Wired celebrates the Macintosh’s 24th anniversary with a gallery of Apple's worst products. Remember the Newton and the Pippin? I don’t, either, but I’ve owned The Cube and the hockey puck mouse. http://www.wired.c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/apple-flops/In the 2001 census, nearly 400,000 people in the UK said that their religion was "jedi." Years later, Star Wars enthusiasts (and brothers) Barney and Daniel Jones decided to make it a reality:And now Barney...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/the-church-of-jedi/A typical mattress is home to 100,000 to 10 million dust mites.If that's not enough to gross you out, consider this: dead mites and their droppings constitute one-tenth of the weight of a two-year-old pillow. Oh, and wha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/trivia-dust-mites-in-your-mattress/Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu loved to hunt bear. He loved hunting bears so much that he was afraid that if everyone hunted bears, there would be none for him to shoot. So he made bear hunting illegal, except for h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/the-bear-killer/Stagecoach, one of the largest bus operator in the UK, wanted to encourage people to ride the bus. But first, they have to educate the people on exactly how to get on a bus - by publishing a step-by-step manual!Accor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/how-to-get-on-the-bus/[YouTube Link]By now, you've all heard that actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment yesterday. The Internet is abound with the news (with TMZ, as always, leading the pack).Heath's last movie, Batm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/heath-ledger-as-the-joker-in-batman-the-dark-knight/Photo: Infrogmation [Wikipedia]Every year, "Indians" suit up to revel in the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here's a fascinating story at Life in the Fast Lane: Each Indian typically make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/mardi-gras-indians/We've posted about Japan's futuristic underground sewer, but that's more of an exception than the rule. Fact is, dirty and trash-strewn open sewers are more common, especially in third world countries.Crooked Brains has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/open-sewers-of-the-world/When it snowed last week, Lake Braddock Secondary School senior Devraj "Dave" Kori, 17, wondered why they didn't call a snow day. So he called Dean Tistadt, the Fairfax County public school administrator's home...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/snow-day-rant-voicemail/Marco Facciola, a 16-year-old high school student, created a functional wooden bicycle to fulfill a class requirement. No metal was used (even for the chain and ratcheting system) - only wood and glue.Link - Thanks A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/wooden-bicycle/Dangnabit, seems like Cloverfield's shaky camera work is giving people "movie sickness." Scary movies are supposed to leave patrons feeling a bit scared and jittery, but the newest horror flick is leaving O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/cloverfield-movie-sickness/"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself." - H.L. Mencke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/quote-hl-mencken-on-philosophers/Everyone's blogging these days: yoda, Darth Vader, the Hulk ... even Jean-Luc Picard! How he find the time, being a Starfleet captain and all, I don't know (Well, I suppose he's been doing those Captain's Logs before blo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/captain-picards-blog/All right, here's an easy one for this week's collaboration with What Is It? Blog: can you guess what this myserious ball with etched hieroglyphs on its surface? Place your guess in the comment section -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/24/what-is-it-game-51/Hooray! Artist extraordinaire and Neatorama pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford of Hobotopia came up with four great designs for our new Neatorama T-shirt. The problem is, they're all excellent and I'm having trouble pic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/neatorama-t-shirt-design-help/Today, I learned something about myself that is a little disturbing. See, I took a short little quiz at Just Say Hi, and found out that you really don't want to be trapped with me in a blizzard... (Yumm!)http://www.justs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/would-you-eat-your-friend-if-trapped-in-a-blizzard/Mario Marsicano of Jellio (who also wrote for our pal YesButNoButYes blog) just created this awesome seat that looks like a giant cupcake!The seat is pricey ($900), but come on, isn't that neat? http://www.jellio.com/sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/giant-cupcake-seat/The swath of greenery in Singapore isn't a newfangled golf course, it's the green roof of the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University. It was designed by CPG Consultants Pte. Ltd.This 5 st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/green-roof-of-nanyang-technological-university-in-singapore/We've featured the V8 engine paper model at Yee's Job before, but they've just released a new (working) paper model of a V12 four stroke engine:It took approximately two years to design this spectacular magical art f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/working-paper-model-of-a-v12-engine-at-yees-job/Move over Milli Vanilli and Ashlee Simpson...this band is gonna show you how lip synching is really done. Man! how embarassing :oops: ... and the dude kept right on signing. Hey, ya gotta give him credit for his coo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/busted/(YouTube link) From eggs til the time they leave the nest. I am astounded to think of how many trips the tiny mother bird must've made to feed two growing babies! -via Ursi’s Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/hummingbird-babies/Rob Carter of Fort Worth, Texas arrived home from Chicago and collected his luggage at the airport -but picked up the wrong suitcase. He realized his error when he opened it at home. Irked at his "own idiocy," Cart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/missing-cat-found-in-wrong-suitcase/[YouTube Link] A surreal short film by Run Wrake presenting an allegory about human greed. Artistically, the film is modeled after early 20th Century children's early readers. 8 minutes, 20 seconds long....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/rabbit-a-short-film-by-run-wrake/That's a paper sculpture, titled Icosahedron, by English artist Richard Sweeney. See more of his artwork here: Link - via yatzer, thanks Rian Fike! Update 2/3/08: Britta Gustafson of Jeweled Platypus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/richard-sweeneys-paper-sculptures/Dan Piraro continues to draw the surreally funny Bizarro like a magician pulls rabbits out of a hat (or in this case, buffalo). //The first thing you probably notice is the ridiculously large hat the magician is wearing,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/bizarro-pulling-buffalo-out-of-a-hat-magic-trick/Hollywood film directors who wanted to dissociate themselves from their movies would use the pseudonym Alan Smithee.The first director who used this pseudonym was Robert Totten, who worked on the 1969 Western De...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/trivia-alan-smithee-the-director-of-unwanted-films/You're looking at the world's largest swimming pool in the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile. The pool's more than 1,000 yards (914 m) long, covers 20 acres and holds about 66 million gallons (250,000 m3) of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/worlds-largest-swimming-pool/Drew at Armory Airbrush usually paints camouflage patterns on weapons, but this time, he was asked to make the Hello Kitty AR-15 assault rifle!See more pics at Riflegear's blog: Link - Thanks Geekazoid!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/hello-kitty-assault-rifle/What's better than getting a free T-shirt at a sporting event? Catching it after it was fired out of a T-shirt cannon, of course!Eric Hoover of The Chronicle of Higher Education writes about Jake Wilson, whose company, A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/the-t-shirt-cannon/Attention ladies! Yu Zhenhuan who holds the dubious record as the hairiest man in the world, is looking for new love: Yu Zhenhuan, recognised in 2002 as the world's hairiest man by the Guinness Book of Records, is us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/worlds-hairiest-man-looking-for-love/
