Archive for January 2006

In-N-Out Burger with 100 Patties!

It started out as a silly Halloween weekend in Vegas, and ended up being an Internet legend: the In-N-Out 100x100 burger. It started innocently enough with a Halloween week...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/28/in-n-out-burger-with-100-patties/

Jake Socha's Flying Paradise Tree Snake.

From the website: Flying snakes are a small group of species of tree snakes that live in South and Southeast Asia. At rest they appear unremarkable, but on the move they're able to take to...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/28/jake-sochas-flying-paradise-tree-snake-chrysopelea-paradisi/

Mary Woodbridge's Mt. Everest Expedition.

Mary Woodbridge and her dog Daisy are training - intensely! - to climb Mt. Everest. She said: I think, one constantly has to set himself new challenges. So despite my age of 85 years I̵...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/28/mary-woodbridges-mt-everest-expedition/

Wim van Egmond's Micropolitan Museum.

That one above is Daphnia longispina or the common waterflea. For more cool microscopy pics, see: The Micropolitan Museum of Microscopic Art Forms (where they proudly promote things l...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/28/wim-van-egmonds-micropolitan-museum/

Jim Rosenau's For the Kitchen Bookshelf.

From the website's FAQ: 1.Yes, they are really books. I remove some of the paper and replace it with a sturdy armature of salvaged lumber.2. The idea evolved from (mis)reading Nic...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/28/im-rosenaus-for-the-kitchen-bookshelf/

Wear Red Undies for Chinese New Year.

I can't say it any better: Good luck charms are usually worn around the neck, or on the wrist. But this year, Chinese Malaysians are wearing them under their pants.Re...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/28/wear-red-undies-for-chinese-new-year/

Now That's a Treehouse!

I'm told it's somewhere in Okinawa (Banyan Tree House?) Is that even a real tree?Does anyone know what this is? (Thanks Kandra!)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/28/now-thats-a-treehouse/

Bill Weber's DIY Solar Water Heater.

Bill Weber knew that he wasn't going to go for that $2000 commercial solar water heating units, so he decided to build his own: First, build a glass-covered wood "hot box" to cat...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/27/bill-webers-diy-solar-water-heater/

Dorodango: Shiny Ball of Mud.

From Bits and Pieces blog: At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that sh...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/27/dorodango-shiny-ball-of-mud/

Brave Space's Tetris Shelves.

Brave Space made this set of modular shelves called (what else) Tetris Shelves. http://www.bravespacedesign.com/...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/27/brave-spaces-tetris-shelves/

Matej Kren's Idiom.

Awesome tower of books found at Patricia Storm's Booklust blog. See more here: http://storms.typepad.com/booklust/2006/01/lost_in_books.html | Matej Kren's Website...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/27/matej-krens-idiom/

Dean and Kyle Pomerlau's Fish School.

Dean Pomerlau and his son Kyle are president and vice president of Fish School with the claim to fame of teaching fish to "swim through hoops, jump, limbo, eat from your hand - even pla...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/26/dean-and-kyle-pomerlaus-fish-school/

Ice Skating Monkey!

From the website: The eight-year-old monkey Gun-Mo and orangutan Eunbi skates and rides a sled on the ice during a promotional event for the 2006 Animal Academy show, which runs untill Feb...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/26/ice-skating-monkey/

Fighting Dino Fossils.

From way back, but very cool: Amongst all the fossils ever found in the world, there might be nothing more bizarre than this specimen. One Protoceratops, a herbivorous (plant-eating) dinos...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/26/fighting-dino-fossils/

Haitian Steel Drum Sculptures.

Indigo Arts Gallery has a neat collection of recycled steel oil drum sculptures from Haiti. Link...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/26/haitian-steel-drum-sculptures/

Spy Scandal "Rocked" Russia.

Update (Jan 30, 2006): Russian intelligence agency said that the communications device disguised as a rock by British spies is a "miracle of technology"."It's a piece of spac...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/26/spy-scandal-rocked-russia/

World's Smallest Fish.

Maurice Kottelat, Tan Heok Hui and colleagues discovered the world's smallest fish in an acidic peat swamp in Indonesia. Mature females of the Paedocypris progenetica, a membe...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/26/worlds-smallest-fish/

That's One Hungry Snake!

What is this snake eating? You wouldn't believe the answer: http://www.gophi.rotfl.pl/i/snake/...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/25/thats-one-hungry-snake/

Ohio's Top Thrill Dragster Roller Coaster.

This is Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster in Cedar Point, Ohio. It has a top speed of 120 mph, and a vertical drop of 400 feet (about 42 stories).This one website said: " La...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/25/ohios-top-thrill-dragster-roller-coaster/

George Gould and Walter Pyle's 1901 Book: Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

From the book: Harris reports several cases of bearded women, inmates of the Coton Hill Lunatic Asylum. One of the patients was eighty-three years of age and had been insane forty-four ye...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/25/george-gould-and-walter-pyles-1901-book-anomalies-and-curiosities-of-medicine/

Whale Vomit is More Valuable Than Gold.

From the website: Leon Wright and his wife took home a 14.75kg lump of ambergris, found in the innards of sperm whales and used in perfumes after it has been vomited up.Sought afte...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/25/whale-vomit-is-more-valuable-than-gold/

Melissa Edward's The Erotic Map of Canada.

For the entire map, see: http://www.geist.com/map/map.php?id=8 (Don't miss Geist's other maps of Canada, including The Doughnut Map of Canada, The Menstrual Map of Canada and many, many more.)...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/25/melissa-edwards-the-erotic-map-of-canada/

Flying Car Uncovered by Google Earth?

Did Google Earth uncover a secret Australian flying car? You can't fool The Register: Which leaves just one possible explantion: the Aussies have developed a gravity-busting hyperdrive, hav...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/25/flying-car-uncovered-by-google-earth/

Scott Musgrove's Specious Beast: the Unsuccessful Fauna of the American West.

For more of Scott's whimsical animal paintings, see: http://www.scottmusgrove.com/modelcitizen/Content/Paintings/html/Paintings.htm...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/25/scott-musgroves-specious-beast-the-unsuccessful-fauna-of-the-american-west/

Ken Watson's Katie - Walking on Water.

From the website: Everyone loves their pet dog - but can your dog walk on water? Mine can. This photo was taken on December 31, 2002. The Rideau was experiencing some unseasonably warm wea...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/25/ken-watsons-katie-walking-on-water/

Amy Hughes' Abston Church of Christ.

Amy spent a year and a half and used about 75,000 lego bricks to build this awesome lego church for 1,372 lego minifigs (those lego people). http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/index.html...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/24/amy-hughes-abston-church-of-christ/

Solar-Powered Nanomotor.

Vincenzo Balzani, J. Fraser Stoddart and colleagues at the University of Bologna in Italy and UCLA have created a tiny four-stroke engines that can run on sunlight and emits no po...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/24/solar-powered-nanomotor/

Angel Tolentino's Boobees.

You'd never guess what Angel used to paint those cute bees: In December 1995, I was looking for creative Christmas gifts for my friends. One day I was watching my sister Lyn u...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/24/angel-tolentinos-boobees/

Water Droplet "Walking" Uphill.

Heiner Linke found that liquid droplets can be made to "walk" across a horizontal surface or even uphill under their own steam!Linke Lab (watch the climbing water drople...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/24/water-droplet-walking-uphill/

Man Crash Dieted to Escape from Prison.

This is how Robert Cole escaped from his prison cell:Cole, 36, also known as Andrew David Robertson, starved himself to drop his weight by about a fifth in a matter of weeks. He entered jail a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2006/01/23/man-crash-dieted-to-escape-from-prison/
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