An animation from Industrial Light & Magic, Work in Progress tells the story of a couple of modern-day Dr. Frankensteins. The moral of the story is that brains and brawn are small beans compared to the power of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/work-in-progress/Remember the story of Beauty, the Alaskan bald eagle who lost her beak? National Geographic has an update on her story, as well as six other animals who have received artificial limbs and other body parts. Linkpets, Wild...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/beauty-and-the-beak/(YouTube link) When Dave Carroll and his band Sons of Maxwell wanted to complain about the way United Airlines handled their guitars, they tried going through the proper channels. A year later and no resolution, there...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/united-breaks-guitars/James Rummel has pictures and descriptions of five handguns that were very innovative designs, but turned out to be useless in real life. These include the Henrion, Dassy & Heuschen twenty-shot revolver, manufacture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/five-innovative-but-impractical-handguns/Are you the type of person who needs a USB-charged chainsaw? Well then you need therapy...but if you must go through with your psychotic plans, there's always the i.Saw for home and office needs. Methinks this may...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/isaw-for-sawing-at-work/If you're a complete Capri Sun fiend and just hate wasting all those left over packets, this jacket design might be just what you needed. It only takes 140 pouches. Linkcrafts, beverages, clothing, capri sun, juic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/08/what-to-do-with-capri-sun-packaging/Web Urbanist has a great post featuring 15 spectacular suitcases. While the one above has a distinct political message about human trafficking, not all of them do. Some of the bags are just really artistic or neat lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/out-of-the-ordinary-suitcases/Unlike at the Virginia DMV, where smiling is forbidden, employees at the Keihin Electric Express Railway in Japan are required to get their smiles computer-checked before clocking in for work: The device analyzes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/smile-its-mandatory/Today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey hails all the way from China - it's about a mountain that's laying an egg. First the story, via the always amusing Ananova's Quirkies section: Officials at Gulu villag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/caption-monkey-62-egg-laying-mountain/The map above, Universalis Cosmographia, drawn in 1507 by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (and hence also called the Waldseemüller Map) made news recently when conservators at the Lib...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/the-waldseemller-map-americas-birth-certificate/Are you dooming your children by giving them "bad" names? Maybe so, according to this interesting study by David Kalist of Shippensburg University about the problem of "feminine" names for boys:... Shippens...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/do-bad-names-for-boys-doom-them-to-a-life-of-crime/Bill Fulton of Baker city, Oregon, doesn't remember losing his wallet. But when Baker Middle School worker Nathan Osborne found his wallet in the gym bleachers, it brought back a flood of memories. Fulton los...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/oregon-mans-wallet-returns-after-63-years/When a local bakery got in economic trouble, the brave officers of the Michigan police department swooped in to protect it: they bought their favorite doughnut shop and re-named it Cops & Doughnuts! "To Protect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/to-protect-and-serve-doughtnuts-that-is/Dark Roasted Blend takes a look at the flags of nations and empires that no longer exist. The double eagle is a recurring motif, found in the flags of the Byzantine Empire, Imperial Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Yugosla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/flags-of-forgotten-countries/(YouTube link) This ad celebrating the 50th anniversary of the PEN camera series required over 10,000 still photographs. It follows a user over 50 years. -Thanks, Chicomathmom! camera, stopmotion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/pen-story/Afraid of monsters under the bed? Your fears are confirmed when you have this rug from Jellio in your bedroom!Place it under your child's bed and they're sure to have the coolest room on the block. Or just place it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/boogie-man-rug/This Michael Jackson tribute features hundreds of people from all over the world (and some animals and objects) attempting to recreate the Moonwalk. Most don't quite succeed, but I have to admit I spent more time than...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/eternal-moonwalk/Yes, in the midst of sweet, sunny, sweltering, early-summer days, with the gnats swirling around your head and the bees singing their bzzzzy song, the incomparable results of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/bad-fiction-winners-2009/The British Library has just put Codex Sinaiticus online. The world's oldest bible, handwritten over 1,600 years ago, is now available for the general public to peruse. Just don't expect to find the familiar biblical sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/codex-sinaiticus-worlds-oldest-bible-now-online/From Seinfeld to Inspector Gadget, there have been many unseen characters interspersed throughout television series. Their importance to the plots and messages of these shows have been undeniably considerable.Since S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/12-television-characters-we-never-see-even-though-they-were-on-tv/The Cyclosa mulmeinensis spider of Taiwan creates life sized decoys of itself to confuse predators and escape from being attacked. The clones were made out of leftover meals and egg sacs and were similar in size...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/spider-builds-doppelganger-to-deter-predators/The Voynich Manuscript has been a thusfar untranslated tome filled with an unknown script, written by an unknown author, in some unknown language. Over the years, countless numberss of professional and amateur cryptograp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/07/the-mysterious-voynich-manuscript/The world's first fantasy magazine, Der Orchideengarten, was published in Germany from 1919 to 1921. The 51 issues featured artistic though sometimes disturbing cover art. Will at A Journey Round My Skull has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/06/der-orchideengarten/If you don't really know much about wombats, you aren't alone. In fact, there's not much information on them compared with other animals. Still, they're darn cute and there's no real reason for us to know more about kang...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/06/what-chu-know-bout-wombats/Last week, CNN took a trip through Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. In one of their clips, there seems to be a strange shadowy figure crossing the screen. While I'm reserving my judgment, I couldn't help but think yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/06/is-neverland-ranch-haunted/Artist Olivier Otten invites you to manipulate him in a series of interactive videos called Self-control Freak. You have to figure out how on your own. Link -via Everlasting Blortinteractive video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/06/self-control-freak/The more we find out about the Apollo moon missions, the more we find they were operating closer to the edge than anyone outside of NASA knew. In an excerpt from Buzz Aldrin's new book, "Magnificent Desolation: The Long...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/06/rigging-apollo-11-on-the-moon/From the title of today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, regular Neatorama readers might think you'll be asked to identify the tattoos of celebrity's faces people wear to show their fandom. But no, in this quiz you ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/06/celebrity-tattoos/This is not a good news story, but you may be interested in known about a tragic accident at Disney World. A train operator died on the Monorail this morning when his monorail crashed into another train. Only a few p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/deadly-monorail-crash/Ever wonder what a cake based on a Threadless tee would look like? Threadcakes is a website featuring contest entries based on just that concept. Some of the pictures are just great, like the cake above that is based...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/05/cakes-made-from-threadless-tees/
