Using a high speed camera shooting at 2000 framers in 1 second this little video shows you what it looks like to pop a water balloon in slow motion. Amazingly, even at these speeds you'll notice that no matter how h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/popping-a-water-balloon/A pensioner who created a labyrinth of tunnels under his house over 40 years has been forced to pay £300,000 for repairs carried out by a council. Excavations by William Lyttle, 77, who is also known a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/mole-man-fined-300000/Young Me Now Me is a brainchild of Ze Frank (the man himself is an Internet phenomenon!). Basically, you can submit photographs of the "now" you imitating an old childhood photograph.Here's the gallery: Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/young-me-now-me-photographs/It's only natural that the best-selling game of the 80s is being made into a movie. That's right. Here's a trailer for ... Tetris, the Movie!Link [embedded YouTube] - via Blue's News(It's a making of a blockbuster! Get i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/tetris-the-movie/Go ahead and take the Awareness Test. Trust me - it's worth it - and trust me that it's not of the genre to calm you down and then terrify you with a screaming monster head or something. Scouts honor. I promise. No...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/awareness-test/For real! This Spanish language video shows a massive golden eagle stalking, killing and eating a mountain goat (or possibly a deer?). Amazing nature clip! YouTube. (Thanks, Sirkowski!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/golden-eagle-attacks-kills-and-consumes-mountain-goat/Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo created this spiffy Spider-Pig and Homer Simpson desktop out of Finder folders and document icons.Bigger picture here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/spider-pig-and-homer-desktop-art/We posted about Dede Koswara, dubbed the "Tree Man of Java," whose hands and feet were covered in bark-like tissues, before on Neatorama.Doctors operated on Dede back in January and have now removed growths fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/tree-man-of-java-getting-treatment-still-kind-of-bark-y-but-much-better-now/17-year-old Nicco Phillips was driving to school in Milwaukie, Oregon, when he spotted an animal in the road. "I was coming down the street and he was just in the middle of the road," Phillips said. "I just kept dri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/rodent-of-unusual-size-2/Hockey is a religion in Montreal, Quebec. So it's no surprise that someone made a Jesus Christ / Carey Price video on YouTube. Carey Price is the Montreal Canadiens' rookie goalie. Talk about putting a whole lott...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/jesus-price/Oscar, who is actually a female cockatoo, was given six months to live, but thanks to a diagnosis of a contagious beak-and-feather disease, she was spared... and that was twelve years ago! The near-naked bird with no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/featherless-cockatoo/We've posed about Nicholas Jones' book sculptures before, but it's worth another mention. Here's an interview with Nick at The Design Files (with lots of photos): Link - via The J-Walk Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/nicholas-jones-book-sculptures/To celebrate the coming of the longer and milder days of Spring, the Swiss city of Zurich burns a 43-feet tall bonfire called "Böögg".And to make it more interesting, they pack the Böögg wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/the-bgg-bonfire/Photo: Jack AnthonyKudzu is a climbing vine introduced into the United States from Japan in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Expo as a forage crop and ornamental plan. In the early 1950s, US Department of Agriculture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/houses-covered-in-kudzu/The D.U.C.K.man, a website created by Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. and dedicated to Donald Duck illustrator Don Rosa, has a neat scan of the Donald Duck Family Tree. If you've ever wanted to know how Scrooge McDuck is re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/donald-duck-family-tree/When HP released upgrades to its high-end workstations, a company official released a statement praising the product that is so chockful of inane corporatespeak that someone just has to do something about it.So...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/super-blockquote-smashes-corporatespeak/Next time you think that a cloud looks like a company logo, it may not be simply your imagination. Inventors Francisco Guerra and Brian Glover created a process to make "clouds" (basically soap based foams mixe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/flogos-ad-clouds/A statue recently installed on the German bordertown of Simbach is causing a stirr in the neighboring town of Braunau, Austria.Why? Because the statue is of a naked man riding a giant fish, symbolizing the personificatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/mooning-statue-irks-austrian-town/In his project "Excelsior 1968", John Martz of Robot Johnny turned the photographs of every single person in his mother's 1968 Toronto High School yearbook into cartoons:Last year I redrew my mothe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/project-excelsior-1968-turning-a-yearbook-into-cartoons/ISWWR is a site that collects and catalogs photographic “evidence” of Star Wars characters and objects in real life. The picture above shows a Spanish peace summit in the 1920s, attended by Queen Jamillia of Naboo....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/if-star-wars-was-real/Scientists have recreated what they believe to be the voice of Neanderthals. Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton has used new reconstructions of Neanderthal vocal tracts t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/neanderthal-talk/Test your knowlege of world geography with this eight question quiz. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted it in response to a survey by National Geographic. Americans are far from alone in the world, but from the p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/geographic-skills-quiz/38 years ago today, April 17th, 1970 the capsule from the Apollo 13 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, and the whole world breathed a sigh of relief. Apollo 13 launched from Cape Canaveral on April 11, int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/houston-we-no-longer-have-a-problem/Hooray! It's time for this week's collaboration with What is it? blog: can you guess what this pistol is for? Place your guess in the comment section - you're playing for fun and fame this week. No t-shirt prize. More cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/what-is-it-game-58/A new teacup called Ceramic For Mix (which appears to be made of glass) eliminates the need for a stirring spoon. This is acheived by a ball installed in the bottom. Designer Florian Dussopt says, "The ball is put...
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