Illustration: Luci Betti-Nash / Dan Klores CommunicationsPaleontologist David Krause of Stony Brook University, New York, and colleagues discovered the remains of one helluva big frog - named after the devil - that lived...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/prehistoric-giant-frog-named-after-the-devil/We've been late on posting stuff on Neatorama, so I feel for the US Postal Service. But 79 years late? Why bother delivering it at all now?Neither snow nor rain nor the decades of time prevented the post office from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/postcard-delivered-79-years-later/Thirteen Kawasaki Roses, made from a single square of elephat hide (two-sided paper with a smooth, marble-like appearance). Photo: thiomor [Flickr]Fractured flower, a 3D tessellation. Photo: thiomor [Flickr]If you look c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/john-mckeevers-origami-tessellations/Anton Hecht, whose films we've featured before on Neatorama, has made another one called The Trolley Dance.Anton wrote to us: This is a vid of over 50s doing a dance to Dvorak wiht shopping trolleys in the streets of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/the-trolley-dance/Biggify here: kidicarus222 [Flickr]Drew Mackie of Back of the Cereal Box blog did something so amazingly genius that I was surprised that it was never done before. He took the intro of The Simpsons and stitched the scene...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/the-simpsons-intro-made-into-a-panorama/Bob the Angry Flower tells it like it is (you idiots!):That's it Folks! That's all y'gotta remember! Can you substitute "it is"? Then use "it's". If you can't DON'T!!!Example: The cat hur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/its-vs-its/Photo: Tony NelsonCalifornia has the Kinetic Sculpture Race and Red Bull has Flugtag. Well, not to be left out, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis / St. Paul have their own thing going: art sled rally at Powderhorn Park.Some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/x-wing-fighter-art-sled/Michelle Stepney owed her life to her twin daughters - literally - as their kicks while in her womb had unlodged a tumor that would've killed her:Like any thrilled mother to be, Michelle Stepney cherished the first k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/twins-kicked-tumor-out-of-moms-womb/Guitar Hero and its sequel Guitar Hero II have sold more than 4 million copies and racked up more than $1 billion in sales in United States alone. One Billion! ABC World News Webcast interviews Eran Egozy and Alex Rigopu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/the-people-behind-guitar-hero/Back in 2006, Police officer Henry Gabaldon and a fellow officer went to Burger King while on duty and got a Whopper of a meal: their burgers were laced with pot. The two men who, um, tampered with the burgers pled guity...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/potburger-cops-given-burgers-laced-with-marijuana/Some people go to great lengths to stay young, but this is really strange: Human Placenta treatment.In the 2004 movie Three Extremes, Chinese actress Bai Ling raised eyebrows playing an unlicensed midwife who makes d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/human-placenta-beauty-treatment/When your criminal enterprise moves, it pays to update all your cronies, or else you'd end up sending drugs to the wrong address!Buckets and buckets of marijuana were sent to an unsuspecting woman. About 250 pounds o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/criminals-send-marijuana-to-wrong-address/Replica of the Notre Dame CathedralReplica of the Ukraine ChurchWe've featured photos from the Winter 2003 Harbin Snow and Ice Festival by R. Todd King before, but the ones he took from Winter 2007 are so stunning that w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/fantastic-ice-churches-at-the-harbin-ice-and-snow-festival/Photo of this real store in Itaewon, South Korea, was snapped by Neatorama reader Misha McMurtray [Flickr] - Thanks misha!Talking 'bout loving words, Jonathan Beaton compiled a list of Dictionary.com's word of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/make-yourself-gasp-lovely/Jeff Nusz of Custom-Logic built this pretty darn cool "cloth physics" simulator back in 2004. You can change the width and length of the cloth, and turn up the fan to watch it billow as if blown by the artifici...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/cloth-physics-simulator/We all know that some of the best art is controversial, but these five murals might be crossing the line. Or are they? Read up on these works of art and decide for yourself whether they warrented alteration or removal....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/five-controversial-murals/Here is some pretty clever comedy by Mark Gungor explaining how the male brain differs from the female. It all makes sense to me now. :) Link: Youtubecomedy, Gender, Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/tale-of-two-brains/Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is 40 years old today, and still airs on PBS, although beloved host Fred Rogers died in 2003. From Wikipedia: The first broadcast of Misterogers' Neighborhood was on the National Edu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/happy-anniversary-to-the-neighborhood/(YouTube link) Two iPhones and a Ninendo DS make up the instruments in this band. The DS game is Electroplankton, and the iPhones are using iAno and Pocket Guitar. -via Viral Video Chart Update 2/29/08 by Alex: Seb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/iband/I once thought the bridges at the Outer Banks in North Carolina had to be the longest bridges ever, but none of them made the list of the Ten Longest Bridges in the World. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge pictured is #4. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/the-worlds-longest-bridges/CoBaCoLi is sort of like billiards, except the object is to knock a ball against the line of the same color. Easy to play, even if you don’t do so well the first time. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/cobacoli/Apollo astronaut Alan Bean {wiki} was the fourth man to walk on the moon, during the Apollo 12 mission in 1969. He is the only artist to have visited another world, so his paintings of the lunar environment have the au...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/alan-bean-artist/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again Illustration: Pemberley.comLet's say you're an 18th-century British peasant, and you and your wife just aren't getting a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/the-golden-age-of-wife-selling-better-than-a-divorce/Gary "Whatchu talkin' bout Willis" Coleman, the 40-year-old star of Diff'rent Strokes TV series, got married secretly last year, to a woman half his age and twice his height!Coleman, who is only 4’8&#...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/diffrent-strokes-indeed-gary-colemans-secret-marriage/Proof that redneck isn't limited to the United States, behold the Skoda Limousine! Joe-ks.com has more: Czech technology for those with champagne tastes on a beer belly budget!Skoda looks to attract young buyers with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/skoda-stretch-limousine/Before Alex Steinweiss, then a 23-year-old designer, invented album covers for Columbia Records, albums were sold in plain brown wrappers.The album to the left, "Smash Song Hits by Rodgers and Hart," was the ve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/worlds-first-album-cover/Archaeologist Jacques Reinhold and his wife discovered the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Africa:The tomb of a 5,500-year-old man surrounded by three sacrificed humans, two dogs and exquisite ceramics were exhume...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/19/evidence-of-earliest-human-sacrifice-found-in-africa/Finally, a lunar eclipse visible from America during a convenient time! We have a total lunar eclipse this Wednesday evening (February 20th) which should turn the moon red as Earth’s shadow passes over it. Maximum ec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/18/lunar-eclipse-wednesday/18-year-old Laura Moon recently found out she has four naturally occurring kidneys in her body! The condition is rare but not unheard of. She only found out when she had a medical scan after a car wreck. Laura wants to d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/18/teenager-with-four-kidneys/(YouTube link) This song was created entirely from music and sound effects found in Windows XP and Windows 98. After the song ends, there’s a look at some of the individual sounds used. The YouTube page contains lin...
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