After the ceremonial first dance, this wedding couple also had their ceremonial “first lightsaber duel†at the reception. Push play or go to YouTube....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/their-first-lightsaber-duel/Lackadaisy by Tracy J. Butler is a webcomic about cats who run gin joints in St. Louis during Prohibition. Not only a rollicking story, but awesome artwork! Link to website. Link to beginning of story. -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/lackadaisy/Here's Thomas Grillo playing a classic 1914 Mother song (written by Howard Johnson and Theodore Morse) on a Moog Theremin [wiki]. Happy Mother's Day, everyone!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Ralph Geiger!*/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/a-song-for-mothers-day-played-on-a-theremin/This gruesome print memorializes the last two heads to be impaled on pikes over the Temple Bar, a stone archway that traditionally set off the western boundary of the city of London. Throughout the eighteenth century, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/a-crown-or-a-grave/Creativebits blog has a collection of some really creative business card designs (many from the businesscards pool on Flickr): Link - Thanks Tara!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/creative-business-card-designs/That's a Tesla coil sculpture called Cauac Twins, built by Syd Klinge for the Coachella 2007. Here are more photos and build photos of the largest twin Tesla coil in the world - Thanks Jason Mika!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/cauac-twins-worlds-largest-twin-tesla-coils/Flickr user Mr Biscuit took these photos and wrote:Personal pics from the set of Back of the Future taken while I was a security guard at Universal Studios. Hey, I heard Steven Spielberg snuck onto the lot in a secur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/back-to-the-future-set/Being Five is a comic blog by George Sfarnas about a five-year-old boy who blogs using a voice recognition software (why? because he can't type yet, of course!). It's very cute: Link - Thanks George!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/being-five-comic-blog/Whenever my friends get together, they always joke that they'd get a drum set for my little Maddy. Apparently, that might not be such a bad idea - case in point: Julian Pavone, the World's Youngest Drummer (previously on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/worlds-youngest-drummer-got-a-reality-show/Element Labs, Inc. built this giant 45,000 square (!) feet LED display for the 2006 Asian Games ceremony in Doha, Qatar. The massive size of the display—covering over 4,500 square meters, or 45,000 square feet&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/giant-45000-square-feet-led-display-at-asian-games/The Chinese have built this swing on top of a 700 foot tall viewing platform in China. Swingers are propelled out over the edge of the platform for a terrific (or terrifying) view of Harbin city in the Heilongjiang...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/worlds-highest-swing-2/This is the weirdest Coke commercial. Click play or go to Link [YouTube]....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/weirdest-coke-commercial/Link to YouTube - via Bilfeber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/diy-car-air-conditioning-system/It's like a giant Chia Pet: the 100-foot walls of the National Theatre in South Bank, London are covered in grass.Which begs raises the question: how do you mow it?http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23395628-de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/how-do-you-mow-a-giant-wall-of-grass/Kludge Spot has a neat list of the Top 20 Signs You Might be a Geek: When someone says 'organized sports' you think 'LAN party' You have lost most of your social abilities. You never used them anywa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/signs-you-might-be-a-geek/From the website: This nasty rescue is no fish tale. Rescuers cut through a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/saved-from-a-giant-vat-of-fish-poo/BBC food writer Stefan Gates travelled to Chernobyl in Ukraine and meets with people live there and regularly eat radioactive food:It turns out that the Chernobyl "Zone of Alienation" is home to several hun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/the-radioactive-diet/Greyhound #3 fell down in the race, took a shortcut and got in first anyway! Smart dog!Link [YouTube] - via Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/smart-dog-takes-a-shortcut-to-win-race/Tennessee inmate Philip Workman requested that his last meal be a vegetarian pizza donated to any homeless person near prison, but prison official refused (they do not donate to charity, they said)Upset after hearing the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/inmates-last-meal-request-denied-by-prison-fulfilled-by-regular-people/Here's something very cool: synchronized skating [wiki]! Apparently, it's quite a popular sports in Europe.Link [Google video]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/synchronized-skating/When its own mother abandoned it, this lucky pig found a new mother, a German Shepherd dog! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/german-shepherd-nurses-baby-pig/Here's something wonderful: old people dancing in the street to "Dance of the Knights" by Prokofiev. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks antnhec!Anton Hecht...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/blinking-ballet-old-people-dancing-in-the-street/Here's something that I wish I had while studying for the SATs: Justin Heimberg's Yo Momma vocabulary builder book, which uses the one-liner joke to teach new words!Yo momma's so emaciated, she can h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/justin-heimbergs-yo-momma-vocabulary-builder/From the website:Scientists have developed an artificial plastic blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies.Researchers at Sheffield University said their creation could be a huge advantage in war...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/scientists-developed-plastic-blood/The City Desk, a blog about life in a non-existent city, is a strangely fascinating blog by RJ White. Sample entries:As temperatures start to warm up, we would like to offer a reminder that a city ordinance passed la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/the-city-desk-blog/Shaun at the Book Inscriptions Project wrote to us: We are trying to collect as many book inscriptions as we can from all around the world so we can put up a new one every day. Some of them are funny, some a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/12/book-inscriptions-project/
