Imagine this scary scenario: you're in the middle of a surgery when you suddenly wake up as the surgeons cut you open - you're aware (and terrified) but cannot communicate with the doctors.Fiction? No, that's a condition...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/anesthesia-awareness-waking-up-during-surgery/YouTube user dihiddy uploaded a clip made from screenshots and startup sounds of all of Microsoft's operating systems, including some beta releases. I recognize a few of the old ones - good times!Hit play or go to Link [...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/microsoft-windows-startup-screenshot-and-sounds/Spanish industrial designer Roger Arquer used every day objects like drinking glass, bottles, and metal springs (with bits of cheese as bait, of course!) to create clever non-lethal mousetraps.Perfect for those who want...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/non-lethal-mousetrap-made-from-everyday-objects-by-roger-arquer/Lorenzo Fonda directed this viral video for Alfa Romeo. I don’t see the connection, but I enjoyed the strange movie of a sloth on a date. Link -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/sloth-on-a-date/If you are in an abusive relationship with a paranormal entity, such as zombies, Satan, Bigfoot, or aliens, just get a restraining order! Since the dawn of time, mankind has sought the means of keeping away supernat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/paranormal-restraining-orders/Have you ever seen a conjoined twin fish? This pike was caught in the Missouri River in North Dakota. It’s part of Ten of the Strangest Things Caught While Fishing. http://www.anglingmasters.com/10-strangest-things-c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/strange-things-caught-while-fishing/What would happen if you stay awake, say, oh for 11 days straight? Would you suffer brain damage or even die? Here's the story of a high school stunt that turned into a real scientific research into sleep depr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/eleven-days-awake/This is crazy: an eight-year-old boy called 911 on his drunk-driving mom, while in the speeding car with his little sister! Thankfully, no one was hurt and police was able catch her based on the road information the boy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/boy-called-911-on-drunk-driving-mom/Are you a horror movie buff? Think you know your stuff? Test your trivia knowledge of classic and more recent horror movies with this 50 question quiz at Joytube: Link [Flash] - Thanks Evan!I freely admit I know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/horror-movies-trivia-quiz/Shawn Frayne has been thinking of harnessing wind power to generate electricity for a while. He wanted to create a cheap micro-generator powerful enough to charge small electronic devices like radios in third world count...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/shawn-fraynes-windbelt-uses-resonance-not-turbine-to-harness-wind-energy/A 24-year-old undergraduate physics student in Nigeria is building a helicopter out of old car and bike parts! Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics student, spent eight months building the yellow model seen here, us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/nigerian-physics-studnet-built-a-diy-helicopter-out-of-junk/Gosh darn it! I missed Mole Day yesterday!What's Mole Day? It's not a day celebrating the burrowing mammal. Instead, if you remember your high school chemistry, it's a day that celebrates Avogadro's Number (approximately...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/mole-day/"British? THIS...IS...AMERICA!" Via Ectomo. Even better than the "Fantastic Forefathers" t-shirt I posted last week....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/robot-chicken-hilariously-mixes-300-and-the-american-revolution/The supply of female Moose in Big Sky, Montana must really be down this year, or else this is one confused Bull. After checking out his surroundings, he proceeded to assault the Bison statue for eight hours, breakin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/moose-lovin/The Superest is a fairly new site by illustrators Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter, with occasional guests. The site is an ongoing game of My Team, Your Team. The rules: Player 1 draws a character with a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/the-superest/California continues to burn: a second death was confirmed in my hometown of Santa Clarita though the most severe of the fire is concentrated in San Diego (where half a million people were evacuated). At last count, more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/southern-california-still-burning/Soak up some knowledge with a periodic table shower curtain. Linkshower...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/periodic-table-shower-curtain/Surely, the first time you saw a staple remover, you thought it looked like fangs. This dinosaur staple remover is part of a collection of strange office tools at Dark Roasted Blend. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/stationery-with-bite/Fogonazos has a video collection of professionals moving huge houses, including a 900-ton brick building! Link -via Dark Roasted Blend...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/heavy-lifting/The San Diego Union Tribune has posted a Google Map that shows in real time where the fires are burning, Estimated Advisory Evacuation Areas, and evacuation destinations. Link -via Metafilter The Los Angeles Times als...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/map-of-california-fires/Young children will get a kick out of seeing themselves in an ABC Adventure! Upload a photo, enter a name, and watch your video. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/abc-adventure/Ken and Linda Smith of Sebring won a recent Underwater Pumpkin Carving contest in Key Largo, Florida. That can’t be easy! "The pumpkins want to float so that makes it difficult," said Smith, a retired el...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/underwater-pumpkin-carving-contest/What did George Burns say to Gracie Allen? Funniest captions will win Free The Book of SPAM, courtesy of Simon & Schuster, reviewed previously on Neatorama. Contest rule is darned simple: place your...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/the-book-of-spam-caption-contest/Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973). Image: Lexinatrix [Flickr]1. Bruce Lee's Family Gave Him a Girl's Name: "Little Phoenix"Bruce's family never called him "Bruce." They preferred to call him by his ni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/10-kick-ass-facts-about-bruce-lee/The guys over at Cakke sent us this: a video that pays homage to the super stars of Internet, many of whom have been on this very blog! See if you recognize all of them.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Pound...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/super-stars-of-the-internet/Craig Zucker of Dumbledore Pride wrote to us about their new t-shirts ("Dumbledore's Army: Don't Ask, Do Tell" and "Wizards are Gay") now available for sale: Link - Thanks Craig and way to capture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/dumbledore-pride-t-shirt/German artist Tom Hanke of surrealien created a wallpaper that is specifically designed for your room: by taking into account the exact placement of the door, light switches and electrical outlets, he can create a "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/warped-wallpaper/Jeff Simmermon of And I Am Not Lying blog sent in this one: a culinary Frankenstein featuring a pizza with burgers and chicken nuggets as toppings!Betcha your local pizza parlor doesn't have this combo option: Link - *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/worlds-wackiest-pizza-topping-burgers-and-nuggets/We've featured Dutch artist Theo Jansen's amazing kinetic sculptures a few times before, but they're so cool that we'd just have to showcase them again. This time, it's a truly fantastic clip of Theo Jansen s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/kinetic-artist-theo-jansens-talk-at-ted/Singapore Airlines, by many counts the best airline in the world, just unveiled its ultra-luxurious Airbus A380 jetliner. Most of the seats on the maiden flight of the double-decker plane were auctioned for charity on eB...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/23/singapore-airlines-new-airbus-a380/
