From the website:The Stratosphere Giant, the world's reigning tallest living tree, seems to have lost its title -- to not one but three contenders.Like the 370-foot Giant, the three trees ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/10/worlds-tallest-living-thing/From the website:My wife is a teacher of young children, and I've spent a fair time of late sitting on undersized chairs admiring the alphabet charts on classroom walls. Typically 'A' will stand for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/10/the-politically-incorrect-alphabet/Why use traps or poisons to get rid of those pesky gophers and moles, when you can *explode* them out of their burrows with the Rodenator? The Rodenator Pro™ uses a controlled mixture of propane and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/10/rodenator/This giant "matchbox" is actually a PC case mod!Link - Thanks Travis! | See also Neatorama's Ultimate Case Mod Page...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/10/travis-hydziks-matchbox-pc-case-mod/Nearly 70 years after it was written, Hitler's best friend August Kubizek's book The Young Hitler I Knew was finally published in English in full:... it contains, for the first time, the full story of Hitl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/10/hitlers-secret-jewish-girlfriend/From the website:Staff at a South Korean amusement park says a 16-year-old male Asian elephant named Kosik can make sounds imitating up to eight Korean words, including "sit," "no,&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/10/kosik-the-talking-elephant/From the website:Those years of washing your face with the same side of the soap that's been responsible for lathering up your behind are over.Our Arse/Face Soap is lightly perfumed and comes in a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/10/dont-use-the-wrong-side-of-the-soap/Ansley Davies of BleuArts blog graciously provided the instruction on how to knit your very own Princess Leia bun hat! Hat Bun? Whatever!Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/10/knitted-princess-leia-hat/The scene near Mars Bluff, S.C. after a B-47 bomber accidentally dropped an unarmed nuclear bomb.On January 24, 1961, something not at all funny happened in the skies over Goldsboro, N.C. The wing of a B-52G bomber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/oops-us-government-nuked-north-carolina/Tim Hunkin illustrated this neat little mathematical technique of multiplying numbers between 6 and 10. Give it a try: Link | See also another method at: Dr. Math...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/russian-peasant-multiplication/The Internet has got everything, including a website dedicated to television test cards. Wait, what are test cards? In the early days of television, there was a need to test the response of cameras t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/tv-test-cards/Dutch artists Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe made these chairs, aptly titled "Poodle."http://www.ons-adres.nl/page/Decmber.05.eng/products.engMIRIAM.Dec.05.html (don't miss: Soft Stove and M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/poodle-chair/Wake up to the soothing sounds of Super Mario Bros with this alarm clock shaped like the classic NES controller!Link - via SciFi Tech...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/nintendo-controller-alarm-clock/How do you cook a stew for 30,000 hungry guests? With a backhoe, of course!As the centerpiece of a PR campaign to spur consumption of local agricultural products, the soup was made entirely from lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/cooking-for-30000-people/From the website: Forget Apollo Creed and Ivan Drago. Rocky's greatest victory was against the Philadelphia Arts Commission.After months of debate, the commission finally voted in favor of r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/rockys-back/Cat Head Theater presents ... Hamlet, played by cats (specifically, cat heads!) Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Exploding Aadrvark...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/cat-head-hamlet/Leave it to The Smoking Gun to compile a list of murderous, criminal, no-good senior citizens: Florida's Felonious Fogeys | Grandpa Needs a Shiv: Fogeys, Part II - via Miss Cellania...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/really-old-criminals/This handy soap "tape" allows you to take a strip of soap that cleans and dissolves as you wash your hands!Link - via Cribcandy....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/09/soap-on-a-roll/In 1962, cinematographer Morton Heilig invented a machine he called the Sensorama, which was:an immersive 3-D virtual reality motorbike ride, in a form factor resembling an arcade game. Heilig saw Sensoram...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/sensorama-virtual-reality-ca-1962/Alain Viel and Robert A. Lue of Harvard University created a very neat flash movie clip on the many biochemical processes that go on inside our cells.Very, very, very cool: Link [Flash] | Explanation of the an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/the-inner-life-of-cells/CyberNet has the top ten list of best Xbox 360 case mods - this one above is the battle-worn xbox. http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/07/24/cybernotes-best-xbox-360-case-mods/ - via GizmodoSee also: Neatorama's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/battle-worn-xbox-case-mod/Many, many more weird signs at the Chinglish flickr pool - via growabrain....
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/chinglish-signs/From the website:One of our readers (okay, it was my friend Lisa) noticed a mention of “National Hangover Day” in our new-holiday contest — a day of bleary-eyed and queasy celebrati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/why-does-v8-cure-hangovers/Here's the recipe for spam mousse shaped like a table of Viagra. Yum! Link - via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/viagra-spam-mousse/Albanian artist Saimir Strati hammered tens of thousands of nails into a wooden board to create the world's largest nail mosaic, in the image of Leonardo da Vinci."I have lost count of the nails, but I th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/worlds-largest-nail-mosaic/Say you're in a maximum security prison, but you really want a cell phone and you want it real bad. What to do? Maybe this: Capt. Juan Ramon Arevalo, director of the prison known as Zacatras, said th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/inmates-hid-cell-phones-and-charger-insider-their-body/Lydia Fairchild was facing an uphill battle in court to prove that she's the mother to her children. Fairchild was about to lose her children; Social Services accused her of welfare fraud and was about t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/chimera-when-youre-your-own-twin/Within hours of the first report that Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray's barb through the heart, traffic surge clobbered Australian news websites: Web measurement company Hitwise said Irwin's dea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/crikey-steve-irwins-death-clogged-the-web/From the website:This barely recognisable snake bit off more than it could chew when it snacked a pregnant ewe.The six-metre python weighing 90 kg was too laden to move, making it far easi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/08/python-swallowed-a-pregnant-ewe-whole/Ah, how cute! A beatboxing parrot! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Miss CellaniaRelated: Lasse Gjertsen's Hyperactive - how beatboxing should be done....
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