This is just the latest in a line of crazy PR stunts Hot Wheels has been pulling lately. Top Gear host (and pro stunt driver) Tanner Foust drove down a steep, bright orange ramp to gather speed for the recor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/31/a-hot-wheels-stunt-you-should-not-try-at-home/Video link Like many soon-to-be graduates, two seniors of Westfield High School in Westfield, Mass., decided to pull a little senior prank during lunch in their high school's cafeteria. The two staged a mock lightsabe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/31/mock-lightsaber-fight-results-in-suspension/Video link I can't say that it's been a pressing question for me, but obviously someone wondered what would happen if you put Lady Gaga's Bad Romance vocals over a Sonic the Hedgehog game track. This is the result....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/31/sonic-the-hedgehog-lady-gaga/Photo link Flavorwire has assembled a cool slideshow of people with artist-inspired tattoos, from the pop art of Andy Warhol to Banksy's graffiti work. Other artists represented include Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Gusta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/31/artist-inspired-tattoos/The following is an article from the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Figure 1. Battle between Lapiths and Centaurs (Centauromachy) at the wedding of Perithoos with Hippodameia (Vase 5th ce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/31/anatomy-of-the-centaur/(Video link) Someone has created quite an impressive hand-cranked machine that "manipulates small spherical rare earth magnets, slicing one at a time from the end of a long chain, moving it around a bit, then droppi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/31/hand-cranked-magnet-machine/(Video Link) The sky gods are angry at Australia! Several waterspouts were seen off the coast of New South Wales, and a news camera crew got very close to them: The video, taken from a helicopter by Australia's C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/waterspouts-at-close-range/[http://youtu.be/EppdVuV0z8I] (YouTube link) Frida, a cat that lives in Berlin, has a good eye! -via redditCat, shell game...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/cat-plays-shell-game/John Krayeski of West Palm Beach, Florida, was spear fishing in the waters off Singer Island, specifically at an artificial reef called the Triangle on Mothers Day. A responsible diver, he often picks up trash he sees un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/credit-card-found-25-years-later-underwater/The crudely-drawn faces that constitute rage face comic memes may seem vague and random, but they actually represent very specific emotions. This chart from the scholars at Know Your Meme explains the compar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/psychological-dimensions-of-rage-comics/(Video Link) This is a compilation of scenes of the Doctor getting violent. The Fourth Doctor especially seemed to appreciate long-range riflery. And the last scene...well, I did not see that coming at all. Content...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/doctor-who-is-gonna-bust-a-cap-in-yo-ass/The Great Pyramid of Giza contains narrow passageways and chambers that have never been explored. A small robot was sent into an 8-inch wide chute in 1993 and 2002, but both expeditions ran into something impassable. Now...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/robot-explores-pyramid/Ketchup Kritter Ketchup Bottle Cap - $3.95 It's the unofficial start of summer! Are you ready for your next backyard BBQ? Dress up your picnic table with the Ketchup Kritter Ketchup Bottle Cap from the NeatoShop. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/ketchup-kritter-ketchup-bottle-cap/Is the glass half empty or half full? Well, if you're anything like the average American, then chances are you're biased toward optimism.Here's an interesting article by Tali Sharot of TIME Magazine about science of opti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/the-optimism-bias/Start your a-maze-ing day right with the Maze Cafe ($14.95). This clever cup and saucer set from the NeatoShop is designed by Turkish designer Erdem Selek. It features a molded maze pattern on the saucer that you can pla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/maze-cafe/(YouTube link) A Danish football league for 14-year-olds got a boost reminiscent of Improv Everwhere's Best Game Ever when a group that was "tasked with making the Under 21 European Football Championship more visibl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/the-football-feeling/This has got to be recycling at its best. Why throwout perfectly good billboards when you can reuse them as a living space? I don’t know about you, but how many billboards have you seen that would make a good one b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/living-in-a-billboard/This mini documentary shows the breathtaking views from space astronauts have captured with their video cameras. And you thought your vacation video was neat. An intimate tour... in 1080p... of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/what-an-astronauts-camera-sees/By developing new rocket technology on the land scientists hope to help aid in safer space travel. It sounds counter intuitive, however the group making the bid for the land speed record thinks it could lead to a bre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/land-speed-record-bid-could-make-space-flight-safer/A gamma ray burst may be most distant object from Earth ever observed. The object is so far that it is giving scientists a glimmer into the early universe. GRB 090429B (the numbered name denote...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/most-distant-object-ever-seen/Now and then while surfing the web we all come across something almost believable yet just outrageous enough that we are not sure if it is real or not. However most of us don’t experience this doubt while reading a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/literally-unbelievable/Zork, a classic computer game from the 1970s, is now accessible through a rotary phone. The project is appropriately called "Dial-A-Grue": [...] a chap named Ulysses got the vintage game to run on a TDD (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/play-zork-on-a-rotary-phone/May 27th would have been Vincent Price's 100th birthday. In honor of the occasion, artist Zach Bellissimo drew 100 characters played by Vincent Price on sticky notes! See the whole thing at DeviantART or you can enla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/100-years-of-vincent-price/When people talk about literary loves, they mention Rhett and Scarlet, Heathcliff and Catherine, or Romeo and Juliet. It's about time some more modern love stories joined them. The Best Damn Creative Writing Blo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/the-top-10-best-modern-literary-love-stories/(Watch on YouTube) Bigfoot was (probably not) caught again on video. A group of young people were recording absolutely nothing with an iPhone camera as they traversed the undergrowth near the Spokane River. Accordi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/yet-another-bigfoot-sighting/[caption id="attachment_46949" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Because clowns aren't scary enough already."][/caption] What the Internet has taught me: People do strange things, and sometimes these strange...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/weird-home-made-modded-cars/In another example of strangers collaborating to share information online, Minnesotastan asked for an explanation for a confusing passage in the novel Free Air: She rarely lost her way. She was guided by the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/follow-the-rs-and-the-ls/Hacker group The Lulz Boat pirated PBS.org and posted an article claiming Tupac Shakur--who was shot four times and died in September, 1996--is alive and well and living in New Zealand. They also claim rapper Biggie Sm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/tupac-lives-according-to-hacker-controlled-pbs/Lulu Guinness, a fashion designer in the UK, created this public art installation which invited people to create impressions of themselves with a giant pin toy: The giant frame of pins is situated in front of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/30/human-sized-pin-toy/Nancy Wu, a student at the Art Center College of Design in California, made a Chanel purse out of pure beef jerky. Presumably it's not actually endorsed by Chanel, though one would imagine that Chanel would want to m...
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