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| Posted: 11 Mar 2012 05:51 AM PDT Songwriter SrslySirius remixed Gene Wilder’s lines from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory into a seriously catchy song. -via Buzzfeed  |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2012 04:26 AM PDT Red people, each constructed of thirteen blocks, are showing up all over Moscow. They pose in all dorts of places doing all sorts of things. The art project is from the collective known as Pprofessors. The figures around Moscow are so popular, they’ve become a Russian internet meme and comic book characters! See more pictures of them at WebUrbanist. Link |
| Audri’s Rube Goldberg Monster Trap Posted: 10 Mar 2012 04:43 PM PST Seven-year-old Audri built a monster trap in the Rube Goldberg style. Although it’s not his first such machine, he had to have learned a lot doing this, besides having fun. What really impressed me was his realistically modest expectations and his complete joy when the contraption worked. -via Boing Boing |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2012 03:07 PM PST |
| Double Barreled Handgun Is Both Awesome and Ridiculous Posted: 10 Mar 2012 02:56 PM PST Take this double .45-caliber handgun to the range to attract great scorn and admiration simultaneously. To commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of John Moses Browning’s model 1911, Italian gunmaker Arsenal Firearms produced a functional movie prop. Watch a video of it at the link. Link | Photo: Arsenal Firearms |
| The Spinning Beach Ball of Death Posted: 10 Mar 2012 02:09 PM PST Entrepreneur Colin Robertson is at TED 2012 trying to give a talk about crowd sourcing solar energy, when he is interrupted by loading error messages that turn out to be from the group Improv Everywhere. Waiting for something to load should always be this fun! Oh yes, Robertson is also an IE agent. Link -via The Daily What |
| How Big Is a Neutron Star Compared to New York City? Posted: 10 Mar 2012 08:12 AM PST |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2012 07:30 AM PST Browsing through the Library of Congress’ photostream on Flickr, looking for something else, I came across this fascinating cat picture from 100 years ago. Mrs. A.McAllister poses with her beloved cat in a photograph by George Grantham Bain dated somewhere between 1910 and 1915. Alcyone is the name of the Smoke Persian cat in the picture. He was a prize show cat, but also the loyal companion to John McAllister as he was confined to his deathbed in 1912, according to a newspaper article saved in pdf form provided by commenter artolog.
You can read the rest of the story by downloading the clipping from the Flickr comment. Link (Image credit: Flickr user The Library of Congress) |
| Water Drops Orbiting a Knitting Needle Posted: 10 Mar 2012 07:04 AM PST |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2012 06:00 AM PST
Today is Chuck Norris’ birthday, so Jill asked if we are Ready for Some Real Chuck Norris Facts? Eddie Deezen wrote about classic TV in the article Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners. The Annals of Improbable Research brought us research that speculated that Brain Damage May Be an Advantage for Gamblers. Behind the Magic 8-Ball told the story behind the toy, courtesy of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. Mental_floss magazine gave us 7 Entourages That Changed the World. In the What Is It? game this week, the mystery device is a billiard cue trimmer and tip fastener. The first one to know the answer was Doug D, but unfortunately he did not select a shirt. The funniest answer came from The Professor, who called it a Genie Shovebackinner, you know, for getting the genie back into the bottle. That's worth a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! You can find out the answers to all the mystery items of the week at the What Is It? blog. Thanks to everyone who played, and we'll do it again soon! The most commented-on post of the week posed the question Is a ShopVac Mouse Trap Ethical? Coming in second was The Opportunity Cost of a Free Concert Ticket. Both ethics and economics are complicated subjects, but Neatoramanauts are not afraid to tackle them! You are also invited to check out past articles on all kinds of subjects at The Best of Neatorama. Join in the discussions at our Facebook page. And be sure to follow Neatorama on Twitter! Oh yeah, St. Patricks Day comes up next weekend. Check out the NeatoShop for a great selection of St. Patricks Day t-shirts, accessories, and other fun stuff for the holiday! |
A neutron star is the compact, collapsed remnant of a star after a supernova. By stellar standards, they’re tiny. As you can see from this image provided by NASA, a neutron star can be as small as ten to fifteen miles across.
Spring forward! It seems to happen earlier and earlier every year -or is that just me? Daylight Saving Time begins tomorrow in most of the United States, so set your clocks forward one hour before you retire for the night (or at 2AM if you are up). We’ll have daylight much later in the evening from now through the summer, but the kids will have to wait for the school bus in the dark -at least for a while. Sure, we lose an hour, but we’ll get it back in the autumn. Some overnight hourly workers whose employers aren’t paying attention may get paid for an hour of no work, but they’ll have to work an extra one in the fall to make up for it. If you have the weekend off, you might want to start going to bed earlier to get used to the time change. But you’ll still have time to catch up on the good stuff you may have missed this week at Neatorama.| You are subscribed to email updates from Neatorama To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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