Charity Box for Especially Difficult Children
Photo: Mullenkedheim [Flickr]I'm sure my parents put this charity box up!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/charity-box-for-especially-difficult-children/Photo: Mullenkedheim [Flickr]I'm sure my parents put this charity box up!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/charity-box-for-especially-difficult-children/Photo: Michael Patrick O'NeillMichael Patrick O'Neill took this fantastic photo of a photographer/diver and a Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) - it won the People in Nature Award at the Nature's Best 2007 P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/photographer-and-goliath-grouper/Rick Klein, author of ABC New's political unit The Note, takes a quick look at the Top 5 Best Campaign Trail Moments so far. His picks are:- Giuliani taking a call from his wife during a campaign speech to the NRA- The d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/best-campaign-trail-moments/Literally. The New York Times absolves him:When two pre-Columbian individuals died 1,000 years ago, arid conditions in the region of what is now Peru naturally mummified their bodies, down to the head lice in their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/columbus-did-not-louse-up-america/io9 has taken the standard self-improvement list and turned it on its ear, listing the success secrets of leaders from science fiction. My favorite: 5. Just because you have a crappy ship doesn't mean you're a loser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/seven-habits-of-highly-effective-spaceship-captains/This couch is an exact replica of an Aston Martin DB6 rear end. It’s painted in a classic Aston Martin color, Silver Birch. The red leather is finished off with a Y-stitch on each cushion. Polished to perfection,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/aston-martin-couch/47-year-old Edward Trevor Aldridge pled guilty to assault charges in Christchurch, New Zealand after an altercation in a mens restroom. ...[the victim] used a urinal next to Aldridge who accused him of looking at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/man-beaten-for-breach-of-urinal-etiquette/(YouTube link) A new ad for the Ford Focus used music produced from instruments made out of car parts! Audioporn Central has the story behind the ad. Composer Craig Richey, sound designer Bill Milbrodt, and frie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/ford-focus-musical-instruments/This week's collaboration with What Is It? Blog brings us this strange transparent object: can you guess what it is for?Place your guess in the comment section - one guess per comment, and please, post no URL (let others...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/what-is-it-game-53/You've seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple's original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia's original logo was a fish?Let's take a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/the-evolution-of-tech-companies-logos/Photographer Martin Amm took this amazing macro photography of a red-veined darter dragonfly covered in dew. Link - via reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/dragonfly-covered-with-dew-photo-by-martin-amm/The Road Runner in Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes cartoons is actually named Beep Beep....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/trivia-road-runners-real-name/Don't mess with the Peruvian batmans, er ... anti-riot police. Here they were marching in a military parade to celebrate Peru's Independence Day in Lima last year.http://shemuses.net/2007/07/29/alarming-armour/ (Photo: P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/peruvian-anti-riot-police/One day, Jean Mansel of Oakfield Township, Kent County, Michigan, woke up to discover that her statue of Jesus was missing from her yard. Later, a mysterious telephone call directed her to check her mailbox, where ransom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/wiener-poopie-and-the-missing-jesus-statue/Astronomer Travis Metcalfe and colleagues discovered the largest diamond ever floating happily in space:Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/the-largest-diamond-in-the-galaxy-10-billion-trillion-trillion-carats/PegasusLe BelierLittle BuddhaFrench sculpture Pierre Matter creates fantastic bronze sculptures with a distinct biomech/industrial style: Link [Flash, in French] | Lots more examples of his work at Opera Gallery...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/pierre-matters-biomechanical-sculptures/Inventor Thane Heins was a college dropout who worked on his invention so obsessively that his wife kicked him out and he lost custody of his children. If that's not bad enough, he had difficulty getting scientists to ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/perpetual-motion-machine-stumps-mit-professor/"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle." - Bob Hope, comedian and entertainer (1903 - 2003)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/quote-bob-hope-on-middle-age/If you and your family were trapped in a burning apartment building several stories above street-level, would you drop your baby over the window to save him? Which would you risk: the baby falling to his death or watchin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/man-dropped-baby-out-of-the-window-of-a-burning-apartment/