(Video Link) Tevye may work as a dairyman, but he was born to dance. YouTube user ACDPresents, a film student, made this carefully-timed video for an editing class. It mashes up video from 1971 musical Fiddler...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/fiddler-on-the-roofyou-got-served-mashup/What happens to all of your digital web accounts when you die? All those Flickr photos, for instance. Well, Richard Banks, who works on a project called Technology Heirloom for Microsoft Research, created a device meant...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/timecard-digital-heirloom-shows-timeline-of-the-dearly-departed/Battleship USB Hub - $17.95This desktop USB hub designed by Giffin'termeer over at the NeatoShop is cleverly shaped like a battleship straight out of Battleship game we play as kids. So who says that your USB hu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/battleship-usb-hub/No where else would a talk titled "Like Listening to Paint Dry" by William Barrett, which is composed solely of reciting every single one of 415 colors (yawn!) listed in a paint catalog, would be a hit other th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/boring-2010-the-conference-for-really-boring-stuff/Imagine the classroom of the future, where students greet their teacherbot every morning? Well, that may come sooner than we'd like to think: the Korea Institute of Science and Technology has developed Engkey, a robot to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/engkey-the-english-teacherbot-in-korea/Got a crotchety old guy who kept telling you that youngsters today are getting dumber by the minute (right before he told you to get off his lawn)? Well, he may be onto something: scientists discovered that our brains ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/why-humans-are-getting-dumber-our-brains-are-shrinking/(YouTube link) Hear New Year greetings in languages used all over the world. WojtekNYC assembled this with help from friends at Columbia University and the International House. If you can contribute any translation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/43-languages-one-message/BitLit, Neatorama's fiction blog, is posting a new story! Chapter one of Wizard Constable by Tom Van Natta is now online. Jorac’s an ordinary city constable in the city of Vaggert; he’s allergic to magic bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/wizard-constable/(YouTube link) The Shoe House in Hellam, Pennsylvania was built in 1948 by shoe salesman Colonel Mahlon M. Haines, who styled himself as "the Shoe Wizard". Not only is the house shaped like a shoe, but each window h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/the-haines-shoe-house/Although the Lunar New Year doesn't begin until February third, 2011 will be the Year of the Rabbit. Pink Tentacle welcomed the year by posting several beautiful antique bunny illustrations from the Museum of Fine Ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/rabbit-new-year-cards/The biggest dinosaur discoveries of the year include dinosauromorphs, or dinosaur precursors, plus dinosaur diets, dino nurseries, and dinosaur colors. Shown is the feathered dinosaur Anchiornis, whose color...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/the-top-dinosaur-discoveries-of-2010/This Italian photo site documents the fashions of the 1960s and '70s -miniskirts, bellbottoms, platform shoes, hot pants, go-go boots, and that hair! You'll see some famous faces among the models. Elements of these s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/sixties-seventies/Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet. – @AdviceToWriters Ain't that the truth! And it's a occupational hazard when your job is to offer internet distractions to everyone. This T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/distraction/Stay warm and scare children on the slopes with this crocheted Cthulhu ski hat from Etsy seller CraftyPA! There is an opening for your mouth under the tentacles. Available in red, too! Link -via Buzzfeedcrochet, etsy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/cthulhu-ski-hat/Scout checked out Rye Playland, the amusement park where Tom Hanks found the Zoltar machine in the movie Big. However, Zoltar has been replaced by another machine that can make you big. There are more...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/revisiting-the-big-place/The Alcowebizer is a generator that simulates what a website would look like if you were under the influence of alcohol. Enter the address of a website, then you can adjust the look according to your blood-alcohol le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/the-alcowebizer/It's time for the Name That Weird Invention! contest. Steven M. Johnson comes up with all sorts of crazy ideas in his weekly Museum of Possibilities posts. Can you come up with a name for this one? The commenters s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/name-that-weird-invention-15/Have any of you been to the town of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! lately? It's in Quebec. Linkfunny name, city, Canada...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/saint-louis-du-ha-ha/Gaspare Tagliacozzi, professor of surgery at the University of Bologna in Italy, published a book titled De Curtorum Chirurgia Per Insitionem (The Surgery of Defects by Implantations) in 1597. It describes proce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/16th-century-rhinoplasty/The following is an article from the book History's Lists from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Rumor has it that Amelia Earhart and the grassy-knoll gunman have been found in a bar in Atlantis. Whew -three mysteries...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/cold-cases/John Kenn of Don Kenn Gallery, who writes and direct TV shows for kids, has quite the unexpected and fantastic hobby. He draws monsters ... on Post-It Notes! As he says, "It is a little window into a different world...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/john-kenns-post-it-notes-monster-drawings/It's been called the greatest college prank ever pulled: in 1961 Rose Bowl, a team of Caltech students altered the University of Washington's halftime flip-card routine so it'd spell out "CALTECH."Here's how th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/the-greatest-college-prank-ever-pulled/Placebos work because people who take it believe that they're actually medicine, right? I mean, that's the basic tenet of every modern medical studies, which use placebos as controls.But can placebos work without any dec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/placebos-can-work-even-without-deception/Keep calm, don't panic and take a deep breath ... you're about to learn that the age-old advice to stop yourself from panicking, namely taking deep breaths, is actually wrong. Turns out, taking a deep breath for people p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/dont-panic-and-take-a-deep-breath-bad-idea/Image: abell [Flickr]In this vinyl collectible "Lord on Vacation" by Abell Octovan and Surya Sunburn, the Sith Lord will surely come back from his vacation all rested and ready to be disturbed in someone's lack...
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