Forget priceless china and stately grandfather clock! One family has got an heirloom that beat all others: a 135-year old pickle. From NPR's All Things Considered: ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/family-heirloom-is-a-135-year-old-pickle/A Russian artist named Aleksandr Solomko works extensively with meat. Because, as you know, meat is awesome. He made a reproduction (more or less) of the Mona Lisa out of 20 kilograms of sliced sausage. Link and M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/meat-mona-lisa/(Video Link) So many movies can be turned into fine musicals, such as Conan the Barbarian and Predator. But The Thing? Yes! And the swinging, jazzy 1950s lounge singer-style music is a per...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/john-carpenters-the-thing-as-a-musical/If you have a guest room, hang one of these mirrors in it. Don't explain what it is. Deny that there's a picture of a child and assert that it's just a mirror. Thanks to the creative work of Etsy seller Sandy Ervin,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/haunting-images-in-half-silvered-mirrors/Anthony Herrera, who recently photoshopped Ewoks into the background of his children's vacation photos, made this cake to reflect the interests of his five-year old daughter. Best of all: he added little shy Ewoks in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/these-disney-princesses-can-rescue-themselves-thank-you-very-much/Mimes! It's a universally-acknowledged truism that you can never have too many mimes. The city of Caracas, Venezuela, demonstrated this by hiring mimes to stand in a neighborhood reputed to have the worst drivers. When d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/city-hires-mimes-to-mock-bad-drivers/For hitting a hole-in-one on the third hole at a Spanish golf tournament, 235-pound Scottish golfer Elliot Saltman walked away with his body weight in ham: Saltman made the shot from the par-3 third hole at El Encin G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/golfer-wins-his-weight-in-ham/Instructables user makendo built this magnificent Rubik's Cube for his kids. The three horizontal layers rotate on a vertical axis. If you can figure out where the hidden locks are, you can open the drawers. So this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/10x-scale-rubiks-cube-is-both-a-puzzle-and-a-chest-of-drawers/(Video Link) Extremo the Clown is a Portland, Oregon-based artist who has created what he calls the city's strangest van. It's covered with what appear to be bronze sculptures and symbols. I can only guess about the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/worlds-weirdest-van-isnt-creepy-at-all-no-not-a-bit/Good news: your brain is hardwired for good news Bad news: your brain is hardwired for good news Why don't people stop smoking even after hearing bazillion public service messa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/brain-rejects-negative-thoughts/I imagine crafter FlufferNutter eating liver and fava beans (slurp slurp slurp) and sipping Chianti while making this wickedly awesome Hannibal Lecter amigurumi: http://fluffernutter.c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/hannibal-lecter-amigurumi/Neatoramanaut Beth Wieder saw a funny-shaped cloud and snapped a picture of it -and then was nice enough to send it to us! Can you see the hands of Zeus holding a baby Pegasus? The screenshot at the right from the Di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/zeus-in-the-clouds/How far would you go to save a few bucks? Jump the turnstile? Phsaw, slackers! That ain't nothing compared to what this Chinese woman did to avoid a £2.50 admission fee: she cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/woman-climbed-the-great-wall-of-china-to-avoid-2-50-admission-fee/(vimeo link) This animated short story is from Jacob Frey and his fellow students at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. The real ending comes after the credits begin. -via Bits and Piecesanimation, hamster...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/bob/Photo: Michael Christopher Brown/Newsweek Ah, the irony. Guess who's profitting from doing something that would've gotten them "re-educated" in a farm back in the days of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/the-rise-of-red-restaurants-in-china/Smithsonian has several articles today about Christopher Columbus, one of which explains some of his actions by looking at the mindset of a self-educated person in the 15th century. The unfamiliar things he saw in the Ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/columbus-confusion-about-the-new-world/(YouTube link) From what we've seen in the past few years, Americans may get the idea that everything in Britain is captured on CCTV, but it's still astonishing that this rock slide was caught on video. The footage...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/coastal-erosion-in-cornwall/George Trapotsis of Manchester, New Hampshire found a bull moose in his backyard pool Friday night. “This train-like noise came through the fence and dove right into the pool,” said Trapotsis. The moose fell righ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/9-men-rescue-moose-trapped-in-pool/My Zombie Family Car Stickers - $9.95 Do you have a zombieriffic family? Tell the world, or at least the guy stuck behind you in traffic, with the My Zombie Family Car Stickers by Adam "ape lad" Koford from the Neat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/my-zombie-family-car-stickers/The following post consists of two articles from Uncle John's Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader. For some reason, Great Britain has more than its share of mansions, estates, and old hom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/ghost-hosts-of-the-uk-and-the-us/It takes a lot of effort (and a lot of people) to make food look appetizing on film. Chain restaurant advertising on TV is overseen by tabletop directors, specialists you rarely hear about. There are only about a half-do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/tabletop-directing/See any resemblance between these two photos? You recognize Bigfoot on the right, of course. The picture on the left is a detail from a larger picture of an eruption of ionized gas from the surface of the sun. Dr. Ph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/10/sunsquatch/Urban Prep, also known as "Hogwarts in the Hood," is a charter school located in inner-city Chicago. According to its website, the similarities between Hogwarts and Urban Prep include school houses. Whereas the wizardin...
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