Back on December 24, 1968 the crew of the Apollo 8 space mission were to make history for two things. They were the first human beings to circle another celestial body in space and they were also to take one of the most...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/christmas-eve-greetings-from-space/The guys over at the "Interesting Facts" blog has compiled a nice post with nine examples of beautiful heart-shaped forests, lakes and islands. Link - via Pushanature...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/when-mother-nature-shows-her-love/Andy Mangold, a twenty-year-old designer from West Chester Pennsylvainia, decided to repackage the classic Monopoly board game by Parker Brothers. All of the boxes are made out of chocolate brown mat board and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/monopoly-gets-a-redesign/This video, filmed at a depth of 770 meters, shows a bioluminescent deep-sea siphonophore - a large organism consisting of many different organisms. Linksuperorganism...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/deep-sea-superorganism-video-footage/Meredeith Patterson is a computer programmer by day and biohacker at night. She is among a new breed of DIYers who are trying to do genetic engineering at the comfort of their own homes:Using homemade lab equipment a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/diy-genetic-engineering/For the first time forty years ago yesterday, humans saw their first Earthrise. BBC has the story:... on Christmas Eve 1968, none of the astronauts on board Apollo 8 were ready for the opportunity to witness their ow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/the-first-earthrise/Who says that Steven Seagal can't act? Surely the haters have never seen this clip before or they'd bow down to Seagal's supreme acting ability. Here's a clip from Steven Seagal's movie Hard to Kill. It's so good you ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/steven-seagal-flexes-acting-muscle/(L) Salvador Dali (R) The Yellow Door by William LaskinPardon me while I pick my jaw off the floor after gawking at William Laskin's gallery of engraved inlays for guitars. William uses as many as 9 different types of sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/william-laskins-guitar-inlays/Remember the bacon cheese roll we featured on Neatorama recently? Well, I've found its brethren: the mother of all BBQ sausage, behold the Bacon Explosion. From the Burnt Finger BBQ Team:The other day the guys from B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/25/bacon-explosion-the-mother-of-all-sausages/I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Have a fun and safe Christmas (or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa or Festivus or whatever), guys!Christmas...
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