Take a look at (what I hope is) the Internet's ultimate list of case mods or computer case modifications. These labors of love are the ultimate display of geek chic, creativity, and hardware prowess!Please help bui...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/27/ultimate-case-mod-list/OpenCola has published its 7X Top-Seekrut™ formula, so you can make your own open-source cola! As it turns out, mixing up a batch of cola's pretty easy. Finding the ingr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/27/how-to-make-your-own-open-source-cola/If you're tired of regular, boring houses, you can now live like Ewoks with Free Spirit Spheres. From the website: Free Spirit Spheres can be hung from the trees as shown, making a tree ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/27/how-to-live-like-ewoks/In 1984, a bioterrorist attack using salmonella typhimurium bacteria in salad bars in restaurants in Oregon was traced to a cult led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (known also as Osho)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/27/rise-and-fall-of-the-rajneesh-cult/From Product Invasion, the folks who brought us Subservient Donald, has another spoof site: Top Model for Sale. (Thanks Dan!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/27/top-model-for-sale/Cane toad is such a big problem in Australia that they start to offer free beer if you turn one in... The RSPCA, Coopers Brewery and the Cavenagh Hotel have teamed up in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/27/turning-cane-toads-into-beer/Matt Robison, an apprentice piercer at The Pit Studio in Ottawa township, 60 miles from Peoria, Ohio, set a new world record by getting pierced 1,016 times in one sitting! Ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/27/new-world-record-1016-piercings-in-one-sitting/Andy worked on the CGI animation for the Matrix movies. CGSociety did an interesting article titled "Once a Mathematician, Always an Artist" on Lomas' artwork: Altho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/26/andy-lomas-aggregation/Wanna take a (virtual) tour of Bill Gates' $50+ million house? Now you can, courtesy of US News & World Report: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/billgate/gates.htm (via Blog Jones)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/26/virtual-tour-of-bill-gates-home/Apparently, some people get their kicks by dressing their Roomba up in funny costumes! This one on the left is Roor the tiger, made by myRoomBud, a company "started by kids,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/26/dress-up-your-roomba/Joel Haas makes whimsical garden decorations, he said: I make whimsical animals for the garden. Most pieces are welded and forged together from scrap steel parts and painted w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/26/joel-haas-garden-art/From the website: Diving beetles engage in such exhausting, uncomfortable sex that these insects have actually evolved two different types of females, as well as unusual va...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/26/bad-sex-causes-beetles-to-evolve-2-different-female-forms/MusicThing blog wrote: The pic above shows Carl E. Walz playing a Yamaha PSR282 keyboard on the International Space Station. You can buy a PSR282 for about £45 on eB...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/25/music-in-space/Take a look at Brian Jungen's artwork, all done with Nike shoes. This one on the left is called Prototype for New Understanding #16, 2004.Link (via Consumerist)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/25/brian-jungens-nike-shoes-sculpture/Harold and Darrel Allen are twin brothers in Athens, Georgia, who both own septic tank service company. Harold and Darrel recently recorded a new song about their experiences,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/25/harold-and-darrel-allens-the-honeywagon/Brian Briggs and Francisco Rangel made this quiz to test whether you know your superheros from your household cleaners. Link (via Miss Cellania)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/25/superhero-or-household-cleaner/In 1943, the Navy embarked on Project X-Ray to develop bats as bomb carriers: The theory was that the bats would be released just before dawn with incendiary devices with t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/25/project-x-ray-bat-as-bombers/Gregory Dietl of Yale University and colleagues found that snails with left-handed cones are impossible for predators to eat.They found the crab is unable to open left-handed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/left-handed-snails-are-impossible-for-crabs-to-eat/Mac Weakly caught a 25-pound, 1-ounce bass that would have been a world record.But Weakley and his crew, longtime buddies Mike “Budda” Winn and Jed Dickerson, knew something was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/mac-weakleys-monster-bass/Chinese micro-painter Jing Ying Yin Hua spent 10 days to create an image of a giant panda on a single strand of human hair!Link (via J-Walk Blog)This reminds me of another micro-a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/artist-paint-panda-on-a-single-strand-of-hair/The conventional wisdom of the twitchy nervous liar who touch his nose and play with his hair is bunk.Samantha Mann and colleagues monitored 130 volunteers as they were asked to l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/liars-actually-tend-to-stay-still-not-fidget/Niagara Falls Daredevil Museum has a neat collection of photos, barrels, and other memorabilia from people who took the plunge. This one above is of Bobby Leach: The infamous Bobby Leach p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/niagara-falls-daredevils/Jürgen Heckrodt, the owner of a three-star hotel Ostfriesland in Norden, Germany started to charge his guests by the pound. "I had many guests who were really huge a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/hotel-charges-by-the-pound/Police stopped Shawn Leflore, 33, for having an expired registration sticker. Shawn decided to run instead - he ran off road and got stuck in the mud, where he died of exhaustion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/man-ran-from-police-got-stuck-in-mud-and-died/Turkmenistan's president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov announced on state television that anyone reading his philosophical work three times would be assured a place in heaven. &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/turkmenistan-president-read-my-book-and-go-to-heaven-guaranteed/Edmund Brodie of Indiana University and Mathias Kölliker of University of Basel, Switzerland discovered that baby insects signal their mom that they're hungry by stinking up....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/baby-bugs-communicate-hunger-by-stinking-up/Two hundred and forty people in Switzerland set a world record of making 100 igloos in 12 hours by hand. When lit up at night, the igloos look very beautiful. http://www.iglupr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/24/igloos-world-record/Mathematical analyses of humpback whale songs reveal complex grammatical rules!Although the researchers say these songs don't meet the linguistic rigor necessary for a true language, this i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/23/whale-song-has-complex-grammatical-rules/Neatorama Reader Lisa Poirier pointed us to Super Tour's website:Similar to the concepts of Microsoft Virtual Earth, SuperTour.com lets you navigate you want to go. With virtual earth, you drive, but...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/23/super-tour/Vivi (full name Champion Bonhem C'est La Vie) ran away from her airport crate after winning the Westminster dog show last month.Her tale of life-on-the-lam has captivated New York...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/23/psychics-search-for-vivi/
