(YouTube link) You know people who turn into certain characters when they've had too much to drink. This funny ad is part of a public service campaign from Heineken, called Know the Signs. Go to the site and play a ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/29/how-to-identify-drunk-characters/Talk about absentee voting! US citizens Michael Fincke and Greg Chamitoff are 220 miles above the earth in the International Space Station. But thanks to a bill passed in Texas in 1997, they will be able to vote by secre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/29/astronauts-to-vote-from-space/Science fiction blog io9 asked six major political bloggers what single work of science fiction they would recommend as reading or viewing material for the next President, regardless of who is elected. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/science-fiction-for-the-next-us-president/(Video Link) 30,000 people in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay cooked and ate 28 kilotons of meat in six hours. As an American, I am appalled that this record has been taken away from us. Surely we are capable of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/paraguay-breaks-world-bbq-record/I apologize for the lack of horror movie posts last week - I was on vacation. I'd like to tell you that I was visiting the Stanley Hotel or Sleepy Hollow or Gettysburg or some other haunted location, but I was actually...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/horror-movie-trivia-the-trifecta/Think that the economy is bad? Be thankful that we're not in Zimbabwe, where $100 billion note buys you ... three eggs!After the collapse of the agriculture sector in Zimbabwe in 2000, the inflation in that country s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/hyperinflation-in-zimbabwe-everyones-a-multi-billionaire/Photo: Yva Momatiuk and John Eascott / National Geographic MagazineToday's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game features this fantastic photo of a bull elephant seal and a king penguin in the South Georg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/caption-monkey-49-elephant-seal-and-penguin/Squirrels are overrunning the countryside of Devon, England, so Chef Ed Chester decided to do something about those pesky critters: he's making squirrel kebab!Cook Ed Chester reckons squirrel meat is delicious and is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/squirrel-kebab/Here's one from the archives of toys-that-never-made-it-big. Can you see why Baby Laugh-A-Lot from Remco isn't a big seller?I think I've heard that laugh in some horror movie somewhere ... Link (embedded YouTube)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/creepy-baby-laugh-a-lot-makes-little-children-cry-a-lot/Ken Imhoff must have really, really, really wanted a Lamborghini Countach. But at about $100K used, he decided that he'd make one himself! Here's Ken's Countach, which took him over 10 years to make (he had to d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/diy-lamborghini-countach/Steven Martin collects pictures of Halloween from long ago."My theme is 'Halloween in the Time of Cholera,'" collector Steven Martin told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. "The idea being that people back then were p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/halloween-in-the-time-of-cholera/A 26-year-old man dropped his phone into a toilet on a French train and reached in to retrieve it. His arm became stuck, and firemen had to rescue him! The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while fireme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/mans-arm-trapped-in-train-toilet/(YouTube link) Macs don't get viruses! OK, it has to happen sooner or later, and when it does, it will be worse than you ever imagined. -via Viral Video Chart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/macintosh-virus-discovered/Monks in Thailand's Sisaket province collected a million beer bottles and built an entire temple! The Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple is constructed of a combination of green Heineken bottles and the brown bottles of a l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/buddhist-temple-made-of-beer-bottles/I was traveling last weekend and killed some of the flight by perusing the ever-fascinating SkyMall magazine. This, in turn, inspired me to start a new line of posts - Things You Probably Don't Need. And you might disa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/28/things-you-probably-dont-need-1/Let's see: an 8-year-old boy shootin' an Uzi submachine gun at a gun show while his dad reached for a camera. What could go wrong?Here's a tragic story about how a boy fatally shot himself in the head while trying out a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/whats-wrong-with-gun-nuts-eight-year-old-boy-given-uzi-and-fatally-shot-self-in-head/Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder discovered the secret of making yourself more attractive to other people: give them a hot cup of coffee!Looking to improve your romantic odds? Get your date a stea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/link-between-physical-and-emotional-warmth-hot-cup-of-coffee-makes-perfect-stranger-more-attractive/Look At This blog has a mega-post about all things Halloween. A few fun facts from the site:Black cats were originally believed to protect witches' powers from negative forces.A pumpkin is really a squash, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/all-things-halloween-from-look-at-this-blog/Go here to download some adorable and very simple paper toys of Wolverine, Cyclops, Magneto, and more. And you can find previously posted papercraft projects here....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/x-men-paper-toys/Check out this vintage ad for a children's laxative. This is wrong on so many levels. Link -Thanks, contrariwise!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/bad-mommy/They like to do things big in Texas. On Sunday, the world's biggest beach ball was dropped on Elm Street in Dallas. The ball was produced by Carnival Cruise Lines, and was accepted into the Guinness Book of World Recor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/world-record-beach-ball/Um, I think you kids should just skip this house when you're out trick-or-treating. Link -Thanks, David Mertl!jack-o-lantern, Pedobear, pumpkin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/ped-o-lantern/A man in Japan was arrested on suspicion of arson after the hotel he was scheduled to get married in was set on fire. No one was injured in the early morning fire at a resort hotel in Yamanashi Prefecture. Tatsuhi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/reluctant-groom-sets-hotel-on-fire/(YouTube link) An allegory for the life of an architect, set to the dreamy tone of Eastern music. Created as a gift for my brother's birthday (he is an architect by profession), and derived from two verses of his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/the-architects-poem/Tired of people soliciting prostitutes, the city of Lynwood, California has installed cameras in hopes of deterring crimes:The cameras can zoom in on individuals soliciting prostitutes and take a picture of them or v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/smile-youre-on-prostiecam/Ever wonder how your telephone company relates to other telecommunication companies? Think that AT&T's monopoly was successfully broken up by the Feds back in the 80s? And do you know what Sprint was originally named...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/family-tree-of-telecommunication-companies/Turns out, Viking are getting a bum rap over that whole plundering and pillaging thing. Dr. Elizabeth Rowe, a Viking expert and lecturer at Cambridge University, wanted the world to know that Vikings are a peaceful race...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/worlds-first-metrosexuals-viking-men/In today's economic turmoil, won't someone please think of all the Wall Street wives? There's a little (okay a lot) of schadenfreude going on about Wall Street, but I still find this article by Geraldine Baum for the Los...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/the-dashed-dreams-of-wall-street-wives/Some people get a limo ride to their wedding, but not Manuel Uribe. The world's heaviest man (who once weighed in at 1,230 lb or 560 kg) went to his wedding in a specially decorated bed on top of a flatbed truck:Mexi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/manuel-uribes-big-fat-mexican-wedding/Tom Leppard, AKA Leopard Man, whose entire body is covered in leopard-spot tattoos, is calling it quits: he's going to move into a retirement home! The Leopard Man, who spent £5,500 on tattoos, used to have to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/leopard-man-to-move-into-retirement-home/
