Ms. Pac-Man is twenty-five years old this year, so to celebrate, The Today Show has a list of 7 trivia about the video game icon:5. Hardcore Ms. Pac-Man geeks have developed their own jargon, as explained on the site...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/ms-pac-man-trivia/Some people go to great lengths to get some peace and quiet. Take for instance, Poet Salim Hossen Gaus of Bangladesh:Every day Salim Hossen Gaus winches himself 30m (100 feet) in a precarious home-made pulley to a sm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/poet-climbs-tree-for-peace-and-quiet/Photo: Elbit SystemsDon't mess with this killer robot:The manufacturer, Elbit Systems Ltd., said that the VIPeR's small size and dual treads enable it to move "undeterred by stairs, rubble, dark alleys, caves or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/viper-killer-robot/Wherever you go, there you are. And now you can prove it too, with this ingeniuos doormat that tells you - in no uncertain terms - where you are located!http://www.chiasso.com/store/Item.aspx?DepartmentId=52&ItemId=51663...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/you-are-here-doormat/What do you get when you cross a hot dog with a pizza? A sausage-crust pizza, only in Japan!Larger pic here: Link - via Tigers and CranesSee also other weird Japanese Pizza creations, previously on Neatorama....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/hot-dog-pizza-sausage-crust-pizza/In 2005, Singapore scientist King Bang Lee and colleagues invented a battery powered by urine:To make the battery, Lee and his colleagues soaked a piece of paper in a solution of copper chloride and sandwiched it bet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/urine-powered-battery/In May 1995, Life Magazine unwittingly ran an altered photo by John Filo showing Mary Ann Vecchio screaming as she kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller who was shot by National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970 at Kent State [w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/altered-photographs-kent-state-massacre/Hans "No Way" Rey, former trials riding world champion and one of the pioneers of extreme mount biking, did this amazing biking stunt:More recently, he did the unthinkable. As a publicity stunt, Hans rode d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/extreme-mountain-biking-with-hans-no-way-rey/No news yet if Nike will release these Transformers-inspired shoes, colored in full Optimus Prime splendor! Link - via Gizmodo (This one's for you, Alain!)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/nike-transformers-shoes/Barbara Yates makes books with awesome covers made from actual barks (like this one above made of poplar) and sculpted wood: Link - via Bibliophilic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/barbara-yates-tree-books/Here are something for the car lover / gearhead in your life: wrenchware silverware and rotor plate & coffee cup! http://www.everythingcarz.com/shop/Mini---Tool-Silverware-m156.html - via Minimalist Weblog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/silverware-for-gearheads/This satirical musical composition, titled Atushi Ojisama and Ijigen Waltz [wiki], was created by Japanese composer Yamasaki Atushi - Thanks Ron!The term "Based on a Cro-magnon skinning chant" is a nod...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/atushi-ojisama-crazy-sheet-music/Here's something new to stop car thieves: smoke 'em out with FlashFog. Just don't accidentally set it off yourself!See it in action: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | FlashFog's website - via Digital Drops...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/fog-as-security-device/Remember Zoomquilt, the never-ending loop that went round the Net a while ago? Here's the follow up: Zoomquilt II.Link [Flash] - via Didn't You Hear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/zoomquilt-ii/To defuse, ... er snooze this DANGERBOMB alarm clock, you'd have to connect the wires in the right order! Supposedly, even that minor of a task early in the morning is enough to wake up your brain: Link | Original Link [...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/to-snooze-you-must-defuse-this-bomb-alarm-clock/Thanks to Serbian vampire hunters, now there's absolutely zero chance that former dictator Slobodan Milosevic can ever come-back from the dead:Serbian vampire hunters rammed a wooden stake through the heart of former...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/serbian-vampire-hunter-pre-emptively-staked-slobodan-milosevic/When the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, evicted Bell's Amusement Park after 40 years, they had to dismantle this creepy ride called Phantasmagoria. Kirk Demarais has the inside tour of the abandoned ride: As fate would hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/11/tour-of-an-abandoned-amusement-ride/What better way to spend a winter evening than looking at kooky Brazilian prank videos? In the video above [YouTube] the men in the box are chanting "curious" to lure their victims in. Here are several other clip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/zany-brazilian-prank-videos/I was always intrigued when guys in college would open beers with lighters, their hands (often bloodied afterwards), other beer bottles, tables, and their teeth. However, I never saw anyone open a beer with a dollar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/open-a-beer-bottle-with-a-dollar-bill/Social Explorer makes the census fun! Want to find to find out where the counties with the most single ladies (or guys)? It's just a click away: Link - via Didn't You Hear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/social-explorer-fun-way-to-explore-the-census-data/I wonder if it washes sins away ... Found at sugarfreak [flickr] - via Needcoffee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/satan-butter-soap/The Donation Meter Project, unveiled in Denver last week, uses refurbished parking meters to collect coin donations for the homeless.Link - via AQFL...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/parking-meter-for-the-homeless/Ever feel that you're being shadowed? The paranoia and feeling of being followed may just be your brain misfiring:The paper, published in the British journal Nature, describes the case of a 22-year-old woman with no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/feeling-youre-being-followed-its-all-in-your-head/Helenita, the woman in yellow, designed and live in this 1 meter (about 3.3 feet) wide by 10 meter tall house in Madre de Deus, Brazil.The kitchen look suspiciously larger than 1 m wide, but the story seems legit! More p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/living-in-a-really-narrow-house/Urban Retro Lifestyle has a very cool top 10 list of retro cartoon birthday cakes - this one is the Bugs Bunny Birthday Cake from Clare Wood's Ekka photoset [flickr]Check out the rest of Urban Retro's list: http://www.ur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/cartoon-birthday-cakes/Dominant male lance-tailed manakin has a "wingman" that helps him get the girl:Instead of fighting over females, pairs of male lance-tailed manakins team up to court prospective mates. Two males dance toget...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/wingman-helps-alpha-male-bird-gets-the-girl/Handcuffed? Here's how to escape just like professional escape artists, using only a hairpin. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] (Of course, the best way to escape a handcuff is *not* being put in one by obeying da law!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/how-to-escape-a-handcuff/The Muppets got their own wiki, so it's only fair that Star Wars also has its own. Here's everything you ever wanted to know about Star Wars: Wookieepedia....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/wookieepedia-star-wars-wiki/Talk about forced savings: this Japanese BANCLOCK alarm clock will only turn off if you feed it coins! Link - via TechEBlog and Engadget...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/10/banclock-the-piggy-bank-alarm-clock/Neatorama reader Joe Hastings wrote:I walk past this every day on my way home from work. It is located in the Hong Kong MTR (underground/subway/metro) station and it is constantly surrounded by people taking photogra...
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