Maureen Burns in Rugby, England has a 10-year-old mixed breed collie named Max who probably saved her life. Max started actingly strangely, sniffing his owner's breath and rubbing against her right breast. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/cancer-sniffing-dog-saves-owners-life/How cool is it to have a light up needlework project sold complete with the lights, wiring and battery to make it work? Way too cool, that's how cool. LinkArt, weird, crafts, lights, embroidery, cool...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/electronic-embroidery-kit/This is some incredible artwork by Hilary Berseth, and a few thousand helpers...Artists from Rodin to Warhol to Mark Kostabi have outsourced the construction of their work. Hilary Berseth goes them one better:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/un-bee-lieveable-artwork/Artist Meschac Gaba imagined a city of sugar, and then built it. He filled it with instantly recognizable landmarks from around the world, such as the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House, the Lond...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/mini-city-of-sweetness/Photo from: Black is the New Black blog (I won't pretend to know my Japanese monster, so can someone point out what it is?)Oops - I've been so busy that little did I notice we haven't posted a Caption Monkey game in a wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/caption-monkey-56-family-photo/Hello everyone! Just a little update on the going ons in the world of Neatorama:Mystery Sale: Thank you to everybody who participated! This was our third and best Mystery Sale ever! Due to the high volum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/neatorama-update-february-2009/Evan Booth created this awesome "gaping hole" costume for Halloween using a travel DVD player with video feed from a digital camera strapped to his back.I don't know what is more awesome, Evan's wig or the gapi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/gaping-hole-halloween-costume/Xander of Colaplaza is an avid collector of Coca-Cola cans. He now has over 8,000 different Coke cans. Check out his Wall of Coke Cans here: http://colaplaza.com/index.aspx?PageID=7 Previously on Neatorama: 25 Strangest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/wall-of-coca-cola-cans/LiveJournal user Makzer posted a fantastic set of photos from a 1:500 scale model of the Russian capital of Moscow. Every year since 1986, workers wipe dust from each building and keep the model updated whenever new buil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/mini-moscow/Design studio Go Media has just released "the most usable sticker for real-life FAILS". Behold, the Fail Sticker. Oh, I can think of many uses for this little puppy!Link - via Zoomdoggle and Urlesquefail, sti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/fail-sticker/Photo: chipzdarsky [Flickr]Chip Zdarsky created this set of illustrations of every hipster's favorite political deity figure: Look out, it's Li'l Che! (Shouldn't it be chequito?) Link - via Warren Ellislil che, Che Gueva...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/lil-che-by-chip-zdarsky/The 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood has been translated into languages all over the world, which has to be a difficult job because so much of the story is told through songs. Andy Baio at Waxy has collected...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/oo-de-lally-in-13-languages/That's a lot of pancakes! 672 of them, to be exact, and a pair of chefs at a Scottish hotel think the stack of pancakes may get them into the Guinness Book of World Records. Sean McGinlay and Natalie King of Glasgow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/world-pancake-stack-record/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OPQqH3YlHA][YouTube - Link]91-year old Claire shows how she cooked meals during the Great Depression. Nothing special - potatoes and hot dogs - but her commentary does make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/poor-mans-meal-a-depression-era-recipe/[YouTube - Link] Here's something you don't see too often...a Canada goose trying to pick on a sweet natured dog in a boat. I have no idea why this goose seems to have a thing for the dog though it maybe protecting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/24/goose-vs-dog-and-man/Macropinna macrostoma (common name "barreleyes") can rotate its eyes to a vertical position; because its head is transparent, it can then see predators or prey above itself without moving its body!*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/a-fish-with-a-transparent-head/Some clever uses of escalators as street marketing devices. Don't miss the escalator with the mine shaft at the bottom! http://www.yourteube.com/concept/du-street-marketing-a-gogo-iii-the-escalator/From the Upc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/escalator-marketing/Three dolphins had been trapped for a week by drift ice in the harbor of Seal Cove, Newfoundland. Residents of the small community appealed to the local department of fisheries and oceans, but received no response....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/local-men-free-dolphins-trapped-by-ice/If I put my money in a machine and a person popped up to give me my candy, I'm quite sure I'd leave my money and the candy and run as fast as my legs could carry me. These people seem delighted, though, so maybe it's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/human-vending-machine/I'd better make a quick disclaimer on this one: sometimes there are many theories as to how a phrase came about. These 12 explanations are just some of the possible origins. We've been using some of these phrase...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/12-food-phrases-explained/The Linden Hill United Methodist Cemetery, located between Bushwick, Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens, take themselves very seriously. They've got strict rules regulating ... well, everything!It seems that about the only t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/the-cemetery-of-no/...Bayo, perhaps? Whatever it's called, Ryan Farr from Best by Farr (this is his picture, by the way) has whipped up a batch of either the most wonderful or most evil culinary creation ever. He cooked up some bacon fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/bacon-mayonnaise/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKL6elkbFy0][YouTube - Link]When most people can't find their pencil sharpener, they just use a knife, but what if they had access to a computer controlled lathe?From the Upcoming...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/worlds-most-complicated-pencil-sharpener/Here's another reason not to use Facebook: social networking websites may actually harm brains of its young users!Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratif...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/is-facebook-bad-for-young-brains/If you're one of the millions of people practicing yoga for mental and physical health, you may soon run into legal trouble: a lot of the traditional poses are being patented and trademarked by Western yoga teachers.So,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/india-patenting-yoga-moves-to-battle-patent-pirates/Cats hate water, right? Well, the old stereotype doesn't seem to apply to USA Today Pet Talk columnist Sharon Peter's Grisabella. Meet the cat that LOVES to play in water!The old "cats hate water"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/water-loving-cat/The farewell email, the last piece of correspondence to send to your co-workers when you are leaving the company, is usually a utilitarian method of letting people know how to contact you. But for some, it has evolved in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/the-farewell-email-so-long-suckers-im-out/Ioana Cioanca, a 71-year-old Romanian woman, is sort of a fashion extremist. Not only does she make her own clothes, she makes 'em out of her own hair!Ioana Cioanca, 71, from Bistrita Nasaud, grew her hair from the a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/woman-makes-clothes-out-of-own-hair/While other college students deliver pizza to help pay for tuition, University of Colorado graduate Eric Osowski got another idea: he started a business delivering ... hookahs!Launched last year, Deliver-a-Bowl rents...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/23/rent-a-hookah/One of the largest Lego creations ever constructed is a 16-ft-tall model of an Egyptian pharaoh that looks suspiciously like King Tut. The giant pharaoh is currently floating down the River Thames on its way to Leg...
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