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We’ve previously seen Yoda appear as both a nutcracker and a backpack. Now the face of the wise and powerful Jedi master has ended up on a pizza.
Julian Beever, the chalk artist who draws 3-D illusions in city streets (previously covered at Neatorama), has been busy making some new amazing paintings.
“Does every poster that a designer makes have to be displayed like this?”
This bath towel has two holes for the eyes so children can wear it as a ghost costume.
Some kids are scary enough on their own, if however those endearing small people need something to aid their fiendish exploits you can now buy them a Ghost Towel to run around with and scare the pants of everyone.
Link – via FashionablyGeek
For $7.99 you can get a box of dead leaves from real New York Trees. From the page (sorry about the capitals):
FRESHLY FALLEN AUTUMN LEAVES FROM REAL NEW YORK TREES WILL BE USED AS VOID-FILL (PACKING) IN ALL AMRON EXPTL. PRODUCT SHIPMENTS PLACED BETWEEN NOVEMBER 15TH AND DECEMEBER 23RD.
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We all know that any half-wit with access to a computer and multimedia- editing software can slice and dice news footage, dub in some beats, upload the resulting clip to YouTube and become an instant star. But editing a speech by Rudy Giuliani so he sounds like he’s in favor of pornography is no big thing — more like the definition of the word “sophomoric.”Most of the CamPain2008 videos posted by Michael Stevens to his YouTube home page fit that category. Funny only if you’re stoned or so resolutely partisan that any mockery instantly becomes high art.
But then there’s Barack O’Bollywood, which mashes Obama up with Bollywood dancing and singing. As the caption goes, it’s “East meets West on acid.” It is remarkable, and somehow utterly brilliant, even if it’s impossible to say whether it means anything, politically speaking. (Thanks to Ultrabrown for the tip.)
Exactly. Always YouTube.
The very first Christmas movie was “The Night Before Christmas” released in 1906. It was a silent adaptation of the poem of the same name by Clement C. Moore .
Of course, I immediately looked that up. It’s an Edison film! IMDb Link. -Thanks, Wilford!
For fans of point’n'click puzzle games, “Guest House” has a different twist to it with strange contraptions, Egyptian hieroglyphics and interesting music. More games of the genre can also be found at Lazylaces with “Rental House” and “Terminal House”.
Source: Lazylaces
Here’s an interesting bit of editing from creator Ye Li to the tune of Billy Joel’s hit song We Didn’t Start the Fire.
The Mainichi Daily News of Japan reports:
An aquarium filled with exotic fish here is using an electric eel to power lights on a Christmas tree. Each time the electric eel at the Aqua Toto Gifu aquarium touches a
copper wire in its tank, it sends power that lights up globes decking a
Christmas tree.
Via Aardvark
Get out your thinking cap and get ready to win free stuff because this week Neatorama and mental_floss are teaming up to challenge you to SHOW OFF YOUR SMARTS!
Each day we’ll throw out a topic and all you have to do is come up with the smartest, funniest, most interesting fact related to it. Simply enter your fact in the comment below and if yours get chosen, you’ll win a brand new prize from the mental_floss store (along with endless bragging rights!). One fact per comment, but you can enter as many facts as you’d like.
Today’s topic: Holiday movie and music-related facts. Dazzle us with your knowledge of obscure trivia about holiday entertainment!
Here are two examples to get your mojo working:
When “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was first shown on TV in 1965, Coca-Cola sponsored the broadcast. A few animated sequences with the Coke logo were edited out of future airings of the special.
The 1984 charity all-star single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by Band Aid continued to sell after the holiday ended. The record peaked at #13 on the Billboard chart the week of January 19, 1985.
Today’s prize: The awesome There’s no right way to eat a rhesus T-shirt.
And even if you don’t have a winning fact, mental_floss is giving Neatorama readers a special discount in the mental_floss store. This week only, visit mentalfloss.com/store and get 15% off anything in the store by entering "neatorama" into the coupon code.
Good luck, guys!
And congrats to yesterday’s winner, Mandie on her Debbie Downer fact. After working our way through a heap of terrific entries, her submission: “A ‘downer’ is a farm animal that is too sick or injured to stand and walk” left us positively, well, negative. We’ll be sending her a mental_floss tee, and using that comment to spur awkward pauses in plenty of conversations this holiday season.
There’s a neat feature on the official Golden Compass website that allows you to answer a few questions and be paired with your very own “daemon,” (pronounced dee-muhn)
According to the website:
In the magical world of the Golden Compass, every person has a life companion in the form of an animal called a “Daemon.” A Daemon is a cross between the soul and a best friend. The animal form it takes is a manifestation of the host’s true personality.
From the link, click Meet your Daemon to take the test. Be sure to post your results in the comments!
