Artist David Mach made this giant gorilla sculpture from coat hangers. Check his site for more inspirational collage work, the woman made from Scrabble tiles in his portfolio would be the perfect Faye Dunaway Fay Wray f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/giant-metal-gorilla/Yesterday and today, my hometown of Santa Clarita, Southern California made the news because of the huge fire we have going on: multiple fires sprung up from almost nothing and the strong Santa Ana wind, with gusts of up...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/southern-california-wildfire/The following is reprinted from Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader. The Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1718We've all got an idea of what it was like to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/pirate-lore-7-myths-and-trrrrruths-about-pirates/You may remember the quiz Stationery Movies that was quite popular here last year. Now the same folks have launched a sequel! The quiz still features office supplies in prominent roles, but now the clues are video clip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/stationery-movies-ii/A horde of zombies descended on Manhattan for ZombieCon NYC 2007 over the weekend. Gothamist gives us a report. Link -via YesButNoButYes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/zombie-con-2007/A team from Technische Universität Darmstadt won the Solar Decathlon competition with a house designed to run totally on sunlight. The Darmstadt Solar Decathlon house has movable solar screens around the outside that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/darmstadt-solar-decathlon-house/Aw, man, look at this poor kid. The costume was clever twenty years ago, but he/she obviously hasn’t seen the movie yet! Found at Funny-Potato -via My 2 Second Shelf Life...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/scary-costume/Suppose you could drill a hole through the Earth and then drop into it. How long would it take you to pop up on the other side of the Earth? The calculations are not simple, but the answer is 42 (minutes). Link -via Redd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/journey-through-the-center-of-the-earth/Penguin Poop candy can be a cute gag gift, but Neatorama readers know that the reality is quite different (see item #3). Relax, this is chocolate! Link -via Penguins!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/penguin-poop/Quick: what's a product that's found in 99% of all supermarkets in the US, sells about 80 million pounds every year, has a 20,000 member-strong fan club, its own museum, and even its own Broadway musical? It's SPAM, of c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/the-book-of-spam-a-spam-tastic-giide-to-absolutely-everything-related-to-spam/You learn something new every day - and today, I learn this: Peruvian alpacas make great security guards for chickens: The animals, named William and Harry, keep predators away from speciality egg producer Clarence C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/alpacas-as-security-guard-to-chickens/This Prius owner modded his car into a custom 10 8-seater Prius Limo, while still maintaining 50 mpg fuel efficiency. It took him 200 hours of fabrication at a cost of about $10,000.And no, it's not a photoshop job (if y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/prius-stretch-limo/Besides playing Santa Claus, the other thing Jim Emery loves best is raising reindeers.One day, Jim forgot it was mating season and stepped too close to his a female that his reindeer Caspar fancied - and the buck went o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/when-reindeer-attacks/The Human Marvels has a neat story about Jeffrey Hudson, an 18-inch tall dwarf that was a member of the royal English court named Lord Minimus. Only a few months after joining the household, the Duke and Duchess ente...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/the-fascinating-tale-of-lord-minimus/Fifty-two-year-old Xia Fuan sat inside a covered wok of boiling water, let himself be steamed for 45 minutes, and lived to tell about it. And if that's not strange enough, the story goes on about him being possessed by t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/man-steamed-alive-for-a-stunt/This made me jump the first time I saw it: sushi that's so fresh it's still alive!This type of food is called Ikezukuri, or the preparation of sashimi (raw seafood) from a living animal. Wikipedia explains:Ikizukuri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/cruel-delicacy-live-sushi/Mexican designers Javier Henriquez and Sebastian Lara of eos méxico created this lamp that looks like three birds on a wire! Found at GeekAlerts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/birds-on-a-wire-lamp/Stop the press! The world's record for longest leg hair HAS BEEN BROKEN! ZOMG! Medical student Wes Pemberton was wearing shorts one day, when he noticed the strangest thing ever:"I thought it was a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/22/worlds-longest-leg-hair/Peet Gelderblom of Lost in Negative Space blog has a neat (and growing) collection of embarrassing movie posters. Amongst the fifteen or so that he has now is this strange one (perhaps the strangest one yet): "Your...
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