When you’re working on beer by the liter, be careful not to toast too heartily! This once-in-a-lifetime photo is from Flickr user Slake B. http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakesamic/2151717824/ -via J-Walk Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/hofbrauhaus-catastrophe/A fun stop motion video showing a guy shaving off his beard using his bare hands. Link [YouTube] - via Beyond The Invisibleshaving...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/shaving-with-hands-stop-motion-video/Just in time for the Iowa caucus hullabaloo, here's a Mortal Kombat-styled Flash game called Kung Fu Election by Atom. See politicians kick the crap out of each other - choose your favorite candidate and fight to the fin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/kung-fu-election-mortal-kombat-styled-flash-game-for-political-junkies/Can parents rely on MPAA's R or PG-13 ratings as a guide whether to let their kids watch a movie?No, according to David Chen of More Than Fine blog. He picked 5 movies released in 2007 to illustrate how the MPAA movie ra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/5-movies-that-proved-mpaas-movie-ratings-suck/Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University of Singapore discovered that male macaques "pay" to have sex by grooming the females. Interestingly, market forces apply even to monkey sex:On average, fem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/male-monkeys-pay-for-sex/Aaron Muderick of Omnimatter (a fantastic blog, btw) is fascinated with x-ray. Turns out, it's not so difficult to make your very own x-ray photography using Polaroids!Here's a step-by-step guide (using naturally occurri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/diy-x-ray-photography-with-polaroids/Remember the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise worked the computer by waving his hands frantically in front of it? Well, the technology is coming. Here's Rick Barraza showing of Cynergy Lab showcasing Pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/cynergy-labs-project-maestro-minority-report-like-mouse-glove-in-action/Sean Ohlenkamp took a snapshot of his work desktop at advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day every day for one whole year, and made a short movie out of it.I quite like the clever ways he arranged folders to make them a "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/365-chiat-days-taking-snapshot-of-a-desktop-everyday-for-a-year/Here's something you don't see every day. This drag racer lost his axle on take-off. Notice the driver's reaction as he gets out of the car in this funny video. Link: maniacworldRace, Dragster, sport...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/drag-racing-gone-wrong/MC Hammer is set to launch a new video site called DanceJam. The Web site, scheduled to debut in mid-January, will try to upstage YouTube and become the Internet's hub for sharing and watching dance videos. Dance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/mc-hammer-to-launch-video-site/Eighteen people who rode a roller coaster in Anhui, China, got more than they bargained for: they got stuck upside down for half an hour when strong winds caused the roller coaster to stop on its track! Strong...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/18-people-stuck-on-roller-coaster/The following is from Uncle John's All-Purpose Extra Strength Bathroom Reader. Sick and tired of political campaigns this election year? Let's take a step back with something you can appreciate from the p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/poli-talks-strange-and-peculiar-quotes-from-politicians/W00t! It's time for this week's collaboration with What is it? Blog. For this game, the first of the year 2008 (and because I missed most of last month's), let's make this extra fun: Guess what this stra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/what-is-it-game-49/We've posted Guillaume Reymond's other GAME OVER Projects, like the Human Space Invaders, Human Pole Position and Human Pong before ... Now Guillaume has returned with another masterpiece: the Human Tetris!Hit play or go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/human-tetris/We don't normally post stuff like copyfight and the RIAA's quest to quash music piracy through lawsuits (blogs like Boing Boing covered this subject well enough), but this recent article in the Washington Post is too goo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/riaa-transferring-music-from-legally-bought-cd-to-computer-is-illegal/Aspen artist Hunt Rettig used paperboard, plastic, wood, metal and silicone to create a three-dimensional sculpture, which he then covered with a translucent film to make it look like a two-dimensional photo!The result i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/hunt-rettigs-artwork/The L.L. in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood. In 1912, Leon Leonwood Bean started a mail order company by selling "Bean Boots," waterproof boots sold to hunters.A defect in the original design led customers t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/trivia-what-does-the-ll-in-ll-bean-stand-for/Jenny Marsey knew that her giant underwear would come in handy one day. Like putting out a fire, for instance: Jenny Marsey's size 18-20 cotton pants were grabbed to cover a frying pan fire at her home in Hartlepool....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/giant-underwear-saved-the-day/Scientists discovered that orangutan's laughter is infectious (to other orangutans, that is). And that evolutionarily, this may be a precursor to human emotions:Orang-utans can also make each other chuckle – in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/orangutans-laughter-is-infectious-to-other-orangutans/Sure we can! This kid should win an Oscar for Best Evil Eye Performance: [YouTube Link] And two evil laughs: [YouTube Link] and this evil scientist that I cannot embed....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/can-neatorama-make-you-smile-again/No wussy LEGO diorama for Brickshelf user MicahBerger - he went straight for the jugular with this blood-drenched scene from Beowulf, aptly titled "Then came Grendel ... He bore God's wrath." http://www.bricksh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/bloody-beowulf-lego-diorama-then-came-grendel-he-bore-gods-wrath/How did you spend Christmas Eve? Was it at an awkward family gathering? Scrambling to buy last minute gifts? No matter how stressful it was for you, Robert Schoff has got it beat: he spent it trapped upside down in a ful...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/worst-christmas-ever-man-spent-christmas-eve-stuck-in-septic-tank/"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin, actress and comedian (b. 1939)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/quote-lily-tomlin-on-language/German designer Wir Gestalten created this wall-hanging paper folder called "Neuer Ordner" (New Folder) shaped like a desktop folder on your computer!http://www.haseform.de/produkte/73.do - via swissmiss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/wall-mounted-paper-folder-shaped-like-computer-desktop-folders/Could you pass eight grade science? Take the quiz! I did well, partially because I help my fifth-grader study these exact things for her science class. http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/science -via Geek Like Me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/03/could-you-pass-eight-grade-science/Mark Khaisman is a Ukranian artist and architect living in Philadelphia. His mixed media works were made by applying packaging tape to plexiglas panels! http://www.inliquid.com/artist/khaisman_mark/khaisman.php -via Du...
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