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This is an amazing music video. Think Michael Jackson’s Thriller but with a much smaller budget. It was made by volunteers (Bobby Ciraldo and Andrew Swant) in Milwaukee. And it features guest vocals from Elvira, Mistress of the Dark!
Click play or go to Link.
Find more information on this shark in a previous post at Neatorama.
You’ll love to torture him with his tear-off and stick-on arms and legs and hear him say “Tis nothing but a scratch” or the famous “I’ll bite your legs off!” quote. Character featured in Monty Python’s The Quest for the Holy Grail, and now famous in the touring play Spamalot, this 14″ “character” comes in a collector’s edition box. Perfect for your favorite Monty Python fan-atic.
Link -via Unique Daily
I couldn’t pick just one, so go to Best Week Ever and enjoy ten videos of cats doing what cats normally don’t do -if they have a choice. Link -via Digg
Periodic Table of Videos is neat beyond belief. Martyn Poliakoff, a professor at the University of Nottingham, and video journalist Brady Haran, put together a periodic table where each elements is a link to a video about that element!
It’s heartening to see chemistry in action and that people can actually have fun doing science! If only this were the way science is taught at school …
Anyways, here’s an intro that explains what the Periodic Table of Videos is all about:
If you only click on one link today, make it this one: Link – via Squeezing My Mind Grapes
Soopa Coin-Up Bros is a vinyl toy by Erick Scarecrow that you can customize yourself into, welll, just about anything! Vinyl Toy Freaks has a really neat gallery of some of the amazing custom designs that people (with way more time and talent than your truly) have made: Link – via Copperpott’s Cabinet of Curiosities
Previously on Neatorama: Steampunk Pac Man Arcade and Other Toys by Doktor A
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That’s the Nike (Burger) Air Max 90 by Olle Hemmendorff, a Swedish illustrator/designer who was commissioned by Nike (along with 7 other artists) to "interpret" their sneakers. Olle decided to make one out of … hamburger!
Paintings: Linda Merchant
This is fantastic: Linda Merchant of It’s All in the Details blog re-created "Market Woman with Vegetable Stall" (c. 1567) by Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen (1508-1575) using the 7-layer Flemish painting technique.
And she’s blogging each and every step: Link
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Unilever, the maker of the Klondike ice cream sandwich has a little video contest where fans submit their home-made "What would you do for a Klondike Bar?" videos for a chance to win money. They’ve whittled down 500 video entries into four finalists (with surprisingly good videos!)
I like this one by Pete Holmes of Frontpage Films, though the one by JaysonW is pretty good, too!
The voting is on till Aug 30: Link – via Gynomite! | Many more home-made Klondike bar clips on YouTube
Typosquatters [wiki] register common misspellings of a website’s domain name, in hope that someone’s typo could lead to making money (by putting ads on the typosquatted domains, for instance). In some instances, typosquatters are more malicious – their aims are to spread malwares or lead viewers to shock sites.
Well, so how do you know if your domain name has been typosquatted? Here’s a pretty neat site called Typosquat24 where you can find out. Digg, for instance, has a "squat popularity" (dunno how they came up with that) of 89%, whereas reddit’s is only 26%. Google has a squat popularity of 91%, MSN has 98%, and Yahoo has 96%.
In terms of blogs, Boing Boing has a squat popularity of 7%, TechCrunch has 11%, HuffPo has 12% and the wily funny ICanHasCheezburger has 7%.
Neatorama has a puny squat popularity of 3%, as you can see below. So get to it, typosquatters! What are you waiting for? My ego is bruised!
Manuel Uribe, once the world’s fattest man, left his home for the first time in five months today, thanks to a forklift and a flatbed truck:
Manuel Uribe traveled to the shore of a lake in northern Mexico without ever leaving his specially designed bed. A forklift hoisted the bed onto the truck, which then hauled him to the lake, where he snacked on fish and vegetables and joked with a local boat operator.
Looking at the boatman’s small craft, Uribe joked, "Too bad I can’t get on it — it would sink."
Link (Photo: Monica Rueda/AP)
Previously on Neatorama: Heaviest Man in the World | World’s Fattest Man Lost Half of Body Weight on Low Carb Diet
Photo: Edinburgh Zoo
Norwegian King Harald the Fifth has just knighted … a penguin! That’s right, a penguin named Nils Olav, the honorary member and mascot of the King’s Guard since 1972, is not Sir Nils Olav to you:
Penguin Nils Olav has been an honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King’s Guard since 1972.
Over the years, he has been promoted through the ranks after being adopted by Royal Guard who visited the zoo.
During the ceremony, Nils had a sword dubbed on each side of his head, where his shoulders should be, to confirm his regimental knighthood.
A crowd of several hundred people joined the 130 guardsmen at the zoo. A citation from King Harald the Fifth of Norway was read out, which described Nils as a penguin "in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood".
What’s even more intriguing is that the original
Nils Olav died in 1980 – the penguin knighted today was his replacement: Link – via On Deadline
Previously: Norwegian Army Promotes Penguin
