Negative political campaigns and mudslinging aren't anything new - in fact, the practice harks back to medieval time. In his excellent blog, God Medieval, Carl Pyrdum explains how politicians campaigned back then:Bac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/negative-campaigning-in-medieval-time/Behold the giant skull sculpture titled Very Hungry God (2006) by Sudobh Gupta. It's made out of hundreds of kitchen utensils, pots and pans. The 1,000 kg (about one short ton) sculpture is now on display at the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/very-angry-god-skull-sculpture-by-sudobh-gupta/How much do you know about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System? That's the question today in the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz. I scored 38%, even with the help of my video game-playing daughters, since none of us ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/super-nintendo-quiz/An article in Popular Science from 1953 urges citizens to take pictures of flying saucers to help the Air Force study them! Oh, but they don't want just any old photographs. Included are instructions for riggi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/how-to-expose-flying-saucers/Amanda Joyner made this Death Star Cake featuring space vehicles made from gum paste, so even those parts are edible! Link to part one. Link to part two. -Thanks, Amanda!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/death-star-cake/Yes, you read correctly. Robocop and Unicorn are united in a meme that is sweeping the internet (and possibly ridding it of wrong doers at the same time?). Yet what is the point, if indeed there is one? Take a look...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/robocop-on-a-unicorn/This game is supposed to challenge your concentration and reaction time. I had fun playing it, but had a hard time taking a picture of it, because it kept running away from me! Link -via Digg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/distopix/A dog named Leo stayed behind in a burning home in Melbourne, Australia, to guard a box of kittens! Four family members and one dog escaped the fire. "But Leo was still inside standing over the kittens, and we were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/dog-risks-life-for-kittens/Last year, the project Thrill the World brought 1722 people together around the world for a simultaneous Thriller dance. The event was repeated Saturday, with 3960 zombie dancers participating! The largest group was in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/thriller-record-set-in-austin/On October 26th, 2008, zombies clumped together to break the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Attended Zombie Walk". It was one of the many events held at the weekend long Zombie Fest, at the Monroeville Ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/27/another-zombie-record/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again Hate all that newfangled technology? Someone may just call you a Luddite. The origin of the term dates back to the dawn of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/luddites-and-the-original-rage-against-the-machine/For being such a young blog, WebEcoist (the sister blog of WebUrbanist blog) certainly has a lot of neat articles.Here's a blog post round-up of amazing natural wonders and epic disasters around the world, showi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/webecoists-compilation-of-natural-wonders-and-epic-disasters/Ever wonder how shopping cart wheels always get so wobbly? It's not through harsh everyday use - nay, that's too inefficient! Here's how all those carts get damaged: Link [embedded Liveleak video]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/how-shopping-cart-wheels-get-so-wobbly/Growing up, my father lovingly gave my brother and I three commandments that we absolutely, positively must not break: 1) no drugs 2) no religious cults and 3) no motorcycles.Why no motorcycle? The way he put it: If you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/why-you-shouldnt-ride-a-motorcycle/Got mod skills? Check out what this talented Japanese toy-modder did to a Nerf N-Strike Maverick gun with a little paint: Link (in Japanese) - via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/nerf-blaster-mod/Got breadcrumbs on your keyboard? Don't whip out the large vacuum cleaner for a small job - just use this cute lil' dude: Henry Desktop Vacuum Cleaner.Plus, look at its cute hat and eyes. Who can resist the cute anthromo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/little-henry-desktop-vacuum/Always Watching blog has a neat article about 25 independent films made on budgets less than $1 million (it's shocking that $1 million is considered cheap in moviemaking, but there it is).Take, for example, El Mariachi:*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/filming-on-a-shoestring-budget-25-indie-films-made-with-under-1-million/(YouTube Link) Here's the trailer for Chris Lund's online film The Outbreak, in which you, the viewer, select how the main character responds to different choices. It's sort of like a Choose Your Own A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/the-outbreak-an-interactive-zombie-movie/Photo: penner42 [Flickr]Now here's a truly scary Halloween pumpkin - at least for all you geeky Xbox 360 gamers anyhow. Behold the Red Ring of Death pumpkin, made by Alan Penner of Geek and Proud blog! Notice the winking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/the-red-ring-of-death-halloween-pumpkin/Now this is the perfect shoe rack for people who like to kick off their footwear (like me!): the Kickit shoe rack/bench by Matthias Furch and Kai Ertel. The shoes that you fling off your feet will be caught by giant bris...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/kickit-shoerack/From Australian comedians Merrick Watts and Tim Rosso of The Merrick & Rosso Show, here is "Almost Transformers," a skit where they imagine what the Transformers would be like if they were househol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/almost-transformers/Almost every year since 2004, artist Jess Bachman creates a visual guide to the United States federal budget called Death & Taxes (featured here on Neatorama before). The updated 2009 guide is out, and it's available...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/death-and-taxes-2009/From the aptly named Loony Design, here's a clever use of an old tennis ball: to hold your towel (and watch you in a creepy way) while you're taking a shower! Link - via OhGizmo!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/mr-wilson-holds-your-towel-and-watches-you-while-you-shower/(YouTube link) From 60Frames, a remake of the "wazzup" ads from eight years ago, featuring a reunion of the original cast. Can you remember what product the original series was advertising? -via Boing Boing -T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/26/wazzup-eight-years-later/Copenhagen Suborbitals is a Danish start-up company trying to make space travel affordable, assuming that you have no desire for creature comforts. Basically you're squished into a tiny nose cone and shot into the upper...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/a-micro-spacecraft-to-get-you-and-nothing-else-into-space/(YouTube Link) Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne of Sony/BMG have composed a video for AC/DC's "Rock N' Roll Train" using Microsoft Excel. You can even download the .xls file and run it on your own computer. http://...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/acdc-music-video-composed-using-ms-excel/14to42.net is a website that "intends to survey all of the signs in New York City from 14th Street to 42nd Street". The earliest photographs are from the mid 1980's. Link - via kottke.orgnyc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/new-york-city-signs/Guernica by Pablo Picasso (1937) - turned into 3D art by Lena Gieseke in 2008 Today is Pablo Picasso's birthday, and to help celebrate the Cubist movement co-founder, here...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/10-fun-facts-about-pablo-picasso/It makes sense to design a special dish for a food that tends to roll around on a plate. But who knew there were so many modern variations of the simple egg cup? Gomestic has ten of them; my favorite is this combinatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/egg-cups/The World Wildlife Fund in France is exhibiting 1600 pandas made of paper to raise awareness of endangered species. The exhibit began in July in Paris and is in Grenoble today. Link -Thanks, Jee!...
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