Machu Picchu Post from Machu Picchu Post Team on Vimeo. A gorgeous 3D film by Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali for the "Supinfocom Arles" in 2008. It depicts the antics of a young Peruvian boy,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/machu-picchu-post/io9 has pictures of 26 wedding cake toppers that geeks would enjoy, including Star Wars, Transformers, Stargate, Back to the Future, and zombie themes. io9 uses the term "nerdiest", but I pefer to be addressed as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/26-geekiest-wedding-cake-toppers/Women's Day has a fantastic collection of sand sculptures all of which have interesting faces carved into them. I think sand sculpting is so amazing, it's so much work for something that will be destroyed so quickly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/10-sand-sculpture-faces/Cockroaches, wasps, rats, mosquitoes, and E. coli bacteria. All horrible creatures, right? Maybe not so much. Cracked spells out how each of these things benefits us and the planet we live on. It might not make you fee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/the-5-most-hated-creatures-on-the-planet-dont-deserve-it/The elephant is the national symbol of Thailand. But lately, citizens have been going crazy for pandas. Zookeepers feel that the elephants aren't getting enough attention, and made their point by painting the elephants t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/panda-painted-elephants/The following is an article from Uncle John's Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader Who says that comic books don't contribute much to literature? Here's a few choice phrases, which origin can be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/comic-origins-of-phrases/I Love Teuthology, modeled by KatieWho doesn't love giant squids? Whether you are fascinated by Kraken, love reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or you are actually into teuthology (that's the study of cephalop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/i-love-teuthology-t-shirt/If you like the neat color optical illusion posted by Neatoramanaut Minnesotastan from the Upcoming Queue, check this one out by Rob Jenkins of the University of Glasgow and Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfords...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/the-darwin-optical-illusion/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSm7BcQHWXk][YouTube - Link]The Vervet Monkeys of St. kitts are known to raid local bars for a drink or two. Studies have found that the percentage of alcoholism in these monkeys m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/alcoholic-monkeys-of-st-kitts/God bless the feminists! Fighting what they deem as a sex discrimination of sorts, women of all shapes and sizes in Malmö bared criticisms to win the right to bathe topless in the city's public swimming pool: Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/yay-sweden-swedish-women-won-rights-to-bathe-topless/Four-year-old Turkish boy Muhammet Dirlik is one lucky boy: he was hit by a car, which sent him tumbling down a flight of stairs. But what seems like a surely fatal accident left Muhammet unscathed.Hit play or go to Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/life-imitates-unbreakable-boy-survived-being-hit-by-a-car-unscathed/Obama's pesky fly has got nothing on this: Zambian President Rupiah Banda got peed on by a monkey during a news conference! Mr Banda was not peeved, making light of the rude interruption as he sat under a tree in Sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/monkey-peed-on-zambian-president/Perhaps this is the way to deal with Somali pirates, and get a little R&R at the same time: a Russian luxury cruise line is offering wealthy customers the chance to hunt pirates! Wealthy punters pay £3,500...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/luxury-russian-cruise-hunts-somali-pirates/Forget aliens, the real culprits behind mysterious crop circles in Tasmania are far weirder: stoned wallabies!"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/crop-circles-made-by-stoned-wallabies/I know, I know, people who blog in glass houses shouldn't throw stones or something like that. And though we're typographically-challenged here on Neatorama, we just can't resist this news from Channel 7 News Fox WSVN TV...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/warning-scohol-zone/It seems that the St. Mary's Church in Wimbledon village has maneuvered itself into a rather tight spot: church officials let tennis fan park their car on top of graves for £20!The Church later apologized:Rever...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/church-turned-graveyard-into-a-parking-lot-for-wimbledon/When is a video not a video? Some consider Vaslav Nijinsky the greatest ballet dancer ever, but there is no known film footage of Nijinsky, who retired at age 29 in 1919. He would not allow his company to be filmed. Howe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/nijinsky-on-video/Capybara owner Melanie Typaldos gave a great interview about her unusual pet on the Estatic Days blog. Her pet is named Caplin Rous as in Rodents Of Unusual Size from the Princess Bride. Some of her stories about wal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/interview-with-a-capybara-owner/Photo Via Brennheit Bakst [Flickr] M.J. was just found dead at the age of fifty, apparently from a cardiac arrest.He was scheduled to perform a number of comeback concerts next year. "We're told when paramedics arr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-has-died/The spiral appears to have arms of green, blue, and pink/magenta - but what appears to be blue and what appears to be green are actually identical colors, confirmed by spectrometry.The reason they look [like] differe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/in-this-optical-illusion-the-blue-and-the-green-are-the-same-color/There are certain Boy Scout/Girl Scout Merit badges you expect - Archery, Cooking, Camping, Safety, that sort of thing. But the Scouts have a more well-rounded nucleus of merit badge opportunities than you could ever im...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/10-unexpected-merit-badges/The Battle of Little Bighorn happened 133 years ago today. George Custer and his men were certainly outnumbered, but their defeat may have also been assured by the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors' superior weaponry. If...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/was-custer-outgunned-at-little-bighorn/A shelter in Australia takes care of the world's cutest baby fruit bats during tick paralysis season. http://www.uniquedaily.com/baby-bat-caring-center/ (embedded YouTube video) I just love the way the announcer says...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/baby-bats-2/This week's collaboration with the always fun What is it? Blog brings us this strange tool. Can you guess what it is for? Hint: it has a very specific use, and it's not what you're thinking about.Place y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/what-is-it-game-102/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Gender-Targeted Advertising It's a point well made about gender inequality in advertising. This is a short clip from the very funny UK show *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/videosift-clips-of-the-week-29/At 16 years of age and weighing only 16 pounds, Brooke Greenberg has a previously-undescribed condition which in many aspects seems to show an absence of aging of the body. She is infantile in size, but she does not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/the-girl-who-does-not-age/Ed McMahon always seemed like a great guy with a good sense of humor. He will be missed. These little known facts about the guy put a smile on my face. :) From the list, here's something about "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/5-little-know-facts-about-ed-mcmahon/It's something that most of us do on a regular basis, but don't it much thought. Not so for Shannon and Katie of Gum Alert blog. These two girls (who obviously have a lot of time on their hands) are on their way...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/chew-on-this-blog-about-chewing-gums/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3lclZIf3sI][YouTube - Link]Sometimes you just gotta let it loose, though this short video clip shows that even when you think you're alone ... Big Brother is always watching!From...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/to-protect-and-serve-and-dance/Rather be flyflishing, golfing or sleeping than going to church? Concerned with the lack of men attending services, the Church of England is now offering new incentives: free beer, bacon rolls and chocolate bars!Men...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/25/church-blesses-men-with-beer/
