There’s something about Camila Valdez's sculptural creations that reminds me of a dream I once had, a dream that quickly turned into a nightmare, a dream that taught me never to eat sweets before bed...Camila creat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Artist-Brings-Desserts-To-Life-By-Giving-Them-Legs/It's both beautiful and horrible. The London Motor Group has converted a 1989 Ferrari 412 sports car into an El Camino-like work truck. They made it for the History Channel show Ultimate Wheels....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Ferrari-Pickup-Work-Truck/An industry was born out of the R.M.S. Titanic's collision with a 500,000-ton iceberg, which famously ripped the holes in the hull of the ship that were her downfall. After the Titanic tragedy in 1912, a group of No...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Risky-Business-Towing-Icebergs/[http://youtu.be/B2inExgT77s] (YouTube link)We know Bill Gates is the richest man in the country, and sometimes the world. In fact, he's spending his retirement giving it away to programs that help the poorest people in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/How-Rich-is-Bill-Gates/The Dog Next Door by Moysche DesignShe was starting to come between him and his favorite talking dog, and things had begun to take a surreal turn in both of their lives. What was it about this particular dog that made h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/The-Dog-Next-Door-Definitely-Not-Just-A-Man-In-A-Dog-Suit/(Zach Weinersmith/SMBC Comics)I do not like them, Sam-I-Am! I still remember the truth!The unnamed character who represents the audience does not say this. He does not escape--cannot escape--bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/The-Horror-of-Green-Eggs-and-Ham/(Video Link)Riding the subway can be an extremely surreal affair, with a cast of characters that changes nightly and a prevailing chaos factor in the air that can really get under your skin, and when you ride the train a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/What-If-Riding-On-The-Subway-Was-Like-An-Episode-Of-Ren-Stimpy/Bob Lannon looked at his TV’s Netflix app and saw nonsensical descriptions of movies. A bug in the app caused the summaries to be scrambled -in the most amusing way! The A.V. Blog tells us,The bug...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Scrambled-Summaries-are-Comedy-Gold/Rhode Island's Roger Williams Park Zoo joyously welcomed the birth of a Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo in October, 2013. Named Holly, the joey is one of only three births of this exceedingly rare species in the U.S....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/New-Baby-Roo-at-Rhode-Island-Zoo/Photographers generally choose to keep themselves out of their own pictures, and those who choose to shoot self portraits generally shoot them in a controlled/studio setting.These are not those kind of self portraits, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Self-Portrait-Series-Captures-Photographer-Falling-From-High-Places/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBHIiXwzZhE](Video Link)Watch this fantastic catch by China's newest hero. A one-year old baby in Xiaolan, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province climbed out a window on the second...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Man-Catches-Baby-Who-Falls-out-a-Window/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpsusTta4w](Video Link)Morgan Freeman narrates the science documentary series Through the Wormhole. That is proper, for Morgan Freeman should narrate everything that ever needs t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Morgan-Freeman-Sucks-Helium-Talks-about-Gravity/[http://youtu.be/LWOYM9R7QGE] (YouTube link)Charlie Schmidt, who found internet fame seven years ago when his 1984 film Keyboard Cat was made into a meme, has a new kitty hit! This cat is playing the 1966 hit song &ldquo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Keyboard-Cat-Performs-96-Tears/(Video Link)You can tell the age of a cauliflower head by the length of their leaves, and the fullness of the white curd that makes up their main head, the specimen featured in this video appears to be about thirty seven...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Caracol-Has-A-Cauliflower-HeadAnd-All-The-Answers-We-Need/Think back to the comic about what TV programs aliens are watching from earth’s broadcasts. Then think about how many movies they may have caught in which a few humans from a planet that hadn’t even advanced...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Movies-for-Aliens/Never Ending Adventure by HartzackRiding on a giant dog faced dragon, hanging out with a snail and a dapper peppermint candy, flying over fantasy kingdoms full of ice wizards and intrigue - now that's one heck of an adv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Never-Ending-Adventure-Its-Story-Time/Harrison Ford is getting a bit old to play Han Solo. Maybe he should turn the role over to Jim Carrey. James Hance painted this image mixing up Star Wars and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Space-Ventura-Fett-Detective/[http://youtu.be/Bsz2Noi925M] (YouTube link)After their first date, Jack Hyer decided that he wanted to marry Rebecca Strellnauer -eventually. Over the next four years, while he made sure, he constructed an elaborate mus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/A-Proposal-Four-Years-in-the-Making/(Photo: unknown) Pandas were an endangered species. Now anyone who opposes them faces extinction. Beware of Mecha Panda, whom The Womb Mates refers to as “Godzilla’s next opponent.”-via The Gee...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Mecha-Panda/[http://youtu.be/gs6n4XKApqc] (YouTube link)The Campus Bike Centre at the University of Victoria installed automatic motion-sensing doors to make it easy for cyclists to enter and exit without dismounting. It’s a b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Smart-Birds-Open-Doors/Now that Pendleton Ward has brought his animated fantasy series Adventure Time to the small screen it’s hard to imagine a world without Finn and Jake protecting the Candy Kingdom from the likes of Lemongra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/The-Creator-Of-Adventure-Time-Is-Running-An-RPG-Through-Twitter/Believe it or not, this is a “phone booth.” Redditor grains_of_paradise posted this picture of a new phone booth installed in his mother’s workplace. A phone booth in an office? Yep, bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Phone-Booths-Are-Back/Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are studying the water quality of the Masa River in Kenya. Approximately 4,000 hippopotamuses live in that river. On average, a hippo produces about 22 pounds of excrement every...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Scientists-Build-Crocodile-Shaped-Boats-to-Study-Hippopotamus-Poop/X-Men: Days of Future Past opens nationwide today. It is the fourth seventh movie in the X-Men series, and begins a new story arc in the world of X-Men: First Class. If you haven’t spent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/20-Things-You-Might-Not-Know-About-The-X-Men-and-Days-of-Future-Past/(Video Link)The gluttonous, pellet chomping ghost slayer known as Pac-Man has just celebrated his 34th birthday, and boy has he come a long way from the days of arcade mania and nightly news reporters claimin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Supercut-Of-Newscasters-Struggling-To-Describe-Pac-Man/Are you too cool for school? You might feel like that if you spend the night in an elementary school classroom converted into a hotel room. Of course, when it comes to cool, it's hard to beat the ice hotel in Sweden, whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/11-of-the-Strangest-and-Coolest-Hotels-in-the-World/Knock, Knock, Knock, Lenny!!! by LokuWhen that guy Lenny from across the hall comes knocking on your door it's hard to tell him to get lost, but you gotta hit him with the big bang "Slammo! Door shut right in the kisser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Knock-Knock-Knock-Lenny-Daves-Not-Here-Man/Science has done a terrific job of answering some of the world’s most difficult questions, but certain mysteries still elude researchers. How does gravity work? Can your pet fish really predict an earthquake?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/10-Questions-Still-Baffling-Scientists/A 58-year old man with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder underwent deep brain stimulation--a procedure which placed an electrical implant in his brain. This implant sent impulses to selected areas of his brain. It wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/Brain-Implant-Turns-Man-into-Passionate-Johnny-Cash-Fan/[http://youtu.be/J77wZbbtt4M] (YouTube link)The other day I suggested you go to NPR for inspiration in order to make a commencement speech. The same folks have simplified the process into eight simple steps. Follow these...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/23/How-To-Give-A-Commencement-Speech-In-8-Easy-Steps/
