Having trouble with your rebellious teenage kid? Maybe discipline and punishments don't work, but according to this one mom, cigarettes work wonders:Teenager Sam Holt's behaviour would leave most parents in despair -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/woman-rewards-her-teenage-girl-with-cigarettes/Pieke Bergmans created a series of LED lamps titled "Light Blub," poking fun at the incandescent light bulb:And what exactly is a light blub? "The answer is simple," says the young Dutch designer....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/light-blub-by-pieke-bergmans/Shaun Suhoski of Gardner, Massachusetts, is a single dad - and like a growing number of the 92 million single people in the United States - he likes it that way:With the number of singles approaching nearly half the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/single-and-liking-it/A team of Japanese adventurers have claimed to find "yeti's footprint":"The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/yetis-footprint/Whatever you do - do not, I repeat, do not teach the cha-cha in Plano. You may just land in jail for that:Instead of dancing with the stars, Eric Rush is dancing behind bars. Teaching the cha-cha sent him to the slam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/teaching-cha-cha-lands-man-in-jail/Pac-Man? Almost! It's Pouf-Man designer chair from Italian design studio QAYOT: Link - via Technabob...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/pouf-man-chair-looks-suspiciously-like-pac-man/Well, this is gruesome. Link -via Everlasting Blort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/body-in-a-bag-costume/The annual Toronto Zombie Walk attracted 3,000 of the undead over the weekend. This zombie apparently couldn't find any brains and had to settle for a pizza! See lots more gruesomely awesome pictures at BlogTO. Link*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/toronto-zombie-walk/Cliff divers deal with insane heights, variable water levels, and falls that are not exactly straight down. Take a look at locations where the most adventurous cliff divers risk life and limb for an extreme thrill. Pic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/21/7-most-extreme-cliff-diving-spots-on-earth/There are places on earth where tectonic plates are moving, sometimes too slow for humans to discern, sometimes rather suddenly. deputy dog found five places where the earth has cracked open, with photographic evidence...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/5-enormous-cracks/Chris Hausbeck unveiled this 50 foot tall, 10 ton sculpture on the grounds of Wild Bill's Nostalgia in Middletown Connecticut last week. The Head was purchased 5 years ago from an antique shop near Gillette Castle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/keeshan-delight-number-9/Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has instructions for making simple ghost decorations with cool LED eyes!You can make these simple LED ghosties (based on LED throwies) from a soda bottle, a couple of LEDs and batterie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/led-ghosties-for-halloween/Why have a bare wall when you can have a Living Dead Zombie Attack Wall Art Vinyl Decal? Link -Thanks, John "Widgett" Robinson! ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/zombie-wall-decals/Using modified dolls and other props, Graham Rawle has created a new illustrated version of The Wizard of Oz. You can see an animated "trailer" for the book here. And go here to buy prints. Previously o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/graham-rawles-version-of-the-wizard-of-oz/Frustrated that a neighbor's kid's ball kept on landing in her front yard, Edna Jester decided that she wasn't going to give it back - so the neighbor called the police on her!Cops arrested the 88-year-old grandmother an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/88-year-old-grandma-arrested-for-not-returning-kids-ball/Remember Pan, the exercisin' chimp we featured on Neatorama not long ago? Here's another clip of the versatile simian ... on a Segway!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Japan Probe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/chimp-on-a-segway/When you got to go, you got to go - even in a football field. Here's the story of how several New Berlin Eisenhower High School's varsity football players got into trouble when they satisfied the urge in a rival high sch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/classy-football-players-peed-on-rivals-field/Archaeologists Quetta Kaye and Scott Fitzpatrick have confirmed the long-suspected habit of prehistoric man: they used drugs!They found ceramic bowls, as well as tubes for inhaling drug fumes or powders, which appear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/the-stoner-age/Gracie the horse got a nasty surprise when curiosity got the better of her and she decided to check out a gap in a tree trunk: The horse, called Gracie, was unable to free itself and could have been in danger were it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/horse-got-head-stuck-in-tree/Cheeta, the oldest living chimp and Tarzan co-star, has "written" an autobiography of sorts titled "Me Cheeta" and fans are puzzled as to who actually wrote the thing: In the book, Cheeta describe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/me-cheeta/A breif History of communication from ljudbilden on Vimeo.Humans just want to talk to each other ... here's a fantastic stop-motion whiteboard animation by Kristofer Ström of Varelsen on the brief history of com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/brief-history-of-communication/Half a decade century ago, US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres got the order he'll never forget: fire all rockets on a UFO flying over England! Here's the story: On the night of May 20 1957, Dr Torres, then aged...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/fighter-pilot-ordered-to-unleash-rockets-at-ufo/Got a bright idea? According to researchers, you're most likely to get that "Eureka" moment not early in the morning, but late at night:EARLY to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy, wealthy and wise, so g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/most-creative-time-1004-pm/Arthur Conan Doyle first created the character of Sherlock Holmes in 1887. Today the detective is the subject of the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz. Can you match eight Sherlock Holmes story titles to their plot lines? I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/the-games-afoot/(vimeo link) Their name is easy to remember: Tokyo-based d.v.d is a trio with two drum players, Itoken and Jimanica and visualiser Takashi Yamaguchi (ymg) on the hardware front. So while the two are furiously...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/dvd/Here are some stories you can share for Halloween, or maybe even travel destinations! Web Urbanist has a slide show featuring abandoned places all over the world. Shown here is Balestrino, Italy, a medieval town abandone...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/24-tales-of-ghost-towns-and-abandoned-cities/In a post about the ten longest limousines in the world, we find this: The last limousine is actually the longest super stretch limousine in the world. Total length is 100 feet (more than 30 meters). It has 26 ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/the-worlds-longest-limousine/After World War II, the Soviet Union jumped into the nuclear arms race with both feet. A plant was built in a secret city named Chelyabinsk-40 to produce plutonium. Between 1948 and 1990, a million residents of the Chel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/in-soviet-russia-lake-contaminates-you/This lamp, named LULL, slowly turns itself off at night, and opens gradually like a flower in the morning while it intensifies to help you greet a new day! It's part of 40 of The Most Creative Lamp Designs Ever from Fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/the-gentle-light/Now you can easily re-cycle your old sticky notes and turn them in to fun 3D models. Each one of these new note pads from Suck UK has instructions for 10 different shapes. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/20/origami-sticky-notes/
