How embarrassing for HD DVD... It's not enough that blu_ray kicked their butts in the high definition DVD format war, now the beauty industry has snubbed it in favor of blu_ray, too!Cargo Cosmetics have developed a "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/blu_ray-cosmetics/After failing to discourage people from riding the train on its roof, Indonesian authorities have developed a new tactic: spray 'em with color liquids!Indonesian commuters riding on the roofs of trains will be spraye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/indonesians-to-spray-train-roof-riders/Aborigines in Australia found a new hobby to stave off boredom: they go camel hunting! The camels were introduced in the 19th century from India to haul supplies for explorers, pioneers and prospectors. They became r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/the-aborigines-have-a-new-hobby-camel-hunting/Meet Lisa the Geep - yes, a cross between a goat and a sheep! She was born after an unscheduled amorous encounter on the farm of Klaus Exsternbrink, in Schwerte, in northern Germany's Ruhr Valley. One of his young bi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/lisa-the-geep/Meet Natalie Cooper, a 17-year-old teenager who has a mystery illness that makes her sick every time she eats anything.Well, almost anything. She can eat one thing that doesn't make her sick: Tic tac mint!For reasons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/the-girl-who-eats-only-tic-tacs/Best headline EVAR! Here's the story: After receiving a tip that drug deal was happening, Washington D.C. police raided a downtown home. There, they found a man named Pierre Lynch, hiding 15 plastic bags of crack cocaine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/police-found-crack-in-mans-butt/Maybe if you take a step back, or squint your eyes, you'll see that French artist Tania Mouraud's 30 m (98 ft) by 14.5 m (48 ft) text reads: "How Can You Sleep"Link - via VVORK...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/how-can-you-sleep/That's the Canon 1200/5.6L USM telephoto lens that can take a clear photo of an object a mile away. Oh, and at the price of $99,000, no wonder photographers call it the mother of all telephotos:The Canon 1200/5.6L US...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/mother-of-all-telephotos/Etsy seller and artist Elise Towle Snow created this sweet and geeky valentine, called "Wii Belong Together." Link - via Boing Boing//Though I personally would like one that says "Let me play with your XBO...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/wii-belong-together-valentine/Yep - those are real bananas (7,200 of them, to be exact) on a wall. It's an art installation by Stefan Sagmeister. Make Blog has more info and photos: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/wall-of-bananas/"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil." - J. Paul Getty, oil tycoon (1892 - 1976)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/quote-j-paul-getty-on-the-formula-for-success/The town of Bluefields in Nicaragua has a secret: its people don't have to work because every week, sometimes everyday, sacks of cocaine, tossed by drug traffickers avoiding US border patrol, drift in from the sea:Bl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/catch-of-the-day-sacks-of-cocaine/Drag the Dot is a simplet yet addictively fun Flash game by Oliver Castaneda (music by Khuskan).The object of the game is simple: drag the tiny little dot to safety, avoid obstacles. Somehow, this translates to quite a l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/drag-the-dot-flash-game/Whaaaaaa? William Shatner admitted that he's never watched Star Trek!The 76-year-old actor said he had seen neither the cult science-fiction television programme nor any of the films which propelled him to fame....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/10/shatner-never-watched-star-trek/Lai Yingying of Xiamen City, China, used to gamble every night at his friend's house. That is, until his wife who is tired of his gamblin' ways, forced him to wear a pair of iron shoes to make it harder for him to walk t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/the-anti-gambling-shoes/Berg Toys, whose website is currently under construction, came up with the best toy car ever: the Ferrari FXX pedal car!The Ferrari FXX Pedal Car (Exclusive model) comes with racing bucket seat and four-point harness, l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/ferrari-fxx-pedal-toy-car/To promote an exhibition by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the Museum of Contemporary Art put up a billboard. Not long after it went up it was tagged by graffiti artists, and the billboard was quietly taken down.Accor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/murkami-loves-his-tagged-billboard/Vern Graner and Rick Abbott of The Robot Group built an inkjet printer for ping pong balls: Why print on boring old paper, when you can get your message across on some nice bouncy ping pong balls? The appropriately n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/the-ping-pong-printer/UK ad agency Mother London is full of creative people (just check out their website, where you can search for employees by ..um, their "distinguishing features"). So when they wanted to create a self-promotiona...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/uncarriable-carrier-bag-by-mother-london/Junior High School 22 in South Bronx, New York, has overwhelmingly black and Hispanic students - and it was failing badly: student attendance was so atrocious that in one class of 30, only 5 students had bothered to show...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/how-a-hasidic-jew-principal-with-military-intelligence-training-turned-around-a-failing-public-school/Newcastle University scientists successfully created an embryo with 3 parents. They are hopeful that this method could one day help treat mitochondrial diseases:The Newcastle team have effectively given the embryos a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/scientists-create-embryo-with-3-parents/Photo: kmcculler [Flickr]Pssst... Don't tell Apple that Flickr user kmcculler's son has a birthmark that looks like the Apple logo. They might sue the iBaby for trademark infringement! Link//Yes, this made it round teh I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/apple-logo-birthmark/We've always been told that chameleons change color to camouflage themselves and blend in with their background. Well, according to scientists at the University of Melbourne, Australia, that was wrong: chameleons evolved...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/chameleons-evolved-to-change-color-to-stand-out-not-to-blend-in/Photo: Stewart CanhamAmateur photographer Stewart Canham snapped this amazing photo of a cormorant swallowing a foot-long pike:With its rows of needle-sharp teeth, the pike is a feared predator in the water world. Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/cormorant-swallowing-a-pike-fish/"An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be" - Anonymous...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/quote-engineer-and-the-glass-half-empty/Martin Müller of the German Cancer Research Center devised a new method of delivering DNA vaccines: by tattooing them!"We get about 200-fold higher responses compared to conventional injection (of a DNA vac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/09/dna-vaccine-tattoo/Hearts Atwirl has a very neat collection of vintage valentines from the early to mid 20th century. Some are very cute, some don't make much sense and others are plain old creepy and racially offensive (sign o' the times....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/08/retro-valentines-at-hearts-atwirl/To reduce the severity of Joe's epileptic seizure, doctors performed a drastic brain surgery: they cut the corpus callosum and severed the connection between his left and right cerebral hemispheres. Here's what happened...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/08/what-happens-if-your-brain-is-split-in-two/Dan Piraro's comic Bizarro is like reductio ad absurdum put in cartoon format (well, close enough). Do you agree with this panel? Is the Terror Threat Level useful?For more Bizarro, check out Dan's webs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/08/bizarro-terror-threat-the-ride/(YouTube link) Silent film footage taken in 1909 by Thomas Edison at Stormfield (CT) at Mark Twain's estate. Twain is shown walkng around his home and playing cards with his daughters Clara and Jean. The flickerin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/08/mark-twain-on-film/
