When an underground seam of coal catches fire, the effects can be felt for decades. In Centralia, Pennsylvania, the fire started in 1962 and is still burning! The town was completely evacuated in 1984. See lots of pict...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/the-fire-down-below/Nothing says that your invention is here to stay better than finding out that its name has been incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary. Congratulations to Ward Cunningham for the ultimate recognition of his w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/wiki-wins-spot-in-oxford-english-dictionary/Thursday at Kennedy Center, Justice Anthony Kennedy presided over a mock trial of Hamlet for the murder of Polonius. The jury hung on a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. Reuters reports:The defendant Hamle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/hamlet-on-trial/Are those Cliff's Notes on Shakespeare's comedies still too long for you? Then you'd want to take a look at the ultra-brief summary at mental_floss: 14 Shakespeare comedies in 14 sentences!http://www.mentalfloss.com/blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/14-shakespeare-comedies-in-14-sentences/Stefan G. Bucher decided that he would draw a brand new monster every day, and capture the process on video. Here's the very first monster: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] Stefan's up to 100 monsters today, so don't for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/stefan-g-buchers-daily-monster/Bad: getting into a car accident.Worse: getting into a car accident with two 5-gallon buckets of paint with you in the carPriceless: the buckets had no lids, and now your pictures are all over the 'Net!Ueba has more pics...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/a-little-car-and-paint-accident/What kind of big, expensive houses do billionaires live in? Forbes has the slideshow. (This one above is Michael Dell's 33,000 square-foot mansion): Link - via sNoWy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/billionaires-homes/Speeders, watch out for "Deputy Leprechaun" in Orange County, Florida: An Orange County sheriff's deputy dressed as a leprechaun and equipped with a laser speed-detection gun targeted speeding and reckless...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/speeders-beware-of-deputy-leprechaun/Photo: Liz TomkinsGeoff Hudspith created a steam-powered bicycle: Link - via BloggerFodder...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/geoff-hudspiths-steam-powered-bicycle/Hm ... would you get beat up if you wear this colorful Nike shoes as a kid? http://www.laavenue.jp/data/database.cgi?sline=2808&print=1&tid=list3&did= [in Japanese]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/nikes-rainbow-shoes/Nouvelle Star is a French talent show along the lines of American Idol. Joseph amazed them with his beatbox abilities. How can someone do so many things with his mouth at once? Push play or go to YouTube. -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/beatbox-de-la-nouvelle-star/Here's this week collaboration with Dan Piraro! For more, check out Dan's cool website: Bizarro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/bizarro-mickeys-combover/Before it was called Nickelodeon [wiki], the TV channel was actually called Pinwheel. Buzznet has the video clip:Some of you may remember Pinwheel, the children's television show that aired from 1979-1989 on Nickelod...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/before-nickelodeon-pinwheel/Here's another fun quiz from the awesome folks at mental_floss: Snake on an Island [pdf] For centuries, the Irish have told a legend about St. Patrick driving all snakes out of Ireland and into the sea (this has sinc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/st-patrick-or-samuel-l-jackson/Rock and Royal artist Arno Coenen assembled these awesome walls of mosaics featuring retro video game characters! http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=2417 | Rock and Royal's website - Thanks Tom Fronczak!Pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/retro-video-game-mosaics/Neatorama reader Linnea wrote:The One Click Butter Cutter is my Dad's new invention - unlike other butter slices, it cuts just one slice at a time and stores the remaining butter stick, too. You can cut a whole stick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/one-click-butter-cutter/You’d think that a philosopher could reason out the best way to behave, right? But you’d be wrong, very wrong. 1. Socrates, the Barefoot BumNotoriously ugly, clad in one coat long beyond its years, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/9-bad-boys-of-philosophy/Today, let's check out VideoSift's sports sift collective: These two wushu martial artists performed their choreographed fight sequence with crazy spe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/16/videosift-sports-collective/Just in case you haven't seen enough of the creepy King from the Burger King advertisements, he's about to make the jump to the big screen. Burger King has confirmed that the feature length movie could hit theaters...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/burger-king-the-movie/Scientists have created a new state of matter, and a possible picture of the nature of space-time itself:Xiao-Gang Wen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Levin at Harvard University ran with Lau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/string-net-liquid-a-new-type-of-matter/World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring group, said that this tiger bone wine - made by steeping carcasses in large vats of rice wine - can cause tigers to be hunted to extinction. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/tiger-bone-wine/As a part of the evidence collected in the case against Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, is this homemade gun: Link | More gruesome pic of homemade bombs here: Link - via Cellar IoTD...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/unabombers-homemade-gun/Henry the Hamster got stuck in a kitchen pipe and had to be saved with ... a vacuum cleaner!After the RSPCA failed to reach him, help was sought from two council wardens who tied a number of hamster ladders and Curly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/vacuum-cleaner-saved-hamster/I feel my arteries clogging just reading the Stuff Magazine recipe on how to make this bacon, cheese and beer hot dog.http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=1755 - via Supersize Meals and eBaumsWorld...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/heart-attack-city-bacon-cheese-and-beer-hot-dog/Only the Japanese can make the video game Breakout this much fun (played with 32 marshmallow blocks!). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via The Last Boss and Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/breakout-with-marshmallows/Tired of rowdy teenagers, malls across the United States have adopted a new strategy (that seems to be working): no teenagers during evening hours unless accompanied by adults!In 1995, the Mall of America had more th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/malls-to-rowdy-teen-not-accompanied-by-an-adult-get-lost/This is weird: Australian researcher Gary Cass of the Micro 'be' Seamless Wear project and colleagues have perfected the science of making dresses from fermented fabric.The researchers used bacteria to "grow" s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/grow-your-own-slimy-dress-from-beer/The secretive clouded leopard of the Borneo rainforest are actually a new, separate species:"Who said a leopard can never change its spots? For over a hundred years we have been looking at this animal and never...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/clouded-leopard-actually-a-new-separate-species/Carmaker Renault has introduced a dashboard mat called "Grass Mat" that really works for holding your iPod, cellphones and other gadgets. http://news.windingroad.com/etc/geneva-motor-show-renaults-amazing-littl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/15/renaults-grass-mat-really-holds-your-gadgets/[http://youtu.be/ifKKlhYF53w] Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo met as 12-year-old students at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music. Their music/comedy show, A Little Nighmare Music has played all over...
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