A statue recently installed on the German bordertown of Simbach is causing a stirr in the neighboring town of Braunau, Austria.Why? Because the statue is of a naked man riding a giant fish, symbolizing the personificatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/mooning-statue-irks-austrian-town/In his project "Excelsior 1968", John Martz of Robot Johnny turned the photographs of every single person in his mother's 1968 Toronto High School yearbook into cartoons:Last year I redrew my mothe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/project-excelsior-1968-turning-a-yearbook-into-cartoons/ISWWR is a site that collects and catalogs photographic “evidence” of Star Wars characters and objects in real life. The picture above shows a Spanish peace summit in the 1920s, attended by Queen Jamillia of Naboo....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/if-star-wars-was-real/Scientists have recreated what they believe to be the voice of Neanderthals. Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton has used new reconstructions of Neanderthal vocal tracts t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/neanderthal-talk/Test your knowlege of world geography with this eight question quiz. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted it in response to a survey by National Geographic. Americans are far from alone in the world, but from the p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/geographic-skills-quiz/38 years ago today, April 17th, 1970 the capsule from the Apollo 13 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, and the whole world breathed a sigh of relief. Apollo 13 launched from Cape Canaveral on April 11, int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/houston-we-no-longer-have-a-problem/Hooray! It's time for this week's collaboration with What is it? blog: can you guess what this pistol is for? Place your guess in the comment section - you're playing for fun and fame this week. No t-shirt prize. More cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/what-is-it-game-58/A new teacup called Ceramic For Mix (which appears to be made of glass) eliminates the need for a stirring spoon. This is acheived by a ball installed in the bottom. Designer Florian Dussopt says, "The ball is put...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/self-stirring-cup/(image credit: Kevin Collins) The Flickr group We Demand Donuts was the recipient of 10 dozen donuts at a donut shop in San Francisco today, courtesy of Flickr employee Matthew Rothenberg. The event began as a way of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/the-day-of-the-donut/Pictured: "Baby with two faces worshipped as goddess." Kelly Chambers' CNN is like the worst ever is pure genius and a nice companion site to WTFCNN?. Via Gawker....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/illustrations-of-cnns-bad-headlines/Here's a typical day in Brazoria, Texas, according to its sheriff:When William Johnson made a couple of suspicious U-Turns at the intersection of Texas 35 and 288 early Sunday a state trooper pulled him over.*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/a-typical-day-in-brazoria-texas/Legendary gunfighter and lawman James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok had a brother, nicknamed Tame Bill.His brother's name was Lorenzo Butler Hickok. The origin of the nickname "Wild Bill" was unclear. One popular s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/trivia-wild-bill-hickock-had-a-brother-named-tame-bill/Meet Orazi, the real life Garfield. The portly cat weighs 35 lb. (16 kg) - so heavy that its owner Laura Santarelli of Eupilio, Italy, had trouble picking it up! LinkPreviously on Neatorama: Top 15 Amazingly Fat Cats (Or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/the-real-life-garfield/Opossums aren't the only animals that play dead - turns out that fire ants do it too:When threatened by danger, the young insects will play dead to fake out an attacker."No one has ever reported this be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/baby-fire-ants-play-dead-when-attacked/Here's Sony's new commercial, Foam City, where the company blanketed the streets of Miami with loads of soapy foam to sell electronics. Yeah, I don't get it either ...Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/new-sony-ad-foam-city/Yay for Alaska! Flip Todd of Todd Communications is hoping to publish an updated "Dictionary of Alaska Place Names" by Donald Orth. The book details humorous stories of the origin of various places in the state...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/origin-of-alaskan-place-names/Old & busted: depending on the gub'ment for law & order.The new hotness: survivalism.Faced with a multitude of threats - from global warming to housing crisis to a declining economy, and spurred on by what they s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/survivalism-is-making-a-come-back/The Lunchtime Quiz today at mental_floss is a little different from the multiple-choice quizzes we are used to. Can you name the ten top grossing movies that did NOT have a theatrical-release prequel, sequel, or were p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/box-office-one-offs/When Tyler Hemmert and a friend were sitting on a park bench, a boy became angry and threw a butter knife at them:"When he threw it, we both ducked," said Nate Leach, Tyler's friend. "It just stuck him...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/boy-got-butter-knifed-in-the-head/Bad idea: dog in your carReally bad idea: leaving dog alone in your carNeatorama-worthy: leaving dog with gastrointestinal problem alone in your carSee what this cutey-pie did to this guy's Infiniti G35 sportscar that re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/baaaaad-dog/Elaine Krajenke Ellison is a retired math teacher who makes quilts. Her patterns represent math concepts in a beautiful way. Quilts serve as a visual introduction to mathematical concepts that allows students to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/mathematical-quilts/A Norway spruce growing in Sweden has a root system that has been growing for 9,550 years! The tree is only about 13 feet tall, but the trunk is not the first first one grown from the roots. Leif Kullman, professor at Um...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/16/oldest-living-tree/Photo: George SteinmetzGeorge Steinmetz is one of my favorite new finds on the Net. He specializes in taking aerial photographs while piloting a motorized paraglider. Check out the photograph above, of a clear-cut forest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/clearcut-forest-screened-from-the-road/Stringwave is a seemingly simple physics toy that can keep you busy for a while! Change the settings and parameters and see what your waves and echos are like. This is something my grandmother would call "a play-pretty...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/stringwave/I think I'm finally going to do it this year: NaNoWriMo. Some of you are thinking, "Uh, are you insane?" Some of you are thinking "Awesome!" And some of you are thinking, "I have no idea what you're talking about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/the-ravings-of-a-mad-almost-novelist/Graffiti Taxonomy is a project by Evan Roth aka ni9e of Graffiti Research Lab. It is a study of the styles of the alphabets used in graffiti found New York:Graffiti Taxonomy presents isolated letters from various gra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/graffiti-taxonomy/ProTraveller blog has a neat post about 10 of the coolest hotel suites I'll never be able to afford. Oh well, here's what most of us just have to satisfy ourselves with while counting our meager savings: amazing photos o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/over-water-bungalows-in-bora-bora-and-other-incrediby-cool-hotel-suites-around-the-world/Always Watching blog has a neat post about the 10 Most Badass Geek in Film and TV. Now, I'd never thought I'd see the words "badass" and "geek" all in the same sentence (discounting the obvious "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/10-most-badass-geeks-in-film-and-tv/Jason Shiga's 2001 comic "Fleep" is about a boy who wakes up in a telephone booth that has been mysteriously encased in concrete. With only the content of his pockets (two pens, a paperback novel, three coins a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/fleep-comic-by-jason-shiga/To propose to his girlfriend Tammy Li, Bernie Peng wrote a Bejeweled game (from scratch!) on her Nintendo DS. After she reached a certain score, the screen cleared and a ring dropped down (she said yes).Fox News has more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/a-bejeweled-wedding-proposal/
