The guys in this clip either have far too much time on their hands, or must be the most talented pong artists ever. I can't even imagine how much time it took to complete the entire video. Via Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/ping-pong-ball-throwing-skills/An awesome panoramic photograph showing the whole of New York City. http://www.spaciousinternet.com/bestnycpanoramiczb4.jpg- via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/nyc-panorama/The 2006 winners of the Darwin Award just got announced! And the winner is:The Hammer of DoomAugust brings us a winner from Brazil, who tried to disassemble a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/2006-darwin-award-winners/No, not that digg. In this fun and addictive Flash game Motherload, you're a little digger that excavates ores, sells them for money to upgrade your machine and dig even deeper to get more ores, ad infinitum. Somehow, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/be-a-digger-game-motherload/Erik Kirschbaum of Reuters wrote about the oddities of 2006. Included is the spray-on condom we featured on Neatorama before (pic on the left) and many other items, such as:Careless thieves once again made headlines...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/oddities-of-2006/Glenn & Heidi Reed's Where on Earth? is an online catalog full of weird stuff you can buy (and some you cannot). This one "Toadcessory" hat and purse are but a small sample of the weird stuff they've got. C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/toadcessories-purse-and-hat-made-with-actual-toads/The White Horse of Uffington, with its elegant lines of white chalk bedrock, is thought to be the oldest hill figure in Britain. The image is a stylised representation of a horse (some would say dragon) some 374 f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/the-white-horse-of-uffington/HAKODATE, Hokkaido -- Five members of a local riding club rode up 134 steps on native Hokkaido-bred horses to make their first visit of 2007 to Hakodate Hachiman shrine in style. The riders from the Dosanko Farm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/praying-for-people-and-horses/A live-action recreation of Pac-Man, from Japanese television. In this version, you won’t get eaten, but you’ll be beaten with sticks! I wish I could understand the one-liners, but its funny enou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/live-action-pac-man/Hans Nyberg's Panoramas.dk has the neatest list of New Year panoramas you'll find on the Web. The one above is from Sydney, Australia (no, not Sidney, Montana).See 25 other cities: http://www.panoramas.dk/new-year-2007/n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/new-year-panoramas/Here's a little clip called Pump Action by Phil McNally. The scene is from the movie Reservoir Dogs.Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Fresh Creation and Eduyayo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/reservoir-dog-with-animated-3d-balloons/This is why you should never feed your sea turtles some brussel sprouts: A turtle given a Christmas treat of Brussels sprouts caused a Boxing Day emergency when it set off an alarm at a sea life centre – by pas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/farting-sea-turtle-triggered-aquariums-alarm/This is a weird one: Richard Kavanagh broke the world record for most number of kicks to one's own head. He did 60 in 38 seconds. Hit play or go to Link [Google Video] - via Random Citations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/world-record-for-kicking-ones-own-head/Dead Man Eating Weblog, a blog dedicated to last meals, last words and other things of executed inmates has the details on Saddam Hussein's last meal:Hussein had a final meal request of boiled chicken and rice. With...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/saddams-last-meal/In 2005, Steve Arnold found a 1,430-pound meteor in Greensburg, Kansas using a homebrewed metal detector cobbled together with PVC pipes and duct tapes. It was worth more than $1 million:FOR TWO WEEKS, STEVE ARNOLD T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/steve-arnold-the-meteor-farmer/It was the night before Christmas, and Ebenezer Scrooge was facing the three ghosts. Or was he?Robert Chance Algar, a Californian neurologist, and his aunt Lisa Saunders, a medical writer and physician, believe that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/was-ebenezer-scrooge-just-a-victim-of-brain-disease/Haha.nu has a couple of pictures of a funny ad campaign by a deodorant, titled "Get Rid of Deadly Foot Odor": Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/deadly-foot-odor-ads/Digital Photography School has a neat basic primer on how to photograph waterfalls. Even though you're not a shutterbug, you'll probably still appreciate several of the fantastic photos they have on the page: LinkThis on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/how-to-photograph-waterfalls/Before the blockbuster Fantastic Four movie in 2005 [wiki], there was a previous low-budget B-movie version produced by Roger Corman [wiki], who was famous for producing these types of film. The low-budget 1994 movie was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/roger-cormans-the-fantastic-four-1994/Here's a test to see whether you're an idiot. Truth be told, it took me several times to "pass" the test. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/03/the-idiot-test/
