Link: PlayMyGame At the site Play My Game, you can put yourself into a videogame! Upload a picture, choose from five games (boxiong, iDance, SuperMe, Cake Fight, or Birthday), and create an embeddable player. This is Su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/30/play-my-game/A tuxedo made of wine corks? That’s a corkxedo! 891 Corks Total 686 Corks in the Jacket 181 Corks in the Top Hat 24 Corks in the Cane More than 240 Wineries Represented Total Weight: Merely 15...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/30/corkxedo/The $54 million pants (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)Here's an update on the case of the $54 million pants, which we posted before:A Washington, D.C., judge Monday threw out a $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/30/there-is-justice-after-all-54-million-pants-lawsuit-thrown-out/The world's smallest school, an elementary school in China, has just one teacher and one student: He explained: "At first, the school had more than 400 students, but in the '90s, more and more families migrated...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/30/worlds-smallest-school/Troy Landwehr did his own version of Mount Rushmore with 700-pound block of cheddar cheese! (Photo: M.P. King/Post-Crescent)http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070630/APC0101/706300578/1002&located=F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/30/mount-rushmore-the-cheddar-version/Meet Aldo, a 3-week-old pygmy hippo:Anais, the mother hippo, keeps an eye on its son Aldo, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, (Choeropsis Liberiensis), at the Vincennes zoo, outside Paris, Tuesday, June 26, 2007. A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/30/pygmy-hippo-baby/Actually, it is called an Okapi, and isn't a crossbread at all (but certainly looks like one). The Okapi is a rather anti-social member of the giraffe family that only lives in the rainforests of the Democratic Repu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/30/zebra-horse-giraffe-zoraffe/Flickr user Lichtfaktor has a neat photoset of using flashlights to make graffiti! Link - Thanks Jenny!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/light-graffiti/Neatorama reader Jerrold wrote about the new LED light system of the CN Tower in Toronto:The world's tallest free-standing structure got a makeover, and officially debuted it's new flare in Toronto last night.*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/cn-tower-in-toronto-is-now-purty-at-night/Neatorama reader Jennifer wrote:With all the talk of Zorses and Zonkeys, I thought I'd share my photo of a Zony(Pony+Zebra) (and its camel friend.) I spotted these guys at a farm in Knights Ferry, CA. The Zony's name...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/zebra-pony-zony/Following your GPS navigation blindly can take you into a swollen river, or in this case: train tracks!Link - Thanks Gianluca!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/gps-told-me-to-turn-onto-the-train-tracks/Photographer Sergio Pessolano took some amazing photos of the Mursi people in Ethiopia:The Mursi (or Murzu) are a Sub-Saharan African nomadic cattle herder tribe located in the Omo valley in southwestern Ethiopia clo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/the-mursi-people-of-africa/Etsy seller Spiderbite is selling "Nightmare Snatcher," a fuzzy journal that lets kids write down or draw things that scare them: Furry and fearless, friendly but ferocious, these Nightmare Snatchers are th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/the-nightmare-snatcher/From the Kircher Society blog, here is the story of the self-mummying suicidal monks: Scattered throughout Northern Japan are two dozen mummified Japanese monks known as Sokushinbutsu. Followers of Shugendô, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/self-mummifying-suicidal-monks-of-japan/Check out this awesome Guitar Chair by Cincinnati artist Rick Metz.Link (don't miss the Guitar Pick Coffee Table!) - Thanks Hilary Wiezbenski!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/guitar-chair-by-rick-metz/Flickr user eselkunst has a neat collection of bugs made from found objects "wedged, fitted, and puzzled together without adhesives." Some are very intricate! Link [Flickr] - Thanks Kelly B!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/bug-made-from-found-objects/Hypochondriacs rejoice! Who Is Sick? is a website that allows you to tell the world about your symptoms, or search if your neighborhood is a hotbed for runny nose, skin sores, or even bloody stool.Right now, I'm really s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/neighborhood-hypochondriac-watch-who-is-sick/After watching drunken Russians playing Sparta, here's one by the cleaning crew!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/caution-this-is-sparta/You're looking at Beth Cavener Stichter's stoneware sculpture called Premonition - looks like a cross between Cthulhu and a shrimp! http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/Premonition.htm | Check out Beth's other artwork her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/cthulhu-shrimp-beth-cavener-stichters-premonition/In a fine example of cooperation in the animal kingdom, one panda boosts another to make an escape from their enclosure! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/panda-breakout/This weekend's full moon hangs lower in the sky than any other full moon of 2007, according to NASA, and it's a good time to be fooled. When low on the horizon, the Moon can appear to be larger than when it's hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/low-hanging-full-moon/This is too funny. Scenes of Russian life, many from viral videos you're familiar with, set to the soundtrack of the trailer for the movie 300. From English Russia. Link (Thanks, Jan!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/russian-sparta/Threadbared has an amusing collection of goofy sixties fashion shots. In this one the model really does look like she's about to throw up. I don't remember nausea being a fashion statement of the era, but I was young a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/it-came-from-the-sixties/These men are sparring, not with whips, but with swords -- flexible, sometimes multi-bladed, swords called urumi or chuttuval. According to Answers.com:[The urumi is] a long sword made of flexible steel, sharp enough...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/urumi/Long before Tron in 1982, computers were used in the film industry. This article looks at the first computer rendering, the first computer animation, the first 3D CGI effects, etc. Link -via Grow-A-Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/the-first-computer-effects-in-film/Jose Geraldo Pfau Kings, an advertising executive in Santa Caterina, Brazil makes tiny motorcycles from watch parts! They are not for sale. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/tiny-motorcycles/This bizarre bat species hadn’t been seen in 40 years, and has never been photographed before. German biologist Natalie Weber found 16 Maclaud's horseshoe bats in a cave in Guinea and took the picture. The batâ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/maclauds-horseshoe-bat/Photo: Chris Brandis/APYesterday, Miss Cellania posted a neat photo of the Zorse, which got me thinkin' whatabout the cross between a zebra and a donkey: the Zonkey? Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/zebra-donkey-zonkey/Why do you need these Latin phrases? Well, like Latin teachers always say, Latin lives on in plenty of English words and phrases. But mostly, it's worth learning a bit of Latin because omnia dicta fortiori, si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/latin-you-should-know/Let's take a look at VideoSift' Art channel: Gnarls Barkley's Crazy on a ThereminWhen Leon Theremin invented the world's first (and probably only) musica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/29/videosift-art-channel/
