[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdxwoho9v7w] Adolph Hitler's "outburst" scene from the 2004 film "Der Untergang" ("Downfall") is an excellent example of how a cultural event can go "viral" as an internet meme. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/hitler-flummoxed-by-balloon-boy-hoax/To me these solid chocolate skulls are an example of both confectionary making and art. They are cast from REAL human skulls and come in a choice of chocolate including Fair Trade 80 per cent cocoa. There is also their b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/humans-skulls-recreated-in-chocolate/Candy is dandy, but some folks aren't prepared for trick-or-treaters (or else they're just mean). We all know the neighborhood dentist who gives out toothbrushes instead of candy. Here's a selection of alternative "treat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/top-ten-weirdest-halloween-handouts/The worldwide recession has hit a lot of people hard, but it's not all doom and gloom. Far from it actually, as is the case with property. As the price of real estate has fallen, there are plenty of bargains to be ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/11-incredible-homes-from-around-the-world-for-under-50k/Harry Potter of Portsmouth, England was born in 1989 and had eight years of peace before J.K. Rowling wrote the books that would make him miserable. He said: 'No one ever believes that I'm telling the truth about my...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/real-life-harry-potter-not-happy-with-fame/(YouTube link) The bubbles are doomed when people get hold of bubble wrap! An award-winning horror story by Arthur Metcalf. NSFW language. -via Everlasting Blortshort film, animation, bubble wrap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/fantaisie-in-bubblewrap/Did you ever have one of those Halloweens where your costume fell way short of awesome? I sure did. I was going to be a killer robot. I had two boxes, a large one for my body, and a smaller one for my head....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/regrettable-halloween-costumes/Spanish photographer Jose Luis Rodriguez has won the 2009 Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year award with his photo of an Iberian wolf leaping over a gate. He used an infrared camera trap to capture the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/portrait-of-iberian-wolf-wins-wildlife-photography-prize/Woohoo! It's time for our collaboration with the What is it? Blog - can you guess what this strange tool above is for?Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment please. You can, howev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/22/what-is-it-game-112/The World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle game released in October of 2008. It was favorably received by the gaming community, receiving many awards. On the one-year anniversary of the product's release, the develo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/a-lesson-in-ecommerce-from-the-world-of-goo/A group of researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University, reporting in the journal Nutrition Research, have suggested that frequent drinking of white wine may damage the teeth. In the lab, adult teeth soaked in white...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/white-wine-may-be-bad-for-your-teeth/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Org-icu5cwM] "Mass games" are group athletic events in which the performance of the individual is deemphasized in favor of the performance of the group as a whole. They are th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/mass-games-in-north-korea/Skeleton (Glow in the Dark) T-Shirt Vampire Fangs This Is My Halloween Costume Witchy Ah, I almos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/halloween-t-shirts/Mexican firm Decano Industries has developed a speed bump that remains in place when a vehicle that is moving too quickly is about to drive over it, but retracts when a slow-moving vehicle approaches. Christ Hawley writ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/retractable-speed-bumps/YouTube Link Quite possibly the best Halloween prop ever. via UniqueDaily.alien, smoke, teeth, saliva, mandibles, jaws...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/alien-jaws/(Video Link) Un Trou a la Place du Coeur (A Hole in the Place of the Heart) is a short sand animation film by David Myriam. He writes that it describes "When the violence of individuals generates the birth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/surrealistic-sand-animation/(YouTube Link) Gay Wilkinson likes launching iron anvils high into the air. He's not entirely sure why and has a lot to say about how men and women respond differently to his hobby. Anyway, he places one anvil o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/launching-anvils-200-feet-into-the-air/Image: Bryan Christie Illustrator Bryan Christie specializes in transforming "complex ideas into compelling images", especially scientific or technological ideas. One of his recent works is this chart of the human ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/chart-of-missions-to-mars/Watch slime molds and mushrooms grow in this time-lapse video. I was particularly taken with the Stinkhorn Mushroom, which casts a net! Linktimelapse, mushroom, fungus, slime mold...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/mushroom-madness/Daniel East and his sister, Tevyn were traveling on Interstate 80 near the Utah-Nevada border when a coyote ran in front of the car. They hit the animal, but kept driving as they assumed it was dead. Eight to ten hours l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/coyote-struck-travels-to-california/(YouTube link) Last week, a surveillance video of a drunk guy at a convenience store became quite popular. However, it was almost eleven minutes long and was, well, a store surveillance video. The guys at Mustache a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/larry-goes-to-the-market/A new species of golden orb spider has been found in South Africa. It is the biggest spider ever found that spins a web -and what a web it is! The female of the new species of golden orb weaver spider has a body one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/worlds-largest-web-spinning-spider/For a science fiction series, Star Trek had a lot of references to religion. Gene Roddenberry once said he rejected all religions, yet one or another of the Ten Commandments showed up in quite a few episodes. Beliefnet t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/the-10-commandments-in-star-trek/Most of what we buy is packaged, and that can only be bad news for our environment because all that paper and plastic needs energy, water and oil to create and lots landfill space to get rid of it. Even wore is the fact...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/10-absolutely-pathetic-packaging-fails/If you're of a certain age, you're no doubt familiar with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Gonzo the Great, the terrible jokes of Fozzie Bear and the dry humor of Statler and Waldorf. But are you familiar with what wen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/tales-from-the-muppet-show/Police found a leech at the scene of a robbery in Tasmania eight years ago. They took a sample of the blood the leech had consumed. In 2008, Peter Alec Cannon was arrested on an unrelated drug charge. The DNA from his bl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/20/leech-convicts-australian-robber/There is something mysterious and intriguing about spiral staircases. Atlas Obscura looks at some of the most magnificent spiral staircases in the world, with lovely pictures and facts you might not know. For example...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/20/the-greatest-spiral-stairs-in-the-world/Quick, think of a piece of music from a scary movie. If you could think of seven different themes, chances are a few of them are on Cinematical's list. One of the seven is one of my favorite movies of the genre, *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/20/themes-from-scary-movies/It seems like everyone is getting into the green lifestyle movement, even a (legal) bordello in Berlin. Mary MacPherson Lane writes for the Associated Press: One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/20/brothel-offers-discounts-to-eco-friendly-customers/Ok we've all seen cars lists before but this one has quite a few I've never seen before. The three-wheeled Robin, the futuristic Loremo and stout scarab? Weird stuff! Other are quite familiar, like the 1957 Corvette pict...
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