Greg LeNoir really, really loves his dog Jake. When a shark suddenly grabbed the rat terrier during its daily swim, Greg jumped in and punched the shark until it let go of the dog!A big dark green shape which I reali...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/man-jumped-a-shark-to-save-dog/If you want to save a few bucks, skip the car wash and wash your car in your own driveway. Except if you live in Washington State, that is. There, washing your car in your own driveway is illegal:Washing your car or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/washing-a-car-in-your-own-driveway-in-washington-state-is-a-crime/After Sarah Palin announced her now oft-repeated line that "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska," Gary Tuchman from CNN's news show Anderson Cooper 360° went to fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/you-can-see-russia-from-here/Ten months ago, a 15-year-boy and his friends were attacked when they tried to stop a friend from being robbed at a bus stop. The boy was stabbed in the forehead with a kitchen knife ... yet he survived. The Daily Mail h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/boy-survived-5-inch-kitchen-knife-stabbed-through-his-skull/A 13-year-old Indian girl named Twinkle Dwivedi has a medical condition that baffles doctors: she bleeds through her skin without being cut or scratched!Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she los...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/teen-bleeds-through-her-skin/Police arrested 32-year-old Michele Allen for disorderly conduct ... while wearing a cow costume!Saturday night, people in the 3100 block of Wilbraham Road called police to report a woman wearing a cow costume was ch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/udder-chaos-woman-in-cow-costume-wreaked-havoc/Confused about the 2008 financial meltdown? Conor Friedersdorf of Culture 11 has a run down on the bailout legislation, why so many members of Congress were against it, and what the big plunge in the stock market meant....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/the-2008-financial-meltdown-a-primer/Another tornado caught on camera. These weather phenomena never cease to amaze me but I'm glad I don't live in an area where tornado formations are frequent. Link: LiveLeaktornado, Weather, Destruction...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/birth-of-a-tornado/(YouTube link) This is Romeo, a Siberian lynx. In this video, he is three months old and nursing on a sheet. Look at the size of those paws!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/romeos-feet/Impersonating an imperial storm trooper gets a lot more comfortable with a hoodie from Mark Ecko. The front zips up to look like a mask, but I can't tell if you'd be able to see out of it or not. Also available in Bobb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/star-wars-hoodies/(YouTube link) Being a guinea pig for the British government's Common Cold Unit in 1946 was very popular with students. They saw it as a cheap holiday: getting free accommodation in spacious flats fully equipped w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/the-common-cold/From the late eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries, Vikings invaded community after community across Europe and even parts of Asia and the western hemisphere. According to a new study published in the current issue of An...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/what-caused-the-viking-age/(YouTube link) Artist John Chiara thinks big. He built his own box camera, and made it as big as a room. Chiara takes it to a location on a trailer and puts it together on site. One benefit is that the camera never wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/the-big-picture/[YouTube - Link] A quirky take on the always frustrating Rubik's Cube, the Rubik Mirror Block seems to up the ante by not only making the shapes of the blocks of different sizes and shapes it also doesn't (obviously...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/30/rubik-mirror-blocks/Sign of the times: even beggars now use Google Adwords! Found via Blame it on the Voices...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/the-google-adwords-panhandler/Photo: Wally PacholkaA bad thing about living in a city is the light pollution that prevents us from seeing spectacular sights like this: the Milky Way galaxy, as seen from the False Kiva in the Canyonlands National Park...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/a-true-image-from-the-false-kiva/Photo: Chromatist PhotographyAre you upside down on your property? Well, maybe you'll feel better after taking a look at homes and buildings that are actually upside down. Or maybe not.Urlesque has a pretty neat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/upside-down-homes-and-buildings/And now for a geeky pitstop, here's a parody of The Doors's famous song, a cheeky ad from Linspire Linux titled "Time to Set MS on Fire":Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via AQFL...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/time-to-set-ms-on-fire-a-parody-ad/Well ... technically it's almost correct! Found via Bits & Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/save-9/Whaa? Did I read this right? The citizens of "Taxachusetts" have finally risen against the tyranny of high taxes: there's a ballot measure to get rid of the state's income tax.Question 1 would cut the tax b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/massachusetts-will-vote-on-abolishing-the-state-income-tax/The Bailout plan isn't the only thing that failed today: here's a YouTube clip of a tow truck that needed to be bailed out itself after bailing out an overturned semi.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks mowog!*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/epic-tow-truck-fail/Photo: freemarketmyass [Flickr], at a protest against the bailout in ChicagoSo. Today, the House of Representatives said no to the Mother of All Bailouts™ (with the majority of the Democrats voted for it, and the m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/how-is-the-bailout-failure-affecting-you/Photo: Hermann ErberAustrian photographer and climbing enthusiast Hermann Erber took this amazing photo of two ice climbers climbing a frozen waterfall when right beside them the falls collapsed!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/two-very-lucky-climbers-who-cheated-death/Photo: European Space AgencyEurope's first Automated Transfer Vehicle named Jules Verne, has successfully completed its mission delivering fuel, water, oxygen, food, and other items to the International Space Station. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/jules-verne-spacecraft-destructive-re-entry-photo/Guess who's coming to star in an upcoming Spider-Man comic? It's none other than Stephen Colbert, who's running for president in the Marvel Universe!Marvel is proud to reveal that Spider-Man and acclaimed television...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/spider-mans-next-partner-stephen-colbert/We may not have been giving honeybees enough credit: turns out the insect can count (well, up to four anyhow)!Also at the Australian National University, Marie Dacke and Mandyam V. Srinivasan trained European honeybe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/honeybees-can-count-up-to-4/When you think of a country's export, what comes first to mind? For most people, japan means cars. Saudi Arabia? Oil. China? Everything else.How about good ol' United States of America? It turns out that our no. 1 export...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/americas-no-1-export-is-debt/French street artist JR, best known for his technique of photographing inhabitants of an area & pasting the resulting imagery up on grand scale around the community has taken to the favelas of RIO DE JANEIRO in a g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/the-hills-have-eyes/I had never heard the argument that the moon orbits the sun, but it does go around the sun as it revolves around the earth. The question, which does it orbit more? Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy Blog lays out the argument a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/does-the-moon-orbit-the-earth-or-the-sun/If you become famous enough, someone may want to keep at least a part of you around after you die. This list looks at ten body arts: brains, fingers, even a bladder, that were preserved for posterity. Or study. Or reve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/29/famous-preserved-body-parts/
