Row, Row, Row Your HumanCar.
The HumanCar is powered by humans, who "row" the four-wheeled vehicle like a boat and steer it by leaning right or left. Link (Don't miss the movies!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/25/row-row-row-your-humancar/Archive for August 2006
America's Drunkest City.
Collectible antique Blatz Milwaukee Beer, found at Conetop. They don't call Milwaukee the Beer Capital of the World for nuthin' - it has been ranked by Forbes as "America's Drunkest City"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/25/americas-drunkest-city/Bird Flu Awareness Costume Party.
From the website: Officials from the department of medical sciences wear chicken outfits, while holding signs that read "eating cooked chicken is safe" in Bangkok August 23, 2006. Bird flu has sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/25/bird-flu-awareness-costume-party/Willy the Tortoise's Slow Getaway.
Kellie Copeland-Burnup's 40-pound pet tortoise Willy ran away from home last July. Six weeks later, the tortoise was found:A local emergency medical services technician spotted Willy on Sunday along...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/25/willy-the-tortoises-slow-getaway/Fat Chinese Monkeys Forced to Diet.
The monkeys at the Chinese E'Mei Mountain, a popular tourist destination, has grown so fat that they are now on a strict diet:... over the past few years, many tourists have complained that the monkeys at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/25/fat-chinese-monkeys-forced-to-diet/Bubba the Grouper, First Fish to get Chemotherapy.
Bubba the Grouper, the first fish ever to receive chemotherapy, died yesterday at the Shedd Aquarium, Chicago. The 69.3-kilogram "super grouper" was abandoned at the Chicago aquarium in 1987, lef...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/25/bubba-the-grouper-first-fish-to-get-chemotherapy/Astronomers: Better Kick Pluto Out of the Planet Club than Admit Hundreds of Space Rocks.
In addition to "downgrading" Pluto's status, the International Astronomical Union also defined two celestial objects - the asteroid Ceres, Charon (Pluto's moon) and 2003 UB313, nicknamed &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/astronomers-better-kick-pluto-out-of-the-planet-club-than-admit-hundreds-of-space-rocks/Photoshoppers Unite to Save Pluto.
Worth1000 has a Photoshop contest to save Pluto's planetary status. Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/photoshoppers-unite-to-save-pluto/Pluto: Not a Planet Anymore
Astronomers had just voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet - instead, it is now classified as a dwarf planet.The researchers said Pluto failed to dominate its orbit around the Sun in the same way as th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/pluto-not-a-planet-anymore/Grilling with Liquid Oxygen.
George Goble of Purdue University probably thought "lighter fluids are for wussies" when he thought up a way of lighting his charcoal with liquid oxygen. The result? Started with 60 lbs of charco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/grilling-with-liquid-oxygen/Animals on the London Underground.
Check out the cute animal diagrams, made up using tube lines, stations and junctions of the London Underground (originally spotted by Paul Middlewick some 17 years ago while staring at the tube map during his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/animals-on-the-london-underground/World's Longest Fingernails.
Twenty seven years ago, Lee Redmond's life was too busy for beauty treatments, so she decided to cut corners and stop filing her nails. Now, 33 inches later, the Salt Lake City woman holds the world's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/worlds-longest-fingernails/Beijing Olympics Pictogram.
Inspired by inscriptions on bones and bronze objects in ancient China, the Olympic Games Pictograms for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are both fun and instructive.Link - via Random Citations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/beijing-olympics-pictogram/First Russian Laptop.
From the website:This is first Russian laptop, made under the brand “Elektronika”. The production started in 1991 and lasted not very long due to the high price of the device - none of the comm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/first-russian-laptop/Worst Cars Ever Made.
AutoMotoPortal has the list of 5 worst cars ever made - this one is the Peel Trident (1964-1966):Is it a toy? Is it a spaceship? No, although it looks like it just popped out of the Cartoon Network channel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/worst-cars-ever-made/Fast Food Song.
Quite possibly, nay - I'm certain, that this will be the worst song you'll hear today. I apologize in advance for those who click play (but with this description, who can resist?)Sung by Fast Food Rockers: Hit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/fast-food-song/Poodle Disguise for Doberman Dogs.
Attention Doberman owners: are you tired of people looking at your "dangerous killer" dog in fear? Well, why not disguise your doberman as a poodle with this costume?http://www.users.bigpond.com/dani...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/poodle-disguise-for-doberman-dogs/Not So Little League.
From the website: Aaron Durley towers over the competition at the Little League World Series.The 13-year-old first baseman for Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, stands an imposing 6-foot-8 and w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/not-so-little-league/Bamboo Bicycle Frame.
Brano Meres' Bamboo Framed Bicycle. Brano built this bicycle using bamboo as frame rods. Apparently, it worked quite well:When I built this bamboo frame, I was interested in how would it differ from my car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/bamboo-bicycle-frame/Weird Vintage Ads.
Eat Liver has a neat collection of some of the weirdest advertisements from the past century: http://www.eatliver.com/vintage-ads/ - Thanks ben!See also: Vintage Drug Ads previously on Neatorama...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/weird-vintage-ads/Mosquito Screen for Your Garage.
This is probably one of the strangest home products I've seen in a while: a mosquito screen for garages! (Why not just close the doors?) http://www.garagedoorscreens.com/home.htm - Thanks Frank Pac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/mosquito-screen-for-your-garage/Jerry Boyle's Holier Than Thou Statue Controversy.
Each year, Washburn University sponsors an outdoor sculpture contest and displays winning entries around campus for several months. In 2003, Colorado artist Jerry Boyle's bronze sculpture titled Holi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/jerry-boyles-holier-than-thou-statue-controversy/Harrod Blank's Camera Van.
Harrod Blank had a dream in which he covered his car with cameras, then drove around town to take pictures of people on the streets. Two years later, with help of his friends, Harrod completed the Camera Van (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/harrod-blanks-camera-van/Spectacular Case of Elephantiasis.
Norwood Matt of Stuff on Fire found this video clip of a man afflicted by a severe case of elephantiasis. Elephantiasis [wiki] is a syndrom caused by thickening of the skin and underlying tissue caused by obst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/spectacular-case-of-elephantiasis/Knitting Things with Human Hair.
Dutch artist Chrystl Rijkeboer has a weird choice of art medium, she knits things out of human hair! Link - via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/knitting-things-with-human-hair/Jason Ertel's Photography.
Found at Jason Ertel's fantastic photoblog: These Fleeting Moments - via Ectoplasma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/jason-ertels-photography/Concert Ticket Generator.
Make your own concert ticket: Link - Thanks David R!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/concert-ticket-generator/Giant Camera Obscura Shaped Like a Camera.
The Giant Camera behind the Cliff House in San Francisco, a landmark building, is a camera obscura [wiki] shaped like a giant camera!For more fun camera obscura facts, visit Jack & Beverly Wilgus'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/giant-camera-obscura-shaped-like-a-camera/Sonic Boom Sweetheart Alarm Clock.
Yesterday, we featured the Siren Alarm Clock, and we thought that was quite the thing. But Shiny Shiny proved us wrong: the blog found an even louder alarm clock: the Sonic Boom Sweetheart Alarm Clock. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/23/sonic-boom-sweetheart-alarm-clock/
