California has reached a dubious milestone today, the statewide average price for self-serve regular gasoline has just crossed above $4 per gallon (even though it has been that high in some cities in the State for a whil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/gas-prices-how-high-is-too-high/How bad is the housing market in California? How about it's so bad that one California Congresswoman couldn't make her house payments and got her home repossessed:She helps make laws, but one California Congresswoman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/california-congresswomans-home-repod/Photo: cowfish [Flickr] - via Cowfish BlogIn 1877, a French editor mistook the fake invention of "telectroscope" (an electronic telescope that projects images just like a modern TV) as real, and even attributed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/giant-steampunk-telescope-connects-london-and-new-york/Mike Sacks, a writer for Vanity Fair and other magazines, has a website in which he compiles funny television screen photos. Somehow, the collection is quite fascinating - indeed, more fascinating than actually watching...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/funny-photos-of-tv/Did you know that Tom Sellect almost played Indiana Jones? Or that there was an elephant almost ruined the Temple of Doom's nightclub scene? Or that the latest one was almost named Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/10-awesome-facts-about-indiana-jones/Y-larvae or facetotectans were first discovered in 1899, but no one actually knew the adult form of the crustaceans ... until now. Scientists dosed the y-larvae with a hormone to force them into a growth spurt and discov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/strange-crustacean-undergoes-reverse-evolution/California biotech company BioArts International is holding an unusual auction, called Best Friends Again. With bidding starting at $100,000, the company promises to ... clone your dog!His new company, BioArts, began...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/biotech-company-to-auction-dog-cloning/Visuwords is a neat online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. The website allows you to look up a word's definition and find synonyms in a network of nodes called "synsets." Kind of neat! Link - Thanks Eli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/visuwords-graphical-dictionary-and-thesaurus/Before the Galaxy Far, Far Away, there was The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Greg Davies wrote a neat post on Cineleet about the cinematic influences on Star Wars: movies that inspired George Lucas and colored various sce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/cinematic-influences-of-star-wars/Bad Idea: Telling strangers your social security number.Really Bad Idea: Broadcasting it nationwide to advertise your fraud-prevention company.Neatorama Worthy: Getting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/using-own-social-security-number-in-ads-turned-out-not-to-be-a-good-idea-after-all/Vertical gardening is taking off all over the world. Living walls are not only a statement, they’re works of art! They are also cooling and calming, they freshen the air, and some produce flowers and vegetables as we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/15-living-walls-vertical-gardens-sky-farms/This week's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange contraption: do you know what it is for?Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, you're playing for bragging rights and fun only...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/what-is-it-game-63/Over the past couple of years, NASA has been watching flashes of light on the moon. It’s not a new phenomenon; they began observing the moon’s surface to prepare for the future lunar mission project. The explosions a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/explosions-on-the-moon/Typo Hunt Across America is the blog of the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). They spent the last couple of months not only finding and pointing out typos on public signs, they also corrected them or tried to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/22/typo-hunt/This bar in Gruyere, Switzerland was designed by H.R. Giger, the artist who designed the alien in the movie Alien. Spooky! Link -via Bad Astronomy Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/the-giger-bar/Photo: Mark Jemison of MelbourneDo you remember the travelling gnome, who was made famous in the 2001 French film Amélie? Well, this is kind of like that, except with a can of S&W Black Beans. It all started...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/beans-around-the-world/There's a thin line between genius and insanity, or so says Jeff Schultz who shot and directed this little documentary video called Rampenfest, about a little Bavarian village who built a giant ramp to bring the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/rampenfest-viral-ad-launches-new-beemer-straight-from-bavaria-to-usa-with-a-giant-ramp/Photo: Image Metrics and Anthony VerducciThat's Glenn Derene of Popular Mechanics, who turned himself into an "emoting" avatar (i.e. with facial expressions), courtesy of a new generation of motion capture soft...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/next-gen-avatar-captures-facial-expression/Biggify hereGas prices have topped $4 in the city where I live, so I was wondering just how high are gas prices across the United States? Gas Buddy, a website dedicated to spotting cheap gas prices, has the answer.Here's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/16376/How do you load a Bobcat loader onto a flatbed truck with no ramp? By backing it in, of course! - you'll see: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks M!hai!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/how-to-load-a-bobcat-onto-a-flatbed-truck-all-by-itself/Chuck Norris once wrote a column If I am elected president, in which he listed things he will do in the Oval Office. Well, it seems that he won't get that chance to be president, but the race on vice presidency...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/if-chuck-norris-were-elected-vice-president/William McGonagall, ridiculed as "the world's worst poet" has just outsold Harry Potter in an auction in Edinburgh, Ireland Scotland (duh!):Alex Dove, from auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull, said: "He was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/worlds-worst-poet-outsold-harry-potter/When Yosuke the parrot flew his coop and got lost, he found his way back home by telling people his home address. (But not to the cops - This parrot is no stool pigeon!)"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/lost-parrot-knows-own-address/Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss deals with a subject I’m not at all familiar with, but you might be. It’s still early in the Major League Baseball season, but some teams have already been ravaged by i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/softball-on-the-simpsons/Guess what: they’re all in Europe (unless you want to argue about the location of Georgia). Some of them run a mile or more deep into the earth, although to actually go a mile deep, you’d have to trek or rappel for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/the-ten-deepest-caves-in-the-world/Nearly 3,000 people, including US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, were in attendance as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed last night in Tel Aviv. The star of the show was a cat who snuck in to enjoy the fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/cat-attends-symphony-concert/Brandon Pinto spills the beans on what it’s like to portray Captain Jack Sparrow at Disneyland. They told him no flirting, no mentioning alcohol, and no facial hair. Huh? It took over an hour to get Disney’s sui...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/pirates-booty/(Vimeo link) Have you ever seen a starfish move? I haven’t either. This time-lapse video shows they don’t quite walk on their arms they way you’d expect! Note: The first scene shows barnacles and tiny snails...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/starfish-time-lapse/BibliOdyssey has a really neat post about this caricature map of Asia by Tanaka, titled "The Illustration of The Great European War No. 16," where Russia is depicted as a big bear, China as a pig, India as an e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/mapnimal-of-asia/Scantily clad people in teensy weensy thongs washing a 2008 Subaru Forester and having fun doing it. Intrigued? As long as you know, it's not sexy ... it's sumo!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] (you've been warned!) - *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/21/sumo-car-wash/
