After posting the video "Popping A Water Balloon", I was pointed towards looking for better and longer slow motion videos for folks who will enjoy everyday objects reacting in manners quite alien to us. Well, thank good...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/slow-motion-compilations/Most people aren't aware of this, but the ocean is actually a noisy place, because its inhabitants are a noisy bunch:For most fish, the sonic mechanism is a muscle that vibrates a swim bladder not unlike our vocal co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/fish-are-a-noisy-bunch/Heh! This Bizarro's comic panel, titled Rorschach's Parents, made me chuckle. For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's excellent website and blog.By the way, Hermann Rorschach, the inventor of the psychological inkblot t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/bizarro-rorschachs-parents/After reading our post about Salvador Dali bloopers, blogger David Makar of Dryden Is Home decided to make his own Atomicus. Here it is:Not bad, but missing the cats, David! Link....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/bloggers-own-atomicus/An eight-year-old Yemeni was granted a divorce after her father forced her into an arranged marriage:"I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school," Nojud Mohammed Ali said, after...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/8-year-old-girl-in-yemen-granted-divorce-after-forced-marriage/"The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing." - Phyllis Diller, comedienne, on golf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/quote-phyllis-diller-on-golf/The Art of Manliness blog has a post about How to Break Down a Door ... Here it is, just in case you need to (like a burning building or something like that):Now, from my experience, it's virtually impossible to kick ope...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/how-to-break-down-a-door/Woot! Be still my heart! Here's the Megaman stained glass project by Flickr user Gary in Cleveland.http://www.flickr.com/photos/garyandliz/sets/72157603800105693/ (complete with some making of photos, too!) - via Ihateal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/megaman-stained-glass-project/Tea-Over-Ice from Tea Forté is a set of two pitchers: the smaller one, used to brew the hot tea sits on top of the larger one, which holds ice.The idea is that after your tea is brewed, you can simply flash chill...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/tea-over-ice-pitchers/Photo: eliz.avery [Flickr]Flickr user eliz.avery found this strange children book from 1974: the Mime Alphabet Book by Nina and Cathy Gasiorowicz - via QuiddityHere are a couple of the letters:D is for dyingN is for nobo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/mime-alphabet-book/Blackboard chalk is made of gypsum, not chalk.Chalk is a type of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Blackboard chalk used to be made from natural chalk, but it has since been replaced by compressed gypsu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/trivia-blackboard-chalk-isnt-made-of-chalk/In 2003, Kyle Van Horn of Three Bunny Press decided to send a cameramail: a disposable camera attached to an oversized postcard with instructions asking the postal carrier to take photos! On November 30th, 2003, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/cameramail-dear-mr-postman-take-some-photos-will-ya/Photo: misterbisson [Flickr]Not all the bandits in Sin City are one-armed. Here are a few different ways people have tried to beat the odds:1. A Little Off The TopHere's how it worked. In the 1970s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/robbing-las-vegas-4-who-got-caught-and-1-who-got-away/Using a high speed camera shooting at 2000 framers in 1 second this little video shows you what it looks like to pop a water balloon in slow motion. Amazingly, even at these speeds you'll notice that no matter how h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/popping-a-water-balloon/A pensioner who created a labyrinth of tunnels under his house over 40 years has been forced to pay £300,000 for repairs carried out by a council. Excavations by William Lyttle, 77, who is also known a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/mole-man-fined-300000/Young Me Now Me is a brainchild of Ze Frank (the man himself is an Internet phenomenon!). Basically, you can submit photographs of the "now" you imitating an old childhood photograph.Here's the gallery: Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/young-me-now-me-photographs/It's only natural that the best-selling game of the 80s is being made into a movie. That's right. Here's a trailer for ... Tetris, the Movie!Link [embedded YouTube] - via Blue's News(It's a making of a blockbuster! Get i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/tetris-the-movie/Go ahead and take the Awareness Test. Trust me - it's worth it - and trust me that it's not of the genre to calm you down and then terrify you with a screaming monster head or something. Scouts honor. I promise. No...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/awareness-test/For real! This Spanish language video shows a massive golden eagle stalking, killing and eating a mountain goat (or possibly a deer?). Amazing nature clip! YouTube. (Thanks, Sirkowski!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/golden-eagle-attacks-kills-and-consumes-mountain-goat/Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo created this spiffy Spider-Pig and Homer Simpson desktop out of Finder folders and document icons.Bigger picture here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/spider-pig-and-homer-desktop-art/We posted about Dede Koswara, dubbed the "Tree Man of Java," whose hands and feet were covered in bark-like tissues, before on Neatorama.Doctors operated on Dede back in January and have now removed growths fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/tree-man-of-java-getting-treatment-still-kind-of-bark-y-but-much-better-now/17-year-old Nicco Phillips was driving to school in Milwaukie, Oregon, when he spotted an animal in the road. "I was coming down the street and he was just in the middle of the road," Phillips said. "I just kept dri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/rodent-of-unusual-size-2/Hockey is a religion in Montreal, Quebec. So it's no surprise that someone made a Jesus Christ / Carey Price video on YouTube. Carey Price is the Montreal Canadiens' rookie goalie. Talk about putting a whole lott...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/jesus-price/Oscar, who is actually a female cockatoo, was given six months to live, but thanks to a diagnosis of a contagious beak-and-feather disease, she was spared... and that was twelve years ago! The near-naked bird with no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/featherless-cockatoo/We've posed about Nicholas Jones' book sculptures before, but it's worth another mention. Here's an interview with Nick at The Design Files (with lots of photos): Link - via The J-Walk Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/nicholas-jones-book-sculptures/To celebrate the coming of the longer and milder days of Spring, the Swiss city of Zurich burns a 43-feet tall bonfire called "Böögg".And to make it more interesting, they pack the Böögg wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/the-bgg-bonfire/Photo: Jack AnthonyKudzu is a climbing vine introduced into the United States from Japan in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Expo as a forage crop and ornamental plan. In the early 1950s, US Department of Agriculture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/houses-covered-in-kudzu/The D.U.C.K.man, a website created by Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. and dedicated to Donald Duck illustrator Don Rosa, has a neat scan of the Donald Duck Family Tree. If you've ever wanted to know how Scrooge McDuck is re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/donald-duck-family-tree/When HP released upgrades to its high-end workstations, a company official released a statement praising the product that is so chockful of inane corporatespeak that someone just has to do something about it.So...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/super-blockquote-smashes-corporatespeak/Next time you think that a cloud looks like a company logo, it may not be simply your imagination. Inventors Francisco Guerra and Brian Glover created a process to make "clouds" (basically soap based foams mixe...
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