Ever wonder how the world of reposession and impound towing work? Here's the inside scoop of the (oft seedy) business: Dan worked as a part-time driver for five years and gave us some insight into how the repossessio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/insider-secrets-of-the-car-towing-business/Dutch artist Henk Hofstra turned a 1000 m (0.6 mi) stretch of road in Drachten, the Netherlands into an "urban river" by painting it blue!Link | Henk's website [in Dutch] - via Stunned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/urban-river-by-henk-hofstra/Apparently, it is possible to work oneself to death. Case in point: a man who died after logging more than 106 hours of overtime in a month. A Toyota Motor Corp employee died of overwork after logging more t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/overworked-to-death/[http://youtu.be/fSI5jIY0Zk4] (YouTube link) STS-122 The space shuttle Atlantis will not launch until the new year. A fuel tank glitch forced mission controllers to delay the launch. And, fuel sensors weren't the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/shuttle-attacked-by-giant-spider/Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007 is w00t. The term is the winner of the annual online poll conducted by the dictionary publisher. Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/w00t/The following is an article from Uncle John's Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader It’s hard to believe, but Boston - in many ways, one of the most liberal cities in the nation - once led the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/banned-in-boston/Dimitri Kaliviotis built this 1/32 model of an abandoned Star Wars AT-AT wreck to win a contest held by Starship Modeler:With a few extra modifications and heavy weathering I finally put together a battle damaged and aba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/superb-star-wars-at-at-wreck-model/The Dutch government are considering a plan for a man-made island in shape of ... a tulip!Dubai built Palm Island. Now the world leaders in land reclamation are considering an island in the shape of a tulip to fight...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/tulip-island/Here's a funny article at ZUG, written by Joe the Peacock of Mentally Incontinent about his experiences working at America's favorite store: Wal-Mart ...I first heard about the Wal-Mart position from a friend of mine who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/the-wal-mart-prank/Whatever happened to all of the ideas for Star Wars toys that got rejected? McMorran.org has some pictures of the Star Wars toys that never made it: http://www.mcmorran.org/pages.php?page_id=15 - via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/star-wars-toys-that-never-made-it/No words are spoken in this short film, titled Love Letters, directed by Mary Gillen of the Columbia MFA Film program. All the "action" is in a particularly intense game of Scrabble. Nevertheless, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/love-letters/A man was arrested in Japan for assaulting girls walking to school with ... coffee! The spitter, who was nicknamed “Coffee Bukake Man” by locals, had carried out 5 attacks since the end of October. All of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/coffee-spitter-in-japan-captured/Here's a piece of trivia for you: Pufferfish or fugu is a delicacy in Japan. The fish is eaten raw as a sashimi. When prepared correctly, the flesh of the fish gives a tingling sensation on the tongue. This, turns out is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/trivia-emperor-of-japan-is-forbidden-from-eating-fugu/Litroenergy is a new type of material that emits light for 12 years without needing electricity or sun exposure. The self-luminous micro-particles are called Litrospheres and are said to be non-toxic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/new-light-glows-for-12-years/(YouTube link) This delightful clip from The Muppet Show features Loretta Lyn (who had four children by the time she was 17 years old) doing her 1971 hit "One’s On The Way". I taught this song to my childre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/ones-on-the-way/Alexis Lemaire is a human calculator. He broke his own record for mental computing at the Science Museum in London by finding the 13th root of a 200-digit random number in 70.2 seconds. Jane Wess, curator of mathem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/mental-calculator/Santa Claus keeps his office in Santa Claus Village near Rovaniemi, Finland (a part of Lapland, inside the Arctic Circle). He welcomes visitors year round, but if you can’t go, you can watch via webcam! There are two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/santa-cam/Someday soon, you may be able to buy clothing made of spiderwebs! Researchers at Shinshu University have succeeded in injecting spider genes into silkworms to create a thread that is stronger, softer and more durabl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/spider-web-fabric/We've featured Koopa the Turtle before, but we didn't know that the little guy is a multi-talented artist until Kira, the "turtle's assistant," emailed us pictures of his artwork. Here's Koopa's website: http:/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/caption-monkey-16-koopa-the-turtle/According to this guy, there are those who would keep the rest of us from finding out that the earth is hollow. I love kooky stuff like this and I'm a bit disappointed that Dr. Agnew only hints at the conspirac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/the-hollow-earth-conspiracy/Or more likely an ad for a new super hero movie from Marvel? Any guesses? Via Lying in the Gutters....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/video-shows-real-life-super-hero-in-action/Man, oh man! With all the great facts you guys provided, we had a doozy of a time picking the winners. For the holiday movie/music trivia fact, we narrowed it down to our two favorites: the submissions on It's a Wond...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/show-off-your-smarts-winners/(Live Leak link) The long-eared jerboa has been caught on film in the Gobi desert for what scientists believe is the first time ever. The tiny nocturnal mammal is on the IUCN endangered species list. Link -via Arbroat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/jerboa-caught-on-film/Today is Human Rights Day and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, set out a list of 30 Articles describing fundamendal human rights a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/human-rights-day/There's a message in this cool (and award-winning) Flash animation called Bendito Machine by Jossie Malis of Zumbakamera. Probably about the danger of industrialization/capitalism or something like that, but I didn't thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/bendito-machine/A Manhattan doorman, Jonah Seeman, who has been ushering tenants into a four-building complex for 40 years, was told not to come to work recently because of halitosis. The Brooklyn resident, who supports his 81-y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/nyc-doorman-suspended-for-bad-breath/The Enigma of Amigara Fault is a bonus story in Junji Ito's [wiki] 2003 horror manga Gyo. In the story, an earthquake revealed a mysterious wall with thousands of deep, human-shaped holes - each hole is a perfec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/enigma-of-the-amigara-fault/The 2007 Blip Festival in New York City showcased artists who created music from "familiar but forgotten hardware" ... old video game systems like the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Atari, and Commodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/blip-festival-music-from-old-video-game-consoles/"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." - Ernest Benn, publicist (1875 - 1954)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/quote-ernest-benn-on-politics/Somehow, I missed this awesome Pac-Man "Christmas tree" (Holiday display? Pyramid?) on display in downtown Madrid when compiling the World's Most Unusual Christmas Trees list.The Pac-Man display is fully animat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/pac-man-christmas-tree/
