(Break.com link) I can’t imagine how much time this took to set up and rehearse. This guy plays the Super Mario Brothers theme on bottles with a remote-control car! Just tuning the bottles would take me all day, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/remote-control-super-mario-brothers-song/My favourite artist / illustrator is at it again. Rob Sacchetto of Zombie Portraits fame has ripped and torn his way through over 400 of his custom zombie portraits in just over a year. However, creating at least one zom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/zombie-daily/Photo found at SonnyRadio (biggify) - via reddit and onelargeprawnIt's Habitrail for rednecks on this week's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey Game.The funniest caption will win Meet the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/caption-monkey-26-redneck-habitrail/"Definition of statistics: the science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures." - Evan Esar, American humorist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/quote-evan-esar-on-statistics/The following is from Uncle John's All-Purpose Extra Strength Bathroom Reader.We've all made mistakes ... but probably not big mistakes like making snot beer, saying no to The Beatles, or turning down the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/the-stupidest-business-decisions-in-history/Coach John Heisman (yes, of the American football trophy fame) divided the game into quarters, invented the center snap and the "hike" yell, and made popular the forward pass.Ever year, the Heisman Trophy is aw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/trivia-heismans-contribution-to-american-football/96 years ago today, April 14th, 1912, the last meal was served aboard the Titanic. First class passengers were served a ten-course masterpiece. Later that night, the ship collided with an iceberg. 1517 people died when t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/last-meal-on-the-titanic/The ‘sandhogs” who dug the subway line between Brooklyn and Manhattan used pressurized air to support their work. Occasionally, a hole would develop, and the response was to stick a sandbag in it. Sometimes this was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/the-geyser-riders/The new parking garage at the Sant Monica Civic Center is stunning, and it’s on its way to becoming LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified, too! A solar photovoltaic array on the roof pro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/green-parking-facility/Take Me Back is an intriguing new web series by Joe Baron and Seth Mendelson. It's a story of a guy named "Al" who leads a pretty boring life until he wakes up one morning to find his car gone and a mysterious...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/take-me-back-an-intriguing-new-web-series/In 1999, Nicholas White took a cigarette break, and then went back up elevator car #30 in New York City's McGraw-Hill building.Little did he know that he would be trapped in the elevator for the next 41 hours. Here's a c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/trapped-in-an-elevator-for-41-hours/To protest the use of biometric data, a hacker club in Germany called the Chaos Computer Club has published the fingerprint of German Home Secretary Wolfgang Schäuble.There's more:The hackers go even further tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/hackers-protest-biometric-data-use-by-publishing-german-government-officials-fingerprint/Remember Laika the dogmonaut .. er, Russian space dog? Well, if the Russians have their way, more animals are on their way to outer space. Here's their plan of sending monkeys to Mars:They won't utter Yuri Gagarin's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/russians-to-send-monkeys-to-mars/We've featured a lot of artists turning spam into art, but Özi of Oezicomix has a slightly different take on the matter: he's turning 'em into funny cartoons!Link - thanks Özi!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/turning-spam-into-cartoons/UK photographer Nick Veasey's photographs reveal the inner beauty of every day objects ... literally! He takes x-ray photos of common objects, animals and insects to turn them into mesmerizing and intriguing art.Link - v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/nick-veaseys-x-ray-photographs/Hey, this is quite useful: Jimmy Ruska created an unofficial Google Translate plug-in for Firefox. All you have to do is ALT-click on words and presto! You'll get the translation right then and there.Link - Thanks Ji...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/unofficial-google-translate-firefox-extension/Ah, the glamour of being a TV reporter ... imagine all the fun travel and adventure you'll have reporting live. Oh, not to mention the attacks, explosions and crazy animals you'll encounter ... "Put that on the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/the-dangers-of-being-a-tv-news-reporter/Here's a neat tip from Biggie of Lunch in a Box blog on how to make individual portions in freezer bags:I operate from more of the spur-of-the-moment approach to cooking, so it’s essential to have a well stocke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/how-to-make-individual-portiosn-in-freezer-bags/We posted about the dangers of the Large Hadron Collider before (how dangerous? Like opening a tiny blackhole on Earth).Now, some guys are suing CERN to stop the project:The world’s physicists have spent 14 yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/dudes-sue-the-large-hadron-collider-to-stop-total-world-annihilation/Cracked has a funny post about the world's tiniest "countries" - it's in quotes because they're just patches of land (or an old sea fort) that some crazy guys claim as their own countries.Take for example The K...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/worlds-tiniest-countries/We previously posted about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and San Francisco that is infested with floating trash. Because there isn't much in terms of video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/garbage-island-of-the-pacific-ocean/A couple of months ago, Freakonomics Blog asked its readers to decide a new "6-word motto" for the United States. And the winner was:Our Worst Critics Prefer to StayStephen Dubner of Freakonomics wrote...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/new-motto-for-the-united-states-our-worst-critics-prefer-to-stay/This isn't my idea of a vacation, but places like this abandoned Soviet mine in the Kyshtym region (which unlike other Soviet mines, at least it's not radioactive) seems to be very exciting to urban explorers.WebUrbanist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/abandoned-soviet-wonders-from-island-fortresses-to-frozen-mines/Do you love There Will Be Blood? Do you wish that there's some sort of a board game to go along with the movie? Something that you can play while drinking some milkshake? Well, fret not. Here's There Will Be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/there-will-be-monopoly/This one's for all you female Neatorama readers. Guys (straight ones, I mean): don't Hit Play or Go to Link [YouTube] - via Miss CellaniaExcuse me while I go wash my eyes. With bleach. :)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/skating-cowboys/Psst! Got a spare $5,200? Then you can buy this lifesize Alien statue from Monster Galaxy: Stands 7 feet 7 inchesResin and Rigid Foam HeadTransparent Dental Acrylic LipsVacu-Form DomeSteel Armature, Armature Wire in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/lifesize-alien-statue/Russian scientists have taken a CT Scan of Lyuba, a 4-month-old baby mammoth found frozen in a Siberian riverbank:The mammoth is named after the wife of the hunter who found her last year. The body was shipped back t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/scientists-took-ct-scans-of-a-baby-mammoth/This is Flickr user Joe D!'s idea of art: "refacing" legal tender ... and he didn't limit himself to small bills. Link [Flickr photoset] - via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/tron-lincoln/Imagine the shock of this poor ol' tycoon: he wanted to build the world's most expensive home only to find that he has a squatter in the garden!A billionaire is planning to transform a vacant London stately house int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/14/130-million-home-comes-with-a-garden-squatter/YouTube Link (wait till 2:07!)Meet Johann Petursson, the Viking Giant, who at one point was the tallest man in recorded history. The Human Marvels has more of Johann's story: Johann Petursson began touring with the R...
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