Long before Prince Charles proved that love is blind by cheating on his beautiful wife with Camilla Parker-Bowles, blue bloods had already proudly renounced monogamy. Over the centuries,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/a-pain-in-the-royal-horse-5-sex-rumors-about-royalty/Yay! It's time for our collaboration with What is it? Blog - can you guess what this strange contraption is for?Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you're playing for bragging...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/what-is-it-game-78-2/Back by popular demand, I give you the stories behind some of your favorite horror classics - Part Two!The OmenI'm watching The Omen as I type this - how great is Gregory Peck? And he almost wasn't cast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/the-stories-behind-three-more-horror-classics/Philantrophist Eli Broad had an idea on how to improve school children's test scores: bribe 'em with money!Here's a controversial pilot educational program called Spark, where children are rewarded with cold hard cash if...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/bribing-kids-to-study-actually-works/Who's responsible for the current credit crunch? According to Peter Hayes of the University of Sunderland, it's the pirates!Dr Hayes says: “Pirates elected their captain, voted on major decisions and distribute...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/whos-to-blame-for-the-credit-crunch-pirates/A 19-year-old teen formerly known as Jennifer Thornburg has legally changed her name to Cutout Dissection.com to protest animal dissection assignments in school:Cutout, now a vegan, said that after she finished the a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/teen-changed-her-name-to-cutout-dissectioncom/Brian Hubbard, a 72-year-old man from Herefordshire, England, got into trouble with his city's council because ... his garden is too tidy!A dedicated gardener has been banned from trimming the grass outside his house...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/city-council-reprimands-man-for-being-too-tidy-a-gardener/Maryland sex offenders got something in the mail this week: a scarlet letter in the form of a bright orange pumpkin:That is the symbol on a sign they are required to post on their doors with a warning, in capital let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/the-scarlet-pumpkin-sex-offenders-forced-to-post-warning-for-halloween/Photo: SWNSA £3000 "graffiti wall" installed in Cornwall, England, so youths could practice their graffiti art without vandalizing the neighborhood, got its first graffiti: a disgruntled taxpayer who snea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/graffiti-wall-vandalized-by-disgruntled-taxpayer/A promising study has shown that electromagnetic stimulation of the brain could "wake up" a person from coma:JOSH VILLA was 26 and driving home after a drink with a friend on 28 August 2005 when his car mou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/magnetic-field-wakes-man-up-from-coma/Here's an interactive point and click photo of Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office. Click on various items and be sure you turn your speakers on for the audio. Link Note: This not intended to take sides. There...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/palin-as-president/Ew, what's that on your floor? Do you know the feeling that you do not want to take a look at something, but you still do? The Road Kill carpet is a continues struggle between attraction and repulsion. It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/roadkill-carpet/(YouTube link) Ben Stiller mugs it up in a Japanese drink ad. It's just one of a slew of videos in The Top U.S. Celebrities as seen in Japanese Commercials. Also see Madonna, Harrison Ford, Britney Spears, Anthony Hop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/us-celebrities-in-japanese-ads/Imagine staying in a castle built several hundred years ago. If these walls could talk! But some are rumored to do just that ...or have ghosts of former residents walking the halls. This post details ten such locations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/haunted-castles-of-europe/Socyberty has a nice collection of vintage Halloween postcards from bygone days. Link -via the Presurfer (image credit: riptheskull)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/vintage-halloween-postcards/Have you ever wanted to live in a round home? There are plenty of ways to do it! Now, designers have planned dome homes, tents, personal mini-domes and fantastical structures that serve as beautiful homes, that sav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/25-incredible-personal-biodomes/(YouTube link) A youngster learns about lobsters. Wow! Can I touch them? No? I don't like to touch them! -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/lobster-encounter/Kevin is making a Megaman costume for his son. He started with the Megabuster for the arms, lights and all, and chronicled the process in pictures. This will be an awesomely authentic costume! Link -Thanks, Jon Jas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/megabuster/The economy may be tanking and you may have lost your shirt in the stock market ... but you don't have to wear the "bankruptcy barrel" (ah, the dependable cartoon trope - interestingly, the practice seemed to h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/t-shirts-about-the-economy/For his 4-year-old son's birthday, Geoff M. of tag-a-lishus decided that he'd make an almost-life-size Yoda cake to go along with the Star Wars-themed party. Here's the build gallery: Link - via cinematical(Just...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/delicious-this-yoda-cake-is/I. So. WANT. This! Behold Kota the Triceratop, a 3-foot-tall plush robot that your kid can ride. How awesome is that?GeekAlerts blog has the video clip: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/kota-the-triceratop-robot/For those who didn't watch the presidential election debate or for those who simply couldn't get enough politics, here's something for you: The Debate ... between Batman and Penguin!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/batman-vs-penguin-the-debate/In their installation "Super Kingdom," Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson of London Fieldworks created a set of (functional) birdhouses modeled after houses and palaces of dictators.This one to the left is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/16/birdhouses-modeled-after-dictators-palaces/5Om3ON3 k4Ll 73h pol1C3! - Photo found via Must Read Blogs Blog, Thanks dw00d!...
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