In the 1950’s, radio host Jean Shepherd constructed one of the most infamous literary hoaxes of all time. Annoyed with how bestseller lists worked at the time, Shepherd urged his listeners to visit their local bookstor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/the-i-libertine-hoax/In an effort to make a statement on sweatshop labor and content ownership, artist Adam Brandejs has constructed an animatronic Nike sneaker which appears to be made of human skin. In actuality, the piece is made up o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/franken-sneaker/Wow, man - groovy! Can you dig it? Sgt. Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon of the LAPD certainly could. LSD was the scourge of Los Angeles in this 1967 episode of Dragnet wherein Friday and Gannon try to save a youn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/infamous-dragnet-blue-boy-lsd-episode/The world famous Cyclone roller coaster opened 81 years ago today at Coney Island in New York. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will find out how much you know about Coney Island and its history. I scored 58%, be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/the-coney-island-quiz/Ah, San Francisco - the city where this New Englander (yours truly) came of age. I do miss it so. Where else but the beautiful City by the Bay would you find live music being played from the back of a custom-designed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/live-music-performed-from-the-back-of-a-moving-bicycle/Lowe Ad Agency sent samples of laundry detergent to potential customers in Thailand. They wrapped the sample with a new t-shirt and addressed it with washable ink. By the time the samples arrived, the shirts were prett...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/new-but-dirty-shirt/Soon, you can have your very own 8 inch Dude! The Big Lebowski action figure set with the Dude and Walter is $39.99, or you can get the Dude alone for $24.99. Available in August; preorders are now being taken...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/big-lebowski-action-figures/A 60 centimeter crocodile wandered into a pub in Noonamah, Northern Territory, Australia on Sunday evening. He almost made it to the bar when he was grabbed by patrons. They posed for pictures with him while waiting for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/croc-walks-into-a-bar/The pattern of recent disasters in China has had many superstitious people concerned about the Olympic Mascots (the Fuwa) - claiming that each of the five reflects/predicts a particular disaster. The five mas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/olympic-mascots-causing-disaster/A 6-year old-boy in India is in training to make his goal to limbo skate under 100 cars in one minute. So far he has managed to do 57. Check out the video clip: Link [YouTube] via Geekologielimbo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/the-limbo-kid-video/Something a little different for today's collaboration with What is it? blog - it's a true "what the heck is it?" meaning we don't know what the doodad pictured above is for! This device has been sitting on som...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/what-is-it-game-67-we-really-dont-know-what-it-is/This guy has skills. I once tried a RC helicopter once and the results were disastrous. To be able to manipulate all theses servos takes great skills and this dude demonstrates it with the neat clip. Those moves de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/insane-rc-helicopter-flying/The customs of dealing with earthly remains of the departed vary widely around the world. Most are rites handed down over hundreds or even thousands of years. Brave New Traveler takes a look at ten cultures and their f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/26/burial-ceremonies-from-around-the-world/Despite being famous for his work and art the face of Leonard da Vinci is still a mystery to us all. It has always been speculated but never proven what exactly Leonardo had looked like because of the multitude of p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/is-this-leonardo-da-vincis-true-face/Remember the "Inmate Thriller" video played out by 1,500 dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines?Well, after 16 million plus people watched their video on YouTube, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/inmate-thriller-dancers-are-now-famous/Shortly after the discovery of radium in 1898 by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, everyone wanted to put it in their products. Behold one of the strangest use of radioactivity ever: the radioactive radium cho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/radioactive-chocolate-yum/I've got some old, torn-up jeans that I don't know what to do with (short of throwing them away), so it's quite nice to find this post at Life Hackery of 25 ways to recycle your old denim jeans.I like this one the most:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/ways-to-recycle-old-denim-jeans/Seventy-seven-years-old grandma Keiko Wakabayshi isn't nicknamed the "Samurai Granny" for no good reason - she's recently been hired to train Italian soldiers in hand-to-hand combat!Miss Wakabayshi, who sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/samurai-granny-wipes-floor-with-italian-soldiers-butts/In their iconic TV series Mythbusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage busted a lot of rumors and urban legends - but even their vaunted scientific method couldn't make the official Mythbuster website at Discovery...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/mythbusters-results/Here's something you don't normally hear about: the state of Florida is actually buying land to restore the Everglades.Under the deal, Florida will buy 292 square miles of cane fields from U.S. Sugar (which will go out o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/florida-to-buy-land-and-restore-the-everglades/There's a bunch of cell phone charger alternative (like solar chargers or using batteries) but this one is unique: it's a phone charger powered by dance!Orange today unveiled a prototype phone charger which harnesses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/dance-powered-phone-charger/Photo: Street Attack Original Source: ahhhitshayley [Flickr]I can only guess that this is somehow related to Eddie Murphy's new movie "Meet Dave," but it's still surreal to see his large head motoring down the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/eddie-murphys-big-head-hit-the-road/Museum staff cleaning elephant skin.Photo: Thane L. Bierwert, American Museum of Natural History (1933)The American Museum of Natural History has just launched a new web exhibit called "Picturing the Museum: Educati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/picturing-the-museum-a-new-online-exhibit-from-the-american-museum-of-natural-history/deviantART user RETROnoob (AKA Lee Vidal) created a series of artwork using photoshop called "Retro Reality," where characters from old video games are mixed into realistic backgrounds and settings.I particular...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/retro-reality-characters-from-old-video-game-on-realistic-settings/Welcome to the no-so-friendly skies. Here is an astonishing story about kids and their moms getting kicked off the plane for being unruly.Two-year-old autistic toddler Jarret Farrell wasn't a happy traveler - and nothing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/autistic-boy-and-mom-kicked-off-flight/Chase is a cat with no face. She was in an accident that left her without a nose, cheek skin, or eyelids. She also lost one leg. I was in an accident when I was 4 wks, I became disfigured. I have a Furry Will to su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/tails-of-chase/Photographer Andrew Bush mounted a camera in his car to catch drivers in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the southwest between 1989 and 1997. Then he posted the 66 most interesting ones. Link -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/vector-photography/Once upon a time, public executions were a form of entertainment. The executioners were the stars, especially since they could return again, whereas the condemned could not. [Richard] Brandon was one of the most fam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/7-famous-executioners/This world map is composed of 1001 web 2.0 logos. Click on the link, then run your mouseover the map to see each logo in easy-to-read form. I was amazed at how many sites I've never heard of. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/map-of-the-world-20/(YouTube link) This is pretty neat! Using the principle of the old Zoetropes, this guy built his own 3D discs and rotated them with turntables. In March 2007 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London we hosted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/25/phonographantasmascope/
