Rutherford B. Hayes was the first US President to have a telephone and a typewriter in the White House.You may not remember Hayes, but he started the very first Easter Egg hunt on the lawn of the White House, a tradition...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/trivia-rutherford-b-hayes-claim-to-fame/Back in the days, people aren't afraid to call fat people "chubby" - not even a company that made its name selling fashionable plus-size clothing and lingerie to women! Here's a vintage Lane Bryant ad selling &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/vintage-ad-for-chubby-girls/To his neighbors, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy are just another young happy couple living in a quiet Oregon neighborhood. But Thomas is no ordinary man: he is transgender and now ... he is pregnant! Ten years a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/the-pregnant-husband-transgender-man-expecting-a-baby/Film-maker John Downer had a brilliant idea. He attached cameras to elephants and let them loose in an animal reserve to capture wildlife photos as you've never seen before: He fixed webcams to four elephants. One carri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/elephant-cam/"If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics." - Magnus Pyke, scientist (mad scientist, actually)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/quote-magnus-pyke-on-how-to-tell-the-sciences-apart/Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros is a song by the two-man band, Flight of the Conchords. The guys bill themselves as "formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk du...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/hiphopopotamus-vs-rhymenoceros/GeekAlerts posted a clip of this guy singing a cover of Michael Jackson's song "Bad" in Bulgarian "Music Idol" TV show a few days ago ... Here's another one: a 29-year-old Valentina Hasan from the vil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/bulgarian-music-idol-contestant-sings-mariah-careys-ken-lee/Meet Conan, the praying dog:At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays. Mimicking his master, priest Joei Yoshikuni, a 1 1/2-year-old black-and-white Chihuahua named Conan joins in the daily praye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/the-praying-dog/Carl Huber of theWAREHOUSE blog talked to a chicken farmer who was selling organic (though not "certified organic" - apparently, getting certified is an expensive process), free-range eggs in a farmer's market....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/do-free-range-eggs-taste-better/I consider myself a big Monty Python fan, but I still didn’t know the answers to some of the trivia questions in this mental_floss quiz! See how you do in the Monty Python Lunchtime Quiz. http://www.mentalfloss.com/b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/and-now-for-a-quiz-thats-completely-different/This knife block makes you feel like a circus knife-thrower in your own kitchen! It’s not yet in stock, but you can register to be notified when it becomes available. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/throwzini-knife-holder/When Lee Spievack sliced off the end of his finger a few years ago, his brother sent him some powder to sprinkle on it. In four weeks, his fingertip had grown back! Dr. Steven Badylak explains: That powder is a subs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/re-growing-organs/The Washington Post examined 209 items of technology, such as cassette tapes and physical currency, and social conventions, such as blind dates and body hair, that are on their way out. Here's what the article...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/obsolete-technologies/Writinghood author Chang Lee Peng has a list of what he considers to be the 10 most difficult words to spell in the English language, such as Floccinaucihihilipilification, which means "act or habit to deny the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/the-most-horrible-english-words/The following is from Uncle John's All-Purpose Extra Strength Bathroom Reader . Selling to kids is big business - children directly control and spend $24.4 billion worth of goods every year, and they inf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/tricks-of-the-trade-selling-to-children/Neatorama author and super nice gal Miss Cellania is having a bit of a computer problem:My word processor takes fits. I will type a sentence (and I’m not the world’s fastest typist) and then sit back and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/please-help-miss-cellania-with-her-weird-computer-problems/Talkin' bout computer errors, we've been tinkering with Neatorama's caching system and some of you have emailed me about a weird redirection error.If you can't see Neatorama's post permalinks or comments (you get redirec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/neatorama-update-any-faster-seeing-a-redirection-error/CNN reporter David Mattingly is doing a story on Asian carp invasion of the Illinois River and the rest of the Mississippi river system. The carp are unusual that they actually leap out of the water into the boat!See wha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/flying-carps-in-the-illinois-river/For its annual issues in 1997, DC Comics put pulp magazine (or pulp fiction) style illustrations as covers. They called the series "Pulp Heroes." (Sadly, this seems to be a one time only thing).Super Punch blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/pulp-heroes-comics-with-pulp-magazine-style-covers/StacyBee snapped this photo of a strange weight loss technique of yore: tape worms! The labels on the jars said: "Sanitized Tape Worms, Jar Packed, "Friends for a Fair Form", and Easy to Swallow. The poste...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/the-secret-of-weight-loss-of-yore-tape-worms/Growing up, I've always wanted a lightsaber and one day, my parents bought one for me and my brother and I was disappointed that it was such a horrible, cheap plastic piece of crap!But this one promises to be different:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/diy-lightsaber-kit/The Black Button is a short film by Lucas Crandles. It's premise is simple yet intriguing: if you couldn't get caught, would you kill a stranger for $10 million?Mr Roberts finds himself awoken inexplicably in a white...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/the-black-button-would-you-kill-a-stranger-for-10-million-if-you-couldnt-get-caught/We had a story about military doctor James Barry turning out to be a woman before, but apparently that wasn't the only case of military gender switcharoo. Here's the story of Loretta Janeta Velasquez, a Cuban-born wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/the-cuban-woman-soldier-of-the-us-civil-war/For me, buying a car is about as enjoyable as a root canal. And a story like this one just reinforces the low opinion I have of dealerships in general. In a nut shell, a guy bid on eBay auction for a brand new BMW. The a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/24/dealer-reneged-on-deal-saying-ebay-auction-was-a-mistake-does-complaining-on-the-net-activism-work/Behold a funny and very well done R-rated YouTube music video about the trials and tribulations of MySpace, performed by rapper Shway. No, it's not Shakespearian, but its heart is in the right place. It's innocent fu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/shway-its-going-down-myspace-edition/Photo: simonclare [Flickr]We all know the old advertising adage of "sex sells," but this strange juxtaposition of a scantily clothed woman (with a scary facial expression, IMHO) next to a can of sliced mushroom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/sex-sell-mushrooms-fungtastic/Paul Brians is a Professor of English at the Washington State University. His website, "Common Errors in English," has been around for a while but I've only discovered it recently.Paul has compiled a huge lis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/common-errors-in-english-usage-by-paul-brians/I <3 this cheeky communist propaganda-style M&M ad! It's designed by Clemenger BBDO ad agency in Melbourne, Australia. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/mm-propaganda-ad/To celebrate the 120th Anniversary of the Eiffel Tower next year, Paris will "mod" the iconic landmark by extending the 3rd floor of the Eiffel Tower! The design was created by Serero Architects, who won a desi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/the-eiffel-tower-to-be-modded-next-year/Pepa Quin of Brickpics built this excellent LEGO model of Futurama's Planet Express building (complete with the flying billboard). The diorama is complete with the spaceship, Futurama minifig characters, and even a Excel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/pepa-quins-futurama-planet-express-diorama/
