The mortgage crisis is so bad, it's now claiming celebrities as victims: Evander Holyfield's $10 million home in Fayette County, Georgia; Jose Canseco's home in Encino, California; and Ed McMahon's $4.8 million home in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/the-latest-celebrity-foreclosure-ed-mcmahon/I love this whale flower vase concept from Alessandro Bêda! He's looking for a way to produce it, so if you want to get one, you've gotta wait. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Untitled-Flower-Jar/95348...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/a-whale-of-a-flower-vase/A specially designed video camera installed in the jungles of Indonesia captured the rare (and tiny!) Javanese Rhino momma and her calf ... right before she attacked it!After just a month in operation, specially desi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/rare-and-tiny-javanese-rhinos-captured-on-film/I know, I know, oil prices are stratospheric (new high today of $136 per barrel as I write this) and it's hard to see how it will go back down with increased worldwide demand and finite supply, but just read what Richard...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/is-the-oil-bubble-bursting/Problem: You're in the middle of a golf course, and you really gotta pee. The club house is far away, and you don't want to go in the bushes (they frown on that sort of behavior ...)Solution: Pee into your golf club ......
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/the-golf-club-urinal/I really shouldn't make fun of this, since Neatorama is typophilic, but here it is anyhow: The easy way out would have been to tell the graduates of Westlake High School that the misspelling on their diplomas was a f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/principal-tormented-by-educaiton-typo-in-diploma/(video source link) A customer is a customer, and the customer is always right. -via Fuzzytopia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/the-haircut/Rob Manuel of b3ta experimented with making toasted candy sandwiches. Yes, candy on real bread. He and his wife tried three sweets, two I’m not familiar with, but they fall into the apparent categories of what Americ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/toasted-candy-sandwiches/Yes, it’s a letter, from 2003. Found in the bottom of a pond. Recently, a friend of ours, Simon, moved to Over, just North of Cambridge, UK. He was moving to a lovely property, with a nice garden and a pond. Si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/the-letter-in-the-pond/Talk about a space saver! The Design Odyssey Vertebrae is an entire bathroom in one column. The toilet is at the bottom, then a sink at sink level, and a shower head folds out from higher. This is one of 10 examples of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/plumbing-art/(YouTube link) Stuntman89 had a wonderful idea for a homemade slide. He should have beta-tested it before getting the camera out. -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/homemade-slide/Velcro Scanning Electron Microscopy images by Jim EkstromWhen a Swiss engineer stumbled into a bunch of burs, it became a delightfully sticky situation for the world:THE BUR TRADEYou surely know th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/06/how-velcro-was-invented/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History AgainForget Van Gogh; he only lost an ear. It was the great catrato Farinelli who made the ultimate sacrifice for art: he gave up his nu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/the-ultimate-sacrifice-for-music-castration/Remember the office attack we posted about before on Neatorama? Well, Eric Striffler recently "discovered" the missing audio.See what got the guy so angry: Link [embedded YouTube clip]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/office-attack-audio-discovered/Archeologist Zahi Hawass and his team have discovered a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" built by King Menkauhor, an obscure pharaoh who once ruled ancient Egypt:In 1842, German archaeologist Karl Richard L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/dude-wheres-my-pyramid/From Miss Cellania, here's a post titled You know you're from California if ... 2. You make over $300,000 and still can't afford a house.10. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.14. It's bare...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/you-know-youre-from-california-if/Johnny Jackson went swimming for the first, and sadly the last, time. The 10-year-old boy drowned ... about an hour after he left the pool. Here's something every parent should know: the strange case of secondary drownin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/boy-died-of-secondary-drowning-or-dry-drowning-an-hour-after-he-left-pool/Puzzle: using 4 straight lines, connect all nine dots without breaking the line (i.e. lifting your pen off the paper. Don't do write on your computer monitor, mmkay?). Easy? Can you do it with 3 straight lines?Display so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/the-nine-dot-puzzle/This YouTube clip shows you what definitely is the most-awesomest-est water slide EVAR! Check out this AquaLOOP water slide in Morvci, Slovenia, which comes complete with a trap door that drops you on an almost vertical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/aqualoop-the-best-water-slide-ever/And now, a plot that is worthy of a Hollywood movie: Hours before a daring heist at the University of British Columbia, surveillance cameras mysteriously went off-line ... then came a phone call:Around the same time,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/thief-to-guards-were-the-alarm-company-please-ignore-any-alarm-tonight/When the race for the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Clinton was well ahead of everyone else in pretty much all metrics. So what happened? How did Obama win - and win handily - at the end? Karen Tumulty wro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/how-obama-did-it-and-how-the-internet-helped-him/LAist featured photographer Marshall Astor took this photo of a not-so-thrifty gas (4.76 for unleaded plus!) at a "Thrifty" gas station in San Pedro, near Los Angeles harbor:This gas station's prices have g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/not-so-thrifty-gas/Humans are hopeless when it comes to earthquakes, right? Not so, according to Christian Klose, a geohazard researcher (who knew there's such a thing?) at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He is arguing that hu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/how-to-trigger-an-earthquake-human-activities-that-cause-earthquakes/WebUrbanist blog has a neat post about artists who create art from trash. This one to the left is HA Schult's "trash people":HA Schult’s haunting ‘trash people’ have graced the streets of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/ha-schults-trash-people-and-other-art-from-trash/Google asked US students in grades K-12 to re-design its logo around the theme "What if ..." This one above is titled "What if we met aliens?" by Shanna Schacher, Oregon. NBC11 has a gallery of the fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/google-logo-redesigned-by-kids/A big congrats to our pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford, the fantastic artist behind the weekly Caption Monkey game as well as the Neatoramanaut, Neatoramabot and other t-shirt designs: he has a new book coming out tit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/new-book-by-adam-ape-lad-koford-coming-soon/Bdelloid rotifers are tiny transparent animals that live in damp places. They reproduce asexually by laying eggs that don’t need to be fertilized. They are not the only animal that needs no males to reproduce, but they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/living-without-sex-for-85-million-years/Hats made from hair? It’s an art project by designer Nagi Noda (featured previously at Neatorama here, here, and here). I can’t think of an event to which you’d want to wear one of these! http://www.uchu-country....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/hair-hats/Vanity Fair has an in-depth look at how a Cold War defense project somehow led to MySpace and YouTube. The 50-year history of the internet, told by the people who made it happen. Bob Taylor: There were individual in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/how-the-web-was-won/Take a look at 15 Of The Most Luxurious Swimming Pools On Earth. You may actually see one of these some day, since they are all at hotels. At least you can dream! Pictured is the pool at the Four Seasons Resort in Jimb...
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