Rapleaf, a company that specializes in analyzing trends in social media, has an interesting study on the popularity of four artists, namely The Beatles, Elvis, Madonna, and Michael Jackson, across major social networks....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/popularity-of-famous-musicians-in-social-media/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7deClndzQw][YouTube - Link]This awesome tank is found at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. The main tank called the 'Kuroshio Sea' holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/kuroshio-sea-the-second-largest-aquarium-tank-in-the-world/There are forty weapons from forty cult films in this poster. Can you identify what movie each one came from? If so, you can win a contest. But save yourself from eye strain and view a larger version at the link....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/weapons-from-cult-movies/The 1,323-pound Greenbird windcraft broke a land-speed record: The wind may be restless, but the fastest air-powered ground vehicle is surprisingly steady as it sails over the dusty ground. Called Greenbird, i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/a-new-land-speed-record-for-wind-powered-vehicles/The largest book in the world is a photo collection entitled Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom. It measures five feet wide by seven feet long, weighs 133 pounds, and is 122 pages long. It was wri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/the-largest-book-in-the-world/Robotic Technology is developing a robot called EATR, which stands for Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot. It's more than just an acronym. The machine will be able to go on long range and long distance missions and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/energetically-autonomous-tactical-robot/40 years ago today, Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Canaveral. The Big Picture celebrates with a collection of large images of the mission. This photograph was taken by astronaut Michael Collins as the Eagle approached...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/apollo-11-in-pictures/Scientists have announced the discovery of a giant dinosaur in Utah. The fossil skeleton belonged to Nothronychus graffami, which stood 13 feet tall and had claws nine inches long! Its skeleton, described...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/giant-clawed-dinosaur-found/This week's collaboration with the What is it? Blog brings us this strange tool above - can you guess what it is for? Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you're playing for fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/what-is-it-game-105/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Hand vs. Liquid Nitrogen and the Leidenfrost Effect "I stick my hand (momentarily) directly into liquid nitrogen but don't suffer any injuries...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/videosift-clips-of-the-week-32/You know all about student pranks – greased pigs in the cafeteria, cows being led upstairs, all of that juvenile stuff. Maybe you’ve even heard about the more complicated college stunts – when M.I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/seven-college-pranks/Why do dogs bark so much? Evolutionary biologist Kathryn Lord thinks the answer has got something to do with trash dumps and scaring away intruders:“What we’re saying is that the domestic dog does not hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/why-dogs-bark-so-much/Auroras or the Northern Lights are in my bucket list - I know that they are caused by the collision of solar wind with the Earth's magnetic field but I can't help to feel that these phenomenons are but a small display of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/aurora-photography-by-dennis-c-anderson/Exactly like its name advertises, Badass of the Week is a website dedicated to spotlighting badasses and their associated badasseries. I'm particularly fond of this entry for Blenda (and the Women of Smaland). The Ki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/it-doesnt-get-any-more-badass-than-this-blenda-the-viking-heroine/You may say that modern art is silly, but some may prove to be downright dangerous in this post 9/11 world. Take the Bunny Project, an performance art by Conny Blom where he goes around town putting together a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/carrot-bomb-worlds-most-dangerous-art/Think that websites and blogs are so laden with ads? Well, the virtual page is nothing compared to the physical space when it comes to ads - take Times Square, for instance. Back in 2007, David Friedman of Ironic Sans bl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/all-the-ads-in-times-square-new-york-city/The next time you ride a train, spill some paperclips on the floor and see if they do the "magnetic dance". According to Pink Tentacle:The video — shot on the Rokko Liner in Kobe, Japan — shows...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/magnetic-dance-of-paperclips-on-trains/What do you do with all those drink holders you've accumulated from Starbucks? (You didn't throw 'em away, did you?) Well, Wired contributing photographer Dan Winters make something out of his: a Star Wars TIE F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/star-wars-tie-fighter-from-starbucks-cups-and-accessories/At a wedding in Suvereto, Italy, the plan was to have the bride's bouquet thrown from an microlight plane flying over the wedding party. A line of women were waiting for the bouquet below. Then things got weird. ......
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/brides-bouquet-brings-down-plane/The object of this physics game is to remove all the red blocks without removing any of the green blocks. There are 45 levels. Some seem impossible, but there must be some way to pass them all. If I d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/red-remover/Etsy has become one of my favorite sites - not for shopping necessarily - but for surfing and checking out all of the weird and wonderful things people are creating. The item shown is called a Jackalope Feltidermy. See m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/incredibly-weird-products-found-on-etsy/In 1983, future Pixar boss John Lasseter was a young animator working for Disney when he co-directed a test clip featuring a traditionally animated Max (the lead character from Maurice Sendak's classic children's book *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/disneys-1983-cgi-test-for-where-the-wild-things-are/Neatorama's Mystery Sale - $9.95Hello Neatoramanauts! Today's the day of our Mystery Sale. What wonderful items will you get for $9.95? Well, we wont' tell you: that's the whole point of the Mystery Sale...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/neatorama-mystery-sale-july-2009/[YouTube Link - via Kinda Unique] Cuteness: this family of ducks is trying to climb an escalator ... the wrong way up!ducks, escalator...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/duck-family-climbing-an-escalator/When police officers in Shandong, China stopped a motorcycle for being overloaded, they found a surprise: the rider has no arms! Liu, 27, lost both arms at the age of seven after an electric shock. When he was 10, hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/armless-motorcycle-rider/You may have seen the photos of Star Wars chipmunk floating on the Web - it turns out that the guy who made them is Canadian graphic designer Chris McVeigh.Nick Prueher of Asylum blog has the interview with Chris about h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/interview-with-the-star-wars-and-chipmunk-guy/We've featured the international cult-hit, Seth Grahame-Smith's (and of course, also Jane Austen's) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Quirk Books (previously on Neatorama here). And just as you think that things can't g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/sense-and-sensibility-and-sea-monster/Alida Rosie Sayer combined typography and papercraft to create her wonderful artwork. This one above, a series titled Slaughterhouse Five: Type and Form, is Alida's way to visualize the cult novel by Kurt Vonnegut, by ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/slaughter-house-five-type-and-form-by-alida-rosie-sayer/A meal at Wolfgang Puck restaurant can be pricey, but $23 quadrillion? That's what Jon Seale got charged on his Visa. And to make matters worse, he got charged an overdraft fee!In New Hampshire, Josh Muszynski said h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/23-quadrillion-restaurant-bill/db Burger Double Truffle Photo: db Bistro ModerneSome chefs have probably never heard the phrase "too much of a good thing" as they create some of the world's most stuffed food. WomansDay takes a look at 9 stuf...
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