Admit it: you've always wanted to see what you would look like as an elf. The hat, the shoes with the rolled toes, the tights, the whole nine yards. And now you can, thanks to Office Max. I know Elf Yourself isn't a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/fulfill-your-inner-will-ferrell/I won! 50,039 words with three hours to spare. How did the rest of you NaNo participants do? Will you do it again next year? Are you celebrating? I am, although it's a pretty meager celebration: a beer and some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/nanowrimo-success/[YouTube - Link] You know...I love the Japanese sense of humour when it comes to their advertisements. They can be funny, bizarre and sometimes insightful. This ad is the type that makes me laugh out loud because...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/crying-caterpillar-ad/Here's a collection of rear-view images that are SFW. Some are quite fetching! A photograph taken from an unusual angle can take an image from the dull to the wonderful in an instant. Instead of concentrating on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/butts-in-photography/Windell and Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories used a 45 watt carbon-dioxide laser to score an Apple logo on the top crust of an apple pie. They used a square springform pan to get the crust centered just right,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/now-thats-an-apple-pie/Britain has taken one more step in becoming a surveillance society with this: a "crime-predicting" CCTV that seems to be plucked straight out of science fictions:Computers are programmed to analyse the move...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/minority-report-cctv/How long can you hold your breath underwater? Me? A minute, tops!Well, however long you can hold your breath, I betcha it's nothing when compared to what Gianluca Genoni just did: he set a new world record for breath-hol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/man-held-breath-for-18-minutes-underwater/Photo: Alexander Natruskin / REUTERSTimes may be tough for regular Joes like you and me, but the Russian fat cats are partyin' like it's 1999 in Moscow's annual Millionaire Fair. The Russian capital is home to 60,000 mil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/now-thats-a-chair/Will Braden, the writer behind the short film Henri, recently featured on Neatorama, is also a composer of cat-themed haiku. Here are a few samples: oh, I scratched the couch does that upset you? you mad?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/cat-haiku/(Video Link) Howcast shows you how to bake a meal on your car engine while driving. At the end of a long workday, you can wrap a few ingredients in tin foil, toss it on your radiator, and have a hot meal w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/how-to-cook-on-your-car-engine-while-driving/History is full of medical horror stories you've never heard of. Some doctors popularized theories that turned out to be just plain wrong, others made catastrophic misdiagnoses. Still others valued their research over th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/10-incredibly-dangerous-doctors/Oooh -a bat-shaped boomerang that's really a money clip! The Batarang Folding Money Clip is just one of the picks at The Geek Guide to Holiday Gift-Giving. There's also gadgets, movies, jewelry, and fashions that you w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/geek-gifts/The magazine Science has announced the winners of the 2009 "Dance Your Ph.D." contest. Sue Lynn Lau did a ballet to illustrate the role of vitamin D in beta-cell function. Miriam Sach used modern dance to portray cerebra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/dancing-scientists-on-youtube/Dragonflies are beautiful, and even more so close up! Take a look at pictures that illustrate the dragonfly's anatomy and life cycle. Link -Thanks, RJ Evans! (image credit: Cessna 206) insect, dragonfly, macrophoto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/30/dragonfly-macrophotography/There are some of the best optical illusios I've ever seen. They will totally mess with your perception. The best thing is that they are all in real places, not just pictures on a computer. Linkillusions, weburbanist,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/amazing-optical-illusions/Need a cool hideout or a secret lair for all your evil plans? A mile long tunnel under central London is up for sale right now for only $7.4 million. This Cold War relic is perfectly suited for all super villians in need...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/one-mile-tunnel-under-london-for-sale/We've seen plenty of pictures, clips, and shows all about the gorgeous Aurora Borealis or more commonly known as the Northern Lights on the Internet and on TV several times. But here is something that I bet you've never...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/the-aurora-borealis-from-space/This cute, and suprisngly fresh smelling, purse is very well thought out. The bass-mouth opening is very clever and the scales are too authentic. Link Via CraftzineFashion, Cute, crafts, style, fish, purses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/this-fish-purse-wants-to-eat-your-stuff/Who said you have to be celebrity to name your kid something weird? Mental Floss has document 6 very weird names. Imagine being named Eclipse Glasses Banda or having a last name that means "pisses." It happens, all ove...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/6-weird-baby-names/How crazy are people on Black Friday? Are the deals so good that they would trample someone to death? Here's a tragic Wal-Mart stampede that left one worker dead and got several people (including a pregnant woman) injure...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/wal-mart-worker-trampled-to-death-on-black-friday/For his daughter's fourth birthday, Will Turnbow decided that he's going to make the bestest Super Mario cake EVAR! Behold the Super Mario Galaxy cake, complete with spinning Luigi, flying Mario, and a rockin' Bowser! It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/the-best-super-mario-galaxy-cake-evar/Nijhel "IX: Mendoza (that's pronounced "nine") searched for his long lost son for 17 years ... and found him at last on MySpace!Kristi Tedesco of KVOA Tucson has the story:Mendoza wrote commented on hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/dad-found-long-lost-son-on-myspace/Remember the game Quidditch in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books? Well it turns out that a non-wizard version of the game is taking college campuses by storm. And yes, they do it with broomsticks up their butts:The e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/muggle-quidditch-yes-its-a-real-sport/Nick of Nick's World of Synthesizers decided to build a spring reverberator ... out of Slinky and cucumber! Here's the Springatron 3000:This is basically a giant spring reverb made from 10 slinkys. I was trying to ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/springatron-3000-reverb-made-from-slinkys-and-cucumbers/The folks at Extreme Craft blog spotted a dinner at the Eureka Gem Show at Redwood Acres fairground, California, that rocks (literally!) The food are made of rocks, gems, and minerals. I think they cheated on the parsley...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/dinner-set-in-rocks-gems-and-minerals/Did your stuff yourself so much on Thanksgiving that your pants no longer fit you? Well, don't worry - here's a gadget that will solve your problem: When your waistband feels too snug, reach for the Waistband Stretch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/pants-dont-fit-post-thanksgiving-binge-try-the-waistband-stretcher/Photo: brickfrenzy [Flickr]Thanksgiving may be over, but turkey-related madness continues! Here's a weaponized turkey mecha that is both whimsical and technically elaborate by Adrian Drake of Brickfrenzy: Link - via The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/lego-turkey-mecha/"For every movie that gets made there are a hundred that never happen. And for every version of a movie you see in theaters, there are a dozen other versions that never made it past the script stage." Thus begins an ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/movies-that-never-were/Photo: Jose Hernandez / National Geographic MagazineNational Geographic Magazine has just announced the winners of their 2008 International Photo Contest. Amongst the fantastic entries is this particularly amazing shot b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/28/aerial-battle-of-eagles/Mona Tofu by Ju DuoqiChinese artist Ju Duoqi, 35, specializes in a unique art medium: vegetables! (well, technically digital veggies - but who cares?). Behold her masterpiece above, the veggie Mona Lisa ("Mona Tofu&...
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