You're looking at the the star fort of Bourtange in the Netherlands. It sure looks fantastic, but there's a wily logic behind building a fort in such a shape. Turns out, a circular fortification of the medieval era was v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/13/star-shaped-fort-of-bourtange/I'm not really sure how to describe this website, but it is maddeningly addictive. Click the link and then move your mouse around. There's automatic sound, so you may want to turn your speakers down a bit. Maybe so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/12/japanese-men-in-underwear-run-around-with-giant-computer-screen-cursor/George Orwell's classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was released sixty years ago this week. It's doubleplusgood. To say otherwise is crimethink and will result in being sent to a joycamp. You can r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/12/60th-anniversary-of-nineteen-eighty-four/Remember our post about boy scouts trained in anti-terrorism? In one high school in Maryland, you can even take courses in domestic security - but before you cry foul, consider this: it may simply be a good career move f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/12/high-school-course-in-domestic-security/We've all experienced the tip of the tongue moment where we wanted to say something but just couldn't remember the word. But what causes this momentary lapses in vocabulary? Psychologist Jennie Pyers of Wellesley College...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/12/why-do-we-get-tip-of-the-tongue-moments/After years of pulling stunts on museums around the world, the guerrilla artist Banksy has gone legit. Somewhat. He's pulled off his most audacious stunt yet: a secret exhibition in Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/12/banksys-secret-exhibition-banksy-versus-bristol-museum/We've seen many strange things for sale on eBay (our pal Urlesque blog even has a regular feature called Today in eBay about the strangest things sold on the popular auction site), but this one is really, really weird: d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/12/for-sale-saliva-from-pretty-girls-taken-when-they-were-sleeping/A rare yellow lobster was caught off the coast of Canada and given to Nathan Nickerson, owner of the Cape Cod restaurant Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar. Yellow lobsters get their name from their appearance of ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/12/rare-yellow-lobster-is-1-in-30-million/A 96-year-old Taiwanese man finished a master's degree program in Philosophy after being told "he was too old to continue as a volunteer at a local hospital." Known as "Grandpa Chao", this old man was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/12/96-year-old-grad-student-all-nighters-work/It's like that movie Final Destination. An Italian woman who didn't get on Air France flight 447 because she arrived late to the airport was killed in a car crash just two weeks later:Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/life-imitates-final-destination-woman-who-survived-air-france-flight-447-died-in-car-crash-2-weeks-later/I'm sure everyone has watched a movie at some point that made them pretty uncomfortable, but there seems to be a full blown niche of disturbing movies out there, as shown by this list by Movie Crunch blog. Not all are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/the-15-most-disturbing-movies-ever-made/Ever wanted to swim in a lake full of chemicals, toxic algae, and junky electronic equipment? Sounds like good times for sure. If you'd rather not risk disgusting infections and other diseases, leave the sludge swimmi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/swimming-in-toxic-sludge-to-save-the-earth-environmental-hero-or-idiot/You have probably seen the grey, no doubt you have heard of or read about the red. But have you ever heard of a black squirriel? The subgroup is on the rise. If an animal was a meme, this would...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/meet-the-black-squirrel/Photo: Tim Greenleaf / National Geographic Expeditions When Ford Cochran, National Geographic Blog Wild editor, asks Nat Geo photographer Tim Greenleaf for some advice, here's what he has to say:When I stopped by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/wildlife-photography-rule-no1-dont-forget-to-look-behind-you/As if we needed further proof of the vast reaches of the internet, and the frightening reality that what people put on the net stays on the net, comes the story of the Smith family of St. Louis. Danielle Smith had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/missouri-family-christmas-photo-turns-up-in-czech-ad/A Venn diagram showing the psychological forces at work among users of social networking tools -- a new shirt from the comedy geniuses at Despair, Inc. Linkmyspace, Facebook, Twitter, social networking, social med...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/social-media-venn-diagram/The Worst Day in the 9th Grade ... Ever - $9.95From Neatorama's Online Store, here's The Worst Day in the 9th Grade ... Ever by Matthew Lawson. Available in T-shirt, sweatshirt, and hoodies.Oh, I remember the dissection...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/the-worst-day-in-the-9th-grade-ever-the-t-shirt/[YouTube Clip]Ninjas have got nothing on these animals! One minute you see only a sofa, and the next out comes ... a dog, cats, and a ferret (ok, so they're not all in the same couch, mmkay?)Urlesque blog has the top 5 b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/ninja-dog-hides-in-a-sofa/Next week is Father's Day, and in the spirit of celebrating dads, Asylum has put together the greatest moments in pop culture fatherhood:Ah, the pop culture dad. Is anyone more bumbling? Film and TV have provided us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/greatest-moments-in-pop-culture-fatherhood/Housing prices may have tanked, but the cost of a coveted parking space in Back Bay, Boston, is apparently unfazed by the economic crisis:An unidentified buyer yesterday paid $300,000 for a private parking space in t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/parking-spot-in-boston-300k/Image: New York Times analysis of Congressional Budget Office dataImagine you're the world's biggest shopaholic - say, you spend $1,000 a second. Who'd spend more in a decade: you or the government? If you do the math, y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/how-the-government-lost-2-trillion-in-a-mere-decade/An Israeli woman named Annat decided to surprise her elderly mother by giving her a new mattress to replace the rattty old one she had been sleeping on for decades. But what was supposed to be a pleasant surprise turned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/woman-threw-away-moms-1-million-mattress/The Periodic Table of Elements is getting a new addition. Sigurd Hofmann and colleagues at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Germany produced the superheavy 112 back in 1996, and now it's going to be off...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/element-112-to-be-officially-added-to-the-periodic-table/A deviant artist nicknamed ULiveandYouBurn turned roadside traffic safety barrels into monsters and alligators, but is it art or vandalism? Sometimes there’s a fine line between art and vandalism. Blurring that li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/art-or-vandalism/Most people put their hands up or hand over valuables in a robbery. However, this N.Y. store owner foiled an attempted robbery with a lecture, $40 and a loaf of bread.Mohammad Sohail, a Long Island convenience store...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/ny-store-owner-gives-would-be-thief-lecture-40-bread/Today's collaboration with What is it? blog is very special for us. Since our very first What is it? game in November 2006, I've always wondered when we would reach this milestone: our 100th game. Well,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/what-is-it-game-100-win-a-road-mice-computer-mouse/(YouTube link) Bang-Yao Liu created this stop-motion animation for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. It's cute and clever, and I really relate to the pressure of working on deadline and dealing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/deadline/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Planet and Star Size Comparison in HD You may have seen a planet and star size comparison before but this one is beautifully crafted and looks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/11/videosift-clips-of-the-week-neatorama/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94qCoLdpRIQ][YouTube - Link]Most people run away from tornados, but not storm chasers: they run toward them! Here's a video clip from TornadoVideos.net SRV Dominator, of a Goshen c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/footage-from-inside-a-wyoming-tornado/Summer is almost upon us, and with it, comes the strange and wonderful food festivals around the country. Cheese, watermelon... pierogi? I'm all over that one. Yum, pierogi! Brynn Mannino of Woman's Day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/10/12-spectacular-summer-food-festivals/
