The Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to match the 80s hair band with a song they did. I took one look and gave up, even though I played all these songs on the radio in the 80s. All I could think of were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/hair-band-quiz/This clever public service sign about drinking and driving was found in Mumbai. This is only a detail; see the full picture at Ads of the World. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/what-happens-when-you-drink-drive/(YouTube link) Purdue University created this video on where the greenhouse gasses in the US are coming from, and where they go. A new, high resolution, interactive map of United States carbon dioxide emissions f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/the-vulcan-project/Yet another nerd tattoo. This one in the form of HyperText Markup Language (HTML)Tattoo, nerd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/nerd-tattoo/70-year-old Wal*Mart employee Dennis O'Brien was arrested in Royal Palm Beach, Florida for attacking 81-year-old coworker John Esposito with a price gun. The report says Dennis O'Brien and John Esposito began argui...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/price-gun-assault/At the end of a fashion show, a fashion promoter falls through the catwalk and obviously hurt herself. But watch the second guy who runs to the rescue. Link: YouTubeCatwalk, Accident...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/catwalk-mishap/The online "convention" actually started yesterday, and already there are some fantastic customized action figures on display including the flexible Flatman by Matt Beahan that you see above, some characters from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/customcon-19-the-customized-action-figure-convention/At the Berlin Biennial this year, a number of artistic endeavours examine various aspects of the city - few as show-stopping as a film about a Swedish woman who married the Berlin Wall: "Among the broken lumps o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/the-woman-who-married-the-berlin-wall/Photo: 1-800-AIREELZ.COMArtist Melanie Coles (and friends) created a giant 54-foot tall Waldo on a rooftop somewhere in Vancouver, Canada. The idea is to wait till a Google fly-by, so we can all then play Where (on Earth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/where-on-earth-is-waldo-soon-to-be-the-google-maps-version/This Flash game is more fun than it should: the goal is simple - all you need to do is use your magic pen and draw circles, rectangles and other shapes to push the red circle toward the flag.But the principles of physics...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/magic-pen-flash-game/Here's a truly memorable wedding night - actually, it was down right electric! Here's what happened:Police say a bride and groom spent their first night as a married couple in jail after their wedding party at a Vall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/worlds-worst-wedding-night-groom-tasered-bride-tossed-in-jail/I often wonder when these so called storm chasers will meet mother nature's fury face to face only to end up dead. This clip demonstrates the braveness or stupidity (you be the judge) of these guys. And to top it o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/too-close-for-comfort/(YouTube link) From Creature Comforts. It just gets funnier as it goes. The last line is the best! -via Mookie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/self-image/(YouTube link) I wouldn’t go so far as to say this is a bad tattoo, because the artist did a good job with the subject. But maybe we can call it a bad idea tattoo. -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/tay-zonday-tattoo/14-year-old Jyoti Amge stands 1 foot 11 inches tall and weighs 11 pounds! She has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia and won't grow any taller than her current height. Due to her size, Jyoti has to have cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/the-smallest-girl-in-the-world/(YouTube link) What do you take with you to a Little League game? If you’re Improv Everywhere, you take a cheering section, a Jumbotron, some play-by-play announcers, and a blimp. It sent a bunch of unsuspecting ten...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/08/the-best-game-ever/This one is a bit long, but really interesting. Cabinet of Wonders blog dug up an article by Danny Penman at the Daily Mail about hearing voices.Now, normally, hearing voices is a sure symptom of mental illness (like sch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/ghostly-voices-tell-woman-of-brain-cancer-miracle-or-madness/What I like about Scribal Terror blog is how Gail Hapke throws in a neat vocab lesson every now and then. Take this post on "feague", which means:“to put ginger up a horse’s fundament,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/word-of-the-day-feague-and-what-it-has-got-to-do-with-a-horses-butt/eBayer pogo*the*clown made this steampunk-tastic Vintage Darth Vader mask that was bought at Disney World:I modified the helmet by carving out detail to make it look like brass plate and adding several tacks to simul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/steampunk-darth-vader-mask/I betcha that - if they are what I think they are, then this is the grossest photo you'll see today. Heck, even if they're not what I think they are, it's still gross.So gross that I'm not going to show it here on Neator...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/the-sickest-photo-youll-see-today/Super Punch blog has an excellent post running down the top 15 Weirdest Wedding Cake Toppers. I like this one, the steampunk Robot Bride and Groom Wedding Cake Topper, by Etsy seller buildersstudio.Check out the entire l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/steampunk-robot-and-other-weird-wedding-cake-toppers/It's been a while since we posted about the Wilhelm Scream, a neat bit of stock sound effect popularized by Star Wars series sound designer Ben Burtt, who used it it pretty much all of his films as an in-joke.Say No to C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/the-wilhelm-scream-again/Ooh, this is one movie I'm looking forward to watching (at least on DVD - It's impossible to go see a movie with a twenty-month-old and a three-month-old ...): Hellboy 2: The Golden Army as directed by Guillermo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/hellboy-2-trailer/Psst, guys! Forget eHarmony - Ian McKenzie of Ian's Messy Desk blog tells us 14 Old Testament Ways to Get a Wife. Here are the first five:1. Find an attractive prisoner of war, bring her home, shave her head, trim he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/the-old-testament-ways-to-get-a-wife/That's toothpick artist extraordinaire Steven Backman, who has been creating toothpick sculptures for over 30 years. He's holding his toothpick radio-controlled yacht, which is actually seaworthy (okay, pool-worthy). Tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/steven-backman-toothpick-artist-extraordinaire/This is the camera I've always imagined Blinky, the three-eyed fish from The Simpsons, would use:Behold the 120 Tri-lens from Chinese camera manufacturer 3D World. I won't even pretend that I understand how it works (lik...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/the-3d-camera/Chalk up another benefit to teh Interweb: ordering online can relieve you of the doldrums of white toilet papers! For instance, take the Sudoku puzzle toilet paper to the left. It'll surely help you while away the time ....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/cure-for-the-boring-toilet-paper-innovations-in-toilet-paper-you-can-buy-on-the-web/The world is full of mundane and uninspired Flash games, so Neatorama editors searched high and low to bring you the best Flash games around.We look for the right combination of game play, control, and graphic complexity...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/the-best-flash-game-of-all-time-quest-for-the-crown/It's long been known that monkeys can get addicted to various opiates just like humans can. A new research showed that social standing matters in the "monkey addiction problem" (if there's such a thing). It tur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/stressed-loser-monkeys-prefer-cocaine/This has got to be one of the strangest crimes ever: an assault with ... (poor) hedgehog!Police said William Singalargh, 27, had hurled the hedgehog about 5m (16ft) at a 15-year-old boy."It hit the vict...
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