Erna Cartwright turned 100 years old on October 31st. That in itself is noteworthy, but she has yet to retire! Ms. Cartwright is a bookkeeper for the Oshkosh City Cab Company, where she has worked for 60 years. She has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/a-valued-employee/They dress themselves. This year, Charley dressed up as a piece of clean laundry, and Sami dressed up as an idiot.dogs, disguise, Halloween...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/i-dont-have-to-dress-up-my-dogs-for-halloween/Must ... post ... one last Halloween pic! This one is Lola, Flickr user joevanwinkle's pet dog: Link [Flickr].If you like to dress up your dog for Halloween (or at least, like to see dogs in costume, especially Star Wars...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/vader-dog/Will wonders never cease? Here are some weird viny album covers featuring dummies: http://purgatorio1.com/?p=235 - Thanks Roger!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/weird-dummy-album-covers/I'd like to welcome Gail Hapke of Scribal Terror as a new author for Neatorama.Gail started Scribal Terror as a place for intelligent discourse; an oasis, she called it, where visitors can voice their opinion away from t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/neatorama-welcomes-gail-hapke-of-scribal-terror/A while back, we featured Neatorama reader Steve Barker's custom-made Muscle Car BBQ Grill. Now, Steve has come up with a new grill: propane-operated newspaper rack grill!The door opens up to act as a table:For those who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/newspaper-rack-bbq-grill/Designed by Swedish design group FRONT. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Justelite!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/sketch-a-furniture-in-thin-air/You've probably seen Pi visualized with color [Flickr]. Now, you can play around with it here (change color of digits) : http://www.endofart.net/pi/ [Java applet] - Thanks Martin!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/pi-visualized-by-color/Apparently, it's a new trend in cosmetic surgery: Using procedures pioneered by the hair-loss industry for balding men, US surgeons are using 'plug and sew' techniques to give women long, sweeping lashes once achieve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/new-cosmetic-surgery-is-all-the-rage-eyelash-transplant/From the website: A Thai man carries a model of a ship,by a skewer through his cheeks, while participating in a parade during the vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand, October 28, 2006.What? How is this conne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/look-ma-i-skewered-a-ship-through-my-mouth/If you see this chair, DO NOT sit on it! You've been warned: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Tinselman....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/killer-robot-chair/Ananova reports: Two Irishmen have set up a company selling dirt to Americans. Alan Jenkins, 65, from Lisburn and agricultural scientist Pat Burke, 27, from Tipperary, say the demand for the "official Irish dirt" h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/irish-american-vampires-take-note/The Lie: Lemmings commit suicide en masse.The Truth: Lemmings are stupid, not depressed. The myth of lemming suicide goes back a long way - at least to Freud, who in Civili...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/lies-your-mother-told-you/Life on Wolf Island, a tiny speck of land 200 km north of the main Galapagos Archipelago, is so hard that birds there evolved to eat blood to survive.But perhaps their most important source of food during the extende...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/vampire-finches/You're looking at the combined visible (Hubble Space Telescope) and infrared (Spitzer Space Telescope) pictures of the Sombrero Galaxy [wiki], which was called that because of its resemblance to the broad rim Mexican hat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/sombrero-galaxy/At first, scientists were baffled at this photo of a mysterious gelatinous ball, taken by undersea photographer Rudolf Svensen in Norway. Then they realized that it's a large squid egg sack!Link ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/mysterious-underwater-blob/Chemistry teacher Neil Dixon showed that science in classroom doesn't have to be boring:In the experiment illustrated below, pupils at South Bromsgrove Community High School, Worcestershire are shown how the reactivi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/fire-in-the-classroom-igniting-students-curiosity-with-science/In this special robotic platform called PAMELA (short for Pedestrian Accessability and Movement Envrionmental Laboratory), human guinea pigs are subjected to various walkway conditions like inclines, vertical and horizon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/pamela-a-pedestrian-lab/Photographer Michael Muller sank a $63,000 2007 Mercedes GL450 in a giant water tank in the name of art (and publicity!) as part of a project titled "Quiet" which includes photos of people and things submerged...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/sinking-a-63000-mercedes-for-art/This nostalgic tip o' the hat to socialist realism comes from Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is trying to woo the Chinese market with tasty looking mannish fists. I don't know about you, but this really makes me hungry...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/let-a-thousand-chickens-fry/Sonic Fabric is a textile woven from recycled audio cassette tape. Interestingly, if you run a tape head over it, the fabric emits sound because it retains its magnetic quality.Link - via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/sonic-fabric-textile-woven-from-audio-cassette-tape/Why run around shooting in regular paintball when you can use a tank instead!Your tank of choice will be a unique 17 tonne FV432 armoured personnel carrier, with specially modified cannons capable of firing 40mm pain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/paintball-tank/This gave me a chuckle: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] via Say No to Crack....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/kung-fu-baby/Too bad that the cross-shaped Saint B MP3 Player is just a concept (by Russian design studio Man Works Design): http://www.manworksdesign.com/eng/index1.php?id_part=5...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/mp3-player-shaped-like-a-cross/This is just so wrong: "Die screaming with sharp things in your head" is Mr. GnomeMaker's collection of impaled garden gnomes. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/impaled-garden-gnomes/Yep. That would be the Statue of Liberty in the eye of a needle. Follow the link to see more of these astonishing sculptures by Willard Wigan. H/t Rob BWillard Wigan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/the-art-of-the-small/This crumpled toaster is designed by Olivier Gregoire: Link - via MoCo Loco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/crumpled-toaster/In early 1970s, Hungarian artist Dániel Erdély discovered a geometric structure consisting of alternating, adjoining sequences of triangles, called a spidron.When laid down like tiles on a flat surface, or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/spidiron/This clever ad said "Perhaps it's time to turn to Pedigree light dog food," done by TBWA/Paris ad agency - Found at I Believe in Adv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/30/funny-diet-food-ads-for-fat-dogs/
