Endless Simmer has compiled a collection of the Top 10 Weirdest Food Halloween Costumes. They get pretty weird, like these packets of ramen. Link -Thanks, Brendan! If that's too weird for you, they also have the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/food-costumes-for-halloween/(MySpace Video link) François Macré recorded Thriller using 64 tracks of only his voice! A Babelfish translation from the French description: Description: Here a resumption of the title “Thriller” which I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/thriller-a-cappella/Last year we told you about cats that glow red. Mr. Green Genes is a cat in New Orleans that glows green! In normal light, he appears to be a regular orange tomcat, but he exudes a green flourescent glow under ultraviole...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/mr-green-genes/I love to see ever narrower and narrower examples of niche blogging. Here is a timely one: Sweet Candy Corn, a blog about nothing but the Halloween candy everyone either loves or hates. Remember, National Candy Corn Day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/sweet-candy-corn/For a mere $670,000 you can own an Action Mobil Global Cruiser Expedition Vehicle. It has a 781 cubic inch turbodiesel engine, weighs 21 tons, and carries 219 gallons of gas and 154 gallons of water. On the roof are fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/the-ultimate-expeditionary-camper/Just as some dolls are made to wet themselves, the "Dismember Me" Plush Zombie is made to be torn apart, limb by limb and organ by organ. Note that tearing various limbs and organs out is useless unless you first rip ou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/dismember-me-plush-zombie-doll/Signing of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco on Jun 26, 1945 On October 24, 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence when its Charter was ratified by the five permane...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/happy-birthday-united-nations-10-fun-facts-about-the-un/Photo: Karen FochtHere's the cutest animal photo you'll see today: Sarabi the mommy giraffe nuzzling her hours-old newborn baby at the Memphis Zoo! http://www.commercialappeal.com/photos/galleries/2008/oct/10/new-baby-gi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/baby-and-mommy-giraffes/Sailors call this "dead water," a mysterious condition where a ship sailing in open ocean suddenly slows down for no obvious reason.Now, scientists have recreated the effect in the lab and captured it on video:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/dead-water-captured-on-film/From our pal and favorite cartoonist Adam "Ape Lad" Koford, here's the original defition of "Facebooking."...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/the-original-meaning-of-facebooking/Imagine going faster than a bullet from a handgun ... on land! Here's the Bloodhound SSC (stands for Super Sonic Car) that is designed to travel faster than 1,000 mph (1610 km per hour) or Mach 1.4: The vehicle's dri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/bloodhound-ssc-1000-mph-on-land/Ever got your car towed ... by a motorcycle? Behold the Retriever, a modified Honda Goldwing 1800 cc motorcycle that can tow most types of passenger cars. The Retriever, made by Swedish company Coming Through, has one di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/the-retriever-motorcycle-that-can-tow-a-car/(YouTube link)What, you don't like steel drums? See videos of all 40 ways to play the Super Mario theme at Rock the List. Link -via Gorilla MaskMario theme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/the-40-greatest-uses-of-the-super-mario-theme/An 80-year-old man in Oslo, Norway can still see with a 123-year-old transplanted cornea, although his vision is no longer great. Bernt Aune received the transplant in 1958. The donor was a man born in 1885! "I wou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/cornea-working-for-123-years/(Vimeo link) Look at all the neat stuff this interactive mirror can do! If I had one of these, I'd never get any real work done. Link -Thanks, alpay kasal!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/interactive-mirror/An unnamed Japanese woman reacted in anger after her virtual husband divorced her in the interactive game "Maple Story". She reacted by killing him -not the player, but his online avatar! The player whose online persona...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/woman-jailed-after-virtual-murder/The world is full of artists, some who decorate entire cities with graffiti, posters, sculpture, and other media. You are already familiar with Banksy, so here are many other who deserve a look. This list contains link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/40-street-artists-you-should-know-besides-banksy/(YouTube link) There are more species of mushrooms than you can imagine! David Fischer highlights quite a few you may have never heard of. Besides these color-changing mushrooms, you'll see mushrooms that stink, shoot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/americas-coolest-mushrooms/It looks like beans ARE really good for your heart! The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventuall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/the-stink-in-farts-controls-blood-pressure/National anthems: we've all sung them in school or at sporting events ... but what do you really know about them? Did you know that The Star-Spangled Banner got its tune from a drinking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/24/origin-of-4-national-anthems/As more and more people live without children in Japan (the country has an alarmingly low birth rate), home builders have to adjust. So they're now coming up with houses optimized for ... pets!Home builder Asahi Kasei ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/23/house-optimized-for-cats-and-dogs/A Japanese city planner must have really, really, really liked manholes. Behold a quiet, unassuming street in Tokyo's Setagaya ward with the unique world record of being the manholiest street in the world:Po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/23/the-manholiest-street-in-the-world/Here's the ugliest/cutest baby you'll see today: a baby echidna! Echidnas and the Platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The female lays a single soft-shelled, leathery egg twenty-two days aft...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/23/baby-echidna-is-so-cute/Photo: shadycam [Flickr]Last May, artist Daniel Firman had an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He created this taxidermied (is that a word?) elephant, titled Würsa. The whimsical equilibrium is supposed t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/23/wrsa-by-daniel-firman/(MiniMivies link) No matter what your politics are, the editing in this video is impressive! -via Milk and Cookies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/23/mccain-obama-dance-off/(YouTube link) A Danish art collective, in collaboration with MIT, has built a prototype walking house! The 10ft high home is solar and wind powered and can stroll at walking pace across all terrains. It has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/23/walking-house/While campaign ads can occasionally be visceral and exciting, more often than not they fall into the same, monotonous categories. Have you ever wondered what campaign ads would be like if they were directed by critic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/23/if-hollywood-directors-made-campaign-ads/Hooray! (Or perhaps better: Yeehaw!) Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game is here! You can win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cat Comic by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford for the funniest caption, but first, the sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/23/caption-monkey-48-wild-west-hummer/Here's a pretty neat way of turning a ho-hum bridge into an amazing tourist attraction: turn it into a fountain!The fountains at the Banpo Bridge were installed on September ninth and have since become a major touris...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/22/the-fountain-bridge/A lot of people think that Faster-than-light (superluminal or FTL) travel is the stuff of kooky mad scientists-wanna-bes (indeed, Albert Einstein himself had declared that it is impossible).I get a lot of submissions fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/22/jor-el-was-right-faster-than-light-travel-to-save-humanity/
