The International Society of Supervillains blog has the list of the 11 lamest supervillains in comic book history. For example, here's Asbestos Man:History:Chemist Orson Kasloff became a cri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/the-lamest-supervillains-in-comic-book-history/A big congrats to Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers book. It has won the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the past 30 years: In The Bookseller's online poll to find the "Diagram o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/the-oddest-book-title-ever/Are men today losing their DIY skills? Glenn Harlan Reynolds wrote a really interesting piece for Popular Mechanics on how Americans are losing their ability to deal with every day real-world problems:Even the simple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/are-americans-losing-their-diy-skills/In 1998, the UK government introduced a law designed to deter harassment called the Anti Social Behaviour Order or ASBO. The law has been controversial - some hailed it as a great way to deal with wayward punks whereas i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/missing-cat-poster-got-boy-asbod/Sean A. Jennings wanted to get rid of his wife, but didn't want to go through all the hassles of divorce (plus that pesky alimony thing). So he devised a clever plan to kill her. Here's the bizarre story of the haunted h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/murder-by-haunted-house/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Hypnotizing AnimalsEver seen pigeons in trance? How about a hypnotized alligator? Turns out humans aren't the on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/videosift-clips-of-the-week-4/Paul Preece's Desktop Tower Defense is an insanely addictive Flash game that inspired tons of clones (which is kind of funny, since DTD itself was a "remake" of StarCraft's Turret Defense).Here's one funny clon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/bloons-desktop-tower-defense-bloons-tower-defense/Wide receiver Chad Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals wanted to put his nickname Ocho Cinco (his jersey number "eight five" in Spanish) on the back of his uniform, but strict NFL rules only allow for real surnam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/man-beat-nfl-rules-by-changing-last-name-to-ocho-cinco/Painting Mona Lisa In .008 Seconds - Watch more free videos These video clips look like they're from a live Mythbusters performance. The clip shows two machines they've built to paint using paintballs. The first one i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/mythbusters-live-mona-lisa-in-008-seconds/Here's the best desktop organizer I've seen in years: the Desktop Butt Station: It's a desktop organizer that looks like a fellow sitting on the john. Besides the spaces to hold pens and Post-it Notes, the figure hol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/desktop-butt-station/A friend of Jeanette Ordas sent her this 1970s ad made for CBC Radio. My how times have changed! http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=4012 - via Nag on the Lake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/and-the-award-for-most-inappropriate-ad-goes-to/Ever had to hunt around for the keyboard combination for special characters like ½, ± or ©? Well, you won't have to with this nifty website.Here's CopyPasteCharacter by Konst & Teknik and Martin St...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/06/website-lets-you-copy-and-paste-special-characters/If you're an Obama supporter, you can now put your skin where your mouth is: an Oklahoma tattoo artist is giving away free tattoos of the presidential hopeful!Talk about a stinging endorsement! A tattoo shop in Moore...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/free-obama-tattoo/Playas beware: scientists have now isolated the gene for commitment and monogamy. And worse: they can transmit the gene through genetic engineering (at least in voles). Your roamin' days are numbered:Scientists study...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/scientists-found-the-commitment-gene/Left to their own devices, zucchinis tend to grow and grow and grow ... Sometimes, even veteran gardeners like Apollonia Castitlione of Queens, New York, get shocked at how big they can grow:Castitlione, 48, said she...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/thats-one-really-long-zucchini/Matthew Moore wrote a really neat article for the Telegraph on 20 of the most viral Photoshopped photos on the Net. Like this famous photo of a shark lunging at a helicopter:This striking fake was created by merging...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/historys-most-viral-photoshopped-pics-explained/Photo: rubykhan [Flickr]Inspired by Craig Robinson's minipop drawings, Ruby Khan of Pigeons Playing Roller Derby blog made her very own version ... in pixel art cross stich! It contains 45 different figures; 99 indiv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/minipop-pixel-art-cross-stitch/(YouTube link) A graduation project by several students at the French animation school Gobelins: Julian Bocabeille (who now works for Dreamworks), FX Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/oktapodi/Japanese salarymen, the overworked and hard-drinking corporate warriors, are facing a new danger as they near retirement: divorce.A change in Japanese law this year allows a wife who is filing for divorce to claim as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/japanese-salarymen-try-new-tactic-to-avoid-divorce-being-nice-to-their-wives/By now you've all probably been playing with Google Chrome, the search engine giant's new browser (well, unless you're on a Mac or Linux, that is). Well, Philipp Lenssen's Google Blogoscoped blog who broke the news on th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/google-chrome-got-sal-9000s-eye/(Video Link) A music video by puppeteer and special effects artist Matt Ficner. RT: 4 minutes. Via Zombie Monkey Projects...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/zombies-singing-dust-in-the-wind-by-kansas/(YouTube link) At a recent appearance in California, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking keeps relativity on a layman's level. -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/stephen-hawking/It's Friday and you are online reading blogs instead of working. This chart may hit a little close to home! Only a small portion is pictured here; you can see the entire chart at Project Sidewalk. Link -via Geek Like M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/procrastination-flowchart/An all-star gathering of legendary American astronauts appeared in Cleveland Aug. 29, 2008 to celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, Neil Armstrong, the first person to wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/astronaut-reunion/Check out this Flickr set of classic video games recreated in Lego! Pictured is NES Castlevania. Link -via b3ta (image credit: skinny coder)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/lego-video-games/The problem: grilling a hot dog bun on a barbecue without ruining the hinge. The solution: build a gadget. Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories has step-by-step instructions for making you own bun jig. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/hot-dog-bun-grilling-jig/(YouTube link) In a way only he could do it. -via Unique Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/tiger-woods-solves-a-rubiks-cube/Sometimes the most amazing abilities of the human brain are revealed exactly when things go wrong with it. Take, for example, savants - people who have mental abilities that could only be characteri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/10-most-fascinating-savants-in-the-world/In 1899, economist Thorstein Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class, where he referred to the rich, ruling class as lazy people who do leisurely work if at all. Fast forward a hundred years or so, and the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/05/rich-people-work-longer-hours-than-poor-people-do/Now for something completely different: here's Flying Pizza Kitty, a blog solely made of 8-bit animated gifs by Ben Ross. Link - via Laughing Squid...
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