That Ubisoft/Kojima April Fool's joke was pretty elaborate! Snake running around MGS4 dressed as Altair, looking for all the world like it was actually in the game...so would it surprise you to hear that it wasn't really a gag? Yeah, that's right. It was announced at the MGS4 wrap party today that MGS4 ...
Posted 5.13.2008 6:30am (7 months ago)
Announced during the MGS4 party earlier today, Konami have teamed up with Japanese label Uniqlo to release a range of snazzy new MGS shirts. There are six designs to choose from, with each design coming in two colours, for a grand total of twelve shirts you can view on the internet, dream of buying ...
Posted 5.13.2008 9:20am (7 months ago)
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Funcom has announced that over one million people have signed up for the beta of their upcoming MMO Age of Conan, possibly the largest beta numbers for an MMO since the very dawn of time. To celebrate, they've released a trailer highlighting the ...
Posted 5.13.2008 11:20am (7 months ago)
The sport of cheese racing began in 1997 when a group of friends put individually-wrapped cheese slices onto a barbecue grill to see what would happen. To their surprise, the plastic did not melt or burn. But the cheese expanded, turning the objects into inflated pillows! The object of cheese racing ...
Posted 5.13.2008 10:11am (7 months ago)
62-year-old rocker Neil Young has been honored with his own species, a trapdoor spider named Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.
An East Carolina University biologist, Jason Bond, discovered a new species of trapdoor spider and opted to call the arachnid after his favorite musician, Canadian Neil Young, naming ...
Posted 5.13.2008 10:13am (7 months ago)
Some parts of the earth are more vulnerable to devastation by global warming than others. Tropical (and biologically diverse) regions like the Great Barrier Reef, the Galapagos Islands, and the Virgin Islands may be the first to go, but highly populated areas such as New York, Tokyo, and London are ...
Posted 5.13.2008 10:14am (7 months ago)
Neptune Memorial Reef, three miles off Key Biscayne, Florida offers a final resting place for those who love the sea. Earthly remains are cremated then mixed with cement and laid on the ocean floor, with a memorial plaque.
Artist Kim Brandell, who designed the reef, said he was given no parameters in ...
Posted 5.13.2008 10:17am (7 months ago)
This photograph, originally from Cute Otters, shows an otter mom proudly displaying her offspring. It was one of many incredibly cute images of different kinds of animal mothers posted at The Pet Blog. Link -via the Presurfer
(image credit: SY Dration/Cute Otters)
Posted 5.13.2008 10:20am (7 months ago)
That’s fractal 23, a chest of drawers by Japanese furniture designer Takeshi Miyakawa. I’m guessing from the name that it has 23 drawers (indeed, if you count them, it makes sense) but to make use of them all,
you’d have to put it in the center of the room!
Link - via
Boing Boing
Posted 5.13.2008 2:16pm (7 months ago)
Paul Loughridge of Lockwasher Design makes awesome robots, ray guns, and rockets out of vintage cans and other found objects (read: junk).
We’ve actually featured Paul before on Neatorama a while ago, but this one sculpture, the Sir Lube of Can-O-Lot, is so awesome we just have to post about it. ...
Posted 5.13.2008 2:16pm (7 months ago)
Photo: Véronique Huyghe
Narcisse is an art project by French artist and designer Mathieu Lehanneur. It’s a giant bowl with mirrored surface filled with water - as soon as someone comes close to see his/her own reflection (just like Narcissus [wiki]), a promiximity sensor will trigger the ...
Posted 5.13.2008 2:17pm (7 months ago)
Gokhan Mutlu of Manhattan is suing JetBlue Airways for $2 million because a pilot made him sit on the toilet for 3 hours!
Mutlu was traveling on a a "buddy pass," a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from New York to San Diego on Feb. 16, and returned to New York ...
Posted 5.13.2008 2:18pm (7 months ago)
Photo: Pancake Blog - via Cute Overload
That’s Mr. Pancakes aka Cakes or Baby Cakes, a cute little bunny with his own blog.
Your task for today’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey, gentle readers, is to caption the photo. Funniest caption will win a free copy of Adam "Ape ...
Posted 5.13.2008 2:19pm (7 months ago)
Here is today's matchup. Vote now, these girls are counting on you!
Brianna
Alison
Written Today by CH Staff
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Posted 5.13.2008 11:00am (7 months ago)
4:45 PMStomach: Cool, he's napping. That's good, I need all the energy I can get to work on those two crunchwrap supremes he just plopped down here.Colon: Sorry, gotta do my 'thang.Stomach: Colon! You just woke him up! I'm not even halfway done with this yet. Whatever, sounds like he's up and about ...
Posted 5.13.2008 2:30pm (7 months ago)
"The city is his jungle. But he's also good in the regular jungle."
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Posted 5.13.2008 4:05pm (7 months ago)
"King James gives his mother a happy belated Mother's Day greeting on live TV: "Sit Yo' Ass Down!""
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Posted 5.13.2008 2:45pm (7 months ago)
"The vanal behind this graffiti was fined... for being too rad! (And also for assaulting his girlfriend in a separate incident)."
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Posted 5.13.2008 2:17pm (7 months ago)
OHHH! OOO!! PROFESSOR TABER! PROFESSOR TABER!!! ME! ME!!! HERE!Guy Sitting in the Back Looking At His Watch: Oh! Oh! Call on Jim Peterson! Jim Peterson! His hand has been in the air for, like, a minute now. Call on him, he always knows the answer! Man, how is he able to hold his hand up in the air ...
Posted 5.13.2008 4:00pm (7 months ago)
"Rob Paravonian explains why he hates this particular piece of classical music."
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Posted 5.13.2008 12:46pm (7 months ago)