A strange assortment of prehistoric crocodilyform fossils have been found in Africa. Crocodilyforms are ancient cousins of today's alligators, crocodiles, and caimans. For instance, the rodent-like RatCroc had buckt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/5-oddball-crocs-found-in-sahara-desert/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrGbh-6cAZA] YouTube link A crimson-crested woodpecker battles an olive whipsnake on Peru's Yarapa River. One presumes that the snake was stealing eggs or attacking chicks in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/woodpecker-vs-snake/The 2,100 citizens of North Pole, Alaska take Christmas very seriously. Since 1954, they've volunteered for Operation Santa, a program of the US Postal Service which answers letters to Santa Claus. The program has volunt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/north-pole-mail-program-discontinued/(Video Link) "Monster Manual" is a song by the band Mixel Pixel. It tells the tale of a role-player's struggle with a particularly brutal Dungeon Master, who is throwing just about every creature in the Dungeons & D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/a-song-about-the-dungeons-dragons-monster-manual/"Ears" something unfortunate for bank robber David Holyoak of Manchester, England: his distinctive feature made it really easy for the police to identify and locate him!As Holyoak, of Whitefield, Manchester, began a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/a-bank-robber-nicknamed-shrek/The winners of the 2009 Olympus BioScapes Photo Digital Imaging Competition were just announced yesterday. Here are some of the wonderful winning and honorable mention images:1st Place Winner: Water...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/2009-olympus-bioscapes-images/Filmmaker Tim Burton's visual art will be on display starting on Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. His media include watercolors, line drawings, pastels, and sculptures. The exhibit fea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/tim-burton-exhibit-at-the-museum-of-modern-art/Cinematical has a list of ideas for making movies based on classic 20th century TV shows. A couple of these I'd never seen, but I definitely remember tuning in to see Martin Landau and company fight to survive each wee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/7-sci-fi-series-ripe-for-movie-reboots/Photo: Digited Image Company Apple executive Jeff Dauber has a backyard deck that will not, despite initial impressions, suck you into a wormhole and then throw you back in time. He had architect Thom Flauders design...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/custom-backyard-deck-will-make-you-dizzy/Photo: Dave Kinsey California-based artist Mike Stilkey paints images on the bindings of books. From an interview with the webzine Fecal Face: Why did you choose to paint on books? It seems like it wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/the-painted-books-of-mike-stilkey/This recipe for turkey stuffing calls for "18 White Castle hamburgers (no pickles), chopped into 1-inch pieces," (or you can substitute bread, but it won't be the same). I suppose if you live in the southern part of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/white-castle-turkey-stuffing/To many wealthy Lithuanians, it was just a fancy horseback riding academy. But horses aren't the only things kept in the barn: the CIA had built a secret prison there, where they interrogated (or tortured, your choice of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/lithuanian-horseback-riding-academy-was-a-cia-secret-prison/College students Leslie Pope and John Wagner and four of their friends went to the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The bill came to $73, which they paid, but they refused to pay the mandatory $16.35 tip, because t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/students-arrested-for-not-paying-tip/NASA needs lots of help sorting through the hundreds of thousands of images they've collected from the surface of Mars. What do do? Make it into a game! Be A Martian combines the work of analyzing those images online wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/be-a-martian/The History Bluff (motto: "Making a mess of history") brings us another headscratcher with the sad news that the first monkey to ever walk on the moon has passed away. On June 3, 1981 Harlan the Monkey b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/first-monkey-to-ever-walk-on-the-moon-declared-dead/Mark Setteducati and Ken Knowlton have invented a unique puzzle marketed in Japan as "Jingazo." The puzzle includes 300 jigsaw pieces that can be arranged to form a picture of anybody's face. The puzzle works i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/puzzle-forms-an-image-of-any-face/Today's collaboration with the What is it? Blog brings us this .... alligator?! Actually, this object has a specific function. Do you know what it is?Place your guess in the comment section. The first correct guess, as w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/what-is-it-game-116/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Amazing Male Group Gymnastics Routine This is not gymnastics as you're used to seeing it. I wish this was in the Olympics. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/videosift-clips-of-the-week-42/Photo by Carsten Peter Perched above the lighted city of Catania, Italy, Mount Etna hurls a fountain of fire skyward as rivers of lava spill down its flanks. In spite of its dazzling displays, Mount Etna is a rela...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/19/why-do-people-live-near-volcanoes/As one might expect from any involved and nurturing father, d'Armond Speers of Minnesota spoke only Klingon to his son for the first three years of his life. Hart Van Denburg writes in Citypages: "I was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/father-speaks-only-klingon-to-his-young-son-for-three-years/Photo: Lucasfilm/Disney There's a bunch of new print ads out for Disney's Star Wars Weekends, and they're pretty funny. See Darth Vader wait in line, Ewoks get denied, TIE fighters at airport gates and more at The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/amusing-ads-for-star-wars-weekends/(YouTube link) Mickey Mouse made his public debut in the cartoon Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928 -81 years ago! The character appeared in Plane Crazy a few months earlier, but the Walt Disney C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/happy-birthday-mickey-mouse/Maersk Alabama, the cargo vessel that was hijacked by Somali pirates back in April 2009, was attacked again. This time, however, the ship was prepared:An on-board security team repelled the attack by using evasive ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/maersk-alabama-hit-again-by-somali-pirates-but-this-time-it-has-an-acoustic-cannon/Mounted on a 9" marble base is a small brass cannon, and above that a magnifying glass. The positioning and focal length of the lens would be designed to light the cannon's fuse. The placement of the sundial suggests...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/high-noon-2/Our pal Dave Sopp of Wry Baby has come up with a free fun service that lets you find out in advance what you'll be getting for Christmas. Wry Baby's resident Infant Mentalist Mysterio predicted that my wife will get me &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/mysterio-predicts-what-youll-get-for-christmas/Photo: John Masterson The Frictionator is a Ford F650 pickup truck equipped with a 7,000 hp GE J85 jet engine. Joe Arnold's monster truck is capable of reaching speeds up to 200 mph and is street legal (so as long as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/truck-with-a-jet-engine/(YouTube Link) Animator Jeremie Duval remixed Super Mario Bros. with the tone and sound of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Content warning: not for mushroom lovers. Via Geekologieanimation, super mari...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/pulp-fiction-super-mario-bros/Lion Safari Park in Johannesburg, South Africa allows cars to drive through the lion enclosure so people can see the animals up close. A family in a white Toyota drove through with the doors closed, but apparently failed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/lion-opens-car-door-with-teeth/(YouTube link) You can debate the wisdom of making an otter into a pet, but you have to agree that Sidney is adorable. -via Buzzfeedpet, otter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/baby-otter-at-play/I don't know how you can ride for more than a mile on a penny farthing {wiki}. No brakes, no gears, and no stopping, or you'll fall off! These five lunatics have managed thousands of miles on them. For example, Thomas St...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/18/5-amazing-journeys-on-a-penny-farthing/
