With the help of its readers, Jalopnik blog has a neat post about the top 10 craziest concept cars of all time. This one is the "Book of Songs" electric car by Chinese car maker Tang Hua, and from the photo,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/10-craziest-concept-cars/Good: BaconBetter: Bacon you can eat any timeNeatorama-worthy: Bacon with 10-year shelf life ... introducing: Canned Bacon!You can get it from MREdepot.com:Each can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/canned-bacon/Sometimes you kick the wall, and sometimes the wall gets you back - here's a perfect example of the latter. See how this concrete fence exacts a revenge on this poor guy: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Boing Boin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/wall-pwns-vandal/The evidence was irrefutable, there was no question about it... They were caught red-handed. Was there any chance of escape for the accused when the proof was so damning? Not according to an Australian judge whose...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/11/judging-by-numbers/Somebody produced this wonderful song and dance video celebrating The Clintons' return to the White House. Alas, it wasn't to be. [Link]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/if-hillary-had-won/Miss C recently posted the floppy disk drive that plays Imperial March - turns out, that's not the only computer peripheral that can play music. Here's a HP scanner that plays Beethoven's Ode to Joy: hit play or go to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/scanner-plays-beethovens-ode-to-joy/Do you see the sign in the upper right-hand corner? Photo: lonecellotheory [Flickr]My brother sent me this little gem, which apparently has been making its round on the web for the past few months:BARAC...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road/Long-tailed macaque monkeys are really good at finding food - be it finding fruits in the jungle or snatching one from an unsuspecting tourist - and now, scientists have discovered something new about the species: they c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/fishing-monkey/In this art piece, artists Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal created a vending "Anger Release" machine where you plunk in some change, select the fine china you'd want destroyed and watch the object fall and sha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/anger-release-machine-smashes-fine-china-for-you/Firefighters in Dunbar, Scotland used a vacuum cleaner to extract a newborn kitten from a drain it had fallen into! It is thought its mother had climbed behind the kitchen sink to give birth. Rescuers used a vib...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/kitten-saved-by-vacuum-cleaner/(YouTube link) OK, I don’t know how it’s done and I can’t find any technical information behind it, but apparently you can play music on a floppy disc with a stepper motor. I found a link to this post in the com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/the-imperial-march-on-floppy-disc/House of Yahweh church leader Yisrayl Hawkins of Abilene, Texas has instructed his followers to prepare for the nuclear war which is to take place this Thursday, June 12 at the latest. He and his followers have set as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/doomsday-cult-leader-predicts-nuclear-war-by-thursday-june-12-2008/A few things came to my mind when I saw this clip. 1) Why have a loaded gun in plain site at the office? 2) Who woud be stupid enough to go straight to the trigger and pull it? 3) Whas there anyone in front of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/safety-at-work/How awesome is that? Our pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford drew this envelope art of Kitteh and Pip of the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats running into Star Wars "hoboes" Jab-bo and R2-D2-bo!! (Love the Ackbar reference...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/star-wars-meet-the-laugh-out-loud-cat/Scientists have known for a while that parasites can induce "behavioral modification" in its hosts - but this one is new: a parasite that turns its host into a bodyguard!Inside the caterpillar host, a cruel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/parasite-turns-host-into-bodyguard/Jose Leonardo Castillo, chief shark investigator for Mexico's National Fishing Institute, proposed one theory for a recent spate of shark attacks in Mexico: the sharks have developed a taste for human flesh!The beach...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/sharks-developing-taste-for-human-flesh/Bad idea: burgling a homeReally bad idea: burgling a home with a dogNeatorama-worthy: the dog is a gigantic 300+ lb mastiff guard dog, a breed of dog used in ancient tim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/burglar-picked-the-wrong-house/Nicholas Carr started noticing the change in the way he thinks a few years ago, starting with his decreased ability to focus while reading books. When he mentioned his problem to his friends - most of them literary types...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/10/is-teh-interweb-making-us-stupid/A Spock Monkey. Why didn’t I think of that? Sock monkeys are available in other characters from Star Trek, too. Order now and get a free tribble! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/spock-monkey/You’ll probably get a kick out of this fantasy introduction to the TV news show 60 Minutes that includes... well, just about everyone. Link -via Grow-A-Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/new-talent-on-60-minutes/Residents of Obama, Japan (pop. 34,000) are delighted that Barack Obama is running for president in the US. The campaign has put their town on the map, so to speak, when smaller towns in Japan are competing for new res...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/obama-japan/I love me a good game night. Monopoly gets pretty cut-throat when we're at my in-laws – cheating bankers, people hiding money, my brother-in-law yelling at people about the free market. It's a blast, actually. But I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/read-this-post-do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-200/Left: Lily Pad Dress (2000); Right: Dandelion Dress (1999), photo by Trudi EntwistleI am in awe of Robin Barcus' fashion/art. In her series called "State of Dress," Robin creates unusual dresses from natural in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/state-of-dress-by-robin-barcus/Our pal WebUrbanist (neat new blog layout!) has a really neat post about the 10 amazing monuments commemorating war heroes. This one to the left is the 38th (Welsh) Division Memorial, depicting the defiant Red Dragon of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/10-amazing-monuments-to-war-heroes/Ever seen a police car parked illegally? Well, no one is above the law according to this brave traffic warden in Liverpool, England:With no thought for his own future safety, the attendant leapt into action to make h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/brave-traffic-warden-tickets-a-police-car/If you're swept up to Heaven in the Rapture, who'll tell your loved ones left behind on Earth? For $40 a year, this new website will: Users can also upload up to 150 megabytes of documents, which will be protected by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/email-sent-to-those-left-behind-after-the-rapture/After a legal battle, a Swedish couple have won the right to name their baby son ... Lego! Couples in Sweden have previously run into trouble with officials over the names Ikea, Veranda, Metallica and the use of Elvi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/parents-won-legal-battle-to-name-kid-lego/Some weren’t interested, some didn’t know what they were missing, and others just gave up sex for one reason or another. These six were mostly creative types who were obsessed with their work ahead of... everything e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/6-historic-figures-who-were-celibate/88-year-old Kimani Nganga Maruge began his education in 2004 after Kenya introduced free primary schooling. That’s when he set the world record for the oldest person to ever start primary school. He attended for four y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/worlds-oldest-student-forced-to-drop-out/You know the names, but do you know what that initial stands for? Today’s mental_flosss quiz tests your knowledge of famous people with middle initials. I scored 50%, which is about what I expected. http://w...
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