Bambiraptor, named after the famous Disney character. (Image)Paleontologists, those scientists that study fossils of life-forms from prehistoric times, are a fun bunch. Apparently, sifting through fossilized bones, dung...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/the-worlds-strangest-dinosaur-names/Stop-motion video artists PES produced the Human Skateboard video last year. Push play or go to YouTube. Now Sneaux Shoes invites you to make your own version! At Human Skateboarding, find instructions for creating you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/human-skateboarding/New York artist Tom Duncan creates multimedia pieces based on his childhood memories. He was born in Scotland at the beginning of World War II. An unhappy family and wartime danger inspired him to turn to art as a smal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/the-art-of-tom-duncan/Ramenskoye [wiki] is a town southeast of Moscow in Russia. The town has these very neat painted residential buildings! Link - Thanks Allen!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/the-painted-buildings-of-ramenskoye-russia/The stars of YouTube didn't choose to be famous - they happen to be captured on tape doing stupid things, and thanks to the Internet, gained unwanted infamy. Here's an interesting article by John Cook for Radar Online, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/from-radar-online-the-prisoners-of-youtube/From Coolpl8z, here are the 100 best vanity license plates: Link - Thanks Phoenix Guy!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/100-best-vanity-license-plates/Yay! One of our Neatorama post, the Five Smallest Countries in the World, was just reprinted in CRAM magazine. Like Neatorama, CRAM mag features a hodge podge of neat stuff. In addition to the Neatorama article, the curr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/5-smallest-countries-on-cram-magazine/How could I forget that February 15 was John Frum Day [wiki] on the remote island of Tanna in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu?"John is our god," declares village chief Isaac Wan, who beats his fists int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/john-frum-day-the-cargo-cult-lives-on/From the website:Origami, is Japanese art of folding paper. Boulder is round rock. Origami Boulder is wadded up paper! You understand now, dumbo? Then hurry up and buy wadded paper! You see picture at top of site don...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/origami-boulder/The map above shows a real-time view of some of the disasters being tracked by the RSOE HAVARIA Emergency and Disaster Information Service in Budapest, Hungary. The neat (although slightly morbid) thing about the si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/19/watch-disasters-in-real-time/Australia "The Wonders Down Under" commercial circa 1984 featuring the legendary Paul Hogan [wiki]. Hoges is promoting Australia to the USA to get Americans to holiday in Australia and he uses the line "I'll slip...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/the-wonders-down-under/Bizarre ad from the 1950s introducing instant pudding from Jell-O. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/the-busy-day-dessert/The Oreo Big Stuf was a big Oreo cookie. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]. Question #1 > Does anyone remember these big cookies? Where'd they go? Question #2 >*/s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/its-a-big-oreo-to-go/"I have the same thing in sugar-free" Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/7-up-talking-burger-commercial/Nut cracking behavior of Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest National Park in Côte d'Ivoire. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]. Found at Primatology.org. (previous Neatorama post here)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/chimpanzee-nut-cracking/We've featured this "hollow face" dragon paper sculpture illusion a while ago, but recently I ran across a video of it and was just as astounded as I was back then. Here it is: hit play or go to http://video.g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/dragon-paper-sculpture-illusion/Neatorama reader Andres Varela wrote to us about students driving tiny old Renault 4L from France to Africa in the 4L Trophy tour [in French]:On February 15th two thousand students left France in tiny Reanult 4's, he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/tiny-old-renault-4l-rally/The “Genbaku dome†was the closest building to the Hiroshima bomb's ground zero to keep standing after the blast. The explosion epicenter was only 150 meters from this building. All the surrounding const...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/hiroshima-dome-panorama/The body is sculpted out of food - to start, you cut out a piece of skin (it even bleeds) and eat the interior. This is insane! Link - via TokioMango...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/sushi-restaurant-mimics-cannibalism/Gung Hay Fat Choy! æå–œå‘è´¢! Today is the Lunar New Year’s Day, {wiki} ushering in the Year of the Pig. The celebration is 15 days long, with different traditional activities for each day. It e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/happy-chinese-new-year/Nigerian 419 letters are the scourge of the internet. Inboxes are flooded with requests for help in moving large sums of money which can only result in emptying the recipient’s wallet. Or it could resul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/nigerian-parrot/The physics behind a tesla coil are beyond me. But wouldn’t this be a grand way to deter theives from your car? This page at Tesla Down Under has lots more pictures of tesla coils and their possible applications...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/the-eye-of-sauron-is-on-your-valuables/The Victorian Era, which spanned the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901), was an amazing period with great advances and change in virtually all facets of life. In technology, there was an explosion of inventions which...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/victoriana-magazine-review-a-must-read-for-the-victorian-enthusiasts/8 year old Sreelakshmi Suresh designs and manages the website for her school in Kerala, India. According to the school's site:"She is the 'Youngest Web Designer Girl of the World'. She has got 18 International Awar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/18/worlds-youngest-website-designer/Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs is a fantastic HDR photographer. All of his shots are amazing (like this one of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at night), but I particularly like this one of Holland.Check out his blog and be pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/17/trey-ratcliffs-hdr-photography/An unknown artist left an eaglet in a nest next to Alexander Calder's Eagle sculpture in Belltown's Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/17/calders-eagle-statue-got-an-eaglet/Superbitus is a piggy bank made by Art. Lebedev's Studio to look like a black nuclear bomb: when it's full, just drop the bomb to get at the money inside! Link - via Chip Chick and Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/17/black-nuke-piggy-bank-drop-the-bomb-to-get-at-your-money/Academics studying ancient Roman coins with the images of Mark Antony and Cleopatra said that the pair are actually quite ugly:According to the likenesses on opposite sides of the coin, Mark Antony had bulging eyes, a th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/17/cleopatra-was-actually-one-ugly-queen/What would happen if you give some artists a kid's drawing to copy and make their own? Here are some kid creatures redrawn by professional illustrators and artists. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/17/kids-drawings-redrawn-by-professional-illustrators/While it's not exactly a Star Trek Holodeck, VirtuSphere is definitely big step in the world of virtual reality: it eliminates bumping into walls!The VirtuSphere platform consists of a large hollow sphere that sits o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/17/virtusphere-virtual-reality-without-running-into-walls/
