This ultramodern desert home is located at Joshua Tree, in the High Desert of Southern California. Built so that it blends almost seamlessly into the landscape, the concrete of its roof and walls is the same color as its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/This-Modern-Home-is-One-With-the-Desert/The Humane Society of Silicon Valley posted an ad for a chihuahua who needs a home. They don’t pull any punches about Eddie the Terrible. They lay out three big reasons Eddie might not be the dog you want. Here&rsq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Adoption-Ad-For-a-Terrible-Chihuahua/Cat-At Loves Lasers by Nathan DavisYou probably only know those AT mech units from their appearance in that famous snowy battle on Hoth, but believe it or not those clomping four legged war machines start out looking pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Cat-At-Loves-Lasers-The-Lighter-Side-Of-The-Dark-Side/(According to Devin/Devin Bosco Le)If you're a high school or college student, then you may be studying for your final exams right now. Don't sweat them! Once you have the exam in your hands, you'll be r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Good-Luck-on-Your-Final-Exams/[http://youtu.be/-zhs1ea1EYw]YouTube LinkNew internet darling Munchkin the Teddy Bear is dashing through the snow in a Shih Tzu driven sleigh in this video. Her Halloween costume is being put to goo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Munchkin-the-Teddy-Bear-Takes-to-Her-Sleigh/(Photo: Edward Guttierrez/US Navy)This is the GhostSwimmer, a new drone developed for the US Navy. It's 5 feet long and designed to resemble a shark. It swims like one, too! It flips its tail back a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/The-Navys-New-Drone-Looks-and-Swims-Like-a-Shark/Source: Redditor carrisThe dogs shown here are from shelters, accustomed to a lonely existence behind bars with minimal human contact. Then suddenly, a visitor or a family has them sprung from their ke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Excited-Shelter-Dogs-on-Their-Way-to-a-New-Home/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15xhG6pVUw](Video Link)"Oh, God, it's Mom!"This is so precious! On the left, representing the right, is Dallas Woodhouse. On the right, representing the left, is Brad Woodhouse. They're...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/2-Brothers-Arguing-on-C-SPAN-Interrupted-by-Call-from-Mom/(Photo: Cooper Hewitt)And I don't open up my box of superlatives like that without good reason. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum owns this rare and bizarre artifact of early Nineteenth Century Dutch origin. *s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/This-Amazing-Birdcage-and-Fish-Bowl-Is-Unlike-Anything-Youve-Seen-Before/[http://youtu.be/xnIQinb8ofk] (YouTube link)It’s a rare treat when anyone shows up in the neighborhood Christmas caroling anymore. A choir came to our shut-in neighbor’s house last year and the whole street t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Epic-Christmas-Caroling/Tim Baker and his team of master prop builders can make anything. They've got the tools, the materials, and the skills necessary to create unique collectibles that will make any fan squeal with delight. That's why their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-Litter-Box-and-Scratching-Post/It's gotta be hard to have a famous face, what with all the adoring fans recognizing you in public and wanting to do a stop-and-chat and whatnot, but imagine how much harder it must be to have a face that kinda looks lik...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/People-Who-Might-Be-Mistaken-For-Celebrities-Once-In-A-While/Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis DavidMona Lisa by Leonardo da VinciChris Limbrick and Francesco Fragomeni work at Squarespace, a web hosting service. They're working on a project a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Bored-Office-Workers-Recreate-Famous-Works-of-Art/Baby On Board (Dark) by DutyfreakIf you've been facehugged and are now awaiting the utterly excruciating process of xenomorphic birth, where a toothy little 'un tears itself out of your stomach and goes after all of you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Baby-On-Board-Black-Announcing-A-New-Alien-Arrival/This is headis, a sport played in Germany. Two people face off across a ping pong table, knocking a soccer ball back and forth between them. They can use only their heads to hit the ball.[https://www.you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/This-Sport-Is-Ping-Pong-That-You-Play-with-Your-Head-and-a-Soccer-Ball/All of us at Neatorama wish you a very beardly Christmas! You can get started having one with these 12 Christmas-themed beards photographed by Stephanie Jarstad. Although Movember is over, Jarstad rejoic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/The-12-Beards-of-Christmas/View image | gettyimages.comThere are 563 people in Shishmaref, Alaska, just 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The 3-mile long island the village sits on is eroding as increasing numbers of storms are collapsing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Shishmaref-Alaska-a-Village-Looking-for-a-Home/Would a child alone hunted by criminals be scarred for life from the experience? Former child actor Macaulay Culkin is--literally. During one scene for the 1990 Christmas movie Home Alone, co-star Joe Pesci bit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/9-Things-You-Might-Not-Know-about-Home-Alone/Christmas is less than ten days away, and you haven't finished your shopping yet, well guess what? There's still time to order some totally amazing t-shirts from the NeatoShop to share with your friends...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Its-Not-Too-Late-To-Grab-These-Christmas-Themed-NeatoShop-T-Shirts/[http://youtu.be/axgDgH6f7Pw] (YouTube link)Zapatou (Luc Bergeron) is back with another mesmerizing compilation of the crazy, scary, and amazing things that people (and animals) do, culled from 233 viral videos of 2014....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Zapatous-Best-of-the-Web-7/H.H. Holmes“Come with me, if you will, to a tiny, quiet, New England village, nestling among the picturesquely rugged hills of New Hampshire.”-H.H. Holmes, “Holmes’ Own Story...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/HH-Holmes-The-Monster-and-His-Castle-2/A building on Montreal caught fire last September. Firefighters were eager to get to it as soon as possible, for it was blazing vigorously.This took place in Old Montreal--the oldest part of the city, wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/The-Fire-Truck-Will-Get-Where-It-Needs-to-Go-Even-If-It-Has-to-Push-a-Police-Cruiser-out-of-the-Way/For all the feel good moments, empowering messages and adorable characters doing adorable things in our favorite Disney films there are just as many dark moments and bitter ends.It may come as a surprise to some Disney f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Five-Horrific-Death-Scenes-In-Disney-Features/(Photo: Pedro Dias)Neither of these series was required reading for me when I was in high school, but Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was required reading when I took a children's literature class in libra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/7-Reasons-Why-Harry-Potter-and-The-Lord-of-the-Rings-Should-Be-Required-Reading-in-School/Mr. Christmas by Warbucks DesignWhen it came time for little Cindy Lou Who to write her memoirs she couldn't help but center the story around that furry green grump known as The Grinch, also known as the guy who almost...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Mr-Christmas-His-Heart-Is-Full-Of-Unwashed-Socks-And-Yuletide-Cheer/[https://vimeo.com/114154731] (vimeo link)Sara Mandel takes care of a flock of Magellanic penguins at the Aquarium of the Pacific. She had bought the iPad app Game for Cats and since her cat liked it, she thought she&rsq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/16/Penguins-Play-a-Video-Game/Home theater/swimming pool combo | Source: s-media-cache-ec7.pinimg.comYou win a ridiculously high amount of dough in the lottery. You collect your winnings and decide to build the house of your dreams. Wha...
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