Photoshop Disaster is a new blog dedicated to finding (and making fun of) bad photoshoppery in print media, ads, and product packagings. They've got a lot of examples, some quite famous (like the belly button-less Brazil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/photoshop-disaster-the-blog/Photo: FORS Team, 8.2-m VLT Antu, ESOThe black "blob" in the sky is a dark molecular cloud made of dust and gas that is so dense that it absorbs practically all visible lights:The eerily dark surroundings h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/molecular-cloud-big-bad-black-blob-of-the-galaxy/Photo: cybele [Flickr], based on Marie Tess [Flickr]Happy Easter, everyone! More fun Happy Easter Island peeps-themed ePostcards at Candy Blog - Thanks Cybele!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/23/happy-easter-island-everyone/Farmer David Kennard has himself some very talented sheepdogs. His team of Collies carefully round up a flock of sheep, and with the help of their master, welcome the coming of Spring by spelling out the word with sheep!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/spelling-with-sheep/Every second, the sun produces more energy than human civilizations have ever produced in history.Indeed, every second, the sun produces about 400 trillion trillion watts of energy. That's the equivalent of a trillion 1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/trivia-solar-energy-1-trillion-1-megaton-atom-bombs-per-second/The Economist has an interesting article on the next big thing in automotive industry: the quest in search of the perfect battery.Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which helped to make the mobile-phone revolution p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/the-quest-for-the-perfect-battery/Members of the Chorley and South Ribble Knit and Natter Group in Lancashire, England, decided to knit something useful for new mothers learning to breastfeed: knitted breasts![Breastfeeding Network] helper Sara Cooks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/knitted-false-boobs-help-teach-new-moms-to-breastfeed/Our beloved Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit, is having an identity crisis: does it include all knowledge no matter how trivial, or does it adopt a more stringent editorial guideline to enhance its re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/wikipedias-identity-crisis-keep-or-delete-trivia/New technology brings new (bad) habits, and the iPhone is no different. Michelle Quinn of the Los Angeles Times writes about how the iPhone is changing "a lighthearted conversation into the Pursuit of Truth":*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/iphone-and-the-pursuit-of-truth/Here's an unexpected outcome of the weakening dollar: more and more drug traffickers are going to Europe! Even as the dea has made it more bothersome to bring coke into the United States, the sliding dollar has made...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/euro-the-currency-of-choice-for-drug-traffickers/"A man is not old until regrets take place of dreams." - John Barrymore, actor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/quote-john-barrymore-on-old-age/In this video, a singer uses an overtone technique -- similar to Tuvan throat singing -- to produce a lovely rendition of "Amazing Grace." If you are not used to listening to overtone singing, listen for the high-pitch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/amazing-grace-with-overtones/It's a mystery to me why Team Fortress 2 action figures aren't on sale, but sculptor Quasimodox has made a terrific Pyro figurine/candlestick out of Super Sculpey. Go here to see more photos and read an interview wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/pyro-custom-figurinecandlestick/Dildo [Wikipedia] is a town on the southeastern Dildo Arm of Trinity Bay on the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is about 100 kilometres west-northwest of St. John's. Dildo has a fast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/a-town-called-dildo/You can’t assume that the ice is safe to park on just because everyone else is doing it. See more pictures at English Russia. Link -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/ice-fishing-mishap/The winners of the 2007 YouTube Video Awards were announced yesterday. The best videos were named in various categories, many of which have been featured on Neatorama over the past year. The awards were based on votes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/22/2007-youtube-video-awards/I've been a big fan of See Mike Draw since I stumbled across his blog last year ... Since then, he's posted a lot of new comic panels (all funny ... in a twisted way, of course!). After staring at it for a few minutes, I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/the-dangers-of-teleportation-watch-where-you-beam-me-down-scotty/Italian police is looking for this man, who robbed supermarkets by hypnotizing the checkout staff into giving him money: He waited until he got to a female bank clerk and, according to the video footage, appears to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/robber-hypnotize-supermarket-clerks-into-handing-over-cash/The illicit underworld of drug smuggling has now gone underwater: drug runners from Colombia are using homemade (jungle-made?) semi-submersibles (built in the Colombian jungle to avoid detection) to bring cocaine to the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/drug-runners-now-using-submersibles/Photo: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler, et al.That's the aferglow of GRB 080319B, by far the brightest gamma-ray burst from a stellar explosion ever seen, as captured by NASA's Swift satellite. The burst was so bright that it c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/the-largest-gamma-ray-burst-stellar-explosion-ever-seen-by-humans/So that's what God said to Adam and Eve ... If they had gotten it right, it would've saved the civilization a lot of trouble! See more Bizarro at Dan Piraro's excellent website and blog. (BTW, you can see him pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/bizarro-what-god-actually-said-to-adam-and-eve/Maybe it's my nature as a writer, but after I have certain experiences I have to learn I possibly can about whatever it was that I experienced. After I watch a movie I rush to IMDB to check out the trivia. After I visi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/the-stories-behind-four-exorcisms/Officials in the Philippines have just issued health warnings for people to get tetanus vaccinations before they ... flagellate themselves and are nailed to the cross! That's because on Good Friday dozens of devout...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/philippines-officials-crucifying-yourself-get-a-tetanus-shot-first/Japan has just appointed a new ambassador: Doraemon the robot cat!Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed the cat an "anime ambassador," handing a human-sized Doraemon doll an official certificate at an inau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/japans-new-ambassador-doraemon-the-robot-cat/Jeremy Barker of Popped Culture blog wrote to us about this: a compendium of 50 pop culture versions of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting The Last Supper.This one above is The Simpsons Last Supper:Depicting Homer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/the-simpsons-last-supper-and-more/Friday, March 21st is Good Friday for Christians, but it’s also a sacred date for many other religions. People are celebrating Good Friday, Purim, Narouz, Eid Milad an Nabi, Small Holi, and Magha Puja. That doesn’t h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/a-holy-day-for-half-the-world/Scientists who just returned from a survey of the Ross Sea near Antarctica have found giant versions of sea creatures, such as jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and a starfish measuring 2 feet wide! Some of the 30,000 spe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/giant-marine-life-in-antarctica/[YouTube Link] Although familiar with Nimoy's bizarre music video "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins", I was unaware that he had a rather wide musical career. This video shows album covers from Nimoy's discography, as we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/leonard-nimoy-album-covers/(YouTube link) A live rabbit gets a rubdown from a lookalike mechanical bunny. Watch for the ear action! -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/rabbit-massage/The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming is a spy thriller told with Google Maps. The protagonist, of course, does a lot of traveling. Link -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/21/the-21-steps/
