Kellogg's is testing out the idea of making cereal boxes shorter and wider to save room in your cupboard (and fit more on store shelves). What do you think? We don't eat much boxed cereal, but I can see where it might...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/more-cabinet-friendly-cereal-boxes/Oh, great! Now there is something else out there snarling traffic on our morning commute. Ok, there aren't really Zombies on the loose. It's just some hackers having far to good of a time and commiting a little crime.*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/road-signs-warn-of-zombies/Here are some hilarious pictures of handmade steampunk hearts, created out of polymer clay by Kimberly of Monster Kookies (Don't miss the gallery).LinkFrom the Upcoming Queue, submitted by 3oltan.steampunk, heart, craft...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/steampunk-heart-anatomy/Opposites attract, but other times it's the similarities that bond us to our loved one: Maybe you and your guy connected because you have the same favorite movie, enjoy the same types of food, or were raised with simi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/lookalike-couples/Who doesnt love a good papercraft? Especially one that mocks a large scale survelliance system that invades privacy of millions? Enjoy Nude Magazine's (no nudity on this page just papercraft, I promise) CCTV Papercraf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/papercraft-cctv-camera/Film student Tyler Clites creates heroes of the big screen out of LEGO's. See if you can guess the film stars here.Link - via larryfireFrom the Upcoming Queue, submitted by larryfire.movie star, minifig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/guess-the-lego-movie-star/The lineup of the Justice League of America has changed many times over the years. Can you name the original founding members that debuted in comic books in 1960? In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you have fou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/name-the-original-justice-league/Biotech researchers at U. Texas and Johns Hopkins have developed inexpensive wireless "micro-grabber" machines so small they can zoom around inside your capillaries and grab a living cell (see video here). ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/really-really-ridiculously-small-micro-grabbers/The Pittsburgh Steelers face the Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl this Sunday. At Endless Simmer, Pittsburgh is up against Arizona to see who had the best game day food. Read about local sandwiches, beer, pizza, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/pittsburgh-vs-arizona-super-bowl-food-off/The story of where the desk in the Oval Office came from is more intricate and exciting than you ever imagined. In 1845, famed explorer Sir John Franklin set out in the Terror and Erebus to discover the Northwest P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/the-oval-office-desk/Sure, you can buy plenty of Obama souvenirs, but you can make your own, too! WhipUp has indexed a wide variety of Obama craft projects found on the internet, from Obama crochet portraits to Obama knit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/obama-crafts/This week's collaboration with the What is it? Blog brings us this wonderfully strange contraption. It has a very specific (and awesome) function - can you tell us what it is for?Place your guess in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/what-is-it-game-90/Just in case you ever find yourself caught in both a rainstorm and Jedi fight, someone has created these $40 Light Saber Umbrellas. Via Geekologie, which hilariously asks "when rain hits a lightsaber does...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/light-saber-umbrellas/Four hours of baby play that has been packed into a two minute long timelapse video. The song is "Ensemble" by the Canadian artist Coeur de Pirate. Link [YouTube] - via kottke.orgbaby, timelapse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/baby-play-timelapse-video/Or: Hello, GeekAlerts! Yes, it's true - the blog is back. January has been a crazy month for me to say the least. Some of you might have read here on Neatorama that I had decided to close down GeekAlerts. It was a ver...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/the-power-of-less-not-nothingness/Watch an amazing video in which scientist uncover a giant ant colony that covers 50 square metres and goes eight metres down into the earth. The ants removed 40 tonnes of material to build this enormous colony.LinkFrom t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/giant-ant-colony/Aleta Meadowlark of the cleverly named Omnomicon blogged about her recipe on how to make this awesomely psychedelic rainbow cake: Link - via Unique DailyWhat I want to know is this: will it make you poo rainbow?Cake, diy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/rainbow-cake/You know the economy is bad when Wall Street banker's girlfriends are complaining about their lives. Here's a day-in-the-life of members of Dating a Banker Anonymous: They shared their sad stories the other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/wont-someone-think-of-the-wall-street-bankers-girlfriends/[YouTube - Link]Here's a brief and funny commercial for the New Zealand lottery featuring an English version of Edith Piaf's signature song, La Vie En Rose. - via dilidooFrom the Upcoming Queue, submitted by Minnesotast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/la-vie-en-rose-with-a-thorn/If you ever needed an excuse to dress up like you're from a horror movie, just tell everyone that you want a slimmer face. Then you can go around wearing the Face Slimmer (and sweat your face off too, no doubt).Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/japanese-face-slimmer/This amazingly creative and yummy electronic circuit is made by the guys over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. The "Circuitry Snack" is made entirely out of candies and snacks:Two of our favorite things...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/circuitry-snacks-done-playing-with-electronics-food/Love the Super Bowl? Holy Taco has a post about how to make your very own edible stadium out of snack food. The stands are made mostly out of Twinkies and the players out of Vienna sausages. And of course, the end zo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/29/snack-food-stadium/Artist Saimir Strati creates enormous mosaics out of nails, corks, and toothpicks. Here is a picture of him at work on his 2006 portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. It's made entirely out of nails. You can see a full gall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/28/portrait-of-leonardo-da-vinci-made-out-of-nails/From the stock Presidential comparisons to pop culture icons, Obama's pretty much been drawn or photoshopped as every consequential figure in American history. Their purposes are different -- some make historical...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/28/obama-photoshopped-or-drawn-as-other-iconic-people-a-collection/Here we have some stunning looking Steampunk lamps, made from a combination of new, recycled and found objects. Some of the parts used, to create these 3 amazing looking clocks include parts from antique radios, barom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/28/homemade-steampunk-lamps/While searching Flickr for garden photos to counter a winter's gloom, I encountered this rather startling image, labelled "Tea House, Kew Gardens, destroyed by suffragettes." For me the photo and story are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/28/suffragettes-run-wild-vandalize-kew-gardens/Here's a neat little report on the most ticked cars of 2008 compiled by a third party research group for the insurance companies...ISO Quality Planning, a company specializing in helping insurance companies identify...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/28/most-ticketed-cars-2008/The Big Picture, Alan Taylor's always stunning large-format picture blog for the Boston Globe, is featuring amazingly detailed bird's-eye views of London at night by photographer Jason Hawkes, a follow-up to a prior post...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/28/breathtaking-large-format-pictures-of-london-at-night/We've had our popular "I Love Science T-Shirt" designs in onesies and kids T-shirt sizes for a while now on Neatorama's Online Shop, but I thought I'd post a heads up here to show just how cute my son Zachary i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/28/i-love-science-shirts-in-onesies-and-kids-sizes/A heart breaking look at the slums of the world. For all of us who complain about our lives, and how poor we are.....just take a look. I guarantee you'll never think of yourself as poor again. The Venezuelan capit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/28/how-the-rest-of-the-world-lives/
