This beautiful papercraft Darth Vader imitates the Christian icons of Byzantine art. It was made by the Spanish designer Lubolo. The best part of the project is the video at the link which shows how Lubolo made it. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/paper-vader/(Video Link) The famed Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen had a nose ring. It's true! This video shot and produced in Antarctica by people living there (Antarcticans?) proves it! Take an intoxicated journey int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/drunk-history-the-exploration-of-antarctica/Rumor has it that Twinkies have an infinite shelf life*, but unfortunately the maker of the famous snack may not enjoy such longevity. Hostess Brands Inc, the company that makes Twinkie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/twinkies-maker-files-for-bankruptcy/To deter people from "train surfing," where they sit on the roofs of carriages, Indonesian authorities resorted to knocking 'em off with concrete balls! *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/concrete-balls-to-deter-indonesian-train-surfers/Employers often complain of lazy workers, but in this bizarro world of corporate human resources management, a woman was fired for working during her lunch break: Sm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/worker-fired-for-working-during-lunch/The semi-annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society was held in Austin recently, and many space images were shared. Dr. Phil Plait was not at the meeting, so the other astronomers sent him pictures, which he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/cosmic-pictures-from-the-aas/(YouTube link) This cat has a unique method of climbing up the stairs. Soon you see that it probably has something to do with the "prey" it has caught. -via BuzzfeedFunny, Cat, stairs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/waltzing-cat/How did this happen? Maybe when they decided to list the house for sale in a hurry, the only exterior picture they had was a dud from the wedding album. Or maybe it was a Photoshop Disaster. Either way, potential buy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/clear-headed/(vimeo link) What would America look like if various secession movements of the past had been successful? The company Urban Mapping created maps that follow 30 such movements, and what the results may have been. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/secessionist-maps/"Guns don't kill people, bullets do" or so the saying goes, but 59-year-old Verlin Q. Alsept was a bit unclear of the concept that you still need that gun:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/man-tried-to-rob-a-store-with-a-bullet/But what's not obvious is that the dog isn't working for the Alliance. He's a spy for the Empire. The hairy emblem is part of a false flag operation. Do not trust this dog owned by a friend of Geekologie reader Joe....
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/dog-has-rebel-alliance-logo-cut-into-his-fur/No, Fuzzy, noooooo! Yes, unfortunately. Fuzzy took the trapper's bait and is now decorating a floor. Agustina Woodgate reminisced on her own childhood by making rugs from many stuffed animals. You can find more pictu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/teddy-bear-skin-rugs/Hello Kitty Love Bandit Has a lover of Hello Kitty stolen your heart? Capture your sweethearts attention by giving them something fabulous from the Hello Kitty Love Bandit collection from the NeatoShop. This dangerous...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/hello-kitty-love-bandit/[YouTube Link] Learning about the physics of water balloons is almost as fun as playing with one! From the neat Tumblr blog F*ck Yeah Fluid Dynamics, here's a video of explodi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/physics-of-water-balloons/1844, from berserk (n.) "Norse warrior," by 1835, an alternative form of berserker (1822), a word which was introduced by Sir Walter Scott, from O.N. berserkr (n.) &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/illustrated-etymology/Ever heard the saying that "a camel is a horse designed by committee"? Despite the many downside of working in a group, your boss may be insisting that you "be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/why-working-alone-is-better/"Till death do us part" does not apply to this tragic love story from Thailand, where a man decided to marry his bride, who died in a car accident just days before their pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/real-life-corpse-bride/Rick Smith of the blog Noah's Dad, noticed something unusual in a Target circular. Like his son Noah, the model wearing the orange shirt has Down Syndrome. That's very inclusive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/meet-ryan-langston-the-kid-fashion-model-with-down-syndrome/Who was it: Stefani Germanotta or Jerrica Benton? These singers are better known as pop star Lady Gaga and ’80s cartoon rock star Jem. In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you'll be given twelve statements, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/lady-gaga-or-jem/(video link) Actress Betty White is 90 years old today. NBC aired a birthday tribute last night, and President Obama took part by sending a video greeting. Link -via Buzzfeedobama, birthday, betty white, birth certfic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/happy-birthday-betty-white/A couple of decades of boosting children's self-esteem turns out to not have much effect on a student's grades. Oh, praise is still seen as effective, but educators are beginning to reward students for more than just sho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/self-esteem-not-what-it-used-to-be/(YouTube link) The broadcasting squad at Liberty Middle School in Madison, Alabama produced this video. It was entirely shot on iPads and mixed with music by Sigur Rós. "As people were walking out of the school, it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/im-human/A Frenchman and an Irishman went into a bar in New Zealand, but they weren't supposed to. And they might have gotten away with the crime if they hadn't left their camera with shots of their escapade in it. David Farrell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/vandals-leave-photographic-evidence/Kathryn Clark, an artist and former urban planner, created a series of quilts based on home foreclosures in different cities. The locations of the foreclosures are random, based on statistics from each city, and are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/foreclosure-quilts/by Mike Dubik, MD Brian Wood, MD For hundreds, if not thousands, of years it has been accepted as an axiom that inanimate objects, such as nails, are dead. This self-evident truth has been expressed in the phrase: "d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/how-dead-is-a-doornail/As if T-Rex, the big daddy of dinosaurs with a serious appetite to match, isn't badass enough in the scaly flesh, now he's been built out of scrap metal parts by sculptor Andrew Chase. And, while this over two foo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/16/t-rex-sculpture-made-out-of-recycled-metal-parts/Comics have come a long way from the days of pandering to children in order to sell a product. These days, they're full of mature stories and subject matter that would make Golden Age Superman blush, and tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/16/like-comic-books-with-mature-storylines-then-check-out-damaged/(YouTube Link) Musical nerdery doesn't get much more epic than this performance by Bit Brigade, where they play the soundtrack to Mega Man II while the entire game is being played on a screen behind...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/16/an-epic-level-performance-of-musical-nerdery/This is what the classic video game Gauntlet would have looked like if it took place in some sort of dwarven alternate reality, imagined and beautifully illustrated by DeviantARTist Mike Azevedo. In this version, you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/16/gauntlet-cover-art-re-imagined/(YouTube Link) Apparently there was a group of Canadian moralists who fought against violent, corrupting influences on children in the early 90s, and made their message known in a propaganda film entitled Not Just...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/16/the-ridiculous-anti-ninja-turtles-campaign-from-the-90s/
