Science has proven that if you leave an adolescent hamster in a cage with an aggressive adult male hamster for as little as just one hour a day, it will grow up to be a bully. It will, however, be fearful of hamsters its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/21/trivia-how-to-make-a-hamster-bully/Remember the 1990s and the wacky care-free fun we all had? Remember Donal Logue as Jimmy the Cab Driver from South Boston on MTV? I found several Jimmy the Cab Driver clips on YouTube. I think if you're familiar wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/21/jimmy-the-cab-driver/I was never particularly interested in dolls or dollhouses as a child, but if I'd had something like this, you couldn't have dragged me away:Frances Glessner Lee, a Chicago heiress, provided for just about every crea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/21/death-in-a-nutshell/Wok racing is a sport fun event in Germany where modified Chinese woks are used to make timed runs down an Olympic bobsled track. There are competitions for one-person-woksleds and four-person-woksleds, the latter us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/21/wok-racing/Scientists discovered that the "crocodile tears" turns out to be true! The idiom, meaning an insincere show of sadness or sympathy , is supposedly based on alligator crocs weeping when they eat their victim. We...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/21/crocodile-tears-are-real-crocs-really-do-cry-when-eating/Here's this week's collaboration with Bizarro: what a really bad cop would've said while sweatin' a perp! For more, check out Dan Piraro's website: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/21/bizarro-good-cop-really-bad-cop/In 1980, J. Seward Johnson Jr. created "The Awakening," a 100-foot statue of a giant embedded in the ground, as if he was being swallowed by the Earth.The statue consists of five separate pieces buried...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/the-awakening-statue-of-a-giant-swallowed-whole-by-earth/Next to stupid criminals, I loooove stupid home shopping hosts making a fool of themselves. Here's an example of Harold trying to sell a Flex-O-Ladder. See what happens: Hit play or go to Link [Break.com video] - Tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/this-ladder-is-perfectly-safe-and-so-easy-any-idiot-can-use-it/Take a look at this awesome viral ad/animation clip titled "There's Something in the Water" for V Water, done by 20:20 London.http://www.behance.net/Gallery/V-WATER-viral-animation/43975 [Flash video] - Tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/theres-something-in-the-water-animated-clip/Oddee has a neat article titled "10 Most Amazing Lost Cities." On the left is Machu Picchu, which translates to "Old Peak," a pre-Colombian Inca city built almost 600 years ago and abandoned shortly a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/ten-most-amazing-lost-cities-machu-picchu/After a reading of her seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows" in New York, author J.K. Rowling revealed that Albus Dumbledore was gay! One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/dumbledore-was-gay-said-jk-rowling/Someone threw a bucket of red paint into Rome's Trevi Fountain, and turned the tourist attraction bright red!Experts said the baroque fountain was not permanently damaged and the marble statues depicting the sea deit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/man-turned-trevi-fountain-red-in-protest/Who says you can't play fetch with a cat? Meet Fitzy, the Fabulous Fetching Feline who will chase a ball and bring it to you, just like a dog would!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Catherine Danielson!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/playing-fetch-with-a-cat/Before you eat that Halloween candy, check out this candy comparison chart that Jared of A Calorie Counter put together. He wrote:Basically, it's a side-by-side comparison of almost 70 popular types of candy and choc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/candy-bar-comparison-chart/It's no surprise that Michelle Wibowo's cake and sugarcraft are so structurally amazing - she has a degree in architecture! Just take one look at her portfolio and you'll understand why this award-winning lady is definit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/pirate-birthday-cake/In 1704, Alexander Selkirk was left on a small island hundreds of miles off the coast of South America when he argued with his captain about the seaworthiness of the ship. He was right about the ship, but Selkirk spent f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/the-real-robinson-crusoe/6-year-old Bentley Green sings a tribute to his Mama and all the single moms on the block. Push Play or go to YouTube. Hear more at Green’s MySpace page. -via My 2 Second Shelf Life...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/hey-mama/The Burj Al-Taqa Energy Tower was designed to utilize 100% renewable energy. If completed as planned, these 68-story towers (in Riyadh, Dubai, and Bahrain) will receive air conditioning from sea water cooled air and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/20/middle-east-skyscraper-to-use-100-renewable-energy/Awesome. Pretty please, if you have a Threadless account, follow the link below and give this a high score. I want to buy it. (And you can see more of my Threadless picks here.)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/if-americas-greatest-presidents-were-members-of-the-fantastic-four-theyd-look-like-this/While Americans fret and debate about roving wiretaps, the ever-lessening privacy, and DNA records taken by the police, Britain is already there - and they don't seem to mind Big Brother!Here's an article at the LA Times...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/the-surveillance-society-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-big-brother/Mark Mauer of LA Weekly wrote to us about a funny, cool art exhibit going on right now: Hollyween: Hollywood vs. Halloween, with artworks inspired by stupid celebrities, and zombies-galore!This one above, titled Hollywoo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/hollyween-halloween-hollywood-art/This guy spent 6 weeks and about C$180 to make this awesome Do It Yourself Optimus Prime Transformers Costume out of the stuff you can get from your local hardware store!Here's the build log (in case you want to build on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/diy-optimus-prime-transformers-halloween-costume/Two years ago, when homeowners Larry and Colleen Halliday were looking to renovate their home theater, they didn't just go ho-hum. No, sir, they went for Indiana Jones!Enter the 18-by-12-foot theater and you’ll...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/indiana-jones-home-theater/What you know is wrong: it actually takes fewer muscles to frown than to smile.It takes 12 muscles to smile and 11 muscles to frown. Source: The Straight Dope....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/trivia-it-takes-fewer-muscles-to-frown-than-to-smile/French artist Soasig Chamaillard created her artwork on the religious iconography of Virgin Mary. She said that she did it not to shock the public, but to delight them instead. Link - via Miniature Brainwave...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/virgin-mary-art-by-soasig-chamaillard/It must be Halloween season ... Say No to Crack has its pick of the Top 10 Pet Costumes, which includes selections for both dogs and cats.The picture on the left is actually not a costume - it's actually not even a true...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/halloween-pet-costumes/Jeff Houck of Side Salad blog and Jaden Hair of Jaden's Steamy Kitchen blog went shopping in an Asian supermarket, and documented the wide variety of weird stuff for sale there.You know, things like sliced pork uterus, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/lets-go-shopping-in-an-asian-supermarket/Origami enthusiast and MIT student Brian Chan folded this Guy Fawkes mask from the movie V for Vendetta (2005) - too bad he didn't post the crease pattern: http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/vendetta/ - via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/guy-fawkes-mask-from-v-for-vendetta/Behold the tower of bananas and marvel at just how awesome that orangutan must have felt! Found at onelargeprawn....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/tower-of-bananas/"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr., author of Life'...
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