Karen at HealthAssist measured and photographed amounts of food that have 300 calories. Each is pictured with a $10 bill for scale, and the cost of the amount is also noted. If you are counting calories, this is good n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/30/300-calorie-food-picture-gallery/I've seen a lot of cute baby critters in my time, but this is the first time I've seen a newborn aardvark. He's so weird looking, he looks like Alf's hairless baby. If you live near the Detroit zoo, check out this "hid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/wrinkley-aardvark-baby/If your snails are getting too cold this winter, just get them a cute little sweater like this guy has. I can't begin to say how strangely cute I think this is. Link Via Cute OverloadChristmas, weird, crafts, animals, s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/snail-sweater-adorable-cuddly/I am horribly, terribly scared of clowns (and people dressed up in costumes or masks that obscure their faces, for that matter), but even I find this contest on Worth 1000 interesting. The contest lets people with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/celebrities-are-clowns-no-really/While I was on vacation this Christmas, I was lucky enough to grab the newest article of Rolling Stone and read "The Legend of Master Legend." I haven't read anything so funny in a long time. I highly recommend readin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/real-superheroes-are-a-little-crazy/I can think of a couple of times when I've nodded off while driving. This feature would've come in handy. Special sensors in the steering wheels of new Mercedes E-Class cars will detect inattentiveness by the driver...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/new-car-feature-alerts-drivers-when-they-fall-asleep/This is a story too gross to make up. A plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills is in trouble for modifying his engine to run on liposuctioned fat. Several ex-patients are suing Dr. Craig Bittner because they did not agree to h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/plastic-surgeon-runs-car-on-fat/Lots of people know about the relationship between fantasy writers C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, but who know Bram Stoker stole Oscar Wilde's true love out from under his nose? I didn't, at least, so I think these rela...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/relationships-between-10-classic-authors/I know next to nothing about champagne or sparkling wine, but I do know I'd like to have a bottle that costs more than $3.99 for my little gathering. But not much more than that. Luckily, Slashfood has my back....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/new-years-champagne-recommendations/The ABC World News Webcast has announced their picks for the biggest viral videos of 2008, with a little help from Yours Truly. Link viral videos, countdown...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/top-5-viral-videos-of-2008/Lenny&Meriel make these delightful figures they call Sparebots out of resistors, caps, pots, chips, sockets, and other electronic parts! Some are arranged into little scenes, and some are animals. Link to Flickr set. L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/sparebots/The Art of Manliness blog has a nifty post about 25 self-made men in American history, people who came from unpromising circumstances but pulled themselves by the bootstraps to become successful.Many of the men listed ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/sean-combs-and-other-self-made-americans/When I saw the title, I thought this might be a comedy posting, but it really is the stories of famous numbers. The pictured number is called the "golden section". This number [represented by the symbol at left] is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/the-13-most-famous-numbers-and-their-stories/Why do some people have all the luck while others are perpetually unlucky? Professor Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire was determined to get to the scientific bottom of the phenomenon of luck, and what h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/the-secret-of-luck-why-some-people-have-all-the-luck/Thingamababy blog has a viral video clip - the original has over 1 million views - of a young girl named Arianna dancing to Beyoncé's Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It). She (Arianna) has the moves down pat, but...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/toddler-dancing-to-beyonce-cute-or-disturbing/The Los Angeles Times has been running a series of articles about Mexico's drug cartels and the government's (so far ineffective) war against drugs. Past articles have included the gruesome tale of drug boss dissolving t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/lawmakers-run-for-the-door-as-anti-drug-crusader-proposed-drug-testing/For the past 40 years, Ashleigh Brilliant has been making these wonderful "Pot-Shots," combining his marvelous wit with brevity (all are 17 words or less). He has over 10,000 illustrated epigrams that you can v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/ashleigh-brilliants-pot-shots/You and I may be facing an economic collapse, but one Russian professor is having the time of his life. For over a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin had been predicing the US to fall apart and most people ignored him...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/the-coming-collapse-of-the-united-states/Israeli energy company Innowattech has created a new type of road that generates electricity as cars drive on it:The supercharged surface is embedded with piezoelectric crystals, which transform kinetic energy from p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/electricty-generating-roadways/If you saw this on the beach, you'd probably want to set up camp some distance away. But this beached sperm whale is made of wood, aluminum and polyester! The sculpture is at Scheveningen Beach in The Netherlands. See...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/5-creepy-beach-sculptures-to-scare-off-sunbathers/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests whether you can tell a real Andy Rooney quote from the many attributed to him over the years. I scored 68%, a bit better than average. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/did-andy-rooney-really-say-that/Vimeo user Eirik Solheim captured a year's passage through four seasons with photos taken at regular intervals and assembled them into this stunning video. I suggest clicking through to the full-sized video....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/one-year-in-40-seconds/Alex posted the new world record for domino toppling not too long ago. I don't think this one breaks any records, but it is quite original - it tells the story of Snow White in domino form. Video, Domino...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/29/the-fairest-domino-of-them-all/Blbar Singh, a Sikh man in Bakersfield, California, was looking up a package that he sent to his son's home on the UPS website. He was surprised to see that the delivery was signed by "terrorist":Anant Sing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/ups-package-signed-by-terrorist/Neatorama reader Mark Schuette told us of his invention: a new mode of transportation powered by ... dogs! Though dog mushing is an old sport, Mark's new twist lets you have your own urban Iditarod on a dog-powered scoot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/dog-powered-scooters/There's an intriguing trend afoot: men - both gay and straight - are turning to surrogacy to become single dads. Surrogacy experts say because the practice is not regulated, many surrogacy arrangements are handled pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/kids-without-wives-men-are-turning-to-surrogacy-to-become-single-dads/Just how do sumo wrestlers bulk up for their sport? Turns out, it's by eating soup! Here's a neat article by Tania Kadokura of Saveur magazine about chanko-nabe, a hearty, protein-rich one-pot meal that has been...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/the-sumo-soup/At first I thought this was a tongue-in-cheek photoshopped book cover, but How to Profit From the Coming Rapture: Getting Ahead When You're Left Behind is actually a real book.Well, actually make that a fake rea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/how-to-profit-from-the-coming-rapture/The folks over at 2pie blog have a pretty neat idea: make a snow print by pushing their faces into fresh powder on cars. The images are all concave, but make for an optical illusion of 3D sculptures! I saw this circulati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/snow-faces/New Scientist has a neat article about Elektro, the world's first celebrity robot, and Jack Weeks, who is trying to rebuild the golden robot he found in the basement of his childhood home:Elektro was built in 1937 at...
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