Jumbolair in Ocala, Florida, is an "airpark" where people live in homes with garages for ... airplanes! This one above is the house of actor John Travolta, who has a Boeing 707 in his garage.Fogonazos has the s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/jumbolair-where-rich-people-live-with-their-airplanes/The first ever International Alchemy Conference will take place in (where else?) Las Vegas on October 5 - 7, 2007.It's the largest gathering of alchemists in 500 years, and will feature workshops in transforming metals,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/first-ever-international-alchemy-conference/In his book, Imagining the Tenth Dimension, Rob Bryanton explains - in plain English - the weirdness of string theory and the tenth dimensional (where all possibilities for everything are contained) physics using a cleve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/imagining-the-tenth-dimension/In this funny animated clip from Tom Dor, a magical "box" falls from the sky and disturb the peaceful lives of two prehistoric brothers. What kind of box? You'll have to watch to find out: Hit play or go to Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/tom-dors-prime-time/Think you can solve global warming? In this game called Climate Challenge from the BBC, you're a president of the European Nations and have just 10 years to tackle the global climate change through instituting policies a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/climate-challenge-game-where-you-solve-global-warming/Archaeologists have found an ancient settlement used by the builders of Stonehenge:Excavations at Durrington Walls, near the legendary Salisbury Plain monument, uncovered remains of ancient houses. ...In anc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/ancient-stonehenge-village-discovered/Writing takes a lot of focus - here are a few authors who got rid of all sorts of distractions, including their clothes, while writing: When Victor Hugo [wiki], the famous author of great to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/Don't worry, she got it off. From Denver Channel via Jonco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/elk-with-porch-furniture/This stunning home video captured the world's worst mouse plague, which happened in southern Australia in 1993.Warning: distrubing and icky images of, well, millions of rodents (doesn't this make you really want to see i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/worlds-worst-mouse-plague-millions-of-mice-attack-australia/Death by … Hetvägg?By the time Adolf Frederick [wiki] came to occupy the throne of Sweden in 1751, a long period of monarchy-weakening reforms called the Age of Freedom left him with very little po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/feeding-frenzy-fun-facts-about-food-and-binges/Ever wonder how the dog sounds in French and Croatian? Well, this list of onomatopoeias lists animal sounds in several languages. Some have even sound files attached. Catherine N. Ball, Proffesor of Linguistics in Geo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/sounds-of-the-worlds-animals/Billy Mavreas of yesway blog posted an excerpt of a 1937 issue of Life Magazine discussing Russel M. Arundel's book "Everybody's Pixillated" which features doodles of famous people. This one above is US Preside...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/thomas-jeffersons-doodles/William Wegman [wiki] is an art photographer famous for his compositions of his Weimaraner dogs in costumes. This trailer is of his movie Alphabet Soup, featuring - you've guessed it - those cute (and very patient) dogs!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/william-wegmans-alphabet-soup/Oh, this has got to suck: A model was showing the ancient mirror to the audience when it slipped from her hands and fell to the floor.It shattered into pieces, shocking the audience - especially owner Chen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/ancient-mirror-dropped-during-tv-show-on-ancient-mirrors/A fully automated basement parking garage is slated to be unveiled in New York City's Chinatown this February. This garage will cram 67 cars into a volume typically occupied by only 24 cars in a traditional garage....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/robotic-parking-garage/Cybele May of the Candy Blog, who probably has the best gig ever (she eats and rates candies!), found this awesome candy called Candy Blox:They’re a compressed dextrose candy (what I call chalk candy) shaped li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/candy-shaped-like-lego-bricks/Michael Meier of Oakado blog (fun illustrations, btw) found this awesome interactive installation called Bright Nights in New York City's Union Square:The project was called »Bright nights« and the code...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/bright-nights-installation-in-new-york-city/Apparently, there's a secret little spot in Modesto, California that is home to about a gazillion geese!Links: Modesto Bee article | Photo from Jenguin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/gazillion-geese-in-modesto-california/The Periodic Table of Comic Books is lovingly compiled by John P. Selegue and F. James Holler of the University of Kentucky's Chemistry Department. The website lists comic book pages having to do with any particular elem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/the-periodic-table-of-comic-books/Instead of those stuffy classics, Play! symphony plays a medley of songs you'll definitely recognize. I won't tell you what it is, you have to see it for yourself: Hit play or go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?doci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/play-symphony-plays-video-game-theme-songs/From the website:A young disabled man who receives care for his life-limiting illness at a hospice run by a nun spoke yesterday of his decision to use a prostitute to experience sex before he dies.Sister Fra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/dying-mans-last-wish-a-prostitute/Here's something for the fans of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat arcade games: a very detailed and fantastically choreographed Flash movie by Newgrounds user Proxicide called MK vs. SF 2. Hit play to see the battle sequ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/mortal-kombat-vs-street-fighter/Found at Hemmy - via Valley Daze...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/baby-and-cat/Yuck! Someone vomited on Neatorama! Well, not really - that's just Net Disaster, a website where you can (safely) plaster a website of your choice with pesky animals, graffiti, wrath of nature, vomit, and many more.It's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/net-disaster/They may seem crappy but some of these office-made rubber band guns could kill you. In the gallery you can see all the gun models built only using office tools. Also there are comparatives and photos of demostrations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/office-guns/For our weekly collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day:Some fathers and sons play catch, but not electrical engineer Jason Rollette and his 12-year-old son Trevor. They built their own spy sub (for only $300)!Elec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/homemade-spy-sub/The world's oldest newspaper, Sweden's Post och Inrikes Tidningar (Post and Domestic Newspapers), has embraced the digital age, ending its run as a print publication and opting to be published exclusively on the Inte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/worlds-oldest-newspaper-ends-print-version-for-internet-format/This wedding probably had more rehearsal than most! The reception featured a production number that’s unlikely to become a tradition, but they did it well. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/wedding-thriller/Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary. Learn how words associate with other words with the diagrams that come with each entry. After your word loads, run your mouse over the word or the associated words to get a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/29/visuwords/Make a trivet out of computer chips! Complete instructions available at Evil Mad Scientist. Not as simple or cheap as getting a plain metal trivet at a yard sale, but this will impress your geek friends. And the proces...
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