This is an interesting logic puzzle - it kind of reminds me of that old game Pipe Dream. You have to rotate the "wiring" pieces and connect each bulb to light up the tree. It's harder than it sounds!! http://DumpT...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/light-up-the-christmas-tree-puzzle/I love quirky home decor, so this was right up my alley. The knife coat rack pictured here is my favorite, but the rest of them are clever as well. Linkstacy, home decor, quirky...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/18-cool-hat-and-coat-racks/Leave it to science to reveal all of life's greatest mysteries. Here's the secret to baking the perfect cookie, by food scientist Shirley Corriher: it's all about the gluten!Among the cookie problems bakers face is t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/the-secret-to-baking-the-perfect-cookies/Here's your next rock star: Meet Sara, a 13-year-old kid who kicks butt playing Rush's YYZ on the drums, complete with stick twirling theatrics and such.VideoSift has the clip: Link [embedded YouTube] | Sara's website (i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/12-year-old-kid-drummer-kicks-butt-playing-rush-yyz/Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a web service that lets you assign tasks to human workers in exchange for payments. It is named after The Turk, a chess playing automaton made by Wolfgang von Kempelen in the late 1700s (it tu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/the-people-behind-amazons-mechanical-turk/What happens when Bollywood combines Harry potter and Home Alone? Here's Hari Puttar - A Comedy of Terrors, directed by Lucky Kohli.The movie is about a ten year old Indian boy named Hari Prasad Dhoonda, nicknam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/hari-puttar-bollywoods-answer-to-harry-potter-and-home-alone/Between 1983 and 1991, Australia held an annual ultra-marathon of 544 miles (875 km). World's most elite racers ran from Sydney to Melbourne in 5 days - these athletes trained specially for this event, which was consider...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/how-a-61-year-old-farmer-won-the-worlds-toughest-ultra-marathon/A man who was shot in the head Tuesday is back at work already -with the bullet still in his skull! 74-year-old E.T. Strickland was hit during an armed robbery at a convenience store. Strickland was told by his doc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/bullet-in-head-wont-keep-him-home/Customs agents in Milan, Italy seized 88 pounds of Beluga caviar as it was smuggled from Poland. The stash is valued at over half a million dollars! Newspaper Corriere Della Sera says the caviar had an estimated va...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/caviar-for-christmas/A kitten was found injured in Akita, Japan and his back legs and tail were amputated. Employees at a book store nursed him back to health and found a home for him. The kitten has learned to balance and walk on his two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/kitten-walks-with-two-legs/A modified cell phone could allow doctors to analyze blood samples for HIV, malaria, and other diseases in remote villages where costly lab equipment and the power to run them are unavailable! The device is called a LUC...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/cell-phone-hack-analyzes-blood/Remember the New Jersey man who tried to pay his traffic ticket with pennies? Well, in a courageous display of one-upmanship, here's what one British guy did: he paid his parking ticket with a check written on a toilet p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/man-tried-to-pay-parking-ticket-with-toilet-paper-check/The young boy in the picture is Albert Einstein, who grew up to be perhaps the most famous scientist of all times. But what about the little girl? That, dear readers, was Maja Einstein, Albert's sister and only friend du...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/maja-einstein-albert-einsteins-only-childhood-friend/Aviary artist Meowza Katz, here are various Mona Lisas, as drawn by artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Matt Groening (the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama), Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol ... and even Jackson Pollock: Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/mona-lisa-by-other-artists/Photo: Cyril Byrne/The Irish TimesTomorrow is the winter solstice, the instant where the Sun is at its southernmost point. It is also the shortest day (or longest night, depending how you look at it) of the year. Ancient...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/solstice-sunrise-at-newgrange/Images: British Museum Prints DatabaseDay of the Dead was about a month and a half ago, but I've just discovered a neat post by BibliOdyssey about papel picado (perforated paper) papercuts in the theme of the fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/day-of-the-dead-papercuts/Did you know that if you buy yellow margarine in Missouri you're commiting a crime? A 19th century state law banned the sale of yellow margarine, though "it's been years since any violator was ordered to spread 'em....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/yellow-margarine-i-cant-believe-its-not-legal/The recent incident involving president Bush (previously at Neatorama) inspired RJ Evans to investigate the meaning of the thrown shoe outside the Middle East. He found many examples of the flung shoe (or is it flinged...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/shoe-flinging/Here's a pleasant diversion for baseball fans! You know the poem Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer. Now see the entire poem rendered in an appropriate medium -baseball cards! Link -Thanks, Ben Henry!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/casey-at-the-bat/A shark at at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas jumped out of its seawater enclosure onto a nearby water slide and slid down into the swimming pool! No one was in the pool Tuesday morning when it happened. "Yesterd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/shark-commits-suicide-on-water-slide/[YouTube - Link] Hailing all Star Wars geeks. Your life is now complete. Witness as twelve R2-D2s dance, shimmy, pivot and beep in tandem! From what I understand each of these cost at least $100! Wonder what the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/r2-d2s-chorus-line/[YouTube - Link] Here's a bizarre and strange video where the presenters want you to see the latest and most fashionable Soccer uniforms and gear for the German clubs through dance! Mind you this is obviously weird...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/20/a-soccer-fashiondance-video/Just because you're driving in your car, it doesn't mean that you can't take your hi-fi music with you. Here's a Chrysler innovation: a phonograph for your car.In 1956 they teamed with CBS to create the “Highwa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/chryslers-1956-highway-hi-fi-phonograph/Decorating your house for Christmas doesn't necessarily mean giving up on the bachelor-chic theme for your macho home. Just take a look at these Manly Christmas Decor ideas from AskMen.This one to the left is the Front...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/manly-christmas-decor/It's less than a week to go to Christmas, so it's time to trot out last year's fruitcake (hey, it's still good! Fruitcakes last forever) and this Neatorama's post: World's Most Unusual Christmas Trees.Are you re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/strange-christmas-trees/Trying to be a good Samaritan (at least in California)? Beware: you could be sued for rendering "non-medical" help, instead. Carol J. Williams of the Los Angeles Times has the interesting legal development: *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/suing-a-good-samaritan/Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar just got a new addition to their (already very, very large) family: their 18th child! And keeping with traditions (they name all their children starting with the letters J), here's Jordyn-Grac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/the-duggars-18th-child/No sheepdog? No problem! This Chinese shepherd found that he could control his flock of sheep with a poster of a wolf! Du Hebing, of Xi'an, told Huashang Daily that he shot the picture by chance."After...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/shepherd-uses-photo-of-wolf-to-herd-sheep/A photo of last minute Christmas shoppers raiding a local Walmart? No, actually those are members of the South Korean parliament trying to force their way inside a conference room in the National Assembly Building!Se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/19/legislatin-south-korea-style/I wish present-day Christmas specials were this awesome. Christmas, TV, Video, stacy, fat albert...
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