You're looking at a figure from a groundbreaking scientific paper published in European Urology by Dr. Ahmed Shafik of the Cairo University in Egypt. In the 1993 paper, Dr. Shafik explored the effect of wearing different...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/the-underpant-worn-by-the-rat/Now that is a fire pit! Artist John T. Unger created the Beach Burner Portable Bonfire, an awesome fire bowl from recycled steel that looks good both with or without fire.Perfect for your next luau on the beach:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/artistic-fire-pit-by-john-t-unger/Wouldn’t you love controlling the Empire playing games or even (gasp) working in this workstation from the Dark Side Novelquest? Available in July. Link -via Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/the-emperor-workstation/If you watch sports on TV, you should breeze through this. Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to identify theme songs for sports shows. I only knew two of the themes, but I managed to get three...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/jock-jams-for-couch-potatoes/There are often countries that you automatically discount when planning a vacation because, like, there’s a WAR or something going on there! (Unless you’re Bono, who will go anywhere anytime.) Then when th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/post-conflict-travel-destinations/On June 12th, 1942, a young girl in the Netherlands named Anne Frank turned 13 years old. She received a cloth-bound blank book that she had requested for a birthday gift. Anne intended to use it for a diary, although sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/a-monumental-birthday/The following is reprinted from The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. The original 1977 Star Wars posterDid you know that Star Wars almost didn't happen because Universal Studios turned it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/no-jiggling-in-the-empire-fun-facts-about-star-wars/Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered what could be the oldest Christian church in the world: an underground cave that may have been used by the first disciples of Jesus Christ.Archaeologist Abdel-Qader Hussein, h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/worlds-first-church-found/Debbie and Andrew Keeble noticed something strange about a newborn piglet on their farm: it's scared of the mud!So the couple put boots on the pig, now named Cinders after Cinderella (glass slipper... rubber boots, get i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/pig-overcomes-mud-phobia-with-cute-little-boots/It has never been easy to be an albino in Tanzania - they are shunned as outcast and often die of skin cancer before they reach 30. Now, there is another more imminent danger: albinos are being hunted for their body part...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/albinos-murdered-in-africa-for-their-bodies-magical-powers/Bad idea: Robbing a StarbucksReally bad idea: Returning to the scene of the crime (for coffee, no less) ...Neatorama-worthy: ... in the same clothing you wear when you r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/robber-came-back-to-starbucks-for-coffee-got-arrested-instead/Talkin' bout stupid criminals, check out this mugger in Bromley, London, who actually tried on the stolen necklace and admired his reflection ... on the tram's CCTV lens!Dc Dan Arundell, of British Transport Police'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/12/mugger-admired-own-reflection-on-a-cctv-camera-lens/I just spent an absurd amount of time messing around with Scion's Crest Generator, designed by Thunderdog Studios. Using the simple interface, you choose the shield shape, animal icon, side elements, crest symbols,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/thunderdogs-scion-crest-generator/Things are starting to get a little sticky here in Iowa... or watery, I guess, would be more appropriate. This is the Simon Estes Amphitheater in downtown Des Moines. On the left is what it should look...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/flood-pictures-from-des-moines/Vancouver Aquarium's Qila the beluga gave birth yesterday, and the aquarium captured the birth on beluga-cam. The adorable baby is a girl, about 1.5 m long and weighs more than 50 kg ( lb) at birth. It's skin is wrinkly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/qila-the-beluga-gave-birth-to-a-baby-girl/Unicorn does exists, after all! A deer with a single horn in the center of its head has just been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy:"This is fantasy becoming reality," Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Ce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/unicorn-deer/With the new BMW GINA Light Visionary Model, you won't have to worry about door dings anymore ... the concept car's skin is made of cloth instead of metal!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Wired's Autopia has the story...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/new-bmw-concept-car-has-a-cloth-skin/Creative Review blog commissioned photographer Jason Tozer to take these amazing photos of all-too-common soap bubbles. The result is anything but ordinary: indeed, they look so out of this world that the series is calle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/planet-tozer-soap-bubbles-or-alien-worlds/I've always wondered why wine and champagne makers create those magnum bottles, now I know:to fill the world's largest champagne flute (16.5 liters or 4.4 gallons), of course!The glass was 203 cm tall and with a diam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/worlds-largest-champagne-flute/L: Those aren't matchbox cars, they're real trucks caught in a sluice channel of the Tangjiashan quake lake in China (Photo: Li Gang/Xinhua/Reuters) M: The uncontacted Amazon tribe, shooting arrows at the helicopter (Pho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/the-big-picture-photoblog/(College Humor link) It’s an in-game version of the Discovery Channel promo featured previously at Neatorama. For those who live in a different world. -via Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/i-love-the-world-video-game-edition/Maybe the owner of these shoes should consider some charcoal insoles. Found at Omg OWNED. Link -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/stinky-shoes/Before Photoshop, before Snopes, before YouTube, there was Jonathon Newhouse. Or rather, there wasn’t, but he became famous anyway. In 1874, one man; an inventor of considerable genius, was reported to ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/the-amazing-fate-of-the-solar-armor-inventor/This week's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange looking coin from the State of Illinois. It has a specific purpose - can you tell us what it is for?Place your guess in the comment section - no priz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/what-is-it-game-66-strange-square-coin/(Dayrobber link) A couple of months ago, I posted a “suggestion box” here on Neatorama and hinted that a new project was in the works. I didn’t want to explain what the new project was, since I didn’t know if...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/the-neatorama-show/Shigeo Obara, a farmer in Japan’s Iwate prefecture discovered a clover last week with an amazing 21 leaves! The current world record is an 18-leaf clover, which Obara himself grew in 2002. Obara, a former food c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/21-leaf-clover-sets-record/I see Adam Stanhope's post about the dancing Clintons and raise him this: dancing Jean-Claude Van Damme in the 1989 movie Kickboxer. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] to see the Muscles from Brussels kickin' it!Or if you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/dancing-van-damme/Oh la la! This Bizarro panel certainly made me look at Mr. Potato Head in a new way. For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's website and blog....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/bizarro-your-cheatin-spud/Gary "Master Caster" Hain has amazing casting skill: take a look at what he can do with a fishing rod and reel. In this clip, he goes Skeet Fishing (now who needs a shotgun when you have a fishing rod?)Hit play...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/skeet-fishing/The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dropped the ball ... literally! They dumped over 400,000 small plastic balls into the Ivanhoe Reservoir in order to protect the drinking water supply:The water needs to be sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/plastic-balls-cover-reservoir-to-protect-it-from-sunlight/
