Silver Playing Cards - $9.95Don't play poker with those b-o-r-i-n-g playing cards! Check out these: a deck of silver playing cards that will surely liven up your next poker night. It's a guaranteed winner!Newly listed -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/silver-playing-cards/Quick: what comes to your mind when I say "Ferrari"? A line of gorgeous (and exorbitantly priced) supercars? Formula One racing? How about mule-shoeing, World War I flying ace, and the H1N...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/10-neat-facts-about-ferrari/Congratulations to Hanan Levin of grow-a-brain and Stella on the arrival of his new baby: Adora "Nyunyu" Levin, born October 18, 2009.Hanan wrote me: People who knew me would never have thought that at 56 I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/congrats-hanan-grow-a-brain-grew-a-baby/Photo: Monica Szczupider / National GeographicWhen Dorothy, a beloved female chimp died at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon, her burial was witnessed by the rest of the chimps residing there.Monica Sz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/28/grieving-chimps/Why is it called The Hague instead of just Hague? New York City has Manhattan and The Bronx. Why not The Manhattan? Or just Bronx? And when did The Ukraine become plain Ukraine? It turns out that place names with definit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/place-names-with-definite-articles/A reader sent this picture to Curious Expeditions, asking if they knew where it was taken. The biggest clue is the building in the background with its distinctive architecture. Can you identify the building or the se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/can-you-identify-this-building/The way to get more mileage out of a monster is to make him/her the hero. It's been done quite a few times, sometimes resulting in more confusion than entertainment. We'd love to say that we can't blame Dell Comics...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/when-monsters-change-sides-10-horror-icons-who-turned-good/Tara Parker-Pope writes in The New York Times about the conclusions of some medical researchers that long-distance running is a major evolutionary advantage for humans. The ability to remain cool by sweating in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/humans-evolved-to-be-long-distance-runners/This past January, Timothy Ryback wrote in The Times about the books that Adolf Hitler kept in his private library. 1,200 books that he retained at his residences in southern Germany are now warehoused by the L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/hitlers-secret-library/(YouTube Link) Stanford University's robotics lab has built autonomous cars for several years. Recently, it established a land speed record for a robot car -- 140 mph in an Audi TT-S nicknamed "Shelly". But their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/autonomous-robotic-race-car/Since he was a young boy, Anthony Toth has seen the first class cabin of an old Pan Am 747 as the very quintessence of luxury. So he has spent the past twenty years building a simulation of that environment in his garag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/man-recreates-pan-am-jetliner-cabin-in-his-garage/Katie Liljenquist of Brigham Young University led a study that suggests that clean-smelling environments subtly encourage people to avoid abberant behavior. From Science Daily: The study titled "The Smel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/study-suggests-that-certain-smells-promote-good-behavior/Looks like Boston Dynamics, the robot company that brought us BigDog and RHex, has worked out how to make a robot walk like a man. This is PETMAN, a robot that is supposed to serve humans. Currently it is used to tes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/petman-walks-like-a-man/YouTube Link If your Halloween costume is anywhere near as clever as this one, or you've finally decided on Chewie as your go-to outfit, be sure to top it off with the authentic roar, as taught here.halloween, chewb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/how-to-grrrowl-like-chewbacca/There has never been a documented case of cancer found in a Naked Mole Rat, which is unusual as they can live to be 30 years old. Now biologists at the Unversity of Rochester believe they have found the reason. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/naked-mole-rats-immune-to-cancer/Image: Erin McKean Erin McKean is a Chicago-based lexicographer who writes at the blog A Dress A Day. There she opines on various dresses that she sees and makes. Her most recent creation is a dress inspire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/tetris-dress/Atlas Obscura has compiled pictures and information about twelve different churches and shrines decorated with human bones. The picture above is from a wall at the Chapel of Bones at the Royal Church of St. Fra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/twelve-ossuaries-around-the-world/Just a couple of updates: 10 Neatest NY Inventions Over at HuffPoI wrote an article titled 10 Neatest New York Inventions Ever that got frontpaged at the Huffington Post. For example, whoddathunk that Je...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/neatorama-update-october-2009-huffington-post-and-interview-with-technorati/If you're interested, my interview for Technorati's State of the Blogosphere mentioned above was conducted using a new and free web service called wetoku.wetoku is still in beta, but I can tell you this: it's one to watc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/wetoku-a-new-tool-for-web-interviews/Stop! Hammerhead Time - $11.95 | Funny T-ShirtsWhat do you get when you combine a certain 80s fad and sharks? Here's a T-shirt designed by the always awesome Nathan Mazur of Scared of Bees and brought to you by MC Hammer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/stop-hammerhead-time/Technically, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy should probably be The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, as the book most certainly explores multiple galaxies, regardless of semantics th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/your-neatorama-guide-to-the-hitchhikers-guide/Less is more with this Christmas nativity set by artist Oliver Fabel, available in German and in English. Link -via Swiss MissChristmas, Christian, nativity set, creche...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/minimalist-nativity-set/A 10-foot Great White Shark had been hooked already by a baited drum line off the coast of Queensland, Australia when it was attacked and bitten by a much bigger fish. Based on the bite marks, the attacker is presumed to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/10-foot-shark-nearly-bitten-in-half-by-20-foot-shark/This is called anthropomorphic taxidermy art. It is a real squirrel dressed as Queen Victoria mounted in a shadow box perfect for hanging on your wall. Crafted by Etsy seller lovedtodeath, this could be yours for onl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/queen-victoria-squirrel/Looking to torture your four-legged friend with the sound of squeaking balloons and the feeling of extra bumpers that prevent him from getting comfortable? Look no further than this adorable, yet highly unfunctional...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/grape-dog-costume/Apparently the key to creating "brain tissue" is to mix acidic lime juice with the vodka. Then when you add the Bailey's Irish Cream via a straw, it curdles into cortical gyri. A splash of grenadine provides...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/bloody-brain-shooters/Just in time for Halloween, adorable bats bundled up with their baby bottles. These little guys have a bad reputation, but how could you imagine anything evil from these beautiful babes? Link Image Via Ugly Overlo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/bundled-bat-buddies/This brain cake looks terrifying, but the process to create it is pretty cool. The brain folds are simply made of frosting and the blood is only food coloring. I think a simple way to make things even more delicious woul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/brain-cake-is-scary-but-tasty/Still haven't got your Halloween costume yet? If you're willing to put a lot of work into the effort, consider this gory, historical and somehow, still beautiful headless Marie Antoinette costume.Link Via CraftzineImage...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/26/marie-antoinette-costume/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foiY7X9zhF4] This is described as a "complete thermite weld." It's much more complicated than you might have anticipated. You will know within the first minute or so whether...
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