A few months ago, Nathaniel Stookey composed "Junkestra," a symphony played with instruments fashioned out of recycled garbage! Listen to the music, as played by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/junkestra-music-played-with-recycled-junk/To spice it up, Croatian food company Podravka uses thermoreactive ink to print part of their annual report - a recipe book appropriately titled Well Done - so you have to bake it in the oven first before it can be read!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/this-annual-report-needs-to-be-baked-first/First it was tupperware, now it's Taser: Lynne Rigberg of Arizona is holding Taser party to introduce Taser guns (some come in pink!) to women:"It's light, it's small and it comes in colors," Rigberg said....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/taser-party/European scientists have discovered a 390-million-year-old fossilized claw of giant sea scorpion. The man-sized monster possibly was the ancestor of modern day scoprions and even spiders:The immense fossilised claw o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/giant-sea-scorpion/Meet Lil'Bit: a cat born with two faces and three eyes!Lil'Bit may look like the Frankenstein of felines, but he somehow manages to come a whisker away from being really cute. [...]He lives with his 47-year-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/the-cat-with-two-faces/Spanish graphic designer Noa Bembibre has just released her 2007 Cats Let Nothing Darken Their Roar calendar, (what? you'll see... ). If it doesn't make any sense to you (maybe it's morning and you haven't had your coffe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/noa-bembibres-calendar/The tiny country of Andorra has zero unemployment. It has the highest human life expectancy on Earth (83.52 years). It is also a tax haven....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/trivia-zero-unemployment-in-tax-haven-andorra/The Mofu people of northern Cameroon, Africa, have developed a unique process of defending themselves and their crops against termites and other pests: by calling on killer ants they called the jaglavak (Dorylus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/master-of-the-killer-ants/... who ya gonna call? In Texas, where feral boars run rampant, you can call a pig-killing hitman like Joe "The Dehoganator" Paddock (pictured to the left).They do everything big in Texas. And apparently, wild...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/when-wild-pigs-attack/The Peace Shirt Coalition members: (back row from left) Michael Varde, Connor Barth, Cheyenne Riley, Lauren Runde, Kirra Scudder, (bottom from left) Siobhan Keenan and Skylar Stains. Photo: Meagan Happel/The VergeSkylar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/the-peace-shirt-controversy/Icelandic design group Vik Prjónsdóttir designed this woolen "Beard Cap," a balaclava that keeps you warm and gives you a stylish beard and moustache!http://kitsunenoir.com/blog/2007/11/1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/the-beard-cap/Paleontologist Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and colleagues discovered a dinosaur with a very strange jaw that looks like a vacuum-cleaner:While Nigersaurus' mouth is shaped like the wide intake slot of a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/dinosaur-with-vacuum-cleaner-like-jaw/That big ball of spikes is George, an extremely obese hedgehog (he tipped the scales at almost 6 lb or 2.7 kg) found by a wildlife aid group on the side of the road along with his friend Mildred, which is normal-sized.Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/extremely-fat-hedgehog/Photo: Heritage Auction GalleriesAn anonymous (and very rich) collector just ponied up $30 million to buy 1,000 rare prototype or pattern coins c. 1700 that never went to production:This experimental coin from 1792 w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/rare-1700s-pattern-coins-sold-for-30-million/Amazon is trying to do for books what Apple's iPod did for music: Amazon Kindle is not the world's first the electronic book reader, but perhaps it has the right combination of features to make it work (Jeff Bezos, the C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/amazon-kindle-the-ipod-for-books/Etsy seller cleodee has created an entire nativity scene acted out by ... squids (she called it "Squidtivity"): Link - via Needcoffee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/squid-nativity-scene/Heather Mills, former Beatle Paul McCartney's estranged wife claimed that 80% of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. To save the planet, she has a pretty specific suggestion: drink rats' milk!Ms Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/save-the-planet-drink-rats-milk/To stop Polish and Romanian immigrants from taking fish from rivers and lakes for their Christmas dinner, the UK Environmental Agency put up this pictographic warning:To any peckish Poles or ravenous Romanians, the m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/21/dear-immigrants-stop-stealing-our-fish/In 1998, British eco-pioneer Rishi Sowa decided to build his own private island using nets filled with empty plastic bottles. He poured sand and planted trees, and called it Spiral Island: The original Spiral Island...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/spiral-island-diy-floating-island-with-250000-empty-plastic-bottles/Places is a brand new neat feature on Flickr that lets you search and view photos taken all over the globe. In many ways the Places project is a big thank you to all the wonderful photographers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/flickr-places-photos-from-around-the-globe/Chris Gilmour, a U.K. artist represented by the Perugi Artecontemporanea Gallery in Padua, Italy, creates amazing sculptures using cardboard. Link - via haha.nusculptures...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/cardboard-sculptures/Former governor of Arkansas and 2008 Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee just launched this ad, called Huck Chuck Facts, where he and Internet meme-sensation Chuck Norris traded "facts".This must've locked in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/huck-chuck-facts-huckabee-ad-with-chuck-norris/Martin Fackler wrote an interesting article for The New York Times about a boot camp/rehab in South Korea for troubled youths battling a deadly addiction: the Internet!Up to 30 percent of South Koreans under 18, or a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/boot-camp-for-web-addicted-youths/Emil Kacic, a wealthy Croatian lawyer, realized that he must be the ugliest man in the world when he racked up 5,000 marriage proposal rejections!Croatian lawyer, Emil Kacic, who has logged all the failures in a little b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/the-ugliest-man-in-the-world/Remember the story of a black swan that fell in love with the big, white swan-shaped paddleboat last year?Well, it must be true love as one year later, the couple is still together!... No matter what park officials a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/swan-love-story-part-ii/Having something named after you is quite an honor. Right? Well, maybe not: here's an article from our pal mental_floss on the 10 Awful Words and the People They're Named For. Such as:1. dunce*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/awful-words-named-after-people/This video clip by Child Friendly Australia, a campaign by the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, drives home the simple point of how impressionable children really are. Only after I became a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/children-see-children-do/Jackie and Dunlap engage in bi-partisan ribbing outside the Democratic debate in Las Vegas. No one is spared, not even Jamie Farr. Check Jackie & Dunlap's YouTube channel for more. Salon.com....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/red-state-update-las-vegas/You remember tribbles, of course, but you’ll have fun seeing the other creatures you may or may not recall from the original Star Trek TV series. Wired has a gallery of the 10 cheesiest creatures from Star Trek. To b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/20/star-treks-10-cheesiest-classic-creatures/Hanukkah begins at sundown on December 4th this year. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has instructions for making your own Mini-LED Menorah! Link...
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