended for clandestine operations: * Sea Stalker, a torpedo-size underwater robot that specializes in snooping on radio signals and other communications. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/us-navy-developing-submarine-launched-drones/(YouTube Link) Last night, Miss Cellania linked to a video of a five-year old boy playing Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" very well. Pop culture blog Urlesque took this idea and ran with it, compiling ten vide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/little-rock-stars/Hasbro could greatly expand its market if it made My Little Ponies like these two based upon the violent video game Gears of War. And it would probably capture the true meaning of what it means to be a My L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/gears-of-war-my-little-pony/Would you like to keep your departed loved ones in an urn on the mantle? How about in an urn that looks like the deceased person's head? Cremation Solutions makes personalized urns using facial reconstruction and 3...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/personalized-urns-for-the-deceased/The safest place is keep your money is to stuff it into your mattress. Or, alternatively, this mattress-shaped piggy bank which received no TARP funds and comes complete with a miniature pillow. Link via Nerd App...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/mattress-money-bank/Capri, carpi, what's the difference? Apparently, about 400 miles. Here's what happened to a couple of Swedish tourists who mistyped the destination in their GPS:Officials say a Swedish couple looking for the pristine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/capri-carpi-whats-the-difference/[YouTube] Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom is a silly yet utterly fascinating collaboration between our pal, animator and T-shirt designer extraordinaire Nathan Mazur of Scared of Bees and Parry Gripp (of the pop punk band Ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/parry-gripps-nom-nom-song-animated-by-nathan-mazur-omg-that-was-awesome/Takin' a break from weighty science research like finding a cure for cancer and whatnot, scientists have now solved the riddle of why we swing our arms when walking:Swinging one's arms comes at a cost. We need muscle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/science-solves-the-riddle-of-why-we-swing-our-arms-while-we-walk/The old ad slogan "Guinness is good for you" may actually be true: a study showed that drinking just over a pint of Guinness at mealtimes may help reduce the blood's ability to form dangerous clots that may lea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/guinness-is-actually-good-for-you/Neatorama Server IssuesLate last night (two nights ago for our readers in the East Coast), our data center and hosting service SoftLayer was hit with a massive distributed denial-of-service attack. The a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/neatorama-update-softlayer-issue-and-mystery-sale/The Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey has a permanent display called "Musical Machines & Living Dolls", featuring over 700 antique automata, including quite a few fancily-dressed mechanical monkeys from France. *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/the-monkey-aristocracy/(YouTube link) Warning: adorableness alert. 5-year-old Wesley performs Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" at the 2009 Spring Coffee Shop Jam in Seattle. Link -via Videogum johnny cash, performance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/folsom-prison-blues/(YouTube Link) Ever played the children's board game Mouse Trap? These Britons decided to build a life-sized version in order to raise money for a hospice: "Over a few pints a group of friends decided it wou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/life-sized-mouse-trap/The fastest submarine in the US Navy can go only 25 to 30 knots. But the Electric Boat Corporation, the primary designer for US Navy submarines, is trying to design one that can reach up to 100 knots. It plans on testi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/a-submarine-that-can-go-100-knots/Some jobs could be done by a trained monkey. So it's all the more impressive that an untrained monkey on a farm in India herds 75 goats out to and back from the fields every day. National Geographic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/untrained-money-herds-goats/Researchers weren't looking for the effects of blue dye on spinal cord injuries, but there it is. What researcher were looking for was any chemical that was similar to the P2X7 receptor that blocks ATP, which causes infl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/blue-food-dye-treats-spine-injury-in-rats/Brian Dereu makes and sells hollow spy coins, bolts, and spikes to safely hide data and other information. The Coins hide microSD cards, the bolts and spike can hold messages and other items.During the Cold War, Spie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/hollow-spy-coins/The Kish Qanat is an amazing feet of human engineering that covers over 10,000 square metres underground. The tunnel complex, built before the Roman Empire, serves as a way to transport water from Iran's mountain region...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/irans-subterrenean-city/The Sahara Desert is growing, consequently reducing food production in the area and therefore inducing poverty. But architect Magnus Larsson has an ambitious and fanciful plan to use bacteria to create a calcite wall on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/holding-back-the-sahara-with-a-bacterial-wall/Sarah Kaufmann carves sculptures out of blocks of cheese. A native of Wisconsin who studied art and worked in the dairy industry, she was born for this work. The picture above is of Kaufmann and her sculpture of Ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/28/the-cheese-sculptures-of-sarah-kaufmann/22-year-old Tyler Bradt plunged over Palouse Falls in eastern Washington and set a world record for a kayak descent. The fall was 186 feet, which he covered in less than four seconds. As rescue teams waited at the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/27/over-the-falls-in-a-kayak/
