We are lurching toward the end of 2023, and it's time for all the retrospectives to come out, summing up with the year was all about. Every December, Louis Plamondon, also known as Sleepy Skunk, edits together clips from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/Sleepy-Skunks-2023-Movie-Trailer-Mashup/In the 1890s, James B. Shaw of Atlantic City, New Jersey, developed a technique for taking one picture of a person and getting an image that showed that person from five angles. These came to be known as photo multigraph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/The-Once-Common-Technique-of-Photo-Multigraphs/You know how every year, as soon as Halloween is over, it seems that Mariah Carey takes over all the music speakers in the world, and her 1994 song "All I Want for Christmas is You" plays nonstop wherever you go? Carey h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/The-Unimaginable-Horror-of-That-Mariah-Carey-Song/<p>It takes mere seconds for us to capture a moment in time with our phones. But the history of photography took painstakingly long to reach this point. <a href="https://mossandfog.com/the-dawn-of-p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/The-World-s-First-Ever-Photograph/<p>We have recently posted about some of the <a href="https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/18/A-Roundup-of-Lesser-Known-Christmas-Characters/" target="_blank">more obscure Christmas c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/Christmas-Creatures-Ranking-the-Best-and-Worst/<p>Many children will probably be expecting gifts this coming Christmas, and parents, or even relatives, might be wondering what presents to give them.</p><p>For younger children, toys might be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/The-Best-Toys-for-Children-According-to-Scientists/<p>Earlier this year, <a href="https://www.neatorama.com/2023/07/09/Overdue-Library-Book-Returned-After-119-Years/" target="_blank">James Clerk Maxwell's "An Elementary Treati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/54-Years-Later-Beowulf-Returns-to-Pennsylvania-Library/<p>Mistakes can sometimes cost us a lot of time, effort, and money. But we're all human. We make mistakes and we learn from them. There are rare moments though, when mistakes can lead to something unexpecte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/Husband-s-Mistake-Earns-Wife-Winning-Lottery-Ticket/<p>When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in September 1998, they initially called it "BackRub", referring to the system's algorithm which checked sites' backlinks to estimate their import...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/19/Google-Turns-25-Makes-Where-s-Waldo-Inspired-Game/
