Tired of being robbed all the time, Chilean taxi driver Juan Geraldo covered every square inch of his taxi with black and white spotted cowhides:A Chilean taxi driver has come up with a new way to fight assaults: mak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/cow-taxi/[http://youtu.be/P2BfzUIBy9A] (YouTube link)When I came across this, I thought no way do I have time to watch an eight and a half minute segment. But I did, because its a great story about Skidboot, the dog who can under...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/skidboot/Danny and Nina are moving away from New York City. They don’t know where they want to go, so they are asking people on the internet to select a town from the 250 they like. You can vote more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/danny-and-nina/Neatorama reader Dougall Meloney wrote about a neat collection of "find your way out of the room" Flash-based games at Gotmail.jp:Here are some beautiful flash based on line 'puzzle' games, similar in structure to 'M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/flash-games-escape-if-you-can/Found at Say No to Crack, apparently it's in San Francisco, where pigeons are ravenous monsters that can tear your limbs and fingers - Thanks Anita!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/feed-a-pigeon-lose-a-finger/The University of Cambridge has put the entire work and correspondence of Charles Darwin online. The compilation includes over 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images.Fantastic! Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/charles-darwins-entire-work-online/Spoon Egg Cup. This egg cup, cleverly designed with coffee spoons, is made by Geppetto design studio and is available at Mocha for just £9.99. It looks fantastic, but there's no telling how well it actually *holds*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/spoon-egg-cup/Just in time for Halloween - a large collection of digitized Halloween-special albums at DavesWorld56: Forbidden Crypts of Haunted Music - Thanks Roger!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/forbidden-crypts-of-haunted-music/Check out this motorized contraption for stargazing in comfort: Sit up or recline by leaning slightly forward or backwards, requiring minimal effort to find an ideal positionComputer-controlled motor quietly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/3865/Synthravels is the first online virtual travel agency. They offer tours of virtual worlds such as Second Life, Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies, the Matrix Online, and lots of other places you can on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/virtual-online-tours/I know that some people really like Ferrari and Formula One driver Michael Schumacher, but this is kind of ridiculous: Fans at his hometown of Kerpen, Germany, cheering him on at this year's Brazilian Grand Pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/big-fans-of-mr-schumacher/Neatorama reader Allen H. wrote about the world's worst car customization job ever (that's a Honda Civic! Probably spent a fortune on it, too) at his blog: Link - Thanks Allen!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/pimp-my-ride-nightmare/We had a picture of the Sikorsky Skycrane [wiki] lifting a container from a beached ship before. Turns out that the helicopter can lift just about anything: tanks, airplanes, and even a house! Link - Thanks ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/24/sikorsky-skycrane/Here are 7 of the largest, oddest, and most useless state projects in the world:1. Limestone Tourist Park - Bedford, Indiana.The Great Idea: Turn a small Midwestern town into a tourist mecca for lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/23/governments-fund-the-darnedest-things/From China Daily:Photo taken on October 20, 2006 shows a bright dazzling cigar-shaped rainbow hanging in the sky over northeast Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, following a he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/22/cigar-shaped-rainbow/Koalas are cute, sleepy animal (they're awake only 4 hours a day) except during mating season, where they:... morph into aggressive, smelly creatures that you'd never want to cuddle in a million year...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/22/koalas-grunt/Eyedia has a collection of painted homeless cardboard houses that people actually live inside, in the Shinjuku subway station, Japan (which unfortunately were burned down in 1998): Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/22/painted-homeless-cardboard-houses-in-japan/Rules of Wedding Crashing (there's a lot, apparently):Rule #40: Dance with old folks and the kids. The girls will think you're "sweet."Rule #55: If pressed, tell people you're related to Un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/22/wedding-crashers-rules/Check out these vintage Penguin and Pelican book covers (with some very intriguing titles!), collected by Joe Kral: Link [flickr] - via 30gms...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/22/vintage-penguin-and-pelican-book-covers/Scary Terry makes Halloween and haunted house props. This one is called Skelevision. The guest would enter a hallway and see themselves in a mirror at the end of the hall. All of a sudden,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/22/skelevision/Pieces of Flair presents the Zombie Song-Off to determine the best song about zombies. You can enter your song up through October 31st by visiting their website. If you don’t have a zombie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/22/zombie-song-contest/AIC (short for "Artificial Intelligence Cooking") is the world's first cooking robot that can complete all the cooking skills used by Chinese chefs:At the demonstration at the high-tech fai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/robot-can-cook-chinese-food/Whether your home is a palace or a pigsty, the pink "Stereo Squealer" pig speakers will fit right in! Link - via Popgadget....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/pink-pig-stereo-squealers-er-speakers/Meet Stephen Ellison and his car. Yep, he drives a 1974 Sabre light reconnaisance tank, instead of a car, to the supermarket near his home in Winsford, Cheshire, UK. Link - via growabrain....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/milk-run-hop-on-my-tank/Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania explained how the Iraq war helped America avoid terrorist attacks by using analogies we can understand: LOTR.Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Am...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/rick-santorum-iraq-war-lord-of-the-rings/A neat tote with Pac-Man design (both inside & outside!) is for sale at Etsy, by christyquilts: Link - via Smidigt.se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/pac-man-bag/Just riding a unicycle in a straight line is hard enough, but see what an expert can do the the video Unicycle Try-All X-treme! Push play or go to YouTube. If you liked that, there’s also U...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/extreme-unicycling/Stationery Movies is a quiz where you identify a movie title from a scene made of office supplies. I have figured out about half of them so far, but I’m still working on it. Yes, it will sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/stationery-movies/You don't have to understand Einstein's Theory of Relativity [wiki] (actually, there are two of them: Special and General Theory of Relativity) to appreciate this watch! With each passing second, the n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/einstein-relativity-watch/Clever Ads in the Tokyo Subway. It seems like every square inch of space in the Tokyo subway stations and trains is taken up by advertising, so how does an ad stand out? PingMag has got the scoop on the top 10...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/clever-ads-in-tokyo-subway/
