This Silver Brickwall ring features those familiar 2x2 nubs that allows you to snap on actual LEGO pieces onto the ring. http://secure.giantrobot.com/products.php?code=BRICKRING2X2 - via Uncrate, thanks Lee!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/silver-brickwall-lego-ring/You may remember the bottle dance sequence from the movie Fiddler on the Roof. Bottle Dancers USA is a professional troupe who will perform the bottle dance or other traditional Jewish, Hebrew, Yiddish, or Kle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/bottle-dancers/You’ll enjoy this mashup of graphics from Phoenix Wright with audio from a comedy routine by The Frantics, which is just as funny now as in 1986. -via Everlasting Blort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/phoenix-boot/This is such a cool opportunity! If I weren’t already overextended, I would be tempted to keep this information to myself. Once again, we here at Damn Interesting are in search of proficient purveyors of intr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/damn-interesting-positions/The descendants of Papua New Guinea cannibals who killed and ate four Fijian missionaries 130 years ago have apologized. In 1878, a Fijian minister and three teachers were killed and eaten by Tolai tribespeople on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/sorry-we-ate-your-forefathers/Nearly 80% of all electricity in France is generated by 58 nuclear power plants: Not everybody is happy with that. The anti-nuclear lobby seems to have found a friend in Asterix, the Gallic comic hero who fights agai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/asterix-fights-nuclear-power-in-france/Did the ancient Egyptians invent bowling?Throwing stone balls along a lane might have been a popular game in ancient Egypt, according to evidence unearthed some 56 miles south of Cairo by Italian archaeologists....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/bowling-in-ancient-egypt/It may be the Forbidden City, but apparently this Imperial-Palace-turned-tourist-attraction in Beijing, China, wasn't so forbidden to Starbucks (it opened a store there in 2000).Now, thanks to Chinese bloggers, the coffe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/starbucks-in-forbidden-city-to-be-forbidden-soon/"Even a bad movie can have a great trailer," states Trailers From Hell, a website dedicated to showcasing those 2-4 minute teaser, which often turn out to be the best the movie has to offer anyhow.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/trailers-from-hell/Here's the perfect gift for the politicos in your family: the Hillary Nutcracker! Love her or hate... you'll have nonstop fun cracking nuts with Hillary. Regardless of your affiliation (Republican or Democrat) you've...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/hillary-nutcracker/Haaretz reports (via Mirabilis): Archeologists have discovered a footprint made by the sandal of a Roman soldier - one of the few such finds in the world - in a wall surrounding the Hellenistic-Roman city of Sus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/footprint-on-the-sands-of-time/Criticker is a movie recommendations engine and community. The idea is simple: rank a bunch of films on a scale of 0-100, and Criticker will search its database of thousands of users and critics to see who you best m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/movie-recommendation-engine/How many times has Superman’s secret identity been revealed? At least 20, according to this cover gallery. Not that it took much to out him, considering he doesn’t use much of a disguise in the first plac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/clark-kent-is-superman/Andy Lewis does a “squirrel backflipâ€. It’s part of a sport called Slacklining {wiki}, which is like walking a tightrope, but with more flex in the rope. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/slacklining/A scarecrow competition in Great Torrington, England has imaginative scarecrows popping up all over -over 200 so far. It’s sponsored by the Torrington Cavaliers, who stage a huge bonfire each year in the town. W...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/scarecrow-fever/What happens if participants in a business meeting behave like Internet commenters? Here's a funny (because it's true) video clip: Hit play or go to http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1771556 [College Humor]. Warning:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/if-business-meetings-were-like-internet-comments/Here's the story of Daniel Price, a man who lives in a hobbit hole (yes - it's from last year, but still very neat):Here is a man who has the time and space in his life to watch and wait patiently to bring a new frie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/the-man-who-lives-in-a-hobbit-hole/Chinese couple wanted to name their baby "@" saying that they wanted a distinctive and modern name ...A Chinese couple seeking a distinctive and modern name for their child chose the commonly used @ symbol....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/chinese-parents-want-to-name-baby/Wanna work out like Spider-Man? In 1976, Marvel published this exercise book called "The Mighty Marvel Strength and Fitness Book," featuring superheroes doing sit-ups and so on: Link - Thanks John!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/18/workout-like-superheroes/Professor Lana Trick of the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, studies attention and working memory. One of her research is on object tracking.See how good you are at tracking multiple objects with this fun (but very...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/tracking-multiple-objects/Flushie the talking toilet tells us how happy he is to "get out of the (out)house" in this cute lil' propaganda, ... er, issue ad about sewage pollution:Why every year I dump over 860 billion gallon of raw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/flushies-summer-vacation/Here's our weekly collaboration with Dan Piraro - for more of his comics, check out: Bizarro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/bizarro-the-real-story-behind-the-ten-commandments/Joanna Ebstein of Morbid Anatomy wrote to us:I found this enigmatic and slightly terrifying photo at a Flea Market on a trip to Ohio last weekend. weekend. I can not figure out what is going on here, or where. I am l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/mystery-of-the-giant-baby-photo/How much of these top 10 candy jingles/ads do you remember? What a blast from the past! I have to be honest: I hated these commercials growing up. They would always come on while I was watching TV with my parents, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/blast-from-the-past-old-candy-ad-jingles/But, it's not what you think. From the CBC News: Mounties in eastern Manitoba have nabbed a strange, hairy monster that has been stalking campgrounds in and around the Whiteshell Provincial Park for the p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/sasquatch-captured/If you think that most cacti are leafless plants, think again: scientists had just discovered that all cacti actually have leaves, though most are small enough that you'd need a microscope to see them:Leaf s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/all-cacti-have-leaves/Today is the 25th birthday of the Compact Disc. The first CD was manufactured at Philips factory near Hanover, Germany, on August 17, 1982. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/happy-birthday-cd/I always knew there was more to the "Fett". Youtube Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/boba-fett-cuts-loose/Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta has given birth to four daughters, a rare instance of identical quadruplets. The babies were conceived without fertility drugs, and were delivered two months early. The odds of identical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/17/identical-quadruplets/Curious Expeditions has discovered a pair of very unusual lighting fixtures in a Serbian church: Lighting the frescoed walls of Ružica Church, a small chapel built into the side of Kalemegdan fortress,...
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