The town of Innisfail, Queensland, Australia, survived Cyclone Larry only to face a new problem: hungry marauding cassowaries!The critically endangered and famously testy flightless bird, known for i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/04/when-wild-cassowaries-roam-the-streets/What do you get when you cross a hammock and a bed? Why, the floating bed, of course! This bed was invented by Jeff Huff, who claimed that the gentle rocking motion helps people fall asleep faster and sleep b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/03/floating-bed/Instructables has this step-by-step guide on how to make your own 3" trebuchet [wiki] from paperclips that can throw little balls of blue-tac to an amazing 4 feet.You will need:1 pair o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/03/diy-paperclip-trebuchet/Russian astronauts repairing the space station uses improvised tools because ... they lost the real ones!The missing items include a rubber bag with a clasp needed to hold a residue collection plate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/03/astronauts-lost-tools-in-space-forced-to-improvise/Coronado Police Department in the laid back city of Coronado in San Diego bay, California, has a new police car: a 2006 Mustang GT!http://www.nbcsandiego.com/video/9235488/index.html [video]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/03/mustang-gt-police-car/Neatorama reader Darren Ballingall created this 3D Space Invaders Flash Game: I thought you guys might be interested in this version of space invaders I created in flash. It's a 3D version with a few...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/03/3d-space-invaders-flash-game/Two scientific studies discovered that at least 3 animals may be able to plan ahead.Nicholas Mulcahy and Josep Call of the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany found that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/02/animals-can-plan-ahead/Katherine "Kerry" Close, a 13-year-old 8th-grader from Spring Lake, New Jersey, won yesterday's Scripps National Spelling Bee and took home $42,000 in cash and prizes.The winning word? "Ur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/02/k-e-r-r-y-c-l-o-s-e-is-spelling-bee-winner/Found at Bits & Pieces....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/02/flower-pot-sculptures/Artist Donna Pardue of Austin, Texas, makes amazing sculptures out of apples, "the archetypal fruit" because: Although the apple represents some of our most powerful emotions and beliefs—...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/02/donna-pardues-apple-sculptures/In a move sure to generate controversy, a company that makes RFID tracking tags suggested that its product can be injected into living tissue of immigrants and guest workers to track their movements:*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/02/rfid-implant-for-immigrants/Hannah Greely made this marvelous-looking dog welcome mat, titled "Muddle", from coconut fiber and silicon glue.Link - via WMMNA...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/02/dog-welcome-mat/The RoboCup World Championship, the nerdy equivalent of soccer's World Cup in Germany, has a lofty goal: to create androids that can beat soccer's human top players by the year 2050. And oh, do a little artificial...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/robocup-championship-soccer-playing-robots/I've seen these cute photos of a tiger and piglets circulating round the Net before, but I didn't know the background story until now:Sai Mai, a 26-month-old female tiger, plays with baby pigs at a zoo in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/tiger-and-piglets/Michael Salter built this very cool robot sculpture out of styrofoam!http://www.copyrightsalter.com/situnk_6.html - via WMMNA...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/styrofoam-robot/Yakiyasu Kamitani of the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, has developed a robot hand that is controlled by the power of thoughts alone!The robotic hand mimics the movemen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/cyborg-hand-controlled-by-thought-alone/College of Eastern Utah paleontologists discovered what appeared to be the largest and heaviest armored dinosaur ever to walk on Earth:The report said the specimen weighed more than 10,000 pounds, m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/worlds-heaviest-dinosaur/MC Escher Balcony (1945) in Lego:MC Escher Relativity (1953) in Lego:MC Escher Belvedere (1958) in Lego:MC Escher Ascending and Descending (1960) in Lego:MC Escher Waterfall (1961) in Lego:I think the origina...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/mc-escher-in-lego/Top 10 Signs You're at a Redneck Wedding:10. Rehearsal dinner held at Hooters 9. Instead of "Friends of the bride or friends of the groom?" ushers ask "Ford Or Chevy?"*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/top-10-signs-youre-at-a-redneck-wedding/This Pi Pie was made by Flickr user megpi on pi day (3/14). Fantastic!Link | Apparently, there's a lot of pi pies on Flickr: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/pi-pie/A trio of German scientists modelled chemical molecules, some shown above, using balloons! I suppose they're popular at parties...Link - via Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/balloon-molecules/Amnesty International released satellite photos showing the destruction of an entire community of Porta Farm, Zimbabwe by government forces."These satellite images are irrefutable evidence --...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/satellite-photos-show-destruction-of-entire-community-in-zimbabwe/Apparently, zombies are not just for movies - the story of Clairvius Narcisse of Haiti is the only real-life documented case of someone being made into a zombie by use of poisons:The story begins in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/poison-turns-man-into-a-real-zombie/From digg: A few cool photos of a Typhoon (941 Akula) sub, the largest ever built, as it made a pass near a beach. When you look at the photo, just think of the 20 ICBMs it's carrying onboar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/submarine-on-a-beach/UK Department of Health are asking the public to choose a series of graphic warnings that will appear on cigarette packets:Evidence shows that images have a greater impact than written health warning...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/graphic-anti-smoking-warnings/Neatorama reader Bruno sent this neat photo of faces in drywall dust and said:My dad came home from work today with his back smeared with drywall/dust. The dust has AT LEAST 3 faces in it. Two of them are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/drywall-faces/Checkout this giant Lego version of USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, by Brickshelf user Weebleleezer. We've featured this one before, actually, but it's nice to see the Lego aircraft carrier in water! ht...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/lego-aircraft-carrier-in-water/Entomologists Arnold Menke and David Vincent named new wasp species after their favorite Star Wars characters: Polemistus chewbacca, Polemistus vaderi, and Polemistus yoda.http://www.st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/06/01/star-wars-insects/
