For a small fee, you can tour the underground catacombs of the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Sicily, where 2,000 well-dressed but decaying bodies, mostly from the 19th c., are on display. Nobody knows exac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/secrets-of-sicilys-mummies/The economic crisis got you down? Well, here's the silver lining to the current economic mess we're in: it makes America stronger.Walter Russell Mead of The New Republic explains:Setting aside the flaws in both these...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/the-economic-crisis-makes-america-stronger-hooray/The Big Picture at The Boston Globe has an awesome collection of large photographs that give a glimpse of the pageantry, pathos, and the enormous crowd at Tuesday's inauguration events. Over a million people were in at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/a-closer-look-at-the-inauguration/In a new book, an Argentine historian asserts that Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele is responsible for the astonishing rate of twins in Candido Godoi, Brazil. Jorge Camarasa makes the claim that Mengele ministered to both huma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/mengele-responsible-for-a-bazillion-brazilian-twins/(YouTube link) Alexandra and Lizz encourage YouTube commenters to learn proper grammar and spelling, and scale back on the hate talk. -via Everlasting Blort Spelling, rap, language, grammar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/yo-comments-are-whack/If we could select the US president from the movies, who would be elected? That's not really the aim of this list; it's about the presidential portrayals we enjoyed watching the most. When I got to #2 (my personal favori...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/the-top-ten-movie-presidents/Hooray! It's time for our collaboration with the ever-awesome What is it? Blog. This week brings us this strange lookin' object. Can you guess what it is for?Place your guess in the comment section - no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/what-is-it-game-89/You don't have to go far to find fascinating stories behind some of the world's most famous logos. Just take a look inside your kitchen cabinets ... Morton Salt: The Morton Umbrella Girl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/stories-behind-10-famous-food-logos/[YouTube - Link]Here is a sweet video of a cupcake who dreams of sailing away and leaving it's life all behind for an adventure. A very cool stop motion video created by Kirsten Lepore using veggies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/22/sweet-dreams-a-cupcake-adventure/This cute kid pygmy goat is just one of many precious little pygmy animals in the collection of tiny animal videos. Also portrayed are little rabbits, seahorses, hippos and possums. Link Via BoingBoingCute, videos, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/pygmy-animal-video-collection/Your guide to dating, including this gem: "Hey Ann? Whatcha doing Saturday night?" "Well, I guess I'm busy." "Oh, yeah? Any chance of giving him the push-off for me?" "Well, of all the nerve!!!" I als...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/how-to-date-the-1949-edition/This cat's expression is priceless. Super stupid and goofy. Link Via GiggleSugarcats, silly, videos, animals, butts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/butt-scratcher-kitty-butt-scratcher/McSweeney's has a fantastic compilation of childrens' letters to Obama. Some of them are so adorably fantastic. It seems to be kids between 5 and 12 mostly. Even if you don't like Obama, you still can appreciate the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/kids-letters-to-obama/This is just a tiny little bit of the Picture of Everything by artist Howard Hallis. The story is, well, the guy started drawing and just kept on going. Originally, he was just drawing Marvel characters, but then he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/the-picture-of-everything/For the past ten years, artist Marizio Savini has been making sculptures from thousands of pieces of chewed bubble gum, and sells his creations for as much as £40,000 each. His sculptures include a life-size...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/life-size-bear-sculpted-of-chewing-gum/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) The Curious Case of Forrest Gump Have you seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button before? If i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/videosift-clips-of-the-week-17/I mean, if you find cockroaches cuddly. Or is it a roly poly? I don't know what this thing is supposed to be, and I can't find it on the IKEA site. All I know is that I was simultaneously repulsed and amused when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/cuddly-ikea-stuffed-animals/WomansDay has a really nifty post about extraordinary uses of 16 ordinary household items. It's just what you need to release your inner MacGyver! Here are some of the surprising things you can do with ... toothpaste:*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/extraordinary-uses-of-toothpaste-and-other-ordinary-things/From a Storm Trooper pit crew who services a race car to a Wookiee who pitches, GalacticBinder.com celebrates those moments when Star Wars invades the world of sports. Don't miss the video of the Storm Trooper playing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/top-10-star-wars-sports-crossovers/Take what you have and build what you need -that's what we in the South call Southern ingenuity, although I'm sure it's called something else in other places. Roland at Geeky Gadgets built an easel out of five pencils...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/pencil-iphone-stand/Since 1975, twelve people have hosted Saturday Night Live five times or more. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss challenges you to name them. How many can you think of in three minutes? I named six, but I also wast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/the-snl-fiver-timer-club/Two Dutch students, Omar Kbiri and Lennard Hulsbos, found themselves on a last-minute trip to Washington, DC to watch the inauguration, thanks to Virgin founder Richard Branson! Branson was at a conference Tuesday in Ams...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/hitching-a-ride-to-the-inauguration/(YouTube link) Mark Winkler spent six months building a machine to fling watermelons and fireballs, just for kicks. Link trebuchet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/mongo-the-trebuchet/We know that men have an easier time losing weight than women do. Why this is so is the subject of a recent study. Nuclear-medicine specialist Dr. Gene-Jack Wang of the Brookhaven National Laboratory conducted a rather s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/why-men-are-better-dieters-than-women/Ochre Jelly recreated Gaius Baltar, Six, Starbuck, and Morbo from Battlestar Galactica in Lego! I looked up pictures of these characters, and found they are pretty much dead-on. Link -Thanks, Ochre Jelly!Lego,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/bsg-characters-in-lego/Alberto Ocampo was paragliding from San Felix to Antioquia, Colombia when he became entangled in power lines 350 meters above ground. Fog and cold temperatures hampered the rescue mission, but civil defence forces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/paraglider-trapped-on-power-lines/BellaSmiles, a member of the Etsy online marketplace, has come up with this creative piece of art which is described as "The coolest president meets the coolest wookie". Link - via The Official Star Wars Blogobama...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/barack-obacca-president-meets-wookie/[YouTube - Link] I like this pairing of the fight scene music from that Star Trek episode, and these two cats squaring off. star trek, Cat, fight...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/amok-time-meets-catspaw/Did you used to play the board game LIFE, with those little cars with room for a pink mom, a blue dad, and two kids in the backseat as you motored predictably through college, job, marriage, home-buying, etc?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/game-of-life-gets-a-reality-check/Photo: sashamd [Flickr]CultCase blog has a really nifty post about 20 of the most creative re-use of egg cartons. So next time you're done eatin' the eggs, don't throw away the carton: they make for awesome arts and craf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/creative-re-use-of-egg-cartons/
