Gothamist reader "Wayne" took this photo of a rat apparently stuck trying to emerge from a crack in the pavement. Other readers went to work with Photoshopped explanations and fun interpretations almost immediately...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/sad-rat-photo/Photo: Elite Choice Oddee has pictures of twelve unique bathtubs, such as the one pictured above, which was made out of 18-karat gold. Its estimated value was $1 million, which is probably why it was stolen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/twelve-creative-bathtubs/Yu-Ying Wu, a graduate student in industrial design at a Taiwanese university, created a foam block that turns into a chair when compressed. The holes in the block aren't random -- they're carefully shaped and selected...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/foam-block-turns-into-a-chair-when-you-sit-on-it/What would you do if someone killed your child, and authorities refused to extradite the suspect? Here's what one father allegedly did:A retired accountant whose daughter was killed 27 years ago was facing charges la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/father-kidnapped-daughters-killer-to-bring-him-to-justice/Artist Nakisha Elsje VanderHoeven paints animals, most often rabbits. Her latest project is The Rabbit Tarot, consisting of 78 images of the classic cards featuring bunnies. She sells decks of them in her Etsy shop,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/the-rabbit-tarot/Having done novels, short stories, and web-serials, Stephen King is branching out to ... comics. He's agreed to co-write the first five issues of American Vampire by Scott Snyder, a new series for DC Comics' Vertigo impr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/stephen-kings-new-comic-american-vampire/On October 26th, 1977, a hospital cook in Somalia named Ali Maow Maalin was diagnosed with smallpox. What makes this so remarkable is that no naturally-occurring cases of smallpox have been diagnosed in the 32 y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/an-anniversary-worth-celebrating/The term ghost ship can refer to a mysterious apparition of a ship when a ship is not really there, or it can refer to an abandoned ship found with no crew or passengers, usually under mysterious circumstances. Both...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/the-top-ten-ghost-ships/Theories (some as kooky as being abducted by aliens or assuming another identity) have been swirling for years about the fates of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, who disappeared during an attempt to fly around the world...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/earharts-final-resting-place-found/Researchers have finally unlocked the secret of a happy marriage: trophy wife! No, seriously. The study found that marrying smarter and younger women results in less fewer divorces and greater marriage bliss:The rese...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/the-secret-of-a-successful-marriage-trophy-wife/It's hard to believe 26 years have passed since the TV series M*A*S*H aired its final episode. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test how much you remember about the series. I was embarrassed to score only...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/the-mash-quiz/Wingardium Leviosa! The spell from Harry Potter may be fun to say while using the Fly Stick Van De Graff Levitation Wand, but it's not exactly required. See this and nine other cool levitating objects for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/magic-wand-for-levitation/Image: Gabriel Cañas Mexican industrial designer Gabriel Cañas created this fiberglass Tetris-inspired chair. So far, it's one-of-a-kind, so it's not yet available for retail. Follow the link to Cañas' port...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/tetris-chair/(YouTube Link) Meredith Woerner of the sci-fi blog io9 suspects that this video might be viral marketing for the next Star Trek movie. Ostensibly, it's a Klingon military recruiting commercial. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/klingon-military-recruiting-video/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKXYdzH0DKA] Model train enthusiast David K. Smith has built a miniscule train layout which works - the train travels in an ellipse, including through a "mountain." "Thus, what...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/worlds-smallest-working-model-train/(YouTube Link) Five artists from the art collective Cube Works in Toronto recreated Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper out of 4,050 cubes, in all measuring 8.5 by 17 feet. The work was entered into the Gu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/the-last-supper-made-out-of-rubiks-cubes/Das Kapital Money Bank - $19.95 + s/hThis one will make Karl Marx spin in his grave (you may be surprised to find where the father of communism was buried. No, not the Soviet Union. Karl Marx was buried in London.)Behold...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/das-kapital-money-bank/Are ya ready kids? Aye, aye captain! I can't heeeeaaaar yoooouuu! AYE, AYE CAPTAIN! Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Sponge Bob Square Pants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he. Sponge Bob Square Pant...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/10-neat-facts-about-spongebob-squarepants/Can't speak English? You better not be pulled over in Texas ... Nearly forty people have gotten "no-English" traffic violation tickets: The Dallas Police Department said it was embarrassed by what it calls...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/25/no-english-traffic-ticket/Media designer Shahee Ilyas has created pie charts showing the colors of the flags of over 200 nations. Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia are a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/25/colors-of-the-worlds-flags/When flow from a teapot (or a liquor bottle) is very slow, the liquid has a propensity to dribble back along the surface of the spout. "Previous studies have shown that a number of factors affect [dribbling], such as th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/the-complicated-physics-of-a-dribbling-teapot/Image: Ryan Dunlavey Artist Ryan Dunlavey has created several comic strips mixing science fiction franchises with classic comics, such as the above mashup of Family Circus with The Fantastic Four. O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/comic-stripsci-fi-mashups/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7N9ObsO8w8][YouTube - Link]Nothing could stop veteran news anchor Peter Hitchener of Australia's Channel Nine News from delivering a serious bit of news. Not even a giant sea gull...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/giant-sea-gull-walks-behind-tv-news-anchor/[caption id="attachment_27079" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Photo: Tom Bonaventure/Getty Images"][/caption]Hannah Devlin has a neat piece up at Times Online about the continuing shift in architecture towards bi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/the-future-of-architecture/Last February, director Spike Jonez (Where the Wild Things Are) agreed to shoot a video for Kanye West's song, "See You in My Nightmares," which was then expanded into a creative, short film - shot at a nightclu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/bizarre-spike-jonze-short/According to The Empire Strikes Back, there's no smell in the galaxy as bad as the inside of a dead Taun Taun. When Chris and Julia Trevas got married, they hired Food Network baker Courtney Clark to make th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/taun-taun-cake/The following is a Neatorama Shop Story, a narrative starring the products carried in this blog’s very own online store. 1932, Vieux Carré....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/neatorama-shop-story-voodoo-doll/The Cornish Duck Company checks its eggs for viable embryos. They noticed one egg had two embryos, and were prepared with a camera when it hatched. Local vet Barrie Fleming, who advised the farm's owners, R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/two-ducks-from-one-egg/Customs officials at the Dublin Airport at first thought the x-ray showed a toy dog in the suitcase, but they opened it up and out popped a live puppy! A Bulgarian man on a flight from Madrid was trying to smuggle the yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/chihuahua-smuggled-in-luggage/If you'd like to see a hummingbird's beak just millimeters from your face, this wearable hummingbird feeder is for you: Hit play or go to Linkhelmet, Hummingbird...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/24/wearable-hummingbird-feeder/
