The folks at NPR wondered if $55 Bling H2O really tasted better than other bottled waters. They conducted a taste test featuring Bling H2O, normally-priced bottled water, and Manhattan tap water, and posted a video report. I don’t think the results will really surprise you. Link -via Metafilter

Paleo-Future has a series of French prints from 1910 depicting what life will be like in the year 2000. Some are precient, although the art is quaintly Victorian. Others, such as this woman being made up in her robotic bathroom, are still beyond us. Link -via Reddit

Similicio.us is an application that finds websites that appeal to similar tastes, using delicio.us bookmarks.

This is an experiment to see whether I can quickly find relevant web sites based on people's tags/bookmarks on del.icio.us, using a home-brewed association engine. It answers the question "people who tagged this site also tagged what other sites". I am using it mostly to find blogs that are similar to the ones I read, and to find new popular web sites that are in my area.

For example, if you like Neatorama, here is a list of other sites you might like. You can enter any URL and find a list of associated sites. You can also add this application to your browser toolbar. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

A classic clip of the best-named racehorse in history. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath

This weekend, fans from around the world will attend the third Monty Python Day at Doune Castle {wiki} in Scotland.

The 14th Century keep was made famous as Castle Anthrax in the 1975 classic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Tickets have been restricted to 500 for the event near Stirling, which sees fans taking to the castle's battlements to enact scenes from the famous film.

Other activities include the Coconut Conga and a talent contest. Link -via Puppies and Flowers

It wasn’t long before the Cadbury Gorilla ad was remixed with other songs. YesButNoButYes posted four new versions. I like this one the best, featuring Louis Prima doing “I Wanna Be Like You” from Disney’s The Jungle Book. Push play or go to YouTube.

Ida is the saddest, unluckiest little girl who ever lived. In Ida’s Luck by Katy Towell, she tries to hold on to the home and family she loves, against all odds. Then it turns scary. Link to part one. Link to part two. -via Metafilter

Corey "Mr. Safety" Williams sings about his kitten Sparta. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath

No doubt you’ll recognize some of the Internet People, if not all of them. Many have been featured right here on Neatorama! Animation by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Reddit

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Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam is a documentary scheduled for release in 2008. It was directed by Tammy Nguyen Lee, founder of Against the Grain Productions.

"Operation Babylift" was a $2 million dollar US initiative that airlifted over 2,000 Vietnamese orphans out of a war-torn country to protect them from the impending threat of the Communist Regime. Coined by some as "one of the most humanitarian efforts in history," it was also plagued by lawsuits and political turmoil. Even with the best intentions, these adoptees grew up facing a unique set of challenges in America, including prejudice overshadowed by a controversial war and cultural identity crisis. Now, over thirty years later, this documentary takes a candid look at a significant yet untold event as seen through the eyes of the volunteers, parents, and organizations directly involved, as well as uncovers the "lost" stories of the the adoptees and who they have become as adults. This documentary is not just a a historical piece, but gives a contemporary voice and perspective on international adoption today through the eyes of the adoptees themselves.

Link (Thanks, Kris!)

The space probe Voyager I was launched 30 years ago, and is still operational. Voyager is more than 103 astronomical units away from Earth (an astronomical unit is 93 million miles, so that’s roughly 9.5 billion miles away). Signals from the probe take 13 hours to reach earth, traveling at the speed of light. A Wired slideshow features some of the better images taken from the Voyager program since 1977. This image is a composite of photos of Jupiter and its moons taken in 1979. Link

Attorney Mark Goodall creates science fiction sculptures from antique and art deco appliances and toys. This rocket ship is made from two professional hair dryers! See eight pages of spaceships, trains, weapons and more. Link -via Everlasting Blort

Topiary Art Designs Ltd. is a company in Suffolk, England that mades topiaries and frames in amazing shapes. Browse their gallery for more like this elephant family. See the FAQs to find out how they do it, and how you can try it, too! http://www.topiaryartdesigns.com/index.html -via Arbroath

Ball of Being is a hypnotically beautiful animation by Koert van Mensvoort with music by Artefact.

An online flashclip of a dancer without a body. Featuring atoms, planets, balls, globes, foam and molecules. It is uncertain whether we are entering a microscopic nanoworld, virtual spheres or an immeasurable universe far away.

http://www.ballofbeing.com/ -via Grow-A-Brain

Atomic Rockets has everything you might want to know about space suits, in facts and in fiction. Cool photos, too! Link -via Everlasting Blort