Malfunction junction [wiki] is nickname given by drivers to freeway interchanges (that look like tangled spaghetti) that are confusing, dangerous or both. There are a lot of malfunction junctions in the world...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/05/malfunction-junction/See more redneck iPod dock, engagement announcement, hot tubs, space shuttle, rollercoaster, yacht at Neatorama....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/redneck-palm-pilot/Apparently, this Marco Island, Florida attraction is for real! Found at jo-eks....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/piranha-sanctuary/This Disneyland Sign Generator is found at Add Letters....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/disneyland-sign-generator/From Pink Tentacle:Residents of the coastal town of Susami in Wakayama prefecture love the sea and the post office so much that the town once installed a mailbox on the ocean floor for scuba divers. Now, further evid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/edible-squid-postcard/This is a clip from a talk at TED (Technology, Entertainment, design) given by Michael Shermer [wiki], the founder of Skeptic Magazine. At around 3 minutes mark, he showed a clip about perceptual blindness (the basketbal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/michael-shermer-on-science-and-perceptual-blindness/From The Largest Minority: Miniature wooden Santa figures were removed from Rossmann stores, a German retail chain, after customers claimed they looked like they were giving the outlawed Hitler salute.“...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/santa-with-outlawed-hitler-salute/More than 1,000 people are feared dead after Typhoon Durian hit the Philippines:Official figures showed 450 dead, 507 injured and 599 missing, but Sen. Richard Gordon, head of the local Red Cross, said he believed mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/typhoon-durian-kills-1000-in-the-philippines/Ed Grothus is a former Los Alamos National Lab employee. Now, he tinkers around his shop "The Black Hole," a marvelous scientific junk store with a huge collection of used scientific equipments, electronics, la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/the-black-hole-of-los-alamos/That's Brad Graham showing off his custom bicycle chopper "OverKill." See more custom bikes at AtomicZombie: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/brad-grahams-overkill-chopper-bicycle/Besides posting tons of fun stuff at YesButNoButYes blog, Mario Marsicano also has some awesome retro stuff you can buy at his website (and namesake) Jellio. Here's Gumball Time, a gumball vending machine modded to be a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/gumball-time/Take 5 toothpicks and snap them in half (but leave the two halves attached) and arrange them in a burst pattern. Then, without touching them, rearrange the toothpicks to make a star. How? Press play or go to Link [metaca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/rearranging-toothpicks-without-touching-them/Scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London confirmed what we all suspect all along: psychopaths have different brains than normal people.Psychopaths showed less activity in brain areas involved...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/suprise-psychopaths-have-abnormal-brain/Here's how to make cleaning hardwood floor more enjoyable: turn a radio-controlled car into a floor sweeper! Details at Evil Mad Scientist Lab: Link - via DIY:happy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/remote-controlled-floor-sweeper/Artists Ansuman Biswas and Jem Finer describe themselves as "Slightly inept trainees of an ancient mystic sect, they have somehow managed to infiltrate the Cosmonaut’s Training Programme in Star City, Moscow....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/zero-genie/From Modern Mechanix Blog, which covers articles from vintage Modern Mechanix, Popular Science, and other mags: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/cow-pants/That's a fire extinguisher, part of a new product line called Orange Works at the Home Depot.The chic yet functional product was designed by Peter Arnell, and Home Depot says:"it hopes the fire extinguisher's de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/stylish-fire-extinguisher/WikiHow has the detailed instruction on how to make your own 3D paper snowflake: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-3D-Paper-Snowflake - via Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/diy-3d-paper-snowflake/Being homeless didn't stop this guy Brian from making the best of it: he built a motorhome bike that he pedals around Portland, Oregon! From BikePortland: Link 1 | Link 2 - via Honky-Tonk Dragon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/motorhome-bike/From USC's Regional History Collection, here are some early photos of the grand opening of Disneyland (and yes, that's Uncle Walt at the controls of the Viewliner, the train that ran between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/early-photos-of-disneyland/According to the Times of London: Pythons were probably the first idols to be worshipped by man, archaeologists said after unearthing evidence of a ritual dating back 70,000 years. A rock shaped like an enormou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/python-worship/My friend Diana at Cream of the Crock has quite a collection of vintage pharmaceuticals. She's gone out of her way to research the various ingredients in her "menthol snuff." Turns out she can . . . CLEAN...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/menthol-snuff/Ten miners married their sweethearts Saturday a thousand feet underground in the Shanxi province of China. Why? It’s a stunt aimed at making China’s coal-mining industry (the deadliest in the world) less...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/simultaneous-underground-wedding/Here are the images from this week's Cellar & Neatorama collaboration: the Digestive Table, created by artist Amy M. Youngs.Start by "feeding" your table scraps of food and shredded paper into the opening o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/amy-youngs-digestive-table/Link Donkey has a list of the top 10 most intelligent and stupidest dogs on the planet:Most intelligent: These breeds on average require less than 5 repetitions to understand a new command. They obey first commands 9...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/top-10-smartest-and-stupidest-dog-breeds/See more of French artist Andre Martins de Barros' artwork here: Link - via Jaf Project...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/artwork-by-andre-martins-de-barros/This mule just gave birth. So what's neat about that, you think. Here's why it's amazing (hint: it's a mule!) A mule is the hybrid of a horse and a donkey and should be sterile - except in this instance.Ther...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/miracle-mule-gave-birth/From the website:A beer distributor says Maine is being a Scrooge by barring it from selling a beer with a label depicting Santa Claus enjoying a pint of brew.In a complaint filed in federal court, Shelton B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/no-santas-butt-beer-for-maine/What makes this flashlight so powerful? A few things. First, there's some batteries. And not just a few, but 12 1.2V NiMH (rechargable) batteries capable of sustained 10 amp draws. They're in a nice, heavy duty batte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/firestarter-flashlight/This kitchen island, made by Italian company Sheer, may not be practical (those who have it probably eat out every night anyways) but you can't beat it as a conversation piece. The unit's top lifts up to reveal the cooki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/04/kitchen-in-a-ball/
