Archive for July 23rd, 2010

Bear Breaks Into Car, Goes On Joy Ride

Police in Larkspur, Colorado investigated a complaint of a car with the horn blaring for 45 minutes in the middle of the night. They found the car, with a bear inside it. What's more, the bear had taken...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/bear-breaks-into-car-goes-on-joy-ride/

Mike Tyson As You've Never Known Him Before

Mike Tyson has gone from fearsome boxing champion to convicted rapist to sideshow fighter - all throughout his life, it's always been easier for all of us to caricaturize him than to understand him. That's why this tell-...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/mike-tyson-as-youve-never-known-him-before/

The Feet Are The Foundation Of The Opossum

(You Tube link)Does your opossum need a pedicure? This video will tell you all you need to know. Just choose the polish colour. (If it gets restless give it a grape.)opossum...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/the-feet-are-the-foundation-of-the-opossum/

Computer Controlled Fountain

(YouTube Link) Located in a Japanese mall called Canal City, this fountain is programmed immaculately to "paint" the air with falling water. Canal City (Wiki)  via Bits and Piecesjapan, Arts amp Crafts, water, com...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/computer-controlled-fountain/

"Human Fish" Salamander Can Live to 100

Biologists have determined that this tiny cave salamander, nicknamed the "human fish" has a maximum lifespan of 100 years. For a creature of that size, that's quite unusual: The salamander, also called olm and Proteu...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/human-fish-is-extraordinarily-long-lived-for-a-creature-its-size/

Sleeping Beauty Has Some Personal Issues

(Video Link) This Academy Award-nominated short film is about an old woman who tells her little granddaughter the tale of Sleeping Beauty. But grandma has some anger issues with people in her past (and present) and...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/sleeping-beauty-has-some-personal-issues/

Packing Tape with Hinges

Seoul-based designers Jeong-Min Lee and Hyoung-Min Park made packing tape that creates the impression of hinges wherever you lay it down. It's called "X-Tape". Link via Super Punch | Photo: mmiinnpackaging, tape,...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/packing-tape-with-hinges/

Firefighting Motorbike

Someone in Liverpool came up with the brilliant idea of equipping motorcycles with firefighting equipment. Liverpool is the first city in the UK to roll out two of the £30,000 bikes, which have pumps with a rang...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/firefighting-motorbike/

George Orwell's Animal Farm Will Be a Musical

Elton John and Lee Hall are writing a musical based on Animal Farm, George Orwell's 1945 allegory about the perils of communism: Lee, who won Olivier and Tony awards for his book and lyrics for the stage Bill...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/george-orwells-animal-farm-will-be-a-musical/

Carbon Buckyballs Found in Space

The website for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech is reporting the discovery of carbon buckyballs in space. "We found what are now the largest molecules known to exist in space," said astronomer Jan Cami of...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/carbon-buckyballs-found-in-space/

Chameleon Eating a Bug off a Sumo Wrestler's Face

It doesn't get much more random than this, Neatoramanauts! College Humor presents: a chameleon eating a cricket off a sumo wrestler's face, captured in super slo-mo goodness.Hit play or go to http://www.collegehumor.com/...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/chameleon-eating-a-bug-off-a-sumo-wrestlers-face/

GTFO Finalists

Last day to vote!! Arm Rotating Girl has taken the lead by A LOT! And we just read in the comments that Star Wars Playing Unicycle Riding Guy has decided to sell his iPad, should he win, and donate all the proceeds to Gu...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/gtfo-finalists/

A Very Potter Sequel

Team StarKid, a troupe of University of Michigan students and grads came up with a sequel to the musical parody, A Very Potter Musical, that went viral last year.Behold, A Very Potter Sequel:The StarKid twenty-someth...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/a-very-potter-sequel/

Oh, the Places Your Ashes Will Go!

If you decide to be cremated when the time comes, your choice of final resting places will be much greater than if you were to be buried. Mental_floss takes a look at some of the more, hmm ...imaginative ways people have...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/oh-the-places-your-ashes-will-go/

Hefty Marmots

Yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado are gaining weight and producing more offspring compared to thirty years ago. The difference is attributed to climate change. In the Rocky Mountains, these marmots usually hibernate ...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/hefty-marmots/

Possibilities for Mutation in Necktie Design

Most articles of apparel are subject to what might be termed style churning. Consumers are accustomed to seasonal modifications, new variations, and occasional eruptions of stylistic insanity. Women’s clothing is esp...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/possibilities-for-mutation-in-necktie-design/

Man Broke into Bar -and Opened It!

The Valencia Club in Penryn, California had been closed for a year when 29-year-old Travis Kevie helped himself to the business. He broke in and posted a sign that the bar was open. Kevie sold drinks for four days until...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/23/man-broke-into-bar-and-opened-it/
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