Doctors performing surgery on an unnamed man in Japan found out that what they thought was a tumor was a surgical towel that had been left inside him 25 years ago! The patient had been carrying the cloth since 1983,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/its-not-a-tumor-its-a-towel/Yup - it's one day early, but here it is: our weekly collaboration with What is it? blog. Do you know what this strange tool is used for?Place your guess(es) in the comment section - one guess per comment, but you can en...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/05/what-is-it-game-65/His name's Adam Bender and he's my hero. Via Deadspin....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/one-legged-kid-playing-little-league/When Nicolas Nova of Pasta&Vinegar blog was doing an ethnographical research about game controllers, he ran into this beauty: a redneck contraption for racing simulations!How to turn a chair into a speedy car-sim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/redneck-racing-simulation/This has got to be the best Mario cake ever! Created by Su Yin of The Journal of a Girl who Loves to Cook blog. It took her two weeks to brainstorm and 3 days to make the cake.Link (including photos from the various stag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/best-mario-cake-ever/Got a long boring meeting? Don't get caught dozing empty handed, prepare yourself with this "Pilo Pilo" mini cushion ring from Downstairs Studio. This pillow ring lets you lean your face comfortably on a soft c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/pillow-ring/Having three cats means living with three sets of cat poo, sometimes more when the kitties go twice a day. So soniaz of Unplggd blog decided to get the Litter Robot, the Death Star of self-cleaning litter boxes. Here's w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/the-death-star-of-cat-litter-boxes/Microbiologist Gareth Williams at Cardiff University, UK, discovered something disturbing about antibacterial wipes: they may actually spread drug-resistant bacteria rather than kill them!The research, which focused on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/antibacterial-wipes-may-actually-spread-not-kill-bacteria/Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is about musical cherries. It could be an artist or a song title or something else, but there are more of them than I could come up! I scored 80%. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/cherry-cherry/Dan Walsh publishes Garfield comic strip at his site Garfield Minus Garfield with one difference -he takes out all the characters except Jon (featured previously at Neatorama). Garfield creator Jim Davis calls the creati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/jim-davis-ponders-garfield-minus-garfield/Dr. Wei Sheng has Olympic fever, and he’s displaying his support by sticking 2008 needles into his head! In a bizarre publicity stunt, Dr Wei Sheng pierced the decorative needles in his head, face, hands and ches...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/2008-needles-in-the-head/Internet dating: The entire story is told in one cartoon. It warmed my heart, then brought a tear to my eye (sorta), because it’s so true. I would like to know who the artist is. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/the-truth-about-internet-dating/Hooray! It's time for the highly anticipated Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #2 on Neatorama!You can win a Free Tokyoflash watch of your choosing: all you have to do is answer these three questions. Clues are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/tokyoflash-treasure-hunt-2/This got me laughing. Here is Sameer Mishra who won the Scripps 2008 National Spelling Bee. These kids get tough words but this word stumped Sameer ... at least for a short moment. Link: YouTubeFunny, words, Spell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/numb-nut/If the word "opera" brings an image of a fat lady singing and sends you running away, you're missing out. Many operas are so famous that they've entered into pop culture. In fact, you probably already know more about ope...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/10-operas-you-didnt-know-you-already-like/Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama (Photo: vargas2040)So, it has happened: a last-minute rush of Democratic superdelegates clinched Senator Barack Obama the party's nomination for President.We don't typically post...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/obama-clinches-the-democratic-nomination-for-president/"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone." - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/quote-john-kenneth-galbraith-on-the-truth-about-organizations/Photo: Ken OHYAMA [Flickr]Photographer Ken Ohyama is one talented guy: he turned things as mundane as highway interchanges into amazing works of photographic art.Link [Flickr photoset] - via Pink Tentacle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/beautiful-photos-of-highway-interchanges-in-japan/Andy Baio of Waxy, Simon Willison, and Jesse Legg have tracked down and digitized a 1992 documentary The Machine That Changed the World, a tour of computing before the Web:The Machine That Changed the World...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/04/the-machine-that-changed-the-world/(Live Leak link) A clear case of cubicle rage, although there’s no information on what caused it. Security cameras catch the whole thing on video, but no audio. -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/stressed-out/If you think dating is hard today, it's nothing compared to 7,000 years ago: stone-age men "hunt" for women, and will kill for them:Many archaeologists have argued that women have long motivated cycles of v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/stone-age-men-killed-for-their-women/James O'Neal suffers from neurofibromatosis, which leaves him looking like the modern day Elephant Man (he makes this comparison himself). Others would probably hide than work, but James is a remarkable man: he is workin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/modern-day-elephant-man/Who didn't love Star Trek: The Next Generation at one time or another? Well, I can't say that I ever *loved* it, but I liked it enough to watch an awful lot of it once upon a time. Has it really been FOURTEEN YEARS s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/star-trek-the-next-generation-rap/After disappearing from the internet for a few months, deputydog has decided to become a full-time blogger. His first act is to solicit designs for a new logo for his site through a contest at Worth1000. The winning logo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/design-a-logo-for-deputydog/Photo: OliBWow (bow?) - today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game is a photo from a fantastic section of the Los Angeles Times that I've just recently discovered. It's titled "Pets Behaving Badly,"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/caption-monkey-32-knock-knock-whos-there-separation-anxiety-thats-who/So, I'm sure you've all seen grainy video of the peeping Alien in the window, shot by Stan Romanek, a Colorado resident who claimed to have been abducted like 100 times by aliens. A ballot is now being sponsored by Jeff...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/the-real-truth-about-the-alien-in-the-window/Here's a strange tale of one drug smuggler who sculpted cocaine into a statue of Jesus, complete with painted-on flowing hair and a gold cape:A drug dealer named The Spider is wondering why his Jesus Christ still has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/smuggler-sculpted-jesus-statue-out-of-cocaine/After a decade of research, scientists have come to this conclusion about dark energy: they still have no idea what it is!Here's a fascinating article on the most mysterious force in the Universe, the dark energy, by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/dark-matter-still-confuses-scientists/Red shirt? Naw, man - She's too cute to die! And that borg telling the dude that "Resistance is futile"? Subtle. Real subtle.After you ask her to marry you, ask this question next: "So, Star Trek or Star W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/honey-do-you-want-a-star-trek-or-star-wars-wedding/Greathouse Labs makes vehicles and fire machines. And vehicles that produce fire. The latest is a wheelchair outfitted with a flame thrower! According to Lance Greathouse, "It was made for the disabled person loo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/firebreathing-electric-wheelchair/
