Bad Idea: Burglarizing a house.Really Bad Idea: Burglarizing a house while the owner is still in it.Neatorama-worthy: Burglarizing a house while the owner is still in it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/burglar-fell-asleep-under-victims-bed/After Nebraskan legislator and self-proclaimed agnostic Ernie Chambers [wiki] sued God for wreaking havoc on Earth, little did he expect that he would get a response: A legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/legislator-sued-god-and-got-a-response/Look closely: that's not a sign advertising the newest addition to Taco Bell's menu - that's a subversive art done by guerilla artist Vinchen. Link - via Wooster Collective...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/subversive-taco-bell-art/Human Flipbook is a fascinating YouTube clip, sponsored by Erbert & Gerbert Subs & Clubs, in which a "human flipbook," basically a guy wearing 150 T-shirts, tells the story of a hungry boy trying to fin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/the-human-flipbook/My mother has been asking me what kind of scarf she could knit for me for years, but I'm just not a scarf person... well I wasn't. From most angles this appears to be your average striped scarf, but when you look at i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/skull-illusion-scarf/An animated GIF that starts with a blank subway map and then draws each line in the sequence in which it was built. Link - via kottke.org...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/animated-history-of-the-nyc-subway/Wow! I just saw our post statistics: we've blown past our 10,000th post and 40,000th comment this week. It's been a great two years going and it seems just like yesterday when I wrote Neatorama's very first post.I'd like...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/neatorama-10000-posts-and-40000-comments/Here's our weekly Bizarro feature on Neatorama - for more, check out Dan Piraro's website: Bizarro.comBy the way, Dan will be in the San Francisco Bay Area next week. If you're around, definitely stop by and say hello:*s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/bizarro-animal-experimentation-backfires/Jessica Cave leads the way while Erick and their daughter Rachel follow as the family heads down Bristol St. on a recent shopping trip.Photo: Michael Goulding / The OC RegisterTired of dumping money into car rep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/family-ditched-car-completely-for-a-better-life/In the vitriolic cesspool that is the Internet, the ComplimentBot 4000, which spews up random compliments and kind words is refreshing (incidentally, you can refresh your browser to see a new compliment): Link - Than...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/complimentbot-4000/Ray Kampf turned images during his his partner's radiation therapy for colon cancer into artwork in a series called "Patterns in Radiation Oncology": http://artwhore.com/swatchbook/ [Flash] - Thanks Ray!*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/patterns-in-radiation-oncology-an-artwork-by-ray-kampf/Santa Claus he ain't: when his girlfriend locked him out of his house, a drunken Evansville, Indiana man tried to get into a house through its chimney, and (predictably) got stuck!Here's one for the Darwin Awards: Hit pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/if-santa-claus-can-do-it-so-can-i/This building in Huinan city, Anhui Province, China, is shaped like a giant grand piano! The entrance and stairs are shaped like a giant violin. Found at Sina - Thanks Dave Roy!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/building-looks-like-giant-piano-and-violin/If you think that this is not neat at all, then you can kill me! I've been laughing for the last half hour. Hit Play or go to the YouTube video to watch a monkey giving a cat a bath. via Cute Overload...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/monkey-washing-a-cat/In his spare time, Phillip Isohe, a metal fabricator in Kenya, builds models of airplanes and buses from scratch:This seems to be an extension of what many of us did while growing up in Africa - building wire, or tin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/making-your-own-model-airplane-completely-from-scratch/The Okinawan musical instrument of Sanshin is usually made from snakeskin-covered body, but during World War II when people had little money, they made one from tin cans! http://www.yinyangreport.com/?p=391 (with video)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/21/okinawan-sanshin-musical-instrument-made-with-tin-cookie-can/The deadliest fire in the history of the United States occurred in a town you probably never heard of. On October 8th, 1871, Peshtigo, Wisconsin was totally consumed by fire, and over 1,200 people died. The fire was no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/the-forgotten-fire/OK, admit it. You’ve thought about this before, haven’t you? Click on image or go to College Humor. -via Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/darth-vader-blues/We all love and know Stephen Hawking for his quirky humor and his even quirkier Astrophysics papers about Black Holes and our Universe. But, did you know that he has a special liking for "The Simpsons"? Not only does...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/stephen-hawking-loves-the-simpsons/Neatorama reader Greg Johnson is auctioning off a Vigo the Carpathian oil painting that he had commissioned a while back.Vigo the Carpathian, you may vaguely remember, is the big enemy in Ghostbusters II. Link [ebay] - *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/ghostbusters-vigo-the-carpathian-painting-on-sale/I suspect that a lot of you know already that Karen Carpenter of the duo The Carpenters was an amazing drummer who could sing and play the drums at the same time, but it's neat the clips again: Hit play or go to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/karen-carpenter-the-drummer/A mere fan you say? No, that's a tessen or an iron fan, one of the top 8 Weird Asian Martial Arts Weapon at Weird Asia News:Folding fans with outer spokes made of iron which were designed to look like regular, harmle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/the-iron-fan-and-other-strange-asian-martial-arts-weapons/A likeness of President Gerald Ford is this year's corn maze at the Gull Meadow Farms, Michigan, which is not far from where Ford grew up. At the bottom of the maze, there is a giant "THANKS!"http://www.gullmea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/corn-maze-of-president-gerald-ford/For the past 60 years, a strange yet fascinating nightly border-closing ritual takes place in one of the world's hottest borders, the Indo-Pakistani border, at Wagah Crossing (the only road border between the two countri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/wagah-crossing-border-ritual/If watching your nightly news doesn't scare you enough, here's a website that warns you of terrorism events and other suspicious activities around the world (the page automatically refreshes the list every 7 minutes or s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/global-incident-map-where-are-the-terrorists/46-year-old Carnegie-Mellon professor Randy Pausch delivered his final lecture, entitled “How to Live Your Dreams†on Tuesday. Paush has terminal pancreatic cancer. The lecture is powerful and uplifting. *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/the-last-lecture/This is so true, whatever medium you’re working in. Everyone’s got to put their two cents in. Flags of the world, with comments from the client. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/thats-how-marketing-works/Jason at mental_floss ran down where the advertising icons of yesteryear are now. What does the Gerber Baby look like now? Who inspired the Dutch Boy and the Coppertone Girl? And where did Mikey end up? Find out about te...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/ad-icons-of-the-past/Three baby bears made themselves at home in a New Jersey backyard! Push play or go to Live Leak. http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-baby-bears,0,1506945.story?coll=ktla-news-2 to story. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/playtime-for-baby-bears/New x-ray techniques will be used on some of the Dead Sea Scrolls that are too fragile to unravel. They will look at the texts using x-rays produced at the £360m Diamond Light Source in Didcot, Oxfordshire. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/20/reading-the-dead-sea-scrolls/
