World’s Strangest

(YouTube link) Another musical remix by Nick Bertke, also known as Pogo, this time composed entirely of sounds found in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day. -via Laughing Squid Previously at Neatorama: Expialidocious and Alice.

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Forget the Neatorama redesign – that was nothing compared to this beauty. Yes, you’ve found it at last … Behold, the world’s most beautiful website. No, it’s not a joke – it’s the website of an actual store called Yvette’s in Panama City, Florida. Link (For the full effect, you should turn up your computer’s [...]

Hooray! I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that Neatorama has a new look (all you RSS readers, come take a look) and a couple of new features. First of all, I’d like to thank Nathan Mazur of Scared of Bees who did the new art for the blog. Nathan, as you may know, also designed some [...]

W00t! It’s time for this week’s collaboration with What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the gruesome tool to the left is used for? Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you’d like. The first correct guess and the funniest albeit incorrect one will [...]

A couple of weeks ago, PostRank revealed their Top Blogs of 2009. The ranks are based on what the company called “engagements” – basically how people interact with a particular blog post. Posting a comment, making a tweet, or voting one digg count as an engagement event. PostRank aims to analyze these engagements throughout social media [...]

Neatorama has featured a number of stories about animals who have received prosthetics before, including Beauty the Bald Eagle, who lost her beak when it was shot by a hunter. WebEcoist has a great collection of these stories including many you probably haven’t seen yet. Link

Flickr links: Mustard Gas | Phosgene Yes, Minnesotastan has posted about the Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s photo collection on Flickr before on Neatorama, but I found these posters telling the public how to distinguish various poison gases through their distinct smells to be utterly fascinating! I mean, whodathunk that mustard [...]

Do flattery work in helping you get what you want, dear talented and awesome reader, who will surely tell their friends and loved ones about Neatorama? Apparently so. A new study by Elaine Chan and Jaideep Sengupta at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology revealed that flattery does work – even if the flatteree (is that a word?) knows [...]

Danish artist Kristine Suhr creates images that move when tabs — like those on children’s pop-up books — are pulled. Since they’re brief Flash videos, there’s no way to demonstrate them in motion here at Neatorama, but at the link, you can view a whole gallery of them moving. Warning: sound effects. Link via DudeCraft