Each post in this blog pairs a screenshot from a TV show with a literary quote. The pairings are astonishingly apt, at least for the shows I recognize, and there are a lot of them to go through. Link -via MetafilterTV,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/03/slaughterhouse-90210/22-year-old Julia Popova was mugged on her way home from work in Moscow. She struggled with the purse-snatcher and was so shocked by the experience that she didn't realize he'd left a 6-inch knife sticking in her neck at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/03/unknowingly-stabbed-in-the-back/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut-bQn88xEc] [YouTube - Link] The Conservation Fund recently featured this video on their Web site in a piece about their work saving land for the Greater Prairie-Chicken. Who kn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/03/behold-the-prairie-chicken/Take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. We can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/03/the-state-of-the-internet-infographic/Hooray! I'm sure you've noticed by now that Neatorama has a new look (all you RSS readers, come take a look) and a couple of new features. First of all, I'd like to thank Nathan Maz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/03/welcome-to-the-new-neatorama/The product isn't liquid glass in the sense of molten glass, but rather a nanoparticulate form of glass developed and patented by Nanopool, a German-owned company based in Turkey. The liquid glass spray produces a water...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/spray-on-liquid-glass-miracle-product-or-a-hazard/Scientists have discovered carbon crystals inside a meteorite that crashed in Finland that are harder than naturally-occurring diamonds. The re-entry impact and heat are probably responsible for this unusual formation:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/carbon-crystals-in-meteorite-harder-than-diamond/Last year, organizers at the Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, made an enormous image of the Mona Lisa using thousands of cups of coffee lightened with milk (to varying quantities) in order to create differe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/mona-lisa-made-from-3604-cups-of-coffee/Giant squid have appeared in massive numbers off the coast of California in the past few days devouring swimmers leading to bountiful catches by fishermen: "Most of the fish we catch are better to eat, but they do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/giant-squid-invade-california/How can you possibly have a bad day when you start it with rainbow pancakes? Link -via Buzzfeedpancakes, rainbow, colors, food coloring...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/rainbow-pancakes/Whether myth or a historical fact, the spear masters evolved from one man's secret to make things happen.The Spear Masters of the Dinka Tribe of the upper Nile are a hereditary priesthood, and according to myth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/the-spear-masters-of-the-dinka-tribe/The Golden Age of car chases in cinema came from a time before there were computer graphics, complex editing software and all the conveniences of modern movie making magic. For those of you around back then, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/the-10-best-car-chases-of-the-70s/I am fascinated by how technologically savvy these cyber-outlaws are. If I had the ability to crack into restricted and top secret sites to see the information that is available on them I would be tempted to dabble...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/what-motivates-hackers-hacking-the-hackers-mind/Artists in Detroit have encased an abandoned house in ice in order to bring attention to the startling number of foreclosures in the region. The Ice House blog chronicles the project and provides stunning pictures of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/ice-house-detroit/(YouTube Link) Monica Anderson made this robot, which she calls the Icosatetraped. It walks on twenty-four legs made of soft tubing that extend under pneumatic pressure. The robot moves about one meter per minute....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/a-robot-that-walks-on-24-pneumatic-tubes/The 2009 Ricky Gervais movie The Invention of Lying imagined a world in which everyone always told the truth and lying (for good or ill) had never existed. Jon Wolf of College Humor has created a ser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/if-the-internet-always-told-the-truth/In 2007, Miss Cellania covered the story of Oscar, the cat who lives in Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island, and who curls up next to patients mere hours before they die. Since then, Oscar h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/update-on-oscar-grim-reaper-cat/Foolishly Seeking True Love from Jarrett Lee Conaway on Vimeo. A short, sweet film from Jarrett Lee Conaway about Handsome and Belle, two people that "just might fall in love, if fate doesn't get in the way first."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/foolishly-seeking-true-love/How well do you know US National Parks? Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will be easier if you've traveled a bit. You'll be given a park name, and you identify where it is. Good luck; I only scored 50%. http://ww...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/29199/31-year-old Andi Susanto of Jakarta, Indonesia, received compensation from a tobacco company after a cigarette exploded in his face and knocked out six of his teeth while he was riding his motorcycle. A spokesman fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/cigarette-explosion-knocks-out-mans-teeth/Sisso the swift was found with a damaged wing seven months ago. The little bird has healed, but must learn to fly all over again with some inventive physical therapy. Sisso takes flying lessons suspended from a custom-ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/swift-learning-to-fly-again/On February 2nd of every year, people wait to see if their local groundhog comes out of its winter nest. The superstition says that if the groundhog sees its shadow, it will be scared and run back into hiding, and we wil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/02/peta-wants-punxsutawney-phil-replaced-by-a-robot/Terri Carlson is 45 years old, has health problems because of a genetic C4 complement deficiency, and her COBRA health insurance will expire in a year. It is not easy living with my disease and now that I have the g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/will-marry-for-health-insurance/Artist Stephen Pfeil depicted the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the styles and poses of the artists for whom they were named. And then he added some more artists from history into the mix. He writes: But serio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-as-their-artists-intended/(YouTube Link) This video is circulating the Internet today. It shows an unnamed artist making a portrait of Conan O'Brien out of cheetos. Allegedly, he (she?) used about 2,000 cheetos from 50 bags for the work, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/portrait-of-conan-obrien-in-cheetos/It's been 15 years since the beloved characters Calvin and Hobbes left the comic pages. Creator Bill Watterson hasn't given an interview to anyone since 1989, but he recently answered some questions for Cleveland Plain D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/calvin-hobbes-creator-interviewed/Henrietta Lacks, an impoverished tobacco farmer in Virginia, contracted cervical cancer in 1951. Her doctor gave a sample of her tumor to a medical researcher, who then used it to grow a cell culture. What's amazing is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/the-immortal-cells-of-henrietta-lacks/(YouTube Link) This clever music video of the song "Bad Apple" peformed by Nomico consists of stop-motion animation. Each frame is printed, as you can see from the image file numbers ticking away. via DudeCrafts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/stop-motion-video-one-printed-frame-at-a-time/We may not be at the top of the food chain, exactly, but we at least have our inanimate food conquered. Bread, veggies, milk - these things don’t pose a threat to our existence. At least, not usually. On at least...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/when-food-attacks-two-killer-culinary-catastrophes/With the rise in popularity of a certain movie lately, and its stunning advancements in 3-D technology, the titular question is being asked worldwide. The short answer? Yes, but it won't look very good. Shucks, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/01/can-older-movies-be-made-into-3-d-versions/
