I haven't seen the original Ocean's Eleven (blasphemy, I know), but I know I like this one quite a bit, even though it's not the type of movie I would normally gravitate toward. Before we get to the trivia, we'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/12/movie-trivia-oceans-eleven-2001/Hello everybody - I'd like to take a minute and give you an update on all things Neatorama. Mystery Sale - Thank you to everyone who participated! We've been working hard to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/12/neatorama-update-may-12-2009/A glue formula used by people in South Africa 70,000 years ago required more intelligence than archaeologists normally attribute to Stone Age men. It was made by mixing red ochre with the gum of acacia trees. It turns ou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/12/man-made-glue-from-the-stone-age/Gamers at MIT have built a self-contained life pod in which to play World of Warcraft. It features a built-in toilet, three days worth of food rations, fresh water, and a small cookstove. Thanks to these Prometheus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/the-world-outside-of-world-of-warcraft-is-now-superfluous/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI-l0tK8Ok0][YouTube - Link]Here's a wonderful impromptu piano performance at the Mayo Clinic by 90-year-old Marlo Cowan and his wife of 62 years, Fran. A cheerful reminder o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/piano-duet/The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader book. Psst! Do you need a sure-fire way to make money on bets that you absolutely, positively cannot lose? (Bar fights afterward...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/bets-you-cant-lose/John of The Zeray Gazette has a neat compilation of various video clips of Enter Sandman, the iconic song by Metallica, as covered by others and played in um, different genres. Included are: Enter Sandman as per...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/metallica-in-bluegrass-cello-and-even-kazoo/Ever wanted to be a superhero? What's stopping you? Here's a list of real life superheroes - people who don costumes and fight crime/do good as listed in the World Superhero Registry (yes, a website dedicated to finding...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/world-superhero-registry/WebUrbanist blog has a really nifty round up of 15 artworks done through typography. This one above is by Bulgarian illustrator Stefan Chinof, who uses the negative space to spell out "Don't Panic."Linktypograp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/dont-panic-typographical-art-by-stefan-chinof/"Reach for the moon" is easier said than done, so when you hear someone utter this oft-overused phrase, kindly point them out to this ladder by Hong Kong Designer Mike Mak. The "Moon Reach Ladder" ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/moon-reach-ladder-by-mike-mak/Not content with allowing old men to marry underaged girls, a Saudi Arabia judge is doing one better in promoting equal treatment of womenkind in the Kingdom:Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/saudi-judge-slapping-a-spendthrift-wife-is-ok/The worldwide rate of twins is one in every 80 births. In India, the normal rate is lower, only one 250 births. But in the village of Kodinhi, in the Indian state of Kerala, there are at least 250 sets of twins in a popu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/village-of-twins/Officers of the Palm Bay Police Department in Florida keep an eye on a large area by using motorized paragliders! Police Chief Bill Berger says they are a way for the department to have a bird's eye view of the sem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/paragliding-cops/How well do you know your comedians? In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you'll be given a quote and you decide whether the line is from Steven Wright or Mitch Hedberg. I surprised myself by scoring 79% just by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/steven-wright-or-mitch-hedberg/The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development released a new study ranking the world's nations by the happiness levels of their citizens. According to the published results, northern Europeans are the happi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/the-worlds-happiest-places/(YouTube link) Summer in the Arctic Circle means 24-hour daylight. The sun doesn't set; it just bounces along the horizon! This time-lapse video covers a week of Arctic summertime. Music by Avi Hochberg. -via baszkoc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/never-ending-sun/It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But slip steel inserts into the Sap Cap, and you have a weapon. "Beat on muggers like you are The Skipper and they are Gilligan." Link via Hell in a Handbasketsap cap, bla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/the-sap-cap/Michael Westmoreland-White sees the Star Trek universe as a liberal or progressive vision of the future, featuring things such as racial and gender equality, free universal health care, and an absence of imperalism. I'm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/star-trek-as-a-liberalprogressive-vision-of-the-future/Martha Mason of Lattimore, North Carolina was a victim of polio that left her paralyzed from the neck down when she was a child. She breathed with the help of an iron lung which encased her body, leaving only her head fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/60-years-in-an-iron-lung/Blogger Signaltheorist decided to evaluate the efficiency of the Roomba by tracking its movements: I set up a photo camera in my room, turned out all the lights and took a long-exposure shot of my roomba doing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/tracking-the-roomba/Miss Cellania has great posts (as usual) on her blog about Mother's Day. This particular one really brightened up my day - it's about a Q&A session with elementary school children about mothers:Who's the boss at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/10/mothers-according-to-elementary-school-children/Forget Evel Knievel! He's got nothing on the world's greatest daredevil, Hammy the Hamster! (Yes, the same Hammy the Hamster that went organic a while ago). According to Spot Motorcycles:... no hamsters were harmed i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/10/hammy-the-daredevil-hamster/Australian artist Brooke Bobridge, who is currently living in Bangkok, Thailand, took a series of graffiti by local and international artists imploring passer-bys NOT to feed the elephants. They want to discourage "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/10/anti-elephant-begging-graffiti/We've featured the artwork of Kris Kuksi before on Neatorama (here and here), but I ran across this spectacular one, titled "The Recreation" while browsing Hi-Fructose Magazine's coverage of an art show at Copr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/10/the-recreation-by-kris-kuksi/Every week, Christie Lynn of Observation of a Nerd blog features a post about a hair raising parasite worthy of a science fiction (or perhaps better yet, horror) movie. This particular one is about a caterpillar b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/10/sci-fi-worthy-parasite-cotesia-glomerata/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgBNkKGcfYo][YouTube - Link]If you could create your perfect TV show, what would it be? Apparently, whoever greenlighted this show understands that there is a huge untapped m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/10/omg-greatest-show-concept-ever/What did people do in the past before the Interweb, when the pace of life was somewhat slower? Take the fifties for instance. It was the decade for strange fads, like this one:Starting in South Africa, phone bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/10/fanciful-fads-of-the-fifties/Blogger Mike Smith of plugged in tells the story of one gamer who placed a $10 preorder for the computer videogame Duke Nukem Forever - back in 2001! Originally planned for a 1998 release, Duke Nukem Fore...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/10/video-gamings-oldest-preorder-went-unfulfilled/Just in time for Mothers' Day! It's the Zombie Stomper Heel, which the seller describes as "Perfect for stompin’ on zombies..and men’s hearts." Link via Double Plus Undead zombies, shoes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/zombie-high-heeled-shoes/After that gosh-darn-they're-so-cute post about animal moms taking care of their babies, posted from the Upcoming Queue by smellslikepurple, I think Neatorama needs to provide a badly needed counterbalance. So, with the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/09/mothers-day-mayhem-5-worst-animal-moms/
