It's always this time of year when my crafty side kicks into high gear. I think it's a combination of me thinking that I need to make a homemade Christmas gift for everyone I know and the fact that it's cold outside so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/21/food-you-cant-actually-eat/He wanted to make a personal gift for a friend who is a big Dr. Who fan. So he took an old Dalek toy, a teddy bear, and a musical hamster, and constructed the funniest version of Davros, {wiki} creator of the evil Dale...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/21/dancing-davros/[YouTube Link] Here is YouTube user Copinated performing John Williams' opening to Star Wars on bagpipes. 57 sec. long. Bagpipes: people either love them or hate them. I'm in the first category. How a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/21/star-wars-theme-played-on-bagpipes/And here's another video of an NBA player with an overloaded mind: Lamar Odom dribbling the ball inbounds. Via Ball Hype....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/video-nba-player-eddie-jones-passing-the-ball-to-no-one/Handbell Hero challenges you to play holiday songs on your heyboard with your left hand. Since I’ve never played Guitar Hero, this reminds me of Dance Dance Revolution. If you play well, you get smiling faces. If you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/handbell-hero/Flickr user Marcello Poletti posted a set of stills from Star Trek (the original series) featuring the beautiful women who appeared in the show. There are 67 photos so far. He says the set will be complete soon. http:/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/the-galactically-hot-women-of-star-trek-tos/The ABC World News Webcast has the report from Neatorama on the Top 5 Viral Videos of 2007. These are the videos that you helped select. The final 5 includes Leave Britney Alone! at the request of ABC. The v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/top-viral-videos-2007/For years, Steve Flaig, a delivery truck driver a Grand Rapids Lowe's store, had searched for his birth mother. He found her last Friday, working the cash register at the front of the store. For several months, Fla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/adopted-son-finds-birth-mom-at-his-workplace/Pul the virtual lever and generate a random but festive holiday message. My first one said “May your New Year be relaxing and filled with turducken.” Then you can send your greeting to friends via email. For each m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/holiday-o-matic/Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a tutorial on building your own little walking robot out of a toothbrush and a pager motor. The result is cute and will impress the kids. You can build several and make them race -*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/bristlebot-a-walking-toothbrush-robot/Here’s a delightful collection of vintage Soviet Christmas cards celebrating Russia’s space program. See as Santa Ded Moroz rides a space rocket Sputnik while small boys in the space suites send a New Year gr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/soviet-christmas-cards/His name is Paul Karason, and he’s a little blue. "The change was so gradual that I didn't perceive it and for people around me, likewise," Karason said. "It was just so gradual that no one really noticed. It wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/the-blue-man-of-oregon/A Baobab tree in Limpopo, South Africa is so big that it’s been made into a bar! The tree has a 155-foot circumference and is hollow. The bar can seat 15 people comfortably, and once held 54 people (although not comfor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/a-bar-inside-a-tree/Making your own marshmallows is easier than I thought it would be! Design Sponge has a video with instructions. These, combined with homemade hot chocolate mix, make a thoughtful yet inexpensive Christmas gift for some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/20/homemade-marshmallows/div#main{overflow:visible;}[Video Link] Like most people, I wake up in the morning and think: why hasn't our advanced civiliation created a chicken version of Law & Order. I mean, like, there's every othe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/19/its-like-law-order-but-with-chickens/(YouTube link) The only thing stranger than making a video trailer for a magazine article is the subject of that article... Killer Parasites. Ransom Riggs at mental_floss created this trailer completely out of publi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/19/attack-of-the-killer-parasites/Dark Roasted Blend has part five of a series of posts on the World’s Scariest Roads. These hairpin curves are part of a military road in China, and there are no guardrails. Click the links at the bottom of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/19/worlds-scariest-roads/(YouTube link) I didn’t know sloths could swim, but according to Wikipedia, most mammals can swim by instinct if they need to. This little guy does a pretty good job, although slowly as you would expect. The video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/19/swimming-sloth/These handy stickers will increase the visual appeal of many different items. If you happen to take them to any big box electronics stores, please bring your camera and post pictures in the Evil Mad Science Auxilia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/technology-stickers/It's Christmas Eve in Whoville, and Grinched.com has a "Who-name" generator. From the link, click "Enter site" at the bottom, and then drag the magnifying glass over to "City Hall" on the upper left hand...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/the-whoville-register-whats-your-grinched-name/The iPond is an iPod accessory the combines a speaker with a tiny aquarium! A single fish lives in about 650 millilitres of water. It’s all the rage in Australia, but some consider it animal cruelty. RSPCA spokesm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/ipond-cool-or-cruel/An unidentified father was proud of himself when he scored a hard-to-find Wii Guitar Hero game, just what his 15-year-old son wanted most for Christmas. When he came home from shopping, he caught his son smoking pot in t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/sons-punishment-is-profitable/Mental_floss has a collection of outrageous drinking stories involving sailors, patriots, pioneers, and even elephants! Don’t miss the story of the town that was flooded by beer. It even sparked a riot at the local hos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/5-drinking-stories-that-put-yours-to-shame/An Imperial Stormtrooper commando broke into Santa's Factory on the North Pole yesterday evening, killing an undetermined number of elves, arresting the owner and confiscating his sled. Joe Kwazansky, local spokesm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/stormtroopers-arrest-santa/What of someone redesigned old and familiar corporate logos in Web 2.0 style? Someone did, and the results range from meh to unsettling to downright funny. Link -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/web-20-logos/Old man goes nuts at a car wash because he lost his glasses according to police report. And the whole thing was captured by CCTV. Link: Youtube Car, Crazy, CCTV...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/old-man-goes-nuts-at-car-wash/A policeman’s job is never easy, but dumb criminals make it somewhat easier. This list was whittled down from a much longer list of stories of the stupid things lawbreakers did this past year. These are in chronologica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/the-top-ten-stupid-criminals-of-2007/Photo: Toast to Life [Flickr]Yay! It's time for this week's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey contest! Funniest caption wins a Free Monkey (or any other animal) drawing by Ape Lad of Hobotopia. Co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/caption-monkey-17-jumping-santa/The editors of the Astronomy Picture of the Day have listed their 12 favorite images of 2007. There was certainly no shortage of breathtaking images to choose from -- with robotic cameras orbiting Mars and rollin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/astronomy-pictures-of-the-year/A three-pound rat was found in the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea, Indonesia. Experts think it may be a previously-unknown species. It is five times the size of regular city rats, and has no fear of humans. That...
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