From BotPop:Today’s dramatic shutdown of the BP Alaskan oilfield was actually due to the work of inspection robots that, according to the Times Online, detected “signs of 16 anomalies, and area...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/12/pigs-inspect-oil-pipeline/Lucille Pope of San Antonio, Texas, noticed that her red oak tree has "gurgled" a mysterious water for about 3 months - and no one seemed to know how.Lucille Pope has started to wonder if t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/12/gods-water-flows-from-tree-in-texas/From the website: Visitors watch a two-ton ball made of a bulk of jeans in an exhibition center in Xiamen, east China's Fujian province July 13, 2006. The exhibition is themed " Fashion Slave" an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/12/katamari-like-giant-ball-of-jeans/This unidentified Chinese presumably Korean-American woman took a photo of herself everyday for three years and stitched them into a movie. Watch as her expression doesn't change - just like the infamous Paris...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/12/woman-held-same-facial-expression-for-3-years/Some instruction and advice for the young bride, written by Ruth Smythers, beloved wife of the Reverend L.D. Smythers, Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference.Published...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/12/advice-for-the-young-bride-cir-1894/Nate True hacked a neat little gizmo that uses LED strobe light to make it seems that droplets of water can be suspended in mid-air or even go backwards!Hit Play or go to Link [YouTube] | Creation: The Time Fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/12/nate-trues-time-fountain/Our friends at YesButNoButYes have posted their Ten Creepiest Icons in Advertising History. Here's no. 10:Let's start with a legend. You know Crazy Eddie. We all know Crazy Eddie. His prices were IN-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/12/creepy-advertising-icons/The cathedral of Saint-Jean in the French town of Besançon, capital of the region Franche-Comté, has a magnificent astronomical clock with 70 dials:... the clock features 70 dials, sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/gorgeous-astronomical-clock-of-saint-jean-cathedral/From the website: Travel the Grand Trunk Road between Lahore and Islamabad, and you come to the city of Gujrat. Awash in the smog and sewage produced by its million-odd inhabitants, it is an u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/rat-people-of-pakistan/Oops, NASA can't find its tapes of the first moon walk:But just 37 years after Apollo 11, it is feared the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk - beamed to the world via three tracking stations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/nasa-dude-have-you-seen-my-moon-tapes/Photo: Sun-Sentinel / Angel ValentinRuth Regina, an eight-generation wigmaker in Miami-Dade, is now designing hairpieces for dogs:The "Yappy Hour," a cascade of curls, can be custom made with syn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/2932/So, this explains why he lost! Found at This Modern World - via For Your Entertainment...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/why-joseph-lieberman-lost/Meet Waterhole Ike, a pig that had his own Social Security number and bank account and paid taxes.Find out how this whole Waterhole Ike thing got started, read the rest of the story in our new blog Pennyliciou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/waterhole-ike-business-owner-taxpayer-pig/From the website:Three different typhoons were spinning over the western Pacific Ocean on August 7, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acqui...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/three-typhoons-in-the-pacific-ocean/The folks at Skyacht have successfully performed a tethered test flight of their hot-air blimp: In addition to recreational uses, the Personal Blimp can fly in ways that no other aircraft can match. For in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/skyacht-personal-blimp/Watch as this unassuming traffic barrier pole stops a speeding truck without even budging an inch!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/the-indestructible-traffic-barrier-pole/Check out this ginormous engine, built by Aioi Works of Japan's Diesel United, Ltd. for a container ship.If you think your SUV is a gas guzzler, this engine burns 1,600 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour at it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/11/wartsila-sulzer-worlds-largest-diesel-engine/The Klein Four Group is a very talented a cappella group "of the world of higher mathematics" of the Northwestern University mathematics department, composed of Clark Alexander, Scott Bailey, Mike Jo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/finite-simple-group-of-order-two-a-mathematical-love-song-by-the-klein-four-group/A fantastic find by the Athanasius Kircher Society:The only piece of art on the moon (depending, we suppose, on one’s definition of art) is a 3?-tall aluminum sculpture titled “Fallen Astronaut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/the-only-piece-of-art-on-the-moon/Guitar and Marionette. A very funny clip about a guitarist (Patrick Sebastien?) and a marionette ... You've gotta see it. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Ajit!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/guitarist-and-marionette/Astronomers have discovered a reservoir of simple sugars in a cloud of gas and dust near the center of our galaxy, some 26,000 light-years away - such a discovery suggested how molecular building blocks necess...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/sugar-from-outer-space-may-have-seeded-life/From the website: Lava cascades down the slopes of the Mayon volcano during its continuing 'quiet eruption' in Legazpi city, Albay province, south of Manila August 5, 2006. The Mayon volcano, the most acti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/mayon-volcanos-quiet-eruption/I wonder if this really works: a remote controlled, automatic crib rocker to "rock" a baby to sleep! http://www.lullabub.com/ - via sdamy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/lullabubs-crib-rocker/Photo: Richard TermineSesame Workshop (the makers of Sesame Street) launched a DVD package as part of an outreach program for family dealing with military deployment. In the DVD, Elmo's red, fuzzy father goes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/elmos-dad-goes-to-war/Why send that ol' boring bouquet of flowers when you can send an empty-calorie-laden bouquet of junk food snacks?http://www.bluechopsticks.com/product.asp?prodid=1784 - via Tofupunk ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/bouquet-of-junk-food/From wikipedia:The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the movie Distant Drums. It has been featured in dozens of movies since. Alongside a certain recording of the cry of the Red...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/the-wilhelm-scream-compilation/Photo: Rick Stevens/SMHFrom the website:For the first time, Taronga Zoo has successfully bred the spectacular Jackson's Chameleon, with 22 of the little creatures doing extremely well. Only 4cm long, the y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/baby-chameleon/5qm.de has a nice collection of vintage wallpapers from the fifties, sixties, and seventies! Link - via Drawn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/vintage-wallpapers/Check out Travis Pastrana's historic double back flip in Moto X Best Trick in the 2006 X-Games.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via A Welsh View...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/travis-pastranas-double-back-flip/Who says chemistry is boring? Just check out this oldie-but-goodie website by Paul May for molecules with silly or unusual names .. For example, did you know there is :ClitorinConstipatic AcidErectoneFucitol (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/10/silly-molecule-names/
