Steven Jetley from Shrewsbury, England, had a falling out with Lloyds TSB bank, so he decided to have his password reflect his feelings towards the bank:A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/customers-pants-password-has-banks-knickers-in-a-twist/Is this really what will happen when the physicists at CERN finally start smashing particles in the Large Hadron Collider this fall? If so, at least we're all in it together. Black holes don't discriminate. [YouTube...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/the-cern-black-hole/There are some places you pretty much expect to be on the National Historic Register. Sprawling manors, Presidential birthplaces, historical monuments. But there are some pretty unexpected spots on the list too. Here...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/unexpected-places-on-the-national-historic-landmark-list/Remember we told you about Sneeze Magazine? Well the newspaper-style magazine released their 2nd issue, it includes classic Rickey Henderson and Darryl Strawberry images that are so huge (22x16 inches) yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/sneeze-magazine-major-league-issue/That's Neatorama's resident rock star, drummer Rober Birming of Eskobar (who also blogs at GeekAlerts) and his dubious cat Prosit (that's Swedish for "bless you," he told me). For today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Captio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/caption-monkey-40-o-rly/One day you're minding your own business ... and the next day the earth opens up and swallows your home - literally! WebEcoist lists 13 of the biggest, strangest, and most devastating sinkholes on Earth. The one on the l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/the-biggest-baddest-sinkholes-on-earth/Photo: joeng [Flickr]One of my fave blogs, deputy dog, has done it again with this really neat list of 9 of the world's neatest bridges. This one above is the Henderson Wave bridge, a pedestrian bridge in Singapore:&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/henderson-wave-bridge/Things aren't getting any better for the US economy. And now the FDIC, which insures bank deposits up to $100,000, has added 117 banks on its "troubled bank" watch list:Thanks to a collapsing housing market...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/more-bank-failures-to-come-fdic-has-list-of-117-banks-in-trouble/No, that's not photoshoppery - Chinese artist Liu Bolin covers his subjects head to toe with paint to camouflage them almost perfectly into the background.Link | Exhibition at Gelerie Bertin-Toublanc - Thanks Jon Jas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/camouflage-art-by-liu-bolin/It's all in the name of "fighting poverty" or so said Tyrone Freeman, the boss of the Service International Employees Union in Los Angeles. That's all fine and dandy, except the problem is he's fighting poverty...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/union-boss-fight-poverty-at-a-cigar-club-golf-tournament-hotels/Photo: Peter RosemannNow that is a chair sculpture - you're looking at "Black Whole Conference" by Michel de Broin (2006). It was sculpted out of 72 chairs, and is a part of the Québec Triennial...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/black-whole-conference-chair-sculpture-by-michel-de-broin/Dear reader: If doing fun stuff usually involve an adrenaline rush, then this post is for you! Here's AirKick, a "sport and adventure device" that sends you hurtling into (hopefully) the pool:It propels par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/airkick-the-water-catapult/That, my friends, is the most awesomest lamp ever: MYBrain, the table lamp by Alexander Lervik. It's based on the artist's real brain as taken by an MRI scan, then processed through a 3D printer.Link - via Modern Urban L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/the-brain-lamp/Bigger Pic at NASAThe Apollo 11 travelled more than 200,000 miles to the moon - but did you know that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first men on the moon went all that distance only to hop about the area smaller th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/map-of-moon-exploration-how-far-did-armstrong-and-aldrin-roam/Andrea Hale of The Retro Blog has a neat post about what The Golden Girls did before they were famous.Betty White (left), for instance, did a Fantastik Disinfectant cleaner; Bea Arthur starred in Mame with Lucille Ball;...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/the-golden-girls-before-they-were-golden/Can a boy be too good a baseball player to play? Here's a story of 9-year-old Jericho Scott, whose fastball (clocked at 40 mph) was deemed too fast/good/dangerous for the youth baseball league he's playing: "I t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/27/boy-banned-from-playing-baseball-for-being-too-good/
