This is a strange one: a 30-year-old woman named Barbora Skrlova passed herself as a 13-year-old boy ... and even enrolled herself in school!Barbora Skrlova fled to Norway from the Czech Republic and posed as a 13-ye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/30-year-old-woman-passed-self-as-13-year-old-boy-enrolled-in-school/This is just about the neatest photomosaic/optical illusion I've seen all week! Does anyone know who made it? via imbaDev Update 1/14/08: The artist is Lewis Lavoie - you can see many more examples in his website - *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/photomosaic-illusion/My husband was sick last weekend - as in, up at 4 a.m. hugging the Porcelain Goddess sick (and not because of alcohol). So we were up at an ungodly time of the morning. He was dying a slow death and I was flipping chan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/as-seen-on-tv/Sirius and Pitou had lived in a 20 foot cage in a Monaco zoo for the past ten years. But after a five year campaign, they were set free last week to live in a wildlife reserve in South Africa. The leopards were given to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/leopards-run-free/Feeding an appetite for power rarely fills a guy's belly. These four pudgy heads of state were as happy raiding the pantry as they were creating policy.Grover Cleveland: The Glass is Always Half EmptyLarge, jovial...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/hail-to-the-chef-4-american-presidents-who-loved-to-eat/Kangaroo rats can last longer without water than camels.In fact, a kangaroo rat never has to drink water. Instead, its body can manufacture water by metabolizing foodstuff....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/trivia-kangaroo-rat-never-have-to-drink-water/In this video you'll learn how to shoot through a bottle cap with your index finger. Link [Metacafe]trick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/cool-kung-fu-trick-video-lesson/Venus, Carmen and Pablo were born without front legs due to a genetic defect. The North Shore Animal League in Port Washington, New York took custody of the three chihuahuas from a shelter in Virginia, and outfitted them...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/chihuahuas-on-wheels/"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." - Will Rogers, actor (1879 - 1935)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/quote-will-rogers-on-the-advancement-of-civilization/Have a look below if you want to try to figure out how it works, or simply kick off your shoes, hit play and enjoy the ride. The core of the bearings consists of a magnetic rail and super-conducting bulks, cool...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/awesome-levitating-train/Lord Alton of Liverpool spoke of an example of why UK laws covering human fertility and adoption should be changed. Here's the strange case of a twin, separated at birth, who ended up marrying each other:"They w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/twin-separated-at-birth-ended-up-marrying-each-other/I'm going to share with you a fantastic website that has been around for a long time: Alan B. and Brian Comb's Shaggy Dog Story Archive.The website has over 2,000 shaggy dogs, feghoots, yarns, and groaners. We can quibbl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/shaggy-dog-story-archive/From Flickr user ben_templesmith, here's Dadadada dadadada ... the Batman Crossing! via Loris Z...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/batman-crossing/The old 15-floor P&O Building in downtown London is being torn down to be by a new tower But unlike your usual building demolition, the process here is backwards: they're dismantling it from the bottoms up!The lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/demolishing-a-building-from-the-bottom-up/Rocketeer and Syndrome (from The Incredibles) by xuerenI'm truly diggin' Brickshelf user xueren's collection of custom LEGO minifigs - there are hundreds of characters whos likeness are lovingly sculpted in LEGO. http://...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/custom-lego-minifigs/Photo: Keizo KiokuYou're looking at Japanese artist Chu Enoki's artwork called RPM-1200, a diorama built from junk metal, old drill bits and spare machine parts polished into gleaming, shiny spires of a futuristic city....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/chu-enokis-futuristic-city-made-from-old-drill-bits-and-machine-parts/We've posted about Terry Border's Bent Object blog before, but he's come up with tons of new creations. If haven't seen it before (and if the picture above isn't obvious), Terry makes simple yet creative sculptures out o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/12/chained-to-his-desk/In the game Crazy Cat Scan, you have to keep your eyed peeled during the scan to see what crazy objects the patient has swallowed. Also, be aware that the patient probably swallowed two or more things! Link -via Ursiâ€...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/crazy-cat-scan/Snow fell in Baghdad this morning for the first time in over 100 years. "For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad," said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/snow-falls-in-baghdad/An unidentified teenager, described as his teachers as a model student and an electronics genius, hacked a TV remote control so it control the Polish tram system like a "giant train set":Miroslaw Micor, a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/teenager-hacked-polish-tram-system-played-it-like-a-giant-train-set/Here's a new fun Flickr pool for you: the CD Cover Meme. If you've always wanted to be in a rock band, here's your chance to design your own CD cover ... sort of.1. First, get the name of your band: this will be the fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/cd-cover-meme/Score one for apathy. It's a clock for people who really don’t care what time it is. Link -via Gearfuse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/whatever-wall-clock/That's Frank Koonce holding what is believed to be the world's oldest surviving full-sized guitar (that thing is over 400 years old!)The guitar has been attributed to Belchior Diaz, a Portugese builder who probably m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/the-worlds-oldest-guitar/Freshome blog has a neat article about the 8 most amazing tree houses in the world. I really like this one by Takashi Kobayashi, Japan's leading treehouse creators (how many treehouse creators are there in the whole worl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/the-neatest-treehouses-in-the-world/Harry Sawyers of This Old House Magazine's Hardware Aisle section sent in this one: an aptly named dog (and cat) grooming tool called the Furminator.The "lab-rador tested" tool is not exactly a brush; rathe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/the-furminator-gets-rid-of-a-lot-of-fur/PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) has requested the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being "involved in an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/peta-requests-vegetarian-diet-in-jail-for-cannibalism-suspect/Is it true that "paths are made by walking"? Well, these guys decided to find out. In order to determine whether the above phrase was actually true, we kept running in a park for 5 days. In the fast-forward...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/infinite-path/Camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from blowing sand.Two of the eyelids (the upper and lower eyelids) have eyelashes. The third one is a thin membrane that they can see through in a sandstorm. Actually, cats...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/trivia-camel-has-3-eyelids/Louis the octopus has a favorite toy -a Mr. Potato Head! Louis is an 18-month-old giant Pacific octopus at Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall, England. "We wanted an octopus-friendly toy which had a compartme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/11/octopus-loves-his-mr-potato-head/"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing." - R. K. Milholland, author of Something Positiv...
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