Mandy Sellars weighs 285 pounds, but the top half of her body only accounts for around 70 pounds of that. The rest is in her gigantic legs and feet. Sellars has Proteus syndrome, a rare condition in which parts of the bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/proteus-syndrome/KANGOUROU (REMI GAILLARD)by nqtv I hope that I never grow out of finding this sort of thing funny. The man in the "kangourou" costume is French prankster Rémi Gaillard. He's famous in France for weari...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/17/ska-loving-kangaroo-torments-unsuspecting-french-population/(Metacafe link) This lizard does this every day and really seems to like it. Sometimes he gets thrown off and is right back up there again. The Sabre Dance soundtrack makes it something special. -via Unique...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/lizard-on-a-wind-turbine/An Einstein Ring is what you get when light is "bent" around a massive object (in a process called gravitational lensing).Albert Einstein predicted this in his general theory of relativity and was proven right...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/einstein-ring/Can someone stop you from linking to their website? That's what the Sheboygan city attorney did. The city ordered Jennifer Reisinger to remove a link to the city's police department website - and now, she is suing:Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/the-legal-kerfuffle-over-website-linking/[YouTube - Link] Imagine diving to the depths of the Oceans at night and meeting one of the oldest surviving species on the planet considered a "living fossil". Peter Ward, a paleontologist, did that very thing and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/diving-to-meet-a-nautilus/ABC News has a neat interactive quiz, designed to help you better understand where you actually stand on election issues. They present you with two quotes on a given topic, and you decide which you agree with more. At...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/need-help-deciding-who-to-vote-for/Chris saw this poster in a window on Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand yesterday morning. I have no doubts Murder Burger will fill all positions quickly, since this sounds like a really cool place to work! Link to F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/staff-needed/A transmitter tower is not, in itself, pretty. So phone companies put cell transmitters in existing structures, in natural heights such as trees, or build towers that look like something else. Weird News Files has a ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/cell-phone-towers-in-disguise/57-year-old Jim Litz was riding his bicycle to work in Missoula, Montana when he came over a rise and saw a 300-pound black bear right in front of him! He didn't even have time to brake, and ran right into the bear. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/cyclist-collides-with-black-bear/Cardboard may not be the best material for a cat house, but those furry little creatures sure love playing in such boxes. If you feel like spoiling your cat with a designers model, these three ones are now available f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/transportation-inspired-cardboard-cat-houses/(Current link) This video takes the long way around to answer a simple question, but it's an enjoyable trip! -via Swiss Miss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/why-we-drink/Swedish artist Olle Hemmendorff (featured previously at Neatorama) didn't want wooden floors, but also didn't want to remove them, which would lower the value of the apartment. So he covered his kitchen floor with viny...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/doodling-on-the-kitchen-floor/Don't you just hate it when someone at work helps himself to your lunch? Here's the solution: Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are regular sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides. After your sandwich is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/anti-theft-lunch-bag/I could survive for 1 minute, 6 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor Created by Bunk Beds Pedia How long could you survive chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor? It's a question I've pondered many tim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/16/the-velociraptor-and-the-bunk-bed/I was in band and orchestra when I was in high school, but sadly, no one I know ever played the helicopter, the cucumberphone or their own hands. Oh well. Here are five instruments that might have you rethinking your o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/instruments-not-found-in-your-high-school-orchestra/Scientists have discovered the reason behind the phenomenon of "shimmering" in giant honeybees: it's a defense mechanism against predatory hornets!In the PLoS ONE study, Gerald Kastberger and colleagues foc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/giant-honeybees-use-the-wave-to-ward-off-predators/Let's pause and take a breather from the meltdown on Wall Street. Here's the racoon dance party to take your mind off of The Mothers of All Mondays.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Davey!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/raccoon-house-party/"One of Satan's soldiers." That's what a Saudi muslim cleric called Mickey Mouse, saying that the cartoon character must die:Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is "one of Satan's soldiers"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/mickey-mouse-must-die/Photo: Michael RubensteinNational Geographic Traveler went to Mumbai, India, and found this beaut: a CD player topped with a modern interpretation of the Hindu elephant god Ganesha ... complete with sneakers!Links: Mumba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/pink-ganesha-with-sneakers-cd-player/Here's a reminder that we really don't know much about the universe: the Hubble Space telescope found something that scientists couldn't make any sense of. The mystery object did not behave like any known ki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/hubble-space-telescop-what-the-heck-is-that/If you miss the TV show Arrested Development, you'll want to relive the memories with today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. The previous quiz on the show was so popular, part two is now up. http://www.mentalfloss.com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/arrested-development-quiz/You can't just import your normal sedan to get around in Antarctica. Special conditions call for special vehicles. Pro Vehicles has a roundup of the Top 13 Polar Super Vehicles from Antarctic. This picture shows a stan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/antarctic-vehicles/Steve Colligan plans to ride across the mountains of Nepal and Tibet on a unicycle! On the 23rd September 2008 I fly to Nepal, then onto Tibet. I am going to ride my unicycle 1000km (620 miles) across the Roof of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/unicycling-the-himalayas/What weighs 8,000 pounds, turns on a dime, and looks like an Egyptian pyramid? The Dream Car 123! It may look like a pyramid, but it's outfitted like a tank and lights up in neon colors at night. The best part is that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/dream-car-123/With an amazing amount of patience and with a steady hand, 45 walls of Dominoes were carefully stacked using over 30,000 pieces!! And after it was completed, down it went with a slight push of the hand. Link: You...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/knocking-down-30000-dominoes/What will you get for just $9.95?Hooray! Neatorama is having a Lucky Bag/Mystery Sale - For $9.95, you'll get ... well, it's a secret ... a mystery ... I can't tell you - that's the whole point of the sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/neatorama-mystery-sale/Forget Banksy! The title of World's Most Badass Artist belongs to a Belgian conceptual artist named Wim Delvoye.Wim's quite famous for his unconventional art, many of which seem innocuous at a glance bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/wim-delvoye-worlds-most-badass-artist/Photo: nolnet [Flickr]For the Reasonably Clever Brick Science LEGO vignette competition, Mortiz Nolting made this wonderful diorama of Konrad Zuse in front of his masterpiece, the world's first programmable computer, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/konrad-zuse-and-the-z3-computer-in-lego/Apparently not - pretty much everything under the sun can be made into randy costumes ...Stacy of I Met a Possum blog explores some of the more, um, unusual sexy Halloween costumes around: Link [don't worry, SFW]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/is-there-anything-that-cant-be-made-into-a-sexy-halloween-costume/
