"Not everyone needs to take maternity leave but with heartbreak, everyone needs time off, just like when you get sick," says CEO Miki Hiradate, of Tokyo-based Hime & Company. The company gives "older" staff (over 29...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/japanese-company-offers-heartache-leave/Some of you might remember the Family Guy Star Wars Style Poster entry that was posted here at Neatorama late last year. Original sketches from this "Family Guy: Blue Harvest" special are now available from foxstudioart....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/family-guy-star-wars-sketches/(YouTube link) Google Maps joins science fiction lore in this eerie video. -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/google-maps-gone-wrong/It was twenty-two years ago today that the Space Shuttle Challenger was launched for the last time. It exploded less than two minutes into the flight. The Texas Space Grant Consortium has a rundown on what happened tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/space-shuttle-challenger/With all of the primaries going on in the past month, you may have noticed that the presidential candidates are starting to get a little snarky with each other. What you may not know is that mudslinging isn't exactly a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/5-nastiest-us-presidential-elections-in-history/(YouTube link) When I brought home a Roboquad robot the other day and started playing with it, our resident guardian K9 was none too pleased. I decided to put Roboquad in "autonomous" mode, set his aggression leve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/puppy-vs-robot/LEGO is 50 years old today (precisely at 1:58 pm, actually, when the original patent was filed in Denmark). The plastic toy building brick is everywhere - LEGO has thousands of sets with all sorts of themes, fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/10-neatest-lego-facts-and-links/Back in 2003, the McDonald's at East Alton, Illinois had a strangely-worded sign that just begged to be pranked. So the folks at Phone Losers of America did just that:I don’t want to use any of the ideas that d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/the-mcdonalds-sign-prank/This guy has modded his Honda Goldwing motorcycle into a mini F15 Fighter Jet! He claims that the creation is street legal - GeekAlerts has a short video clip of the strange jet/bike combo: LinkToo bad there's no afterbu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/man-modded-honda-goldwing-motorcycle-to-look-like-f15-fighter-jet/Snow White n 7 StormtroopersDarth Valice in WonderlanddeviantART user *Thumper-001 has a fantastic set of fan art of Star Wars and Disney mash up.The Cheshire Cat in Boba Fett costume is simply marvelous!Many more excell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/star-warsdisney-mash-up-fan-art/That's Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas drawing a photorealistic B/W (that's blue and white, I suppose) art using only a BIC ballpoint pen!Some examples of his amazing work:theperfectman (2007)Windybrighton (2007)Clic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/bic-pen-drawings-by-juan-francisco-casas/Someone tell the idiots at the Westboro Baptist Church that Heath Ledger was an actor playing a role in The Brokeback Mountain. Or maybe they didn't even care.Is this for real? Sadly, given the history of condemnation o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/westboro-baptist-church-to-picket-heath-ledgers-funeral/Photo: Russell BirdPhotographer Russell Bird captured this mysterious structure known as the "sheep circle":There were strange goings on at the farm today when a flock of sheep made their own version of a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/the-sheep-circle/"I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost." - Steven Wright, comedian (b. 1955)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/quote-steven-wright-on-the-uncertainty-principle/Photo: Annie LeibovitzFamous photographer Annie Leibovitz had done a series of stylized photos for Disney's ad campaign "Year of a Million Dreams" (we covered this back in November 2007). Now, she has more pics, like the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/new-photos-by-annie-leibovitz-for-disney/You're looking at photographs from a new attempt to break the world record for the "The Largest Champagne Fountain" in Antwerp, Belgium:The 7 metre (22.9 feet) high pyramid will contain more than 43,000 gla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/worlds-largest-champagne-fountain/Photo: City of LewistonThe City of Lewiston, Maine, got an unusual sewer problem: its main sewer line is being clogged by a mysterious 50 to 60 foot (15 to 18 m) long doughy blob!City crews discovered the clog earlie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/the-mysterious-sewer-blob/To make his hotel stand out from its competitors, Belgrade hotelier Dusan Zabunovic decided to give his hotel a peculiar theme: current and past world leaders!Zabunovic renovated a property opposite Belgrade's centra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/the-hitler-room/Eighty-one-year-old retiree Leo Hill got a nagging feeling that every roll of TP he's used since mid-2006 didn't last as long as they used to.So, having a lot of time on his hand, he decided to investigate: by counti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/are-they-shortchanging-our-toilet-papers/In a room of 57 or more people, the probability of two people having the same birthday is 99%.In a group of 23 randomly chosen people, that probability is 50%. For a full explanation, see Birthday Paradox [wiki]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/trivia-the-birthday-paradox/Fifteen-year-old Demi-Lee Brennan is lucky to be alive: after a virus destroyed her liver, doctors gave her just 48 hours to live when a donated liver became available.But not only that: after the transplant, Demi-Lee be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/28/teenagers-blood-type-changed-by-liver-transplant/
