Some amazing photography enables us to get up close as various insects meet their demise. Includes various acts of dismemberment (including one in mid air) which are not for the faint hearted!Death in the domai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/violent-death-in-the-insect-world-stunning-photography/Jennifer Figge from Aspen, Colorado, accomplished a feat never done before by a female: swim across the Atlantic Ocean. A decade earlier French swimmer Benoit Lecomte made the first known solo-Atlantic swim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/56-year-old-woman-becomes-first-to-swim-across-the-atlantic/Hello, everyone! Yesterday, Neatorama user rellimz submitted a post to the Upcoming Queue, which subsequently got promoted to Neatorama's front page, about how the Queue is wreaking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/improving-the-neatorama-upcoming-queue/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUm6XUFV8_U][YouTube - Link]"Misheard" lyrics, that is... - via redditFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Minnesotastan.Music, lyrics, humor, Carmina Burana...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/carmina-burana-with-lyrics/The workmanship and time put into this kids bedroom creation is astonishing. It's surely any kids dream room, a great place to hide away and play, even when its wet and cold outside. The beautifully designed room feat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/indoor-tree-house-in-a-kids-bedroom/This short video by the geniuses at College Humor shows how the people who create products sold on informercials imagine a clumsier and stupider world. (Video Link)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/how-infomercial-producers-see-the-world/One of my oldest online friends sent me a note: For Christmas I received a desk calendar "365 Wacky Web Sites." One of the pages, Feb 2, 2009 should be of interest to you. This was a complete surprise to me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/neato-calendar-page/This online game is like the old telephone game, except with pictures. It starts with a post-it note describing a scene. The first player draws the scene. The second player only sees the picture the first player drew,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/broken-picture-telephone/Oh, I fondly remember watching the anime Space Battleship Yamato as a little kid, so it's a neat treat to find this replica of the Yamato (or Argo in the American dub of the series, retitled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/space-battleship-yamato/If you love the Wizard of Oz (or the trendier Broadway musical Wicked), then this is the weathervane for you: the wickedly awesome Flying Witch Garden Weathervane.It's $50, but that's the price of coolness: Link - via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/flying-witch-weathervane/Members of the Quilters of South Carolina created 49 crafty and humorous bras for Breast Cancer Awareness. These one-of-a-kind bras will be on tour till October '09, after which they will be auctioned off to raise money...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/the-nursing-bra/Photo: QuintanaRoo [Flickr]How do you make the Klaus Teuber's maddeningly fun boardgame Settlers of Catan even more enjoyable? Play it with cupcakes!"What is Cupcakes of Catan?" you ask.Well, my...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/the-cupcakes-of-catan/Think the Cupcake of Catan is awesome? You ain't seen nothing yet: Behold the Tower of Oreo!You know you’ve always wanted to do this…but you never did. One package of Double Stuf Oreos has thirty-six cook...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/the-tower-of-oreo/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySrsZuD4w0c][YouTube - Link]The effect of sending the camera around a Tokyo sushi restaurant via the conveyor, coupled with the music on this video, is quite a beautiful thing....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/lost-in-a-sushi-moment/Neatorama has is a gem among blogs. I've been coming daily for just over a year now. Each visit yielding a myriad of new interesting facts, trivia, cultural curiosities, offbeat artists..... Until now. The UPCOMING QUEUE...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/08/is-the-upcoming-queue-turning-neatorama-into-farkcom/Honore de Balzac - CaffeineThere are some of us - myself included - who consider themselves addicted to caffeine. I get headaches if I don't have a Diet Coke or coffee early enough in the day, and I definitely get crank...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/four-writers-and-their-strange-obsessions/Guys, when your wife or girlfriend asks "Does this clothe makes my butt look big?" what's your answer? Did you tell a little white lie?Well, not Cathal Morrow. The 43-year-old Welshman decided to be brutally ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/does-being-brutally-honest-help-your-marriage/Photo: Roberto SozzaniExpeditions to the coral reefs of the Red Sea and Indonesia revealed a flurry of 5 new (and cute!) pygmy seahorses. This one above is the Walea pygmy seahorse, found off the waters of the island of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/new-pygmy-seahorse-species/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0mFZ3enhM][YouTube - Link]If you've seen the Japanese video on the fastest way to fold a t-shirt but (like me) still didn't get it, here's a great video that breaks it down step-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/t-shirt-folding-magic-method-revealed/We've featured Gabriel Ochsenhofer's Totem Destroyer, an extremely fun and addictive Flash game, on Neatorama a while ago. Gabriel has since come up with the sequel: Totem Destroyer 2. It has the same easy and fun gam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/totem-destroyer-2/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAUiJI7qZhg][YouTube - Link]I feel awful for the life this child has ahead of him. Addicted at 2, he'll probably lose his voice by 15 and have cancer by 20.From the Upcoming ueue,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/smoking-toddler/Photo: John Pavoncello - via York DispatchJeff Snyder was sick and tired of all the drug dealing going on near his building, so he painted this message on his window -- in a language the dealers might understand -- hopi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/window-sign-welcomes-deer-crack-dealer/Consumer Reports recently tested 19 ground coffees and compared them for taste. Surprisingly, the Starbucks Coffee Colombia medium, ($11.53 a pound), did not even make it into the category of top contenders. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/cheaper-brand-beats-starbucks/Who the enemy is might just depend on your perspective ... Here's a clever ad campaign for the Sci Fi TV channel by Agostino Toscana and Luca Lorenzini, illustrated in the style of old paperbacks by Mike Koelsch.Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/humans-are-among-us/This web page by Giorgio Carboni explains how to easily and inexpensively project the view outside your window onto your wall by turning your room into a camera obscura. All you need is some duct tape, posterboard,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/make-a-room-sized-camera-obscura/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNTw7GH325U][YouTube - Link]One small step for birds, one scary pre-Planet-of-the-Apes warning sign for human beings. Watch the bird snag some bread being tossed to its less-intell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/whoa-evolved-superbird-fishes-like-a-human/In the past 100 years we've gone from music-boxes and player pianos to cell phones that hold thousands of songs... from conical amplifiers to bone conduction headphones... You don't know where you're going until you see...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/evolution-of-home-audio/Every year the team stationed in Antartica places a marker on the geographical south pole. Apparently the sheet of ice that sits above the south pole moves every year so the markers stay up for a few years befo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/07/south-pole-markers/(Live Leak link) Amazing effects occur when the camera light pierces the deep sea darkness. This clip is from The Blue Planet series from the BBC. -via Unique Daily jellyfish...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/06/red-jellyfish/Scientists have grown this Gumby/gingerbread man shape out of living human cancer cells! The structure was grown using about 100,000 beads of the connective protein collagen, seeded with cells from a human liver can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/06/little-man-made-of-living-cancer-cells/
