Since Carl Zimmer at The Loom asked about people with science tattoos (reported previously on Neatorama), he has received over 70 submissions for his Flickr set. Especially worth noting is this tattoo of an intricately...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/dna-tattoo/Authorities in Oak Lawn, Illinois are adding gag signs beneath regular stop signs to catch drivers’ attentions. The new signs say such things as: STOP . . . • *In the Naame of Love • *And Smell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/stop-and-read-the-sign/Photo: Stefan SeipThis amazing photo, titled Saguaro Moon, is that of a Harvest Moon, named such because farmers could work well into the night by moonlight at the end of the growing season to harvest crops.There's a lar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/saguaro-moon/The national anthem of Spain, La Marcha Real ("The Royal March") has no official lyrics. In 2007, the Spanish Olympic committee asked the public to submit lyrics proposal so people can sing in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/trivia-the-national-anthem-of-spain-is-hummed-not-sung/There are many graffiti masquerading as "urban art" in defacing street signs, but this true artwork by Colombian artist Andrea Acosta is something else: her artwork is on "the b-side" of the signs!Par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/andrea-acostas-b-side-street-sign-art/Markus "Hercules" Stoeckl, a 33 year old Austrian man, broke the World Speed Record for mountain bikes. He hit a top speed of 130.7 mph (210.3 kmph) on his bike - oh, and did I mention it was on snow?H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/new-world-speed-record-for-mountain-bike/"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it." - William Gibson, sci-fi author and coiner of the word "cyberspace" (1948-)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/quote-william-gibson-on-the-internet/An article at Anthropology.net summarizes an alarming trend of the extinction of languages, particularly in Northern Australia, Central South America, North America's upper Pacific coastal zone, Eastern Siberia, and Okla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/5-hotspots-for-dying-languages/Enter your zip code in the application ZIPskinny and find information from the 2000 census report. I found some odd facts about the people in my zip code. Only 3.5% are unemployed, yet 22.5% are below the poverty level....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/zipskinny/Wine company Carlo Rossi is challenging its customers to make something out of its wine jugs. The Jug Simple Furniture Collection was used as examples. See a wine jug chandelier, speaker system, lamp, bookshelves, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/30/wine-jug-furniture/Robotics engineers at the University of Tokyo have designed a robot that jumps like a frog. And looks like one! The robot, named Mowgli, can also kick a soccer ball. The point is a study of musculature and kinetics, but...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/29/japanese-jumping-frog-robot/Monkeys also suffer from male pattern baldness like humans do. Scientists noticed that stumped tailed macaque suffer from male pattern baldness. In fact, minoxidil (Rogaine) was successfully used to reverse hair loss in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/29/trivia-monkey-and-baldness/Sun Tzu (544 BCE-496 BCE)The Experience: A Chinese general who probably lived in the 4th century BCE, very little is known about Sun Tzu&'s wartime exploits - but he wrote The Art of Wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/29/9-battlefield-geniuses-and-what-they-can-teach-you-about-warfare/Whoa! It's the weekend and I'm late for our weekly collab with VideoSift (sorry, Sifters!), but let me make it up to you, with an offering of cute kids and animals! Now, how can you resist that?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/29/videosift-cute-kids-and-animals/Billboard in Yass, Australia. These people have no excuse - they speak English. Via Parakaashtha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/29/myass/Jones Soda is at it again. The new NFL-themed flavors are Dirt, Sports Cream, Perspiration, Natural Field Turf, and Sweet Victory. Natural Field Turf Soda is described as "like playing tackle football, and you get...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/29/natural-field-turf-soda/This is real sign for a real town in California. A town with a sense of humor! Link -via J-Walk Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/new-cuyama/A baby boy walrus was born at the New York Aquarium in June and was first shown to the public just yesterday. He weighed 115 pounds at birth, and is expected to weigh a ton when full grown. Link -via Fark...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/baby-walrus/Larger size at the top left on this (no longer linkjacked) page. (Hmm, what percentage of top Reddit posts are not linkjacked?) And here's a previous related Neatorama post. Finally, here's one awesome, albeit exp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/photo-old-school-cylon-begging-for-work/This is a strange one. It's no secret that the US military is having more trouble than ever finding new recruits. You might think that recruiting from the MySpace generation would make perfect sense - a pool of mil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/us-navy-calls-myspace-teens-alien-life-force/Andres Amador makes large, crop circle-like "paintings" in the sand on the beach at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, and at Burning Man. Here is a gallery which plays a slide show th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/sand-circles/Rats! No, I'm not cursing out loud rather I am showing my gratitude to these (now) noble creatures. Well, not all rats...just a certain type of rat! The Gambian Pouch Rat has proven itself to be quite a useful min...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/of-mice-and-mines/The Ghost Finders Camera is a disposable camera that adds eerie images of ghosts to your photos when they are developed. 35mm, 27 exposures and less than ten bucks, this will add afterlife to any party...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/spirit-photography/Snarkerati blog has a fantastic new article: the Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time, ranked by Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB ratings.A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis or complete opposite of a utop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-times/This Russian guy must really, really like whisky! The anonymous bidder paid £29,400 (about $60,000) for a bottle of a Bowmore single malt whisky, bottled in 1850:The Bowmore single malt whisky is the o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/worlds-most-expensive-single-malt-whisky/While we're on the subject of drinks, here's something cheaper yet perhaps more intriguing: a new drink by Fanta, with Mystery Flavor!I was delighted to find a bottle at the convenience store a few nights ago. I coul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/mystery-flavor-soda-by-fanta/Meet the MicroDrone, a toy-sized spy helicopter that has been used by the police in Britain to film and photograph the street below. A Times Online article stated:And now there’s a new spy in the sky. It’...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/microdrone-spies-from-above/Watching cars do an intricate group dance is nice, but it’s even better when something goes wrong! Push play or go to YouTube. -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/renault-ballet/Our modern age has seen several designs for propeller-driven trains. And cars. And a bicycle. And even a sled! See them all at deputy dog. http://deputy-dog.com/2007/09/27/7-unusual-propeller-driven-vehicles/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/7-unusual-propeller-driven-vehicles/Hot water freezes faster than cold water. It was (re)discovered by a Tanzanian high school student named Erasto Mpemba, so the phenomenon is called the Mpemba effect.Counter-intuitive, isn't it? Read more about why*/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/28/trivia-hot-water-freezes-faster-than-cold-water/
