Alphabet Ice Cube Tray - $29.95 Think of all the wonderful words you could spell with your very own Alphabet Ice Cube Tray from the NeatoShop! The possibilities are endless. The best part is that the evidence just...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/alphabet-ice-cube-tray/Photo: James BalogThe tree in the photo above is pretty tall - so tall, in fact, that it used to be the tallest known tree in the world. Until people found other trees that are even taller. NPR's Robert Krulwich has a ve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/worlds-tallest-tree/Photo link Gallery 1988 in L.A. is currently exhibiting covers to classic books... but not the covers you've seen lining shelves at Barnes & Noble. Forty-five artists have re-imagined the art with amazing results. I l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/classic-book-covers-re-imagined/Instructables user bbstudio doesn't reveal how he does it, but the results of his egg carving are amazing! He's participating in a competition using the Egg-bot, so presumably that factors into the process....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/carved-eggshell/(Video Link) High school baseball player Caleb Walker of Tupelo, Mississippi, really didn't have a chance of making it to home. But as you can see, he outwitted the catcher in a very clever move. http://www.wtva...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/runner-gets-to-home-by-jumping-over-the-catcher/This darkened photo doesn't really do the project justice -- it just shows the neat lighting that illustrates why the class of this transport vessel was called Firefly. That was an important detail that Doyle didn't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/astoundingly-detailed-lego-serenity/(Video Link) The comedy troupe Half Day Today, which made the very funny trailer for an Oregon Trail movie, now envisions the board game Monopoly as a fast-paced thriller similar to The Devil's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/monopoly-the-movie/The steam engine, lightbulb, the polio vaccine -- and now this modern marvel. Since the beginning of time, humanity has been unable to drink two different slurpee flavors from the same cup, let alone alternate between t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/forward-on-the-march-of-progress-7-11-unveils-the-dual-chambered-slurpee/You Tube Link Olivia Riley enjoys fishing for catfish in Kansas City's Troost Lake. On Saturday, however, she caught something a little more unusual than a catfish. Instead of coming up with a catfish, Riley captur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/olivia-catches-a-giant-goldfish/The length of a man's ring finger has been tied to success at financial trading, and its length in relation to the index finger is an indicator of exposure to testosterone in utero. Now a recent study suggests that men...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/women-find-men-with-long-ring-fingers-attractive/A fertility clinic in Copenhagen wanted an easy way to transport biological materials in insulated storage through the city, and so commissioned the construction of the Sperm Bullitt: The Sperm Bike is, like the c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/this-is-a-courier-bike-used-by-a-fertility-clinic-in-copenhagen/Jason Vorhees Friday the 13th Pop! Bobblehead - $9.95 How do you make a scary film character cute? You turn him into a bobblehead of course! Just check out the Jason Vorhees Friday the 13th Pop! Bobblehead from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/jason-vorhees-friday-the-13th-pop-bobblehead/Would you like to smell like an orc? You're most of the way already, but let's finish you off with this new scent from Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs. The company describes it as "Field grey courgette musk, roughly cured le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/dungeons-dragons-themed-perfumes/This doesn't seem like a good plan for a robbery. According to a local news report, the suspect: [...] hid the game controller in his pocket and pretended it was a gun as he tried to rob the Sun Food Store on 62nd Av...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/man-tries-and-fails-to-rob-convenience-store-using-a-playstation-controller/There's not much evidence to support the claim, but allegedly, this is a picture of two bullets that collided with each other, head-on, from opposite directions. One is French and the other is Russian, and the two m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/two-bullets-that-hit-each-other-head-on/OkTrends has an intriguing post about sex compiled from the data from the bazillion interaction data of members of the OkCupid dating site (you can read all 10 interesting statistics), but this one is particularly intrig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/active-twitter-users-have-shorter-relationships/Photo: Venice311.orgWhat better day to raid a medical marijuana dispensary than 4/20 AKA National Weed Day? The LAist explains:No better day for a tour of beachfront dispensaries than April 20th, or 4/20, the date/ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/pot-shop-raided-on-420/(YouTube link) The US has Isaiah Mustafa; the rest of the world has this. It's an ad for Old Spice Danger Zone that airs various other nations. Funny, yes, but I think America got the better end of the deal. -via Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/danger-zone/Guess who's silently recording your movements? Charles Arthur of The Guardian broke the story that Apple's iPhone is keeping track of where you've been in a secret file:"Apple has made it possible for almost any...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/iphone-secretly-records-your-movements/You'd think that after wearing a meat dress, Lady Gaga wouldn't mind anyone making a parody of her - much less "Weird Al" Yankovic. I mean, wouldn't you be proud that Al made a music parody of your song? That's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/weird-al-vs-lady-gaga-perform-this-way-parody/Photo via TheDailyWhat and redditprinter, Bob Marley...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/this-printer-is-now-named-bob-marley/What does Barbie look like if she were a real person? For National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, high school student Galia Slayen decided to make a life-size Barbie, using the same proportion as the iconic doll:Sla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/life-size-barbie/If you've ever wonder what the back of the web's most famous websites look like, Jeff Lam and Josephine Yatar have got you covered. I've got only this to say: !emosewALink - via MetafilterJeff Lam, Josephine Yatar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/back-of-a-web-page/Move over, Banksy - there's a new avant garde graffiti artist prowling the streets. Behold, Hanksy! via Wooster CollectivePreviously on Neatorama: T.HANKS: The Tom Hanks Trash Bingraffiti, Tom Hanks, banksy, hanksy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/hanksy/When Polish artist Rafal Bujnowski wanted to visit the United States in 2004, he decided to turn the visa application into performance art of sorts:... Bujnowski painted a photo-realistic self-portrait in black and w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/artist-submitted-photo-realistic-self-portrait-for-usa-visa-photo/Photo:David Schwen [Flickr]David Schwen created this nifty can of Poké Beer. Gotta drink 'em all! See the rest of his Poké stuff here: Link (Don't miss the Poké Banana!)Beer, Pokemon, poke beer, Davi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/pok-beer-i-choose-you/Star Ball - $29.95Kick your creativity into overdrive and have a ton of fun to boot with Roger von Oech's patented magnetic Star Ball from the NeatoShop. The Star Ball is composed of 32 magnetic pieces: 12 five-legged s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/star-ball/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6GyJBgBk2o] YouTube link. Scientists at the University of Nottingham take a light-hearted look at traditional Easter treats. In a parallel piece, physicists pound and pulveriz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/chemists-cauterize-chill-cadbury-cremes/There is a cave on the side of the side Gellert Hill near Budapest, Hungary, in which it is said that a monk, possibly St. Istvan, lived his life. It later became a place of worship run by the Pauline monks. In 1951,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/20/the-cave-church-in-budapest/(YouTube link) Purdue University holds an annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for students from colleges all over. A world record was set this year, as the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hi...
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