According to the mathematical boffins at Cambridge University, Jessica Alba with her perfect proportions has the ultimate sexy strut. The academics found that it is the ratio between hips and waist that puts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/jessica-alba-has-ultimate-sexy-strut/The guardians of Chinese, one of the world’s oldest and most complicated written languages, have announced the incorporation of 171 new words after two years of research and the study of more than 900 mill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/new-words-added-to-chinese-language/The following is reprinted from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader: World of Odd. Part of the fun of travel is enjoying the local flavor. So on your next trip, eat the local food, see the local sights … and sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/worlds-weirdest-hotels/The Second (and most famous) Defenestration of Prague referred to this historical act of throwing someone out the window:At Prague Castle on May 23, 1618, an assembly of Protestants (led by Count Thurn) tried two Imp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/defenestration-of-prague/Flickr user agilitynut took this fantastic photo of an old McDonald's sign, from the times where they still had "Speedee" as a mascot! Link [Flickr] | The sign at night [Flickr] - via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/old-mcdonalds-sign/Miss C wrote a really neat article at mental_floss about really cool aquariums. This one to the left is a Birdcage Fishbowl, an early 19th century contraption to keep both fish and fowl:This antique Birdcage Fishbowl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/worlds-neatest-aquariums/Perhaps inspired by Putin's buff body, other world leaders are taking off their shirts. But when France's president Nicholas Sarkozy's picture was published in Paris Match magazine, a rival publication noticed that his l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/sarkozys-vanishing-love-handle/Diehard Star Wars fan will rejoice at these two Darth Vader time pieces: a wristwatch and an alarm clock in shape of the Dark Lord of the Sith's helmet.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/darth-vader-watch-and-clock/Here's the story of Schlitzie the Pinhead, a circus sideshow performer who was born with microcephalus and Down Syndrome:For much of his career, Schlitzie was billed as female. This was mostly due to his dress-like a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/schlitzie-the-pinhead/The Octonauts is a series of children's adventure books written by Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy of MEOMI.The wonderfully illustrated book is about a crew of cute critters, including a polar bear, daredevil kitten, dumbo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/the-octonauts/I get tired just looking at them: Dumbell Dwayne and his buddy Push-up Preston, a muscley plastic bodybuilders that will (hopefully) inspire you to work out.http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/new-arrivals/muscle-bea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/muscley-plastic-bodybuilder-toy/Artist Frank Boelter got this idea when fiddling with an empty milk carton at breakfast: to make and sail a gigantic paper boat made with "Tetrapack," the material used for packaging milk!The £110 boa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/artist-sailed-in-a-giant-paper-boat/Dancing with the Bear is Roger Shashoua's story about making money - lots of money - in Russia:One prospective buyer showed interest in a bullet-proof car. "Is this car bullet-proof?" he asked. He was told...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/worlds-most-expensive-book-dancing-with-the-bear/In the comment section of Adam Stanhope's post "Seoul Music - YMCA," John told us about a Finnish version, NMKY by Gregorius.It's so awesome that it deserved its own post on Neatorama, so here it is: Hit play o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/27/the-finnish-ymca/Better think twice before asking a stupid question! This picture is from Flickr user matildaben. Link -via Reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/help-desk-warning-sign/What do you see in this picture? Underneath the houses and “lawns†is an airplane factory! The Army Corps of Engineers covered the entire works with camouflage to protect the facility from Japanese attacks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/how-to-hide-an-airplane-factory/How to distinguish a true Rolex from a forgery. Out of the 10 tips, number 7 is probably the most well-known: Hand Movement – The second hand on a genuine Rolex watch features a smooth and continuous movement...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/how-to-spot-a-fake-rolex/A car with an awesome Space Invaders inspired paint job. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/space-invaders-car/"Hardheadipus oedipus" is my favorite. See the whole list here. Via Super Punch. Photo found here. I'll give a no-prize to the first commenter to find the "Hardheadipus Oedipus" cartoon on YouTube. *Update:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/species-designations-for-wile-e-coyote/A group of regular folks from Alberta, Canada decided to launch a large weather balloon to take high altitude photographs. Here is their description of the project: SABLE-3 was launched on Saturday, August 11...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/photos-from-22-miles-above-sea-level/Retronyms are terms that became neccessary to distinguish the original from new alternatives. Some examples: George H.W. Bush A rare example of a living person with a retronym. Until his son, G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/retronyms/The Amazing Steve (Steve Pietrowicz of Magic Lamp) submitted this to the (also) always amazing Dave Barry's blog: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/booger-hill-road/Mike Pelonzi and his partner Joe curran developed "My Child's Backpack" a bulletproof backpack that features a ballistic panel sewn into the back of the bag.According to the company, the backpack has been certi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/bulletproof-backpack/The 9 volt battery lamp is artist Richard Lawson's entry and winner of last year's lighting company Mathmos' design competition.The lamp mirrors the form of its power source, a standard 9 volt battery, which it simpl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/9-volt-lamp/That's exactly what artist Nick Philip did. In 1998, Nick created an art installation to visualize the amount of spam on the Net, if it were all printed out:Emails are copied as they pass through nowhere.com on to their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/what-we-print-out-all-the-spam-we-get/Senior Master Sgt. Ray Lloyd of US Air Force took this amazing photo of this strange pink storm cloud in October 2006 at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm - Thanks W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/pink-storm-cloud/A while ago, Neatorama had a story about an iPod that saved a soldier's life in Iraq when it caught an insurgent's bullet.Here's another one: this time, a Bible in a soldier's pocket helped save his life by stopping a bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/bible-saved-soldiers-life-in-iraq/The Robot Co-op (who made 43 Things/Places/People) launched a new website equivalent of the ubiquitous suggestion boxes we see in real life: the whole premise of the site is for people to suggest that someone sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/should-do-this/The Roof R06 Bamboo is a motorcycle helmet made from bamboo slivers. It passes the European E22/05 safety requirements for use on the road. Link - via Notcot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/bamboo-motorcycle-helmet/There's an incredible gallery of zombie hero toys here. And here's a gallery of Arthur Suydam's zombie covers for Marvel. More Neato zombies....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/custom-zombiefied-action-figures/
