Kids bring home the craziest things. They bring home bugs, rocks, leaves, and sometimes animals. Michael Dasher, however, brought home something a little more interesting than your average little snake. This fearle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/kid-brings-home-6-foot-gator/The Norwegian browser company Opera has received emails for years that were intended for Oprah Winfrey. Now that Oprah has concluded her daily talk show, Opera executives posted some of the best letters as a tribute...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/opera-will-miss-oprah/Pocket Volcano - $3.95 Is that a volcano in your pocket or are you just happy to see me. Oh, it is just a volcano in your pocket. How embarrassing. Wow, that Pocket Volcano from the NeatoShop gives off some erupt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/pocket-volcano/The Humane Society of the United States named Yogi, a golden retriever, the 2011 Valor Dog of the Year for saving his owner's life after a bicycle accident. Paul Horton of Austin, Texas, went over the handlebars on his m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/2011-valor-dog-of-the-year/Photo: David Littschwager/National GeographicJust what live in a cubic foot in the tropical forest of Mo'orea, French Polynesia? You'd be surprised at the biodiversity:National Geographic photographer David Liittschw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/what-lives-in-a-cubic-foot-of-the-moorea-tropical-forest/See the difference in the before and after photos above? That's 12-year-old Lee Min Kyong after plastic surgery of her eyelids to make her look more "western."Scoff all you will, but plastic surgery to make Asi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/plastic-surgery-makes-asians-look-more-western/If you love to kiss your dog, then you may be getting slightly more than just dog drool ... you may be getting some retroviruses, too!Intriguingly, the scientists discovered a novel group of retroviral material in do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/dog-kisses-love-slobber-and-retroviruses/(YouTube link) If you leave a camera sitting in the open and drive off, you shouldn't be surprised when someone makes off with it. Photographer Roger de la Harpe laid a running camera down when he retreated from a p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/curious-cat/At first glance this website may appear to be a hoax or a joke, but then again there are people like Harold Camping out there predicting doomsday. The Flat Earth Society which claims to support the theory that the Eart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/the-flat-earth-society/While still not proven, the possibility of the existence of “white holes” in deep space have some in the scientific community excited. White holes are the opposite of black holes, objects into which nothing can en...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/possible-proof-of-white-holes/Supposedly these vampire hunting kits were sold to travelers to protect them from our fanged, blood sucking friends. See the full gallery at the link. Travelers in the 19th century would purchase &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/1800s-vampire-hunting-kit/This map of the world illustrates how and where we are connected to our friends on Facebook. What is interesting is that the map is constructed entirely by Facebook connections and is still able to show accurate border...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/facebook-map-of-the-world/If you are like me you hate the sound of your alarm clock in the morning. The makers of this clock have found a unique way to get you out of bed in the morning. See gallery of clock at the link. You know what they say...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/time-is-money/Like their human counterparts dogs serve valiantly in the United States armed forces in war zones around the world. These military dogs are used to find explosives, insurgents and drugs, and to help search for miss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/dogs-of-war-are-looking-for-forever-homes/(vimeo link) This short film is subtitled "A quick tale of violence," but it's more odd than violent. A driver picks up carrots off the highway and eats them. Then it gets weird. Produced by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/carrot-vs-ninja/Martini Flask - $19.95 Are you looking for a fantastic vessel to carry small amounts of your favorite beverage? You need the Martini Flask from the NeatoShop. With this handy little flask you always be ready to e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/martini-flask/Just look at this lovely sculpture of flamingos by artist Sarah Knouse! She has other mixed media sculptures made with thread and liquid plastic at her site. http://sarahknouse.net/-Thanks, Ethan!Art, sculpt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/sarah-knouses-flamingos/The first 500-mile race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway took place on May 30, 1911. That very first race was a story for the ages. Forty cars started, but only a dozen finished. People were excited by the amount of mon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/one-hundred-years-of-the-indy-500/Back in 2008, Stacy posted a roundup of wonderful quilts that included this Harry Potter quilt by Jennifer Ofenstein. This week, Jennifer was shocked to find that the Harry Potter quilt she completed years ago has go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/harry-potter-quilt/It's once again time for our collaboration with the ever-amusing What Is It? Blog. Do you know what this thing is? Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can ent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/what-is-it-game-179/Follow these five surefire steps and you'll be stuck to the corner of envelopes in no time! Step #1: KICK THE BUCKET This is the hard part. According to the U.S. Postal Service, no living...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/how-to-get-your-face-on-a-postage-stamp/In Zimbabwe, virtually everyone is a trillionaire who walk around with wheelbarrowful of money! Wait, perhaps that's not such a good thing after all ... except for numismatists and eBayers.A 100-trillion-dollar bill,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/100-trillion-dollar-bill-on-sale-for-5-on-ebay/Stealing things and selling 'em later at the neighborhood fence? That's so old school!The new "in" thing is stealing-to-order. All you need to do is text the thief what you want, and voilà: it's like hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/your-own-personal-thief-stealing-to-order/Photo: Reena NewmanWhat? You won't stoop to eat proletariat food of McDonald's? Perhaps all you need is a little bourgeois re-imagining.In a project called Happier Meals for The Grid, four Toronto chefs turned a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/happier-meals-turning-big-mac-combo-into-haute-cuisine/The_Rodnik_Band is a design company that creates a line of haute couture inspired by pop art. If you have £1,600 to er, piss away, then the sequin Duchamp-inspired dress can be yours!Link - via The PresurferArt, Ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/wearable-artwork/Forget prison work of breaking rocks and digging trenches! There's a new (and far more profitable) trend in prison labor: turning prisoners into gold farmers!"Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to pla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/using-prison-labor-for-gold-farming/Osama bin Laden was one thing, but The Mouse? I think the Navy's SEAL Team 6 is in for bruiser of a fight. You see, it has a new bigger and badder adversary: Disney and its team of lawyers.SEAL Team 6 isn’t goi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/navy-seal-team-6s-next-target-disney/Star Trek Mix N Match Magnetic Advanture Set - $9.95 Do you long to have your own Star Trek adventure? Well, now you can with the Star Trek Mix N Match Magnetic Adventure Set from the NeatoShop. This set is the pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/25/star-trek-mix-n-match-magnetic-adventure-set/San Francisco: Jimmy Stewart's Vertigo apartment Hitchcock fans no doubt remember Jimmy Stewart's San Francisco apartment from the iconic Vertigo. AV Club's Pop Pilgrims series has discovered that it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/25/what-the-vertigo-apartment-looks-like-today/My one-year-old likes to rip pages out of magazines and shove them in her mouth, and now, thanks to Volkswagen, she might actually get something edible the next time she does that. VW South Africa's "Eat the Road" ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/25/edible-magazine-ad/
