Everyone is judging you—and harshly—about everything you say and do. Did they notice that you mispronounced a word? They did, they did! It’s terrible, as Shea Strauss illustrates at College Humor. *stro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/What-the-World-Looks-Like-When-You-Have-Social-Anxiety/Sarah Andersen of the webcomic Sarah’s Scribbles created a multi-part post on caffeine addiction, a syndrome that she and other comic artists are all too familiar with. You can see the whole sequence*/stron...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/The-7-Stages-of-Your-Caffeine-Addiction/Your face is covered with cookie crumbs, but don’t brush them off! They could be the basis of some rad mascara. At the age of 16, Katherine Ward is already a skilled makeup artist who improvises with materials at h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/How-to-Make-Mascara-out-of-Oreos/Frida Kahlo's life was well documented, and both her (mostly self portrait) paintings and the hundreds of photographs taken of her and her husband Diego Rivera help paint a pretty clear picture of their life together. Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Rare-Childhood-Photographs-Of-Frida-Kahlo-Taken-By-Her-Father-Guillermo/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYd_5aggzd4] (Video Link)Do you use The Facebook? You should. It’s 1995, so it’s time that you get logged into the future. The Facebook is the best way to communicate with oth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/What-If-Facebook-Came-out-in-the-90s/Old Gamer by Nicholas GintyIt's hard to believe that those cool gamer kids who once ruled the arcade Pac-Man and Galaga machines are now approaching middle age, and kids who grew up gaming on the greatest console ever a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Old-Gamer-Console-Convalescence/It takes a lot of guts for a man (or boy) to declare his feelings to a woman (or girl) with whom he does not have a relationship already. After a long time planning and building up the nerve, it can be devastating when t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Their-Worst-Failed-Romantic-Gestures/(Photo: Dick Mulder)In 2011, a 4-foot long four-lined snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata) swallowed a smaller whip snake (Platyceps najadum) on the Greek island of Corfu. A pet cat then killed the four-lined...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Amazing-Photo-Snake-Escaping-from-the-Belly-of-a-Larger-Snake/[http://youtu.be/PSPIYsn8uTg]YouTube Link Russet is a 3-year-old English Bulldog who, according to her owner, "enjoys napping, destroying furniture and eating treats." She's also single and looking for a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Russet-the-Bulldog-Has-Trouble-Traveling-With-Her-Bone/Good news, everyone! You can look like these handsome fellows, thanks to Etsy seller Schuyler Ellers. His exclusive Lord von Schmitt line includes these colorful crocheted shorts which give you the dange...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Exciting-New-Fashion-for-Men-Crocheted-Shorts/When super agent Sterling Archer of the hit cartoon Archer needs backup, he calls on TV talk show host Conan O’Brien. Or Conan happened to be handy—but it’s one of the two.Archer was supposed t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/The-Conan-OBrienArcher-Crossover-Is-the-Funniest-Thing-Youll-Watch-All-Day/[http://youtu.be/ZooAJgmA4d4] (YouTube link)It couldn’t have been easy for John Green to come up with such tantalizing tidbits about our Founding Fathers that we haven’t heard before. Who knew Samuel Adams wa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/26-Fascinating-Founding-Fathers-Facts/At the Café by by Édouard ManetAh, beer. Or, in the immortal words of Homer Simpson, "Mmm... beer." Who among us doesn't like an ice-cold mug of the stuff every now and then? Yet acc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/11-Common-Misconceptions-About-Beer/I like a good pun.Professor Theodosius O’Bliviate (or as he calls himself online) is a 15-year old crafter and prop maker. He made the Knightlight from an old novelty radio and 12 volt lights. He c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Knightlight/Finding a pair of Hulk hands would make any Marvelite’s day, and the discoverer would probably take the hands home and set them on a shelf like a good little collector, but Hulk hands aren’t made for sitting-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/A-Pair-Of-Hulk-Hands-Magically-Change-A-Young-Nerds-Life/An 1872 editorial in the New York Times begins with the premise that only insane people surround themselves with cats. It is taken as fact that cats are “treacherous, selfish, and cunning,” w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Lunatics-and-Their-Cats/Souls Of Dragons by VStephDragons come in many shapes, sizes, and forms, but they all have one thing in common- the soul of the dragon. Whether they're toothless or bristling with fangs and spikes the dragon soul burns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Souls-Of-Dragons-A-Soaring-Spirit/Image: Buena Vista PicturesWes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums certainly has some memorable scenes. Who could forget Gene Hackman showing his grandkids the fun of taking risks? Part of what makes t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/28-Things-You-Might-Not-Have-Known-About-the-Royal-Tenenbaums/An elderly bell ringer at All Saints Church in Brailsford, Derbyshire, UK, was injured while performing her duties on Sunday. She was caught in the rope and lifted off the floor, and then she landed hard, injuring her hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Mountain-Rescue-Team-Saves-Woman-from-Bell-Tower/(Image Link)Some parents struggle to fit in with their kids, and they never know quite how to communicate with their children despite all the time they’ve spent together as a family.And then there are those parents...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Parents-Who-Are-Totally-Nailing-The-Whole-Parenting-Thing/[http://youtu.be/Aa-rfmbUG24] (YouTube link)It’s about time that Screen Junkies gave the Honest Trailer treatment to Pirates of the Caribbean. The first silly but enjoyable film came out almost 12 years ag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/An-Honest-Trailer-for-Pirates-of-the-Caribbean/Naming is an important part of brand identity, and product names often go through different stages of development, from focus group testing to branding, before being slapped on a label and sold in stores. But even with a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Ten-Products-With-Unfortunate-Names-And-What-Those-Names-Actually-Mean/Kate Beaton at Hark! A Vagrant has introduced me to another new historical figure. Born in 1886, Tom Longboat was an Onandagan from the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. He was an outstanding athlete, winning, among many o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Tom-Longboat/(Photo: J. Todd Poling)What evolutionary advantage do stripes offer zebras? For a long time, scientists thought that the stripes served as a form of camouflage. Then scientists reasoned that the stripes help protect zebr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Why-Do-Zebras-Have-Stripes/Mark Methot (Image credit: Flickr user 5of7)Something I never knew, or even thought about: hockey teams have their own dentists. Hockey arenas have dental chairs, ready for emergency work. And a dentist who takes the job...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Blood-Sweat-and-Teeth-Wild-Nights-with-an-NHL-Dentist/As we mentioned a few days ago, several players on the Green Bay Packers football team have become obsessed with playing the board game Settlers of Catan. This inspired Neatoramanaut Jim of Zheng Labs to design a robber...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/21/Green-Bay-Packers-Settlers-of-Catan-Piece/For some Black Metal is the sound of happiness, but most hear dark and dismal band names, guttural singing and appropriately metal guitar sounds howling and screaming in their ears.That Black Metal sound is made from sin...
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