It's hard to believe that there was a time before high-speed Internet access, wi-fi, or even USB. Back then, the word "computer" meant a big beige desktop box with a bulky CRT monitor - no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/take-a-stroll-down-computing-memory-lane/"Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but the mitigate the remembrance of death." - Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/quote-francis-bacon-on-children/I'm sure that chess is not what pops into most people's minds when you say "hip hop music," but that's what RZA of Wu Tang Clan wanted to change. He just launched a new website called WuChess, "the world's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/chess-wu-tang-clan-wuchess/Before you get that trendy tattoo, read this article by Johnny Wright over at our pal YesButNoButYes blog:With other fads, you can participate and not make it a lifetime commitment. You can take the double hoop earrings...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/09/10-stupid-tattoos/The recently opened Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management in India decided that they wanted someone really famous and powerful to be their leader.So the school officials named Hanuman, the Hindu monkey...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/08/indian-school-named-monkey-god-as-chairman/The giant cheese grater room divider above is an art piece called "Paravent," created by London-based Lebanese artist Mona Hatoum: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/08/giant-cheese-grater-room-divider/File this under Whaat?: Someone is holding Kelly Myers' lost dog Tinkerbell for ransom ... and when she called the police, they refused to help her: The alleged kidnapper called the dog's owner Friday morning. But wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/08/dog-held-for-ransom-its-a-civil-matter-said-cops/We've posted about the Internet phenomenon of Garfield Minus Garfield, where the fat orange cat is removed from Jim Davis' comic strip (resulting in a bizarre yet strangely coherent depiction of Jon Arbuckle as a schizop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/08/garfield-markov-chain-garkov/If you've ever wondered, the rabinnical authorities in Israel have just ruled that giraffe is actually kosher to eat:The giraffe belongs to the family of grazing animals that have cloven hooves and chew the cud, ther...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/08/is-giraffe-kosher/It's not fair that one girl gets to play Snow White, Japanese parents pressured teachers, so the school decided to modify the play slightly: 25 Snow Whites, no dwarfs and no wicked witch!Actually, the "25 Snow White...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/08/hyper-aggressive-parenting-25-snow-whites-no-dwarfs-and-no-witch/I have used the Chinatown bus dozens of times to travel between Boston and New York City. It's a terribly-kept secret that for $10-15, you can get limited luggage space on an uncomfortable, aging bus with a driver that s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/08/how-one-bus-stop-encapsulates-the-american-immigrant-experience/(Break.com link) I confess, this is a solution to a flat tire that I never considered before. Maybe it will work long enough for this guy to get to the garage. -via Unique Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/getting-there/Right up there with "Who did Cain from the Bible marry after Abel died?" (hint: it was one of his sisters), the question of "What happened to Hitler's descendants (if there are any)?" has dogged historians for decades....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/getting-to-know-the-hitlers/After finding out that there's actually no law against carrying gun openly, Kevin Jensen decided to make it part of his every day fashion - and to his surprise, no one bats an eye!Here's the story of Open Carry, a moveme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/open-carry-the-wild-wild-west-or-sensible-precaution/Remember the Neatorama post about a woman who married the Berlin Wall? Well, it turns out that she's not the only one. Here's a story about a woman who married the Eiffel Tower:Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former sold...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/the-woman-who-married-the-eiffel-tower/Penn State scientists, led by Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and Jean Brenchley, discovered a 120,000-year-old ultra-small species of bacteria that lives two miles under the ice of a Greenland glacier!The microorganism's a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/120000-year-old-bacteria-found-two-miles-under-glacier/Cuttlefish turns out to be a smart predator - in fact, so smart that they actually learn which animal to prey on before they are born!Before they have even hatched, cuttlefish embryos can peer out of their eggs and s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/cuttlefish-can-learn-as-embryos/As part of a group art project "20 Eventi," Jan Vormann came to the village of Bocchignano, Italy, and "fixed" old, crumbling walls there ... with LEGO!http://www.janvormann.com/dispatchwork.php - via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/patching-old-crumbling-walls-with-lego/Stacey Fearnall, whose father died of cancer, decided to shave her head for a cancer fundraising event. But when she returned to work at Nathaniels restaurant, where she worked as a waiter, she was laid off:The mothe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/waitress-shaved-head-for-charity-got-laid-off/Ah, Iceland ... What's up with all these Scandinavian countries? (Wait, is Iceland Scandinavian, Nordic, or both? Anyways ...)Here's a sad story of a polar bear, the first to swim to Iceland in 15 years, only to be shot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/polar-bear-swam-to-iceland-then-shot/A German nursing home got tired of having to call on the police to retrieve Alzheimer's patients who ran away (to their often non-existent homes and families), so they came upon a brilliant idea: install a fake bus stop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/fake-bus-stop-prevents-alzheimers-patients-from-running-away/Why did the poodle cross the road? To get away from the groomer, of course!We've posted about Sandy Hartness' extreme pet grooming before, but to our delight, we found a gallery of her past creations at the Daily Mail. (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/the-chicken-poodle/Psst, wanna free £5 notes? That's the experiment that Tim Moss of loan price comparison website moneysupermarket.com ran in England one day. Surprisingly, he found that most people actually couldn't be bothered to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/the-free-money-experiment-most-people-decline-free-money/A business name should tell you what kind of business it is, and it should be memorable. This one certainly is! Best Week Ever has pictures of 50 storefronts featuring giggle-inspiring puns. Link -via I Am Bored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/pun-stores/Macie Hope McCartney was born twice, once at six months gestation when she was brought out for surgery, and again at eight months. An ultrasound showed that Keri McCartney’s baby had a tumor the size of a grapefruit, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/baby-born-twice/Paul Nicklen is a photographer for National Geographic Magazine. Over the course of several days last year, he developed a relationship with a 12-foot 1,000 pound leopard seal. She brought him penguins to eat and even...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/the-friendly-leopard-seal/The Color Sense Game from Pittsburgh Paints finds your “color personality” based on your five senses, your interests, and your style. Each resulting personality gives you lots of colors to work with. My color persona...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/07/color-sense-game/Because our online shop was down for part of the time, I'm extending the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt contest by one more day.Here's your chance to win a free Tokyoflash watch. How awesome is that? Simply an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-2-extended-one-more-day-hurry/LiveNewsCamera is a new website from My Fox Chicago that aggregates live streaming newscast videos from (mostly) TV news stations from around the world. Right now, they have about 150 live streams, so that'll keep news j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/for-news-junkies-website-aggregates-newscasts-from-around-the-world/Today is the 64th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied Powers' invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II. The military operation was the largest single-day operation of all time, with 130,000 troops landing on Norman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/untold-stories-of-d-day/
