This olive python is ignoring mother's advice and pulling a wallaby out of the water, with the intention, one would assume, of eating something considerably larger than its head. Via Snopes, who verifies the species invo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/never-eat-anything-bigger-than-your-head/Georg Gerster is a Swiss aerial photographer whose work spans 40 years, six continents, and 111 countries. This photo is Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park, taken in 1982. I could spend way too much ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/georg-gerster/This extremely long train can be spotted in Mauritania, deep in the Sahara Desert. It carries iron ore from central Mauritania to the Nouadibou harbour. Link to YouTube - via Videofeber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/probably-the-longest-train-in-the-world/Playing in two dimensions is easy enough, but what truly separates the men from the boys? Maybe it's when you give up your easel for a tool belt and get to work with a hammer and chisel. These amazing sculptors too...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/15/5-greatest-sculptors-of-all-time/A light made of ice? Yes, a ball of ice with an LED inside. Instructables has directions on making your own, with plenty of cool pictures. Link -via PAgent’s Progress...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/ice-bulb/In 1969, Ace Berg and John Rendall bought Christian the lion cub from the Exotic Animals department of London's Harrods for 250 pounds. For one year, "He travelled by Bentley, ate in fine London restaurants and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/the-lion-who-lived-in-a-london-apartment/In this entry from the Journal of the Lewis and Clark expedition, dated 11 Feb 1805, Meriweather Lewis explains how to produce a "fine boy" with a bracing tincture of rattlesnake parts:The party that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/snips-and-snails-and-puppy-dog-tails/Neatorama reader Jerrold Litwinenko wrote about a weird hobby: airplane spotting [wiki]."Plane spotting" is an odd hobby, and most certainly isn't for everyone. But those that do it are really into it and s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/plane-spotting/From techPowerUp! here comes the gerbil cage PC mod! Link - Thanks Jason Dumbaugh!Don't forget to check out Neatorama's Ultimate Case Mod List....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/gerbil-pc/You: "This vacuum cleaner sucks ass"Seller: "So, you can read."For real, though: http://www.doukas.com.gr/ViewShopProduct.aspx?Id=24256- Thanks John Johnson!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/the-ass-vacuum-cleaner/What's the most important day on the organized crime calendar? Mother's Day:Each and every Mother's Day until he landed behind bars, mobster Jimmy "The Gent" Burke performed a sacrosanct ritual.Bur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/the-importance-of-mothers-day-to-organized-crime/"Coca Cola old ads" is a blog dedicated to vintage Coca-Cola advertising posters. Link - via digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/vintage-coca-cola-ads/"Cars" by David Michael Clarke: a 21 min 34 sec long car names audio track - the perfect alternative to counting sheep. http://www.davidmichaelclarke.net/pages_sound/track_07w.html - via vvork...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/how-cars-can-help-you-sleep/Photo: David LoopeToday's collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this image, captioned: "A human foot over the footprint of a theropod, the same kind of dinosaur that T. rex was"Close eno...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/how-to-spot-t-rex-footprints/This goal was made some week ago in a game between the two Swedish soccer teams Örebro SK and IFK Göteborg. The name of the lucky player who managed do the amazing goal is Andres Vasquez. For the ones o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/amazing-soccer-goal/Jennifer Strunge makes monsters out of recycled clothing and linens. Each is a one-of-a-kind creation that she sells at Cotton Monster. According the the FAQ, they need to be handled gently, and although they may prete...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/cotton-monster/The world’s first surviving all-girl sextuplets were born to Graham and Janet Walton in 1983. The girls grew up in the Walton’s eight-bedroom house and left home at age 18. Now, at 23, five of the six hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/the-walton-sextuplets/The Food Timeline not only shows when certain foods were first used for human consumption, but also contains links for the history of most foods featured. For example: did you know that a botanist wrote about seeing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/the-food-timeline/The World of Mr. Toast by Dan Goodsell has comics, animations, and delightful pictures of Mr. Toast and his food friends. Link -via Everlasting Blort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/the-world-of-mr-toast/The Menton Lemon Festival (Fête des Citrons) is held every year in late winter. Menton is in the French Rivera, between Monaco and the border with Italy, and has a wonderfully mild climate that draws tons of tourist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/fete-des-citrons/Flickrvision is one of those sites that can get you stuck for just a little bit too long if you don't watch out. It's a Google Map on which you in real-time will see new photos that are being posted on Flickr. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/flickrvision-its-addictive/You might remember all those old public service announcements. The website Black20.com remade a bunch of them Star Wars style. This one is my favorite. Youtube...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/star-wars-public-service-announcement/The following is reprinted from Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader.These tidbits about extinct candy bars come from Dr. Ray Broekel, "candy bar historian" and publisher of a newsletter calle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/10-candy-bars-youll-never-eat/Now you too can have your name in lights, at Not Celebrity - via Miss Cellania...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/14/your-name-in-lights/Oooh, this is awesome: Mario Cake Pan! Too bad it's currently out of stock ...http://wilton.kitchen-hills.com/Super-Mario-Brothers-Cake-Pan-B00069ZZ3C.htm - via Smidigt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/mario-cake-pan/Architect Peter Archer's client has a unique request: design a cottage modeled after a Hobbit's house!Here is the fantastic result: Link - via Scribal Terror...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/a-real-hobbit-house/Instructables user FreakCitySF has the step-by-step guide on how to make your very own Han Solo in Carbonite chocolate bar.Link - via Eduyayo and Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/han-solo-in-carbonite-chocolate/Sylvia DeVries, who will turn 80 in May, skydived for the first time to celebrate Mother's Day!DeVries, accompanied by her four children and a dozen grandchildren, celebrated Mother's Day on Saturday with a tandem ju...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/grandma-skydived-to-celebrate-mothers-day/Minefields 2 is one addicting Flash puzzle - the goal of the game is to navigate your tank through enemy lines. When you get frustrated, remember that every puzzle has a solution! Link....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/13/neat-flash-game-minefield-2/What do you get when you mix Monty Python and Star Wars? This: Darth Vader on Guard Duty.Link [YouTube]...
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