Evolutionists rejoice! Darwin has made a miraculous appearance in a concrete wall:A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an ima...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/evolutionist-sighting-darwin-appears-as-a-stain-on-a-concrete-wall/Photo: georgiajerm [Flickr]Is that a kungfu studio? A martial arts supply store? No - that is the Kungfu fast food restaurant chain in China! Super Punch blog has more pics: Link | So how's the food? Mad About Shanghai b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/kungfu-restaurant/David Saied, former Securities and Exchange Commissioner for Panama, wrote an interesting article for the libertarian think tank Ludwig von Mises Institute about America's economic myths. For example:Myth # 1: &q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/dependence-on-foreign-oil-and-other-american-economic-myths/Men, if your wives are pregnant, here is a handy list of things NOT to say:16 “Sure you’ll get your figure back — we’ll just search 1995 where you left it.”15 “Keys are on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/what-not-to-say-to-your-pregnant-wife/Are you an attractive woman, between the ages of 18 and 26, and can cook and clean? Paul Eley, a 30-year-old finance guy in an investment company, has a proposal for you:I am looking for a new flatmate as my old one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/man-wants-attractive-flatmate-who-can-cook-and-clean/Joe Stainaker's trained dog saved him when he had a seizure ... by calling 911!Buddy when the dog was 8 weeks old through the help of Paws With a Cause, an assistance animal adoption service.Stalnaker said t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/dog-saved-owner-by-calling-911/Lawrence Noble, the artist who sculpted the famous bronze Yoda Fountain in Presidio (where Lucasfilm has an office), San Francisco, has just created the Darth Vader bronze sculpture. If you got $18,000, you too can have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/15/darth-vader-in-bronze/[http://youtu.be/fzzjgBAaWZw] (YouTube link)This video is a bit disturbing. The cat seems to never move, but it gets closer and closer. This may give me nightmares. I'm glad my cats aren't that sneaky. -via reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/ninja-cat/[YouTube - Link] Ed Rondthaler, is an interesting old man...a 103 year old man to be precise. Former "President of the American Literacy Council" he gives us an interesting lesson about the absurdity of the written...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/english-is-dum/Photo: Diane Bondareff / Twentieth Century Fox Home EntertainmentTo celebrate the 20th anniversary of the horror film Child's Play, a horde of Chuckys (Chuckies?) took over Times Square in New York City. http://...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/chuckys-take-over-times-square/I have no sympathy for drug dealers, but still - this is a strange story. Joseph A. Shepard, 53, is in jail for drug-related charges. His attorney told him that his case is making its way in federal court so he should si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/man-sit-in-jail-forgotten-for-two-years/I'm sure you've seen the iconic Obama poster by Shepard Fairey. What you probably didn't know is that it was inspired by a similar poster a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.David Friedman of Ironic Sans has it: L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/a-new-hope/Photographer Thomas Kalak specializes in photographing odd and unusual things. When he went to Bangkok, Thailand, he was taken by how (literally) wired the city is. Here's his gallery of "Bangkok Wires" at Pola...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/bangkok-wires-by-photographer-thomas-kalak/After a fox killed its 13 siblings, Gladys the chicken was sure to grow up lonely ... except that she found an unlikely friend: Snowy the cat!Alone and in need of a friend, Gladys was brought into the farmhouse by he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/cat-and-chicken-bff/The Old Farmers Almanac used its time-honored (216 years old!) and complex calculations to predict the weather and came up with this stunning prediction: forget global warming, we're in for global cooling!"We at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/old-farmers-almanac-forget-global-warming-heres-global-cooling/Ever been stuck in traffic? Who hasn't? But if you live in Los Angeles, you're well familiar with being stuck in the parking lots that sometimes - and just sometimes - act like highways. GOOD Magazine calculated that Los...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/enough-time-stuck-in-traffic-to-read-war-and-peace/Oh, how I love the cutting edge technology of yore. In the 1930s, a scheme was proposed to identify hit-and-run drives by means of identification discs discharged by their cars as they speed away from the scene of the ac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/14/id-discs-to-identify-hit-and-run-drivers/(YouTube link) Chicken wire and tar paper are not going to keep Sofia inside, because she has a plan! You get the idea she's done this before -which is probably why the camera was trained on the pen. -Thanks, Maur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/sofia-escapes/Over 4,200 athletes from 148 countries are taking part in the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing, through September 17th. The Boston Globe has a roundup of great images. Shown is Melissa Stockwell at the Water Cube....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/the-2008-paralympics-in-pictures/Psst! Want Sicilian villas with a spectacular view of the Mediterranean? They're yours for just one euro - as long as you restore the homes, which were abandoned after an earthquake 40 years ago:In the picturesque hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/mayor-selling-sicillian-villas-for-1-euro-each/I don't know what to make of this. Jake Hostetter of Urlesque blog (a clever name, if you think about it) found a series of YouTube video clips of people dancing inside of giant balloons!Or if that's not strange enough,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/dancing-inside-a-balloon/After reading our post about the shipbreaking yard in India, Neatorama reader Stephen Douge went looking on Google Earth and found an unlikely customer: an aircraft carrier! Thanks Stephen!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/aircraft-carrier-in-a-shipbreaking-yard/Talk about living like a slob! Landlord Chris Dowling found out - the hard way - that a tenant in his property didn't believe in throwing out the garbage:DIRTY tenant turned his home into a rubbish tip by cramming it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/tenant-from-hell-renter-apparently-didnt-believe-in-taking-out-the-trash/We don't post a lot of political stuff on Neatorama - but I couldn't resist this one: Republican VP-nominee Sarah Palin is sparking a buying frenzy for ... wigs!Since John McCain chose her last month as his running m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/sarah-palin-boosts-wig-sales/National Geographic News has a great video clip of robots that have eerily human facial expressions:The research they've done into how the human body actually moves ... they've got servo-motors attached to where tend...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/robots-with-eerily-human-facial-expressions/Don't think too hard ... it can make you fat! A new study led by Angelo Tremblay of Laval University, Quebec, suggests that people tend to overeat after an onerous mental activity:Jean-Philippe Chaput, the study's ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/thinking-too-hard-makes-you-fat/The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, has just won the award for ... best bathroom in America. The hotel's bathroom is so good, that people actually take wedding photos in it!The men’s restroom, located...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/americas-best-bathroom-good-enough-for-wedding-photos/Wildlife researchers from the Zoological Society of London and the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation have captured on camera - for the first time - a true unicorn: an okapi in the Virunga National Park in the D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/captured-on-camera-unicorn-okapi-in-the-wild/Photo: Tobias WheelerScientists at Cornell University have made the world's first synthetic tree. Or rather, the process by which trees "drink":Known as "transpiration," the hydration process appe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/scientists-made-worlds-first-synthetic-tree/Forget those pricey and elitist pure-breds. Mutt lovers now have their own registry, the American Mutt-i-grees Club:The American Mutt-i-grees Club — created by the Pet Savers Foundation, the developmental arm o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/mutt-i-grees-pet-club-for-mutts/
