Set your kids on the path to Star Wars fandom early by teaching them the ABCs using Star Wars characters! This Flickr set by illustrator Michael Fleming made me smile. Link -Thanks, Bairman! Star Wars, alpha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/star-wars-alphabet/You read about fast foods of Europe and Asia and Australia, now in the third part of the series, HealthAssist takes a look at fast food from South and Central America. For example, in Panama: Fondas are one of the m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/fast-food-of-south-and-central-america/A new procedure to help people with damaged corneas is showing promise in three patients so far. A team from the University of New South Wales in Sydney takes stem cells from the patient's good eye and cultures them in a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/contact-lens-enables-transplant/65-year-old Hou Guoying recently had a bullet removed that had been lodged in her face for 42 years! She was shot accidently during the Cultural Revolution in China in 1967. The bullet apparently hit her when it ri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/bullet-removed-after-42-years/I personally liked school lunch. But looking at these pictures, it seems like my school may have been the exception to the rule. This collection has 26 different school lunches from six countries.Korea: Kimchi, a f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/school-lunch-from-around-the-world/Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is doing something special during the band's final tour. By offering special concert packages and encouraging donations, they have raised over $850,000 to help Eric De La Cruz get heart tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/reznor-helps-transplant-patient/Your spray can empty after a hard night graffitying? Don't toss the can! Remember the environment, and recycle it into something cool.That's what artist Jake Rankin of Portland, Oregon, does: he takes spent Krylon cans a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/spray-paint-can-lamp/Photos: otisarchives2 (left), modcult (right)Are cave paintings signs of intelligence of ancient cave dwellers or are they just scribbles of crazy cavemen? Take a look at the two photos above. The one to the left is a pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/did-crazy-cavemen-make-those-cave-drawings/Here's a trivia for all you Trekkers to talk about during the previews of the new Star Trek movie. Did you know that the Vulcan salute - you know, the "live long and prosper" hand signal invented by Leonard Nim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/the-jewish-origin-of-the-vulcan-salute/by Rande DaykinMove over, LOLcats! There's a new meme in town. Here's LOL Fat Cats: Link (Now, why didn't I think of this?) - via Nag on the LakePreviously on Neatorama: Top 15 Amazingly Fat Catsmeme, lol cat, fat cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/lol-fat-cats/Morris Cerullo in a poster advertising for his "Mission to London" (Photo: LoopZilla)Loan modification and debt cancellation are hot businesses right now. So hot that God himself apparently decided to get in on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/gods-debt-cancellation-plan/Tonka the tortoise was found in San Mateo County in California after it had been attacked by a dog that had bitten off one of her legs. Rescuers were afraid she would never be able to move normally until one of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/tonka-the-tortoise/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Blues Brother crashing through City Hall Mashed together by Sifter YouDieJoe, a perfect mix of Blues Brothers and the reality of an angry dude...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/videosift-clips-of-the-week-27/Digital Inspiration features a map illustrating the countires least affected by the global recession, as ranked according to a survey conducted by Servcorp for the Herald Sun.Australia takes the top spot followed by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/countries-least-affected-by-recession/Andy Baio of waxy.org blog posted 23 photos of backgrounds from various internet memes. Like Garfield without Garfield, the result is strangely disconcerting. Would you still recognize what these Internet memes a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/internet-meme-scenery/Yawns? Hiccups? Goosebumps? Shivers? They all happen for a reason. Kimberly Fusaro of Woman's Day spoke with Eric Plasker, author of The 100 Year Lifestyle to find out why our bodies do peculiar things. Ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/why-does-my-body-do-that/In a series of photos taken by NASA, you can observe the dramatic disappearance of the Aral Sea in a relatively short period - between 2000 and 2009. In a series of dramatic photos, NASA has been able to capture...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/28/nasa-photos-the-disappearance-of-the-aral-sea/(YouTube link) They play better with their feet than I do with ten fingers and a score! The song is Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, by J.S. Bach. -via Arbroath piano, Toccata...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/two-girls-one-piano/National Geographic has a gallery titled GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science, which includes pictures of animals that have been engineered to become fluorescent using Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/glowing-animals/Seriously, if I had a back yard larger than a postage stamp and a budget that could accomidate more than a nice dinner ever few weeks, I would totally pimp it out with one of these. I mean, come on! Look at that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/8-awe-inspiring-swimming-pools/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests your knowledge of zombie movies, specifically those that end with ...of the Dead or ...of the Living Dead. You'll see two movie titles; you decide which on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/quiz-of-the-living-dead/A short quiz that tests whether you could pass sex ed. It's trickier than I thought.LinkFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by MatthewInman.sex, quizzes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/could-you-pass-6th-grade-sex-ed-class/This shower head has 96 programmable LEDs of various colors to provide a surreal shower-in-the-dark experience. Sounds pretty cool until you realize that this experience will cost you over four grand US. £2,799.00, to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/rio-lighted-shower/The first draft of Star Wars was pretty awful. Mystery Man on Film takes a closer look at the 1974 version in which the young hero is Annikin Starkiller, Luke Skywalker is an elderly general, and Darth Vader is a minor c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/the-first-draft-of-star-wars/Xenon {wiki} is the heaviest non-radioactive noble gas. It affects your voice like sulphur hexafluoride (previously at Neatorama) and can get you high like nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Don't try this at home; just watch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/breathing-xenon/We noticed a few comments complaining about ads with sound on Neatorama. We'd like to apologize for that and we want you to know that it's not cool - we don't purposely run ads with self-playing audio on the blogUnfortun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/a-little-help-hunt-for-rogue-ad-on-neatorama/This honey cake is baked inside a Honey Baked Ham shell and topped with a lovely little slice of pineapple. It is a one up to the meat to cake ratio of the bacon cupcake. Linkcupcakes, bacon, ham...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/honey-baked-ham-cupcakes/This masterpeice was entered in the upcoming Stitch Wars exhibit at the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery in Florida. The little blue Luke Skywalker is zipped inside for a super Star Wars surprise. Link Via CraftZi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/plush-star-wars-tauntaun/Since its debut a little over a week ago, I've been playing with Wolfram|Alpha. For those of you who don't know, it is an ambitious project by Stephen Wolfram (of Mathematica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/wolfram-alpha-blind-to-the-blogosphere/A pseudonymous (presumably) student named Kat Atreides responded to her school's ban on a large number of books by forming a secret library in her locker, and then loaning out banned books to students: I go to a p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/26/student-thwarts-schools-book-ban-by-forming-secret-lending-library/
