Talking 'bout Jamaican singers, here's a story of an unlikely reggae star: a Sicilian-born reggae singer!Alberto D'Ascola, a 32-year-old policeman's son who performs as Alborosie, has conquered the Caribbean island a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/sicilian-reggae-star/"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams, author (1952 - 2001)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/quote-douglas-adams-on-the-ingenuity-of-fools/Mathew Kowald got upset at his young son when he refused to wear a Green Bay Packers jersey - so Kowald tied him up and taped a jersey on him!Sheriff's Lt. Wayne Smith said Mathew Kowald was cited for disorderly cond...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/father-taped-football-jersey-to-kid-cops-not-amused/Botanists have discovered a new species of self-destructing palm tree that flowers only once every 100 years and then dies!"It's spectacular. It does not flower for maybe 100 years and when it's like this it can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/self-destructing-palm-tree-flowers-every-100-years-then-dies/If you think your money doesn't go as far as it used to, be thankful that you're not in Zimbabwe. There, the country's central bank has issued a new 10 million Zimbabwe dollar note. The problem is, that's not enough to b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/a-hamburger-thatll-be-15-million-zimbabwe-dollars-please/Spanish scientists have come up with a new hypothesis on to explain the rate of expansion of the universe: time is - literally - slowing down! A decade ago, astronomers noticed that distant supernovae - exploding sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/scientists-say-time-is-slowing-down/Ecomodder forum user basjoos decided to do something because of the gas price runup in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He decided to improve his 92 Civic CX car's gas mileage ... by "aero modding" it!Basjoo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/the-aerocivic/Remember the nut and bolt wedding rings for gearheads? Well, here are more of the same concept, but for geeks! Shown above are CAT 5 and Connector rings by artist Jana Brevick. Link [Flickr] - via about:blankBTW, Make ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/geeky-rings/You CAN float a rock on water. Just use pumice....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/trivia-float-a-rock-on-water/Did you just get dumped? Are you finding it difficult to get over that special someone who just broke up with you? Well, then - don't wallow in your misery, there is a better way: share it with the world by showcasing &q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/museum-of-broken-relationships/(YouTube link) Hugh Atkin edited this video which makes the theme of the US presidential election clear to everyone. Music by David Bowie. -via Sadly, No!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/20/changes/You guys are going to think all I do is watch T.V., between this post and my Lost post and my As Seen on T.V. post. I swear I do other things. I totally understand if you don't believe me, though. Anyway....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/wwwcreedthoughtsgovwwwcreedthoughts/The Library of Congress recently found four photographs of the crowd at President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4, 1865. The negatives of the photos had been mislabeled! In this picture, Lincoln is a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/lincoln-inauguration-photos/Jeff Ward is a disabled vet who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. So he got himself a service animal: Wendy the cat.And now, he's suing a gym for not letting him bring Wendy to accompany him:Earlier this w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/wendy-the-service-cat/The folks at Details took a particularly weird post on Craigslist ... and set it to music! Here's "Brush My Hair" by Scott Brown and Anthony King, with animation by Tom Eaton:Ladies, I'm a frustrated long-h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/songs-inspired-by-a-weird-craigslist-post-brush-my-hair/Miss Cellania's post on the Beer Bottle Orchestra is pretty hard to top - but this one comes close (well, it's geekier, anyhow): the Bubblegum Sequencer.What is the Bubblegum Sequencer?The B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/bubblegum-sequencer/Jeff Simmermon of And I Am Not Lying wrote to us:This is a bunch of photos that I took of a zombiefied Elvis karaoke robot that I found in the trash. Even if it doesn't work for you guys, there's no arguing that it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/zombie-karaoke-elvis-bot/"I can't help it ... it felt good!"My cousin's friend's girlfriend told me about this CollegeHumor video where every urband legend comes true in this Emergency Room. Nurse: The east wing is overflo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/urban-legend-er/Until Neatorama reader Evan sent me the link, I've never even heard of Fancy Pants Adventure, a neat Flash game by Brad Borne. Goes to show what I live in a cave or something. Oh, the things I've been missing out on! Fan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/fancy-pants-adventure-flash-games/Political junkies rejoice! There's a new Flash game called Campaign that lets you mudsling, "flagwave", and do a hatchet job to your political opponents to "capture" the country:In Campaign, playe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/campaign-the-political-flash-game/There are billions of smokers in the world. That's a big market, realized a Chinese company. So, they decided to make a cell phone that not only looks like a pack of cigarettes, but also holds holds real cigarettes in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/a-true-smokers-phone-cell-phone-made-to-look-like-a-pack-of-cigarettes/Two British men on vacation, Nick Calleya from Cubert in Cornwall and George Carstairs from Scotland caught a 100-year-old fish in the Fraser River in British Columbia in Canada. The 500 pound white sturgeon was 10 feet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/199-year-old-fish-caught/If you fold a bank note and superimpose it onto a photo of a Celebrity, for example, President Ulysses S. Grant over Brad Pitt, the results are really neat. You can view a bunch of them at freakingnews. Photo: fre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/celebrity-money/(YouTube link) This past week, we’ve featured music played on office equipment, vegetables, and an octopus toy. Now it’s the professionals' turn! Here’s the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra playing the Victoria Bitt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/19/beer-bottle-orchestra/Found at Tweebiscuit - via Accordion Guy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/the-philosophies-of-margarine/In 1945, while working on a radar project, Percy Spencer's chocolate bar in his pocked melted while standing in front of a magnetron. This led to the development of the microwave oven.After he noticed the chocolate bar,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/trivia-how-microwave-was-invented/Canadian artist Alastair Heseltine created this sculpture of a fallen tree using ... logs from trees cut for firewood! Ah, the irony. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/alastair-heseltines-fallen-tree-sculpture/The Punishment SwingTwisting of the ears and the wooden collarThe New York Public Library Digital Gallery has a set of engravings from a 1804 book titled The Punishments of China. Too bad no descriptions were given to ac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/the-punishments-of-china-as-illustrated-by-1804-book/Americans have always been squeamish about death. Indians, on the other hand, sees it as a part of life - in fact, at one local restaurant, it's a part of lunch!The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad is famou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/graveyard-restaurant/What exactly happens when you hit that send button on GMail? Here's a collaborative video of how an email message travels around the world.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | The webpage: Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/18/behind-the-scenes-at-gmail-how-email-goes-around-the-world/
