This is, by a wide margin, the funniest thing you will see on the Internet today. The great cartoonist Caldwell Tanner has made a Choose Your Own Adventure Novel for those of you who dream of the excitement...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/choose-your-own-adventure-a-day-at-the-office/A needle felted die is pretty cool. One with QR codes is even better. But one on which each code represents a number of dice is totally neat-o-rama! Scanning a side of Shannon Henry's needle felted die pulls up Rando...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/qr-code-die-lets-roll-multiple-dice-without-even-picking-it-up/(Video Link) They're not quite up to the level of the Chuck E. Cheese band, but these quadcopters from the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab are off to a g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/quadcopter-robots-playing-the-james-bond-theme/Spotswood Rice had been born a slave. But by September of 1864, he was a free man and a soldier in the U.S. Army. His daughter was still enslaved in Missouri. Rice had work to do in the South, but he wanted his former mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/letter-from-an-ex-slave-to-his-former-master-im-coming-to-get-you/Humans have not walked on the moon since 1972. To some cynics, this means that the human will to build great, revolutionary technologies has faded. The cynics are wrong. Behold the 24-hour cupcake ATM, developed b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/the-worlds-first-cupcake-atm/(Video Link) There's something special about watching a person experience Star Wars for the first time. The expressions of wonder, excitement, sadness, and joy -- it's like experiencing them for yourself al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/cat-watching-star-wars-for-the-first-time/A few months ago, I considered growing mutton chops. My wife said "Absolutely not." I proposed a compromise that would meet her halfway: just one mutton chop. This, too, was unacceptable. It's a pity, beca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/novelty-drivers-license/Scientists attributed this unusual rock carving as part of a fertility ritual, but perhaps it just proves that juvenile humor has been part of mankind since, well, forever. Ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/little-horny-man/Urban artist Tilt gave this room at the Au Vieux Panier Hotel in Marseille, France, a split personality. It's called "Panic Room": The photos were taken...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/panic-room-hotel-room-with-dual-personality-by-tilt/The small picture above really doesn't do the art justice - you'd have to go over to Minjeong An's website and take a look at how the Korean artist turned her body into this artful sch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/body-data-art-by-minjeong-an/Steampunk Nerf Sniper Rifle. Now there are some words that don't normally go together. DeviantART member vanbangerburger modified a Nerf gun into a steampunk work of art! Imagine the confusion it will cause...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/steampunk-nerf-sniper-rifle/(Metacafe link) Bibi the African Grey parrot slightly mis-quotes the classic lines the 1948 Humphrey Bogart film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The original scene is here. Honestly, the world needs more ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/parrot-quotes-movie/Imagine finding a flea that's about an inch-long. You would, if you live in 165 million years ago in the Jurassic period. Well, dinosaurs are big, so it makes sense that their fleas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/giant-fleas-are-prehistoric-blood-suckers/The world has so many more feature films available than you'll ever know if you just browse the TV listings or Red Box. There are many reasons the movies in this list are considered "underappreciated": it may be old, rel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/six-underappreciated-comedies-more-people-need-to-see/You might laugh at this Twaggie, illustrated from a Tweet by @bazecraze, but take it from an old lady: I've found a lot of mistakes in receipts, and they are rarely in the customer's favor. See a new Twaggie every da...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/receipts/What are the odds? Michelle Birnbaum of New Jersey was born on Leap Day 32 years ago, and then gave birth to a daughter four years ago, also on Leap Day. So her daughter was born on her seventh birthday. Those who crunch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/leap-day-families/Happy birthday, Justin Bieber! The universally beloved singer (who could possible hate him?) turns 18 today, and a SETI astronomer has a great suggestion for a birthday present: make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/lets-send-justin-bieber-to-space/(YouTube link) The Los Angeles Zoo has a new exhibit called LAIR (Living Amphibians, Invertebrates and Reptiles). Slash and Betty White appear in a series of ads promoting it. What a perfect combination! There are fiv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/male-of-female/Habit Heroes, a new attraction at Epcot Center at Walt Disney World, was scheduled to open on March 5th, but is now postponed indefinitely. The exhibit was designed in partnership with Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance....
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/disney-closes-new-habit-heroes-exhibit/Once again, it's time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you tell us what this thing is? Or make a wild guess? Give us your guess in the comment section below. One guess per commen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/01/ehat-is-it-game-216/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website. March 2, 1962, was one of the most unbelievable, unforgettable nights in professi...
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