33 years ago, April 4, 1975, 19-year-old Bill Gates and 22-year-old Paul Allen joined forces to create a partnership called Micro-soft. The company incorporated in 1981, and went public in 1986. If you had invested in Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/happy-anniversary-microsoft/In America, most of us believe that we shouldn't discriminate based on characteristics that people can't control (e.g. race, gender, etc.). However, we also believe that weight is something that people can contr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/weight-ism-more-widespread-than-sexism/Think Geek displayed an April Fools Day ad for a product that didn’t exist. The Personal Soundtrack Shirt has a built-in speaker and can play various mood themes to make your real life as dramatic as a movie. The item...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/phony-shirt-to-be-manufactured/OMG Lists details 7 Weird Superheros Who Won't Ever Hit the Silver Screen (But Should). Would you believe Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, whose superpower is that he can pull one arm off with the other? Or the Chlorophyll Kid, who c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/7-weird-superheros/Lenore Skenazy writes about her son’s first solo subway and bus trip in the New York Sun. He had been preparing for the chance, and knew how to read a subway map. The 9-year-old made it home just fine, but half the peo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/would-you-let-your-9-year-old-ride-the-subway-alone/A group of Masai warriors are going to be running the London Marathon this year, which could be enough to get a mention here, but it gets better. To avoid any potential culture clash problems (so funny in films, so u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/the-masai-warriors-guide-to-britain/I pity the fool who doesn't believe Mr. T can work miracles!! In an interview with Empire he describes what happened when he visited a young boy who was in a coma: "His family put toys around him and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/the-mr-t-miracle/I've just gotten into running in the past nine months or so. I went for my first run on my birthday last year – July 21. I mean, I worked out before that – I used to be a big fan of the elliptical. But I r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/five-races-that-make-running-fun-and-one-that-might-kill-you/The Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is on American money. How well do you know the faces on your money? I got 11 out of 12 right; I only missed a bill that I’d never seen before. To be honest, there are s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/the-money-quiz/(Revver link) I’m Walking is an ad for a seal to certify Germany’s organic farm produce. Six chickens take part in a wacky hurdle race. Written and produced by Bodo von Braunmuehl. See a hi-res version at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/im-walking/People will do anything to look younger and more attractive, including eating, drinking, and applying placenta, also known as afterbirth. Japanese company Nihon Sofuken sells placenta products for the anti-aging market...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/placenta-beauty-products/(YouTube link) Russian tennis player Mikhail Youzhny became angry when he hit into the net during his third round match Monday against Nicolas Almagro at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida. He reacted by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/self-inflicted-sports-injury/New York City's GreeNYC campaign has a logo that looks like an apple. It makes sense, as the city is known as The Big Apple. But Apple Inc. says it infringes on their trademark. The computer company has filed in injunct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/apple-vs-the-big-apple/A Franciscan friar and a lay brother, as seen before the abolition of their Order.BibliOdyssey blog has a neat post about a charming set of gouache sketches from a 1836 book titled "Picturesque Review of the Costume...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/03/picturesque-review-of-the-costume-of-the-portuguese/Right before a special BBC America World Debate on the future of news during the TED 2008 conference in Monterey, California, the crew had a technical difficulty.Suddenly, a heckler spoke up from the back of the room: *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/robin-williams-hijacked-a-bbc-debate/Here's another goodie from the BBC: the animated history of Stonehenge - where you can watch 4,500 years of history behind the iconic monument in just about a minute. It's quite interesting!Link [BBC Flash video] - T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/the-animated-history-of-stonehenge/With the price of diesel skyrocketing (prompting independent truckers to strike yesterday), it's interesting to note that Mother Nature has actually made a tree that produce natural diesel! Treehugger has the story:A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/the-diesel-tree/Some years after Jelly Belly released the Bertie Bott's Jelly Bean (inspired by the Harry Potter book series), they came out with these weirdly and wildly flavored jelly beans, BeanBoozled.Candy Addict blog reviewed some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/the-weird-and-wild-flavors-of-beanboozled-jelly-belly/Examples of virtual 3D extraction of organisms embedded in opaque amber: a) Gastropod Ellobiidae; b) Myriapod Polyxenidae; c) Arachnid; d) Conifer branch (Glenrosa); e) Isopod crustacean Ligia; f) Insect hymenopteran Fal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/teeny-tiny-prehistoric-insects-found-in-amber/Here’s a wonderful gallery of painted hand art inspired by and a tribute to the work of the late Mario Mariotti, which you have probably seen in email forwards. Produced by Tidò Communication in collaboration with t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/anmani/The Cleveland Indians found the playing field covered with snow on opening day 2007. Grounds crews went to work, and so did Dale Omori with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who took this time-lapse video. As the snow kept fal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/opening-day-snow/The Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is a sequel to the earlier Dot Dot Dot Com quiz. Do you know who the generic-sounding URL belongs to? These 15 aren’t so obvious. Although I had to guess at all of them, I scored 73...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/dot-dot-dot-com-redux/Behold - the Mustang Skintight Stretchjean fan video series: [YouTube Link] [YouTube Link]Apparently, this Stretchtight Skinjean craze is sweeping the more rural parts of Nordic country; taking Norway and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/mustang-skintight-stretchjeans/http://view.break.com/479183 - Watch more free videos September 4, 1993. The scene: Seth's Bar Mitzvah. It was great to see Seth's loving family come together for a rousing karaoke rendition of "That's what friends ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/thats-what-friends-are-for/Scientists are working on making teeth regrow the crystals that make up dentin and enamel. This process could eliminate drilling and filling to combat tooth decay. Sally Marshall, a professor at the University of Califor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/tooth-regeneration/The recent video of a velvet worm may have given you the willies, but you’ll love the tiny whimsical paintings of Nathan Mazur! While browsing through an art supply store, local cartoonist and animator, Nathan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/wee-beasties/A four-month old kangaroo was in his mother’s pouch when she was killed by a car in Torquay, Victoria, Australia. The unharmed joey would normally have died, but Rex the mixed-breed dog took the roo to his owner, Leoni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/dog-saves-baby-kangaroo/Before this story went 'round the Interweb:Wal-Mart spokesman John Simley, who called Debbie Shank’s case "unbelievably sad," replied in a statement: "Wal-Mart’s plan is bound by very speci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/wal-mart-reversed-itself-and-lets-disabled-woman-keep-her-money/Photo: krisez [Flickr]All right, 'fess up: how many of you were Rickrolled yesterday on April Fools' Day?With all the Rickrolling goin' on these past few months, most of us don't really know much about Rick Astley, the s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/02/10-neat-facts-about-rick-astley/One of the strangest April Fool hoaxes ever was pulled of by one Isaac Bickerstaff, an astrologer who published an almanac predicting the events of the year 1708. One of his predictions was the death of rival astrologer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/01/the-case-of-the-dead-astrologer/
