Texting and walking is bad for you, but drinking is no slouch either when it comes to the danger department. Here's what happened to one intoxicated guy who fell into a drain and got himself wedged: A motorist raised...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/another-manhole-danger-drinking-and-walking/Wired has a photogallery unusual accessories that you can mount on a firearm, including a cupholder and an iPhone mount. The latter includes an app that makes ballistics calculations based upon wind, distan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/a-cupholder-for-your-rifle-and-other-gun-accessories/Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero sculpted used, worn car and truck tires into fabulous works of art. As a bonus, the carved tires act as rolling rubber stamps!Check out her portfolio here: http://arte-mexico.com/bet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/tire-art-by-betsabe-romero/For most of its history, science has always been done by individual or at best a small group of scientists. World War II changed that: during the war, government-sponsored laboratories employing thousands of scientists s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/the-wonderful-world-of-big-science/Iceman (2009) by Robert LongoRobert Longo draws amazing portraits using charcoal on mounted papers that are so life-like one could swear they were black and white photographs. This one above, Iceman (where's Mav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/iceman-by-robert-longo/In his art blog called Atlas, Spanish artist Fernando Vicente takes the distinct forms of landmasses and convert them into fantastic images. I particularly like the map of Africa turned into a skull (with Europe being th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/atlas-by-fernando-vicente/For more Bizarro, definitely checkout Dan Piraro's website and blogLove it or hate it, Twitter has certainly taken the web by storm. In just a few short years, the social networking/micro-blogging website has grown to be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/10-quickie-quotes-about-twitter/The Grand Unification Theory may still be a ways off for physics, but not so for cutlery! Behold the Venn diagram of hybrid cutleries by Raynor Ganan over at the ragbag blog: Link - via Dennis Demorigrand unification the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/grand-unification-theory-of-cutlery/Brown Sharpie is an excellent mathematical cartoon series by Courtney Gibbons - it's like xkcd, but much brainier ;) This one above is a classic about how to pronounce the Greek letter psi: LinkAnd by the way, my graduat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/how-do-you-pronounce-psi/Absolute Zero is Cool T-Shirt - just $9.95 over at Neatorama's Online StoreThere's not many absolutes in science, so absolute zero - the coldest temperature theoretically possible where entropy is reduced to zero - truly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/fun-with-low-temperatures/Ever wonder just how much that meeting will cost your employer? By entering the estimated average salary of everyone in the meeting, the number of employees and when the meeting started, you get to watch just how muc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/meeting-cost-ticker/Movie fans everywhere should appreciate this once in a life time eBay opportunity -the chance to buy the original Ecto-1 ambulance from the Ghostbusters films. The auction's over now, but how many of you actually had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/buy-the-original-ghostbusters-ambulance/A 400 million-year-old fossil fish with a reproductive organ resembling a penis has been identified by Australian scientists. This is the earliest known structure used for sexual reproduction as we know it. The bone atta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/worlds-oldest-willie/This ain't your father's backyard shed - take a look at Storage Barn, a workshop and storage facility designed by Elizabeth Gray and Alan Organschi of the firm Gray and Organschi Architecture. The spatial arrangement of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/storage-barn-by-gray-and-organschi-architecture/Everything - everything! - is just better in Japan. Take, for instance, Spider-Man. In the late '70s, Japan turned Spider-Man into a billionaire with a Voltron-esque flying robot.Take that, Tobey Maguire! Gizmodo has t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/the-japanese-spider-man/Bill Cosby, the comedian and one time Jell-O pitchman, is the subject of an art show by Andrew Salomone. He created a photo of Bill Cosby out of 745 Jell-O shots and invited the participants to consume it as the show pro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/bill-cosby-in-jell-o-shots/Don't you hate it when your vacation is spoiled by rain? Now, there's something you can do about it: buy a bad weather insurance ...The insurance policy, launched by holiday groups Pierre et Vacances and FranceLoc, w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/sunshine-insurance-for-tourists/The small town of Vulcan in Alberta, Canada, has exploited its Star Trek name since the 60s. It's a pilgrimage site for nerds where the local menus offer foods from Star Trek without explaining what th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/live-long-and-prosper-in-vulcan-alberta/When an intoxicated man broke into a man's home in Bar Harbor, Maine, the homeowner had to bribe the man to leave with (ironically, non-alcoholic) beer!Scott Cote, 22, remained in jail Monday afternoon after he alleg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/homeowner-lured-thief-out-with-beer/Residents of the small town of Forks, Washington is being invaded by vampires. No, not real ones - these vampires are far worse: they're teenage fans of the movie Twilight!The logging town has been transformed, says...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/vampires-invade-forks-wa/The Blue Groper fish have a unique way to control their population: they can change their sex!Bob Harcourt, Associate Professor Macquarie University: "The blue groper is a large fish, but the really sexy thing a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/bluey-the-transsexual-fish/Sometimes talent is sparked, or maybe just revealed, in the strangest ways. Imagine having a stroke, a severe brain injury or a tumor and suddenly waking up one day to find you’ve developed artistic talents to riv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/ten-artists-with-abilities-born-of-brain-damage/The American children's television show Sesame Street turns forty this year. The image on the left is a compressed version of an enormous interactive poster available at the link, with details about 101 muppets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/forty-years-of-sesame-street/(YouTube link) Simon the bunny rabbit can walk on his hind legs! Hollywood will surely be calling soon. -Thanks, zacheh!rabbit, bunny...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/bunny-with-talent/Watch the birth of a giraffe at Safari West Wildlife Preserve in California. It was a surprise, as zookeepers did not know the mother was pregnant. Unfortunately, this video report does not show the six foot dro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/giraffe-birth/Don't you just love fresh strawberries in season? They also pack a nutritional punch! Health Assist has a list of twelve ways strawberries help you live longer by fighting cancer, heart disease and general body decline....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/strawberries-for-long-life/The three men in this picture are Fu Lu Shou, which means good fortune, prosperity, and longevity. But in this version they are a ten story building! Tianzi Hotel is in Hebei Province, China, and holds the world record...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/tianzi-hotel/In 1995, two-year-old Hannah Clark of Mountain Ash, Wales suffered from cardiomyopathy and received a donor heart, which was "piggybacked" onto her original heart and took over its function. For ten years, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/full-recovery-for-girl-with-two-hearts/X Planes is a photoblog of experimental, hypothetical, and outright imaginary aircraft throughout modern aviation history. The picture above is of a particular F-106: On Feb 2nd, 1970, a Convair F-106...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/experimental-and-hypothetical-aircraft/Check out this excellent graphic showing how the International Space Station was built. As a bonus it also shows the planned future module installations. Very cool and interactive clip.Link - via presurferFrom the Upco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/watch-the-international-space-station-being-built/
