Translating Hollywood, the new book by Sam Sarowitz of Posteritati, takes a look at movie posters from around the world (and how different they are from the US versions). Take a look at this gem of an example: the Japane...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/japanese-army-of-darkness-movie-poster/"Infected" is a game by Emily Jo Cureton, where one player draws a "disease" card and then enacts the symptoms/description of the disease. The other players then get to guess what affliction it is. Ki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/infected-the-game/What to do with lots of remnant linoleum floorings? Why, you can make a kitchen floor out of it - and that's just what the guys over at Dairy of a Vermont Eco Builder did:In keeping with our eco design model, and jus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/linoleum-remnants-make-a-beautiful-kitchen-floor/(YouTube link) Just for fun, here are some of the best things Jay Leno has found in print. I’m so glad online writing can be corrected! -via Gigglesugar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/jay-leno-reads-the-paper/Damien Weighill wil draw your face and put it on his blog! Real people don't read your blog. A fact that I wasn't made aware of when I signed up for these things; It now seems so obvious. If you are reading...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/your-face/Elizabeth Halverson is a judge, but what she really wanted to be is a queen: Her former bailiff, for example, says Halverson made him feel like a "houseboy." He says the judge -- who is obese and u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/judge-or-queen/In the Wingding Controversy, if you type out "NYC" in Microsoft's wingding font, a skull and bones, Star of David, and a thumbs up glyphs appear.Some people interpret this as an approving message of killing j...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/trivia-microsoft-wingding-controversy/The Duggars, who already have 17 children, making them America's largest family, continues to embiggen. Michelle and Jim Bob have just announced that they're expecting a new baby on New Year's Day, January 1, 2009. Al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/the-duggars-are-expecting-their-18th-baby/Meet Ho Eng Hui, the 56-year-old Kung Fu king/street performer in Malaysia that used his index finger to smash through the tough shells of coconuts.After doing weekly performances for 8 years, Ho is retiring. If you're...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/kung-fu-finger-smashes-through-coconut/Golfers who want to play on the Fort Brown Golf Course near the US-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas will soon need a passport. That's because the Department of Homeland Security, in an attempt to build a more or less...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/border-fence-to-put-us-business-in-the-mexican-side/"What a waste it is to lose one's mind- or not to have a mind. How true that is." - Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/quote-dan-quayle-on-losing-ones-mind/This one's a bit old, but if you haven't read it yet, it'll be new (and newly disgusting) to you. Over at The Sneeze, you can find a compilation of every "Steve, Don't Eat It!" feature, in which Steve eats things most o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/steve-eats-unpleasant-things-so-you-dont-have-to/(YouTube link) How much can a hamster stuff into his cheeks? More than you’d think! -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/hamster-vacuum/Stack your books on the wall supported by... nothing! They appear to be floating. Complete instructions for making your own can be found at WikiHow. http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Invisible-Shelves -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/how-to-create-invisible-shelves/"Charge it!" That seems to be how more and more people in the United States are surviving (and as you can guess, a poor long-term strategy):Government and agency statistics illustrate this troubling trend....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/more-gloomy-economic-news-more-and-more-americans-are-living-off-credit-cards/Whoa - take a look at this custom "Freddy Krueger" Nike SB, featuring the famous red and green striped sweater pattern of Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street's monster. The shoes also have blood stain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/freddy-krueger-sneakers/The number of genome copies in cells vary by species: most cells in the human body have two, whereas most bacteria have only one. But not this particular bug: the Epulopiscium, a giant bacterium that lives in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/giant-bacterium-has-200000-copies-of-its-own-genome/We've posted about how a person's beauty "advertises" good genes and fertility. Well, here's new study in the same vein: Nathan Pipitone and Gordon Gallup of the State University of New York found that a woman'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/womans-voice-most-attractive-when-she-is-most-fertile/Here's a real life Edward Scissorhands: Israeli hairstylist Danny Bargil wanted to break the world record for multi-scissors haircut (who knew there's such a record?) by cutting a woman's hair with 10 pairs of scissors....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/11/real-life-edward-scissorhands-cut-hair-with-10-pair-of-scissors-in-one-hand/Just in time for Mother's Day, TIME magazine has the list of the Best and Worst (Fictional) Moms Ever. Of course, the "Best Mom" list is filled with all sort of wonderful (booring!) mothers, so let's focus on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/worlds-worst-moms/Rhett Lamb is often cranky like any other 3-year-old toddler, but there's one thing that makes him completely different: he has a rare medical condition in which he can't sleep a wink. Rhett is awake nearly 24 hours...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/the-boy-who-couldnt-sleep-boy-stayed-awake-24-hours-for-years/We go from the boy who can't sleep to the woman who can't forget. Here's the story of AJ, an extraordinary 40-year-old married woman who remembers everything (and not just all the bad things her husband did!):McGaugh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/the-woman-who-cant-forget/Image: Geoeye/CRISP-Singapore, Caption by Holli Riebeek.The two images, taken by the Ikonos satellite, showed how a village in Burma (Myanmar) was completely wiped out by the Cyclone Nargis:This tiny village was loca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/cyclone-nargis-wiped-out-an-entire-burmese-village/If robots suddenly develop a taste for human flesh, you can blame Gaëlle Arvisenet and his team of ENITIAA in Nantes, France. They're developing a robotic mouth:The artificial mouth comprises a 600mL container,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/scientists-make-munch-o-bot-what-could-go-wrong/Waitaminute! Something ain't right here :) Well, Brazilian graphic artist Mario Amaya created a bunch of mashed-up logos of the world's largest corporations that look just as great (and in some cases better) than the o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/corporate-logos-remixed/Our pal Carl of the Warehouse was digging in his backyard early one morning, and found this a mystery buriedSoon I realize it's not a simple concrete paver. It looks almost like brick. Then like a brick wall. What's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/joy-of-home-ownership-buried-mystery-in-the-backyard/It's long been known that an attractive face is highly symmetric - but now, Anthony Little of the University of Stirling, Scotland, and colleagues have gone one step further: they are attractive because they advertise ge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/facial-symmetry-beauty-good-genes/Ann Hodges was the only human ever struck by a meteorite and lived to tell about it.Ann was napping on her couch one fateful day in November 1954 when a grapefruit-sized meterorite crashed through the roof of her house,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/trivia-woman-struck-by-meteorite/Juneau County sheriff's deputy arrested Tammy D. Lewis and Alan Bushey of Necedah, Wisconsin, for two felony counts of causing mental harm to a child. See, the two left the body of a 90-year-old woman decomposing on the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/couple-left-dead-grandma-decomposing-on-toilet-told-kids-shell-come-back-to-life/Remember the know-it-all who ruined your Sunday morning cartoons by over-analyzing it? Well, he now got a blog: Are there existential dilemmas in Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends? Does Brad Bird’s oeuv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/10/journal-of-cartoon-over-analyzation/
