The upcoming flu season and H1N1 may still be on a lot of people's minds, but there is another potentially more dangerous form of virus that lurks on the edge of our society. Computer viruses have been around less than h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/26/the-most-damaging-computer-viruses-in-history/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtkM2JPcHPo][YouTube - Link]It's been ten years (ten years!) since Jake Lloyd played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace. He spoke with SCI FI PI - The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/26/jake-lloyd-little-orphan-ani-grown-up/We live in a consumer economy. Anything you can dream of you can have, and it's just a handful of cash away. But what do we do with all the things we buy? Some of it we need, and we hold on to those necessities. Other th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/26/every-single-belonging-of-a-chinese-mother/Do toucans need their giant bills for peeling fruit, attracting mates, warning off predators, or something else entirely? Glenn Tattersall at Brock University in Canada and his team of colleagues started photographing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/why-toucans-have-giant-bills/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihQk2kqPyKU][YouTube - Link]NuFormer is a company in the Netherlands that creates amazing, 3D projection displays on buildings. Basically they manage to sync up the projected image...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/3d-projections-on-buildings/Jen Hui Liao created a machine that will take a picture of the user, and then guides his/her hands to draw the image on paper. Liao says: I found some the relationship between human and machine are amazing and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/a-self-portrait-machine/Maybe this fellow doesn't have a car on which to put his bumper stickers, or he just wants to communicate with people walking behind him. If you had bumper stickers on the back of your shoes, what would they say?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/bumper-stickers-for-your-shoes/Having trouble keeping your income tax forms straight? Grab a few of these foot-long paper clips to keep them sorted. $12.99 each. Link via Gear Fuse Previously on Neatorama: Trading a Paper Clip for a Housep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/giant-paper-clip/Craftster member enemyairship created this 7 by 7 foot rug of Mario in raccoon form: He's made of 386 granny squares, each one representing 1 pixel (3.5" each) that makes up Raccoon Mario. I learned to croche...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/super-mario-raccoon-rug/Photo: Law Offices of Nick Pacheco Gang member Richard Rodriguez fled on foot after a car chase, surrendered and subsequently got himself kicked in the head by an El Monte police of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/gangbangers-extreme-makeover-from-criminal-to-portrait-of-respectability/It's an old trope in comedy that someone commits a sin and God gets their attention with a bolt of lightning. The real life version played out in the woods near Wert, Germany. Jens Gottlieb and his girlfriend Lisa Gruhn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/lightning-bolt-interrupts-sex/This is why I will never get a tattoo: TAMPA - It wasn't particularly hard for the victims of a Riverview home invasion to identify the burglar. He was the only one with an outline of the state of Florida tatt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/burglars-should-avoid-distinctive-facial-tattoos/Today marks the anniversary of baseball’s infamous Pine Tar Incident, one of the most notorious cases of rule-breaking in MLB history. But it’s definitely not the only case, not by a longshot. Here are a f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/25/four-scandalous-moments-in-baseball/(Video Link) Il Gatto is a short film by Peter Atencio. It's about the love that a woman has for her kitty cat/sensei and her quest for vengence against the man who accidentally drove over it. It seems...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/il-gatto/(Video Link) This BBC News video shows inventor Jem Stansfield climbing the outside of the BBC building with hand-held mounts that adhere to the wall thanks to the suction created by the vacuum cleaner engine on his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/man-climbs-building-with-vacuum-gloves/Engineering students at Virginia Tech have built a car that can be driven by the visually impaired. The vehicle is equipped with laser range finders and a semi-autonomous computer that helps direct drivers around a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/students-build-a-car-the-blind-can-drive/You would be forgiven if you thought this picture was a soap bubble in front of an astronomical picture. This is a picture of a planetary nebula that was overlooked until this month. Astronomers say it is either spheri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/soap-bubble-in-space/37-year old Louise Bawn of Bristol, England was out for a night on the town and had changed her high heels for flats to relieve her aching feet. At home, she realized one shoe was missing from her purse. The £400 pair o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/modern-day-cinderella-looks-for-shoe/(YouTube link) I thought I was going overboard by painting my kids' furniture weird colors. This guy built a Star Wars AT-AT Imperial Walker for his son to sleep in! The interior is accessible by ladder and b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/at-at-bed/48-year old Viorel Firoiu of Orlea, Romania, admits he was drunk when he tried to cure his constipation by sticking a hammer in his rectum. He went to a hospital where x-rays revealed not one, but two hammerheads inside!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/heavy-metal-cure-for-constipation/We all love Spongebob Squarepants! Even when he is (or maybe because he is) ridiculously annoying. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your knowledge of Bikini Bottom trivia. I only scored 50%, bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/the-spongebob-squarepants-quiz/Sure, they look like they're just fingerless gloves, but they're more fashionable than boxers and have a handy opening flap on the front: http://shop.neatorama.com/product-info.php?handerpants-pid564.htmlunderpants,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/handerpants-the-underwear-for-your-hands/Archaeologists have found five Roman ships in excellent condition off the coast of Italy: A team of archaeologists using sonar technology to scan the seabed have discovered a "graveyard" of five pristine ancient Rom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/archaeologists-fine-graveyard-of-sunken-roman-ships/The next time you open a bottle of beer, don't just chug the brew - take a look at the logo on the label. Ever wonder who St. Pauli Girl actually is? Or why there's the mysterious number "33&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/stories-behind-7-famous-beer-logos/I'd like to think that we have a pretty good customer service here at Neatorama, so I was shocked - shocked! - to read that Deborah and Wayne are unhappy about a product they bought.They sent us this email (underlined li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/squirrel-underpants-problem-help/Hello Neatoramanauts! It's been a while since our last Neatorama State of the Blog post, so I'd like to take a minute to update everyone. Mystery Sale - July 2009 Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/neatorama-update-mystery-sale-twitter-only-contest-uq-prize-and-more/It may have taken the best part of a century but scientists are hoping that Lonesome George, the last remaining example of the Galapagos Pinta Tortoise (featured previously at Neatorama) will finally become a father late...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/lonesome-george-to-finally-be-a-father/John William Finn {wiki} of Pine Valley, California reached the age of 100 on Thursday. He was honored on the occasion by a biography in the Ramona Sentinel newspaper. John William Finn is our nation’s oldest livi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/pearl-harbor-hero-turns-100/Here's a blog that collects and displays cat ladders from all over the world -and there are plenty, with a variety of useful designs. The ladder shown was found in France. Link -via Metafilter (image credit: Lara Craft)c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/24/cat-ladders/(YouTube Link) The American Library Association (ALA) just finished its annual conference in Chicago. This is a video of the winners of the book cart drill team competition. These librarians from the Omaha Publi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/23/book-cart-drill-team/
