It is Hugh Laurie, better known as "House" in this 1992 video for Annie Lennox's "Walking on Broken Glass" (John Malkovich is also in the video) The article in Spinner also listed 9 other other cel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/who-is-that-wigged-man/Two years ago, we featured the creative furniture of Cuban art group Los Carpinteros. Here's one of their recent works called "La Montaña Rusa", which Google Translator says means "Roller Coaster". http://www.lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/roller-coaster-bed/The following is an article from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again. You've seen these men in black everywhere, usually in a group, threatening a movie hero. But how much do you really...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/ancient-ninja-separating-the-men-from-the-myth/The Plastiki is a ship made from plastic bottles. It was built from this frequently wasted product in order to promote recycling. Last March it left California, heading for Australia. Today, it docked in Sydn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/the-plastiki-a-ship-made-from-plastic-bottles-crosses-the-pacific/(YouTube link) The term Flugtag is German for "flight day". The Red Bull Flugtag in St. Paul, Minnesota, was Saturday and the homemade flying machine competition took place on the Mississippi River. As many as 90,000...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/flugtag-world-record/Once again: if you want to be taken seriously, don't use the Comic Sans font in your passive-aggressive notes. Link -via I Met a Possumtypography, font, typeface, memos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/comic-sans-gets-dissed/Johnny Cat pointed out that Stephen King's latest movie novel Under the Dome may cause you to recall the 2007 film The Simpsons, as both involve a city suddenly isolated under a glass dome. Fans seem l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/which-came-first-under-the-dome-or-the-simpsons/When should a man steer clear of a BYOB party with lots of babes? When BYOB stands for "Bring Your Own Boobz" - yes, a home party for breastfeeding moms:The parties are strictly BYOB. But the place will be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/byob-party-for-breastfeeding-moms/As if insecure people haven't had enough things to worry about, medical researchers have just added one more to the pile: they're more likely to get heart attacks.A new study shows such relationship uncertainties, kn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/insecure-people-more-likely-to-get-heart-attacks/If that looks suspiciously like the iconic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, except in Halo, that's because it is:Sometimes words simply can’t do an image justice, and that is the case with Band O Brothe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/raising-the-flag-in-halo/If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, is the friend of my enemy also my enemy? A new study utilizing data from the MMORPG Pardus confirmed the age-old maxim:A new study analysing interactions between players in a vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/friend-of-my-enemy-is-my-enemy/Ecologically speaking, devastation of the Amazon rainforest is far greater than the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. So why do we care more about the Gulf?Dan Aierly of Need to Know on PBS explains:Here’s what we know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/why-do-we-care-more-about-the-gulf-than-the-amazon/I firmly believe that a banjo can improve any kind of music. Even rock and roll. Behold, Guns N' Roses re-made into bluegrass by the band Iron Horse Bluegrass. Won't you take me home? http://misscellania.squares...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/guns-n-roses-bluegrass-tribute/Need a sofa? How about a life-size sofa from The Simpsons, complete with characters? It only seats one, but with if you're such a hardcore Simpsons fan, then chances are you don't have (or need) any friends to share the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/life-size-the-simpsons-sofa-for-sale/When can a price increase of a penny land a company in a lawsuit? When you're name is 99 Cents Only Store:A fraction of a penny is amounting to one big headache for 99 Cents Only Stores.Two years ago, the Ci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/99-cents-only-store-sued-because-its-no-longer-99-cents-only/Photo: The National ArchivesThe photo above, from the bustling Fifth Avenue in New York City in 1900, shows that rush hour existed well before the age of the automobile. From a blog post about pre-1950 American cities ov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/rush-hour-c-1900/Practical it is not, but this gadget sure is nifty! The Hydro Power Calculator ($9.95) is powered by water - all you have to do is fill the "batteries" with tap water and you're ready to calculate. Water-po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/26/hydro-power-calculator/A Demon's Nightmare, Chick Publications (by Jack T. Chick, 1972)Long before TV spots became de rigueur for politics, pamphlets and fliers were the medium of choice. Indeed, you can find "gripes, beefs, cavi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/classic-tracts-and-pamphlets/All this time, it turns out that we may just be living inside a black hole. Physicist Nikodem Poplawski of Indiana University posited that inside each black hole there could exist another universe:"Maybe the hug...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/universe-inside-a-black-hole/As Sarah Palin attested recently, never misunderestimate that English is a living language. So, when someone transformationed nouns into verbs, all you refudiators better just got to celebrate it!What do these words...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/does-verbing-annoy-you/Thou Shall Not:a) Stealb) Steal things from churchc) Steal things from church by using a crucifix to pry open a donation boxGuess which sin this guy committed: Link - via AOL Weird Newschurch, burglary, crucifix...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/burglar-used-crucifix-to-steal-from-church/Who says that cemeteries have to be all drab and morbid? Take a look at these colorful and "happy" cemetery in Sapânta, Romania:Originally begun by a peasant grave carver named Stan Petras in the 1930...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/the-happy-cemetery-of-sapnta/This crocheted bicycle cozy was recently spotted in New York City's Lower East Side. via Make | Photo: Apothekemedia | Previously: Crocheted Car Cozycrochet, bicycles...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/sweater-bike/Popular Mechanics has a slideshow of 18 oddities in bathroom design. Pictured above is a floating bathroom that the US National Park Service installed in Lake Powell (UT/AZ) to persuade people there not to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/the-worlds-18-strangest-bathrooms/(Video Link) This video presents Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club as a Regency romance written by Jane Austen. Ladies, welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is one never mentions Fight...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/jane-austens-fight-club/Adele Enersen , a mother living in Helsinki, Finland, came up with a fun and creative idea. When her baby Mila is sleeping, Adele imagines what she might be dreaming. These imaginary images are then staged, photographed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/when-baby-dreams-come-to-life/The Birds and the Bees T-Shirt by Mike Jacobsen - $14.95Birds do it, bees do it ... but did they ever do it together? From the twisted imagination of Mike Jacobsen of See Mike Draw, here's The Birds and the Bees T-Shirt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/the-birds-and-the-bees-t-shirt/What is your sex quotient? The 1964 issue of defunct Sexology magazine asks some really strange questions:True or False: It is possible for a woman to enjoy satisfactory sex relations after surgical removal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/25/a-strange-quiz-from-1964-whats-your-sex-quotient/Hungry? Don't just harvest food ... print 'em! Behold, Cornucopia, a "food printer" concept by Amit Zoran and MIT Media Lab:While digital media has transformed every facet of society, the fundamental techno...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/24/cornucopia-print-your-food-with-mits-food-printer/The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University has declared the top 10 species discovered in 2009.This one to the left is a strange one: the bomb-dropping worm (Swima bombiviridis*/em...
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