Last I checked basic jewelry offers a vast multitude of stylish, and some not-so-stylish, rings for consumers to choose from. We have promise rings, mood rings, earrings, engagement rings, wedding rings, class rings,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/growing-jewelry/Being a depression sufferer myself, I find it interesting and inspiring to see people deal with their chronic depression. I love seeing what people can do with their lives, despite the agonizing pain they have had to cop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/5-celebrities-with-depression/Everyone has used, seen or, at least, heard of a ViewMaster, the most classic of classic toys. For decades children have peered through the plastic ViewMaster binoculars and been transported to other worlds. As a kid,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/viewmaster-artist/I feel like this clip was sped up, but as evidenced by the people moving at normal speeds in the background, it's not. These people are just that amazing. I'm a little tired just watching them! This was from a 1941 fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/whiteys-lindy-hoppers/Hoverit Ltd, a British company, has introduced the first piece in its line of magnetic ‘hover’ furniture. Dubbed ‘The Lounger’, the chair is built by hand and defies gravity through the use of rep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/hover-chair/[YouTube - Link]Before Hugh Laurie became the legendary House, he got his start in comedy, including Blackadder and his own show with Stephen Fry aptly titled A Bit of Fry and Laurie. His show wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/the-musical-stylings-of-dr-house/If you can say nothing else about J.K. Rowling, it's that she really knows how to irritate religious people:Iranian state television has come to the conclusion that Harry Potter is a Zionist plot. The documentary, wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/iranian-tv-calls-harry-potter-zionist-plot/Yes, that's right, just what you always wanted... apocalyptic horror in your Austen. I know I'll be ordering one for every middle school student I know.Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/[YouTube - Link] This ain't just any tractor ... It plays in a quartet alongside three guitarists to perform Sweet Georgia Brown. - via audioporncentral From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by admin.country music,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/3-guitars-and-1-tractor-playing-sweet-georgia-brown/A Thai woman who calls herself the Scorpion Queen spent the last 33 days in a glass-walled room filled with 5,000 scorpions, successfully breaking her own world record for being cooped up with the venomous creatures. Â...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/sleeping-with-scorpions/Hello everyone! On New Year's Day, I wrote about a big surprise that's coming to Neatorama. Well, today's the big day. I'm very excited to introduce a new and very neat feature on the blog: the Neatorama Upcoming Queue.Y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/the-neatorama-upcoming-queue/Beauty is very subjective, and what someone will find beautiful someone else will find ugly, or just "meh". There's nothing scientific about it, or even very serious, but here are some eco-cars that we might like i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/the-5-ugliest-eco-cars/The clash between Chinese and Swedish table manners highlights how different cultures define politeness and intimacy. Dr. Martin Rundkvist of Aardvarchaeology is married to a Chinese immigrant to Sweden. Her life entails...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/never-say-please-to-mother/53-year-old Eddie House of San Carlos, California recycles, composts, and finds homes for his discarded items. He reduced his household waste to the point that he cancelled his garbage pickup service last year. His rewar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/reduce-reuse-recycle-and-get-sued/The annual Edwardian Ball in San Francisco pays homage to author Edward Gorey. SF Weekly has photos from the ball held Saturday, with commentary in rhyming alphabet, Gorey-style! Link -Thanks, Janine Kahn!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/the-ninth-annual-edwardian-ball/Police are investigating how a 14-year old boy passed himself off as a Chicago police officer for an entire shift. When he showed up for work in uniform, the teen was assigned a patrol in a squad car. He never drove or h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/14-year-old-patrols-chicago/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss deals with a character from The Simpsons. Of all the brilliant characters the writers of The Simpsons have gifted to popular culture over the years, Ralph Wiggum is one of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/ralph-wiggum/To bring attention to the destruction of rainforests worldwide, German environment conservation group OroVerde and ad agency Ogilvy came up with this tongue-in-cheek poster depicting the various of logging machinery &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/diversity-of-logging-machinery-species-in-the-rainforest/Talking about logging machineries, take a look at this harvester that can cut, delimb, and cross cut logs in seconds! Link(Note: this particular machine, built by AFM Harvester, seems to be operating in a tree farm, not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/from-tree-to-toothpick-in-15-seconds/This is the sort of thing that only government bureaucracy can come up with: Australian immigration authorities have decided that Rosabelle Glasby couldn't bring her identical twin sister into the country because ... the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/australian-government-ruled-that-identical-twins-arent-related/Just a pile of rubbish? Would you believe that it's actually a US Army HQ during World War II, disguised by architect Sir Basil Spence? StrangeHarvest has a couple of interesting photos of such military deceptions from *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/wwii-us-army-hq-camouflaged-as-a-pile-of-rubbish/Whoa! How awesome is this: a Hello Kitty Zombie birthday cake, made by Debbie Goard of Debbie Does Cakes. See more of the cake at Kristin and Sean's website: Link - via Hello Kitty Hell (More Cake Geekery at this Food Ge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/hello-kitty-zombie-birthday-cake/I hate snakes - it's the one animal that really gives me the ooies. But I have to admit, they're endlessly fascinating. Here's a YouTube clip of Brady Barr of National Geographic's Dangerous Encounter coming bac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/brady-barr-returns-to-snake-cave/When I was a wee undergrad, I remember a professor in my class saying that in biology, "extinction is the name of the game." Sadly, it seems that this rule of thumb also extends to language: linguists have argu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/10-extinct-languages-in-the-usa/Photoshoppery by: Dr. Monster [Flickr]Inspired by the legendary "A Day at the Science Fair" (not a polite link, but very funny) thread at SomethingAweful, Travis Pitts of Zom-Bot made this quick and dirty (and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/electricity-vs-cat/If you think that living in Penistone is tough, imagine if you live on a street named Butts Wynd (yes, a real one in St. Andrews, Scotland) or Dingleberry Road (in Iowa City, Iowa). This one to the left, Psycho Path (som...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/worlds-most-awful-street-names/Sometimes the cleverest ideas are the simplest. The creative geniuses at the French design company Atypyk came up with this fan that looks like the Wi-Fi icon.It won't identify Wi-Fi Hotspots for you, but it'll help you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/wi-fi-icon-fan/Designer Patrick Mate was inspired by the legendary fight scene from Return of the Dragon for his awesome drawing of Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee.Link - via Super PunchPreviously on Neatorama: 10 Kick Ass Facts Ab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/chuck-norris-and-bruce-lee-by-patrick-mate/Psst, guys. Have you ever been rejected by a woman and wonder what the real reason for the rejection was? Miss Cellania has Women are from Venus/Men are from Mars translations for us poor mooks:8. I'm not attracted t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/26/rejections-by-women-decoded/The Uros people of Lake Titicaca along the border of Bolivia and Peru live on man-made floating islands constructed of reeds! The group developed this system to protect themselves from invaders, and now it protects their...
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