Jay Carlson of The Plug tied a disposable camera to a bench with a sign asking people to take photos. When he came back later that evening, the entire roll of film had been shot. Here are the photos that were taken: Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/20/camera-on-a-bench-beckons-strangers-to-take-photos/What would happen if you mash up The Simpsons with South Park? Well, wonder no more: YouTube user DeemienX has animated the intro to The Simpsons, done South Park style!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Look at This...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/20/the-simpsons-intro-south-park-style/From the Jun 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics, behold the Running Board, a DIY sack that lets your dog ride on your car, not in it!Link - via PhotoBasement and digg, thanks Lee!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/20/the-doggie-car-sack/Über Google software engineer Matt Cutts (who blogged about Neatorama way back when!) happened to find an unusual business card in an old book:I found this business card in an old book that I bought at a book...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/20/the-best-business-card-ever/Raul Fernandez told us about his animated series called The Troll Show, about real-life news show hosted by trolls (who are tired of all this "Internet troll" nonsense).It's quite cute - and best of all, some o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/20/the-troll-show-an-animated-news-show/Meet Li Xu, a Chinese "army major" who cheated a strings of girls by disguising herself as a man and proposing marriage:She was arrested after Liu Lian, of Datong city, Shanxi province, reported she had bee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/20/the-marriage-con-with-a-twist-woman-disguised-herself-as-a-man-and-proposed-marriage-to-other-women/"Racism is so stupid. There's more than enough reasons to dislike people on an individual basis." - Will Durst, political satirist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/20/quote-will-durst-on-racism/Andy Baio of Waxy is digitizing his collection of VHS tapes about the Internet from the early to mid-1990s. The earliest snapshots in the Wayback Machine are from the mid 90s, so Andy said that "this represents piec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/the-internet-on-videotapes/When Tyler Larson, a 25-year-old doctoral paleontology student at Yale University discovered a dinosaur on his uncle's ranch almost a decade ago, he stumbled upon something truly rare, a 65-million-year-old mummified duc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/excavating-a-mummified-dinosaur/To fulfill a promise, Cai Ruigong hired an erotic dancer to perform at his father's funeral: Son, Cai Ruigong, paid her more than £80 to dance in memory of his late father, reports United Daily News.Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/son-hired-stripper-for-his-fathers-funeral/Meet Floyd and Justin Bebee, a father and son team and obviously forehead tattoo enthusiasts. The Smoking Gun has the story:In a TSG interview, Floyd Bebee, a father of eight, said that he has a tattoo on the back of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/father-and-son-forehead-tattoo-enthusiasts/After they lost their beloved dogs, Beth and Brian Willis of Newcastle, England, found a unique way to keep their beloved pets close to their hearts: by turning their fur into sweaters!After seeing a picture of Princ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/couples-beloved-dogs-made-into-sweaters/Photo: PeterkellystudiosNeatorama reader Peter Kelly took a photo of this unfortunately named "Angel Dust" store in Cairo Egypt. Either the term just doesn't have the same meaning there or they're selling somet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/angel-dust-store/Attention hipsters: you wear black t-shirt, black jeans, black shoes ... but still use white tissues to blow your nose? You need this: a box of Japanese black facial tissue.Spiddlement blog has more pics: Link - Than...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/black-facial-tissue-from-japan-where-else/As seen on MC Gilles....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/chuck-norris-action-jeans/“The most complicated thing that humans have ever built” describes the Large Hadron Collider ready to begin operations next month. Built underground, it runs 17 miles across the borders of two countries (Switzerlan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/cerns-large-hadron-collider/The luchtime quiz today at mental_floss is based on a quirk in Sandy’s websurfing experience. We’ve all spent time goofing off on the Web… Googling our own names, clicking on weird links, thwacking penguins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/dot-dot-dotcom-the-quiz/2-year-old Joshua Brookes dialed 999 when his mother Isobel fell unconscious. The operator was able to keep Joshua on the line long enough to trace the call to his home in Wigan, England. She instructed Joshua to let the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/saved-by-a-toddler/This origami cube is more than just an LED paper lantern. Its circuitry is made of flexible aluminum foil fused to the paper! You can make it yourself with instructions from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, and you can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/electric-origami/If you never read about cars, you’ll want to make an exception for this one. Jeremy Clarkson (whose reviews are always worth reading) was supposed to write a review of the Renault Laguna Sport Tourer Dynamique. He didn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/car-washing-analyzed/Freshome has a collection of 16 of the Most Extreme & Modern Beds You’ll Ever See. Some are space-saving ideas, some convert into other furniture, some are powered to do things, and some are just beautiful designs. A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/extreme-and-modern-beds/A 16th century Japanese medical text included illustrations of the mythical creatures that cause disease when they invade the body. Although the basic concept proved to be true, bacteria and viruses were not visible at t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/disease-causing-critters/Sir Arthur C. Clarke, a giant in the science fiction genre and early proponent of the geosynchronous satellite orbit, has died.Recently, Sir Arthur videotaped his reflections on his 90th birthday, in which he talked abou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/19/sir-arthur-c-clarkes-last-message/Monobrow.com is a website that celebrates "the unity of eyebrows." It thinks that people with one eyebrow (isn't that used to be called unibrow?) are cool ;)My favorite is their Mono Bro of the Week: This one i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/18/monobrow-of-the-week/You're looking at the 1986 Ferrari Testarossa ... go-kart! The toy car is powered by a 5 HP Briggs & Stratton motor with 2 speed automatic transmission. It comes with working retractable headlights and turn signals,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/18/ferrari-testarossa-go-kart/This looks like fun: make your own homopolar motor made from only a battery, a magnet and a copper wire!See it in action: Link (embedded YouTube) | More info at Dangerously Fun | Homopolar Motor in Wikipedia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/18/diy-homopolar-motor/Flickr user yusheng snapped this photo of a weird sign in the Taipei Zoo. Apparently, the sign warned visitors to watch out for mischevious monkey hands, but I think what it really meant was no acupuncture. Either that o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/18/beware-of-grabby-cactus/Jim and Nicky with his Taurus .38 snub nose special, Colt 380-Auto, Pony Pocketlite and Sig Sauer P232 .380. (Photo: Kyle Cassidy)Jim: When I was diagnosed with cancer I found myself and my family in need of protecti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/18/armed-america-photos-of-gun-owners-in-their-homes/Meet Eli Bowen, a man born in 1844 with feet but without legs (he was born with feet attached directly to his pelvis). Despite of this, Eli strived to live an extraordinary life: see, he wanted to be ... an acrobat! *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/18/the-legless-acrobat/If you've ever eaten sushi, then you'll know that a little dab of wasabi (or Japanese horseradish) goes a looooong way.Now, a company in Japan has created a prototype silent smoke alarm for people with hearing disabiliti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/18/the-silent-smoke-detector-sprays-wasabi-in-the-air/
