See how Americans report spending their economic stimulus checks, and submit your own report at the blog How I Spent My Stimulus. Doug in Ohio sent this picture in, saying: "I bought 25 yards of mulch which includ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/how-i-spent-my-stimulus/Beauty is an Alaskan bald eagle whose beak was shot off several years ago. She was found in 2005, unable to properly hunt or eat. She was taken to a refuge, but her beak did not grow back. Now she will get a new one! *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/artificial-beak-for-bald-eagle/User-generated content on the internet can reach more people than high-budget films. How long will it be before Hollywood comes up with a completely user-generated film? Darius Monsef of COLOURlovers has written an artic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/the-future-of-hollywood%e2%80%a6-user-generated-films/Ready for the second Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt question? Here it is:What Tokyoflash watch design is available in 4 different colors?Find the answer at Tokyoflash.comWhat is this? It's a new contest where...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-question-2/Nico de Bruyn was on a beach on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island that is home to Antarctic fur seals and king penguins when he noticed this bizarre attack:De Bruyn and a colleague were on Trypot beach at Marion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/sex-pest-fur-seal-tried-to-get-it-on-with-a-king-penguin/Bill Bramanti loves his Pabst Blue Ribbon beer so much that he got a custom made casket made to look like his favorite beer can. Bill and his family decided to make good use of the casket while he's still alive, so they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/pabst-blue-ribbon-casket/Attention dog lovers! if Assemblyman Bill Maze of California succeeds, pretty soon you won't be able to drive with your pets on your lap anymore:A California lawmaker wants to ban motorists from holding pets on their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/dwd-driving-with-dog-soon-to-be-illegal/The monkeys in the Ohama Park in Osaka, Japan love tourists. More specifically, the snacks and tidbits they hurled on to the monkey habitat.So much so that they all got pretty fat, and officials at the park have to step...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/fat-monkeys-are-going-on-a-strict-diet/UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering Boris Rubinsky and colleagues have just developed a handheld medical imager that looks just like the medical tricorder in Star Trek!New handheld medical scanners coupled with r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/real-life-star-trek-medical-tricorder/(YouTube link) The little xylophone has a strange effect on this cat. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/06/xylophone-and-cat/You'll find a gallery of 50 excellent pixel art designs at Smashing Magazine. Pictured: "City Glow" by Chiho Aoshima....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/gallery-of-50-excellent-pixel-art-designs/Ever since I ran across Josef Lee's Museum of Modern Fiction (on Neatorama here), I've been looking forward to his new cartoon installments.The latest one, the Adventure of the Man/Fish Yutaro, doesn't disappoint. Josef'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/the-adventure-of-yutaro-by-josef-lee/Behold the Greenpix Zero Energy Media Wall, a gigantic LED wall completely powered by solar energy!Gizmodo has the story:Greeting visitors attending the Xicui entertainment complex near the site of the games is a 20,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/greenpix-giant-solar-powered-led-wall-in-china/Office Snapshots blog, like its name suggests, is all about where you work. Well, if you work in a tech company or for a successful blog (not in a dumpy ol' warehouse like me!).Here are some fun photo galleries of the of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/office-snapshots/With all the money in Hollwood, you'd think that they can come up with better casting choices, especially when it comes to ethnic roles. Take for instance, Swedish actor Warner Oland, who was hired to play Charlie Chan a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/10-ethnically-challenged-casting-choices-of-hollywood/I learned something new about the Titanic today, thanks to Stamps of Distinction blog. The ship was a Royal Mail Ship (RMS) and commissioned to carry over 3,000 mailbags across the Atlantic. And when it sank, five pos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/postal-workers-on-the-titanic/Ha - this is pretty good. A four year old boy and girl argue Obama vs. Clinton over the dinner table. It is a little bit difficult to hear their voices in the beginning, but stick with it - they end up speaking much...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/4-year-olds-arguing-poltics-over-the-dinner-table/The Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your knowledge of TV situation comedies of the 80s (and there were a lot of them). I only scored 60% today, because back in the 80s I didn’t think to ask if there would be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/80s-sitcom-quiz/A goldfish named Comet has been trained to play soccer, basketball, and even dance the limbo! He can also fetch and swim a slalom around tiny poles in his tank. Comet’s owner, Dr. Dean Pomerleau used the technique of p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/soccer-playing-goldfish/(YouTube link) People who have lost the ability to move have been using “gaze technology” to communicate by computer for years, but the technology has been too slow to operate in virtual worlds, until now. A team...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/controlling-virtual-reality-with-the-eyes/Hooray! I'm excited to announce that we have a brand new contest in collaboration with the good folks at Tokyoflash (who has the most "geektastic" watches on the planet!) Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/introducing-tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-a-new-neatorama-game/An amazing story of a boy, a beach, a board and a shark. It looks real to me. What do you think? [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/shark-surfing/The aim of the game is to escape from the pig pen using a combination of fart skill and aviation techniques and stay airborne for as long as possible. Start by using the left arrow. Then all you need is the u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/pig-blaster/Brenda Owen was walking her golden labrador retriever Penny by the Elwy River in St. Asaph, Wales when she spotted a wheelchair on the shore and a body in the water. “I shouted: “Are you all right love?” Wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/dog-fetches-woman-from-river/Here's a fun Flash game where you get to create your own rollercoaster. It's not as easy as it looks. You must respect angles otherwise your cars along with its passengers will fly off the track. A fun game that will...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/rollercoaster-creator/Every great civilizations fall. From the Romans to the ancient Mayans, history is littered with kingdoms and nations who "ruled the world" for a period of time only to descend into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/the-fading-of-america-is-american-dominance-in-the-world-ending/The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader Pong, Atari's most popular game (Image: screenshot of Pong from the Atari Arcade Hits #1, 1972, by Hasbro Interactive [wikiped...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/the-rise-and-fall-of-atari/Divine Caroline blog has a neat post by Midori Nakamura on the world's most unusual plants (and yes, the "shapeless penis" plant made the list!)This one is Hydnora africana:Hydnora africana, an unusual fles...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/worlds-most-unusual-plants/Swedish parachutist Olivier Vietti-Teppa finally proved, after 500 years, that Leonardo da Vinci's parachute design actually does work!Link - via Scribal TerrorBBC News has the video clip: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/500-years-later-parachutist-proved-leonardo-da-vincis-parachute-works/Photo: What to do? [Flickr]We posted about Flickr user Joe D's "refacing" of Lincoln in the US $5 bill as a character from Tron - and now, look what happened: everyone's doing Tron money! Here's a "Tronifi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/05/tron-canadian-dollar/
