[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32JmTBTlaN8][YouTube - Link]This would be the vehicle of my dreams: the Hover Scooter, a mix-up between a motorbike, a scooter and a hovercraft. Seen here on a test run in 1960. Tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/hover-scooter/What will you get for $9.95?Hi guys! Today's the day for Neatorama's much anticipated Mystery Sale. What will you get for $9.95? Well, we won't tell you ... that's the whole point of the Mystery Sale!What we can tell you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/neatorama-mystery-sale-may-2009/Surely you've used emoticons before, or at least encountered them while surfing the Intertubes, but did you know that they've been around since the 1800s? Or that a computer scientist c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-emoticons/A little-known leaflet by Upton Uxbridge Underwood circulated in 1913 judges men in a different way, not by their works, but by their fabulous facial hair. His masterpiece, The Language of the Beard, an epicurean t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/poets-ranked-by-beard-weight/(YouTube link) This cute mouse is too smart for a classic mousetrap! Extra points to the videographer for effective use of music. -via Buzzfeed Mouse, mousetrap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/mouse-trap/In 1914, Austrian watchmaker Georg Grabner created the Kolibri -- the "Hummingbird" pistol. The smallest autoloading pistol ever made, it fires a .11 caliber bullet. He marketed it as a self-defense firearm for women...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/the-hummingbird-pistol/The following is a reprint from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Universe. A while ago, we posted "10 Things That Science Fiction Got Wrong" but believe it or not, there are many things that sci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/10-things-science-fiction-got-right/You may have heard of the longevity of people who live on Okinawa or Sardinia. These areas of the globe where locals are reknowned for living long are collectively named 'blue zones.' Now researcher Dan Buettner...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/the-island-where-people-live-longer/Since today is Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you), perhaps it's only fitting that two of the movie series' best fans are getting married ... in full costume, of course! The guests were told: 'Members of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/star-wars-wedding-on-star-wars-day-of-course/Legend has it that Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear after a falling out with Paul Gauguin. But a new study by German art historians Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans claimed that it was actually the result of Gauguin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/did-gauguin-slashed-off-vincent-van-goghs-ear/In 1988, artist James Sanborn was commissioned to create an outdoor sculpture to adorn the CIA's facility in Langley, Virginia. So he created Kryptos, a 10-foot high scroll of copper filled with letters....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/the-code-the-cia-cant-crack/Rich pointed out that today is Star Wars Day {wiki}. The reason we celebrate on this day is explained in this graphic found at The blog of a Sci-Fi Geek. Link Star Wars, pun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/happy-star-wars-day/You may have heard that newspapers are dying, but people still buy them every day. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to name the top ten newspapers in the United States as computed by daily circulation. Y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/name-the-top-ten-newspapers/Lisa Smiley made dalmatian cupcakes for a five-year-old's birthday party. They are too cute to eat! She also made (and posted pictures of) cupcakes with little firefighter's hats and hoses on top. Link -via Everlasting...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/dalmation-cupcakes/When Pooja Chopra was an infant, her father ordered her mother Neera to kill her. Instead, Neera left her home and husband with her two daughters and never looked back. The baby girl, who might have never seen her first...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/success-is-the-best-revenge/Buzzfeed collected pictures of the 50 best costumes spotted at the London Marathon last week. This carrot ranked #7. Can you imagine running 26 miles like this? Link costumes, London Marathon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/strange-costumes-at-the-london-marathon/Ron Gordon, the California teacher who founded and promoted Square Root Day reminds us that Thursday is another math holiday, Odd Day! The calendar date (as written by people in the US) will be 5-7-9, which only happens...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/odd-day/36 hours after drowning, wolf spiders were able to revive themselves and suffered no ill effects, scientists discovered recently. A study at the University of Rennes in France found that wolf spiders died after 24 to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/second-chance-spiders/It is that time of year again and as the aphid population swells, so will that of the ladybug. The insect itself has a fairly strange life cycle and here it is for you in all its wonderful gory, sorry, glory.Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/the-weird-life-cycle-of-the-ladybug/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uwY3sjqYX0][YouTube - Link]A variation on the rap drive-thru. Done for viral advertising purposes but still enjoyable. I think Neatorama ran a less-slick version of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/taco-bell-drive-thru-folk-song/So - I posted Snowball the parrot, the subject of a very scientific experiment to see if birds can dance. But Snowball might well just have two left claws when compared to a bird named Frosty.Here's a clip of Frosty the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/frosty-shaking-its-tail-feather/Which Disney princess are you? Just answer these 10 probing (kidding!) questions over at Brainfall to find out. Apparently, I'm Pocahontas:You defy convention and sometimes do what is considered taboo. Unfortunately,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/which-disney-princess-are-you/In this short and sweet Serbian video clip, cops stopped a grandpa and administered a breathalyzer test ... they didn't even have to turn the thing on to bust him for drinking.See what happened: Link [embedded YouTube cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/how-not-to-take-a-breathylzer-test/Jo Stephens of Cornwall had planned a home birth, but when her labor pains started, no midwife could come. And the ambulance wasn't going to make it in time, either. Luckily, her husband Marc had been watching YouTube vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/youtube-helps-man-deliver-baby/Today marks the first day in the year (May 3rd) of what would be Jonathan Harker's journal. Dracula Feed has started an experiment of blogging Jonathan's journal in "real time", publishing each journal entry th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/reading-bram-stokers-dracula-in-real-time/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XbjFn3aqE][YouTube - Link]Most people know that inhaling helium will make your voice sound like Donald Duck, but what gas will make you sound like Darth Vader? From the Upco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/fun-with-gas/Filmmaker Dan Savage took this picture of a uniquely colored koi found in the ponds of Maruoka Castle, the second oldest standing castle in Japan.Beyond the unusual blue color overall, the mottled burgundy and indigo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/blue-koi-in-maruoka-castle/In central Burma there is a remarkable monastery, Taung Kalat, that sits atop an ancient volcanic plug. Looking like the possible lair of a Bond villain or maybe ET's next port of call should he make a return vis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/the-monastery-built-on-a-vocanic-plug/While the magic of Photoshop has made it easier than ever to doctor photographs to portray the improbable or impossible, nothing quite matches doing a double take in real life. British art student Sara Watson parked...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/invisibility-the-old-fashioned-way/Photo: frankhRemember the mobile treadmill posted on Neatorama a while ago? Well, Flickr user frankh spotted a DIY version at MIT (where else?). Apparently, it's what you get when you cross a bicycle with a treadmill - v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/03/bicycle-treadmill-hack/
