Youtube user "lonestarsound" has compiled a video theorizing the meaning behind the lyrics of Don McLean's American Pie. Click Play or go to Link [Youtube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/the-meaning-of-american-pie/The video of "Groovy Girl" dancing to Daft Punk's Harder, Faster, Stronger, Better was a big hit. She's back with a second video along with a tiny bit of additional info about her: it appears that she is in Ireland....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/groovy-girl-is-back/I've been traveling back and forth between Asia and the US for almost 20 years now and I'm still strangely fascinated and thrilled by the Asian obsession with karaoke. You haven't truly felt humiliation until you've b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/seoul-music-ymca/Rjd2's music video "Work It Out" features Bill Shannon (aka Crutch Master), who developed a unique way of moving with skateboard and crutches to cope with a degenerative hip condition (his legs cannot carry his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/rjd2s-music-video-featuring-bill-crutch-master-shannon/We've featured all sorts of albino animals before on Neatorama, but here's something I haven't seen before: a leucistic [wiki] (lacking all types of skin pigments, not just melanin) hummingbird: Link [Flickr] - Thank...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/white-hummingbird/The King of Kong and a Fistfull of Quarters is a documentary about a middle school science teacher Steve Wieby battling a hot sauce mogul Billy Mitchell for the world record on the classic arcade game Donkey Kong.*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/chasing-the-donkey-kong-dream/Because I Said So is a blog and Internet sensation by Dawn, a stay-at-home mom of 6 kids. She got famous when she auctioned off a baseball that started a particularly bad day:The Ball That Started it All*/str...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/the-baseball-that-started-it-all/Sixteen-year-old schoolboy Tom Wood spent just over 30 minutes to crack the Australian government's new $84 million Internet porn filter:A former cyber bullying victim, Tom feared a computer-savvy child could work ou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/schoolboy-cracked-governments-84-million-internet-filter-in-30-minutes/Here's the pilot of a very well done, independently made sitcom "Break a Leg" by Vlad and Yuri Baranovsky:David Penn has just gotten his sitcom, GROOMMATES, picked up. The problem is he's remembering this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/26/break-a-leg-an-indie-sitcom/For several weeks in September, as thousands upon thousands of ruby-throated hummingbirds pass through towns near the Gulf of Mexico in their fall migration, thousands of people gather to watch them. Visitors flo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/thousands-upon-thousands-of-hummingbirds/The manufacturer says: This top is light and comfortable to wear yet rugged enough to survive the threats of life. The Slash Resistant lining gives you peace of mind that you are giving yourself personal protec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/the-bladerunner-slash-resistant-hoodie/See What You're Made Of - Visit The Official Site To promote the new Bionic Woman series (anyone think this is going to last more than a few episodes?), NBC has created the Bionic Assessment Test. The test i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/im-55-bionic-how-about-you/When Andrew Fishel, the owner of New York restaurant RUB, wanted "the sickest, baddest thing in the world," he commissioned Orange County Chopper (of the American Chopper TV show fame) to create a mobi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/mobile-barbecue-pit-a-bbq-grill-chopper/Whoa! How awesome is this: a steampunk lightsaber Lumen Ex Consilium ("light from within wisdom"), created by Star Wars fan and steampunk enthusiast Jon C. Acosta. Link - via Brass Go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/steampunk-lightsaber/An outbreak of a virtual disease in the the popular online game World of Warcraft is providing an insight for scientists on how people behave in a real epidemic:The "corrupted blood" disease spread rapidly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/virtual-disease-may-help-scientists-understand-real-epidemic/Aerospaceweb has a really neat article about the 8 largest helicopters in the world. This one above is the Soviet's Mil Mi-26 which is only the second largest: it can carry payloads up to 44,000 lb (20,000 kg)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/worlds-largest-helicopters/The Sneeze blog has the story of how this guy made a full-sized replica of Star Wars' Han Solo in Carbonite using his own face instead of Harrison Ford's: Link - via Lost Weekend...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/yourself-in-carbonite/Steven Nicholson made his self-portrait with the lowly office equipment no one seems to know what to do with: the single hole punch.The portrait's "pixels" are actually made up of 10 different-sized holes!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/hole-punch-art/Ural archaeologist announced that they've discovered what could be the remains of Russia's last czar's son and heir to the throne, Prince Alexei:The remains of the last czar's son and heir to the Russian throne, miss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/remains-of-russian-czars-heir-found/Oops - I'm a bit late posting our weekly collaboration with Bizarro! Anyhoo, here it is! For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's website: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/bizarro-still-living-with-mother/A Croatian town is opening a park dedicated to ... potato! It will include potato plant flower beds, a potato themed play park for children with swings and slides shaped like potatoes, and information plaques explai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/here-comes-potatoland/Joe McKay takes old discarded cell phones and turns them into art. For this one above, called the Cell Phone Piano, he wired the cell phones to a keyboard, so as you play, you're also dialing!http://homepage.mac.com/joes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/cell-phone-piano/Pictures of towel art created by the Celtic Cruise staff. http://www.celticnationsworld.com/05_cruise_photos_towel_art.htm - via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/towel-art/Eat with the Diet Fork and lose weight! Only $8.95. * Shorter and dulled teeth inhibiting user from grasping larger pieces of food at any one time * Smaller triangular shaped surface area allowing dieter to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/the-diet-fork/This award-winning 2001 Lego stop-motion animation recreates the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, with a surprise ending. Push play or go to College Humor. Link to more about the movie. -via Look at T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/the-rescue/Ursi’s Blog always has “fine things for your delightâ€, including a selection of live webcam feeds in her sidebar. If you follow her site, you saw a family of storks raising their babies recently. Now s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/hummingbird-webcam/Why have a big ugly tank when you can make it a work of art, or at least advertising? This gallery has examples of how to make a tank something worth looking at, like this caterpillar tank in Oklahoma. Link -via Dump T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/tank-art/A simple but ingenious first aid device has won the prestigious INDEX: work award. The Tongue Sucker holds an unconcious person’s tongue by a vacuum, and the air bulb keeps the tongue pointed outside the mouth,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/the-tongue-sucker/African spurred tortoises Mud and Hermes live at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. They go outside for a little snack when the mood strikes them, to the delight of museum visitors. When they get...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/turtle-walk/Mother Teresa [wiki], who worked tirelessly to help the poor, sick and orphaned in Kolkata, India, was a symbol of religious compassion - she was even beatified after her death (a step toward sainthood).Now, letters writ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/25/was-mother-teresa-an-atheist/
