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- Photographs of the Titanic
- Cat Burglar
- A Hole in the Sky
- Frito Pie, As Served in the Dime Store That Invented It
- Titanic in Super 3D
- Minimalist Disney Movie Posters
- Game of Thrones Family Cosplay
- Birds Attack Paper Airplane Dropped out of Skyscraper
- Iron Man Be The Hero Apron
- Game of Thrones Peeps
- Bob Ross Dyes a Happy Little Easter Egg
- Humans Made Fire Earlier than We Thought
- How the Titanic Sank
- Urban Geodes
- Alien: The Easter Edition
- Puppy Easter
- Zombie Bunnies
- Dozens of Marble Machines
- Time Watch
- Talk Nerdy To Me Tweety Pint Glass
- Fumblerules of Grammar
- This Week at Neatorama
- The Official Winners of the Pi Day Contest
| Posted: 08 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT Here is the last known photograph of the RMS Titanic, on the morning of April 11th, 1912. It was taken by photographer and later priest Francis Browne, who traveled only from Southampton to Cork on the ship. Passengers had to be ferried away from the enormous boat, as the dock had no accommodations for a ship that size. That fact gave Browne a chance to get the entire ship in a frame just before it started across the Atlantic. Browne took many other pictures of his one-day stay aboard the Titanic. See eleven of them at Buzzfeed. Link  |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2012 04:12 AM PDT Oscar developed a method for getting frozen fish out of the freezer. Next, we’ll see a video of Oscar using the microwave to thaw it out. The family that took this video installed a lock after they discovered and recorded Oscar’s particular talent. -via Arbroath |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 07:57 PM PDT There’s a crack in the universe, and it’s growing. Oh, there’s no evidence that Japanese photographer Yochai Matos was thinking of Doctor Who when he made this image, but that’s what it reminded me of. How did Matos do it? With a carefully arrangement of florescent bulbs. You can find daylight pictures of his installation at the link. Link | Photo: Lovis Ostenrik |
| Frito Pie, As Served in the Dime Store That Invented It Posted: 07 Apr 2012 07:45 PM PDT Frito pie, a delicacy of the American Southwest, consists of Frito chips, chili, cheese, beans and onions. Its origins are a mystery, but one legend places its birth at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Woolworth’s isn’t around anymore, but a dime store still resides at that location. It serves Frito pie at a snack bar in the back, with the ingredients poured into a slit open Frito bag. Look at that picture. You’re already getting hungry, aren’t you? Link -via Tasteologie | Photo: Boulder Locavore Previously: The Origin of Fritos |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 06:20 PM PDT Titanic just keeps getting improved! Now with more effects, more directors, more monsters, and more explosions! -via reddit |
| Minimalist Disney Movie Posters Posted: 07 Apr 2012 04:33 PM PDT Liverpool artist Rowan Stocks-Moore created a series of beautiful posters of classic Disney movies, most with some kind of optical illusion included. See ten of them at TQS magazine. Link -via Metafilter |
| Game of Thrones Family Cosplay Posted: 07 Apr 2012 03:43 PM PDT For last Halloween, Cindy McLean’s family dressed as Game of Thrones characters. McLean is Daenerys Targaryen, her husband is Drogo, and her kids are Daenerys’s dragons. But one of McLean’s sons had a different interpretation:
Link -via The Mary Sue |
| Birds Attack Paper Airplane Dropped out of Skyscraper Posted: 07 Apr 2012 03:43 PM PDT (Video Link) YouTube user SuperSipowicz dropped a paper airplane out of an eighteen story building. It drifts gently down to the ground until about one minute into the video. That’s when it violates the airspace claimed by a pair of birds. They scramble for action. -via Geekosystem |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 03:38 PM PDT Iron Man Be The Hero Apron – $20.95 Do you want to be a real hero at home? Put aside your playboy ways and strut your culinary stuff with the Iron Be The Hero Apron from the NeatoShop. This great full-length, adult-sized apron makes you look like you are wearing an Iron Man costume. Now go out there and be an inventor, nay adventurer, in the kitchen. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Aprons! |
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| Bob Ross Dyes a Happy Little Easter Egg Posted: 07 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT A botched dye job takes painter Bob Ross on a surreal Easter adventure! Or does it? -Thanks, Woodcreek Faction! |
| Humans Made Fire Earlier than We Thought Posted: 07 Apr 2012 01:00 PM PDT
The age of hominid fire is important, because fire is a crucial ingredient of the theory that humans developed bigger brains due to eating cooked food (previously at Neatorama). Read more on this discovery at Smithsonian’s Hominid Hunting blog. Link (Image credit: Wikimedia user 4028mdk09) |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 12:00 PM PDT James Cameron works with NatGeo to recreate the movements of the Titanic as she sank in real life, in this clip from Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron, which will air Sunday night on the National Geographic Channel. It may not be as exciting as his movie version, but accuracy has its place. So Cameron has managed to promote his film in theaters and a TV show in one fell swoop. |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Artist Paige Smith at A Common Name has a street art project in which she installs faux crystals made of paper inside nooks and crannies to make them resemble geodes. You can see them around Los Angeles; there’s a map at the project site to help you find them. Link -via Laughing Squid |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 10:20 AM PDT This Easter-themed parody of the 1979 film Alien may make you think twice about digging into those chocolate eggs! Or maybe not… -Thanks, Vincenzo! |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 10:04 AM PDT Puppies wearing bunny ears on their collars romp with bunnies, chicks, and ducklings among colorful Easter baskets. This is so sweet that you won’t need any chocolate eggs or Peeps anymore. video by Devin Graham; original music by Stephen Anderson. -via The Daily What |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT Miss Demeanor at Criminal Crafts was going to buy some zombie chocolate Easter bunnies, but the vendor was sold out. So she made her own! If you want to try this, stock up on chocolate bunnies while they are available, and read the tutorial for step-by-step instructions (and more pictures). Link -via Boing Boing (Image credit: Flickr user Miss Demeanor) |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 08:33 AM PDT (Video Link) The video tantalizingly beings with a pan across the table, revealing one marble machine after another. YouTube user denha makes them, in vast quantities and astounding quality. The most amazing scene is at 4:35. It shows one machine hurling steel marbles into a bucket with perfect accuracy. -via reddit |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 08:03 AM PDT What if you wanted to time-travel just a little bit, just enough so that you can catch that bus? It helps if you are wearing a time machine on your wrist. This video stars Dave Packer of Sheep Films (previously at Neatorama) as Max X, a character in a continuing YouTube series. Link -Thanks, Ant! |
| Talk Nerdy To Me Tweety Pint Glass Posted: 07 Apr 2012 07:15 AM PDT Talk Nerdy To Me Tweety Pint Glass - $7.95 You are as rare and valuable as Tweety bird. You need a drinking glass that reflects your personality. You need the Talk Nerdy to Me Tweety Pint Glass from the NeatoShop. This great glass says you are smart, mischievous, and approachable as long as the approach is correct. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more smart Glassware & Drinkware.
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| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT
You’ve probably received these in an email forward at one time or another, so now you know where they come from and how old they are. Read the rest at Lists of Note. Link -via the Presurfer |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT
Jill Harness put together a list of 14 Wonderfully Geeky Easter Eggs. She also rounded up 10 Awesome Office Pranks For Late April Fool’s Day. Eddie Deezen gave us the story behind The Cover Art of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Postcards From The Edge (Of America): The Adventures of Lewis & Clark came from mental_floss magazine. Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader brought out the 12-year-old in all of us with Heh, Heh, Heh. You Said "Uranus." In the What Is It? game this week, the unidentified object is now identified as a billiards pocket (found on eBay). The first correct answer came from Berhard, who wins a t-shirt! Of many funny answers, the funniest was from Lord_Dissident, who said,
That certainly deserves a t-shirt! Find out the purposes of all this week's mystery items at the What Is It? blog.
NeatoBambino will certainly have more contests when the young artists come up with appropriate doodles, but meanwhile, check out Neatorama’s auxiliary site for fun stuff to do with your kids, neat stuff to read about babies and children, and adorable yet entertaining videos! The most-commented-on post this week was Driver Attempts Hit and Run, Gets Blocked in By Other Drivers, because bike traffic will always draw comments. Coming in second was 7 Ridiculously Outdated Assumptions Every Movie Makes followed by Where Would You Go? The photo titled Live Long and Prosper would have ranked here, but I had to delete quite a few comments. Remember, we love a lively discussion, but anyone who insults or attacks another commenter will be removed. When you’re caught up on everything from this week, you can access past feature articles at The Best of Neatorama. And have a blessed holiday weekend! |
| The Official Winners of the Pi Day Contest Posted: 07 Apr 2012 05:28 AM PDT Last month, I put up a post about the great geeky pies made for National Pi Day that included the one above that I speculated should win this year’s contest. Well, the results have finally been released and sure enough, Shannon N.’s creation won. You can check out the rest of the winners over at Serious Eats. And remember, just because Pi Day is past doesn’t mean it’s too late to eat some delicious pies! |
Scientists have been speculating and arguing about when hominids mastered the art of producing fire for a long time. Estimates ranged from a few hundred thousands years ago to two million years ago. But now hard evidence of a one-million-year-old cave fire has emerged.
Writer William Safire collected contradictory grammar rules from various sources and published 36 of them in his New York Times column in 1979. Eighteen more were added when he published the 2002 book Fumblerules: A Lighthearted Guide to Grammar and Good Usage. Here’s a sample:
The Jewish feast of Passover, or Pesach, began last night, and will last until sundown on April 14th. The Christian Holy Week continues with Easter tomorrow. The fact that the holidays often land so close together on the calendar is not coincidence if you know the events of the Bible. You may be enjoying your holiday weekend in religious contemplation, joyous celebration, or just relaxing with family. Then again, if you are Mom, you may be busy preparing Seder dishes, dying eggs, getting the family’s clothing ready, and all those other traditional preparations that make holidays special. At least you can make some time to catch up on the wonderful things we’ve brought you this week at Neatorama.
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