Shawn Morton's iWipe.
Shawn Morton turned an old, unwanted Mac into a stylish toilet paper dispenser he called the "iWipe" for about $15. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/25/shawn-mortons-iwipe/Archive for December 2005
The Asphalt Museum.
The internet's got everything, including a museum dedicated to asphalt. Yes, that asphalt that you drive on.The museum even had a recipe to make your own asphalt. Sounds dangerou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/25/the-asphalt-museum/Lewis Wickes Hine's Photos of Empire State Building Workers.
If you've got the urge to complain about your job,consider this: safety equipments of the builders of Empire State building consisted of ... gloves and a stylish hat!The New York Public Library has a cool collectio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/25/lewis-wickes-hines-photos-of-empire-state-building-workers/Rebel Currency.
This 1862 State of Mississippi $20 note features the picture of wartime Governor J.J. Pettus and slaves on a wagon of cotton.Kurt Jacoboni has a great collection of Confederacy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/25/rebel-currency/Fish Highway.
What is a fish highway? The website explains it best: Imagine a means for fish to swim out the top of your aquarium, up to the ceiling, across the room and then down into a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/fish-highway/Gelchop's Antler Speaker.
Check out Gelchop's other curious creations! http://gelchop.at.infoseek.co.jp/gel_top.html (Don't miss the strange "Kowai Mori exhibition", the Wall Animal, and this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/gelchops-antler-speaker/Knife Lodged in Boy Scout's Brain.
In a freak accident, one of the Boy Scout leaders flung a knife from his hands while trying to catch another scout who tripped. The knife hit Kevin Coulter in the head and lodged...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/knife-lodged-in-boy-scouts-brain/Katrina Watermelons.
After Hurricane Katrina, watermelons are growing everywhere in St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans. Presumably, the seeds were deposited during the hurricane and unusually high te...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/katrina-watermelons/Library Book = Visit from Homeland Security = A Hoax.
A UMass Dartmouth senior doing a research paper on communism was visited by federal agents from Homeland Security after he requested a library copy of Mao Tse-Tung's "The Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/library-book-visit-from-homeland-security/Bin Laden's Sexy Niece.
Wafah Dufour is Osama bin Laden's sexy niece. Wait, Osama has a sexy niece? And she loves America, too! “At the end of the day, I believe that the American people under...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/bin-ladens-sexy-niece/Festivus for the Rest of Us.
Apparently, Festivus is alive and well: The celebration of Festivus is alive and well in northwestern Pennsylvania, nearly a decade after the bizarre "holiday" garn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/festivus-for-the-rest-of-us/New Plump and Purple Frog Discovered.
Scientists S.D. Biju and Franky Bossuyt discovered a new species of plump and purple frog and named it Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis. The frog's closest relatives live 1,800 mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/new-plump-and-purple-frog-discovered/Where Do You Live Again?
Yes, a real place in the countryside of Winchelsea, Sussex, UK. I think the man who made the sign, uh, has never been heard from ever again ......
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/24/where-do-you-live-again-2/Fold Napkins Like in Restaurants!
If you ever want to learn to fold napkins like them fancy restaurants, Robbie Rice's got the tutorial here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/23/fold-napkins-like-in-restaurants/For Brains, Bigger Is Better!
Bigger is better, at least when it comes to brain. Neuroscientist Sandra Witelson at McMaster University found that verbal intelligence was clearly linked to brain size i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/23/for-brains-bigger-is-better/It's a Wonderful Internet.
It's A Wonderful Life, the internet edition: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/23/its-a-wonderful-internet/Mr. T Rockin' to Music!
What? Ya didn't know that Mr. T is such an awesome dancer?I pity the fool that doesn't check this out: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/23/mr-t-rockin-to-music/Stalin's Half-Ape Warriors.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin initiated a program in the early 1920s to create a horde of half-man half-ape super soldier with no feeling of pain or fear. The Soviets drafted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/23/stains-half-ape-warriors/Christmas Tree Origami.
A pretty neat (and cheap) christmas tree origami that you can do!Link (via Paper Forest)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/23/christmas-tree-origami/Astone's Ocean Scooter.
Astone's Ocean Scooter is an inflatable, battery-powered electric boat that can be used in swimming pools!It's a good thing that kids today are so fit and healthy that they don't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/23/astones-ocean-scooter/The Brouhaha Over Virgin Mobile's Wrapping Paper.
Alan Dean got upset when he took a closer look at the free Virgin Mobile wrapping paper his 12-year-old daughter got from Canada's cinema chains Famous Players.The wrapping...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/the-brouhaha-over-virgin-mobiles-wrapping-paper/Symmetrical People are Better Dancers.
Rutge's William Brown and Robert Trivers led a study in which they measured the degree of body symmetry in children and its correlation in their lives.They found out several interesting things:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/symmetrical-people-are-better-dancers/Scott Greene's Clear Channel.
For more of Scott Greene's obsession, er... artwork with parabolic dishes, see: http://www.scottmgreene.com/index.html...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/scott-greenes-clear-channel/Shannon Goff's Cardboard Helicopter.
Shannon Goff made this helicopter from cardboard! http://www.telegraphart.com/sg.htm (don't miss the piano!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/shannon-goffs-cardboard-helicopter/Obelisk of Buenos Aires Now Fully Protected.
To commemorate World AIDS Day December 1, 2005 the Argentinians covered the Obelisk of Buenos Aires with a giant condom! http://news.yahoo.com/photo/051201/ids_photos_wl/r3788257887.jpg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/obelisk-of-buenos-aires-now-fully-protected/Jack Hall's Matchstick Musical Instruments.
Jack "The Matchstick Man" Hall made violin, acoustic guitar, ukulele, and other musical instruments out of matchsticks! According to his son Tony's website: This one-of-a- kind 1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/jack-halls-matchstick-musical-instruments/Bill Power's Snowzilla.
Bill Powers of Anchorage, Alaska, built this 16-foot hand-packed snow man called "Snowzilla". http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/12/20/national/a04...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/bill-powers-snowzilla/Auckland's Rioting Santa.
I can't say it any better than this news article: A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus outfits, many of them drunk, went on a rampage through Auckland, New Zealand's la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/aucklands-rioting-santa/Toy Preference of Boy & Girl Monkeys.
Texas A&M University psychologist Gerianne Alexander and colleagues discovered that just like little boys and girls, male and female monkeys like to play with different toys....
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/12/22/toy-preference-of-boy-girl-monkeys/
