Photo: brantastic [Flickr]Somewhere in Nova Scotia, in the front lawn of a nondescript house are these cutouts of characters from The Simpsons congratulating a family member's graduation. Flickr user brantastic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/the-simpsons-cutouts-congratulate-high-school-grad/Ah, India ... the land that brought us Bollywood also brought us this strange and disturbing video clip. Watch as a baby wrestles with a cobra (a cobra!) that either has been defanged or whose mouthseem to have been sewn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/baby-vs-cobra/(YouTube link) This is just silly, but it made me smile. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/techno-chicken/Psst! Wanna send your name to the moon? NASA is setting up a website where you can enter your name, which will then be entered in a database on a microchip that will be integrated onto the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/send-your-name-to-the-moon/Photo: huaxia.comMy, that's a lot of foot massages! Taiwan has set a new Guinness World Record for having the "most people receiving foot massage (reflexology) simultaneously": 1008 reflexologists and 1008 tour...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/reflexology-world-record/This is quite neat: Channel 4 in the UK has recreated the set of Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining - complete with crew and cast-member look-a-likes - for a TV ad:Viewers get Kubrick's point of view as he wal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/recreation-of-the-film-set-of-stanley-kubrics-the-shining/Photo: 2cauldrons [Flickr]Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is so iconic that her smiling face has even shown up on graffiti. WebUrbanist has a neat post about 8 such unauthorized appearances by La Gioconda in the streets al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/mona-lisa-graffiti/[Creative Commons licensed photo of Michigan Central Station (abandoned) in Detroit by Flickr user Matt Callow.] Jack White of the White Stripes hurt some feelings back home when he moved from Detroit to Nashville in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/jack-whites-poem-about-his-beloved-detroit/He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. The Nietzsche Family Circus is a randomized combination of Friedrich Nietzsche quotations and Family Circus cartoons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/the-nietzsche-family-circus/Just because earlier attempts of lawnchair ballooning went so well (the first one by Larry Walters, ended up with an arrest, fame, lost of fame, and then suicide; the second one by Brazilian priest Adelir Antonio de Carl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/couch-went-lawn-chair-ballooning/We've posted about Harry Potter's author J.K. Rowling's commencement speech to Harvard grads before on Neatorama - this time it's Conan O'Brien's turn.Here's a clip and transcript to Conan's commencement address for Harv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/06/found-video-of-conan-obriens-harvard-class-of-2000-commencement-speech/André Mintz of the Marginalia Project explains what "Chronotopic Anamorphosis" is all about: The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different...
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