So you thought that cross-stitching was something only your sweet elderly friends and relatives did? That the themes were always friendly and heartwarming? The example on the left is just the beginning of a vast, disturb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/say-what-twisted-cross-stitching/A litter of four baby armadillos have been taken in by environmental activist Kamilo Lara after their mother was killed by poachers in Nicaragua. When the pictures in this article were taken, they were a mere four days o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/baby-armadillos/In 1989, ABC’s block of Friday night programming became collectively known as TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Funny). Do you remember the shows that have aired under the TGIF slogan throughout the years? Today's Lunchtim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/tgif-quiz/The Maryland Zoo recently unveiled a new prairie dog exhibit. The zoo's prairie dogs had not been on display for four years, until a new $500,000 enclosure was designed and built. Despite a concrete base, aircraft wire,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/prairie-dogs-escape-in-ten-minutes/George Foreman famously said, "Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire." Here's a brief history of one of the most testing sports one could participate in.All sports have the potential of becom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/a-manly-history-of-the-sweet-science-of-bruising/These days, it's a big deal when celebs like Jennifer Lopez and Katie Holmes get six and five-carat diamonds in their engagement rings (respectively). But compared to these 10 gems, those trinkets are nothing. Here are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/10-notable-diamonds/Comfy furniture envelops you like a hug from a trusted friend. Then there are new designs that may haunt your nightmares! Pictured is a bench called Evolution by Nacho Carbonell. There are eleven more pieces that might...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/12-terrifying-pieces-of-furniture/Rugby players aren't afraid of anything, including playing naked! A match in the nude over the weekend in Dunedin, New Zealand went off without a hitch, except for chilly weather and a streaker! The nude rugby inter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/naked-rugby-match-interrupted-by-dressed-streaker/Pizza Boss 3000 Pizza Slicer - $14.95 Father's Day is this coming Sunday, and if you're looking for a Father's Day gift, we've got a number of neat items on the Neatorama...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/pizza-boss-3000-pizza-slicer-and-other-neat-stuff-for-fathers-day-gifts/USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), the starship in the original Star Trek TV series To boldly go where no man has gone before, you'd need a really good starship - and to launch Star Trek, the pop cul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/8-starship-enterprise-facts-every-trekker-should-know/Following up on our 8 Starship Enterprise Facts Every Trekker Should Know post, here are some of the neatest Star Trek cakes ever made. Enjoy (Resistance is futile!) Star Trek Cake by A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/star-trek-cakes/Remember Sonya the Slow Loris? While it's illegal for people to own a slow loris in most countries, it's not the case in Russia. And while some of you objected to someone adopting a slow loris as a pet, it seems to me th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/a-day-in-the-life-of-sonya-the-slow-loris/Sometimes Hallmark just doesn't have the card that expressed exactly how you're feeling (case in point, the Prizon Greeting cards). When Julianna Holowka lost her job, her apartment and her studio all in the span of a we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/15/mean-cards/Laugh with Your Fingers is a soundboard of laughs; all different, but all apparently from the same guy. Press them all as fast as you can and create your own laugh track! Link -via the Presurferlaugh, soundboard...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/laugh-with-your-fingers/Photographer Dina Goldstein gives a preview of a series featuring Disney princesses portrayed in their later lives, or what happened after "happily ever after". The complete series will go on exhibit in October. Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/fallen-princesses/For years, Russia's Hermitage museum has employed a secret army to protect over three million works of art dating back to Peter the Great. Recently, the identity of this secret force has come to light: cats!Although...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/secret-russian-army-of-cats/Coming soon to a seaport near you: a robot dubbed the "cargo-screening ferret" that will detect drugs, weapons, explosives and even illegal immigrants hidden in cargo containers.Recent advances in both lase...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/robotic-ferret-sniffs-out-drugs-weapons-and-illegal-immigrants/It's not bad enough that soon we'll run out of bluefin tuna, now scientists are saying that we may also lose wheat. The stem rust fungus could wipe out 80% of the world's wheat as it spread from Africa.Enjoy your bread w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/the-time-bomb-that-can-wipe-out-the-worlds-wheat-crop/Is it a prank or is it a modern-version of the Biblical Plagues? You decide:About 70 more dead tadpoles have been found in Ishikawa Prefecture, local officials said Friday, as the mystery over how they came to be in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/raining-tadpoles-in-japan-a-modern-biblical-plague-in-the-making/When other kids are going to kindergarten, the children of the nomadic Indian tribe of Vadi are also going to school of sorts. Except that the ABCs aren't in the curriculum - instead, these kids are learning to be snake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/snake-charming-school-for-kids/Before you eat that oh-so-delicious piece of salmon sashimi, consider this: sushi (as well as undercooked fish) may be contributing to the growing problem of urban tapeworm ...Once the bane of rural Japanese villager...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/sushi-the-culprit-of-the-urban-tapeworm-problem/Did Leonardo da Vinci paint a nude version of the Mona Lisa? Maybe so, according to a newly revealed painting, hidden for a century within the walls of a private library:The lady in the portrait does not exactly rese...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/leonardo-da-vincis-nude-mona-lisa/It's good to be a princess! You can run up a £15 million (US$24.7 million) shopping bill and then refuse to pay it due to "diplomatic immunity"!One of the most senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/saudi-princess-refuses-to-pay-25-million-shopping-bill-by-claiming-diplomatic-immunity/Why do whales beach themselves? A new study may have answered the question that baffled scientists for decades: it's the bends ... A new study offers evidence to support the theory that beaked whales get the bends wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/why-whales-beach-themselves-its-the-bends/They Should Have Stolen a Watch First Long before he was an outlaw country crooner, Merle Haggard was a real outlaw - albeit a bad one. At the rebellious age of 20, Haggard and a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/14/go-directly-to-jail-4-brilliantly-bungled-crimes/The Art of Manliness has a wonderful post on 5 classic cocktails that all men should be familiar with and how to mix them for maximum effect.There’s been a trend lately to get back to the old way of doing things, e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/13/5-classic-cocktails-every-man-should-know/The blog Daily Routines culls news services and books for information about the daily routines of famous people, such as Mr. Rogers, John Grisham, Winston Churchill, and Earnest Hemingway. Here's a selection fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/13/daily-routines-of-famous-people/Sure it's stinky, but a frog has got to live somewhere! Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, a research fellow from the National University of Singapore discovered 3 species of frogs living in elephant dung in Sri Lanka:Campos-Arce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/13/frogs-species-discovered-living-in-elephant-dung/If you consider that the modern toilet paper was first introduced in 1857, the whole butt wipe thing is waaay due for a major advance. Ancient Romans used to wipe their butts after going to the bathroom with a sponge on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/13/comfort-wipe-extension-arm-to-wipe-your-behind/Handbag designer Rachel Nasvik had a great idea on how to promote her new line for cheap: stage a great urban hunt for handbags! Rachel places her handbags, stuffed with all sorts of girly stuff like lip gloss and bobby...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/13/the-great-urban-handbag-hunt/
