Where, oh where shall we stay this Halloween? How about in a real haunted hotel? Forbes Traveler has compiled a list of spooky lodgings from Scotland to San Diego. This one to the left is the famous Jekyll Island Club Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/haunted-hotels-and-spooky-lodgings/The Nine Emperor Gods Festival [wiki] is a Chinese festival celebrating the return of the Nine Emperor spirits from heaven to earth. So, what better way to celebrate this "holy day" than to punch some real...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/nine-emperor-gods-festival-is-one-real-crazy-holy-day/That's the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) GuitarBot built created by Eric Singer and friends in 2002. It is a four-string MIDI-based instrument/robot with moving frets that can play some awesome riffs!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/guitarbot/James Bond has always served the Queen and country, but now he has a new duty: to help deliver the mail!Royal Mail unveiled a set of stamps yesterday that feature the covers of Ian Fleming's Bond novels. They will go on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/james-bond-then-super-spy-now-postman/A copy of J.K. Rowling's first book about Harry Potter, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone", was sold yesterday to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie's auction house. It was published in 1997...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/harry-potter-first-edition-sold-for-nearly-41000/Ricardo Cabello made this lovely animation. Move your mouse over it. Nice stress break, isn’t it? The thumbnail pic you see here does not do it justice. http://mrdoob.com/lab/pv3d/dof/05/. More animations. -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/depth-of-field-test-5/Switched picked their eleven favorite geek t-shirts. Each is linked to the vendor, so you can do your Christmas shopping online. Link -via Geek Like Me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/top-eleven-geek-t-shirts/Christmas Island red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) only exist on that one tropical island in the Indian Ocean. They must spawn on the shore because their larva grow in water. So every October or November, they swarm toward...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/the-crabs-of-christmas-island/Bob and Judi Olwine of Woodstock, Maryland left the gate to their pool open for just a few minutes while preparing it for winter. Two deer walked in and went down the pool steps for a swim. After they closed the gate, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/honey-theres-a-herd-in-the-pool/New York plastic surgoen Dr. Lajos Nagy created a surgical procedure to make human ears pointed, like a mythological creature. From his website: A newfangled extravagance is spreading amongst the music-lover young...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/pointy-ears/If they were all this entertaining, people might actually listen to them! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/pre-flight-safety-announcement/Ah, sportsmanship. It summons up images of competition, camaraderie, broken bones, disembowelment, and brutal, disfiguring death. No wonder players have always had fans to cheer them on.Dead Goat PoloBuzkashi - as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/4-bloodiest-sports-in-history/The challenge was to explain string theory in two minutes or less. Sandy Chase of New York produced this video and won the contest at Discover Magazine. Link -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/string-ducky/Gothtober is a collaborative multimedia project featuring a different artist for each day in the month of October, with a nautical theme for this year. Move your mouse over the ship on the flash page to select a date,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/gothtober/Ever since I was in graduate school many, many years ago, science has "cured" HIV/AIDs in vitro and in animal models. This is good news if you're a lab animal, but not for patients suffering from the d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/scientists-neutralize-hiv-at-last/Pascal Campion is an excellent animator - his portfolio is chockful of fun and very creative animated clips, all done in Flash. This particular one is called simply "Door," and features a hapless guy who just...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/the-door-a-creative-flash-animation-by-pascal-campion/Clip #1 YouTube LinkClip #2: YouTube Link (New scenes @ 1:25)Either these guys have unbelievable can throwing skills (and lots and lots of tries) or someone has mad video-editing skills! Check out these two clips and l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/unbelievable-can-throwing-skills/The US Presidential Election is still more than a year away, but political campaigns have been in full swing in some states. Buttafly has created a Bingo card for this year's presidential debates, so you can join in on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/presidential-debate-bingo/I've been enjoying Roodie Doodie's fun and cute webcomics about ninjas, Jason vs. Freddy and super heroes. They're worth a chuckle .. check 'em out here: Link (Don't miss this one: Death by Emo) - Thanks Roodie Doodi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/roodie-doodies-webcomics/This is the kind of prank that can start a riot, if they found out who was responsible. A guy armed with remote controls interferes with the big game at various bars. Push play or go to Break.com. -via Unique Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/soccer-prank/A dream gift for geeks, these watches feature both Legos and Star Wars characters! Choose from Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, R2D2, or a stormtrooper. http://www.realitywired.com/2007/10/19/geeks-unite-star-wars-lego-wat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/star-wars-lego-watches/This would be a real conversation-starter at a party. Literally. Looks like this furry fiend is having your brain for lunch. Press the button on this Talking Rat Cap, and the rat joyfully bobs up and down with beady...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/the-talking-rat-cap/[http://youtu.be/aQd0ELH7SNI] A pumpkin that carves itself! Push play or go to YouTube. -via I Am Bored See more pumpkins and Jack-o-Lantern links today at Miss Cellania.pumpkin, jack-o-lantern, Halloween decoratio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/halloween-awakening/A spooky slideshow of 15 photographs with unexplained appearances on them. Link - via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/15-famous-ghost-photos/This week's collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange object (from a 100-year-old kit). Can you tell us what it is for?Place your guess in the comment section. You can guess as many time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/25/what-is-it-game-42/Steven is impressed that we are able to order pizzas online. But what I've become obsessed with is that when you only want a particular topping on half of your pizza, they make you specify WHICH HALF. LEFT or RIG...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/the-great-pizza-orientation-test/We've had a post here recently about the Paris catacombs. I spent an afternoon in the catacombs myself in 2001 - pictures here. In the spirit of Halloween, here's a creepy story about the catacombs on YouTube in two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/creepy-catacombs-story/If you don't want to go the hard way to find out how you would look with a mustache, Choe & Tomlinson offers an easier way with their self portrait mirrors. Choose from pirate, mustache, antlers and other designs....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/self-portrait-mirrors/And so it has begun: Russian scientists confirmed that a cockroach has given birth to the first creatures ever conceived in space!A RUSSIAN cockroach called Nadezhda (Hope) has given birth to the first creatures ever...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/first-creatures-conceived-in-space-are-born/Fisherman Dorson Wright of Grand Cayman got a strange catch the other day: a deep sea fish species appropriately named "Great Swallower" swallowing a fish four times its size! In the belly of the fish was anoth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/24/fish-ate-fish-four-times-larger-than-its-size/
