From the website: These shots were taken in the streets of Tokyo and Osaka at night , and in them I have avoided the more aesthetically pleasing locations such as seaside a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/sato-shintaros-twilight-zone-tokyo-and-osaka-at-night/Mark Inglis, a double amputee who lost his legs to frostbite 23 years ago, reached the summit of Mt. Everest, making him the first ever double amputee to do so.Way to go, Mark!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/double-amputee-conquered-everest/Chen Jin became China's national high-tech hero overnight when he "invented" China's first homegrown computer chip dubbed "Hanxin".Turned out, he simply scratc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/fake-chinese-chip-scandal/A tuna caught at Vanga, near Tanzania border and sold to a Kenyan man, is making a stir because it had the Koranic writing "Wallahu khayru razikiyna" (God is the greates...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/koranic-tuna/Martina Koloska took this amazing picture of the Glasswing butterfly (Greta oto), as seen 'round the Net. Link | More Pics (Thanks Riga!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/glasswing-butterfly/Florigene, a company owned by Japanese brewer Suntory (remember the Suntory Time whiskey commercial from the film Lost in Translation [wiki]?), has developed the world's first "blue rose&q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/suntorys-blue-rose/Neatorama reader Y.Y. Qian wrote: Interesting, there is a fashion house named Google in a chinese city, but selling nothing to do with Google products (e.g even Google T-shirt).Intere...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/google-fashion/I missed this one when it came out in 1999 (and Neatorama wasn't around then, anyways).YouTube link [video] | O Entertainment website (via PistolWimp, Thanks Yayo!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/steve-oedekerks-thumb-wars-the-phantom-cuticle/Neatorama reader Garth Johnson wrote: If you like gum painting, you'll love the glitter paintings of Claire Joyce. She paints using nothing more than Elmer's Glue and sprinkled glitter on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/claire-joyces-glitter-art/Costanza Puente's latest work is a life-size self-portrait statue made from bread, on public display in the park of Chile's Catholic University Extension Centre. Understandably...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/life-size-bread-sculpture-a-hit-with-pigeons/Forget Forrest Gump - this is the best ping pong match EVAR!!Link [video clip] (via SkyKam)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/the-best-ping-pong-player-is/(Photo Rick Loomis / LA Times)Richard Moriarty bought this 1974 Lamborghini Countach 10 years ago. Now, sick and tired of having it towed due to stalled engine, he decided to hang it on his w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/lamborghini-as-wall-art/The Human Marvels blog has this interesting story about Myrtle Corbin aka the Four-Legged Woman: While at a glance one could plainly see four legs dangling beyond the hem of h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/myrtle-corbin-the-four-legged-woman/From the website:The tremendous volume of water never stops flowing, However, the falling water and mist create ice formations along the banks of the falls and river. This can result in mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/niagara-falls-facts-do-the-falls-freeze-over-in-winter/Flickr user Baikinange has this neat pic of a Mexican man's ex voto (a votive offering to a diety, given for the fulfillment of a wish) to the Virgin of Guadalupe, for saving him from alien ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/alien-ex-voto/From the website: It is possible to put together three hands of three players who want to indulge in thumb-wrestling. A nodal network is formed. In a game of three, the player...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/monochroms-multi-player-thumb-wrestling/Take a look at Mr. Deckart's collection of very neat satellite photos of our planet. Link (via Milk and Cookies)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/our-pretty-blue-planet/US and UK scientists have proposed an alternative to the Big Bang theory of the universe:The new ideas, reported in the journal Science, may explain why the expansion of the Universe is acceler...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/is-our-universe-a-child-one/A new trend in China: team buying - basically mob shopping: ... Ms. Li and her brother joined 15 strangers at the store to demand a group discount on a new television, refrigerator, and was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/15/flash-mob-shopping-team-buying/If you like Flash puzzles like Samorost, you'll probably like NFCTD's eye-candy collage Flash puzzle. (Hint: For the first one, click on a flower, another flower, the heart, and an owl's face....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/14/nfctd-flash-puzzle/Scott Elder wrote a very useful review of the best locks for your bicycles: ... I always feel a twinge of fear when I leave my bike on the street, worried that upon my return,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/14/which-bike-lock-is-the-best/We've actually featured this clip before, but it just seems so appropriate for Mother's Day! Hit play or visit the YouTube Link (Thanks Sahan!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/14/mr-t-treat-your-mother-right/If only you can give your Mom this heart-shaped potato for Mother's Day ... Ellen Anderson said when she opened a bag of potatoes she purchased from a stand on North Main Stre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/14/heart-shaped-potato/Meet Lola, who's at the top of her class of bomb-sniffing rats being trained to sniff out landmines in Colombia. The smartest rat among the first six that the government is te...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/14/lola-bomb-sniffing-rat/Fire-retardant foam accidentally filled an empty hangar in Allegheny County Airport, Pennsylvania. "Our foam system appears to have malfunctioned," said Craig McDive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/14/foam-accident-in-a-hangar-again/Shoe maker Asics Corp. has developed some special super-light shoes for Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, who will join a US space shuttle mission in 2007. "In an environment...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/14/japanese-astronaut-shoes/This photo circulated around the 'Net last year, I think....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/14/only-in-middle-school/Dennis Hurley, an albino actor, made The Albino Code, a parody of Dan Brown's best-seller Da Vinci Code.Admittedly, I did try my best to audition for the role of Silas, not to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/13/the-albino-code/It's hard to pick just one of Rarindra's cool photos - they all have amazing depth, clarity, composition, and color. This one is titled "Aceh, A Year After the Tsunami" and is captio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/13/rarinda-prakarsas-photos-of-indonesia/Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain plays Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Hit play or visit Google video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4559510005057780538 (via grow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/13/ukulele-orchestra-of-great-britain-plays-nirvanas-smells-like-teen-spirit/
