Photo: YangtseThere was a sight to be seen at a bridge in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China a couple of days ago: the migration of thousands of toads!Thousands of toads were spotted at a bridge in Taizhou, Jiangsu pro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/why-do-thousands-of-toads-cross-the-road/Look closely. Or not too closely ... and you'll see an optical illusion on the album sleeves of the band Soulwax. (Need a hint? Don't look directly at your monitor - view the picture above at an angle).The Monkey Buddha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/the-phantom-message-optical-illusion/Chilli loves to munch on grass and do other things regular cattle do. He's just like one of the guys, with one big difference: the black and white Friesian bullock is the size of a small elephant!Despite his grand st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/holy-cow-bull-is-the-size-of-a-small-elephant/Forget your run-of-the-mill demolition derby (where junker cars smash into each other). In Lind, Washington, they have demolition derby competition with ... combines!Each June the small town of Lind, with it's one re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/combine-demolition-derby/The folks at the Swedish brewery Krönleins Bryggeri created this line of Cider "Smile" drinks with a clever and playful logo. What? You can't see the little emoticon of the guy winking his eyes at you?Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/beverage-logo-design-cleverly-uses-emoticon/West Magoon of Muddy Mountain Pottery created some awesome looking ray guns out of ceramics, with a technique called raku firing:All of the Ray Guns are glazed and fired using the low-fire raku firing technique. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/raku-ray-guns/Photo: KATRIN Main SpectrometerIn November 2006, the people of Leopoldshafen, Germany, saw the spectacle of their lives:It looked like an alien spaceship, but it was actually the main spectrometer of the KATRIN exper...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/the-epic-journey-of-the-katrin-main-spectrometer/Talkin' about depressing places to live, Neatorama reader Michael submitted his wife Desy's blog, 56 Houses Left, about what remains of Carrollton subdivision in Bridgeton, Missouri. The place where she and thousands of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/56-houses-left-a-blog-about-a-neighborhood-destruction/"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" - Ayn Rand, American novelist and philosopher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/13/quote-ayn-rand-on-the-root-of-all-evil/(YouTube link) I found him on a busy road. He had either fallen out of the nest or had been forced out by dead parents, either way his was in a pretty bad way when I found him. Weak, bewildered, staggering around...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/rescued-baby-squirrel/A new material developed by Arch Therapeutics can stop bleeding almost instantly. The material consists of naturally occurring amino acids that have been engineered to form peptides that spontaneously cluster toget...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/nanohealing-gel/George W. Bush has plenty of nicknames, including some for whether you are a supporter or not. Dubya/W., of course, Bushie, Shrub. And obviously Bill Clinton didn't escape his two terms un-nicknamed – Slick Willi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/seven-presidential-nicknames-at-least-ones-we-can-print/A family in Alaska built a safe and sturdy playground for their young children in their backyard. They finished it on Saturday evening, and Sunday morning they snapped pictures from an upstairs window. Follow the link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/fun-for-the-whole-neighborhood/Neatoramanaut T-Shirt, now available at Neatorama's Online Store Neatoramabot T-Shirt O RLY? T-ShirtBad Chewie T-Shirt W00t! I'm excited and happy to anno...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/neatorama-online-t-shirt-store/Photos: Richard CarpenterxoxoxoBruce, a regular at the Cellar Image of the Day forum, posted a series of fascinating photos of this pine needle bear sculpture by Richard Carpenter. The pine needles were gathered off the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/pine-needle-bear-by-richard-carpenter/Marc Lipton was riding his motorcycle when he lost control and slid about 50 feet along the road. He believed that he lived to tell the tale because The Virgin Mary protected him from further injury.And he's got the woun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/mans-wound-looks-like-the-virgin-mary/Look down at the man's feet: that was a not a child, but a grown woman named Pauline Musters. At 1 foot 11.2 inches, Pauline is the smallest mature woman ever recorded:Born on February 26, 1876 in Ossendrecht in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/princess-pauline-the-smallest-woman-in-history/Here's a really strange tale of one really stupid criminal: a group of three women were partying at a Bensalem bar when 31-year-old Andre Smith kept on interrupting and even jumping in their photos.When the women left, S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/thief-took-own-mugshot/Photo: glennkarlsen [Flickr]Glenn Karlsen brought the image on a 500 Kroner bill of Sigrid Undset, a Norwegian novelist and Nobel Laureate, to life through the magic of photoshoppery. Fantastic work! Embiggen the photo h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/500-kroner-bill-brought-to-life/Craftster member fluffypants put together this awesome lamp using a Nintendo light gun and an old Nintendo's Duck Hunt cartridge.Ah, I remember the precious hours I wasted on that game (and I quite remember the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/nintendo-duck-hunt-lamp/What? There's a new X-Files movie coming out? I must be living under a rock. The title is X-Files: I Want To Believe, though I think what they meant was X-Files: I Want You To Spend $10.50 On Tickets, $15 on Crappy P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/x-files-i-want-to-believe-the-official-trailer/photo: peter.macdonald [Flickr]Behold the Skybridge in Langkawi, Malaysia, which is held up by one thin support column set at an angle! Deputy Dog blog has the story and more pics: http://deputy-dog.com/2008/05/05/gephyr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/skybridge-in-langkawi-malaysia/Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is about the strange legal battles over rock and roll music. How well do you remember these? I was surprised to score as well as 63%. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/music-lawsuits/78-year-old Dale Davis lost his sight due to macular degeneration 11 years ago. He only has a sliver of peripheral vision left. He fell in love with bowling for a second time after his sister dragged him back to the bowl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/blind-bowlers-perfect-score/Wouldn’t it be wonderful to discover a secret room in your house that you didn’t know about? It happens, and sometimes it’s not so wonderful. One couple found a room that had been sealed up because of harmful mol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/secret-rooms/Last Friday evening, the news editor of The Gadsden (Alabama) Times, Greg Bailey heard a noise behind the stove in his house. The whole family heard the noises, which his wife Helen identified as a cat. The noises were t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/kittens-in-the-wall/"Eureka!" Archimedes screamed, then he ran outside naked ...Every high school physics student knows about Fourier’s Law of Heat Conduction and Hooke’s Law of Elasticity. But not many know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/12/5-scientific-laws-and-the-scientists-behind-them/Last fall, a seafood shop owner in Marugame, Japan spotted this rare Octopus with nine tentacles. While he apparently boiled and sold the oddity to a "lucky customer", I think he may have generated more mar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/is-a-nine-tentacled-octopus-a-nonopus/Jordi Vayreda of Spanish design studio Jordivayreda Projectteam created this floating staircase for a client's home that looks awesome, but a little bit too dangerous for klutzy old me!Link - via Apartment TherapyPreviou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/beautifully-dangerous-dangerously-beautiful-staircase-by-jordi-vayreda/Some of NYPD's finests are in trouble: two undercover police officers ordered a black man out of his parked car with guns drawn ... without realizing that the guy's an off-duty NYPD chief!"How you can not know o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/new-york-policemen-didnt-recognize-their-own-off-duty-chief/
