Photo: milkthebasic [Flickr]Fogonazos blog has a very cool post about the Waitomo Glowworm Cave in New Zealand, where you can find an amazing creature called Arachnocampa luminosa, which larva glows to attract p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/the-glowworm-cave/How could I have missed this? Last week, Wired has a very neat interview with Ruth Kedar, the graphic designer who developed the now-famous Google logo.Here's her story (with a neat gallery of prototype logos!): In j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/how-google-got-its-logo/Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, first predicted a US recession in July 2006 (which was a very controversial position at the time, but not today). Now, Roubini said that there's a greater r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/the-upcoming-mother-of-all-economic-meltdown/Carly Fleischmann is severely autistic and cannot speak a word to express herself ... until her parents put her in front of a computer:Two years ago, working with pictures and symbols on a computer keyboard, she star...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/autistic-girl-found-her-eloquence-with-a-computer/This is amazing: more than a mile below the surface of the Antarctic waters, scientists have discovered a world of huge worms, giant jellyfish, and spiders as big as dinner plates!"With us we had some of the wor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/strange-new-species-in-the-antarctic-deep-waters/Here's a truly bizarre story of how a single cockroach put 30 people out of work in Turkmenistan: For the viewers of Turkmenistan's popular nightly news programme, Vatan, it was another routine bulletin. But as the n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/how-a-single-cockroach-cost-30-people-their-jobs/"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde, poet and author (1854 - 1900)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/quote-oscar-wilde-on-gossip/Avid I Met a Possum readers (Hi mom and Jennifer!) already know that a few friends and I took it upon ourselves to investigate the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Mass., last weekend. We had such a blast that we've d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/five-hospitals-you-dont-want-to-check-into/The Oscars will be awarded this Sunday night, for the 80th time. Movie Poster Addict has compiled all 79 posters for movies that have won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. I’m sorry to say that I have only seen 39...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/79-years-of-best-picture-winners-in-posters/You’ve probably seen the Lamp/Lamp from designer Hironao Tsubui. It sells for ¥2,100, or about $20. But you can make your own version with a steady hand and the proper glue! http://www.vvank.com/?page_id=9%22 -via t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/make-your-own-weird-light-bulb/That’s about as blue as a building can get. The borough of Delfshaven, Rotterdam, asked Schildersbedrijf N&F Hijnen to come up with a plan for a block of derelict buildings, which will eventually be demolished....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/a-very-blue-building/Shepard Fairey is the founder of the "André the Giant has a Posse" urban art. Since he started plastering stickers and stencils all over Charleston, South Carolina, 15 years ago, it has transformed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/interview-with-shepard-fairey-creator-of-obey-giant/If you think about it, Keggy the Keg, the unofficial mascot of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, is hands down the most relevant mascot in college sports.Keggy is perenially ranked as among Dartmouth's finest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/keggy-the-keg/The next time you order at the drive-thru, don't just say what you want ... sing it!Say No to Crack has an enjoyable list of the Top 5 Drivethru Songs:So apparently some people have enough spare time on their hands i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/drive-thru-songs/Is the American dream still alive? Can a person lift himself up by the bootstrap out of homelessness and earn a living - nay, even prosper - in this country?Adam Shepard put it to the test:Alone on a dark gritty stre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/testing-the-american-dream-the-homeless-experiment/GeekAlerts has a neat post showing the Top 10 Geek Cufflinks from Cuff 'N' Collars. The compass and thermometer set is both beautiful and functional!Link | Also check out the Stormtrooper cufflinks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/geeky-cufflinks/Ever wonder why home prices are so high? Is it simply because of appreciation in real estate values? Well, at least in Seattle, Washington, there is another factor: government regulation. Theo Eicher, an economics profes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/government-regulation-adds-hundreds-of-thousands-in-housing-price/The National Safety Council has compiled a morbidly fascinating statistics about the odds of dying from or being killed by a specific incident such as a lighting strike, drowning in a bathtub, cataclysmic storm and so fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/what-are-the-odds-of-dying-from/Bad: Violinist David Garrett fell.Worse: It was down a flight of stairs.Luckily: His violin case broke his fall.Just when you thought everything was going to be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/violinist-fell-and-smashed-1-million-stradivarius/Tom Sloan at Levitate Architects came up with a neat solution to a storage problem in this London Victorian apartment:We created a 'secret' staircase, hidden from the main reception room, to access a new loft bedroom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/bookshelf-staircase/Our intrepid writer StacyBee went on a tour of Lizzie Borden's house (now a Bed & Breakfast!) and had this to say about the experience: You know, as much as I enjoy being creeped out and watching scary movies and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/22/lizzie-borden-bed-breakfast/Johnny Lee, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, appears to have invented one of the most promising home virtual reality displays I've ever seen. To do so, he attached the standard Wii sensor bar to a pair of glasses a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/the-future-of-3d-gaming/(YouTube link) I’m impressed. -via mental_floss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/insane-soccer-ad/(Live Leak link) If you are going to the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, you want to be there on drill day. Zookeepers train for escaped animal emergencies once a year, but they can’t use real animals for drills, so they dress u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/fake-zebras-on-the-loose/Now you can party like it’s MCMXCIX! Or MIM, if you don't want to spend as much. If you’re tired of people making fire extinguisher jokes as you blow out the candles at your birthday party, try Roman Candles. And t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/roman-candles/io9 has a guide for how TV and movie producers should treat hardcore science fiction fans. For example: Fans love inconsistencies. Fans claim to hate contradictions in long-running stories, but actually that stuff i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/a-guide-to-fan-husbandry/Hello everyone! Just a little update: We're updating Neatorama's servers to try out a new super-duper caching system to help the blog survive traffic spikes. Neatorama seems to load faster for me already, if the ad serve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/neatorama-updating-servers/Meet Cinder, the "Naked Chimp," at the Saint Louis Zoo. Cinder was born with a beautiful, full coat of hair but at just five months old, started to lose her hair until she was completely bald!When she was a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/cinder-the-naked-chimp/All males in the United States born between 1872 and 1900 were required by law to register for the draft. Out of the 24 million World War I Draft Registration Cards, here are 50 of the most famous, infamous, and interest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/21/world-war-i-draft-cards-of-celebrities/If you think the cable mess behind your computer is bad, just take a look at this compilation of photos (unattributed, sadly) at Geek About. I feel better already! Link...
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