13 posts tagged “neatorama”

I stumbled onto this article from Time Magazine - How to Live With Just 100 Things (via neatorama) and I'm wondering if I can pull it off.  Here are the rules to the 100 Thing Challenge.  Now here's the key...you can limit the number of items that are "personal".  So if you are sharing a place with someone else (family/significant other/friend/etc.), then then you can exclude the common items used by everyone such as furniture, plates, major appliances, etc.  Seeing how I live by myself, I'm not sure if I want to bend the rules on this.  There's no mass public transportation where I live, so I need my car to go to work, groceries, and what not.  I guess I could call a taxi, so that's a maybe. 

Anyhow, I'm going to keep this a theoretical model for the time being.  I'm curios on the number of items I truly have.  Heck, I probably have close to 100 items in the tech world alone.  I have 4 digital cameras, which all are used at least once a year.  I guess that I would have to count all the accessories for them as well and when you add up the lenses, filters, batteries, chargers, memory cards, and cases, that would take up about 50 slots.   Hmm...I have three MP3 players - my 80 gig Ipod, which has most of my music on it, plus some videos and pics, a small creative mp3 for when I exercise or do something outdoors and a 30 gig Zune that I keep at work.  I have two computers (a desktop and a notebook), three external hard drives (I have a system for that).  Now looking to my left, I see about 60 some books on my book case, which about 40% I've read (I'm a sucker when it comes to finding used books).  And I haven't even begun with my clothes.  So....creating my model will take some work.  I'll probably work out a list of my list some time this week.   Stay tuned...

p.s. - I would love to see what everyone would choose as their 100 personal items.

One of my pet peeves is when I'm eating soup, I set the spoon in the bowl and it slides down into the soup.  I think the price is going to hold me back though.

Neatorama » The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/11/t...

Good spoons have heavy handles, but that makes it difficult to lay your spoon down when eating from a bowl. If you don’t want to put the spoon down on the table, you’ll tip the bowl over. But this bowl and spoon combination makes it easy to rest your spoon in your bowl. $21.00 Link -via J-Walk Blog

Interesting tidbit regarding the Peace Sign. (via neatorama)

Neatorama » Peace Sign Turns 50

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/12/p...

The Peace Sign, one of the most widely known symbols in the world, was first designed and drawn on home-made banners and badges in London, England on February 21, 1958, when CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ) was launched at a public meeting but has since been apropriated by scores of different protest movements, from hippies in 1960s America and to the rest of the world, it is known more broadly as the peace symbol.

I'm not sure what this is suppose to be, but the trailer is pretty funny.  Click below for more info or just watch it at http://www.ffk-wilkinson.com/fr/.  Enjoy!

Neatorama » Wilkinson Sword Advertisement Trailer

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/w...

This has got to be one of the funniest advertisement trailer I’ve seen in a while. Notice of the baby’s facial expressions. Hilarious! Link: Wilkinson.com

If my cat Fritz was still alive, I'd torment him with something like this.  Then again, everyone would know how messy my place is.  Scratch that...  Click on the link below to check out his Perrrrrfect photos.  (sorry for the bad pun).

Neatorama » Meet Fritz, the Feline Photographer

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/31/m...

Meet Fritz, the cat photographer. Every day, Ramona Markstein lets her cat Fritz wonder the neighborhood while wearing a camera that takes photos every fifteen seconds.Ramona then posts Fritz’ photos on the Web. Some of them are better than the ones I took!Link (with video) - via Steatopygous Mathophile (by the way, do you know what steatopygous means?) Posted on January 31, 2008 at 3:20 am by Alex Category: Animal, Art & Craft

I've been know to jam to the air guitar (fortunately rarely in public) so when saw this, I instantly smiled!  Another great find, via - neatorama.

Neatorama » Rock Radio Station Offers FREE Air Guitars!

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/r...

A radio station in Glasgow City Center, Scotland, came up with a brilliant way to promote their launch! An empty guitar stand invited people to help themselves to an air guitar to be played while listening to their station, of course!

Discovered this little horror story over at Neatorama.  Other than a loss of a friend or family member, this poor chap spent part of his Christmas Eve in hell.

Worst Christmas Ever: Man Spent Christmas Eve Stuck in Septic Tank

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/w...

How did you spend Christmas Eve? Was it at an awkward family gathering? Scrambling to buy last minute gifts? No matter how stressful it was for you, Robert Schoff has got it beat: he spent it trapped upside down in a full septic tank!

Here's another great find, via neatorama.  These are truly amazing!  My personal fav is the retreating glaciers in the bhutan-himalaya.

11 phenomenal images of earth « deputydog

http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/01/11-p...

(above) covering an area 56.6 x 61.3 km and taken on may 2nd, 2002, this photo shows an alluvial fan that formed on the southern border of the taklimakan desert in china. an alluvial fan usually forms as water leaves a canyon, each new stream eventually closing up due to sediment - the result being a triangle of active and inactive channels. the blue ones on the left are currently active.

Found, via Neatorama.  Some interesting places.

WebUrbanist » 7 Island Wonders of the World: Most Amazing, Mysterious, Remote and More

http://weburbanist.com/2007/10/28/7-i...

Did you know that one in every ten people in the world lives on an island? There is even a word for a “craze or a strong attraction to islands” - islomania! Islands have many roles in cultures and literature, from places of paradise to the last refuge of pirates. Here are seven of the most amazing islands in the world, from the greatest and grandest to the most remote, mysterious and least populated.

Found this while surfing on Neatorama...

Neatorama » The Last Supper - Now Online in Amazing Detail.

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/28/t...

An Italian technology firm, HAL9000, has created an online mega-composite of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper at an incredible 16 gigapixel resolution (about 2,000 times more detailed than a standard digital photograph). The picture above shows the hands of the person sitting next to Jesus in the Last Supper (the individual that Dan Brown claimed to be Mary Magdalene in The Da Vinci Code), at only a 6% zoom.