Photo: Colorado UerlingDark Roasted Blend has a neat post about all sorts of weird cloud formations. This one above is a Punch Hole Cloud:Punch Hole Clouds may appear as a circular or oval holes in a layer of superco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/punch-hole-clouds/Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi {wiki} has won awards for eating hot dogs, hamburgers, dumplings, bratwurst, lobster rolls, cow brains, and rice balls. But he completely gave up on the world record at a fruitcake eati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/fruitcake-failure/29-year-old James Joseph Cialella was arrested in Philadelphia Thursday night for shooting another patron at a movie theater because the man and his family were talking during the movie. Police said Cialella told t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/28/movie-theater-shooting/Glassdoor.com, a website that lets employees anonymously rate and review their employers, has released its list of the nicest and naughtiest CEOs of 2008. The nicest CEO is Genentech's Art Levinson with a 92% approval ra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/the-nicest-and-naughtiest-ceos-of-2008/The genius comedy team JibJab is at it again: here's their 2008 Year in Review video, complete with jokes about the economic crisis, the US presidential election, and more. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]2008, jibjab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/jibjab-2008-in-review/Why do more men than women like to play (violent) video games? Professor Allan Reiss of Stanford University found out that it's all about their urge to conquer and vanquish:In the study, published recently in the Jou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/why-men-like-to-play-video-games-more-than-women/If you have this Snowman Snow Globe from Hallmark Cards, beware! The jumbo-sized snow globe can act as a magnifying glass when exposed to sunlight and ignite nearby materials!http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PREREL/prhtml09/0...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/snowman-snow-globe-is-a-firestarter/Meet Fred and Ginger (yes, after Astaire and Rogers), two seals at the North Carolina Zoological Park that love to dance! Apparently, they also dance because they love fish:The secret of the perfect dancing partnersh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/dancing-seals/It's been a while since I posted a Bizarro cartoon (sorry Dan!) - but I ran across this gem on Christmas and couldn't resist despite the um, slightly political undertones.For more Bizarro, be sure to check out Dan Piraro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/bizarro-reindeers-prepare-assault-on-sarah-palins-house/A surveillance video at Smith's Food & Drug grocery store in Idaho has captured a ... shoplifting dog!Surveillance video at Smith's Food & Drug shows the dog walking in the front door and giving a friendly sn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/the-shoplifting-dog/Männerspielplatz is a 17-acre theme park in Germany with a real theme. The name translates to "men's playground". For 219 euros (about $280), patrons can spend the day operating 29-ton Liebherr backhoes and 32-t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/disneyland-for-dudes/(YouTube link)DJ Earworm has another masterful mashup, this one covering the entire year of 2008. This video features the top 25 songs of the year, according to Billboard Magazine. A list of the songs used...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/viva-la-pop/Here's a cute photo essay based on the book Fairy Tales Can Come True (Just Not Every Day!). Stock advertising photos from the 40s and 50s make it much more than just a marriage manual! Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/fairy-tales-can-come-true/Money is too obvious and weapons are dangerous, so what is the CIA using to bribe information from Afghan warlords these days? Viagra! The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/viagra-for-afghan-warlords/Scouting New York is an occupation blog that's also a gorgeous photoblog. I work as a film location scout in New York City. My day is basically spent combing the streets for interesting and unique locations for fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/27/scouting-new-york/David Dunnico has an interesting Flickr photoset where he photographs the ubiquitous CCTVs (and their signs) in Manchester, England as an ongoing art project: Link - via Accordion GuyCCTV, surveillance, Manchester...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/warm-welcome-and-friendly-atmosphere/Christmas has come and gone and if you're going through Santa Claus withdrawal syndrome, here's a post for you: the world's largest Santa Claus snow sculpture in Harbin, China.China's freezing northern city of Harbin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/worlds-largest-santa-snow-sculpture/Etsy seller dadaya made the cutest beret EVAR! The deadly Amanita muscaria(or Death Cap) mushroom beret made out of wool then embroidered. Sadly, it's sold out.Link - via SwissmissDeath Cap mushroom, Amanita, beret...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/death-cap-mushroom-beret/If you happen to run across a rubber duckie floating in the ocean, it may be worth $100! NASA has lost 90 of its yellow rubber ducks and it wants them back, badly:The US space agency has yet to find any trace of 90 b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/nasa-wants-its-rubber-duckies-back/People Who Deserve It is a theme blog dedicated to documenting the types of people who deserves a good punch in the face (I think they mean metaphorically or at least I hope they do!). To wit, this annoying character typ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/people-who-deserve-it-blog/Photo: Mike HettwerAlan Taylor of the Big Picture Blog over at Boston Globe has a(nother) neat post - this time of fantastic photos of Mike Hettwer of a dinosaur fossil excavation in the Sahara Desert:About 9,000 yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/green-sahara-photos-by-mike-hettwer/Baierman of YesButNoButYes has a nifty post about some of the most unusual menorah designs. I particularly like this blue moose menorah by Canadian artists Don Gidley and Sue Parke of Acme Animal.LinkMore wonderful menor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/blue-moose-menorah-and-other-unusual-menorahs/Remember the video clip of a baby that knows his presidents? Well, meet Melanie, a one-year-old that knows her video games characters!Her daddy must be proud, why he's got flashcard and everything! Link [embedded YouTube...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/baby-knows-her-video-game-characters/Photo: evaxebra [Flickr]It was a sad, sad day when Gary Larson retired from creating The Far Side comic. To fill the gap in their hearts, a group of intrepid Flickr users took matters into their own hands and cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/the-far-side-reenactment/Hooray! It's time for our collaboration with the always excellent What is it? Blog. This week brings us this strange object pictured to the left. Can you guess what it is?Today being Christmas, the first...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/what-is-it-game-85/The critters out in the Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney, Australia got a special treat for Christmas this year. I know it starts with an ad, but the video is totally worth the wait. http://www.necn.com/Boston/Arts-Entertai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/26/how-animals-celebrate-christmas/Back on December 24, 1968 the crew of the Apollo 8 space mission were to make history for two things. They were the first human beings to circle another celestial body in space and they were also to take one of the most...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/christmas-eve-greetings-from-space/The guys over at the "Interesting Facts" blog has compiled a nice post with nine examples of beautiful heart-shaped forests, lakes and islands. Link - via Pushanature...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/when-mother-nature-shows-her-love/Andy Mangold, a twenty-year-old designer from West Chester Pennsylvainia, decided to repackage the classic Monopoly board game by Parker Brothers. All of the boxes are made out of chocolate brown mat board and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/monopoly-gets-a-redesign/This video, filmed at a depth of 770 meters, shows a bioluminescent deep-sea siphonophore - a large organism consisting of many different organisms. Linksuperorganism...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/deep-sea-superorganism-video-footage/
