The Salariya Book Co. explains why "You Wouldn't Want to be a Polar Explorer!", Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/18/expeditions-you-wouldnt-go-on-and-why/Brendan McKay answers to Michael's Drosnin's challenge "When my critics find a message about the assasination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them.&q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/18/as-predicted-by-moby-dick/Bob Gillis explains how you can start a fire by creating a lens made from ice. Link (via BoingBoing)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/18/fire-from-ice/The (always) amazingly creative photoshop contest at Worth1000 - this particular theme is "frog". For more entries, see: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/18/cool-frog-photoshop-images/Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier grew up reading and loving comic strips. This is how they got engaged, illustrated the way they know best: in comics. http://www.webcomicsnation.co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/18/a-comical-engagement/Luca Mori, an Italian computer programmer, was using Google Maps and Google Earth, when he stumbled upon a Roman ruin near Parma, Italy.This was probably the first archeological f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/17/roman-ruins-found-with-google-earth/Two from Laurie Jacob's bra collections: the Spiky Bra and the Blowfish Bra. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/17/laurie-jacobs-bra-art/Proof that some people have waaay too much time on their hand: the Virtual Stapler site. (Weird, I can't stop stapling the virtual stapler!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/17/virtual-stapler/From our ever wacky and weird friends in Japan, here comes the Kikkoman Soy Sauce fight song. http://yoga.at.infoseek.co.jp/flash/kikkomaso_e.htm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/17/fight-kikkoman/A 33-year old woman went to adoctor complaining of headaches and was told that there was a spider living in her ear! The spider even had time to spun a web there... Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/17/next-time-you-have-a-headache/John Schwenkler compiled the web classic "Guide to Wacky Court Cases", including the famous 1971 case of United States vs. Satan, a landmark class action suit against th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/17/wacky-court-cases/Suresh Joachin is the Guiness world record holder for longest marathon tv watching of 69 hours and 48 minutes. He broke the previous world record of 50 hours and 7 minutes.Suresh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/16/tv-watching-record-i-can-do-that/Natural and artificial snow flakes beautifully photographed by Ken Libbrecht at Caltech. The first one on the left is nature's own (photo by Patricia Rasmussen & Ken Libbre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/16/cool-snowflakes/Johnny Swing is a New York artist who welded thousands of pennies, nickels, and quarters into amazing furnitures. Shown to the left is his "Nickel Couch". If you have a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/16/swings-coin-furnitures/Everyone's got a blog on the Internet nowadays ... even the Incredible Hulk! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/16/hulks-blog/Patricia Waller elevates crochet to an art form. Link Patricia Waller...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/16/wallers-crochet-art/Devo's classic "Whip It" re-enacted by fifth-graders at the Hawley Elementary School in Minnesota. Link or if it's down, try this: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/16/devo-by-5th-graders/The Work Blind: have someone take a picture of you working, then have a print blown up as large as your cubicle's opening. Brilliant! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/16/the-work-blind/Bill Cigliano draws award winning illustrations that are just plain fun to look at. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/16/ciglianos-illustrations/Pierre Beauchemin, a school teacher from Canada, held the world record for being the most flexible man. Link. For other very limber fellows, see: Limbermen For more neat human fea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/15/worlds-most-flexible-man/Bodmin the rabbit (named after the Beast of Bodmin, a legendary half-rat/half-bunny predator that terrorizes England). At time of the picture, this rabbit weighs at 88lbs. More...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/15/bodmin-the-gigantic-rabbit/This Lockheed Lounge by MINIMA comes with 1,800 rivets. Looks awesome, but probably isn't very comfy. You can order one for just $625. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/15/lockheed-lounge/Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a famous artist in the 16th century who drew amazing paintings of veggies, fruits, and flowers resembling people. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/15/veggies-fruits-flowers-cool-art/You can make this little dragon, whose face seems to look at you directly and follow you as you walk across the room. Link Updated Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/15/dragon-paper-sculpture/OK, so everyone knows how big 1 penny is. It's also easy to visualize 16 stacked pennies. How about $10 worth of pennies (1,000 pennies)? 50,000 pennies? 1 million pennies? 10 mil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/15/a-gazillion-pennies/This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strangely in a nearby pond and went to investigate. It turned o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/14/catfish-vs-basketball/A modern monowheel built by Kerry McLean. For a nice collection of monowheel pictures, see: http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl.htm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/14/that-bikes-got-one-wheel/Hidden Mickeys started out as an inside joke by Walt Disney workers - they subtly "hide" Mickey Mouse's signature ear silhouettes in plain sight. Where? everywhere! Hidd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/14/hidden-mickeys/Terry Duty enjoys bending steel bars. He's worked out the proper techniques of bending steel (yes, apparently there are proper techniques) that he called Slim the Hammer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/09/14/bending-steel-bars-why/The RIOT Wheel is a 1,100 lb motorized single-wheel vehicle first built for the Burning Man festival (where else?) Link...
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