Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss deals with the TV show CSI (Crime Scene Investigation). You'll be presented with 14 guest stars. Do they play: 1) a suspect, 2) the killer, 3) the deceased, 4) a law enfo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/suspect-killer-law-enforcement-or-deceased/(YouTube link) SpaceX has succeeded in their attempt to launch the Falcon 1 rocket into space. The company, headed by eBay co-founder Elon Musk, had made three unsuccessful tries before yesterday's launch. The t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/private-rocket-goes-to-space/Photo: Hiroko Masuike / The New York TimesKorean artist Jean Shin created this sculpture "Sound Wave" (2007) out of melted vinyl records to connote "the inevitable waves of technology that render each succ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/sound-wave-sculpture-by-jean-shin/A couple walking their dog in a remote, wooded area in the town of Izu, Japan, found what appeared to be a corpse and alerted the police. When forensic pathologists began to unwrap the "corpse," they realized i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/corpse-turned-out-to-be-state-of-the-art-sex-doll/Photo: Dr. Rachel Fink / Mount Holyoke CollegeEvery year, the Nikon Small World showcases the best in microscopy. This year is no different. Here are the selection of photographs from the 2008 Nikon Small World: http://w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/208-nikon-small-world-micrography/Heh! How awesome is this: the "Mechanical Aural Communication Device," a steampunk ear piece (pre-Blue Tooth era, I suppose) made by Flickr user nicrosin. Too bad it's just a prop.http://www.flickr.com/photos/n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/steampunk-earpiece/The War in Darfur, Western Sudan, Africa, is now in its fifth year and its increasingly unlikely - despite their rhetorics - that major world powers will do anything to prevent the killings.Some people are now calling fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/can-mercenaries-stop-the-war-in-darfur/Marcy Massura of Marcy Writes - The Glamorous Life blog found this suspicious set of knives at her local supermarket for back to school! Apparently, it's for kids who can't wait to resume their summer vacation by being s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/back-to-school-knives/Web Urbanist blog has a really neat post about 7 abandoned cities and places in Asia. This photo above is of the lawless Walled City of Kowloon in Hong Kong:In the rogue ungoverned Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/the-walled-city-of-kowloon-and-other-abandoned-cities-and-places-in-asia/Slime and mold are two words guaranteed to send a shiver down many a spine. However, plasmodial slime molds, fungus - like organisms with about eight hundred and fifty species worldwide - possess a strange beauty t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/slime-molds/Two great tastes that some say taste great together. Find the recipe for Bacon Cinnamon Rolls at Bacon Today. If you try these, let us know what you think! Link -via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/bacon-cinnamon-rolls/If you've ever had the hankering to wear a squid on your head, now you can do just that. Etsy seller Josh Freeman has squid hat/pillows in lavender, red, blue, and other colors. Link -Thanks, Lotta! ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/squid-hat/We're coming up on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's 1849 death, which is rather fitting since we're coming up on Halloween. I know; Poe was more than the Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/happy-deathday-edgar-allan-poe/[YouTube - Link] The White House grounds has always had a rich history of political intrigue, drama, and fascinatingly...gardening. It would seem that as each President took office they would add a little something...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/a-short-history-of-the-white-house-garden/DOT MATRIX REVOLUTION* from superbrothers on Vimeo. Here's a really neat video all about the history of computing. Usually, one would be hard pressed to compact all that information into a simple little lecture b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/the-dot-matrix-revolution/Photo: fixbuffalo [Flickr]The "Red Mark of Death" is left Government inspectors on condemned buildings slated for demolition in Buffalo, New York. Flick user fixbuffalo has an interesting Flickr photoset of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/read-mark-of-death/Tom and Kerry Watts love burgers. So when they got married, it was only natural that their wedding cake was shaped like a huge burger! Firefighter Tom, 36, said: "Not only did I get to marry the woman of my drea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/burger-wedding-cake/For an unlucky man, Robert Evans is incredibly lucky: the homeless man was hit by a car in a hit-and-run accident, and when he walking from a hospital to his camp for that, he was hit by a train and survived!"He...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/man-survived-being-hit-by-car-then-train-hours-later/Photo: Fabrizio Constantini / NY TImesLe Mans is a prestigious French endurance car race lasting 24 hours, which is "nasty, brutish, and not short enough," according to Jay Lamm. So he created LeMons as an homa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/lemons-racing-junk-cars/In the State of Texas, homeowners have the right to use deadly force to protect their lives and property. But the case of Jose Luis Gonzalez sparked a controversy when the jury found him not guilty for shooting a teenage...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/homeowner-shot-teenage-intruder-over-twinkies/One minute you're eating fried fish in your favorite restaurant, and the next you're spitting out worms.Now, is that a health code violation? If you say yes, you'd be wrong:Kelly McCoy, a representative with the Sacr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/is-a-dead-worm-in-your-fish-dinner-a-health-violation/Psst, needlephobics! (You know who you are!) Are you afraid of shots? Investor Yoshio Oyama has invented something for you: a convenient needle-free syringe that use air pressure to deliver drugs.Yoshio's system is calle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/no-more-needles-new-needle-free-syringe-invention/This lamp by designer Jethro Macey requires you to insert a coin before it lights up. Coin Lamp is the first product in a range based on the concept of values and reward, it subtly heightens awareness of consumpti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/coin-lamp/light-Bot is an easy to learn and surprisingly fun Flash game by Coolio_Niato where you have to guide a little robot to light up a certain square.It starts out easy, but it gets harder ...Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/light-bot-flash-game/Congress is burning the midnight oil negotiating over the bailout package, and I bet you dollar to donuts it'll happen soon. But have you ever wonder how they arrived at the magic number of $700 billion figure for the ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/wait-why-is-it-700-billion-exactly/Belly dancer Amira Sa'id has both beauty and brains (her college degree is in physics). And now, she also has a following of geeks who are enthralled by her rendition of Princess Leia belly dancing!When she returned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/belly-dancer-turned-princess-leia-slave-girl-into-a-career/UCLA mathematician Edson Smith and colleagues have found a really, really large prime number: it's 13 million digits long!The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75 computers running...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/28/new-mersenne-prime-number-discovered-its-13-million-digits-long/Sculptor Steven Woodward's latest art project is a set of traffic signs, made from the same material as normal signs, but with pictures designed to slow traffic. Some feature pictures of people, others are based on cave...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/art-to-slow-down-cars/To make a building last for a long, long time, you just cut it out of existing rock! Take a look at eight such structures, carved over many years from mountains and cliff sides. Pictured are the Lycian Tombs in Turkey....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/rock-cut-architecture/This year's StreetWars tournament is in full swing in New York City. It is a shadowy sport (previously at Neatorama) in which participants are directed to kill each other off -with squirt guns! Players are directed to fi...
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