Star Wars Slippers
Keep your feet toasty warm this winter in slippers that resemble Darth Vader or Yoda! A sweet geeky gift from Think Geek. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/star-wars-slippers/Archive for September 2007
One Semester of Spanish Love Song
Does he get points for effort? No? Maybe he should take another semester! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/one-semester-of-spanish-love-song/Godzilla/Mazinger/Voltron Combine To Form A Super Figure
This t-shirt design is pretty cool (vote for it by following the link above, if you're so inclined), but I'd rather have the toy. The shirt reminded me of one of the first posts at my own site - - Toy Lab:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/godzillamazingervoltron-combine-to-form-a-super-figure/DIY Miniature Stove (video)
"Now you can make a tiny stove even MacGyver would be proud of." Link [metacafe]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/diy-miniature-stove-video/Man Completed Trek in the Footsteps of Genghis Khan
Australian man Tim Cope had just completed a 6,200 mile (10,000 km) journey on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary, following the footsteps of Genghis Khan. And boy did he find adventure along the way:Both he and the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/man-completed-trek-in-the-footsteps-of-genghis-khan/Gruesome X-Rays
Miss C wrote a gruesome yet interesting article on our pal mental_floss blog about some very disturbing X-rays. Like this one:Gavin Docherty was hit by a nail gun in a workplace accident. His co-worker immediately dr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/gruesome-x-rays/Rare Albino Ratfish Looks as Ugly as it Sounds
Scientists found a rare albino ratfish and declared it still as ugly as the normal ones:"They're pretty ugly," said Jon Reum, a University of Washington doctoral student who spent his summer working on the mari...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/rare-albino-ratfish-looks-as-ugly-as-it-sounds/Naked Criminal Tried to Rob a Store
This has got to be one of the strangest robberies and dumbest criminals ever:A 24-year-old man was arrested in Pennsylvania for holding up a convenience store wearing nothing but a hat.CCTV footage showed Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/naked-criminal-tried-to-rob-a-store/Quote: Liberal and Conservative
"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." - Willis Player, businessman (1915-1981)A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." - President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/quote-liberal-and-conservative/Man Woke Up During Autopsy
Venezuelan man Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a traffic accident and was taken to the morgue. During the autopsy, Carlos woke up!"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, accordi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/man-woke-up-during-autopsy/Couple Named Baby Wrigley Field, after the Cubs' Stadium
Paul and Teri Fields, fans of the Cubs baseball team, decided to name their baby boy Wrigley. That's right, Wrigley Fields, as in the Cubs home stadium! Link Previously on Neatorama: Couple Tried to Name baby "@&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/couple-named-baby-wrigley-field-after-the-cubs-stadium/The Real Moe
Meet Rich Hall [wiki], a comedian and writer who was the inspiration for Moe Szyslak, the barman from The Simpsons: He said he has always thought the cartoon landlord - who is obsessed with Homer's wife Marg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/the-real-moe/Trivia: Coin Toss is Not Random
If you flip a coin, you'll have equal chance (50-50) of getting head or tail, right? Wrong. Stanford math professors proved that a flipped coin will land as it started 51% of the time.source: Persi Diaconis, et al. Dynam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/trivia-coin-toss-is-not-random/Best Friends Forever
There is nothing more touching than a picture of two of the cutest baby animals in nature living it up together. Two baby tigers and two baby orangutans both abandoned have become the best of friends at an Indonesi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/best-friends-forever/Magna Carta for Sale
One of the very few copies of the Magna Carta is going to auction. The only copy in America has been on display in the National Archives, but is owned by Ross Perot, who bought it in 1984 for 1.5 million dollars. *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/magna-carta-for-sale/John P. Harvard goes Halo
In honor of the release of Halo 3, pranksters from MIT dressed up the statue of John P. Harvard in Harvard Yard with an assault rifle and a Spartan Helmet! Link -via Reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/john-p-harvard-goes-halo/Death Gets His Groove On
Dance the night away with the grooviest Death ever. The king of the underworld is stylin' away in this new toy from Mezco's Family Guy series. http://www.amazon.com/Family-Groovy-Death-Action-Figure/d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/death-gets-his-groove-on/The War: a PBS Documentary about World War II
PBS has a fantastic documentary series about World War II called The War by Ken Burns. It took Burns six years to create the film series, which follows the lives of soldiers that actually fought the war and thei...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/the-war-a-pbs-documentary-about-world-war-ii/If You Lived Here, You'd be Home by Now!
Photo: Brian Vander Brug / LATBad idea: moving a houseReally bad idea: moving a house BY YOURSELFNeatorama-worthy: moving a house by yourself, hauling it on a trailer, h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/if-you-lived-here-youd-be-home-by-now/Firefox Car
Photo: nobihaya [Flickr]First comes the dog, then the crop circle, and then the credit card ... now, feast your eyes on the Firefox Car! The car was debuted at the Mozilla 24 "Firefox Rock Festival" in Tokyo on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/11755/Big in Japan: Billy Blank, Fitness Guru
Japan is in the midst of a "Bootcamp" craze that swept through the US a couple of years ago.Neatorama reader Gaijin-san wrote: Japan has discovered exercise guru Billy Blanks and is in the midst of a "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/big-in-japan-billy-blank-fitness-guru/The D.I.Y. Qee Project: BART Tour.
Recently, the D.I.Y. Qee Project: BART Tour took place at the Showroom NYC, featuring Bart Simpson's three-dimensional shape reimagined by over 100 international artists, designers, and illustrators. Each art...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/the-diy-qee-project-bart-tour/Ski-Jumping Tires
Did you ever wonder what kind of tire would make the longest leap off a ski jump? Me neither. But this Japanese TV show not only answers the question, it makes the competition quite entertaining. Push play or go to You...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/ski-jumping-tires/The Complete Manual of Things That Might Kill You: A Guide to Self-Diagnosis for Hypochondriacs
The official site says: Hypochondriacs have long had to satisfy their needs for self-diagnosis with medical reference materials written for the masses, but this revolutionary book is dedicated entirely to the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/the-complete-manual-of-things-that-might-kill-you-a-guide-to-self-diagnosis-for-hypochondriacs/Urban and Freestyle Trial
Julien Dupont is trying out his wheels in the streets of France. Link [YouTube] - via Stuart Witts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/urban-and-freestyle-trial/10 Complete Movies Online
The List Universe has compiled a list of 10 classic films available for download. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/10-complete-movies-online/Caption Monkey 10: Giant Fish
Photo: Fishing Adventures Thailand - via A Welsh ViewThis week's Caption Monkey game at Neatorama comes by way of Thailand: the largest predator fish ever caught on rod and line, a 407 lb (185 kg) Arapaima.Funniest capti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/caption-monkey-10-giant-fish/Fasting Buddha
Image: astanhope [Flickr]From astanhope's Flickr set on Thailand, here's a statue of the Fasting Buddha at the Wat U-Mong temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand.The short version of the story goes like this: After the young prin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/fasting-buddha/Quote: Disney on Mickey Mouse and Women
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known." - Walt Disney, animator and founder of Disneyland (1901-1966)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/quote-disney-on-mickey-mouse-and-women/Sweater-Wearing Bonsai
This sweater-wearing bonsai is actually a clever print ad for Fujitsu's air conditioning. Found at 2wenty 4our....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/25/sweater-wearing-bonsai/
