Chinese college graduate Ai Baorong tried to find a normal job, but couldn't get one, so she decided to get into the fly business. Yes, the business of growing and selling housefly maggots!Baorong has since started t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/selling-flies-is-big-business/Rob Gale of A Welsh View blog is having a little fun (and yummy) Online Easter Egg Hunt competition. Winner will get an Easter Hamper (£50 value).Not sure whether this is a UK only deal: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/a-welsh-views-online-easter-egg-hunt/The Red Brick Road has a neat photo collection of cute cartoon caracters in LEGO!This one to the left is Pooh by brickshelf user junlego.Link - via Eduyayo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/lego-cartoon-characters/From the website:Hitomi Katamura, 51, has been farming for 16 years and says she’s seen plenty of daikon that split into two or three prongs at the foot, “but I’ve never seen a radish shaped like a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/this-daikon-looks-like-a-foot/Don't let my shoe-aholic wife see this: a cute car-shaped kid's shoes, on display at the China International Clothing and Acessories Fair in Beijing. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/car-shaped-kids-shoes/[http://youtu.be/jP6nYs9Il7c]Here's a clever mashup of the Beatles and .. a zombie movie! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Miss Cellania...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/a-hard-days-night-of-the-living-dead/Shorpy calls itself “the 100-year-old photo blog.†Not all the pictures are that old, but they are pretty old. And fascinating. This picture is the corner of 34th and Broadway in New York in 1914. Link -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/shorpy/Today's collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this amazing story of Qian Hongyan:The Chinese youngster's family was too poor to afford the sophisticated medical assistance that could have helped her to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/basketball-girl-got-new-legs/This and other LEGO Beatles album covers in the Dogstar flickr album cover set. Link [flickr] - via The Brothers Brick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/beatles-rubber-soul-in-lego/Via Tokyo Times. We used to call the single-story American version of this a shotgun house because you "could fire a shotgun through the front door and the pellets would fly cleanly through the house and o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/japanese-space-saver-home/I wonder what happens to the bodies? Can the robot digest them? Link - Via: Tokyo Times...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/dead-body-collecting-robot/Xavier, a ten-month old kitten in Rhode Island, is disabled and cannot walk or support his own weight. He is under the care of an educator from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A fourth grade class...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/19/kitten-wheelchair/This "Canned Radiation" produced by Brenster Enterprises in 1980 was probably the most popular souvenir from the Three Mile Island nuclear incident.Amongst the six suggested uses listed on the label is this one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/canned-radiation/In 1939, a conference on national school-bus standards organized by Dr. Frank W. Cyr (the "Father of the Yellow School Bus" [wiki]) decided on pretty much everything having to do with making school buses, inclu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/school-bus-yellow/FanTent has a collection of YouTube clips of Turkish versions of famous movies, like Star Trek, Star Wars, Exorcist, Wizard of Oz, and ET (called "Badi")!Trust me, they're weird (especially the ET one): Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/turkish-version-of-famous-movies/Here are the best haircuts to sleep at work: Link - via digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/best-way-to-sleep-at-work/Meet Anna Jarvis, the woman who made it her life's work to popularize Mother's Day, got horrified over its commercialization, and tried to take it back via a copyright fight (which left her to die in poverty). But wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/copyright-fight-to-the-death-by-the-founder-of-mothers-day/Found at Tina Roth Eisenberg's excellent blog: swissmiss....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/graffiti-swiss-style/Alex DePue is the winner of the California State Fiddle Championship, a Celtic fiddle player, and a fan of fiddling around with recently popular songs. Hit play, or go to Link [YouTube] to see him play Yes's Owner...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/classic-pop-rock-on-a-fiddle/Physicists at the University of Wisconsin Madison have devised a method for seeing objects in more than 4 dimensions. The purpose of such visualizations is to determine what the universe looked like right after the Big...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/seeing-in-more-than-four-dimensions/This has got to be one of the geekiest clock out there: a planetary orbit clock - you have to decipher to location of the "planets" in their orbits to figure out the time! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/planetary-orbit-clock/What happen if you trust your satellite navigation system over common sense? You get your £96,000 Mercedes sports car swept away in a swollen river:Although the track is signposted as ‘unsuitable for moto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/damn-the-swollen-river-gps-navigation-said-full-speed-ahead/Scientists have developed glow-in-the-dark materials that shine in colors!Phosphorescent materials absorb energy when exposed to light and emit that energy as light again over long time periods.Good blue an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/glow-in-the-dark-materials-that-shine-in-full-colors/This cute robot in Japan specializes in ... dispensing tissues! Pink Tentacle has the story (and a video clip) Mospeng-kun is a tissue-dispensing robot created by InterRobot Inc., a robot development and rental compa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/tissue-dispensing-robot/What do you do with an indoor pool that you don't use anymore? The owners of a Wisconsin home turned it into a home theater! Link - Thanks Rachel Cericola!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/18/turning-an-indoor-pool-into-a-home-theater/Don't get too impressed. This was originally supposed to be the "Animated Gears of War Shirt" but by the time we strapped a 360 to the back of the shirt and added a flatscreen to the front it just wasn't feasible....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/17/animated-retro-table-tennis-shirt/He's one of my favorites, just go and see his fabulous art pieces and a completely new website: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/17/vizcarras-caricatures/A decidedly unorthodox (and brilliant, I might add!) tactic for unloading a heavy machine in Thailand... Via: VideoSift...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/17/how-to-unload-an-excavator/Researchers working on Sandia National Lab's Z Machine were able to create ice with a temperature higher than boiling water. "'The three phases of water as we know them—cold ice, room temperature liquid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/17/ice-that-is-hotter-than-boiling-water/Rotate is a game that uses Flickr photos as puzzles. You have to click on the parts to rotate them until they make sense. You are timed. Link -via B3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/rotate/
