Let's face it, kids prefer to play with the cardboard boxes the toys come in anyhow, so this website will come in handy: Mr. McGroovy has free plans for making your very own cardboard castle (as well as cardboard fire en...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/diy-cardboard-castle/Scientists discovered a new species of Madagascar moth that drinks tears from the eyes of sleeping birds! The Madagascan moths were observed on the necks of sleeping magpie robins and Newtonia birds, with the tip of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/moth-drinks-tears-from-sleeping-bird/Scientists found a fossil of a two-headed reptile:This animal was a choristoderan, an extinct reptile that reached a length of one metre in adulthood and was characterised by a long neck - two in this case.T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/two-headed-reptile-fossil/Let's just hope the cats don't try to climb it. Via Web Park...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/someones-in-the-christmas-spirit/Phisick has an amazing set of vintage medical equipments from antique surgical tools to weirder stuff like this extremely rare German spermatorrhoea (nocturnal emission [wiki]) ring:An extremely rare Spermatorrhoea r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/this-is-a-weird-one-anti-wet-dream-ring/Chet Zar's artwork is probably why some people are afraid of clowns ... Still, you should see his awesome portfolio, worth a look-see: http://www.chetzar.com/oil_paintings/ART.html - via Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/chet-zars-artwork/Chris Martenson of The End of Money blog, wrote: The US is insolvent. There is simply no way for our national billsto be paid under current levels of taxation and promised benefits. Our federal deficits alone now tot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/is-the-us-going-broke/From the website:Whenever science historian John van Wyhe passed through the old library of Christ's College at Cambridge University, he took a moment to glance at a photo of Charles Darwin hanging on the wall. "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/darwins-check/With a waterjet, you can cut an Xbox into a real "X": Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/fun-with-waterjet-make-an-x-out-of-an-xbox/Check out Californian artist Megan Brain's fantastic paper sculptures: Link - via Bibi's Box...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/megan-brains-paper-sculpture/The video clip's caption:BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/bigdog-quadruped-robot-mule-can-carry-heavy-loads/From the website:The Cold War Unicorns play set can help you relive the good olddays when the bad guys wore red, and the good guys wore red, white, and blue.Recreate the cold war in your living room as the &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/cold-war-unicorns/Would you believe that this pez dispenser, called the World's Fair Astronaut B, one of two ever made for the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, is the most expensive pez dispenser in the world? One just sold on eBay for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/worlds-most-expensive-pez-dispenser/A while back, we had Toilet-O-Rama. Now, we got what seems like a weird contest of toilet painting: Link - via Crazy Japan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/20/painted-toilet/Australian marine biologists conducting a study designed to save the Great Barrier Reef from being choked by weeds were surprised when these little guys started eating the evidence, as Discovery Channel reports: *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/batfish-to-the-rescue/The Brothers McLeod (Myles and Greg) have just released a music animation of their cute (and famous) Fuggy ninja called "The Fist of Fuggy."Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Myles and Greg!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/the-fist-of-fuggy/Neatorama reader Liberal Avenger (Hi LA!) suggested this giant photo of Boston:The URL points to a 90000 x 40000 pixel image of Boston on a crystal clear day. The image consists of 612 separate images taken from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/giant-photo-of-boston/This is circulating via email (although the technique itself is quite old):Thieves rig an ATM machine by placing a "trap" into the card slot. When an unsuspecting victim inserts his card, the machine appears to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/the-lebanese-loop-scam-atm-card-theft/Jack Spade, a trendy store in New York, has this car sun shade with a wincing Dracula!Link - via NOTCOT...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/dracula-car-sun-shade/If you ever changed a tire, you know it's a messy affair. Capitalizing on this is the Flat Tire Concierge, a kit with a misleading name (there's no concierge to come and change it for you - that's AAA and that costs beau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/the-tire-concierge/From Wired, an article about Japanese love hotels from a book "Love Hotels" by American photographer Misty Keasler:For decades Japan's love hotels have provided a place for couples to enjoy anonymous, unint...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/japans-love-hotel/Researchers at the University of Liverpool discovered that reading Shakespeare excites the brain:Professor Philip Davis, from the University's School of English, said: "The brain reacts to reading a phrase such...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/reading-shakespeare-excites-the-brain/Photo: Shapour Suren-PahlavArchaeologists discovered an artificial eye dating from the times of the great pyramids and Stonehenge:Around the time that the great pyramids were built in Egypt and Stonehenge was erected...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/ancient-artificial-eye/An amazing clip from Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth: These bullet ants are showing worrying symptoms. Spores from parasitic fungus called cordyceps [wiki] have infiltrated their bodies and their minds. Its inf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/when-cordycep-fungus-attacks/1. God Throws Dice.Einstein was one of the founders of quantum mechanics. His explanation of the photoelectric effect showed that light itself is quantized, and it was this work that won him his Nobel in 1921 (He didn'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/four-things-einstein-got-wrong/This weird object is a stationary stationery set, given to Stalin by "prosperous and content" workers. See more of Stalin's cherished objects at Dark Roasted Blend (from Rusarchives, but I can't read Russian)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/stalins-cherished-personal-possessions/Pi and e go on a date, and one of them has a chilling secret! Ah, nerdy math jokes ... Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/when-mathematical-constants-go-on-a-date/What do you get when you mix a blue peacock with a white variety (not albino, a color variation)? Apparently, this: Link [Flickr]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/white-blue-peacock/From the website:A sun-deprived village in the Italian Alps has come up with a novel solution to fix the problem - by installing a giant mirror.The mirror - an eight-by-five metre (26x16ft) sheet of steel -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/12/19/giant-mirror-for-sun-deprived-italian-village/
