Simon's Cat vs. Box
Every cat that has ever been introduced to a box does this, without fail. Simon's cat is simply here to demonstrate. (YouTube Link)box, Simons cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/simons-cat-vs-box/Every cat that has ever been introduced to a box does this, without fail. Simon's cat is simply here to demonstrate. (YouTube Link)box, Simons cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/simons-cat-vs-box/More than three years ago, we wrote about a boat that is shaped like a dolphin. The Seabreacher is now available in shark form, too. So you can roam around shores and terrify beachgoers: It looks like a great wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/personal-watercraft-looks-like-a-shark-jumping-out-of-the-water/An important piece of data to the question of when we will welcome our new robot overlords is just how many robots are there in the world right now? (Answer: about 1,000,000 - still a puny number compared to humans, so G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/the-gravest-threat-to-your-job-isnt-illegal-immigrants-its-the-robots/It was Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, Florida, last week, so you know what this means: Star Wars cakes over at our pal Cake Wrecks and Star Wars geekery at Epbot! Check out what Jen has lined up for your viewing ple...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/the-best-lando-t-shirt-ever/Over in the NeatoShop, we sell an umbrella that has a handle similar to those found on Japanese samurai swords. One college student in Atlanta owns one (although he didn't get it from us), and when poli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/police-summoned-over-samurai-sword-umbrella/Tian offers the blog Hanzi Smatter as a public service to people who have Chinese characters tattooed on their bodies, but aren't sure what they mean. Email him a picture, and he'll translate it for you. The p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/chinese-tattoo-translation-service/I Want To Believe, The Alien Version - $14.95Here's a new T-shirt design from one of our favorite artists, Mike Jacobsen of See Mike Draw. I think there's amazing potential for alien-version cartoon and movie of our most...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/i-want-to-believe-the-alien-version/I have only one comment on this awesome Tranzor Z groom's cake by Whipped Bakeshop in Philadelphia: MOAR PLZ!Our first sweet is a surprise groom’s cake. Here’s Tranzor Z fully assembled and awaiting his e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/tranzor-z-cake/How much does that iPad cost again? It's going to have stiff competition from this $35 Tablet computer from India.The $35 tablet computer made headlines a few weeks ago, and some had dismissed it as vaporware. Now, NDTV...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/35-tablet-computer-in-action/Angry at Target's donation of over $150K to Tom Emmer*, a conservative candidate for Governor of Minnesota (here are the reasons), a flash mob descended on the big box retailer and ... sang! Here's Target Ain't Peopl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/target-aint-people/When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But what about if life gives you the bullet-ridden estate of cocaine king Pablo Escobar? Here's what the city of Medellin, Colombia, decided to do: a macabre narco-tourism calle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/pablo-tour-visiting-colombia-for-narco-tourism/As their tagline says, "Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything." So, when a The Morning News reader asked whether it's okay to date a relative, Erik Bryan and Jennifer Daniel created a f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/can-we-date-flowchart/Residents of the quiet English seaside town of Southsea were startled when they discovered they had a new resident. Towering over them at fifty feet and over seventy in length the reproduction of an Ultrasaurus (wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/attack-of-the-fifty-foot-dinosaur/Every year, Professors Tom McBride and Ron Nief of Beloit College put together a "Mindset List" for the entering freshmen:For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow,phones have never had cords...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/beloit-college-class-of-2014-mindset-list/When Eleni Dagiasi flew from Athens to Delhi for a kidney transplant, little did she know that her trip would involve a raid by the police. Turns out, the man she trusted to perform a kidney transplant surgery was known...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/the-kidney-kingpin-of-india/(vimeo link) The PBS series POV is airing a series of animations made from stories told to StoryCorps. You saw the first one here entitled Q&A last spring. The latest story involves Danny Perasa and his wife Ann...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/danny-and-annie/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgh9h2ePYw] YouTube link. "Filmed in the style of a nature documentary and narrated by Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons, this "mockumentary", though lighthearted in tone, hamme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/the-majestic-plastic-bag-mockumentary/Artist Matt Jones made "Bertrand" -- a model of a whale created from garbage bags: We breathed life into Bertrand, but sadly, he didn't take flight. He tragically insisted upon beaching himself, and we ended up pu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/whale-made-from-inflated-garbage-bags/For many of us, the first time we appreciated the art of math was when we played with a Spirograph. However, it's a long way from addition and subtraction to epicycloids, and very few of us actually study math t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/math-art/Yasuhiro Suzuki built a boat that looks like a zipper pull. When piloted through the water, the resulting wake resembles an opening fly. The boat was on display at this year's Setouchi International Art Festival....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/zipper-boat/The first Fill in the Bubble Frenzy with boy genius Mal and his talking dog Chad last week had a great reception -98 comments! Let's see how you fill in the empty speech bubble this week. The best entry will win...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/mal-and-chads-fill-in-the-bubble-frenzy-2/Sometimes the taste of one of these beans brings on a sweet Proustian memory related to an almost forgotten flavor from the past. Other times the memory is not so sweet. The smell of the four cheese pizza jelly bean...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/18/how-jelly-belly-invents-flavor/