(YouTube Link) We've previously mentioned the full-size house made out of LEGO blocks by UK television host James May. It was demolished shortly after the completion of construction, but in this video, you can see...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/life-inside-the-lego-house/(YouTube Link) Sony Ericsson hosted a promotional tennis tournament that was bathed in ultraviolet light in order to recreate the atmosphere of the movie Tron. It's far more scenic than the Medieval versio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/tron-tennis/"Lucky" is a short short animation that is both arrestingly sad and gorgeous at the same time. Its moody, hypnotic tone and spurts of animated blood are set to rights with a semi-happy ending. Created by EB Hu. Mus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/lucky/For prying into lives around the globe, the Google Street Viewmobile finally gets its just desserts. Thank you, Anonymous Winged Avenger! Via GizmodoFunny, Photography, Technology, animals...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/street-view-revenge/Image: US Debt ClockThe stupendously large US national debt (currently at nearly $12.1 trillion and growing) is a depressing thing for most of us, but not to the number nerds at the Bureau of Public Debt! They LOVE to ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/number-nerds-love-the-us-national-debt/Can vandalism be art? Can breaking a window be considered as art? That is the thesis of Kevin Harman, who filmed himself smashing an art gallery's window (he notified the gallery beforehand, but refused to reveal the dat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/vandalism-as-art-does-breaking-a-window-count-as-art/For the second year in a row, Greig Howe has created a seasonal spectacle with his 50' Christmas tree. The 15 mile drive from the Forestry Commission to his home turned a lot of heads since he towed it behind his t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/now-thats-a-tree/For her senior project in 2002, Molly Epstein of Temple University made a glass-filled nylon necklace that looks like a set of vertebrae. Epstein specializes in synthesizing jewelry and medicine: During her t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/vertebrae-necklace/Got a Twilight Mom? Etsy seller meekssandygirl crocheted the perfect necklace for her: a Vampire Bite silk cashmere necklace.Link | More unusual Christmas gift ideas by our very own Jill Harness over at Inventor Spotcroc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/vampire-bite-necklace-for-all-you-twilight-moms/Some scientists say that bowling has existed since Egyptian times and that one of the earliest Egyptian pharaohs was uncovered with primitive bowling pins and balls in his tomb. Others dismiss these findings, but histori...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/bowling-facts-sure-to-bowl-you-over/At my office, lots of people use those giant desk calendars for keeping track of appointments, but if you just want to know what day a date falls on next year, check this out. Grafish Design came up with The Small...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/2010-small-calendar/(DailyMotion Link to Video) Evian water produced this tricked out commercial featuring babies roller skating to the Sugar Hill Gang song, "Rapper's Delight," to remind us all to "live young." Cuteness abounds. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/skating-babies-commercial/If you watched the original British version of The Office, you know how everything ties up at the conclusion of the “documentary.” What do you remember about the Christmas special that wrapped up the ser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/the-office-christmas-special-quiz/Most gingerbread houses are humble homes with simple cookie walls and roofs and candy decor. Some gingerbread architects are far more inspired and artistic though, like the designers of the amazing gingerbread artwor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/incredible-gingerbread-houses/The Viking Lady, owned by the Norwegian shipping firm Eidesvik, has a 320-kilowatt molten carbonate fuel cell that powers the 9,500 ton vessel. It's the first ship to ever use fuel cell technology: But i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/the-worlds-first-fuel-cell-ship/With an American and a Russian colleague, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi launched into space today in a Soyuz spacecraft, bringing with him the first sushi ever taken into orbit: "We had training in Japan and I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/japanese-astronaut-brings-first-sushi-into-space/Father Tim Jones of the St. Lawrence Church in York, England is getting some flack for advice he preached after his Nativity sermon on Sunday, in which he advocated shoplifting for those in desperate straits. Delive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/priest-advises-poor-to-shoplift/(YouTube link) The Kenosha, Wisconsin Police Department recorded their own version of The Twelve Days of Christmas using gifts they are accustomed to. About 20 members of the Police Department were inv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/the-cops-twelve-days-of-christmas/What happens on Facebook doesn't always stay on Facebook, and sometimes those misadventures make the national news. Remember the groom who posted to Facebook during his wedding? Have you heard about the woman who lost he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/10-unbelievable-facebook-stories/Can you imagine finding a pile of photographs taken by a CBS staff member in the 1960s? And in those photographs at a thrift store you find president Kennedy and other celebrities? These rare candid John F. Kennedy image...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/rare-jfk-photos-found-at-thrift-store/Adam Kommel was perusing Google Maps, looking for open swaths of green one day when he accidentally stumbled across this field near Minden, Nebraska. It looks just like Nebraska, and a casual search finds little mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/21/nebraska-map-shows-nebraska-shaped-field/Tesladownunder (aka Peter Terren) is the contributor of a number of items of high voltage arty goodness to Neatorama. Remember the Modern Thinker and sparks around a car? His latest is a colorful 2 minute long expo...
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