This would make for a truly disturbing but awesome addition to any home. Hanging Harry is a figurine with a hangman's noose around his neck that can be used as a light pull.You can’t help Harry to see the light, it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/hanging-harry/Psychologists at the University of British Columbia have conducted a study on the cognitive effects of colors. They found that red helped subjects concentrate while blue led to greater creativity."Think about red, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/tweak-your-brain-with-colors/Daniel Bennett had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day: One day, after spending 7 years collecting Komodo dragon excrement, he found out that his University had incinerated his prized bag of poo!But two years...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/dude-wheres-my-bag-of-komodo-dragon-poo/Just in time for Valentine's Day - traffic officials in Chengdu, China, came up with this idea of making crossing a road more romantic: A spokesman said the local traffic bureau wanted to give the crossing a romanti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/the-crosswalk-of-love/It's bound to happen, folks! Here is ... the world's first divorce by Facebook: Millions of people use it every day to pass on harmless snippets of gossip to friends and family. But the message Emma Brady's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/worlds-first-divorce-by-facebook/Here's the interview everyone's been waiting for: Nadya Suleman, the Octuplets' mom went straight from the hospital to an interview with NBC's Ann Curry: The mother of octuplets born last week in Bellflower told NBC...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/octuplets-moms-first-interview/After he was fired from his executive job, Michael Gates Gill was devastated. Soon after he was laid off and got divorced - and when he thought things couldn't get any worse, he got diagnosed with a brain tumor.At the lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/fired-divorced-then-diagnosed-with-brain-cancer-how-starbucks-saved-a-mans-life/Smash your Tiffany lamp, destroy your colored glass bottles and arrange them to create an amazing mosaic.Yet another brilliant way of blending sustainability with style, these recycled glass countertops do more than...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/got-old-glass-break-them-and-build-anew/It may not be holiday specific, but this washtub cake is adorable. I bet Ernie would love to get a rubber duckie cake for his birthday. Link Via CraftzineCute, cakes, washtubs, sessame street, ernie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/ducky-washbin-cake/A look back at the most interesting court cases of the last 100 years.During the 20th century, a so-called "trial of the century" occurred every few years, fueled by media sensationalism and a public thirst for juicy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/20-trials-of-the-century-of-the-20th-century/Urlesque has a neat round up of 10 strange, funny, and plain surreal scenes caught on Google Maps Street View. The list includes things like passed out drunks, hidden Chinese subs, accidents and fire - and even a Viking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/top-10-moments-caught-on-google-street-maps-view/Geeks Are Sexy Blog has a neat round-up of some of the geekiest T-shirts on the Net. They're mostly oldies but goodies, and I think you can get them over at ThinkGeek or maybe do a search on Teenormous (I wish they were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/geekiest-t-shirt-on-the-web/Plenty of celebrities are using the micro-blogging platform Twitter. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to match 15 celebrities with a tweet they left (tweets are the short entries on Twitter). I couldn't,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/twitter-stars/Remember when video games were bad for you? Mom and Dad would complain about how they tied up the television, kept you from playing outdoors, ruined your eyesight and wasted your time. That’s a thing of the past. R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/video-game-boosts-learning/47 million years ago, whales that looked like this gave birth on land, according to a study published this week that analyzes the fossil of a pregnant whale found in the Pakistani desert. This type of ancient proto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/you-call-that-a-whale/Gudrun Enger has a friend who works in Disneyland, and whenever she visits the park her friend comes along and acts as a tour guide, and usually shares a few secrets. Here are some you might not know: The drawbr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/seven-secrets-about-disneyland/Remember the story of how some Japanese firms base their hiring on a person's blood type? An insurance company based in Salzburg, Austria is hiring people based on their astrological sign! Twenty part-time jobs were offe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/hiring-according-to-the-stars/Two students from a technical high school in Argentina built a mouse that can be controlled by eye movements, thus allowing people with total paralysis to use the computer. The invention is named the "Eye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/diy-eye-mouse-for-disabled-people/The human immune system needs to distinguish between foreign substances and the self. But how did it learn? Medical researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have discovered that when a baby is develo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/teaching-a-babys-immune-system/Here in pittsburgh we've had buses that run on natural gas for a while now .... BUT these ones out in Oslo run on a different type of 'Natural Gas', the taco-bell type ... Kinda gross but really cool way to power a vehic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/oslos-methane-powered-busses/The Candle by the Hour is sort of a primitive auto-shut off feature for times gone by when people read by candle lights. The coiled beeswax candle is fed through a clamp and then lit - so you choose how much candle t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/coiled-beeswax-candle-and-holder-is-its-own-simple-timer/Have you even wanted to stage a saloon fight in your home, but you don't really want your guests to get hurt? Here's the perfect solution: a series of tables and chairs made to look like Western saloon furnit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/furniture-for-your-next-bar-room-brawl/Who knew that Gourmet Magazine has been picking cookies of the year for the past 68 years! You can view pictures and the recipes for each year, from 1941's Cajun Macaroon to 2008's Glittering Lemon Sandwich Cooki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/top-cookies-1941-2008/Attention car lovers! We've just added a line of Road Mice wireless optical mouse to the Neatorama Online Store. Now you can "cruise" the web in style with officially licensed replica of your favorite car.These...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/road-mice-computer-mouse-in-the-shape-of-your-favorite-car/Animals come in different forms, some are cute, some are cuddly, some are adorable while some are just plain strange. Talk about giant salamanders and rabbits that have overgrown hair. Web Ecoist has compiled this list o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/strangest-animals-on-earth/In 2007, artists Steve Lambert and Packard Jennings asked architects, city planners, and transportation engineers: "What would you do if you didn't have to worry about budgets, bureacracy, politics, or physics?"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/zip-lining-through-the-city/When the United Nations decided to redecorate the Human Rights Hall of their Geneva headquarters, they called upon renowned Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo to provide his own unique take on the redesign. Using 77,000 p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/the-united-nations-new-grotto/In the 18th centuary, when the cemateries of Paris ran out of space for the dead, the city began to store the bodies in vast underground catacombs. These days Paris catacombs are no longer used. The city does offer to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/exploring-the-catacombs-of-paris/According to a new study published in the latest issue of Developmental Psychobiology, orphaned baby chimpanzees that received motherly care and attention from human surrogate parents were found to be mor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/baby-chimps-given-love-are-smarter-than-human-babies/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY][YouTube - Link] This music video by Oren Lavie, "Her Morning Elegance," shows how much fun you can have in bed with stop-motion animation. From Oren's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/05/oren-lavies-her-morning-elegance-fun-in-bed-with-stop-motion-animation/
