At the Rotenberg Center, students as young as nine and ten receive shocks for misbehaving. Employeed wear remotes bearing a picture of each child around their waist so they don't shock the wrong kid.The cover st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/24/school-of-shock-dont-tase-me-teach/What do you get when you cross a rabbit with a kangaroo and a rat? A jumping desert rodent called the four-toed Jerboa! Link - via Scribal Terror Previously on Neatorama:Zebra + Horse + Giraffe = Zoraffe? Zebra + Pony =...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/24/four-toed-jerboa/World's hardest tongue twister is "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/24/trivia-worlds-hardest-tongue-twister/There are many self-taught musicians, but Carl Herman Unthan [wiki] was a fiddler unlike no other: he was born without arms, and played the violin using his feet!It was his father who pushed young Carl to use his fee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/24/carl-unthan-the-armless-fiddler/Rude store employees? This Chinese clothing store solved the problem by putting up a poster of what their workers can and cannot say to customers!Link to larger pic at One Large Prawn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/24/forbidden-words-what-employees-can-and-cannot-say-to-customers/"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein, scientist (1879-1955)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/quote-einstein-on-stupidity/The five-dollar bill is getting a face lift! Uncle Sam is unveiling a new design for the $5 bill, to make it harder to counterfeit.COLOURlovers has the story:For as long as all of us can remember, the US dollar has b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/the-new-5-bill-redesigned-with-purple/John Liu of Kentucky was nervous when he took the SAT last December, but all that worrying was for naught: he scored a perfect 2400. He also scored perfect on the ACT.Wow! Congrats, John! Link - via Spluch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/kid-scored-perfect-on-sat-and-act/Star Wars fans run the gamut from those who just enjoy the movies to those who run around in full costume.If you want to wear something Star Wars-y but can't go all the way for the full bodysuit, here's a middle ground:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/darth-vader-t-shirt/Tired of seeing holier-than-thou stickers hectoring you to Stop Driving or Stop Eating Animals? Wish you could think of some witty riposte?Fight back - the lazy way - with this set of pre-printed stickers so you don't ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/stop-sign-stickers/Talking 'bout street sign graffiti, Karen of Say No to Crack put together a short list of some really funny ones.LinkBut really, don't do 'em - graffiti is graffiti is graffiti. Maybe except this one: Soap Not Spray Cans...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/funny-street-sign-graffiti/Raunchy doodles? Well ... they started out like that, but apparently they just look suggestive. It's all in your mind, you perv! The doodles are actually very creative drawings by Maurício Ricardo: Link [...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/raunchy-doodles/Here's a posable paper model of David Hasselhoff (as Michael Knight of the Knight Rider), complete with removable chest hair carpet, German singing sensation microphone and the Hoff tank top! Made by Rob Nance of Art for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/the-hoff-in-posable-paper-format/"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge" - Bertrand Russell, philosopher (1872-1970)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/quote-bertrand-russell-on-useless-knowledge/Found at For Your Entertainment - via Scribal Terror...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/splatter-zone/A Scottish Fold [wiki] is a breed of cat with mutated folded ears. If you'd like to be a Scottish Fold, first of all you need to have a big round head and short ears (whether they be folded or not), and then you have to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/how-to-be-a-scottish-fold/Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew named Cuitlahuac, which meant "plenty of poo" or "dry excrement." And here I am thinking that people today give their kids weird names.......
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/trivia-aztec-and-the-art-of-naming-a-child/Photo: Sew Darn Jenny [Flickr]Dutch company Happy Colors created these "tie-dyed" roses above and other multi-colored flowers by injecting pigments into the stem using hypodermic needles. http://www.happy-color...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/tie-dye-roses/When you get bleach on your clothes usually means ruining the fabric, but Phelyx managed to turn bleach into a tool to "inverse" stencil an awesome t-shirt design!Here's the tutorial: Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/diy-t-shirt-design-using-bleach/Neatorama reader Stane sent in this ... um, impolite bag of chips. It means "Big Bag" in Finnish. Link - Thanks Stane!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/an-impolite-bag-of-chips-a-bag-of-what-now/JTPednaud's recent post on Neatorama about "Zombie," a young Montreal gentleman with radical full-face skull tattoo, and the comments in that post reminds me of INKED Inc., a project by (tattooed) photographer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/the-tattooed-doctor/Why scoop your dog's poop when you can catch 'em while they fall! Introducing the Sha-Poopie: Link - via Cribcandy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/why-scoop-poop-when-you-can-catch-em-instead/In January 2007, yhe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received a photo album belonging to SS-Obersturmführer Karl Höcker who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp from May 1944 until...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/the-photo-album-of-ss-obersturmfuhrer-karl-hocker/French master mime Marcel Marceau has died at age 84, according to his family. Link For several examples of his work, push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/marcel-marceau/Here is good ol' Donkey Kong. Played live with real barrels, hammers and stairs. Hit the "play" button or go to the YouTube source. via The Revolution Lifestyle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/real-live-donkey-kong/Shovels, 2005 by Cal Lane at Foley GalleryWheel Barrel, 2005 by Cal Lane at Foley GalleryArtist Cal Lane created these awesome knockout steel sculptures out of a set of regular shovels and wheelbarrow:Knockout steel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/cal-lanes-knockout-steel-sculptures/A couple of years ago, Bryce Glass of Soldier Ant blog drew up a fantastic graph called the Flickr User Model, explaining exactly what they can do with in the Flickr-verse.Link [Flickr, of course. Larger size] - via Info...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/flickr-user-model/Who knew cricket could be such a dangerous sport? Here's the story of David Morrison, who has broken every single one of his fingers:Reluctant to seek medical attention for fear of losing his place in the te...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/cricket-is-one-dangerous-sport/This particular photo, titled Descent by Carlos and Jason Sanchez is absolutely beautiful in its simplicity and starkness. http://www.thesanchezbrothers.com/works/descent.htm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/descent-by-carlos-and-jason-sanchez/Listaholic has an interesting (though gruesome) article about the 12 most horrifying torture devices in history. This one to the left is the Judas Chair [wiki]:The Spanish Inquisition was said to have made use of, am...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/23/horrifying-torture-devices-in-history/
