The following is reprinted from Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again
Forget Van Gogh; he only lost an ear. It was the great catrato Farinelli who made the ultimate sacrifice for art: he gave up his nuts!
Carlo Broschi was a man who really suffered for his music. Known to the world as the great ...
Posted 6.5.2008 10:43pm (5 months ago)
Velcro Scanning Electron Microscopy images by Jim Ekstrom
When a Swiss engineer stumbled into a bunch of burs, it became a delightfully sticky situation for the world:
THE BUR TRADE
You surely know the famous story about George de Mestral’s 1941 hunting trip in Switzerland - while walking his ...
Posted 6.6.2008 1:07am (5 months ago)
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Stuntman89 had a wonderful idea for a homemade slide. He should have beta-tested it before getting the camera out. -via b3ta
Posted 6.6.2008 12:18pm (5 months ago)
Talk about a space saver! The Design Odyssey Vertebrae is an entire bathroom in one column. The toilet is at the bottom, then a sink at sink level, and a shower head folds out from higher. This is one of 10 examples of cutting-edge bathroom design at DVICE. Some are hi-tech, others are just beautiful. ...
Posted 6.6.2008 12:19pm (5 months ago)
Yes, it’s a letter, from 2003. Found in the bottom of a pond.
Recently, a friend of ours, Simon, moved to Over, just North of Cambridge, UK. He was moving to a lovely property, with a nice garden and a pond.
Simon wasn’t so keen on the pond though. It’s not very child friendly, and with two young ...
Posted 6.6.2008 12:21pm (5 months ago)
Rob Manuel of b3ta experimented with making toasted candy sandwiches. Yes, candy on real bread. He and his wife tried three sweets, two I’m not familiar with, but they fall into the apparent categories of what Americans would call chocolate bar, Starburst, and gummi candy. See the results and the ...
Posted 6.6.2008 12:24pm (5 months ago)
I really shouldn’t make fun of this, since Neatorama is typophilic, but here it is anyhow:
The easy way out would have been to tell the graduates of Westlake High School that the misspelling on their diplomas was a final test.
A test. Yeah, that’s it.
Instead, Principal Timothy Freeman fell ...
Posted 6.6.2008 3:05pm (5 months ago)
Problem: You’re in the middle of a golf course, and you really gotta pee. The club house is far away, and you don’t want to go in the bushes (they frown on that sort of behavior …)
Solution: Pee into your golf club … the UroClub, that is: the "club" is actually a hollow ...
Posted 6.6.2008 3:06pm (5 months ago)
A specially designed video camera installed in the jungles of Indonesia captured the rare (and tiny!) Javanese Rhino momma and her calf … right before she attacked it!
After just a month in operation, specially designed video cameras installed to capture wildlife footage in the jungles of South ...
Posted 6.6.2008 3:08pm (5 months ago)
A long time member of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office resigned abruptly in May amid allegations of improper conduct at work. Capt. Chris Freeman, who worked with the Sheriff's Office for more than 20 years, resigned on May 23, which was effective immediately.
Posted 6.6.2008 3:35pm (5 months ago)
Today is the 64th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied Powers’ invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II. The military operation was the largest single-day operation of all time, with 130,000 troops landing on Normandy coast.
National Geographics magazine has the fascinating article by Thomas ...
Posted 6.6.2008 6:22pm (5 months ago)
The mortgage crisis is so bad, it’s now claiming celebrities as victims: Evander Holyfield’s $10 million home in Fayette County, Jose Canseco’s home in Encino, California, Georgia and Ed McMahon’s $4.8 million home in Beverly Hills, California are being foreclosed.
One guy that ...
Posted 6.6.2008 4:30pm (5 months ago)
LiveNewsCamera is a new website from My Fox Chicago that aggregates live streaming newscast videos from (mostly) TV news stations from around the world. Right now, they have about 150 live streams, so that’ll keep news junkies busy for a while!
My favorite, which I’m listening to in the ...
Posted 6.6.2008 6:22pm (5 months ago)
Because our online shop was down for part of the time, I’m extending the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt contest by one more day.
Here’s your chance to win a free Tokyoflash watch. How awesome is that? Simply answer these three easy-peasy questions:
1. Which Tokyoflash watch has 27 multi-colored ...
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