In the not-too-distant past, it was against the law in many states for people of different races to marry. Richard and Mildred Loving got married in Washington, DC in 1958 and returned to their hometown in Virginia as cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/loving-day/Insecta Fantasia is an art installation at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, which includes the restored historic Ballentine House. It is fitting location for artist Jennifer Angus to show her work. Nestled within...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/insecta-fantasia/The blog My Milk Toof features the pictorial adventures of ickle and Lardee, two baby teeth. Here's the backstory: When I was young, I placed my baby teeth under my pillow and when i woke up I'd find a shiny new q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/my-milk-toof/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWhxCB0ndJE][YouTube - Link]Scientists have determined that birds can indeed dance, but can they headbang to death metal? You betcha! Behold, the Death Metal Parrot!From the Upcomi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/death-metal-parrot/Several movies and TV shows have featured the plot line of someone heading to Washington, DC to become involved in the business of running our nation. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss features trivia about nine o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/%e2%80%a6goes-to-washington/A new English word is created about every 98 minutes, according to the website The Global Language Monitor. Based on that rate, English passed the millionth word mark earlier today. H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/the-millionth-english-word-web-20/In Pixar's new film Up! a homeowner refuses to sell when development moves in to the neighborhood. This situation occurs quite often in real life, and the remaining property is called a "nail house" because it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/6-stubborn-nail-houses/Have you ever seen a neighbor's fruit left unharvested, all those fruit wasted? Think there's a better way? Though neighbors trading apples for plums isn't exactly new phenomenon, the Internet is changing the way and fue...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/the-underground-fruit-economy-fresh-fruit-via-your-neighbors/You know them and love them (or maybe you hate them) - those T.V. theme songs that are so catchy they get in your head for days and refuse to leave. But how did they come to be in the first place? Here are the stories...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/the-stories-behind-10-tv-theme-songs/Commercial fisherman Solomon Rodney snared an 8-foot missile while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico last month. He tied the missile to the top of his boat and left it there for the remainder of his 14 day trip. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/fisherman-hooks-8-foot-missile/Politics in Taiwan have always been rough, but this is downright dirty. A man was sentenced to 5 months in jail for tearing a wig off Taiwan legislator Chiu Yi. The sentence was for depriving Chiu of the "f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/09/man-ripped-politicians-wig-off-got-jail-time-for-depriving-his-freedom-to-look-pretty/Psst! Do you need friends, relatives, or even your boss to come to your wedding but don't have any? If you're in Japan, then you're in luck: no need to make friends, just hire 'em!Office Agents, a Tokyo-based company...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/09/big-in-japan-rent-a-friend/Being out of a job usually ranks in the top 3 nightmares of life for most adults, but not for some young folks. Instead of looking for work, these people, usually singles in their 20s and 30s, prefer to stay with "f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/09/funemployment-out-of-work-and-happy-about-it/More cute photos of the big-eared hedgehog at Izismile - via Rue The DayLong it has been since we last had a Caption Monkey game (sorry Adam!) I promise to be better, and thanks to Adam's generous offer, we have an excel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/09/caption-monkey-59-yoda-hedgehog/The following is a reprint from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Universe. Why should dinosaurs have all the fun? Here are a few prehistoric critters that are every bit as bizarre as the st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/09/prehistoric-oddities/North Korea may have gone nuclear, but that didn't stop this uniformed South Korean officer from doing what's truly important: dancing to the pop hit "Nobody" by The Wonder Girls.Stay with it, it gets better an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/09/korean-man-in-uniform-dances-to-the-wonder-girls-nobody/What could possibly be more awesome than Star Trek and Monty Python? Why, the two of them mashed together, of course! Here's a mashup of the original Star Trek series with the Knights of the Round Table (Camelot) song fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/09/star-trek-meets-monty-python/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0sOCl9lV60][YouTube - Link] What does it take to create an electronica music? If you look at Nick Bertke's (YouTube user Pogo) creation, the answer is simple: sine wave bass, c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/09/expialidocious-mary-poppins-turned-into-electronica/Photo: XsuperflyX [Flickr] In this Flickr pool titled Looking Into the Past, people hold out old pictures of their homes or neighborhods and overlap them with the current structures as background to create fascinating &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/looking-into-the-past/Out of necessity, pit latrines are the toilet of choice for hundreds of millions of people around the world. When they become full, these pits of poo have to be emptied - often by hand (well, technically, buckets). Needl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/amazing-poo-extractor/Every year, scores of people fling themselves down Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, England, risking their necks and even lives ... all in hope of catching (and winning) a block of cheese. Behold the sports of cheese...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/gloucestershire-cheese-rolling-2009/When we consider art we tend to think that it is only created at the hand of man, but that simply isn't true ... Computers have been creating incredible works of art for years. The News In Print blog has a neat review...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/7-incredible-computer-generated-works-of-art/In the lush Australian old-growth forest of Eukalyptus of Mount Dandenongs, Victoria, are a set of mesmerizing sculptures by a self-taught artist named William Ricketts. Environmental Graffiti blog has the story:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/rainforest-sculptures-by-william-ricketts/Perhaps of all hidden architectures, nothing amazes us more than secret tunnels. Some, like the Lizard People's tunnel under Los Angeles, promised great treasures, if only you're brave enough to burrow deeply. Others...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/worlds-most-fascinating-tunnel-networks/Talk about snatching victory from the jaws of danger! Student photographer Casey Gutteridge snapped this priceless photo of a daring rat literally stealing food from right under the nose of a leopard:The little rat -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/daring-rodent-steals-leopards-food/Forget DNA! Scientists have re-traced our evolutionary tree and confirmed human's relationship to fellow apes through laughter. Who says you can't learn anything by tickling chimps?To investigate that, Marina Dav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/evolutionary-roots-of-laughter/Whether we like it or not, weapons play a pivotal role in human history. Most of them are simple and ruthlessly practical, whereas others evolved to become highly ornate, to the point that they could no longer be used as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/cutting-edge-weapons-10-unusual-knives-swords-and-blades/They do not look as if they belong in this solar system, let alone on planet Earth. This collection of photos reveal the strange beauty of insect eggs (though that may well be a matter of taste). Close up they are quite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/the-astonishing-eggs-of-alien-nation/You'd be excused if you ask why we're posting a photo of somebody's kitchen - what makes nifty is that it's not a real kitchen; you're looking at part of a highly detailed 1:12 miniature house, painstakingly created by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/doesnt-this-look-real/With Multicolr Search Lab by Idée Labs, you can browse through 10 million of Flickr's most interesting Creative Commons images according to colors (in this case, a set of up to 10 colors). It's quite speedy and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/08/amazing-multicolr-search-lab/
