Colton Harris-Moore may just be 19 years old, but his rap sheet is already quite impressive. The "Barefoot Bandit" has hundreds of burglaries under his belt, including the theft of at least three airplanes and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/barefoot-bandits-mom-i-think-its-kind-of-neat/Dave Prager and Jenny Steeves, a New York couple living in India (and whose blog Our Delhi Struggle - get it? - documents their fascinating "stranger in a strangeland" tales), were asked whether they enjoy &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/white-privilege-in-india/The world's tallest and arguably the most futuristic tent has opened to the public in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan. The Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre, located in the capital city of Astana, is 150m (490ft)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/worlds-tallest-tent-opens-in-kazakhstan/Anything is better if it's made with bacon, put in a can, or called "tactical". Hence the Candwich, which is either a peanut butter & jelly sandwich or chicken sandwich. In a can. The company has gained public...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/candwich-the-canned-sandwich/Antisa Khvichava is celebrating her 130th birthday today in Sachire, Georgia. She worked as a tea and corn picker until she was 85 years old, then retired and now lives with her 40-year-old grandson. "I've always be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/is-this-woman-130-years-old/Have you ever known a dog who couldn't figure out how stairs work? Allie at Hyperbole and a Half has such a dog. I guarantee, you will love her no matter how intellectually-challenged she is! Linkdog, Intelligence, I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/allies-dog/Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was born in Germany 172 years ago today. Zeppelin didn't invent the airship, but he made them bigger and better to the point that they became known as zeppel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/happy-birthday-ferdinand-von-zeppelin/Telephone booth? What's that? Oh, that's where Superman changes into his costume! I can hear my kids puzzling over this now... but there are phone booths still surviving in the world. Some have quite a story...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/ten-unique-telephone-booths/Take a second look at this picture. Better yet, look at the full version at NeatoGeek. Now, what's the caption? You could win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop if your caption is the best. Leave yours in a comment at NeatoGee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/your-caption-needed/Hello Neatoramanauts! It's time for yet another game with the always awesome What Is It? Blog. This week's game brings us the strange object to the left: do you know what it is for?Place your guess in the comment section...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/what-is-it-game-144/Blonde Bombshells (image source: Psywar.org) The Plan: During WWII, Axis powers attempted to wage psychological warfare against the Allies in a highly unusual wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/when-propaganda-backfires/(YouTube Link) YouTube user Keshen8 makes great stop-motion LEGO videos. Two years ago, we featured his reworking of the trailer for The Dark Knight in that medium. Recently, he uploaded this video, whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/stop-motion-lego-shootout/As news-gathering departs from paper form and is conveyed instead through the television and internet, the newspaper becomes a nostalgic and old-fashioned object. I describe the beauty of the ritual experien...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-sew/Ms Food Face Kid's Dinner Plate - $11.95Got a fussy eater? Make meal time fun for toddlers with the Food Face and Ms Food Face Kid's Dinner Plate from the NeatoShop. The heavy-duty high-fire ceramic plate has a blank fac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/ms-food-face-dinner-plate-play-with-your-food/Fifteen ninja monkeys on treesEvil scientists, beware! Cages, plodding henchmen ...er, "graduate students" and even seventeen-feet tall electrified fence are match for ... the ninja monkeys: A grou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/ninja-monkeys-escaped/Actually, the answer is yes - here's a medical condition called parasomnia pseudo-suicide to give some of us insomnia just thinking about it:A man jumps out a fifth-story window. A woman marches into oncoming traffic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/can-you-commit-suicide-while-sleeping/Purple-winged enteropneust. Photo: David ShaleScientists first thought that the deep valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a massive undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean, was too harsh a climate for life. But when they ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/new-deep-sea-life-forms-in-the-atlantic-ocean/If your roommates bite, take solace that at least they're not venomous unlike those of David Jones. The 44-year-old British carpenter is trying to break a world record by sharing a room for four months with 40 of the wor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/08/living-in-a-room-with-40-venomous-snakes/(YouTube Link) While dogs and turtles are attempting to make 2010 all about them, it's appropriate that one of the Internet's first huge memes would get the official seal of termination by a cat. via Joanne Casey...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/rickroll-meme-officially-declared-over/(YouTube Link) YouTube user ButterflysBone recorded her pet turtle desperately trying to get the attention of her pet cat. Cat, here's some advice: there are some people with whom subtlety does not work. via red...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/turtle-does-not-take-a-hint-that-cat-does-not-want-to-be-friends/Only five days? That's all? Wives spend 7,920 minutes a year nagging their husbands about household chores, their drinking and their health. This equals two-and-a-half hours of earbashing each week - which tot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/the-daily-mail-wives-nag-husbands-almost-6-full-days-a-year/Kiel Johnson made this costume that looks like a man rendered in 8-bit pixelated art. It's called "8-Bit Gary." His site doesn't state directly how he built it, but at the link, you can view many in-progress of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/8-bit-costume-2/Scientists used geographic modeling software to come up with a realistic answer to an unrealistic question: what would happen if the earth ceased its rotation? If earth ceased rotating about its axis but continued...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/what-would-happen-if-the-earths-rotation-stopped/The car blog Jalopnik got an email about this unique go-cart, built by a man named Dave: A whopping 6.5 hp, 32 mph, twin-throne action, and all the TP you can stand. Ain't America great? We get ema...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/toilet-go-cart/My Vuvuzela Is Bigger Than Yours T-Shirt by Chris Murphy - $14.95 The 2010 World Cup is almost over (the final match between the Netherlands and Spain this Sunday) and you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/5-neat-quick-facts-about-the-vuvuzela/Inspired by food-dispensing kiosks in remote European locations, a restauranteur in Madison, Wisconsin is planning to build a cafe that can ONLY be accessed by pedestrians and bicyclists. Food would be served on plastic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/the-antithesis-of-a-drive-in-restaurant/Many athletes get corporate sponsorships, but boxer Billy Gibby - also known as Billy the Human Billboard - proudly wears his sponsors' logos not on his uniform, but on his body. Yep, he got 'em tattooed:Since that t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/billy-the-human-billboard/Photo: Changsha Information NetworkKang Kang is your otherwise normal toddler - healthy, inquisitive, and smart - except for one striking feature: he was born with a rare case of facial cleft that made him look like he's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/the-masked-baby-of-china/Just like video killed the radio star, are Facebook and Twitter killing blogs? Here's an interesting article over at The Economist about how the growth of blogging has slowed down and, in some countries, even stalled:*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/are-facebook-and-twitter-blog-killers/Photo: abrinsky [Flickr]Flickr pool Tetris Tetris Everywhere is dedicated to things in real life that look like the falling blocks from insanely popular video game. Do you hear a certain background music when you read th...
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