Art for aliens? Some cool pictures from space (or at least way up there). This gives me an added respect for the engineers and architects who designed such layouts. http://ueba.net/hosted_pages/Earth-Shapes-20061225...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/earth-shapes/Today's Bizarro cartoon by Dan Piraro got me thinkin': who started this whole bit about the mudflap girl? The silhouette of the sexy woman certainly has worked its way from the back of truck's mudflap into our pop cultur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/mudflap-girl/Scientists at the Sydney University of Technology found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting between 30% to 60% of the world's population, may have an unusual effect:"Infected men have lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/parasite-turns-woman-into-sex-kittens-and-men-dumb/Salome, an infertile gorilla at the Bristol Zoo Gardens, UK, who suffered from premature menopause gave birth to a baby gorilla after given human fertility treatment!Following discussions it was decided to lace her y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/gorilla-gave-birth-after-given-human-fertility-treatment/Scientists in China said that snakes make better earthquake monitors than fancy-pants equipments: Scientists said the serpents can sense a quake from 120km (75 miles) away, up to five days before it happens....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/china-uses-snakes-to-predict-earthquakes/Here're an examples from the BBC's list of 100 things we didn't know last year: The lion costume from the Wizard of Oz was actually made from real lions!See 99 more fun facts here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/100-things-we-didnt-know-last-year/This year's Rose Parade will have George Lucas as grand marshal, so naturally, stormtroopers, Royal Guards and other characters will make an appearance: The scene was surreal — the troupe wore blue jeans, cargo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/stormtroopers-march-the-rose-parade/Meet Michael Perham, a 14-year-old boy who aims to become the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic by all himself: A 14-year-old boy aims to make history on New Year's Day by becoming the youngest person to sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/14-year-old-boy-aims-to-sail-the-atlantic-solo/Bert Myers is a retired physician who studied photography under Ansel Adams. As part of his medical research, Bert worked with X-ray machines and started to use X-ray as his art medium of choice.See fantastic X-ray image...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/bert-myers-x-ray-photography/Richard Stein's website has *everything* you'd ever want to know about Japanese Swords, and I mean absolutely everything: http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esteinrl/nihonto.htm - via growabrain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/japanese-swords/From the website:The 114 photographs on this site are from Pol Pot's secret prison, codenamed "S-21" during his genocidal rule (1975-79). Between 1-2 million Cambodians (and many thousands of foreigners) we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/photos-from-pol-pots-secret-prison/Surprise! The government can listen to everything you say, even when your cell phone is turned off:A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/can-big-brother-hear-me-now/This print ad is for Tide Coldwater detergent, and is captioned:If everyone in New York City washed their laundry in cold water for just one day, the energy savings could be 5.7 million kwh. Enough to power every lig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/wash-your-laundry-in-cold-water/A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic: Scientists using satellite images later noticed that it became a newly formed ice island in just an hour and left a trail of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/giant-ice-shelf-broke-off-canadas-arctic/Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging in Camp Justice, northern Baghdad, Iraq, as punishment for crimes against humanity, following his trial for the 1982 killings of 142 Shia people in Iraq.The execution was filmed and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/30/saddam-hussein-hanged/Follow the link below - it has about 20,000 music videos (YouTube from all sorts of bands and singers!) The page may load slowly because of the 20,000 lines of links. http://cyber-knowledge.net/videos/videos.php...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/20000-music-videos-in-a-single-page/This bus was converted into a ski gondola! Found at Vintage Skiing Photos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/the-ski-gondola-bus/See this cute bird play golf and basketball, roll on the floor and even play dead! It should win an Oscar! Link to Google Video - via Clip A Day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/coolest-bird-ever/The Geostationary Banana Over Texas project calls itself “an art intervention†and is scheduled for launch in August of 2008. The 300 meter banana will be constructed of bamboo and paper and filled with hel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/geostationary-banana-over-texas/North Carolina police are looking for the criminal who paid for his $150 groceries with this $200 fake bill bearing the image of President Bush at a Food Lion in Roanoke Rapids last September. Remarkably, the cashier acc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/counterfeit-200-dollar-bill/In Trondheim, Norway, you don't have to walk your bike up the hill - just use the bicycle lift! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/bicycle-lift/Meet Brandy, who at 6 inches long and less than 2 pounds, is the world's smallest dog!For fun, Brandy's owner puts her in a pink Hawaiian dress. Brandy isn't allowed on the couch because if she jumped off, she'd brea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/worlds-smallest-dog/Meet Bonnie "Xena" Burton, a 15-year-old professional gamer at Gaming Lessons who gave up baby-sitting because she can make more money coaching people how to play the video game Halo:For coaching,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/babysitting-girl-gamer-makes-more-money-coaching-halo/Here's a fun stop-motion animation using a real chalk and blackboard. Well done! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via How Advertising Spoiled Me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/29/chalk-and-blackboard-animation/From FunOnTheNet, a collection of corporate logos and their "meanings," like this one from Amazon:You might think the arrow does nothing here. But it says that amazon.com has everything from a to z and it a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/28/corporate-logos-and-their-meanings/Why not drive them crazy by playing the didgeridoo instead? Apparently, it's a research-supported snoring cure:Reuters, LONDON: Researchers have discovered that playing the didgeridoo (an ancient wind instrument of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/28/is-your-snoring-driving-people-crazy/Youth Zone Fun has a gallery of artful and imaginative snowmen. This one is a star on his own video iPod! Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/28/snowmen/Pollution? What Pollution? I can't see a thing! Found at EatLiver...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/28/smokestack-pollution/Somehow, the song Mad World [wiki] (originally a Tears for Fears song) by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews fit the game Gears of War perfectly (this is a longer video inspired by the game's commercial featuring the same so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/28/mad-world-in-gears-of-war/Pitchfork has just released their Top 100 Tracks of 2006 - most of these bands are indie, though some famous bands and singers are in it. (You may or may not agree with their No. 1 pick Justin Timberlake).Anyhow, this on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/28/pitchforks-top-100-music-tracks-of-2006/
