Remember the story of how prisoners in Brazil have been smuggling in cell phones using pigeons? Well, that's low tech compared to what these other prisoners did:Four suspects were arrested late on Sunday outside a ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/prisoners-smuggle-in-stuff-with-a-toy-chopper/Our pal mental_floss is having another trivia hunt: over the course of 5-days, they will present a trivia challenge - the first to submit the right answers will win a $100 shopping spree in their store.Check it out: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/trivia-hunt-at-mental_floss-win-100/The Nazis at Buchenwald concentration camp did it. And so did serial killer Ed Gein. Now, Andrew Krasnow is making sculptures and lampshades out of human skin, all in the name of art:His works include human skin lamp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/andrew-krasnows-gruesome-human-skin-art/Whatever you do, don't bet on a game of pool with two-year-old Keith O'Dell Jr! Neatoramanauts, meet the world's youngest pool shark. He may still in diapers, but this pool prodigy can surely whip my butt!Hit play or go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/worlds-youngest-pool-shark/I've always liked ABBA, and now I like 'em even more because apparently their music can miraculously awaken someone from a coma! Here's the story of how 3-year-old Layla Towsey woke up from a meningitis coma, singing *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/mamma-mia-girl-in-coma-woke-up-singing-abba-song/We've featured a lot of cool and neat stuff on Neatorama, but I dare say this is really hard to beat. Behold, the embossed drawings of Simon Schubert: http://www.simonschubert.de/papierarbeiten.html - via Paper Forestpap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/amazing-folded-paper-art-by-simon-schubert/The musical South Pacific was a Broadway hit and then a blockbuster movie. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental floss will show how much you know about this classic. I was surprised to score 82%, because it's been...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/south-pacific/Despite being incarcerated at a federal prison in Kentucky, Jonathan Lee Riches has made it into the Guiness Book of World Records. He was named as the person who has filed the most lawsuit ever. So what did he do next?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/the-man-who-sues/Check out this whimsical and intricate miniature featuring the giant monster we all know and love: Godzilla! This 1:12 scale scene of an impending house demolition was built by a miniature creator named Annie, and you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/miniature-godzilla-scene/If you are one who is willing to suffer for fashion, you might have a pair or two of the stylish "skinny jeans". If so, you need to know about meralgia paresthetica, or “tingling thigh syndrome.” It feels as if your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/tingling-thigh-syndrome/(YouTube link) This little guy looks like a cartoon character! He's a Pygmy Jerboa {wiki}, of which there are several species native to Asia. -via Arbroathjerboa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/pygmy-jerboa/Scientists have announced the top ten new species first described in 2008. On the list are a pea-sized seahorse, caffeine-free coffee and bacteria that live in hairspray. The top 10 new species also include the ver...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/top-ten-new-species/Four pieces of homemade cracker, and you've got this cute and delicious sheep! Design*Sponge has the recipe and instructions. http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/05/bahhh-licious.html -via Unique Daily recipe, shee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/3d-animal-crackers/Biggify at: PhD Comics by Jorge ChamOh, this is SO true! Jorge Cham of PhD Comics (which stands for Piled Higher & Deeper, if you must know) nailed it with this cartoon panel, The Science News Cycle, about how a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/the-science-news-cycle/Y'all remember Susan Boyle, the instant sensation who took the Interwebs by storm when she sang at Britain's Got Talent. She recently sang at the semi-final of the show - and as you can tell, she's got herself a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/susan-boyle-at-the-semi-final-of-britains-got-talent/YesButNoButYes blog has a post about anti-drug PSAs that look like they were made by people who were under the influence themselves! The post includes such gems PSAs by Hanna-Barbera, Pee Wee Herman (I half expected him...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/the-strangest-anti-drug-psas-ever/Beer has come a long way since the very first beer can was produced back in 1935. Our pal WebUrbanist has a nifty post about some of the most unusual and collectible beer cans in the world. This one to the left is the ve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/the-very-first-beer-can-and-other-unusual-beer-cans-of-the-world/Taxidermy has certainly come a long way since I last saw a stuffed animal head in a dark, stuffy lodge a long, long time ago. Chad Garrison of the St. Louis Daily Riverfront Times blog shows us what "masters of mast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/2009-world-taxidermy-championship/Don't ever say that Big Pharma doesn't care about you ... Pfizer is offering free Viagra (and other drugs) to Americans who have lost their job:Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it will give away more than 70 of its most wid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/big-pharma-loves-you-free-viagra-for-the-unemployed/We haven't posted a fun Flash game in a while, so here's one to make up for the oversight: Splitter by Eugene Karataev.It's a fun little physics engine game with the simple goal: get the smiley to its goal by slicing and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/splitter-a-fun-physics-engine-flash-game-by-eugene-karataev/There are two very exciting recent advances in nanotechnology may soon result in a massive increase in memory capacities of your DVDs and iPods: Researchers at the Centre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/recent-advances-in-nanotechnology-may-lead-to-a-massive-increase-in-memory-capacity/In addition to being Memorial Day in the United States, today is Towel Day — a day to honor Douglas Adams and the importance of carrying a towel around with you, as advised by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/today-is-towel-day-a-day-in-honor-of-douglas-adams/Jim Graham, a Washington D.C. councilman, has an unusual proposal to fight crime in his neighborhood: ban pizza!Democrat Party councilman Jim Graham says the late-night “Jumbo Slice” pizza shacks operatin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/fight-crime-by-banning-pizza/Hang out, drink wine, send tweets and Facebook updates all day ... and get paid for it! Can this possibly be the best job for a twitterholic ever? Sonoma County winemaker Murphy-Goode is looking for a "lifestyle cor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/best-job-for-facebook-addicts-and-twitterholics-ever-10k-a-month-to-tweet/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p88rFB33UJM][YouTube - Link]From the pet loving nation of Japan comes the latest dog workout video. - via japanprobeFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Geekazoid.dog, squat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/dog-squat/David Traver of Anchorage, Alaska won the World Beard Championship on Saturday with his 20.5 inch beard. 300 competitors were in Anchorage for the 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships, and about half were competi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/world-beard-champion/A seven-legged calf was born in Steamboat Springs, Colorado on Thursday. Veterinarian Lee Meyring delivered the animal and called its condition a birth anomaly. “I’ve been in practice for 14 years, and I’v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/seven-legged-calf-born/Those of us in the U.S. are celebrating Memorial Day today - a day to honor lost loved ones and soldiers (more on that in a minute). But our Memorial Day is just one of many Remembrance days across the world. Here are t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/five-other-remembrance-days-across-the-world/While traveling across the country to explore the issue of hunger, photographer Mark Menjivar asked strangers if he could photograph the contents of their refrigerators. Each picture tells a story about the person:An...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/what-your-refrigerator-says-about-you/The Independent newspaper in the UK has released some newly discovered portraits of British soldiers from World War I. Hidden in a French barn for ninety years, these pictures are a telling record of s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/25/unseen-photographs-shed-new-light-on-world-war-i/
