Gali the Alligator is an ad for the French crime TV channel 13eme Rue featuring cute, singing animal puppets and a big lumbering alligator. Oh, just to warn you, the first line of the song goes: "Gali the Alligator...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/gali-the-alligator/It's a vocabulary test. For every word you get right, FreeRice donates 10 grains of rice to a hungry persons around the world. The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). FreeRice a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/freerice/This World Wildlife Foundation paper towel dispenser gives a graphic reminder of the effect paper use has on the environment. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/wwf-paper-towel-dispenser/If you’ve had just about enough office stress this week, this game will help. Maybe. Link -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/cubicle-freakout/Now you can have your own remote-controlled rubber duck! Uses six AA batteries. Because it’s never too early to teach your kids how to use electronics in the bathtub. Link -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/remote-control-rubber-duck/NPR's Fresh Air had a review of The Roots of Chicha yesterday - you can listen to it here. The selections on the Roots of Chicha anthology are a mix of Colombian cumbias and 60s psychedelic guitar. I enjoyed the segm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/psychedelic-cumbias/Clark, the potato capital of South Dakota, holds potato wrestling competition, where people wrestle each other in a tub of mashed potatoes!The very first Clark Potato Day was held in 1972....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/trivia-potato-wrestling-competition/THE BIG RED BUTTON OF DOOMThink your job is stressful? Just past midnight on September 26, 1983, a Soviet satellite reported five missiles launched from a Montana base towards the U.S.S.R. In a com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/close-shaves-in-history/We've blogged about the new species of marine life discovered in the deep Celebes Sea, the Philippines, before but the post lacked a gallery. Well, here they are: a few of the strange deep sea creatures (and new species)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/marine-species-from-the-celebes-sea-expedition/Having trouble focusing at the office? Too many distractions? Artist Simone Brewster has the solution: a "horse blinkers" for humans!Office Collar has been designed in response to the open plan, working env...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/office-collar/Yay! It's time for some video clips from VideoSift and today's selection is all about comedians. Enjoy! Bacon JokesHere's stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan talking about ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/videosift-comedians-2/With all the decorations and gift items in the stores already, you may ask yourself the question, “Is it Christmas yet?” Link -via Reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/is-it-christmas/The Franklin Digital Cooler is not only a cooler, it’s also a warmer! We have the technology that no one else has. The same technology used by NASA for spacecraft has now been modified for consumer use. Now with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/19/franklin-digital-cooler/Meet Iggy - the dog at the center of the Ellen DeGeneres dog adoption brouhaha. For you who don't know anything about it (like me before this morning, since I don't watch much TV), here's the story from LA Times: Igg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/ellens-doggie-trouble-the-darker-side-of-pet-adoption/You can be the cutest mercenary on the block with this Glambo Signature Series Hello Kitty HK-AK-47! Link -via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/hello-kitty-ak-47/Last month, Blacksmith Institute, an organization dedicated to fighting pollution in the world, released their annual list of the Top 10 Most Polluted Places.Take for instance, this place: Norilsk, Russia: An industr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/norilsk-russia-one-of-the-most-polluted-places-on-earth/Oh what fun you can have with an identical twin! Here's a neat prank where the bathroom mirror has been replaced with a regular glass and a set of identical twins are placed in rooms opposite of each other...Hit play or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/identical-twin-bathroom-mirror-prank/Revenge is a dish best served sweet now that Voodoo Pops are on the market. Grab a pop, choose your victim and take a bite from the designated spot on the little man to work your magic. Be forewarned, attacking someone...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/voodoo-pops/A ten-week-old kitten named Molly survived a 20-minute cycle in a washing machine! Bethany Hall saw her kitten scratching against the washing machine door. Even so, the door wouldn’t open for several minutes while the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/kitten-in-the-washhttpwwwneatoramacomp12252previewtrue/Think climbing Mount Everest is an adventure? It is! But on May 24, 2004, Angelo D'Arrigo surprised a group of climbers on Everest by flying overhead in a hang glider! Read about it at Foganazos (with video)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/hang-gliding-everest/Gyotaku is the Japanese art of making fish prints on delicate rice paper. This artform reproduces the exact features and characteristics of actual, individual fish. In Japanese, "gyo" translates to "fish" and "taku...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/gyotaku/This weeks' collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange contraption - can you guess what it is for? For more clues, check out What is it? Blog.Place your guess in the comment section - ple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/what-is-it-game-41/Where's your head at? Brainscannr will tell you. Simply type in your name and it then constructs the emotional contents of your brain from a variety of symbols. Japan Probe explains:Ken Y-N of What Japan Thin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/brainscannr-free-brain-scans-for-everyone/Uh oh. Nobel Prize winner James Watson [wiki] - yes, the Watson from the Watson and Crick DNA double helix structure discovery fame - has just stirred a controversy for claiming that black people are less intell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/say-it-aint-so-watson/Archaeologist Curtis Marean of Arizona State University and colleagues discovered that early humans threw a themselves a clambake beach party 164,000 years ago! Marean figured the early people, probably women, had to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/18/early-humans-threw-themselves-a-beach-clambake-party/I created the desktop wallpaper you see above with the fast, easy, fun chimera generator that's part of a campaign for NY Zoos. The site is called Build Your Wild Self, and I recommend you play around there right no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/17/create-an-adorable-chimera-courtesy-of-the-bronx-zoo/The Sci-Fi Channel has an infinite zoom art thingy up to publicize their upcoming miniseries Tin Man. It’s not as smooth as Zoomquilt, and it doesn’t make any sense, but it’s pretty! Link -via Ursi’s Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/17/zoom-oz/Italian multimedia artist Benedetta Bonichi presents To See in the Dark, an exhibition of artworks created from x-rays. This one is called La collana di perle (The Pearl Necklace). http://www.toseeint...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/17/to-see-in-the-dark/Oddee has a neat compilation of the top 10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers, with gems like "Pressures Produced When Penguin Poo - Calculations on Avian Defecation," "Farting as a Defence Agains...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/17/weird-scientific-paper-safe-and-painless-manipulation-of-penile-zipper-entrapment/"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States (1706-1790)...
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