Do you have a special connection with bacon? Can you get it to pose for you in sexy positions? The Official Bacon Contest at Mr. Baconpants might be your chance to win all kinds of glorious bacon prizes. Categories i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/29/bacon-photo-contest/If you think those professionally created dog costumes are mean to force pets to wear, then you really ought to see the options people turn to when they don't just buy the pre-made costumes. I guess this is why Star...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/29/worst-dog-costume-ever/Eggshells are a wonder of nature. They are the perfect packaging for bird babies and the food they need. Eggshells are full of calcium. And they have a great many uses after you take the yolk and the white out. I put all...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/29/12-eggscellent-things-you-can-do-with-eggshells/(YouTube link) Leave it to the Japanese to invent a musical instrument with a face that looks like a cartoon character. The Otamatone was developed by toy company CUBE Works and Maywa Denki, an art collaboration of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/29/otamatone/These V-Houses were designed by Heinz Legler for use as eco-friendly shelters. They are in temporary use for workers is a forest near Yelapa, Mexico, but have proved so popular that more have been ordered to house reso...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/29/v-houses/This toilet paper dispenser looks like a giant tube of glue! No need to squeeze this tube, just pull the toilet paper out. The back end is sealed with Velcro, so you can easily add more paper. Link -via Unique Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/29/glue-toilet-paper-dispenser/Tactical Bacon is ready-to-eat bacon packed 54 slices to a can for $15.99. It has a ten-year shelf life, which makes it perfect for your underground apocalypse shelter. But when you open it, you’ll have to eat all 54...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/29/tactical-bacon/Research into the subject of why humans cry (and animals don’t) has produced several theories. Some say it’s to shed harmful chemicals from the body. Others theorize that crying is a holdover from the way infants com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/29/why-do-we-cry/After 26 years of teaching children (literally my entire life), Reading Rainbow is being cancelled. It's not for a lack of interest, but a lack of funding for the show. NPR says the show also was victim of a “shift...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/reading-rainbow-cancelled/InventorSpot has posted their yearly list of top pet costumes for Halloween. As always, the selection fails to disappoint, like the little Football Star Costume shown. The whole list is great. LinkFunny, halloween...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/13-best-pet-halloween-costumes/Photo: CollectSpace Wired has a list of some of the strangest mission patches that NASA has produced. The patch above was for the creation of the Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules of the International Space Sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/nasas-weirdest-mission-patches/Photo: Flynet A month ago, I linked to a news story about plans for a full-sized LEGO house in the UK. James May, the TV host responsible, has construction of the three-million brick project well underway. And yes,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/lego-house-under-construction/(YouTube Link) Linsey Pollak, Brendan Hook, and Ric Halstead comprise The Cycologists, an Australian band that bases its preformances on a bicycle theme. They've fitted their instruments into their bicycles, as the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/the-cycologists-a-bicycle-themed-band/(Video Link) Brooklyn-based artist Ranjit Bhatnagar works with sound installations and homemade instruments. He created this music box guided by a Möbius strip. It'd be perfect for playing "The Song That Neve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/mobius-strip-music-box/The Chance and Community Chest cards in the standard Monopoly game were redesigned last year. This Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test how well you remember the old designs. Can you match the text with the images...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/chance-or-community-chest/Photo: Brian Ulrich Photographer Brian Ulrich has spent the last few year examining “the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live.” His latest project captures the beauty...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/dark-stores/James Hayes-Bohanan, Ph.D. is a professor of geography AND a scholar with the Vanderbilt University Institute for Coffee Studies. His website Geography of Coffee is full of information about coffee around the world, incl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/the-geography-of-coffee/This is a slice of cartoonist Jim Unwin's diagram of mythical creatures. Unwin, based out of South London, is also noted around the Internet for his "virtual collection" of chairs from The Incredibles and a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/venn-diagram-of-mythical-creatures/Looks like America is not the only country that needs to be weary of fast food. While not many outside the US can see the appeal of a Big Mac, people in Morocco just love the McArabia. This new sneaky tactic of adap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/28/morocco-gets-supersized-with-the-mcarabia/Fans of the book will love these delicious cupcakes. They'd be great for any kids party, but that doesn't mean adults won't enjoy them too. These are texas-sized snickerdoodle cupcakes. For frosting and decorations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/where-the-wild-things-are-cupcakes/Psychologists Paul W. Andrews and J. Anderson Thompson, Jr. argue that depression may be an evolutionary advantage developed early in human history. What could be good about depression? Depressed people often thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/the-evolutionary-origins-of-depression/(YouTube Link) YouTube user bengraphics created this montage of film clips from the past 100 years, demonstrating the evolution of cinematic special effects. It was originally just intended for a class lecture, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/100-years-of-special-effects/Dutch artist Peter Jansen creates polyamide and bronze sculptures that look like a split second in time. They don't actually move, but they look like they are in motion. Perhaps appropriately, he started out as a phy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/peter-jansens-sculptures-in-motion/Image: BIG Architects Kazakhstan has commissioned BIG Architects to build a library and cultural center in the city of Astana. The design that the firm submitted in response is shaped like a Möbius strip -- a struct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/a-building-shaped-like-a-mobius-strip/MacGyver Chef is a new series at the gadget blog Gizmodo about attempts to cook meals without conventional cooking implements. Author Dan Nosowitz has previously poached chicken and couscous in a coffee maker. In h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/how-to-cook-salmon-in-your-dishwasher/That’s a pretty daring title for an internet list, but I was only familiar with a couple of these (including the bonus). Honestly, have you ever heard of a pink fairy armadillo? It’s also known as the Lesser pichic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/10-mammals-you-probably-didnt-know-exist/Japan is facing an aging population and a shortage of nurses. the robotics industry, on the other hand, is booming. Introducing RIBA, which stands for “Robot for Interactive Body Assistance”. RIBA can pick up and c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/robot-nurse-bear/A new study shows that elderly people who are overweight or obese have significantly less brain tissue than those of normal weight. The difference was 4% for overweight people and 8% for the obese in a study of 94 people...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/as-waistlines-widen-brains-shrink/Mark Wattson of Swindon, England was diagnosed with a ruptured appendix in August. He thought the doctors must have made a mistake, since his appendix had been removed in July! Nevertheless, his appendix was removed in a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/appendix-ruptures-a-month-after-removal/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Golden Retriever Takes on White Tiger Cubs Isabella, a golden retriever and recently a first time mom, adopted these three white tiger cubs af...
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