Chinese paleontologists discovered a giant 1,400 kg (3,086 lb) "Big Bird" dinosaur they named Gigantoraptor:Gigantoraptor is about 300 times as heavy as primitive feathered peers already known to science. [...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/gigantoraptor-big-bird-fossil-found-in-china/Obsidian knife, probably used for ritual or ceremonial activities, found in Tarascan territory (Museo Michoacano, Morelia. Photo by Eduardo Williams) [Image Credit: Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/obsidian-knives-sharper-than-surgical-scalpels/Fluo's Leather Shopping Bag is a perfect example of luxury imitating the mundane: this leather bag is made to look like those ubiquitous plastic supermarket bags!Link - via Luxist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/leather-shopping-bag/From the website:An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on NASA's space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.Since Sunday, one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/baby-monitor-picked-up-nasa-space-mission/Not a particularly long train, but a very long photograph of a train, by Branislav Kropilak. This is only a small portion. You’ll have to scroll right at Kropilak’s site to see it all. http://www...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/train-panorama/To keep up your score on crazy nights. In the end it’s just a game... Link via Blog Your Mind...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/home-vs-visitor-bed/It was a memorable public marriage proposal with the help of penguins for a zookeeper in North Wales. Vicki Small, 23, said she was speechless when Kevin Venton, 27, went on bended knee and asked her to marry him...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/penguin-proposal/Here's a simple yet fun Flash game: Bounce2.The concept is maddeningly simple: guide the ball toward the goal and keep it from hitting the obstacles by creating a line with your mouse.Link [Flash, with music] - Thank...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/flash-game-bounce2/Construction workers in a San Diego housing development project unearthed the remains of a mastodon:Meet Carly, whose remains were exhumed this week.Carly was a mastodon who lived 120,000 to 220,000 years ag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/mastodon-fossil-discovered-in-san-diego/Here's a simple mistake that turned into diplomatic faux pas in Islamabad, Pakistan:... the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic is visiting Islamabad, and the Capital’s PR people have adorned a number of (very...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/czech-flag/This bartender managed to balance 3 pints of Guinness on top of each other! (The fourth glass, however, didn't work).Link - Thanks Justin Hourigan!A little Google search revealed the secret behind this pretty ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/balacing-3-glasses-of-guinness-one-on-top-of-another/Neatorama reader Jeremiah Palecek wrote:game, game, game, and again game is a game/net artwork created by Jason Nelson which is both an interactive flash game but also a ruthless rant against the glossy clean design...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/16/jeremiah-paleceks-messy-flash-game/Here is today's Bizarro! By the way, the missus and I finally managed to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and Johnny "Captain Jack Sparrow" Depp ad libbed a reference to Bizarro near the end of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/bizarro-fire-your-ass/From National Wildlife Magazine, here are the Top 10 Animal Fathers: Lessons from America's animal kingdom in how to be a superdad. For example:8. MOST SELF-SACRIFICING DADWhen the tide's in, the lumpsucker (a stout-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/fatherhood-lessons-from-the-animal-kingdom/We've featured the geeky computer key ring for the guys before - now it's something for the gals: Liz Staley's crocheted computer key choker (and other DIY nerdiness).See more of Liz's creations at her "Realm of Ner...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/geeky-choker-necklace/What do you get when you combine a pool table with an entertainment center and a bar? This Heiron Smith creation called "The Executive": Link - via Smidigt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/pool-table-entertainment-center-bar-the-executive/Judge Roy Pearson, Jr. really, really, really loved his favorite pants that his dry cleaners lost, so of course he decided on a logical course of action: he sued. For $67.3 million!When the owners, Korean im...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/tale-of-the-54-million-pants/This is awesome: Alien in LEGO by Arvo: Link [in Spanish] - via The Brothers Brick and Yayo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/alien-lego/That's Charlie "Bear Man" Vandergaw, a 68-year-old former science teacher who tamed wild bears in Alaska by plying them with food!Vandergaw says his relationship with bears dated to his retirement from teac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/alaskan-bear-farm-former-science-teacher-tamed-wild-bear/Over the past four years, Dan Didrick has sold his Rolex, his Porche, and his Naples villa - moved in with his girlfriend to save money and used milk crates as furniture to develop this:What he’s done is create...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/x-fingers-prosthetic-fingers-with-a-full-range-of-motion/Got $250,000? You can buy this ghost town in the middle of nowhere:As real estate ads go, Rocky Bar's is a browser-stopper."Always wanted a ghost town?" it asks. "What a way to amaze your frie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/for-sale-ghost-town/Six couples and four photographers were too busy taking wedding photos at the Badaguan or "Eight Passes" seashore to notice the tide rising, and got stranded on a reef for hours: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/lost-er-just-stranded-on-a-reef-during-a-wedding-photo-shoot/The official McFLY 2015 projectUploaded by mickeyandchucky...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/friday-the-15th/For those of you who enjoyed phone salesman/opera singer Paul Potts' audition for Britain's Got Talent (but don't have access to ITV 1), here's his performance in the semi-finals last night. The voting is now...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/paul-potts-update/Weave your bacon into a delicious placemat! Step-by-step instructions are at Instructables. Link -via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/bacon-placemats/An Illustrated History of Trepanation traces the practice of making holes in people’s heads from prehistory to some quirky recent stories. The procedure, which is called a craniotomy in medical terminology,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/trepanation/Sure, there's lots to consider in planning a wedding: dresses, cakes, bands, halls ... all of which can add up to a hefty bill for the parents of the bride (or, in some cultures, the groom). But perhaps those belly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/worlds-most-excessive-weddings/Let's take a look at VideoSift's Sci-Fi Fandom collective, a neat collection of everything related to science fiction (with lots of vintage clips!) Tron Lightb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/videosift-vintage-sci-fi-clips/Let's take a look at some of the neatest links featured in Boing Boing in the past 7 days: Ugly Mailbox BlogYour Ugly Mailbox is a new blog featuring ... you guessed it: amazingly ugly mailbox...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/15/neatest-posts-on-boing-boing-june-15-2007/Tim Noble and Sue Webster create art with a twist. These sculptures are designed to throw shadows of something completely different from what they appear to be! http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/freeze-frame-scree...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/14/shadow-art/
