To counter Stacy's Christmas Special posts, here's a (funny) little Christmas downer for you, from Tarquin Britten and the City Boyz. Have a Merry Credit Crunch Christmas, everyone!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], spott...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/merry-credit-crunch-christmas/A deadly fire that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter in Toronto, Canada, was caused by .... mice! The fire at the humane society shelter in Oshawa also killed three dogs and some rats that were up for adopt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/revenge-of-the-mice/There's a spot in a Lowes movie theater parking lot in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where you'll never forget where you parked your car: the grave of Mary Ellis. Yes, a cemetery right smack in the middle of a park...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/cemetery-in-parking-lots/Neatorama reader SparkS put together a great post in the Forum: a fun list of humorous military truisms. It includes such gems as:"If the enemy is in range, so are you." Infantry Journal"Aim t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/military-truisms/Lego Santa CrabBot by Andrew Colunga. His Flickr gallery is full of terrific Lego creations.Christmas, robot, Lego...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/santa-crabbot/I had no idea that June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash did Christmas Specials every year! I got way too entrenched in watching clips from various years, but I liked this one the best. LinkChristmas, TV, Video, sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/a-johnny-cash-christmas/The following is reprinted from The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. From Hollywood's earliest days, directors have sought to leave their indivi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/hollywood-directors-signature-signs/Remember the guy that tried to pay off his bills with a picture of a spider? Well, he's at it again. This time it's all about getting himself invited/disinvited to Matthew's housewarming party.Link - via Miss Cellaniapar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/the-housewarming-party-crashers/A Chinese man found out the hard way why his Pomeranian dog was impossible to train: it's actually a fox!... he found the dog hard to tame, it would often bite him and had several unusual traits, he told the Wuhan Ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/dog-hard-to-train-maybe-its-a-fox/Blanca Figueroa, the mayor of South El Monte, California, is one hardworking woman. In fact, you can often find her working in her office till the wee hours. Figueroa said that a mayor's work is never done, but her fello...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/is-the-mayor-living-in-her-office/Just in case that car thing doesn't work out, Honda has a plan B in its quest to dominate the world. Behold, the giant 49-foot tall ASIMO robot replica (masquerading as a float, but we're not fooled!):Honda has teste...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/hondas-giant-asimo-robot-float/After a thorough analysis of the emotional state of Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, AlwaysWatching blog came to this irrefutable conclusion: Hugh Jackman has many nuanced facial ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/the-many-facial-expressions-of-hugh-jackman/Last Seen (2006) by William BettsWilliam Betts is like the modern day Seurat - In his "Surveillance" series, he makes paintings from digital photographs using his own specially-designed machine to apply dots of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/surveillance-by-william-betts/Skip this one if you're squeamish. Here's a gruesome yet fascinating article from The List Universe: 10 people who were forced by dire circumstances to perform surgery ... on themselves!Take, for instance, the self-surge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/not-for-the-squeamish-10-people-who-performed-self-surgery/Congratulations to Denita TwoDragons, a long-time Neatoramanaut, and hubby, on the arrival of their very cute daughter, Tabitha Charis, a few days ago:I Am Proud to Announce... my bouncy little squeak festival, Tabit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/23/congrats-denita/Readerville Journal has been picking the coolest and most clever book covers since 2000; here's this year's installment. Did your favorite book make the list? I haven't actually read any of the books on the list, but I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/coolest-book-covers-of-2008/What to do with all the snow that piles up in a city? Some folks in Toronto made snow bricks and covered a TTC shelter (a streetcar stop) to make it into an igloo! See more pictures at BlogTo. Link -Thanks, Jerrold...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/toronto-igloo/This watch reminds me of something -I just can't put my finger exactly on what it is... Available from the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA). Link -Thanks, Cary Groneveldt! watch, icon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/icon-watch/Face detection technology is a popular feature in digital cameras. Nikon's latest ad campaign focuses on the feature, bragging that the Nikon S60 can detect up to 12 faces. The ad are both funny and creepy! The other t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/face-detection-camera-ad/I'm sure you've all heard of Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme that fooled even the most financially savvy investors. But what do you know about Ponzi or pyramid schemes? Here's a quick (and fun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/9-most-brazen-ponzi-schemes-in-history/Can you name all nine of Santa's reindeer? Can you do it (and spell them correctly) in two minutes or less? That's the challenge today in the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz! Yes, I know one of them has a controversial spe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/santas-reindeer/A car stolen from Lapua, Finland was examined for evidence that might lead to the identity of the thief. A mosquito found inside was send to the lab and the human blood inside the insect had DNA that matched a man whose...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/blood-from-mosquito-linked-to-crime-suspect/Can you tell I'm in the holiday spirit? I'll try to work in some non-holiday-related posts sometime today... promise. Anyway, this holiday display is set to the Run-DMC holiday classic, and here's a link to the actual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/christmas-in-hollis-light-display/(Live Leak link) December 15, 2008, South Waterfront neighborhood, Portland, Oregon. Looking from our condo we can see cars attempting, and most failing, to climb up a hill to get out of the neighborhood. I decide...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/icy-hill/Julian Kreusser has his own TV show on Portland Community Media called "The Big Kitchen with Food." Justin wanted to cook on TV since he was four years old -which was only last year! Viewers love him, says Portland...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/5-year-old-hosts-cooking-show/Many times we've linked to The Big Picture features from the Boston Globe here at Neatorama. Now they've collected the best photographs of the year in a three-part series featuring the most amazing images from all over...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/pictures-of-the-year-2008/It's easy to tell Pete the squirrel from all the other squirrels. He's the purple one! Teachers and pupils at Meoncross School in Stubbington, Hants, were amazed when they saw the creature through the window during...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/purple-squirrel/By the power of Greyskull, I wish you all Happy Holidays! LinkChristmas, Video, stacy, heman, shera...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/22/a-he-man-and-she-ra-christmas/I know, It's a Wonderful Life is one of those movies you either adore or hate. And it's definitely what Snopes calls "glurge," but I love it anyway. So, in the spirit of the Halloween Horror movie posts, I t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/21/its-a-wonderful-post/So, it snowed during the New England Patriots-Arizona Cardinals game today (I'll let you guess where they were playing). Of course, that means that touchdown celebrations have to be taken to a whole new level, like this...
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