17-year-old hacker extraordinaire George Hotz worked out a way to make Apple's iPhone work with other wireless carriers besides AT&T. Why did he do it? Because, he said, "it was fun.""This was a go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/teenage-hacker-unlocked-the-iphone/Neatorama doesn't post nearly enough neat pics lately but this one is so neat we gotta show ya: a smiling orangutan mommy holding her teeny tiny baby! - via Cute Overload...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/orangutan-mom-and-baby/Sonja Elen Kisa, a translator and linguist in Canada, was depressed - so she decided to invent her own language, a simple one that would help her sort out her thoughts.The result? Toki Pona or "good language,&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/toki-pona-a-happy-language/Russian strongman Vladimir Putin became a sex symbol (and even a gay icon) when he stripped down to his waist on a fishing trip: Newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published a huge colour photo of the bare-chested Presi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/putin-a-new-sex-symbol-and-gay-icon/Reincarnation? China doesn't think so. Not without government approval, anyhow:In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/china-banned-reincarnation/25 weeks into her pregnancy, Nicola Delemere didn't think she had any reason to be concerned about flying from Manchester to the island of Crete. But shortly into the flight, the expectant mother's water broke, and she...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/24/miracle-baby-born-at-30000-feet/Scientists are now able to trigger an out-of-body experience (without subjecting volunteers to near-death):Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con the brain into thinking the body was located elsewhere.*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/24/scientists-recreate-out-of-body-experience/Deputydog has a list of extreme cases of body modification, including tatoos, piercings, implants, and other methods. The people on this list have not been modified to correct a birth defect or injury, but as elective...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/24/top-10-physically-modified-people/Maybe Neatorama should run an ad like this, since gail can’t be here all the time! Although the language is garbled, the meaning is perfectly clear. I especially like the part about submitting a better version o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/24/englihs-editer/If you are truly sick of Pachelbel’s Canon in D, you will want to skip this. But if you enjoyed Total Momsense, you will want to hear this song about the frustrations of parenting. Push play or go to YouTube. -v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/24/bedtime-song/An initiative called The Aphrodite Project has created GPS-enabled safety shoes for sex workers. Each sandal will have an audible alarm system, which emits a piercing noise to scare off attackers. The shoes ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/24/safety-shoes-for-sex-workers/The ever-innovative Japanese have created an ant farm with a nutrient-filled gel rather than the traditional dirt found in most ant farms. It turns out the ants can't function properly in the artificial goo, and end...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/24/antquarium-kills-your-ants/Uranus' rings weren't discovered until 1977. Now, a telescope in Hawaii has taken images of the side where the sun doesn't shine. The changes observed in the rings since 1980 are attributed to large impacts. Let the pu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/photos-of-the-dark-side-of-uranus/BibliOdyssey blog has a very neat post (with a lot of scanned pages) about the original Wizard of Oz, a book titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [wiki] by written Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, publis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/Take a look at Jenny Hart's awesome embroidery art (this one above is of the rock duo The White Stripes): http://www.jennyhart.net/ - Thanks anon.!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/jenny-harts-embroidery-art/What happened to Daniel Blackner or "Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf"? Here's a clue: The attachment broke before the performance and Blackner tried to fix it using extra-strong glue, but unfortunately only let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/a-dwarfs-vacuum-cleaner-incidence/Just because they're older it doesn't mean that seniors aren't getting any. According to a recent survey by Dr. Stacy Lindau and Professor Edward Laumann of the University of Chicago, old age is 'no barrier' to sex life:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/old-people-got-it-goin-on/Andrew Feldmar's story has been making the rounds for the past couple of months. Feldmar is a Canadian psychotherapist who wrote about his LSD experiences in the late 1960s who has been PERMANENTLY BARRED from enterin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/permanently-barred-from-the-us-for-using-lsd/Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]Betcha didn't have this kind of summer camp when you were growing up: Camp Okutta, a kid's camp with activities like throwing grenade and setting up land mines!A dream camp for gun enthusi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/camp-okutta-lets-kids-play-with-grenades-and-land-mines/If you ever had a toy microscope as a kid, you'll probably find this neat: EyeClops is like a handheld microscope that plugs into a TV - it will magnify 200 times and display the image right on the TV screen.Plus it look...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/eyeclops-microscope-for-your-tv/Neatorama reader Solo took a photo of this special S&M Moving Systems truck while stuck in traffic.I wonder what they move ....Link [Flickr] - Thanks Solo!For more shenanigans like this, check out N...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/sm-moving-snicker/Series 1, Episode 1 Part 1/3 [YouTube]Neatorama reader cuimnhe tuned us in to QI (which stands for Quite Interesting), a very funny British quiz show hosted by comedian Stephen Fry. For us Yanks, who do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/quite-interesting-indeed/Time for something neat? Take a look at Tara Donovan's artwork: large sculptures made from everyday objects like plastic drinking straws, hot-glued styrofoam cups (above), paper plates, and pencils.You won't be disappoin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/tara-donovans-mega-sculptures-made-from-everyday-objects/Mike Flynt’s biggest regret was getting kicked off his college football team in his senior year -37 years ago. So he checked his eligibility and joined the team once again at Sul Ross State in Texas! He is eight y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/59-year-old-college-football-player/BoingBoing had a post about a cool video on the Latin video cable mun2's (mundos') website the other day. Here's another one from the same site - sexy Ivy Queen, the Queen of Reggaeton - teaches us how to roll our Rs....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/spanish-lesson-how-to-roll-your-rs/From the very clever and very funny John Safran vs. God from Australia, now playing on Sundance Channel - as well as on YouTube and BitTorrent. (If you like Safran, check out his Music Jamboree show, also available wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/john-safran-takes-on-the-mormons/Residents in North Bakersfield, California aren't seeing double, a wild rabbit they've spotted has four ears. The residents have named the rabbit ‘Pete’ and he was discovered among three mundane bunnies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/rabbit-with-four-ears/Clarence Cleveland Curtiss, of Shelton, is still driving around in his 1929 Ford Model A, which he bought from a Derby man for $10 in 1938. Link - via ebr303...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/still-driving-his-first-car-at-84/Matt Tovey collected several hundred old CPUs during a company upgrade and made this awesome desktop! Then he posted the process with pictures. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/cpu-desk/This ornate reliquary houses the mummified hand of St. Stephen (975-1038), the first crowned king of Hungary. The relic is still venerated in remembrance of Stephen's conversion of the Magyars and unification of Hungary....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/23/the-hand-of-st-stephen/
