Legendary actor Paul Newman has died at the age of 83 of cancer:Paul Newman, the legendary actor whose steely blue eyes, good-humored charm and advocacy of worthy causes made him one of the most renowned figures in A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/paul-newman-rip/We covered the case of Henry Earl a while ago on Neatorama. Since then, he's been arrested for ... oh, a few hundred more times ...For those of you who don't know, Henry has the dubious distinction of being the most arre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/henry-earls-mugshots-montage/IT consulting firm Robert Half Technology asked over 1,400 CIO weird questions people ask their company's tech support. Here are some of the oddball questions they got:CIOs were asked, “What is the strangest or mos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/the-dumbest-it-questions-ever/Photo: Proximacentauri [Flickr]The Ariel Atom is one sweet car, but it costs a lot of money. So Flickr user Proximacentauri decided that he's going to build his own. Behold the z59, which was made out of ... junk!Thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/z59-a-diy-ariel-atom/British comedy actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who played Borat and Ali G., crashed a Milan Fashion show by jumping onto the stage and strutting along the catwalk in character for his new movie "Brüno: Delicious Jou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/borat-star-crashed-a-milan-fashion-show-for-new-movie/Times are tough in today's banking sector and a lot of people are losing their jobs. Take, for instance, Washington Mutual or WaMu, which collapsed a few days ago.But don't cry for WaMu CEO Alan Fishman, who was on the j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/not-bad-for-less-than-3-weeks-on-the-job/"Dead Star" is a sculpture by Michel de Broin made from used up batteries:Dead Star is made from residual battery at the end of their duty. Left to itself, the sculpture will slowly cool down since there is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/dead-star-a-sculture-by-michel-de-broin/Even before the Gulf War and the Iraq War, the Middle East has seen a lot of tension and conflicts. Here are three of battles that took place there well before the start of the Middle Ages:1. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/27/3-early-middle-east-conflicts/Eric Wiryanata has posted a bunch of simple papercraft projects, including some adorable dogs and robots. *Previously: Disaster diorama papercraft....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/simple-papercraft-pug/Artist Mari Kasurinen creates My Little Pony models based upon Star Wars, DC Superheroes, Cthulhu, and other speculative fiction themes. Pictured above is the Leia pony, part of a collection of models from Star Wars....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/star-wars-themed-my-little-ponies/A short while ago, Neatorama had its first ever Mystery Sale - it was a big hit, which also meant that we spent the last week packing orders! A really big thanks to everyone who bought a Mystery Box.Waves of shipments ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/neatorama-mystery-sale-update/Women: Forget sharing your feelings or getting your husband to share his. The secret to a great marriage is ... being quiet and having sex instead! (Okay, the last part is sort of a dodge but keep on reading ...)Forg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/the-secret-to-a-great-marriage-being-quiet/"Squid Suckers: The Little Monster That Feed the Beast," by Jessica D. Schiffman and Caroline L. Schauer / Drexel University/Science, Honorable MentionEvery year the National Science Foundation and the journal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/best-science-images-of-2008-squid-suckers/Photo: jpspbj [Flickr]An immense limestone wall in Cal Orko, Sucre, Bolivia, is home to a fantastic sight: thousands of dinosaur tracks made millions of years ago!The immense Bolivian site is the rock face of an outc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/cal-orko-dinousaur-dance-floor/(YouTube link) So, how about an electronic t-shirt with a picture of an actual playable drum kit on the front? That's right. Hit the drums on this shirt with your finger and they play through the built in speaker....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/drum-kit-t-shirt/How well do you know candy bars? Can you identify a bar by brand name without the wrapper? Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to do just that. If you have trouble typing the names in, you can copy and past...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/the-george-costanza-candy-identification-quiz/Imagine signing aboard a ship and the first question they ask is, "Can you sing"? But singing was an important part of shipboard work in olden times. Sea Shanties were work songs sung on ships during the age of sai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/manly-sea-shanties/What is this? Is algae growing from this turtle? Link -via Unique Daily Update: This is a Mary River Turtle, an endangered species in Australia, with algae growing on its head. The photographs are b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/punk-turtle/Swiss pilot Yves Rossy of Switzerland (previously at Neatorama) flew 22 miles over the English Channel from Calais to Dover today, wearing a jet-propelled wing! The entire trip, which had been postponed twice, took only...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/flying-a-jetpack-over-the-channel/(iReport link) Pat Clyne took this video of a crab riding atop a jellyfish! To be exact, the jellyfish is a Drymonema dalmatinum, or pink meanie. The species is native to more southern locations, and has only...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/26/crab-rides-a-jelly/Come on, we've all joked about having to go out and push a broken airplane, but the Chinese actually did it: when a faulty plane was stuck in a Zhengzhou airport, they sent 30 people to push it off the runway! It to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/chinese-workers-pushed-an-airplane-off-the-runway/Japan's growing elderly population has created a niche marketing opportunity for ... personal airbags! Here's a BBC video on an airbag that you wear: The device is strapped around the body and inflates in 0.1 seconds...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/wearable-airbag-for-the-elderly/Kathleen Threatt was hauled to court for failing to pay child support 12 years past its due date ... it was for 63 cents!Threatt called the court thinking it was a misunderstanding, because not only are her children...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/woman-hauled-to-court-for-failing-to-pay-child-support-bill-of-63-cents/Jolee Bacon, that is. The Northern Idaho woman took first place Saturday at the Nez Perce County Fair's hog-calling contest:She has raised several champion pigs for 4-H contests. Bacon says she calls pigs every morni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/bacon-won-hog-calling-contest/That's He Pingping, who at 2 feet and 5.37 inches tall is the world's smallest man, underneath Svetlana Pankratova, the world's leggiest woman:The two met, with He standing at Pankratova's knees, the publicize the re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/worlds-smallest-man-meets-worlds-leggiest-woman/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) The Greatest Slam Dunk Ever When Julian Wright of the Kansas University basketball team took...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/videosift-clips-of-the-week-7/Known Johnson experienced a visual migraine, which is when the blood vessels in the visual center of the brain are affected, causing weird vision sensations. He then created a flash animation to show others what the ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/visual-migraine/2-year-old Mackenzie Argaet was born with biliary artresia. Her liver developed cirrhosis and she received a liver transplant. Dr Albert Shun, from The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia, performed the surgery....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/ping-pong-balls-saved-her-life/Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is already starting to get into the Halloween spirit! They have a recipe for insalata caprese, an Italian dish, with instructions for eyeballs made of olives. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/25/the-salad-that-looks-back-at-you/It was just another hot and slow day on a the construction site when someone had a brilliant idea. Although it looks like fun, you have to trust the operator to enjoy this ride. Link: YouTubeFun, Ride, mechanical...
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