World’s Strangest

A man in New Zealand has taken a photograph of a post office that appears to show a ghostly figure in one of the windows. Andrew Watters and his partn…

This post is not part of the official “What Is It?” contest category, but I couldn’t resist presenting the subject in this enigmatic fashion. The object on the left above is crafted from gold, the right one from silver. Ponder for a while what possible practical utility they might serve. They are quite interesting, really. It [...]

Today’s “Feel Art Again” is a double-header. First up is this post on Johann Zoffany, followed by a post delving into his painting “The Tribuna of the Uffizi.” Read both to get the full story on this talented artist. Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) was a German-born English painter and favored portraitist of King George III and Queen [...]

Each post in this blog pairs a screenshot from a TV show with a literary quote. The pairings are astonishingly apt, at least for the shows I recognize, and there are a lot of them to go through. Link -via Metafilter

We don’t usually post about pranks and means things like that on Neatorama, but this one is just too cute to pass. Here’s Becky prank calling a local demolition company in Dublin, asking them to demolish her school (with her teachers in it because they give her extra homework on Friday!). Hit play or go [...]

This year I posted a bunch of Sesame Street videos. YouTube is a wonderful thing, and what’s better is that the folks at Sesame Street post tons of clips online, and don’t seem to file many rights complaints against others who post clips. For your convenience, I’ve collected the best of this year’s Sesame Street [...]

In a three-part post. you’ll see dozens of beautiful illustrations from Iranian children’s books of the past few decades. These works of art were gleaned from the International Children’s Digital Library. The illustration pictured is by Mohammadrezaa Daadgar from the book As the Sparrow Says by Qeysar Aminpour. Link (links to the other posts are [...]

Humans can solve them, computers cannot, or so we’ve been led to believe. Yes, I’m talking about CAPTCHAs, those annoying puzzles you see whenever you post something to Craigslist, or even try to leave a comment on this blog. Originally designed to block spam, Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart, or [...]

Web Urbanist has a great post of case mods on their recent post. The most awesome is disputably this beer dispenser mod. Even non-beer drinkers (like myself) can still appreciate the genius behind this creation. Link Image Via Gizmodo

In this two-part post, see animals you may or may not be familiar with all dressed in their best Arctic white! Animals that live in the Arctic (either full time or seasonally) are adapted to extreme conditions. Many animals who overwinter in the Arctic (like the Arctic fox and the ermine) have a coat that thickens [...]