It was twenty-two years ago today that the Space Shuttle Challenger was launched for the last time. It exploded less than two minutes into the flight. The Texas Space Grant Consortium has a rundown on what happened tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/space-shuttle-challenger/With all of the primaries going on in the past month, you may have noticed that the presidential candidates are starting to get a little snarky with each other. What you may not know is that mudslinging isn't exactly a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/5-nastiest-us-presidential-elections-in-history/(YouTube link) When I brought home a Roboquad robot the other day and started playing with it, our resident guardian K9 was none too pleased. I decided to put Roboquad in "autonomous" mode, set his aggression leve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/puppy-vs-robot/LEGO is 50 years old today (precisely at 1:58 pm, actually, when the original patent was filed in Denmark). The plastic toy building brick is everywhere - LEGO has thousands of sets with all sorts of themes, fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/10-neatest-lego-facts-and-links/Back in 2003, the McDonald's at East Alton, Illinois had a strangely-worded sign that just begged to be pranked. So the folks at Phone Losers of America did just that:I don’t want to use any of the ideas that d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/the-mcdonalds-sign-prank/This guy has modded his Honda Goldwing motorcycle into a mini F15 Fighter Jet! He claims that the creation is street legal - GeekAlerts has a short video clip of the strange jet/bike combo: LinkToo bad there's no afterbu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/man-modded-honda-goldwing-motorcycle-to-look-like-f15-fighter-jet/Snow White n 7 StormtroopersDarth Valice in WonderlanddeviantART user *Thumper-001 has a fantastic set of fan art of Star Wars and Disney mash up.The Cheshire Cat in Boba Fett costume is simply marvelous!Many more excell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/star-warsdisney-mash-up-fan-art/That's Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas drawing a photorealistic B/W (that's blue and white, I suppose) art using only a BIC ballpoint pen!Some examples of his amazing work:theperfectman (2007)Windybrighton (2007)Clic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/bic-pen-drawings-by-juan-francisco-casas/Someone tell the idiots at the Westboro Baptist Church that Heath Ledger was an actor playing a role in The Brokeback Mountain. Or maybe they didn't even care.Is this for real? Sadly, given the history of condemnation o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/westboro-baptist-church-to-picket-heath-ledgers-funeral/Photo: Russell BirdPhotographer Russell Bird captured this mysterious structure known as the "sheep circle":There were strange goings on at the farm today when a flock of sheep made their own version of a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/the-sheep-circle/"I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost." - Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/quote-steven-wright-on-the-uncertainty-principle/Photo: Annie LeibovitzFamous photographer Annie Leibovitz had done a series of stylized photos for Disney's ad campaign "Year of a Million Dreams" (we covered this back in November 2007). Now, she has more pics, like the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/new-photos-by-annie-leibovitz-for-disney/You're looking at photographs from a new attempt to break the world record for the "The Largest Champagne Fountain" in Antwerp, Belgium:The 7 metre (22.9 feet) high pyramid will contain more than 43,000 gla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/worlds-largest-champagne-fountain/Photo: City of LewistonThe City of Lewiston, Maine, got an unusual sewer problem: its main sewer line is being clogged by a mysterious 50 to 60 foot (15 to 18 m) long doughy blob!City crews discovered the clog earlie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-sewer-blob/To make his hotel stand out from its competitors, Belgrade hotelier Dusan Zabunovic decided to give his hotel a peculiar theme: current and past world leaders!Zabunovic renovated a property opposite Belgrade's centra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/the-hitler-room/Eighty-one-year-old retiree Leo Hill got a nagging feeling that every roll of TP he's used since mid-2006 didn't last as long as they used to.So, having a lot of time on his hand, he decided to investigate: by counti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/are-they-shortchanging-our-toilet-papers/In a room of 57 or more people, the probability of two people having the same birthday is 99%.In a group of 23 randomly chosen people, that probability is 50%. For a full explanation, see Birthday Paradox [wiki]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/trivia-the-birthday-paradox/Fifteen-year-old Demi-Lee Brennan is lucky to be alive: after a virus destroyed her liver, doctors gave her just 48 hours to live when a donated liver became available.But not only that: after the transplant, Demi-Lee be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/teenagers-blood-type-changed-by-liver-transplant/Have you ever wondered what the home office of Facebook, Digg, or Craiglist looks like? This post has pictures of 12 workplaces that run some of the web's popular sites. Neatorama isn't there. As far as I can tell, it'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/web-20-workplaces/You're looking at the Shoe House in Hellam, Pennsylvania. It was an actual guesthouse (3 bedroom, 2 baths, a kitchen and a living room ... no word about shoe closet) of a local shoe magnate, Mahlon N. Haines. After his d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/the-shoe-house-and-other-buildings-that-look-like-things/Thanks Trey! Does anyone know where this split rock is? (Or whether it's photoshop)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/telltale-sign-that-chuck-norris-was-here/When he was at Yale School of Architecture in 2002, John Caserta created a series of 3D alphabets cut out of styrofoam. A particular piece, like this "S" here, would have many sides with different letters on th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/3d-alphabets-cut-out-of-styrofoam/AzureGrackle started a neat project where she invited printmakers to create artwork for each of the elements in the periodic table: Ninety-six printmakers of all experience levels, have joined together to produce 118...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/periodic-table-of-printmaking/Sometimes awesomeness comes in relatively simple things like this LEGO diorama of Batman kicking the tar out of some ninjas. Created by Nelson Yrizarry ("Big Daddy" Nelson [Flickr]), who also made the Joe Vig s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/batman-vs-ninjas-lego-diorama/Did you ever want to find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stood for? That's what Mike Molloy, the founder and developer of AcronymFinder.com, said, when he launched the site in 1997, “I ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/the-world-of-acronyms/In 1900, the body of an unidentified young woman, an apparent suicide, was pulled from the river Seine in Paris. Enchanted by the mysterious corpse’s beauty, a morgue worker made a plaster cast of the woman’s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/linconnue-de-la-seine/French artist Etienne Meneau created this maison elastique (elastic house) out of modular riggings for those "who like instability" in their lives. Link - via BLDGBLOG...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/elastic-house-for-those-who-love-instability/Before and After mug shots of Tracey Gold of Growing Pains, booked for drunk driving in 2004 (The Smoking Gun) One day, photographer David Friedman of Ironic Sans got an idea: take a celebrity mug shots and turn it into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/glamour-mug-shots/That's Pieta (Study), a 2006 sculpture of Jesus on an electric chair by UK artist Paul Fryer.I'll leave my interpretation of this sculpture's symbolism out of this post, but feel free to tell us what you think in the com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/pieta-study-sculpture-by-paul-fryer/Lesley-Anne of Hello Pineaples heard that the United Nations declared 2008 to be the International Year of the Potato. She found this to be a completely ridiculous idea. So, she set forth to make her first political plu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/27/the-un-potato-plushie-mr-peacekeeper-potatohead/
