King of All Bulldogs.
Karen and Phil Swift's bulldog Tiberius crowned "Most Beautiful Bulldog" at Iowa's Drake Relay sporting event. He beat 50 other dogs for the "droopy eyes, protrudin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/08/king-of-all-bulldogs/Archive for October 2005
Surfin' Mice!
Shane Willmott is training his 3 mice to surf small waves using a tiny mouse-sized surf board at the beaches on Australia's Gold Coast. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/08/surfin-mice/Legless Teen Plays Football.
Bobby Martin, a legless Ohio teen, was told at halftime that he couldn't play in his highschool football game because of a rule requiring players to wear shoes and knee pads. Mart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/08/legless-teen-plays-football/Unquiet Tomb Explores Abandoned Sites.
The Unquiet Tomb website is dedicated to finding (and exploring) abandoned houses, historical sites, and other strange places. The building on the left is Greystone Park Psychiatr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/08/unquiet-tomb-explores-abandoned-sites/Young Beatles Photos.
The Savage Young Beatles has a lot of rare photos of the band from 1950 to 1963. Link (via Linkfilter)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/07/young-beatles-photos/Why You Shouldn't Look Directly at the Sun.
Never, ever look directly at the sun. Not even for a few seconds. This video clip explains why. Link (via Cynical-C Blog)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/07/why-you-shouldnt-look-directly-at-the-sun/Dimsmoor's Concrete Garden.
Samuel Dinsmoor, a retired school teacher and Civil War vet, began building his Garden of Eden and Cabin Home in Kansas in 1907 from cement and limestone. He ultimately everythin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/07/dimsmoors-concrete-garden/Mekong Giant Catfish.
Thai fishermen caught this grizzly bear-sized, 656-pound, 9-feet long Mekong Giant Catfish. They had hoped to sell it to environmentalists to be bred, but it died too soon. So,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/07/mekong-giant-catfish/World's Longest Eyebrow.
Frank Ames' coworkers encouraged him to call Guiness world records because he has the world's longest eyebrow (more than 3 inches long!) Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/07/worlds-longest-eyebrow/Turn Your Loved Ones into Gems.
When you die, you can have Dean VandenBiesen of LifeGem turn your body (or your pet's) into a diamond. He uses a super-hot oven to turn the carbon in the ashes into graphite, then...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/07/turn-your-loved-ones-into-gems/Don't Mess With This Guy.
So, looters will be shot, then smacked with a claw hammer, bit by a big dog, and made to sleep with an ugly woman. Sign seen during Katrina's aftermath....
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/07/dont-mess-with-this-guy/Vision of Science Images.
David McCarthy took this Vision of Science 2005 winning image of a grain of salt and a single peppercorn using a scanning electron microscope. For more great images of science se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/07/vision-of-science-images/Clever Spider Mating Strategy.
The male nursery spider faces a dilemma - the female spider is much bigger and likes to eat male suitors while mating. So, it develops a clever strategy: it brings a dead insect t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/clever-spider-mating-strategy/Python vs. Gator.
In the Florida everglades, they found a dead carcass of a 13-foot Burmese python whose stomach had burst from trying to swallow a 6-foot alligator whole. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/python-vs-gator/World's Ugliest Dog.
Susie Lockheed's 15-year old dog Sam, a purebred Chinese Crested Hairless, has won the World's Ugliest Dog competition for 3 years in a row. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/worlds-ugliest-dog/Blur's Aunt Luisa.
Blur Studio made this 2002 Academy Award-nominated short animation about an old lady who hears music all the time but can't figure out where it's coming from. http://www.blur.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/blurs-aunt-luisa/Honda's Dog-Friendly WOW Car.
Honda has created a dog-friendly concept car called WOW. (for Wonderful Open-hearted Wagon, although I think it stands for bow wow). Anyways, the car has a special crate for dogs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/hondas-dog-friendly-wow-car/Bike Riding Robot.
Japanese company Murata Manufacturing has created a robot that rides a bike without falling! The robot, tentatively named Murata Boy, has gyro sensors to detect velocity and incl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/bike-riding-robot/Molar Painter.
Ron Grant chooses a canvas unlike any other artists - he paints on tooth! After establishing his own dental lab 25 years ago, he became interested in painting on dental crowns. Hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/molar-painter/Smiling Jefferson on New Nickel.
Next year, for the first time in nearly 100 years of having presidents looking somber in coins, the US Mint is trying something different: a new nickel with Jefferson half-smiling...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/06/smiling-jefferson-on-new-nickel/LA Grim Society.
The Los Angeles Grim Society is an associaton of otherwise normal indiiduals who share the same morbid curiosity about the less savory aspects of the city of Los Angeles. LinkOne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/05/la-grim-society/Planet Xena & Moon Gabrielle.
Michael Brown (no, not the FEMA guy) and his team of astronomers who discovered the "10th" planet (yes, behind pluto) in our solar system said that the object has a moon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/05/planet-xena-moon-gabrielle/Goodsell's Dark Days Arts.
Check out Matthew Goodsell's Dark Days art. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/05/goodsells-dark-days-arts/How to Foil a Digital Camera.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have invented a technology that detects a digital camera and shoots a targeted beam of light to it. "That means that someon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/05/how-to-foil-a-digital-camera/Top 100 Nostalgic Toys.
TV Cream has worked out the top 100 nostalgic toys - you'll remember them if you're born before the 1980s. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/05/top-100-nostalgic-toys/World's Most Expensive Things.
Boodles Jewellers made this world's most expensive teabag. It took 3 months and was handcrafted using 280 diamonds. The price? £7,500 or about $13,000. Other things: most ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/05/worlds-most-expensive-things/Gas Pump Accident.
Distracted by the high cost of gas, no doubt....
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/10/04/gas-pump-accident/
