What happens when your contractor takes construction plan a little too literally?This: Link - Thanks justelite!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/when-contractor-takes-construction-plan-a-little-too-literally/This "real life Shrek" was Maurice Tillet (1903 - 1954), a professional wrestler who had acromegaly, a rare disease that caused bones to grow uncontrollably and led to severe disfigurement:In his twenties,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/real-life-shrek/Neatorama reader Tiffany wrote:When I opened my copy of 'Writers Dream Kit' (part of the Write Brothers 'Dramatica' line), I found a 32-page comic book inside. I think it's their version of an instruction booklet. He...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/instruction-booklet-drawn-as-a-comic-book/That's an artist rendering of VentureOne, a plug-in hybrid vehicle designed to achieve 100 miles per gallon with top speed of over 100 mph! LinkVenture Vehicles, the company behind the car, will be at the Cool Product Ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/ventureone-concept-hybrid-car-with-100-mpg-and-100-mph-capabilities/HopeLab has created a PC-based video game called Re-Mission for young cancer patients. In the game, the patient controls a nanobot named Roxxi that destroys cancer cells and battles infection. The video game, which stays...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/video-game-helps-young-patients-fight-cancer/While traversing the world over five years and eight months, Garside ran across 30 countries on six continents, covering more than 30,000 miles. During that time, he slept in the snow in the Himalayas, and at a mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/man-becomes-first-to-run-around-the-world/Okay, I'm not one who thinks other peoples pain is "neat", but this guy free falls from 5000 feet and, although he's hurt, manages to survive....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/ouch-freefall-from-5000-feet/Sorry, this may not be neat at all, but... I can't help but to share it. In the Jurassic Museum of Asturias (wiki), they've arranged two fiber replicas of T. Rex skeletons in a particularly erotic pose, as explained...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/jurassic-museum-the-spanish-way/Today's collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this gruesome yet fascinating image of a whale shark being sliced for its meat.Daily Mail has the story:More likely to eat than be eaten, this giant whale...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/slicing-a-whale-shark-for-its-meat/This awesome desk is made by Dutch designer Dolph Bode from part of a 1944 DC-3 airplane wing! Link | 12 Ways to Pimp Your Office at PositiveSharing....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/airplane-wing-desk/From US News and World Report, authorities made two extraordinary seizures not long ago: the largest drug cash seizure and the largest maritime drug seizure in history.On March 15, Mexican authorities raided a villa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/largest-drug-cash-seizure-ever-a-quarter-of-a-billion-dollars/Thomas Mason and Carlos Hernandez of UCLA created the world's smallest alphabet soup: the alphabets are about 10 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/worlds-smallest-alphabets/Think you can teach your pet stupid tricks? How about teaching your goldfish how to synchronize swim? Check it out: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Lee!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/goldfish-synchronized-swimming/Artists Nigel Peterson and Deborah Walsh [flickr] used grass and jelly as theirmedia of choice for their artwork. Specifically, they're interested in how the jelly bloat or shrivel in the sun as the art installation prog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/grass-and-jelly-art/That's Texas Congressman Ron Paul [wiki] sitting behind his desk, which happens to have an interesting sign on it. Link - via digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/the-truth-about-the-government/Albert Einstein in a famous 1951 photo by Arthur Sasse.So you think you know Albert Einstein: the absent-minded genius who gave us the theory of relativity (two of them, in fact, special theory and general theory of rela...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/10-strange-facts-about-einstein/From the indefatigable Miss Cellania, here's Squirrels Gone Bad: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/squirrels-for-sex/Chinese people have customarily burned fake currency called Hell Money to honor (and equip) their ancestors in the afterlife.Now, in keeping with modern times, they're burning paper viagras!Cemeteries in China are se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/helpin-out-the-ancestors-burning-paper-viagra/Evolutionary biologist susan Crockford of University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, hypothesized that changes in the thyroid hormones turned wolves into docile dogs.... Crockford suggests the metamorphosis co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/from-wild-wolves-to-docile-dogs-changes-in-the-thyroid-hormone/An egg five times the size of its mouth is absolute no problem for this snake!See how a snake eats an egg: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/how-a-snake-eats-an-egg/Authorities in Liverpool, UK, resorted to robotic falcons perched on roof tops to scare off pesky, fat pigeons!The mechanical birds - called "Robops" - are to sit on the roofs of buildings, and can be moved...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/robotic-falcons-to-scare-off-fat-pigeons/The Alnwick Garden in Northumberland County, UK, billed itself as the world's largest all-wood treehouse (although you may argue it's a house in the trees, not an actual treehouse):In 2005, the world’s largest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/worlds-largest-treehouse/Ah, Earth. Healthy strong and full of life. But wait, what's you've got there? Looks like you've got a case of the humans ...An animation by Three Legged Legs: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via The Bad Rants...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/poor-earth-it-got-the-humans/This wine dispenser, called "Vin au Verre " or "wine with by the glass" in French, is like the grownup version of a soda dispenser (and classier than wine-in-a-box)! http://www.eurocave.com/site/pages...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/the-wine-dispenser/
