The following is an article from Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader There's nothing funny about Hitler, but he is endlessly fascinating. Since Congress passed the Nazi War Crimes Di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/17/17-strange-facts-about-hitler/6emeia, a street art project by SAO! and Delafuent of São Paulo, Brazil, features whimsical street paintings where storm drains and sewers are transformed into fantastic works of art!Link: 6emeia | gallery at fotoblog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/16/storm-drain-street-art/This fantastic photo of the Moon, the stars, and Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) over Earth was taken by the International Space Station (Expedition 13) in 2006.There's more: http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20050129.h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/16/the-moon-stars-and-aurora-borealis-over-earth/A while ago, scientists at the National University of Singapore created transgenic, fluorescent zebra fish by injecting red, green, and orange fluorescence genes from a jellyfish into the fish eggs. They did this so the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/16/glofish-fluorescent-pet-fish/Something weird is happening at Post Secret, the popular blog that features secrets mailed in anonymously in art-form on postcards by its viewers.Today, the blog was gone: it was shut down by Blogger, a free blogging ser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/16/postsecret-a-spam-blog-according-to-blogger/According to the website, the NosePouch is newest functional invention in a handkerchief since the Dark Ages! The new "pouch" design helps contain "excessive nasal discharge" (read: boogers!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/16/nosepouch-the-best-invention-in-handkerchief-since-the-dark-ages/At the headquarters of the Tupperware Brands Corporation, the company that makes those ubiquitous plastic storage container synonymous with its name, stands a 100-feet (30 m) tall tower made of plastic Tupperware bowls!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/tupperware-tower/Spluch recently posted about a strange pig with wooly hide in Argentina, so Neatorama reader Emma Douglas sent us more cute curly coated pigs: the curly coated Mangalitza pigs at Pig Paradise Farm. Link - Thanks Emma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/more-cute-woolly-pigs/Not content with putting electronic bug to monitor your trash bin, Big Brother in UK used spy plane to fly overhead to identify homes that are wasting energy:Spy-in-the-sky cameras are being used to identify househol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/using-spy-plane-to-identify-homes-that-are-wasting-energy/Sohu blog user Wonderdasher created this insanely detailed paper model of Bumblebee Transformer from KFC cartons, milk boxes, chopsticks, parts of a ball-point pen, plastic spring and glue! The robot has more than 60 mov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/moveable-transformer-robot-made-from-kfc-bucket/While we're still talking about intricate paper models, check out the paper folding and wire work of Polly Verity at Polyscene. Look at them and weep! Link - via Art MoCo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/paper-folding-and-wire-work-by-polly-verity/We posted about the proposed elephant building for the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France, in 1758. Well, several hundred years later, an elephant building (called the Lat Prao Tuk Chang) went up in Ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/the-elephant-building-in-bangkok-thailand/This site swiftly creates anagrams. "Neatorama" produced some swell results like "Arena Atom," and "Aorta Amen." Via Geek Sugar....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/anagram-generator/Meet the world’s first sheep-hog — a pig with its own fleece. Scientists are baffled by the strange swine — which they say is a pig “at heart†but with a woolly hide. The one-yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/its-mutton-dressed-as-ham/Photo: Ian Fairclough / Valley BureauWhen 12th grader David Shepherd and Travis Price saw another student bullied for wearing a pink shirt, they decided that enough is enough and got a bunch of students to come to school...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/pinkd-students-pwnd-bullies-with-pink-shirts/Ouch! That's 29-year-old yoga instructor Lakshmikanth of Bangalore, India, lifting a 6.5 kg (14.3 lb.) statue of Hindu elephant god Ganesha using his eye socket! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/man-lifts-elephant-statue-with-eye-socket/David Hanson of Hanson Robotics developed a robot (named Zeno, after his real life equivalent: his son) that can recognize faces, convey emotion, engage in conversation and move around:"It's a representation of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/zeno-toy-robot-with-artificial-intelligence/Mr. Clean - USA Don Limpio - Spain Maestro Limpio - Mexico Mr. Proper - Europe and Eastern Europe Monsieur Propre - France Meister Proper - Germany Mr. Clean [wiki] by any other name is one heck of a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/the-many-names-of-mr-clean/Neatorama reader Patrick Barden, who is legally blind due to a degenerative eye problem he was born with, created this awesome "origami" peacock made from 1,300 to 1,400 individually folded pieces of paper!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/legally-blind-man-folded-an-origami-peacock-with-1300-pieces-of-paper/This custom trailer from Gameday Customs is perfect for hardcore tailgate party throwers - it comes complete with TV, satellite dish, DVD player, generator, running water, cold beer on tap and even a toilet!Link - via Be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/the-ultimate-tailgate-trailer/Here's a new contestant for dumbest criminal ever:A western New York man faces grand larceny charges after being pulled over in a car that he said he stole so he could turn himself in on another charge.In for a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/man-stole-car-to-turn-self-in/Turns out a lot of Japanese people still believe that your blood type can tell a lot about your character! The whole thing started in 1927, when Takeji Furukawa, a professor at Tokyo Women's Teacher's School published a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/japanese-blood-type-personality-test/It's not unusual for drivers low on cash to turn their personal vehicle into gypsy cab (unlicensed taxi), but usually they're a little more discreet than this guy in Dublin, Ireland: he created a homemade "Taxi"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/15/homemade-taxi-sign/Here's an ingenious way to camouflage your beer fridge at work to hide the stash from co-workers! Link, via Zedomax and Make - Thanks Tonya Howell!Or how about hiding in plain sight? (Featured before on Neatoram...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/the-office-stash-camouflaged-beer-and-alcohol-storage/Talking 'bout the office, Neatorama reader Daniel "Neatoddicted" Chong sent us his office art creation: the tape dispenser whale. Link - Thanks Daniel!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/tape-dispenser-whale/Here's a neat article at Candy Addict about the top 10 urban legends about candies. For example:The Gruesome Origins of LifeSaver's NameHas anyone ever tried to freak you out with this little bedtime...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/candy-urban-legends/Neatorama reader Fosta sent this one in: I was tucking into a toblerone today, and decided to have a look into the history of this unusual chocolate bar. Aside from a rather interesting history, (maybe Einstein handl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/the-hidden-bear-in-toblerone-chocolates-logo/Ah, classic Bizarro for our weekly collaboration here on Neatorama. For more, check out Dan Piraro's website: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/bizarro-halloweeny/Yes - I poached this from BoingBoing, but only because I found it to be so NEAT. If you're of "a certain age," - and you're a geek - then you might remember playing the text adventure game Zork (you can play an onli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/you-are-likely-to-be-eaten-by-a-grue/From an AP review: "Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind", by Margalit Fox: It sounds like a curious fairy-tale — a signed language created out of thin air, spoken in a remote d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/14/the-village-of-sign-language/
