I was never any good at the real Etch-a-Sketch, and I'm certainly not any better at the virtual version. This picture to the left was done on a real Etch-a-Sketch (you can see more on the Ohio Art site), but maybe you'l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/virtual-etch-a-sketch/I didn't intentionally mean to pick another Rob Reiner film for this week's movie trivia post, but when RiderAng suggested Stand By Me, I knew immediately that I needed to dig it out of our DVD cabinet. Don't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/movie-trivia-stand-by-me/Some of you might remember the phone order cake mishap post here at Neatorama. Obviously, ordering your cake online won't guarantee that things will be any better. Link [Flickr] - via DiggCake, error...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/birthday-cake-error/[YouTube - Link] If you have any spare funds left over from donating to Sarah MacLaughlin's pet fund, here's another worthwhile charity desperate for help. economy, humor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/sponsor-an-executive/Celebration, Florida is a planned community near Orlando that was developed by the Disney Company in the 1990s with early 20th c. architecture. Every night during December the palm-lined main street in the town...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/snowing-nightly-in-florida/Christopher Baker analyzed some 60,000 emails that he has sent and received since 1998 to reveal his social network, as represented in an interesting visual map: Like many people, I have archived all of my email w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/mapping-your-emails/This 1996 2006 WoW project by Aram Bartholl let people "play" as their World of Warcraft avatars in real life. If your name is Leeroy Jenkins, you'd have to use big fonts ;) The WoW project takes th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/the-wow-project-by-aram-bartholl/Bob Johnson has tried everything to keep fruit bats away from his orchard. The Queensland, Australia fruit grower is so frustrated by bats eating his crop that he has even resorted to playing his bagpipe among the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/fighting-bats-with-bagpipes/Cross-Stitch Ninja made this map of the first world of Super Mario Bros. 3 by zooming way in on a screenshot of the game, and making one pixel=one stitch. You can make your own video game cross-stitch patterns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/super-mario-cross-stitch/We all (okay, most of us) have hair - but how much do you know about the stuff that grows on our head? AskMen has a neat article on the 5 things you didn't know about ... the human hair:4- Redheads may be ali...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/redheads-are-aliens-and-other-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-human-hair/Have to take a breathalyzer test? Whatever you do, don't eat ice cream beforehand. Here's what one Australian man found out the hard way: Bubble O' Bill ice cream treat will cause the test to come up positive for alcohol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/ice-cream-causes-breathalyser-false-positives/[YouTube - Link] Melting chocolate bunnies has never been as disturbing or creepy. And don't get me started on the music used for this video! The creepiest one is the hairdryer scene. Brrrrrrr! Created by the Da...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/chocolade-haas/Susanna Hertrich created this prototype Chrono-Shredder as part of a student design project. It represents the passing of time by shredding the days of the year-- printed on a paper roll-- at a slow constant rate....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/shred-the-day/Most offices in DC were closed for Inauguration Day, but some employees of the National Museum of American History got to have a sleepover in their offices so they could be front and center for the festivities on the Mal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/a-night-at-the-museum-for-real/Leopard seals are aggressive predators, and National Geo photographer Paul Nicklen didn't quite know what to expect when he slid into the freezing Antarctic water with the largest leopard seal he'd ever seen. The l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/it-was-every-photographers-dream/The owner of a seafood store in Wickford, Rhode Island received a lobster shipment from one of its suppliers, and came into possession of a 20.6-pound lobster caught off Georges Bank in Canada. He decided to release t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/giant-lobster-held-for-ransom/[YouTube - Link] Hunter Hayes, born in 1991, is a singer-songwriter. He became a country music sensation at the tender age of three. He is also an accomplished diatonic accordion player, as well as a highly talented gui...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/4-year-old-prodigy-plays-the-accordion/What happens to all those cars that go unsold? Check out this collection of photographs illustrating the growing stockpile of unsold autos world wide. Pictured is a Nissan test track being used to store thousand...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/unsold-cars-pile-up/Ever wonder how to make the construction light signs change their text? Now you can with these handy instructions: "It will ask you for a password. Try “DOTS”, the default password. In all likelihood, the cre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/how-to-hack-construction-signs/My friends sometimes say I have a problem with never shutting up. I bet if they met Lluis Colet, they might change their tune. In 2004, Colet was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for longest speech. His 20...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/the-world-record-for-talking-too-much/There are instructions to create your own, but honestly... it looks pretty hard. Maybe it's not if you have all of the right tools, though. Difficult to make or not, dude deserves props for ingenuity. Link via Geek...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/diy-atari-lamp/I really hated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, so I particularly liked this one. Anyway, Holy Taco is sick of being lied to, so they created some movie posters they felt were more accurate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/if-movie-posters-were-more-honest/This is a really simple idea, but the effect is really interesting. The artist has just taken pictures - some are his personal pictures and some have been found on the Internet - and replaced a real person with a draw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/invisibilia-when-photographs-and-drawings-collide/Scriball is a simple physics game that will suck up your day. Guide one ball to the other ball with a line you draw. Easy to understand once you get started, but you'll drive yourself crazy trying to figure out what stra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/scriball/A vigilante group in Ilorin, Nigeria apprehended a group of would-be car thieves, including one man who turned himself into a goat! It was a shocking sight yesterday as men of the Kwara State Police Command parade...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/goat-arrested-for-armed-robbery/Whether you love Obama or hate him, you'll be happy to know there is now a tool to track how he has lived up to his campaign promises. The Obameter has a compiled list of about 500 promises he made during the elec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/keeping-tabs-on-the-president/This knitted Valkyrie is certain to guide you into battle and take your soul to Valhalla. She's based on a Creepy Cute Crochet pattern, and the website provides all the modifications you need to make her. Link Via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/crochet-your-own-valkyrie/In the "AnnaTheRed's Bento Factory" blog you can find instructions on how to make your own Wall-E sandwich using wheat bread, turkey, mayonnaise, cheese and blueberries. Link - Botropolis via Gizmodorobots, WallE,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/wall-e-sandwich/(YouTube link) The Eyebrow Dance is an appropriate followup to the Moustache Dance, don't you think? It's the latest ad for Cadbury. -via Viral Video Charteyebrows...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/eyebrow-dance/These modular shoes can convert to several different styles just by using the zippers! Hey, you never know when you'll have to stop at a beach on the way to a basketball game. They were noticed at a fashion show in Bar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/24/from-high-tops-to-flip-flops/
