Is the American economy heading toward a recession? ABC World News business correspondent Betsy Stark talks about the disappointing report that the nation only added 18,000 jobs last month.Bill Blakemore: */s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/is-the-united-states-economy-heading-into-a-recession/Several years ago, Renee Williams was left bedridden after a car accident and over the years, her weight ballooned to over 800-lb.In February 2007, the Texas woman and mother of two underwent a gastric bypass surgery, bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/worlds-heaviest-woman-that-underwent-gastric-bypass-surgery-died/Her parents thought that four-year-old Rose Willcocks was mute because of an extremely unusual genetic condition. But they were surprised to find out that Rose indeed can talk - but only to animals!Here's an interesting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/miss-doolittle-talks-only-to-animals/Cavendish, is no regular six-year-old guide dog ... he can assist his master around the house and even do the laundry!Apparently, he can empty the washing machine and also fetch the phone.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/this-guide-dog-can-do-the-laundry/And now, let's pause for this Indian version of Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns 'N Roses, played with electric sitars. It's an ad for Channel V television. They should make a longer version.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/indian-sweet-child-o-mine/A radio station in Glasgow City Center, Scotland, came up with a brilliant way to promote their launch! An empty guitar stand invited people to help themselves to an air guitar to be played while listening to their stati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/rock-radio-station-offers-free-air-guitars/In China's Henan province, a local resident found the remains of a turtle that is belived to be around 100 million years old according to an expert from a local institute. Reports also says that the organic remains w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/100-millionn-year-old-turtle-remains-found/Champagne maker Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin commissioned Porsche Design to create this eye-catching storage rack called "Vertical Limit." The 6-feet tall cabinet holds 12 magnums of Clicquot champagnes and keeps t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/vertical-limit-champagne-storage-rack/The extreme cold weather in South Florida brought about an unexpected phenomenon: iguanas were dropping out of the trees en masse!When the temperature falls below a certain level, the large green lizards dro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/its-raining-iguanas-in-florida/The Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, was a few days ago, but we can still enjoy Azrael Brown's scans of old photographs of the Parade (from the 1960s).This one's my favorite, a float from the National...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/scary-clown-parade-float-warned-you-to-walk-wisely-dont-be-a-clown/No girly French Vanilla candle here at Hotwicks ... only man-candles, like this one:THE URINAL CAKE CANDLE -- Bring the industrial chemical freshness of a public restroom right to your home.We're often asked...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/urinal-cake-candle/[YouTube Link] An amusing and poignant music video by Bradley Bandara. Based upon the Eric Bazilian song One of Us, which was a 1996 hit when sung by Joan Osbourne. It features a badly-costumed supreme dei...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/what-if-god-had-a-myspace/The Paderborn cathedral is primarily a 13th century structure, but the Dreihasenfenster (the Three-Hare Window) was added in the 16th century. Notice that each hare has two ears, but altogether there is only one ear per...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/the-three-hare-window-of-paderborn/Window washer Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories outside the Solow Residences in New York City on December 7th. He broke bones in his arms, legs, back, and ribs. His brother, who was working with him, was killed. Since then,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/window-washer-survives-47-story-fall/(YouTube link) From the German TV show Wetten, dass..? {wiki}, here’s a guy throwing toilet plungers at a line of backs. I hope those guys got paid decently. -via Grow-A-Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/plunger-pro/Japanese Bug Fights is a website that showcases videos of different species of bugs in battle, including both insects and arachnids. Users are invited to submit videos. The rules: 1. Two Bugs to a fight 2. Bug f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/japanese-bug-fights/A Norwegian-US science expedition to the South Pole of Inaccessibility found a bust of Vladimir Lenin waiting for them. The South Pole of Inaccessibility is the point in Antarctica that is furthest from the coasts, and r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/soviet-icon-surprises-polar-scientists/This German neurosurgical set is dated to the early 19th century, when brain surgery meant boring holes with hand drills and slicing parts of the brain that doctors didn’t quite understand. Around the central tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/19th-century-neurosurgical-instruments/Daredevil Robbie Maddison made this incredible 322-foot jump on New Year's Eve. Link [YouTube] - via ebr303motorcycle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/amazing-world-record-motorcycle-jump/A video clip showing a bunch of pictures of geeky weddings and couples. You'll probably be able to spot most of them in the poster from the 56 Geeks entry. Link [YouTube] - via Uber Reviewgeek...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/the-ultimate-geeks-compilation/The Iowa Caucus has come and gone - Barack Obama won the Democratic Caucus, whereas Mike Huckabee won the Republican side. But exactly how useful are the results from Iowa? Let's take a quick and dirty look at the number...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/iowa-caucus-vs-new-hampshire-primary-which-is-the-better-predictor/In Lynchburg, Tennessee, tales of Jack Daniel are taller than Paul Bunyan on a step stool. The question is, are any of them true?The legend of Jack Daniel reaches all the way back to the moment he was born...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/whiskey-business-the-many-myths-of-jack-daniel/The concept behind The Human Calendar is darned simple, but very clever: make a calendar out of photographs of people holding a placard. The date is the guy or girl that everyone's looking at!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/the-human-calendar/Guerilla Gardening, like its name suggest, is an illicit act of planting and cultivation of greeneries in neglected urgan areas. Well, mostly that - there is also a little bit of subversion going on, as exemplified by th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/guerilla-gardening/A while ago, Bert Huber wrote an article about DNA as seen through the eyes of a computer programmer. In it, he takes various aspects of DNA, usually written in the mambo jumbo of biology and translates them into computi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/dna-as-seen-through-the-eyes-of-a-computer-programmer/Various forms of torture employed by federal troops in the 19th centuryWhen we think of torture, we usually think of brutal methods as being invented by dictators, but in this Boston Globe article, Darius Rejali argues t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/the-greatest-innovator-of-torture-is-democracy-not-dictatorship/The results of the Iowa caucus are in: Barack Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination race and Mike Huckabee won the Republican side.The story's all over the Internet, but I found some interesting exit poll stat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/04/iowa-caucus-exit-poll-statistics/
