One of our first years together, my husband and I decided to make a gingerbread house during the holidays, thinking it would become one of our new traditions. We didn't buy a kit, because I thought it wouldn't really be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/14/awesome-gingerbread-houses/One day, Fendy Sutandio of Orimath blog looked at his garden and found this strange "Zombie Hand" fungus. It does look like a zombie's hand digging itself out of its grave!Link - via Cliff Pickover's Reality Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/14/zombie-hand-mushroom/Photo: our_bangladesh [Flickr]It took almost 20 years for the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan to build the Taj Mahal in the 1600s, but it took only 5 years for wealthy movie director Ahsanullah Moni to build his replica near D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/14/the-new-taj-mahal/Could you survive if you only have $1 a day for food? That's what Christopher Greenslate, 28, and Kerri Leonard, 29, wanted to find out. So the couple, both high school social studies teachers, did a month-long dollar-a-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/14/spending-only-one-dollar-a-day-for-food/Photo: ECAL/Florian JoyeGoing to the bathroom doesn't get much simpler than this. Behold the "Simple Toilet," as envisioned by Jessie Neukomm (bag) and Alejandro Bona (shovel) for the University of Art and Desi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/14/simple-toilets/Photo: Miles Pocket WatchesOobject, a neat visual directory of gadgets, has an interesting list of Memento mori watches. Memento Mori, latin for "Remember that you will die," is an art genre that span a wide ra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/14/memento-mori-watch/The above chart shows Japan in a commanding lead with 295 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers. However, given that robots tend to regard human flesh as bacon, skyrocketing robot insurance premiums, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/top-10-countries-by-robot-population-density/A 20-something woman in China recently had her left ear drum blown out by a massive kiss. She has become partially deaf as a result of the passionate kiss. Chinese media companies are now spreading warnings about the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/kiss-kills-womans-hearing/(Video Link) At least, that is the way that I would describe this hilarious 1954 clip from Sid Caesar's variety show, in which Caesar and an actress silently argue to the rhythm of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Run tim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/its-like-interpretive-dance-but-focused-on-marital-bickering/Apparently, taking a bath in the sink is becoming a meme of sorts for fast food workers. Last time, it was at Burger King in Xenia, Ohio. This time: a KFC in Anderson, California. Redding Record Searchlight has the story...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/bathing-at-kfc-sink-landed-girls-in-hot-water/Mark Champkins of the Quirky design studio Concentrate asked school teachers their most commonly used phrases ... and then print them on these "Mugs of Authority" Teachers have no need to shout themselves h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/mugs-of-authority/Every year for Christmas, Bev Stewart of West Yorkshire, England, faces the same quandary. Her family members always bicker over the best seat in front of her TV. But this year she has the perfect solution: auction it on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/grandma-auctioned-best-seat-in-the-house-on-ebay/School officials in Queensland, Australia, are worried about the mental health of kids, so they suggest that teachers don't use red pen to mark homeworks and tests because red is an aggressive color!Other tips includ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/red-pen-aggressive-color-bad-for-kids-mental-health/Le Trung, a 33-year-old computer geek from Brampton, Ontario (yes, he still lives with his parents), didn't have much luck with dating women. So he did the next best thing: he built himself a fembot!He said: “A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/no-luck-with-real-women-so-geek-built-himself-a-fembot/Shaggy the reindeer lost his antlers but that didn't stop him from strutting his stuff in a Christmas performance: his owner, Trevor Hill, made him an antler toupee!The two-and-a-half-year-old reindeer lost his horns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/reindeers-antlers-toupee/ABC News has a cute segment online about kids who are scared of Santa - and a collection of photos of "Toyland Terror" that have just been published in book form. [Scary Santa photo courtesy of Flickr user rachel_r]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/scared-of-santa-2/I imagine this puzzle game would be funny for about 10 seconds, and then your friends are going to start yelling for some TP... or they will put your guest towels to ingenious use, as John Brownlee from BoingBoing G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/puzzle-game-toilet-paper-dispenser/This is pretty impressive - but what I wonder is how many front loaders (this one is 15 tons!) he went through before he got it right. Yeah, you're right... probably none. Skills With A 15 Ton Front Loader - Watch m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/a-15-ton-caterpillar-operator-with-mad-skillz/Jami McElrath got her camera stolen when a thief broke into her car. When the thief found out that Jami is terminally ill, he had a change of heart and returned the camera:McElrath, who has inoperable cancer, was col...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/thief-returned-terminally-ill-womans-camera/A substitute teacher in the United Kingdom got into a whole lot of Christmas trouble when she - gasp! - told kids that Santa doesn't exist:The female supply teacher told pupils at Blackshaw Lane Primary in Royton, Ol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/teacher-got-in-trouble-over-santa/The turnage levels here are amazing, a full 30 seconds of head-tilting wonder. Link via GiggleSuggarsilly, videos, animals, dogs, pugs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/pug-head-tilts/We all remember the "This is your brain on drugs" public service announcement with the frying pan and the egg, but that's pretty mild compared to some of the PSAs compiled by PopCrunch. Click the link and you'll be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/13/the-most-shocking-psas-ever/Don't miss the full moon tonight, it's the largest moon in years because it's the closest to Earth it has been since 1993. The composite image above shows how comparitively large the moon looks tonight compared to the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/the-biggest-moon-since-1993/Pin up star Bettie Page passed away last night after suffering a heart attack on December 2. She was 85 years old. Bettie was a beautiful woman and a wonderful icon, her work was influential to pin up girl pictures, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/rip-betty-page-1928-2008/The Covini Six Wheeler, its designers argue, has superior steering and braking capability due to its extra set of wheels. It will be available to buyers starting in 2009. Follow the link for more pictures and a v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/6-wheeled-car-enters-production/No, this is not a political post. It's just a cool video graphically showing streams of immigration from different parts of the world to the U.S. Nice swirly colors. (Video Link) Via Glenn Reynoldscharts, immigra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/a-graphic-representation-of-immigration-to-the-united-states-1820-1970/A total blast from your past... or at least mine. Christmas, stacy, california raisins, rudolph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/the-california-raisins-sing-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/Our very own Miss Cellania wrote a really neat article for mental_floss about 8 truly strange Christmas customs. This one to the left is "Caga Tió" or the "pooping log.":The Catalan custom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/the-pooping-log-and-other-strange-christmas-customs/Don't Panic TV has a clip of "Larry" (actually LRRY-1), a fire-breathing robo-dog, like it's straight out of Mad Max, roaming the streets of London. The contraption is built by Lyle of the Mutoid Waste Company....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/fire-breathing-robo-dog-in-london/Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. And that's just exactly what vets did for Edgar, a 4-year-old long-haired feline who lost her face in an accident:Me-ouch! Veterinarians on Tuesday performed an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/12/vets-reattach-cats-face-after-cat-astrophe/
