Don't get the ancient Peruvian aristocrats angry: they'll dismember you. But oddly, if they love you, they'll squish your head! While there is nothing pretty about dismemberment, one body also found at El Trigal disp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/head-squishing-in-ancient-peru/NASA is testing an inflatable structure that one day might be used on the Moon! The inflatable structure is made of multilayer fabric and looks like an ungainly white robot with legs. The main unit is 12 feet in diam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/inflatable-lunar-station/This is a look behind Dishwasher's music. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/making-music-dishwasher/Police used fishing nets and their hands Wednesday to scoop up 2.7 million yen (US$23,000; €17,230) in mysterious cash floating down a Japanese river, an official said. A passer-by notified police after...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/27-million-yen-in-cash-found-floating-down-a-river-in-tokyo/[http://youtu.be/nS1tEnfkk6M] Male Birds of Paradise in Papua, New Guinea have a bizarre courtship dance you must see to believe. This fellow's "housecleaning" beforehand is pretty impressive, too! Push play or go to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/birds-of-paradise/Astronomers have spotted a hexagon-shaped feature on Saturn's north pole. "This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmosph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/hexagon-spotted-on-saturn/Boing Boing's post on the Last Supper with dogs painting by Ron Burns titled "Dinner and Drinks with Son of Dog" reminded me of this photo by Tom Altany called The Last Snack, which was nominated for the Intern...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/the-last-snack/Nikolai Sutyagin, a one-time gangster, built what is believed to be the world's tallest fire hazard ... er, log cabin: 13 floors and 144 feet tall! "First I added three floors but then the house looked ungainly,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/worlds-tallest-log-cabin/When Debbie Parkhurst, 45, was home alone and choked on an apple, her dog came to her rescue by performing a Heimlich maneuver!“It was lodged pretty tight because I couldn’t breathe,” she said. &#...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/dog-saved-owner-with-heimlich-maneuver/Mario Bros. LegoUploaded by Bibi-de-BibopofThis is all sort of excellent: a stop-motion video of Mario Bros. in LEGO! Hit play or go to Link [Dailymotion] - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/mario-bros-in-lego/Heads up! Free ice cream day from Ben & Jerry's is coming in just 3 weeks:Tuesday, April 17 - 12:00 Noon - 8:00 p.m. - Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day & Ken Hoffman's Houston Chronicle Pethouse Pet of the Wee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/ben-jerrys-free-cone-day/The Virtual Shoe Museum has a large collection of designer shoes from around the world. The coolest section is the experimental shoes, some of which are shown above.Check it out: Link (click on "special use" on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/experimental-shoes-at-the-virtual-shoe-museum/Jeremy Mayer's sculpture are made from bits and pieces from old typewriters! It's even more amazing when you find out that he did it without any gluing, welding or soldering - it's all cold assembly!Links: Saatchi Galler...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/jeremy-mayers-typewriter-sculptures/A while back, EastSouthWestNorth blog posted a series of touching photos meant to Humanize China. The series are divided into 3 sections: Survival, Relationship, and Desires. If you haven't seen them - it's well worth ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/28/humanizing-china-a-series-of-great-photographs/Two websites had a pretty cool (overlapping) collection of photos of the preparation and launch of the Space Shuttle. Link 1 | Link 2 - via digg, Thanks David R!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/preparing-a-space-shuttle-for-launch/Wellington Grey's cartoons gave me a chuckle - check out the archive here: http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/index.html - Thanks beajerry!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/wellington-greys-cartoons/Kappa is a mythical Japanese creature, known for its malicious tendencies:Their pranks range from the relatively innocent, such as loudly passing gas or looking up women's kimonos, to the more troublesome, such as st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/edo-period-drawing-of-kappa-a-mythical-creature-in-japan/Thierry Alari built this portable records turntable called "Scratchophone"Link - via Martian ShakerWhy, there's even a video section of the Scratchophone in action : http://www.scratchophonic.com/?page_id=22&nb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/scratchophone-portable-turntable/From Jorge Cham's fantastic PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper), a graduate student comic strip.Links: Newton's First Law | Second Law (above) | Third Law of Graduation (from 2001) - don't forget to check out Jorge's daily com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/newtons-laws-of-graduation/Etsy seller jellibat's burlesque plush doll "Lita" is wrong. Cute. But wrong!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/burlesque-plush-doll/That's a pillow that looks like a book - so you can fall asleep in comfort looking like you've been studying way too hard. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/the-pillow-book/Here's art made for us geeks: technology-related paintings by Nitrozac. This one is titled "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose," featuring Kevin Rose, co-founder of the uber-popular website digg.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/nitrozacs-tech-art/This baby duck is feeding fish that are twice his size! I don’t know if its duck feed or fish food, but they seem to enjoy it. Just too cute not to share. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Videosift...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/duck-feeds-koi/This mountain gorilla is checking out the camera strap of a photographer who's checking out gorillas. From Congo Rangers Blog, always a worthwhile spot to visit on the net....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/curious-gorilla/Ahoy! Me hearty. I must be loaded to the gunwales to share me booty with ye but since im not a scallywag I will retain the swashbucklin' but ye better grab yer grog for this one is a pearl. Thar she blows. http://w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/pyrats-movie/Father-of-three Simon Pretty is likely to die from Leukaemia within months unless he receives a transplant. His sister Helen, 43, is a perfect match but he says she has turned down the chance to save his life. Link - v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/sentenced-to-death-by-sister/1. QuoitsThe West Saltoun Quoiting team on the Quoit Green, c. 1890 (Image Credit: David Scott, Bolton and Saltoun Parishes)When the pilgrims sailed away from England’s shores, they left behind religious ty...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/10-sports-they-dont-teach-you-in-gym/The guy in this video claims to have created a homemade device that levitates a card using only a Nokia cordless phone, batteries, a coke can, and a CD. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] Skeptical? Me too ... al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/27/homemade-antigravity/What happens when your contractor takes construction plan a little too literally?This: Link - Thanks justelite!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/when-contractor-takes-construction-plan-a-little-too-literally/
