Bloody Saw Scarf
This may look like a saw dripping with blood, but it’s a crocheted scarf! Lady Linoleum at Monster Crochet made it for Halloween. Link -via Need Coffee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/bloody-saw-scarf/This may look like a saw dripping with blood, but it’s a crocheted scarf! Lady Linoleum at Monster Crochet made it for Halloween. Link -via Need Coffee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/bloody-saw-scarf/In Yemen, the minimum age for marriage is 9. The Human Rights Watch World Report stated: "In 1999, the minimum marriage age of fifteen for women, rarely enforced, was abolished; the onset of puberty, interpreted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/trivia-minimum-age-for-marriage-in-yemen/Today's Bizarro matches up with our recent article Pirate Lore: 7 Myths and Truths about Pirates so well it must be divine fate! Well, if you want more Bizarrrrrro, check out Dan Piraro's website: Bizarro and BizarroArti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/bizarro-over-accessorized-pirate/Musicians make music videos to popularize their albums, so why not authors? Well, that's exactly what author Douglas Coupland is doing for his new novel The Gum Thief:“The book’s structure lent i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/book-videos-the-next-marketing-tools-for-books/Norwegian artist Mat Gullikstad of Oldemor Blog created this awesomely detailed model of Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin, according to a blueprint by cartoonists Don Rosa and Dan Shane.The building comes complete with three c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/fan-made-scrooge-mcducks-money-bin/In his 25 seconds animated clip called "The Grackles", Monte Bach of San Antonio Express-News illustrates for us exactly the thing we fear most from large, evil-looking birds a la Alfred Hitc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/the-grackles-the-real-birds-of-horror/Texas Governor Rick Perry recently endorsed Rudy Guliani for the 2008 US Presidential Election. The governor, however, likened his endorsement to buying a pickup truck - all the selections had at least one thing that he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/if-presidential-candidates-were-cars-what-kind-of-cars-would-they-be/Tim Maloney mashed up (re-wrote? dubbed over?) a classic 90's saturday morning cartoon Exosquad into this: VIOLENT COMBAT ROBOTS, a team of intrepid spacement who use the power of science to lay waste to everyone on the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/violent-combat-robots-a-saturday-morning-cartoon-mashup/Talking 'bout the election, Neatorama has finally endorsed its presidential candidate for 2008: the international superstar ... world's most photographed squirrel ... and news anchor of SNN (the Squirrel News Network) .....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/sugar-bush-squirrel-for-president/Tell me ... how close can you get your mouse cursor to this animated rabbit without getting your arrow grabbed by it? Warning: he's real fast!A neat little interactive Flash game by Andrius Kirvela: Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/dont-let-this-rabbit-grab-your-cursor/Everytime I turn on the radio, Nickelback's Rockstar comes on. The song is has a catchy tune and the lyric - if you listen closely - stereotypes the lifestyles of rock 'n roll stars. So what do you call it when someone p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/popstar-a-parody-of-nickelbacks-rockstar/Where, oh where shall we stay this Halloween? How about in a real haunted hotel? Forbes Traveler has compiled a list of spooky lodgings from Scotland to San Diego. This one to the left is the famous Jekyll Island Club Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/haunted-hotels-and-spooky-lodgings/The Nine Emperor Gods Festival [wiki] is a Chinese festival celebrating the return of the Nine Emperor spirits from heaven to earth. So, what better way to celebrate this "holy day" than to punch some real...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/nine-emperor-gods-festival-is-one-real-crazy-holy-day/That's the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) GuitarBot built created by Eric Singer and friends in 2002. It is a four-string MIDI-based instrument/robot with moving frets that can play some awesome riffs!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/guitarbot/James Bond has always served the Queen and country, but now he has a new duty: to help deliver the mail!Royal Mail unveiled a set of stamps yesterday that feature the covers of Ian Fleming's Bond novels. They will go on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/james-bond-then-super-spy-now-postman/A copy of J.K. Rowling's first book about Harry Potter, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone", was sold yesterday to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie's auction house. It was published in 1997...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/harry-potter-first-edition-sold-for-nearly-41000/Ricardo Cabello made this lovely animation. Move your mouse over it. Nice stress break, isn’t it? The thumbnail pic you see here does not do it justice. http://mrdoob.com/lab/pv3d/dof/05/. More animations. -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/depth-of-field-test-5/Switched picked their eleven favorite geek t-shirts. Each is linked to the vendor, so you can do your Christmas shopping online. Link -via Geek Like Me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/top-eleven-geek-t-shirts/Christmas Island red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) only exist on that one tropical island in the Indian Ocean. They must spawn on the shore because their larva grow in water. So every October or November, they swarm toward...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/the-crabs-of-christmas-island/Bob and Judi Olwine of Woodstock, Maryland left the gate to their pool open for just a few minutes while preparing it for winter. Two deer walked in and went down the pool steps for a swim. After they closed the gate, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/honey-theres-a-herd-in-the-pool/New York plastic surgoen Dr. Lajos Nagy created a surgical procedure to make human ears pointed, like a mythological creature. From his website: A newfangled extravagance is spreading amongst the music-lover young...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/pointy-ears/If they were all this entertaining, people might actually listen to them! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/pre-flight-safety-announcement/Ah, sportsmanship. It summons up images of competition, camaraderie, broken bones, disembowelment, and brutal, disfiguring death. No wonder players have always had fans to cheer them on.Dead Goat PoloBuzkashi - as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/26/4-bloodiest-sports-in-history/The challenge was to explain string theory in two minutes or less. Sandy Chase of New York produced this video and won the contest at Discover Magazine. Link -via Metafilter...
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