Any fellow language geeks out there? Having been a student of English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai and Lao I consider myself to be somewhat of a language geek. I've always been fas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/the-click-song/Check out Mehmet Ozgur's awe-inspiring "smoke works" photography - I'm sure they're digitally enhanced, but still very, very awesome. Link - via Papelera 21...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/mehmet-ozgurs-smoke-works/Is Iowa (and perhaps other states) "abducting" senior citizens by forcing them into nursing homes against their will?Here's the story about Linda Wilson's fight to get her 88-year-old grandma Mary Stenlund back...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/grandma-snatcher/Hampton Landmarks (yes, sponsored by Hampton Hotels) has a huge searchable database of US landmarks, complete with photo and descriptions.For example, take this one along I-10 in Cabazon, California: Dinny the dinosaur.*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/a-huge-list-of-cool-us-landmarks/Here's a guy you don't ever want to pick a fight with: Nikolay "Russian Giant" Valuev, who, at 7 feet tall, absolutely towers over his opponents (before pummelling them to oblivion). Nikolay also happens to be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/nikolay-russian-giant-valuev-worlds-tallest-and-heaviest-boxing-champ/Christopher Goodwin's art project is to sell "curated" trash through gumball machines for a quarter a pop. His "Trashball" blog details many of the individual junk, er ... art items featured: Link - *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/christopher-goodwins-trashball-art-project/The Royal Canadian Mint has just created one heckuva change: a C$1 million (about US$923,000) gold coin. Link - Thanks mikolka!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/canadian-monster-gold-coin/Photojournalist Mark Resnicoff posted an extensive essay and photographs of his 2006 visit to Chernobyl, twenty years after the nuclear accident that shut the city down. http://nikongear.com/Chernobyl/Chernobyl_1.htm -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/chernobyl-20-years-later/From COLOURlovers blog comes this neat articles about why things come in certain colors, for example:Why is Red the International Color for Stop?Stop signs originated in Detroit, Michigan in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/reasons-for-the-colors-of-everyday-things/Venezuelan artist Hermann Mejía made this "Iraqi Quagmire Chess Set" for MAD Magazine. Check out more details of his artwork on his website: Link [Flash] - Thanks Jack!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/hermann-mejas-iraqi-quagmire-chess-set/This LEGO key rack is made with real LEGO bricks - who says you can't make practical things with the stuff?http://shop.lego.com/ByCategory/Product.aspx?p=851908&cn=13&d=443 - Thanks Lee!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/lego-key-rack/Artist Jared Steffensen creates landscape dioramas using ... shoes! http://www.jaredsteffensen.com/landscape%20shoes-shoe%20store%20installation%20installation.html - Thanks JustElite!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/jared-steffensens-shoe-dioramas/Here's a blog dedicated to collecting passive-aggressive (and many plainly aggressive) notes left by roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers: Link - Thanks Dumidu!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/the-passive-aggressive-notes-blog/From the website:Creating a nuclear reaction is not simple. In power plants, it involves splitting uranium atoms, and that process releases energy as heat and neutrons that go on to cause other atoms to split. This s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/natures-own-nuclear-reactor/Toogle Image Search finds an image of your search term, and builds it with the term in ascii. I entered my own name, and got back an image of myself wearing a Star Trek uniform. I entered Neatorama and got back the abo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/toogle/Pippy sees something and wants it. No matter what it is. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/the-begging-cat/An account of a date at the L'Enclume, featuring the “Underground Menuâ€, which turned out to be a five-hour, 24-course experience. The chef Simon Rogan is possibly the most innovative chef in the UK, pus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/the-underground-menu/Wake up with the pleasant tinkling sound of a wind chime. You can hear it in a video at the product site. Link -via Ursi’s Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/wind-chime-alarm-clock/Neatorama reader Lee Brazel wrote to us about a weird newspaper story from Sudan about a man who married a goat.Go on, you know you want to read it: http://pics.livejournal.com/nomadicshiner/pic/000247px...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/forced-to-marry-a-goat/Meet the executive team of a new Silicon Valley startup Elementeo, headed by its founder and CEO Anshul Samar. Oh, did we mention that he's just 13 years old?The company is all about making learning chemistry fun:Sam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/13-year-old-kid-founded-funducational-gaming-company/Got a persistent headache? This 77-year-old Chinese grandma did, until doctors finally found the reason: a bullet lodged in her brain! Jin Guangying, 77, of Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, went to Shuyang Leniency Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/headache-thats-because-youve-got-a-bullet-in-your-brain/How long does it take to evacuate a full Airbus 380 plane (873 passengers and crew total)? Believe it or not: just 77 seconds.Here's a video of an evacuation test: Link [Metacafe] - Thanks Papelera 21!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/evacuating-a-full-airbus-380-plane-in-77-seconds/IT manager David Grimes has a unique commute: he kite surfs, sailing past traffic jams on his way to work.Sailing past traffic jams is every commuter’s dream but David Grimes does that almost every day - litera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/kite-surfing-to-work/Neatorama reader Ola Lofgren wrote:When a friend of ours was in new york, we wrapped everything in his apartment in pink wrapping paper. Here's the result: http://www.pinkprankproject.com/ - Thanks Ola!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/pink-wrapping-paper-prank/Howard "Bubba" Ludwig is not just any 10-month-old baby boy. He can't walk yet, but he has a license to buy, own, and carry firearms!As a FOID cardholder, baby Bubba can own a firearm and ammunition in Illi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/27/10-month-old-baby-got-licensed-to-carry-firearms/
