French artist Nathalie Costes threaded large wooden beads through electrical cords to turn your cord chaos into decorative elements instead (or trip hazard, depending on your age and point of view): http://www.nathalieco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/15/beaded-electrical-cords-by-nathalie-costes/Photo: Taiyo Onorato and Nico KrebsThis anatomical duvet cover (or is it blanket?) is titled The Hypochondriac (2004) and is the work of Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs of TONK. The duo are great photographers, but their we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/15/anatomical-bed-cover/While people in the United States endlessly debate what should be done with the country's drug problem, Portugal went ahead and decriminalize the use and possession of illicit drugs 5 years ago. Here's what the country l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/15/decriminalizing-drug-use-in-portugal-5-years-later/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqWZdqkyEA][YouTube - Link]At the 20th Annual Richard Opie Tournament at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, a the Pewaukee Longhorns battled the Wildcats in a close game of basketball. With...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/rude-goldberg-basketball-shot/If you love the game, chances are you'll also love the furniture! Here's a Tetris-inspired line of furniture, by designers Diego Silvério and Helder Filipov. Just don't stack 'em right - they'll go poof and di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/tetris-furniture/What on earth possessed Rachel Hunter to create a $30,000 dog house for her pooch? From the looks of this list, she's not alone, but seriously! There has to be some mortgage/pork barrel joke here :) Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/extreme-dog-houses/Tattoo artists rarely limit their canvases to the human body and generally express themselves in all kinds of mediums. Critically acclaimed tattoo artist Scott Campbell is no exception. He has taken his tech...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/dollar-art/Photo: Steve BourgetA team of archaeologists co-led by Steve Bourget of the University of Texas discovered a treasure-filled tomb of the Moche Culture in Peru. They found this gem amongst the content: a 1,500-year-old fu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/the-king-of-bling/Photo: Suzan and Kelly JonesConceptual artist Kasey McMahon (whose works CompuBeaver and Text-o-Possum have been featured on Neatorama before) sent us her latest creation: the Birdcage Dress (yes, it's a fully functional...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/the-birdcage-dress/This is pretty cool: National Geographic Channel has a fantastic feature titled Waking the Baby Mammoth, about the discovery of a well-preserved body of a baby woolly mammoth:Only a handful have ever been...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/waking-the-baby-mammoth/When the pilot of the twin-engine Beech aircraft passed out and died mid-flight, passenger Doug White of Archibald, Louisiana, took over the plane and landed it safely:"We've had situations where passengers land...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/passenger-landed-plane-safely-after-pilot-died-mid-flight/There's no question that in today's tough economic climate, many worthy causes are facing trouble. After it was broken into by a drunk man, the country's only cage-free, no-kill animal shelter, The Saint Francis Animal R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/countrys-only-cage-free-no-kill-animal-shelter-needs-your-help/When 2-year-old toddler Nathaniel wandered away from his home, his mother Ashley Teafatiller and fellow searchers frantically looked for him ... thankfully the story has a happy ending, and an unlikely hero: Nathaniel's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/snuggling-with-puppy-may-have-saved-a-wandering-toddler/20 Reasons I Love Penguins is a blog post detailing exactly that. It has simple reasons why penguins are great, paired with really fantastic images of the birds. For example: 8. They'd make great punk rockers*/s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/20-reasons-to-love-penguins/Do you remember when President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit while fishing in 1979? Carter became the butt of many jokes about this incident. Here's a puzzle from John Tierney based on the incident: Supp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/puzzle-how-can-carters-killer-rabbit-escape/Who knew there were so many types of trombones? Douglas Yeo has pictures of all kinds of trombone configurations. Pictured is a buccin, a trombone with a bell ending in a zoomorphic head. Link -via Metafilter trombo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/trombone-gallery/I'm amazed at the different reactions we get from the variety of posts here at Neatorama. Some items have no comments at all; others have discussions that go on for days. The same thing happens at the Neatorama forums an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/what-type-of-web-commenter-are-you/Enter your birthdate at Dead At Your Age, and you will find out which famous people died at a younger age than you are now. I don't know if this is supposed to make me feel good or bad, but I found out that I have alread...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/dead-at-your-age/People talk about the "misconceptions" they had as children concerning sex and reproduction in the film Kinda Sutra. Where exactly do babies come from? And how are they really made? Mixing humorous anim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/kinda-sutra/My, my, my - it has been a month since we last had a Caption Monkey contest on Neatorama! Thankfully, our pal Adam Koford reminded me of my lapse (sorry, guys) and even provided the image (and prize) for today's game.Fun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/caption-monkey-58-win-this-original-laugh-out-loud-cat-comic-panel/The Killers were named after a fictional band that appears in the music video for the New Order song “Crystal.” Brandon Flowers was originally in another Las Vegas band called Blush, but was forced to leave the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/14/music-tidbits-the-killers/The following is a collaboration with Signspotting, a website dedicated to weird and funny signs by Doug Lansky Somehow we're expected to navigate the road and pick up the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/signspotting-stickman-to-the-rescue/Anthrax Plush Toy - $7.95 Common...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/giant-microbes-cute-plush-toys-of-deadly-diseases/Doctors operating on 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin was expecting to find a tumor in one of his lungs, but they got a big, green surprise during the surgery:Doctors x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lung...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/its-not-a-tumah-its-a-tree/If you've ever damaged your stuff because you packed it wrong, take heart: even Charles Darwin made the same error.When a volunteer was cataloging a collection at University of Cambridge's Zoology Museum, she ran across...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/darwins-egg-found/The country's faltering economy? Piracy at high seas? Concerns about terrorism? Nay, the biggest story in Washington DC these past couple of days revolve around a dog. But not just any dog: he's Bo, the cute Obama dog!*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/meet-bo-the-obamas-new-dog/Insurance fraud is not new, but this one is unusual: "necro-phonies" Faye Shilling and Jane Crump will be arraigned on charges of staging fake funerals for fake people to defraud insurance companies!When st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/necro-phonies-fake-funerals-for-fake-people-insurance-scam/Colors and flavors come in such a variety that they need super descriptive names. Can you tell which of these twelve names are colors of Pottery Barn paint and which are flavors of Ben & Jerry's ice cream? I went by th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/ice-cream-flavor-or-paint-color/I made this nifty little word search puzzle featuring Neatorama authors, features, and favorite subjects! See if you can find these words: You can make your own custom word search, too! Link -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/13/neatorama-word-search/When Bailey the retriever went to the veterinary clinic in Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England, the doctor thought he had a tumor. What veterinarian Keith Moore found inside the dog was five golf gloves, ten socks, on...
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