That's a photo of Dutchess, a "darling Bichon Frise puppy dog" that is guaranteed not to poop or pee anywhere, bark annoyingly, or tear out your couch or anything bad like that.And that's because Dutchess isn't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/this-dog-will-never-poop-pee-or-bark/Usually, when you bit into a nut in a candy bar, it's of the peanut or seed varieties of some sort. But not this Abba Zaba candy! Neatorama reader Micah Taylor wrote: Today I was going to try an Abba-Zaba bar for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/the-wrong-kind-of-nut-in-a-candy-bar/A while ago, we wrote about Justin Gignac, who sold New York City garbage as "art." Now, the guy is back, and this time he's selling something else (but also in the name of art):He recently teamed up with h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/justin-gignac-art-priced-just-like-the-real-thing/Marcus Eriksen and colleagues from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation are concerned debris polluting our oceans. So they are building a raft, aptly named "Junk" out of plastic bottles with a cabin made fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/sailing-a-junk-raft-to-protest-ocean-pollution/We've posted about cute Japanese bento boxes (their version of lunch boxes - who says Japanese people aren't creative?) before on Neatorama, but these two are too cute to pass!Behold, the Super Mario Bento Box - via Tech...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/the-best-bento-boxes-evar-mario-and-homer-simpson/Concept art: Duggan Morris Architects I only live 15 minutes from the beach and it has been recently announced that the above confection of glass will soon grace its southern end.The beach already hosts Antony Gor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/beach-vase/Where did the term 'Busting Chops come from? What does 'rule of thumb' mean? You may think you know the answers but Cracked recently attempted to separate the fact from fiction and their findings may surprise you. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/the-bizarre-history-of-10-common-sayings/Five-year-old South Korean Yoo Ye Eun has been blind since birth but can play songs on the piano after listening to the tune just once. She is far from perfect, as she has never had a lesson, but her performance and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/yoo-ye-eun-blind-piano-prodigy/People who want to sell something tend to set the price far above what others think it’s worth. That’s human nature, but it isn’t just greed. The sheer fact that we own something affects our judgement as to its wor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/6-quirks-of-ownership-how-possessions-bend-our-perceptions/(YouTube link) Mathematicious is a parody of the song "Fergalicious" by Fergie. I find this more interesting. Lyrics are available at the YouTube link. -via Viral Video Chart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/mathematicious/Today’s lunchtime quiz at mental_floss is about monsters. The questions come from movies, TV, literature, and even mythology. I thought I knew a lot about monsters, but I only scored 55%, which is still better than t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/monster-mash-quiz/Design your own temporary tattoos and make them with your inkjet printer! Use your computer to make the design and print on specialty tattoo paper. They’ll last up to a week, or you can scrub them off when you want....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/custom-temporary-tattoos/Wired held a contest for user-generated night photos. The winner, decided by votes from readers, is this photo taken in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park in Utah by Jason J. Corneveaux. Wired hs a galle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/winning-night-photography/More and more people in Florida and elsewhere are raising monkeys as a substitute for children. They call them “monkids” and won’t refer to them as pets. Lori Johnson adopted a baby capuchin after her youngest chil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/monkids/Pink Tentacle reports:A former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama has built a 4-meter (13-ft) long canoe from thousands of used disposable chopsticks recovered from the city hall cafeteria. Bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/07/chopstick-canoe/(YouTube link) They may be stupid, but they are unbelievably lucky answers. -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/06/stupid-game-show-answers/A couple of years ago, Iowa artist Patrick Acton built a model of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts School completely out of matchsticks. His latest matchstick project is even bigger. He’s building a model of the fortress Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/06/minas-tirith-matchstick-model/Here's the newest from Tesla Downunder, the designer of the Tesla coil "Eye of Sauron" anti-automobile theft device we featured previously on Neatorama: the Hi Volt Antivirus to "protect" your laptop!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/06/hi-volt-antivirus-tesla-coil-protection-for-your-laptop/The set of puppets includes Sigmund Freud, his daughter Anna Freud, Carl Jung, and an analyst’s couch. The box they come in can be used as a puppet theater. Something you can hide behind when you are analyzing your f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/06/psychoanalysis-finger-puppets/If you missed the 36th International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, Switzerland last week, Wired has an overview of some of the odder inventions on display. The vertical hot-air grill shown above, invented by H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/06/european-inventors-show/This Korean TV show highlights some incredible archery - marksmen split an apple and egg at 70m, then do what seems to be impossible - split a thread, a soybean, then an arrow at 30m (go to 3:00 in to see the seeming...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/06/now-thats-a-steady-hand/(YouTube link) I tried my best to resist, but this kitten forced me to post its video. This was on the front page of YouTube, so I totally forgot what I was there looking for. Beware, it’s three minutes of overwhelm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/roly-poly-play-with-me-kitten/Wired has a gallery of user-submitted celebrities who have been "rolled" as AD&D characters. Here's George W. Bush's (by "Spherical Time"): 17th -level politician Chaotic Neutral Human*/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/celebrity-dungeons-dragons-characters/Nexi, is an M.D.S. (Mobile/Dexterous/Social) Robot coming from the geniuses of MIT Media Labs Personal Robots Group in collaboration with Xitome Design, UMASS Amherst's Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, and Meka Ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/nexi-the-mds-robot-from-mit/Swedish Vodka maker Absolut is stirring up a little nationalistic pride in Mexico with their new ad depicting what Mexico would look like in an "Absolute World". But it is stirring a few feathers in El Norte, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/absolut-ly-controversial-mexico-in-an-absolut-world-ad/Behold the YouTube Doubler ... because two YouTube clips playing at once is bound to be twice the fun of one clip playing by itself. Plus, almost everything is better when played next to a clip of a laughing baby.Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/youtube-doubler-twice-the-fun/That's the life-sized skeleton car Collindonthus by Indian artist Jitish Kallat, on display at Artkrush. See more of his skeleton art at The Saatchi Gallery - via who killed bambi?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/jitish-kallats-skeleton-car/Katrin Sonnleitner created this extremely modular flooring: a Persian rug called PuzzlePerser, made out of thousands of individual puzzle pieces! Link [Flash, click on Project, then PuzzlePerser] - via MoCo Loco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/persian-puzzle-rug/Earlier last month, French President Nicholas Sarkozy proposed that every fifth grader learn about the life story of one of the 11,000 French children killed by the Nazi in the Holocaust. “Nothing is more movin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/sarkozy-fifth-graders-should-learn-about-the-life-of-1-of-the-10000-french-children-killed-in-the-holocaust/Apartment Therapy LA Blog has a neat post about some homewares from Japan (that unfortunately, you can't get in the United States). This one above, a dining room set called Cube Style, is very cleverly designed for small...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/japanese-homewares-that-you-cant-get-in-the-united-states/
