Truck driver Freddie Mitchell delivered a load of dirt to an interstate construction site and left with an empty dump truck near Talcottville, Connecticut. He entered the highway without realizing his dump body was still...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/dump-truck-in-awkward-position/Ah, remember Compuserve? This 1983 ad says "You'll use Compuserve's Electronic Mail System (we call it Email™) to compose, edit, and send letters to friends or business associates." You also paid by the minute, PLUS...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/12-dead-technology-advertisements/The following reprinted from Uncle John's Giant 10th Anniversary Bathroom Reader. Got an idea but no paper to write it down? Don't worry, just do what these people did and grab whatever's in front of you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/7-brilliant-ideas-scribbled-on-cocktail-napkins-and-toilet-papers/There's a silly (or sick, depending on your point of view) fad in Moscow - pet owners are tattoing their cats! Balcanpix has the story:Still dazed after being anaesthetised for three hours, a pedigree pet is hauled u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/05/tattooed-cat/Take a virtual nano journey by zooming down to ever smaller and smaller levels in all kinds of different environments! Just click your language, then the suitcase to start. Pictured is a mosquito on a man's arm. I zoom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/nano-journeys/The picture isn't great, but the hack is awesome. Apparently its origins are unknown - a friend of BoingBoing's David Pescovitz pointed it out to him, and here we are, basking in its coolness. Anyone seen it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/in-case-of-emergency/No? Well if you did, now you can! Coming out to promote the new Star Trek movie is a new line of Trek fragrances from Genki. I'm not kidding. The three scents include Tiberius ("difficult to d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/ever-wanted-to-smell-like-captain-kirk/Urban camouflage is a hilarious performance art inspired by the military ghillie suit. Check out the artist's attempt to blend in ... in IKEA in Stockholm of all places! (Don't miss the video clips)Link - via swiss-mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/urban-camouflage/If the Rubik's cube is too easy for you, check out this puzzle created by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge, based on Andrew Cormier's design. Behold, the Petaminx, a dodecahedral puzzle with 4 slices per face: It is entir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/petaminx-rubiks-cube-on-steroids/Latreasa Goodman had an emergency. A food emergency: her local McDonald's ran out of Chicken McNugget, so naturally she called 911!Told McDonald’s was out of Chicken McNuggets after paying for a 10-piece meal,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/woman-called-911-with-a-mcnugget-emergency/When Marc Oakland volunteered to clear dumped trash from a pond in Beaulieu, Hampshire, England, he didn't expect to find organisms from the planet Skaro amongst the rubbish:The 42-year-old said: "I'd just shift...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/dalek-found-in-a-pond/A baby blue whale in Costa Rica - Link (Photo: Flip Nicklin) Quick: what's the largest animal ever to inhabit the earth. The dinosaurs? Nope - it's actually the blue whale. If you k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/blue-whale-fun-facts/The next time you think you can beat a train at a railroad crossing, remember looking through this roundup of train wreck photos at Dark Roasted Blend. Link trains, railroad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/train-wrecks/An unnamed Mexican chef was detained at the Manchester Airport when he was suspected to be an illegal immigrant to the UK. He claimed to be on a short visit, but a search of his luggage yielded a greeting card that wishe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/good-luck-card-was-bad-luck/This nameless vehicle from Roush Technologies is for training horses and camels. It might look look just a big can, but this is a piece of high-tech machinery able to monitor racing animals at speeds of up to 60...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/horse-training-vehicle/Don't you just love this warm piece of fleece roadkill? Also available in possum, skunk, squirrel, fox, and beaver. Link -via Unique Daily scarf, roadkill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/raccoon-roadkill-scarf/The company Second Sight has developed a bionic eye called the Argus II. The eye uses implanted electrodes to replace a malfunctioning retina. So far, the device has been implanted in 18 patients around the world. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/bionic-eye-replaces-retina/The Simpsons have had quite a few guest stars over its 20-year run. In this Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss, you are asked to identify which star played each of 15 characters on the show. So far, the average score is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/the-simpsons-guest-stars/Surprise! Astronomers analyzing images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found that Saturn has yet another moon in one of its outermost rings:A faint pinprick of light embedded in one of Saturn's outermost ring...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/saturns-newest-moon/Do you doodle when you're bored? Turns out, those idle scribbles actually serve a beneficial purpose: doodling help you retain information in the event of boredom!In a delightful new study, which will be published in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/doodlers-rejoice-doodling-is-actually-good-for-you/Seeing the moais at Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui (better known as Easter Island) should be on everyone's bucket list. But if you can't make the trip to the Polynesian island - it is, after all, one of the most isolated inhabi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/easter-island-panorama/You all know by now that Neatorama is a fun blog and a breezy read, but apparently, there it also has a use that I haven't expected. Neatorama reader Barry emailed me that he has been using...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/neatorama-blog-as-a-teaching-tool/Hello Neatoramanauts! Just a brief update on the State of the Blog: Mystery Sale - I'm sure that everyone's been wondering about their packages. Don't worry - they're coming....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/neatorama-update-march-2009/The Photochaining blog is a continuous project where people randomly leave memory cards in public places to be picked up and used by others, who then do likewise. First, take funny/original/creative photos with y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/leaving-camera-memory-cards-in-public-places/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJb-gbzYnHc][YouTube - Link]Ever wonder how the rest of the world view Americans and our accent? Here's an English girl named Joanna Grace recording a short video clip of herself t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/speaking-like-an-american/A jaguar named Macho B. may have been the only wild jaguar left in the United States. He's been photographed near the Mexican border in Arizona since 1996. He was caught and released on February 18th, when wildlife off...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/first-jaguar-caught-in-us-put-to-sleep/Like many guys, Reed Harris of Farmington, New Mexico, wanted to give his girlfriend a very memorable marriage proposal. Harris' plan was to place the engagement ring in girlfriend Kaitlin Whipple's Frosty dessert and ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/04/woman-accidentally-swallows-engagement-ring/You can actually zip this thing all the way up and then look out of mesh eye holes where Batman's eyes are. I think this is kind of cool as a hoodie, but when you add the face to it, I get creeped out. But if you're...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/03/the-closest-youll-ever-get-to-being-batman/This image is not photoshopped. This is a rare albino dolphin found in a salt water lake just north of the Gulf of Mexico. Captain Erik Rue who first saw the pink dolphin says it seems quite healthy: "Surprisingly, it d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/03/pink-dolphin-found-in-us-lake/Kind of sounds like a new designer dog hybrid, but "droodle" is a mix of "doodle" and "riddle," a simple line drawing with a complicated answer as to what it is. A famous one adorns the cover of Frank Zappa's album "S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/03/an-archive-of-droodles/
