I have a new addition to Neatorama's family of Thriller videos to put you in the holiday spirit today, enjoy this version done totally in animated LEGOs LEGO. Don't forget to check out one of my old f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/lego-thriller/We've posted a story about Santa living in Finland, but according to Swedish engineers, that's wrong. Santa, they concluded after an exhaustive calculation of what's required for the jolly fat man to deliver presents...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/santa-lives-in-kyrgyzstan/Meet Boo-Boo, a tiny chihuahua who just made the giant leap into history by being the new World's Smallest Dog:At just four inches tall, "Boo-Boo," a diminutive dog in Raceland, Ky., just edged out another...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/worlds-smallest-dog-4-inch-tall-chihuahua/After he retired, Bob Brewer embarked on an adventure to find the missing Confederate gold, supposedly hidden by the mysterious Knights of the Golden Circle of the late 1800s to finance a second Civil War.Everyone though...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/man-found-some-of-the-confederate-gold/Are you trying to conceive a boy (or a girl)? The secret to "selecting" a baby's gender may be what the would-be mom eats before conception:Have a burger and chips before getting pregnant and you're more li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/choosing-a-babys-gender-its-what-the-momma-eats/(YouTube link) The Lindsay Lights in Thornhill, Ontario have been drawing crowds since 2002. Over 80,000 lights, most of them LEDs, blink to musical sequences that are broadcast on FM radio. The lights go on every nig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/the-lindsay-lights/Blogger NancyKay Shapiro was shopping at her local market Balducci when she spotted this clueless sign! Link Happy Belated (Last Day of) Hanukkah, Everyone!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/ham-its-what-for-hanukkah/When Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (Khadaffi, Qadhafi? Pick your favorite spelling... ) visited France, he brought a 400-strong entourage complete with his own tent, a Saharan camel, and ... a peculiar team of bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/gaddafis-bodyguards-30-virgin-killers/We've covered a lot of luxury items on Neatorama.... like the world's most expensive book and whatnot. Usually the trick is to add gold, diamonds, and the like to whatever it is you want to make expensive.This is no diff...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/gold-pills-make-your-poop-glitter/Over 10,000 women from 50 countries were polled to find out who are the world's worst lovers. The winner? 1. Germans (selfish in bed)2. Swedes (too quick)3. Dutch (too rough)4. Americans (too dominant) - really? not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/worlds-worst-lover-german-men/Quick: how do you make a button absolutely, positively irresitible to push (well, at least to a little kid)? Label it "Do not hit," of course! Today was family day at Agusta Aerospace, located at 3050 Red L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/how-to-ensure-a-kid-will-push-a-button-label-it-dont-hit/Design Commission hosted an exhibition of modern birdhouses designed by over 20 contemporary designers:The structures of laminated wood, plastic, clay, and even stainless steel—include several designed especial...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/modern-birdhouses/Thomas Sleigh and his wife were tired of Molly, a foul-mouthed parrot and sold her for swearing too much. Lo and behold, just days later, a likeness of Molly turned up in a potato chip!"It's almost like Molly ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/couple-sold-off-foul-mouthed-parrot-got-back-her-likeness-in-potato-chip/Earlier we posted the most Bizarre Christmas Albums, but those were real albums. Worth1000 has a collection of even worse cases, since they come from the imaginations of the submitters! Link -via J-Walk Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/worst-christmas-albums-ever-photoshop-edition/Tacky Christmas Yards collects and critiques photographs of homes decorated with Christmas lights. “Violations” include mixing themes, lawn characters of different sizes, unharmonious arrangements, multiple Clauses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/tacky-christmas-yards/Now you get get almost 500 wonderful photographs by French photographer and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand as a layer in Google Earth. http://earth.google.com/intl/en/earthfromabove/google...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/yann-arthus-bertrand-layer-in-google-earth/Two Central Coast moms say they have come up with a solution to the old problem of "plumber's crack," the revealing and often embarrassing problem of exposed backsides resulting from poorly fitting pants. Christin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/moms-find-solution-to-plumbers-crack/This is one of the lucky cat! Nine-year-old Jelly was spotted by owner Wendy Wallis walking around with a copperhead snake wrapped around her neck and immediately called wildlife rescuers to have the snake removed....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/jelly-the-cat-cheats-death/It was a close battle, but former English national football (soccer) team manager Steve McClaren beat US President George Bush for the "Foot in Mouth" award. The dreaded award is given by the Plain English Camp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/the-2007-foot-in-mouth-award-goes-to-steve-mcclaren/Goran Tomasic and his wife Karmen of Croatia were so distraught when their dalmatian dog died that they decided to paint their house black and white in memory of their pet!Mr Tomasic, from Pribislavec, northern Croat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/the-dalmatian-house-cruella-de-villa/This Japanese pitcher has a strange way of throwing the ball to fool his baseball opponent! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/weirdest-baseball-pitch/"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln, US President (1809 - 1865)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/quote-abraham-lincoln-on-mans-character/In a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, the Italian court summoned Titti, Paperino, Paperina, and Topolino (the Italian names for Tweety Bird, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy Duck).Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/italian-court-summoned-disney-characters/Four-years in the making, the stunning "Crystal", a feat of modern architecture at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) was finally finished this year. And the ROM has a 5-minute time-lapse video that documents...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/12/torontos-royal-ontario-museums-crystal-a-time-lapse-video/Ork Posters have fantastic typographical maps outlining various neighborhoods of severaal large US cities. Available are San Francisco (sold out), Chicago, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Boston.Want! Link - via Love Made Visibl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/ork-posters-typographical-neighboorhood-maps/Meet Freddy Linksy, a 2-year-old who managed to fool the art world into buying his tomato ketchup artwork:To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/two-year-old-boys-tomato-ketchup-paintings-fooled-the-art-world/Fabienne Blanc and Patrick Rüegg created a knitting machine called "Struckmaschine" that takes data from a buyer's credit card and turn them into unique space invaders-like patterns for knitting a scarf! L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/turning-credit-card-data-into-a-knitted-scarf/Supernatural Studios created this fantastic 3D rendering of an other-worldly (why, supernatural of course!) bonsai plants. Someone should turn these into real sculptures! http://www.supernaturalstudios.com/projects.html...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/supernatural-bonsai/I am so digging these onion-slice shaped modern paper Christmas ornament that you can make yourself with strips of paper, some twine, and a stapler.Here's a guide by Derek and Lauren of The Curiosity Shoppe on how you ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/diy-modern-paper-christmas-ornament/A team of American explorers for a TV series Destination Truth found what they believed to be yeti's footprint in the mountains of Nepal:American television channel host Josh Gates displays what is believed to be &qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/11/yetis-footprint-found/
