Richie Trezise emigrated to New Zealand when he got a job there, so naturally he wanted his wife Rowan to come over. But the New Zealand immigration department rejected her request because she was too fat! (They were afr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/new-zealand-fat-no-immigration-for-you/The Human Marvels has a post about Laverie Vallee, better known as Charmion, a "strongwoman" who performed risqué (by the standards back then) striptease while swinging on the trapeeze!The act opened...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/charmion-trapeezestriptease-artist/In the late 1800s, universities in the United States adopted the standardization of cap and gowns students wear to graduation ceremonies:European institutions have always had diversity in their academic dress, but Am...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/the-color-of-fields-of-study-in-college-what-those-sashes-worn-during-graduation-ceremony-actually-signify/From etsy seller tinaseamonster, here's a Christmas tree ornament that wishes you an enjoyable holiday season! Link - via Miniature Brainwave...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/christmas-tree-ornament-wishes-you-an-enjoyable-last-holiday/Hit play or follow the link to watch this guy distilling the tar contained in two boxes of cigarettes. Now, don't smoke! Link to Metacafe video - via Geeks a Sexy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/need-a-reason-to-quit-smoking/Manhattan style, no less! Found at One Large Prawn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/fish-assholes-in-a-can/President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 (144 years ago today). But what if President Lincoln were a modern CEO? Then his Gettysburg Address would be given as a Powerpoint pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/the-gettysburg-address-reimagined/Researchers in Belgium infiltrated cockroach colonies with robots in order to study their group behavior. The robots didn’t look much like cockroaches, but the roaches didn’t mind as long as they smelled rig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/robot-cockroaches-fool-the-real-things/In Terminus, a short movie by Trevor Cawood, a man tries to shake an annoying concrete creature who follows him around. Link [Quicktime] | Link [YouTube] -via I Am Bored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/19/terminus/Santa Claus left a comment at my site today, reminding me about his personal blog. The latest post tells about the launch of his business blog, Corporate Responsibility @ The North Pole, where you can look up Santa’s s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/that-old-blogger-santa-claus/63-year-old Christian Falco, a French cook, has prepared the world's largest mechoui grill -- spit-roasting a 550-kg camel for 15 hours at a seaside Moroccan town south of Rabat. 2.7 tonnes of wood and 15 litres of o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/worlds-largest-mechoui-grill/What it might have looked like if Star Trek was made a 100 years ago by George Melies. View the full version of this brilliant at sisterson.co.uk. Link [YouTube] - linkfilter.net via Fanboystar trek, movies, s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/steam-trek-the-moving-picture/A nicely put together video clip, showing various optical illusions and other mind teasers. You've probably seen a lot of them already - like the fact that it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/optical-illusions-compilation-video/The Cloud is Nadim Karam's design concept for a resort city elevated 300 metres in the air and supported on slanting legs resembling rain. Where it's supposed to be located? Yes, you guessed it: in Dubai. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/the-cloud/Shane Willis'MC Mechanic - Hand Fixing Hand (left) is a fantastic and futuristic homage to MC Escher's iconic Drawing Hands (1948): Link to larger pic - via BB Gadgets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/mc-mechanic-hand-fixing-hand-by-shane-willis/First it was cars, then the flexible ownership concept moves on to ... pets! Flexpetz aims to provide pets on a temporary basis to dog lovers who are unable to own a dog "full-time," either because of restric...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/flexible-ownership-of-pets/Reuters has a neat gallery of a primary school in China that is built inside a gigantic cave:Children attend class at the Dongzhong (literally meaning "in cave") primary school at a Miao village in Ziyun co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/going-to-school-in-a-cave/After being ravaged by years of civil war, Angola is littered with thousands of landmines all over the country. In 23 years, over 80,000 people had died or lost limbs due to one wrong step.To call attention to this probl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/miss-landmine-beauty-pageant-for-angolan-women-mutilated-by-mines/In this piece called Dynamic Trinity, artist Matt Burlingame depicted the heroes of three videogames (Mario, Dig Dug and Pac-Man) vanquishing their enemies. There's something bloodcurdling about the way Pac-Man...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/dynamic-trinity-mario-dig-dug-and-pac-man-artwork-by-matt-burlingame/There are many schemes to organize books: alphabetical order, by author, or even by color. This Equation Bookshelf by estúdio breder, however, lets you to organize your books according to a criterion we d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/equation-bookshelf/Photo: Musely [Flickr]Flickr user Musely took this series of photographs lining up the illustration of buildings on the back of US currencies with the actual buildings in Washington, D.C.! Shown are the Lincoln Memorial...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/building-on-a-dollar-bill-and-the-real-thing/Whether you give presentations regularly or only have to give one every now and then, you'd know that the simplest things can make a difference between a good talk and a bad one. And even if you're a seminar maven, there...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/18/all-i-know-about-presentations-i-learned-from-theatre-school/Death Scene: While Waiting for a Train to Pass, the Roadrunner is Fatally Clubbed with a Stop Sign (2003)In the Looney Tunes cartoon, the Road Runner always managed to survive death traps set by Wile E. Coyote. But not i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/road-runners-death-scenes/Police in Augusta, Georgia hit upon a brilliant idea to catch gangbangers: just open a head shop / tattoo parlor and watch criminals walk in to sell their illegal weapons! The tattoo parlor was the brainchild of Rich...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/cops-opened-a-tattoo-parlor-to-catch-criminals/Thanksgiving is just around the corner but it's not too late to try and persuade whoever is making your dinner this year to try this recipe: bacon-wrapped turkey!Link - via YesButNoButYes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/bacon-wrapped-turkey/Critics Rant created the Blog Readibility Test, an online tool to check what level of education is required to understand your blog. The tool is easy to use: just plug in your blog's URL to find out.Apparently, to unde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/what-is-your-blogs-reading-level/Italian artist Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi started out as a mechanical engineer, but ended up working as an artist creating lamps wonderfully shaped like whimsical household objects.Link - via Inhabitat and Make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/lamponis-lamps/It's the classic Abbott and Constello sketch about baseball, but with Master Yoda and JarJar Binks from Star Wars. [YouTube Link] Hat tip to Ken Hagler...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/whos-on-first-with-yoda-and-jarjar-binks/Photo: Sad Tomato One day, French postman Ferdinand Cheval tripped over a stone when he was out walking. He was so inspired by bizarrely-shaped stone that he went back the next day to the same spot and began collectin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/ferdinand-chevals-ideal-palace/Hit the Play button to watch the awesome wet folded paper artwork of Eric Joisel, who is considered one of the best paper folders in the world. Links: Eric's website - via Paper Forest Previously on Neatorama:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/eric-joisel-the-origami-master/
