Just wanted to let you all know that we’ve recently moved our servers. If you had trouble accessing the blog over the weekend, that was the cause (I’ve noticed that some DNS servers around the world are still pointing to our old servers, so hopefully this will resolve itself soon.)

Things should be working – but if you notice a bug, please let me know!

We’ve also been busy cookin’ up more neat stuff your you, so in the meantime, please enjoy this new T-shirt design by Nathan Mazur of Scared of Bees (he’s the super-awesome artist who designed the Neatokraken in the Neatorama Shop and the Neatoturtle below)

Polar Bears Are Soluble in Water – $14.95

Don’t forget to check out more fun Science T-Shirts over at the Neatorama Shop!

Pi Day (3/14 for us Yanks) is next Monday Sunday, so here’s a gentle reminder for what to wear, Mmm … Pi T-shirt, designed by the incomparable Nathan Mazur (the same talented guy who created our Neatoturtle blog theme). Thank you!

I can practically hear my mother’s voice saying "if I told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times." Well, for this shirt, we’ve boiled the adage down to its mathematical terms.

Now buy the shirt, stand up straight and go clean your room! Link

More math and geektastic science T-shirts from the newly spruced up Neatorama Online Store (work in progress, mmkay?):

- Integral of 1/Cabin = Log Cabin
- Geometry is For Squares
- Math Puns are the First Sine of Madness
- I Love Math (in Queen’s English)

Who doesn’t love giant squids? Whether you are fascinated by Kraken, love reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or you are actually into teuthology (that’s the study of cephalopods), we’ve got you covered!

The super-talented Nathan Mazur of scaredofbees (great stuff there, btw) has designed the perfect T-shirt for you. Here’s the tentacle-y fun shirt from the Neatorama Online Store: Link

More I Love Science designs:

NEW – I Love Forensics	I Love Math (now also available in black)	I Love Science, and others also in Onesie/Kids

We’re also slowly but surely building the web’s best selection of geekstastic Science T-shirts and cheeky Scientists Do It T-Shirts – so check ‘em out!

From Neatorama’s Online Store, here’s The Worst Day in the 9th Grade … Ever by Matthew Lawson. Available in T-shirt, sweatshirt, and hoodies.

Oh, I remember the dissection day in my high school biology class. Ah, good times! Link | More Funny Science T-Shirts

Swine flu is on everybody’s mind, so why not on their T-shirts as well? Neatorama illustrator Chris Murphy cooked up this hammy design that will surely get your friends and co-workers chuckling (though whether they’re chuckling because the shirt is funny or they’re nervous about swine flu is another matter).

And for those who’re sick and tired of hearing of the swine flu pandemic, how about a little pundemic? The cleverest pun in the comment (yes, I’m looking at you, Kalel) will win this T-shirt. Moral outrage is welcome (as long as it’s funny).

Link | Lots more fun Science T-Shirts

Almost three years ago, the general public was rocked by science: astronomers at the International Astronomical Union booted off Pluto from the list of planets orbiting the Sun. It’s just a "reclassification," these astronomers insisted, but we all know better. Pluto is Proof that Size Matters

Okay, so it’s a couple of years late, but it’s still very funny. Here’s a new geeky T-shirt design by Chris Murphy (an excellent illustrator for print and web, by the way, if you’re ever interested in hiring one).

Link | More Fun Science T-shirts (perfect for the geek you love!)

Hello Neatoramanauts! Just a brief update on the State of the Blog:

Mystery Sale - I'm sure that everyone's been wondering about their packages. Don't worry - they're coming.

We usually ship out orders within one business day, but Mystery Sales are a bit unusual. We've gotten a lot of orders that it took a while for the warehouse to gear up to ship (happened last time, too!)

The first batch of shipments is scheduled for this Friday 3/6/09 - and we will process order and ship continuously for the next week or so. I'll make another update about the Mystery Sale soon.

Many of you emailed me about tracking the progress of the order - you can check the status of your order if you're registered at the Neatorama Online Shop at the time of the purchase. For security purposes, the username and password for the shop are separate from the blog. If you ordered and did a quick checkout, you can't check the status online.

Rogue Ads - Some of you have seen inappropriate (though infrequent) ads on Neatorama. Like I explained in the last update, we've had a rash of rogue ads that should be taken cared of by now. If you see one of these, please let me know (a screenshot would be lovely)

Blocked email - A lot of people who didn't get the automatic email receipt for their orders have @sbcglobal.net email address. It seems like our emails are being blocked (not in the recipients' spam filter and not bounced back to us either) - does anyone know how I can get our emails unblocked by sbcglobal? We have never spammed anyone.

Reading All of Neatorama - Congratulations to James Lim, who has just finished reading all of Neatorama. He email me that it took him 3 months and 2 days to read all 637 pages of the blog (well, so far anyway - it's a never ending journey because we keep on adding posts!). James has just joined a small but growing cadre of Neatoramanauts who have accomplished such a feat.

Caption This - If you'd like to get yourself a free Neatorama T-shirt, go forth to One largeprawn who's running a Caption This contest (with a very strange photo!) If you're a blogger who's interested in running a competition in your blog and want us to spot the prize (a free T-Shirt from the Neatorama Online Store), please email me!

Upcoming Queue: It's Much Better Now. Promise! Neatorama reader CalamityKate wrote this about the much maligned UQ:

Hi Alex, I just wanted to eat a little crow here. I was one of the haters of the UQ and was excited when the feeds became separate. But I still had the original feed on my Bloglines, and I’ve been converted! I think that the changes you made to “tighten up” the process have worked really well, and I rarely see posts from people that seem to just be pushing their own content. Forgive me? :-)

Glad that you've kissed and made up with the Queuebot, CalamityKate! And for the rest of you feed readers, it's time to give the Neatorama Full Front Page feed (with Upcoming Queue posts) another try!

Upcoming Queue Top Submitter for February 2009

As promised, the top submitter for the month of February 2009 will get a free iPod Touch. The rest of the Top 10 will get a free Neatorama T-shirt (since taliesyn30 and scbr are tied for the 10th spot, both will get the prize). Congrats, guys!

As I have written before, I intend to continue to reward top submitters to the Neatorama Upcoming Queue. I wont' tell you what March will bring for them (maybe something, maybe nothing), so it'll be fun ;)

New Funny Science T-Shirts

A Day Without Nuclear Fusion is a Day Without Sunshine - $9.95

Great Vocab Didn't Save the Thesaurus From Extinction - $9.95

And lastly, we've added a couple of new designs to our growing list of Funny Science T-Shirts on the Neatorama Online store. Check it out: Science T-Shirts | Science Toys