Adorable subatomic particles you can cuddle up with! The Particle Zoo is made up of quarks, neutrinos, gluons, and others that each have their own personality. Meet the muon, who lives fast and dies young, the up quark...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/the-particle-zoo/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will find out how well you know the places where televisions sitcoms took place. I scored 67%, which surprised me because there were a lot of shows in this quiz I have ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/sitcom-settings/Best surfing movies: 1. Endless Summer 2. Riding Giants 3. North Shore Worst: 1. Blue Crush (I walked out on it) You can vote for (or against) this Threadless t-shirt design by clicking on the voting w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/the-end-of-summer/Hah - Miss Cellania posted a list of the 24 things that changed since college. A sneak peek:17. You're the one calling the police because those damn kids next door won't turn down the music. 18. You get out...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/thing-that-change-after-college/Hope the Maltese puppy was born without front legs, so orthotist David Turnbill made her a wheeled-device (out of airplane model parts) that lets her skate through life!Emily Bregel of the Times Free Press has the story:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/hope-the-bionic-dog-we-can-rebuild-her-we-have-the-technology/I bet you dollar to donuts that Bryn Mickle of The Flint Journal had a lot of fun writing that headline and lede ;) http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/index.ssf/2008/06/new_flint_chief_david_dicks_or.html - via Super Punc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/sometimes-the-headline-just-writes-itself/(Evil mad?) Scientists at the Hirose Fukushima lab in Japan have created our next robotic overlord: the ACM-R5 snakebot that can slither on land and swim gracefully in the water:The control system of ACM-R5 is an adv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/snakebot/Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer , Angel, and Firefly series, is bringing his next project straight to the web. The 3 10-minute webisode (perfect for the Net's short-attention-spanitis) "Doctor H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/doctor-horribles-sing-along-blog-webisodes/(Dayrobber link) Neatorama and Dayrobber present episode #2 of The Neatorama Show. I learned a lot from making the first video! Thanks for your feedback and keep those suggestions coming in. Featured links: Bit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/the-neatorama-show-2/Betty Jenkins was once an adventurous young woman with a flat chest. Her mother gave her an inflatable bra to attract men. But what happens when you wear a partially-inflated bra in a plane flying over the Andes Mountain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/a-bras-tale/Games Radar has collected pictures of 65 Things that Look Like Pac-Man. And a few things that look like the ghosts, too! Link -via Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/30/things-the-look-like-pac-man/WFMU discovered a big gallery of vintage cereal boxes posted by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that are so bizarre they might as well be plucked from an edition of Photoshop Phriday. Anyone ever enjoyed a box of Mr....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/gallery-of-vintage-cereal-boxes/Bad: Not invited to a birthday partyReally bad: Everybody else in school got invitedNeatorama-worthy: The school saw this, and confiscated all of the invitation cards be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/not-inviting-2-classmates-to-birthday-party-led-to-complaint-to-swedish-parliament/Most parents believe that their "bundle of joy" makes their life happy (I certainly do) but is it true that having kids make you happy?According to the latest research, those parents may actually be - gasp - wr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/do-children-make-us-happy/Phil Bridge, a 21-year-old university student in the UK, has designed a cardboard bicycle that cost around $30 to make: Supporting anyone up to 168 pounds, the frame, which costs around $6 to make, is made from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/30-cardboard-bicycle/Photo: Brian Skerry / National GeographicEcologist Enric Sala found a 500-year-old gigantic lobe coral in the Kingman Reef that looks like a flying saucer (the species is likely to be new to science).In the Paci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/kingman-reef/Ryan from Smartkit told us about their new Flash game "Poiser," a hand-drawn physics puzzle game that looks simple ... but it's maddeningly hard (and a lot of fun!)The concept is simple: stack the boxes until t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/poiser-a-fun-physics-stacking-game/In his latest series called "IT Everywhere" Paul The Wine Guy photoshopped pictures of graffiti as if they were done by geeks: Link [Flickr set]j - Thanks Jon Jason and Luciano!Previously on Neatorama:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/graffiti-by-geeks/How many remotes do you have? Are you always looking for them? Then here's something for you: the Remote Buddy, a vertical remote holder that not only serves as a home for your remotes, but will help you locate them when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/remote-buddy-holds-and-finds-your-remotes/Ladies of Madrid's long and hot evenings strut their stuff on the runway in an attempt to improve their status in their neighborhood. The fashion show appears to have been quite well attended. YouTube....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/prostitute-fashion-show-in-madrid/(video source link) This delightful animation by Tomer Eshed looks at the mating habits of the water shrew in a way you've never seen before. http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/member.php?page=fd&fid=2098&id=116416&categ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/our-wonderful-nature/Montage-maker Paul Proulx's work has been featured on Neatorama before, but I just couldn't resist myself again: Proulx has recently put together a 2-minute clip that features moments from his 100 favorite films. At...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/100-films-in-under-2-minutes/Ah, Google Earth. It's an amazing technology and service from Google ... which inadvertently helped launch UK's summertime craze: pool crashing!Teens begin by surfing Google Earth’s satellite images to find hou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/google-earth-helps-uk-teens-summertime-craze-pool-crashing/I've travelled quite a bit in the past, but I didn't even know about this: US Customs and Border Protection agents can "randomly" seize your laptop, camera, cell phone and other electronic devices at the border...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/29/random-inspection-of-your-laptops-content-at-us-border/Bad: Assaulting your momReally bad: Stabbing your mom with a forkNeatorama-worthy: While you're at it, beating another woman with a frozen chicken!Meet Frederick McKaney...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/28/assault-with-chicken/It's coming! It's coming! (Get it?) Mattel is coming out with a new Barbie doll from Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror film The Birds! It's not yet available, but boy, when it comes out, it'll be an ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/28/alfred-hitchcocks-the-birds-barbie-doll/Pretty soon you can ditch that remote control and change the channel with just winking at the TV or something, thanks to Jacob Whitehill.Jacob, a computer science Ph.D. student from UC San Diego built a technology for de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/28/scientist-turns-own-face-into-remote-control/We've all grabbed a stick and drawn a figure in the sand on the beach, but Jim Denevan took this artform to the extreme: he created some of the largest human-made art on Earth!Dark Roasted Blend has a neat feature on Jim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/28/giant-sand-artwork-by-jim-denevan/An inmate escaped from an Arkansas county jail ... and left behind a toilet paper flower because he felt bad for escaping! Luis Camacho-Mendoza was recaptured later hiding in a closet with a pillowcase over his head.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/28/jail-escapee-left-behind-a-toilet-paper-flower/Our friends at Boing Boing had recently posted up this footage of an interesting cartoon. During the Soviet Era the Russians decided they would create their own version of the childrens cartoon "Winne the Pooh" calle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/28/meet-comrade-vinni-the-puh/
