In 1935, Boston architect Chester Lindsay Churchill completed the Mapparium, a three-story spherical globe room with a map of the world made from stained glass:Churchill pu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/31/chester-lindsay-churchills-mapparium/This has got to be one of the weirder inventions around: a company called Flat-D Innovations is selling a doggie thong designed to reduce dog fart odors!Link (via Strange New Prod...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/31/anti-fart-dog-thong/Motive Power Review has an extensive photo collection of railroad snowfighting equipments: Link (via Information Junk)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/31/railroad-snowfighting-machines/Ann Mette Heindorff has an amazing collection of stamps delineating art history, styles, and artists.Link (via KingBoy)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/31/art-history-on-stamps/Archaeologist Yannis Lolos said that his team had unearthed the 13th century remains of the remains of a 3,500-year-old palace of Ajax the Great, a legendary warrior-king describe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/31/palace-of-illiads-ajax-the-great-found/2Spare has assembled Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future. To wit, on the computer category, are these bad predictions: Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/31/bad-predictions-about-the-future/Las Vegas (where else?) Hilton Executive Chef George Bargisen has assembled the World's Largest Buffet:Bargisen spent 24 hours straight overseeing the mammoth spread, which in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/30/worlds-largest-buffet-510-dishes-all-you-can-eat/James Wilson of Redford, Michigan, went on strike - a very unique strike. He will stay on the roof of his house until his wife Vanessa makes their 3-year old daughter and 2-year old son sleep i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/30/husband-on-strike/After being held hostage in Iraq for 3 months, American freelance journalist Jill Carroll was released unharmed. From ABC News:Carroll, 28, was dropped off near the Iraqi Isla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/30/jill-carroll-released/This snake bowtie ad (the perfect wear for Snakes on a Plane!) is from Space Ace #5, 1952 and is just one of many fantastic vintage ads at Steve Conley's Super Marketing: Ads from the Comic Bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/30/vintage-ad-for-snake-bowtie/From the 2002 archive of the Cellar Image of the Day, we find Liew Thow Lin - the famous Malaysian "Magnetic Man". Liew, a retired contractor, discovered that he could have various m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/30/the-real-life-magneto/From the website: The PimpStar is a huge leap forward in the evolution of the wheel. With the PimpStar's built-in full color LED lights, microprocessor and wireless modem, you can display v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/30/the-pimpstar/From the website: People in several countries stopped in their tracks today to be wowed by a total solar eclipse that plunged a narrow swath of the planet into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/30/solar-eclipse/A fantastic collection of balloon sculpture: Link (via J-Walk Blog)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/30/balloon-sculptures/From Underground Ozark's note on the urban exploration of Nike KC-30 missile silo in Pleasant Hill, Missouri: Without getting specific, we found a non-damaging way to get down into one of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/29/exploring-a-nike-missile-bunker/Back in 2004, Elena gained Internet fame (and notoriety) for posting photos of the abandoned town of Pripyat, Ukraine, where the Chernobyl nuclear reactor is located.At first, Elena's website...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/29/ghost-town-chernobyl-photoblog-by-elena-filatova/Mark Andermann and Christopher Moore of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT discovered an "exquisite micro-map of the brain. It's the size of the period at the e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/29/rat-brain-has-a-micro-topographic-map-of-rats-whiskers/Neatorama reader Hubs wrote:Hip hip hurray for the Denver Public Library! Today DPL becomes the first public library in the nation to begin a new eFlicks service (which is now ava...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/29/denver-public-librarys-eflicks-service/Ana Fakin made this funny movie of her dog Shiva singing Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) by Perry Como and Ray Charles Singers.http://www2.arnes.si/%7Eafakin/singingdog.html (T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/29/ana-fakins-dog-singing/From the website: The Toraja way of death is a fascinating mix of ritual, custom and spectacle. For the Toraja, the dead are as much a part of society as the living. At Lem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/the-toraja-way-of-death/From the website: By 2300 the United Nations forecasts that the global population will be just under 9 billion. World population is expected to rise, peak and then decline...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/world-population-by-year-2300-visualized-by-country/To salute Sam Frantz, the inventor of hybrid corn, the city of Dublin, Ohio, commissioned an Malcolm to create a field of corn ears - from concrete!Link (via Bits...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/malcolm-cochrans-field-of-corn/Checkout Ronald's other artwork: Link (via Transbuddha)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/ronald-kurniawans-last-great-toothache/Shahimi Abdul Hamid, a 33-year-old Malaysian man, set a new world record by kissing a cobra 51 times in the head in 3 minutes. The cobra kisser said he originally planned to k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/man-kissed-cobra-51-times-in-3-minutes/From the website: Outside our building is a sorry little sidewalk tree. At the height of summer, it had about five leaves. A dead glowstick has been dangling from its branc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/erika-barcotts-tree-sweater/Hisashi Tenmyouya's artwork is that of traditional Japanese style of drawings but with very modern subjects, blended with a large dose of irony and humor. Link (via Drawn)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/hisashi-tenmyouyas-kanagawa-low-riders/Kyaik-htiyo Pagoda on Golden Rock. From the website: The golden rock is a large boulder of granite, which is supported by an extremely small area of contact with the rock bene...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/golden-rock/Snakes on a Plane is probably the only movie ever given an award by Wired for "the worst film of 2006", based on just the title and the premise of the movie. That same t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/the-buzz-on-snakes-on-a-plane/A neat collection of art made from soda and beer cans: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/03/28/can-art/Blame the Gold Rush for bringing all those jack asses to California, as seen from this 1849 Gold Rush handbill.Seriously though, for more vintage images on politics, visit Teaching Politic's g...
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