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- Extremely Narrow Buildings in Japan
- Man Found his Double on Facebook
- Extreme Close-Ups of the Human Eye
- Tim Liddy's Board Game Paintings
- Scientists Created Singing Mouse. No, Seriously.
- Dalek Projection Alarm Clock
- The Secret Companies of Zug
- False Hope Syndrome: Why New Year Resolutions Fail
- Why Our Body Temperature is 98.6 °F: The Perfect Balance Between Fighting Fungal Infections and Eating All The Time
- The V-Steam Bath: "Facial" For Her Private Area
- This Week at Neatorama
Extremely Narrow Buildings in Japan Posted: 01 Jan 2011 05:27 PM PST Real estate development in densely-populated Japan can be expensive, so some architects have made good use of very narrow lots. Pictured above is one such project in Nagasaki. You can view several other very narrow buildings at the link. Link via Super Punch | Photo by Flickr user Sergio in Nagasaki used under Creative Commons license |
Man Found his Double on Facebook Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:25 PM PST Graham Comrie of Aberdeen thought someone was impersonating him when he heard of a Facebook account of a Graham Cormie of Ellon, Aberdeenshire. Friends even thought Cormie was using Comrie’s photos, since they looked so much alike! But it was no imitation -just a eerie set of coincidences.
The Grahams are only two years apart in age -and live only ten miles from each other. They checked and found that they are not related, just new friends. Link -via J-Walk Blog |
Extreme Close-Ups of the Human Eye Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:13 PM PST Suren Manvelyan is a photographer and physics teacher. He’s created a series of detailed images of the human eye called “Your Beautiful Eyes”:
Link via Nerdcore | Photo by Suren Manvelyan used under Creative Commons license |
Tim Liddy's Board Game Paintings Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:05 PM PST That’s not a photograph of an old Battleship set, but a painting. St. Louis-based artist Tim Liddy makes strikingly realistic depictions of old board games on life-sized sheets of copper. Jeffrey Hughes writes:
Link via Dude Craft |
Scientists Created Singing Mouse. No, Seriously. Posted: 01 Jan 2011 10:03 AM PST Having cured cancer and other serious ailments, a team of Japanese scientists from the University of Osaka turned to the next most vexing scientific problem facing the world today, the lack of singing mice, and licked that problem too. No seriously. Singing mouse.
Disney, understandably, should be worried:
Now, if you were to breed a Frankenmouse, would you really make a singing mouse? I mean, what’s the military application of that? |
Posted: 01 Jan 2011 10:00 AM PST Can’t get up in the morning? Would the threat of extermination by a Dalek motivate you? Here’s a nifty Dalek Projection Alarm Clock from the NeatoShop, shaped like the Supreme White Dalek that projects digital time and yells out "Exterminate!" to wake you up. No more getting up late for work or school! Now, using a Dalek for time management? That’s an irony that only a Doctor Who fan can appreciate! Link |
Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:59 AM PST Forget New York, London, and Washington, D.C. The greatest concentration of economic power in the world is in teeny tiny little Swiss town of Zug (pop. 115,000). Well, at least on paper anyhow:
Why Zug? The good ol’ Swiss secretive banking and ultra-efficient post office system:
Vivienne Walt of TIME Magazine has the secret companies of Zug: Link |
False Hope Syndrome: Why New Year Resolutions Fail Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:57 AM PST Did you make a New Year’s resolution this year? Many people did, but – here’s the bad news – despite their best effort, most will utterly fail. Why are New Year’s resolutions so hard to keep? You can blame the False Hope Syndrome, the unrealistic expectation of self-change:
For example, take the perenial New Year’s resolution for millions, dieting. Instead of resolving to lose weight this year, perhaps the trick is to keep a food journal instead:
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Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:55 AM PST Ever wonder why our body temperature is 98.6 °F (37 °C)? Scientists at Yeshiva University discovered the answer. Turns out that our normal body temperature is the perfect balance of being warm enough to ward off fungal infection but not so hot that we need to eat all the time to maintain metabolism:
Link (Photo: Shutterstock) |
The V-Steam Bath: "Facial" For Her Private Area Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:41 AM PST Let’s start 2011 with a steaming hot and very weird post. You know, a lot of people know about or even like taking steam baths, but have you heard of vaginal steam baths? Just think of it as a "facial" for her private area (that’s how someone in the article described it – not me):
Didn’t I tell you it was weird? Sari Heifetz of the Los Angeles Times has the story: Link |
Posted: 01 Jan 2011 05:52 AM PST Happy New Year! Let me make a prediction: 2011 is going to be the best year ever! I’m no skilled prognosticator, I just think optimism is a great way to start anything new. But first, let’s look back at what you might have missed during this past week at Neatorama. Jill took a look at the year gone by with 12 Tips From The Stupidest Criminals of 2010. Jill also introduced us to 7 Celebrities Who Made It Big Thanks To Soul Train, with video evidence. Alex brought us a rare weekend feature the day after Christmas, so you might have missed 4 Unusual Treadmills. Don’t miss this chance to read it! Have you seen The Room? Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader asks if it may be The Worst Movie of All Time? From the Annals of Improbable Research, we got Mona Lisa: All Things to Some Researchers. Mental_floss magazine filled us in on The Secret Life of the Banjo. And just to see if you’re reading this at all, here’s a bonus link. In the Name That Weird Invention! contest, winning names came from Madam Atom, who named the boots Ankle Biters, and Carolyn Bahm, who called them Moc Martens. Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop! The What Is It? game came up on Thursday. Just a guess had the right answer pretty quickly: this object is a fire starter. Soak it in kerosene, then place the business end under the logs and light. The funniest answer came from pismonque, who said, "It's a 2-in-1 Ant Annihilator Toy. The ring at one end originally held a magnifier for frying individual ants, while the other end was used to steamroll dozens at a time. Kids loved 'em!" Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop! And if you didn’t work it on Tuesday, you can still try Neato-Puzzle #12. Still looking for something to amuse you on a holiday weekend? Check out original fiction at BitLit, cute kids at NeatoBambino, and awesome artists at the Art Blog. And join us at Twitter and Facebook! |
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