Google's new SearchWiki service is a way for you to customize your search results by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. This video demonstrates a few ways to use SearchWiki: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/google-searchwiki-customize-your-search-results/What's even cuter than a lil' pygmy hippo? How about a pygmy hippo who loves to be fed with a "Madagascar" movie hand puppet?The Daily Mail has the story:Zoo keepers at the private zoo near Chipping Norton...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/hand-puppet-feeding-a-pygmy-hippo/At one point in our lives, we all love to color - and for some of us whose love of coloring things go beyond coloring books, artist Jon Burgerman has made this wonderful thing: the color-in wallpaper!http://www.jonburger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/color-in-wallpaper/When Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova walked down the catwalk, people started wondering: where is her bellybutton? The newspapers call it the "riddle of the £2.5m beauty". The beauty in questi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/wheres-her-belly-button/How do you get your cables from one side of the bridge to another when your suspension bridge will be 560 meters above the river? The Siduhe Grand Bridge in China is nearing completion after four years of construction....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/siduhe-grand-bridge/Now *this* is the way to learn math: Behold the Chocolate Pie Chart by Mary& Matt. 70% milk + 20% dark + 10% white chocolate = 100% chocolaty goodness!Link - via Swissmisschocolate, pie chart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/chocolate-pie-chart/Digital illustration by Brian GogginArtists Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn are collaborating to create an art installation called "Language of the Birds," opening next week in San Francisco. The sculpture is an &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/language-of-the-birds-by-brian-goggin-and-dorka-keehn/(YouTube link) The comedy duo Paul and Storm explain what to do with homeless nuns. -Thanks, Christophe! ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/nun-fight/Flickr user Vintage Lulu posted a lovely set of vintage geisha postcards from the late 19th and early 20th century. Link -via Everlasting Blort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/vintage-geisha-postcards/(Current TV link) An unidentified Englishman and Frenchman jumped from 650 meters up in the Burj Dubai tower -the tallest building on earth- in May of 2008. Both were arrested shortly afterward. -Thanks, Adam Fuhr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/burj-dubai-base-jump/Regardless of where you believe to be the true “Happiest Place On Earth” is, you have to admit, Disneyland is at least pretty magical. It's so magical, in fact, that even after 50 years and over 500 million of visito...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/21/10-cool-secrets-about-disneyland/(YouTube link) From the folks who brought you Digital Conversion. -via Grow-A-Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/scary-financial-times/[https://youtu.be/T4-PWNqCsYs] (YouTube link) Fanboys is set in 1999, when we waited with high expectations for The Phantom Menace. Three fans decide they can't wait and try to break into Geor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/fanboys/All right, all you guessing experts - here's this week's collaboration What is it? blog: can you guess what this strange object is (and don't say trumpet, cuz it's not!)Place your guess in the comment se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/what-is-it-game-82/I'm sure many of you are aware that Detroit automakers are lobbying the government (and the public in their website GM Facts and Fiction) for a $25 billion bailout loan package. The CEOs of the Big Three automakers, Gene...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/should-we-bail-out-the-automakers/Woodland Scene (2006)Castle on the Hill (2007)Belgian artist Magdalena Bors' artworks depict a fairy tale scene woven directly out of common household things. Check out her website for more: Link - via Notcot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/fairy-tale-scenes-by-magdalena-bors/1001 rules for my unborn son is a fantastic tumblr blog where you will find hundreds (so far) of words of wisdom about life. For example: 270. Stand up to bullies. You'll only have to do it once.269. If you've made y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/1001-rules-for-my-unborn-son/Bald? That's not a problem with this "flair hair" visor from Kotula's: We all have "bad hair" days; some of us have "no hair" days. When you need to cover your dome, you’ll want so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/flair-hair-the-uber-toupee/Japanese publishing company Jiyu Kokuminsha released its annual list of 60 most popular Japanese words and phrases of 2008 - and thanks to Pink Tentacle blog, we can all read about them in English ;)For example:*stro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/the-princess-phone-and-other-japanese-words-and-phrases-of-2008/At the grand old age of 90, Lonesome George, a giant tortoise from the Galapagos Islands, suddenly got interested in the opposite sex:A Pinta Island tortoise, George had showed little interest in sex during 36 years...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/lonesome-george-got-his-mojo-at-the-ripe-old-age-of-90/James Bond's gadgets had captivated moviegoers for a looong time! Here's a 1966 article from Popular Science detailing some of the gadgets featured in 007's Thunderball:Because their success has spawned so many imita...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/james-bonds-weird-world-of-inventions-c-1966/(YouTube link) Milan Simon Tuttle is five years old and has been playing basketball for a year and a half. She's short, skilled, and adorable! -Thanks, Laura! ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/5-year-old-dribbler/Scientists thought the pygmy tarsier was extinct, since the last live sighting was over 80 years ago. Eight years ago, one was accidently trapped and killed in Indonesia. But recently, scientists have caught three live p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/pygmy-tarsiers/(Vimeo link) Take a look at the G-speak spatial operating environment by Oblong. Some of the SOE's core ideas are already familiar from the film Minority Report, whose characters performed forensic analysis using...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/g-speak/Professor John Hart of the University of Michigan created nanoscale likenesses of president-elect Barack Obama that are each smaller than a grain of sand! The "nanobamas" were made to raise awareness of nanotechnology....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/20/nanobamas/This is absolutely adorable, it's a great way to share your love with the world...or at least enjoy a good snowfall together. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/too-cute/Happy Anniversary to Calvin and Hobbes! It was November 18, 1985 (I know, I'm a day late), that the precocious little boy and his sage stuffed tiger/real tiger first hit comic pages across America. So, I thought I'd hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/happy-anniversary-to-calvin-and-hobbes/Michael Minelli wants you to know he's not a douchebag, or at least, he doesn't think so. That's why he's suing the author and publisher of the book "Hot Chicks With Douchebags" for including him. The libel lawsuit shoul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/a-hard-case-to-prove/Now that Twilight is out and every teenage girls in the whole United States have seen the movie, would someone tell me if this house is indeed in the movie? The chances of me seeing this movie is pretty slim ;)It's my ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/19/was-this-a-twilight-house/Today is World Toilet Day! The World Toilet Organization invites you to become informed and get involved to promote global water issues and sanitation. 2.5 billion people do not have access to proper toilets. The inter...
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