[http://youtu.be/XqWig2WARb0] (YouTube link)The John Lewis Christmas ad for 2013 is an animated story about woodland creatures celebrating the holiday. The bear is in danger of missing Christmas altogether again this yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/08/The-Bear-The-Hare/Measuring Wine Glass (sold individually)Are you in charge of the holiday feast this year? Make cooking a little more fun with the cheeky Measuring Wine Glass from the NeatoShop. This 12 oz. wine glass features meas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/08/Measuring-Wine-Glass/(Photo: Half Full Glass now on sale at the NeatoShop)Does it pay off to always look on the bright side of life? Does positive thinking actually make you more successful? Psychologists Julie Norem and Nancy Cantor classed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/08/The-Positive-Power-of-Negative-Thinking/My house has a problem. The thermostat is in the dining room, adjacent to the new stairwell we built. Heat from the dining room is sucked upstairs, causing the thermostat to send out more heat. Meanwhile, the master bedr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/08/Wristify-Heating-and-Cooling-Bracelet/Redditor Maxatron4000 built a toolbox from an old guitar amplifier. You can see a gallery of process photos here. He made the drawers with 22 gauge sheet steel and ball bearing slides. The beautifu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/08/Toolbox-Built-out-of-an-Amp/Captain Barbecue by kgullholmen Visit kgullholmen's official Facebook page, then head on over to his NeatoShop catalog for more awesome designs. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/08/Captain-Barbecue/I’m a dog person. I don’t hate cats. I just prefer dogs. Except for my dog, who is turning into a veterinary money pit lately. So let’s say that I like hypothetical dogs that don’t constantly need...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Why-Do-People-Hate-Cats/An Olympic torch for the Sochi games was launched aboard a Soyuz rocket Wednesday in Kazakhstan, on its way to the International Space Station. Also aboard the rocket are NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, cosmonaut Mikhai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/The-Olympic-Torch-in-Space/Had to explain to someone why I read YA even though I’m not a young adult. Told him I also read Fantasy even though I’m not a wizard.— Marko Kloos (@markokloos) November 7, 2013 But if you have to answ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Never-Justify-Your-Reading-Habits/[http://youtu.be/fEx9BCIodE8] (YouTube link)Lan Nguyen wrote the nerdiest love song you've heard this week. In the video, she declares her willingness to be player two and/or the character of his dreams. And it doesn't m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Video-Game-Love-Song/(Photo: Garrison Bespoke)Heading in to work today? Stay safe! That may be a bit easier if you’re wearing one of Garrison Bespoke’s bulletproof suits. The elite tailor shop in Toronto offers t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Bulletproof-3-Piece-Suits/The Awkward Yeti comic is in the midst of a series about legendary monsters, with each comic tackling one creature and explaining its origins and history. In the entry on mermaids, the Yeti debunks the m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/The-Real-Origin-of-Mermaids/Vibrating Alien Head MassagerThe holidays can be stressful. Let the Vibrating Alien Head Massager from the NeatoShop probe your stress away. This out of this world scalp massager features stainless steel prongs wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Vibrating-Alien-Had-Massager/(Photo: Claudio Peri/Nacion)(Photo: Claudio Peri/ANSA)A week ago, we posted about Pope Francis's kindly response to a little boy interrupting his work. Anne Packrat Matthews commented, "I seriously love this po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Pope-Francis-Embraces-Very-Deformed-Man/[http://youtu.be/e3xCEAG8b6o] It's 2013. Where's my jet pack? Oh yeah, that's right, Yves Rossy has it. Rossy, a Swiss fighter pilot who went on to build an actual jetpack is aptly known by his nickname &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Jetpackin-Around-Mount-Fuji/While the Western hemisphere wonders what happened to hurricane season, the Eastern hemishpere has had more than its share. One of the most powerful typhoons in recorded history is bearing down on the Philippines.Typhoon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Super-Typhoon-Haiyan/[https://vimeo.com/72670988] (vimeo link)Emma Allen is a multimedia artist who often uses the human body as a canvas. In the video Ruby, Allen paints her own face to make a time-lapse video showing a wom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Ruby/Look around any toy store and you'll see hundreds of Disney characters sold as action figures and stuffed toys, so it's quaint to think that there was actually a time when Disney had trouble selling stuff. But t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Why-Disney-Princesses-Never-Make-Eye-Contact-With-One-Another/[http://youtu.be/XFxjy7f9RpY] (YouTube link)Jimmy Kimmel interviews five-year-old Arden Hayes, who gained fame by knowing everything there is to know about U.S. presidents. He showed off that knowledge on Jimmy Kimme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Arden-Hayes-Knows-Countries/When designer Till Könneker moved into his unfurnished studio apartment, he didn't go and buy a bed and a dresser like the rest of us. No, sir! He decided to take this opportunity to design an all-in-one bed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/The-Living-Cube-The-Only-FurnitureStorage-System-Youll-Ever-Need/DeviantART member shorelle (Desiree) draws emotional images of Star Wars characters and their interactions with each other.She has a whole lot of artwork that imagines the series as less of a sci-fi classic, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/If-Star-Wars-Was-a-Young-Adult-Series/Peacay, the guy behind BibliOdyssey, also has a Tumblr blog, where he posts extra content with less in-depth research -because there are more great pictures from literature of the past than there is time to prepare them!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/19th-Century-Marine-Atlas/This Halloween, I didn't dress up and I didn't go to parties. I went to the San Diego Zoo -where I saw a bearcat eating out of a pumpkin, a rhino ignoring a pumpkin and an otter eating one. While that was a blast, that's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Halloween-At-the-OC-Zoo/Accept The Fact That You're Agining Breath SprayDo you know someone who spends oodles of money on painful injections that freeze all signs of emotion from their face? Encourage these pillow-faced friends to come to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Accept-The-Fact-That-Youre-Aging-Breath-Spray-2/[http://youtu.be/issl0ztsVW4] (YouTube link)Is Santa Claus missing a reindeer? It looks as if he left one behind in France! But this deer can't fly, or else he wouldn't be stuck on a roof in the town of Verneuil-sur-Indr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Deer-Rescued-from-Roof/(Photo: Abhijeet Rane)(Photo: Benjamin Vander Steen)According to Guinness World Records, the biggest cuckoo clock in the world is this one in Triberg, Germany. It’s a traditional Black Forest cuckoo clock design sc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/The-Worlds-Biggest-Cuckoo-Clock-Is-the-Size-of-a-House/Today we reach a milestone. This is the 300th time Neatorama has collaborated with the What Is It? blog to bring you the What Is It? game! A big thanks to the What is It? blog for providing such great pi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/What-Is-It-game-300/(Video Link)I would normally never post a TMZ video (heck, I wouldn't even watch one usually), but when it involves Sir Ian McKellen not only pulling off his pants live on stage, but also revealing Gandalf unde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/You-Shall-Not-Pass-On-Seeing-Ian-McKellens-Gandalf-Underwear/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook. Elvis Presley was, quite possibly, the most famous and successful entertainer o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/07/Scatter-the-Story-Of-Elvis-Presleys-Pet-Chimpanzee/When you love your little angel with all of your hearts, you want to make sure she gets plenty of sleep and that she learns to love the best things in life. With this great Doctor Who mobile, you can help her do...
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