(YouTube link) Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann made this video for the song "Driving this road until death sets you free", by Zombie Zombie. It's a remake of the 1982 John Carpenter movie The Thing, using...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/gi-joe-does-the-thing/A mixed bag today: Links open in new browser/tab The Large Hadron RapWhat do we love more than nerds? Rapping nerds!Here's a neat video by the physicists of CERN (is that a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/videosift-picks-of-the-week-2/Gail posted about whale flatulence before on Neatorama, and there's just no way I can top that bubble. So here's something else: a Beluga whale blowing bubbles!A beluga whale blows bubbles at an aquarium in Japan to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/bubble-blowing-beluga/To illustrate just how much automated translators still have to go, Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped used Google and Babelfish to translate Garfield from English to Chinese and then back to English. The results are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/garfield-translated-from-english-to-chinese-and-back/The Mona Leia by Jim HanceJim Hance of Strangely Drawn wrote to us about his pop-culture and parody art (a lot of Star Wars, Tarantino, and other movie-inspired paintings). This one above, titled the Mona Leia, is curren...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/the-mona-leia-by-jim-hance/MyNeighbourhood is a Google Map-styled website that identify assaults, muggings, and burglaries in towns and villages in England and Wales.The UK Home Office said that the website will give citizens the details of every...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/a-crime-map-of-england-and-wales/Photo: Kerry-Ann Lecky HepburnThis amazing photo of the Milky Way over Binbrook, Ontario, Canada, was taken by Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn of Weather and Sky Photography:I was really lucky that the the water was beautifu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/milky-way-over-ontario/Courtesy of Reuters, which has other ancient jokes as well: It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/worlds-oldest-joke-traced-to-sumeria-in-1900-bc/Yay! It's time for our collaboration with the What is it? blog. Can you guess what this gruesome tool is used for? Place your guess in the comment section - No prize (that's next week!) you're playing fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/what-is-it-game-71/The You Are Beautiful project made an installation on a fence using disposable cups in late 2003. They returned to find the cups had been moved over and over again, shown in a series of photographs. Click each picture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/you-are-beautiful/(YouTube link) A pygmy slow loris shown being adorable, although very slowly. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/pygmy-slow-loris/In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were Stanford University graduate students, working on their Digital Library Project, later known as Google. They needed a lot of storage, and the largest hard disk available was 4...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/31/the-original-google-storage/Alex posted in June about Shigeo Tokuda, Japan's septuagenarian porn star who was featured in a Time Magazine article about Japan's "elder porn" industry. Now CNN has video of Tokuda - both in and out of costume. Fea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/cnn-visits-japans-oldest-porn-star/How do you lose a 44 pound cat? Someone in Camden, New Jersey managed to do it. Camden County Animal Control Officer Jim McCleery got the call Friday. There was a a stray cat prowling on a patio in the Ashley Run co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/princess-chunk/Jill Harness of Rue the Day blog went to Comic Con in San Diego last weekend (I'm so jealous! Maybe next year ...), and took lots and lots of photos of people in costumes. This brave guy above even showed up in stilts! (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/comic-con-costumes/Photo: The Hep [Flickr]The Namibians are dead serious against you peeing on the quayside at Walvis Bay ... Thanks Karan!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/dont-pee-here-seriously/Pic: Gladiator (of course), from 4th "B"Johnny Wright of our pal YesButNoButYes blog suggests that some movies should really be made into musicals. He's given a lot of thought about it, and has written a post a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/movies-that-should-be-made-into-musicals/Photo: bixwastaken [Flickr]Neatorama reader Chris Marshall aka Bix got married on July 12th (Congrats, Bix!) and got this awesome re-creation of an old school NES controller as a groom's cake. The cake was made by Anika...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/nes-controller-cake/Scienceray has a pretty neat article comparing the "ugly duckling" caterpillar that morphed into beautiful butterflies. These photos above are of the Common Nawab. The caterpillar stage is freakishly fascinatin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/ugly-duckling-caterpillars-that-morph-into-beautiful-butterflies/Attention hip and design-obsessed conscious people! You've got a cute dog and great clothes to walk your dog in, but are you going to use a regular ol' plastic bag to pick up its poo? Noooooo, of course not. You'll want,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/is-stylish-dog-poo-poo-bag-overkill/Japan is still the king of weird ice cream flavors, but France isn't far behind after gourmet ice cream maker Philippe Faur released the ... foie gras and caviar ice cream!Link - Thanks Marilyn Terrell!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/foie-gras-and-caviar-ice-cream/It took 1,800 people and six days to rebuild the Harper family's home in ABC's 2005 "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."... but it took just one bad decision for the family to lose it all:More than 1,800 peo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/extreme-home-makeover-house-foreclosed/Alan Yang's webcomic Penguin Sauce is all about a geeky penguin who's obsessed with video games and sandwiches. Alan started drawing his comic 10 years ago, but he has just started putting them on the web back i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/penguin-sauce-webcomic-by-alan-yang/Bad idea: gamblingReally bad idea: gambling in a casino (the house always win!)Neatorama-worthy: gambling in a casino, betting with ... weed! And it was all captured on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/man-bet-with-weed/Artist Jim Mullan took vintage hunting decoys shaped like crows and small birds and turned them into steampunk bird sculptures! Links: Christopher Park Gallery | Left Bank Gallery - via Fire Wire, thanks Larry!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/steampunk-birds-by-jim-mullan/Sadly, this "bloody" table is only an art concept by John Nouanesing. Check the rest of John's portfolio ... someone gotta make these things for real! http://www.johnnouanesing.net/catalogue%20UK.html - via Gee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/bloody-table-by-john-nouanesing/One of my favorite blogs, WebUrbanist, has a neat post about homes "recycled" from other things. Like this airplane house, for instance:Joanne Ussery, a hairdresser, was looking for a new mobile home to put...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/airplane-house/In 1832, English author William Hone (1780 - 1842) published The Year Book of daily Recreation and Information*, an almanac of sorts in which included this quirky and wonderful "Alphabet for Beginners"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/alphabet-for-beginners-by-william-hone-c-1832/Invented by Matty Sallin, Daniel Bartolini, and Hsiao-huh Hsu, this alarm clock gently wakes you with the aroma of freshly-cooked bacon. Here's how it works: A frozen strip of bacon is placed in Wake n' Bacon the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/bacon-alarm-clock/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss grew out of Sandy Wood doing an impression of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. That has nothing to do with the questions, however. They all have to do with people, places...
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