When you absolutely, positively have to get up on time, set the Danger Bomb Clock Alarm and nod off peacefully, knowing that you can't possibly sleep through this one. When you hear the explosion, it's time to get...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/wake-up-with-a-bomb/Whether you're an illustrator, a parent, or merely nostalgic for these long out-of-print titles, the Golden Gems blog is sure to please. This one to the left is Never Pet Pat a Bear - a Book about Signs by Mabel Watts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/scans-of-vintage-golden-books/The length of a man's ring finger appears to predict his success at financial trading. As an indicator, finger length has as much impact as his years of experience. The length ratio of the ring finger to the middle finge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/finger-length-financial-success/Queensland, Australia is looking for someone to live on Hamilton Island of the Great Barrier Reef for six months and keep a blog telling the world why they should visit. There’s so much to see and do, so you’l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/the-best-job-in-the-world/If the folks at Carlos Marreiros architecture firm have their ways, the Macau Pavillion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 will be in the form this glorious giant rabbit:... the pavilion will be wrapped with a double-la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/the-rabbit-building-macau-pavillion-at-shanghai-world-expo-2010/I can't believe we almost missed this: on January 12, 1967, University of California psychology professor James Bedford became the first man to be cryogenically frozen: As the first man to be preserved, the bill was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/james-bedford-the-first-cryonaut/Anthony Herman is fighting City Hall, and he's not shy about it: the used car salesman used all weapons at his disposal including his business signage which he used to call out the Mayor and the Polk City councilmen:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/man-fights-city-hall-with-signage/The age-old question, which is better: Mac or PC? is finally being settled mano-a-mano. Here's a short yet highly entertaining clip by Dan Chianelli and Nick Greenlee. The production quality is unbelievable!Don't miss th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/mac-vs-pc/Car dealers are desperate for business, and many are getting creative (like this free gun when you buy a car offer). Korean automobile maker Hyundai is trying a new approach. It'll take your car back (most of the time) i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/13/lost-your-job-hyundai-will-buy-your-car-back/This kitty can't stand other cats, even photos of them. His destructive nature is adorable though. Link Via YesButNoButYescats, Cute, silly, videos, fights...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/kitty-cant-stand-false-idol-worship/Whether you love PETA or hate them, you still may find the humor in their new campaign to change the word for "fish" to "sea kittens." Maybe they took the word "catfish" a bit to far, but you have to wonder is a fish sti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/peta-opts-to-change-fish-to-sea-kittens/Boston.com has a very cool chart detailing how to mess with your mind's perceptions, naturally. I think the most interesting one is definitely the first one. It tells you how to hallucinate with ping pong balls and a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/mess-with-your-mind-without-drugs/Web Urbanist has a great new post up of some really unique felines. There's the cat that predicts death, the seeing eye cat, the station master kitty and more. Most of them, if not all, have already been featured on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/7-awesomely-cool-kitties/I know some people find text-based games ("Interactive Fiction") a little dull, but I love them. I was seriously addicted to a certain text-based game back in the day, so I have a soft spot for them. This one is pret...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/lost-pig-a-text-based-adventure/I don't remember to watch Saturday Night Live very often, but I'm glad I remembered to last weekend because I was completely delighted by this Digital Short of Neil Patrick Harris and the cast jamming out to the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/orchestral-doogie-howser/I don't play chess, but if I did, these pieces at Suck UK would be pretty cool. The pieces are made out of black and white chalk, so you just draw yourself a quick board and you're good to go. That's not to say that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/chalky-chess/Paul and Caragh Brooks spent a total of about $200 on their wedding, in front of family and friends at a Taco Bell restaurant in Normal, Illinois. With several dozen invited guests in the room, the couple sat in a d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/taco-bell-wedding/Was it a case of drug smuggling or not? First, closed circuit cameras picked up the image of a tiny helicopter flying into the compound at Elmley Prison in Sheerness, Kent, England. The next night, guards saw the flying...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/smuggling-drugs-with-a-remote-control-helicopter/Watch this guy's moustache dance! A short stop-motion film by Bo Henry, art director for the movie Coraline. Linkmoustache, stopmotion...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/moustachio/If you remember (or still play) the board game Clue, you know there are nine possible crime scenes. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss challenges you to name them all in under two minutes. No fair pulling the game...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/name-the-nine-clue-rooms/Who hasn't wanted their very own private island? And what if you could build it with some friends and free recycled objects. Sound too good to be true? This guy has built not one but two!The original Spiral Island wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/man-rebuilds-amazing-floating-island/DarkRoastedBlend has what is indesputably the most comprehensive and impressive collection of dangerous roads around the world - and part six to the ongoing series is no exception.Want to feel happy and safe? Then ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/even-more-of-the-most-dangerous-roads/Jonathan Janson paints today's interwebby people in a 17th c. Dutch sort of way. Among his works are Girl in a Red Cap, Young Man with a Cell Phone, and my favorite, Young Girl Writing a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/channeling-vermeer/Only $495, the perfect gift for anyone! Looks like the real thing, everybody needs their water resonated! The WATER RESONATOR is the original water balancing technology used by Tibetan and Buddhist monks f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/water-resonator/A hotel in Bolivia always has salt on its dining table - actually, its dining table is salt! Here's the strange Salt Hotel of the Uyuni Flats:The hotel was built in 1993 by a salt artisan who saw a mint in t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/the-salt-hotel/Catherine Brahic of New Scientist blog wrote a pretty neat post about the weirdest animals species of 2008. Take, for instance, the "bone breaking horror frog": "Amphibian horror" isn't a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/weirdest-animals-of-2008/Since 1985, Robitaille's Candy Co. in Carpinteria, CA has been the exclusive purveyor of handmade chocolate mints for the presidential inauguration parties. Every four years, Robitaille's switches from its normal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/hail-to-the-mints/It seems as if this famous ninja cat has got a stair climbing cousin. Link [YouTube] - via Videon.secats...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/ninja-cat-20/Apparently it's called a frogfish, and while it looks sort of cute from afar, this thing is ugly... and fascinating. DarkRoastedBlend has a whole gallery of different types of frogfish, from the fluffy to the warty....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/12/weird-walking-fish-on-the-ocean-floor/This chart shows how heavy metal band names are related to each other and how you can place them in various categories - like deadly things and badass misspellings. Link - via kottke.orgstatistic...
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