Open your beer with the starship Enterprise! This item should be in stock by the end of June, but you can preorder now. http://www.red5.co.uk/Star-Trek-Enterprise-Bottle-Opener-pr-534.html -via Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/star-trek-bottle-opener/Ever wonder what happens to your money when you give it to a panhandler? I've stopped giving money to anyone on the street. I know this is something that has been debated here on Neatorama before. I've just decided t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/50-an-hour-professional-panhandler/Those of us who have watched The Planet of the Apes are probably concerned about where this is going: a male orangutang was photographed on Borneo using a pole to try to spear fish in a river. Image by Ger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/orangutang-goes-spear-fishing/[Live Leak video] To combat prostitution, many massage parlors in Indonesia are requiring masseuses to wear ... chastity belts!Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times wrote t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/chastity-belts-making-a-comeback-in-indonesia/My wife, son, and I just spent a few weeks driving from Arizona to Alaska. I'm sure many people are familiar with the trees of mystery park in northern California. When we arrived there we noticed Babe was missin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/a-real-mystery/Ace Kim of From Bricks to Bothans (The LEGO Star Wars Experience) and Mike Crowley of CountBlockula went to the private Collectors Party at the LEGO 2008 Toy Fair.Between the both of them, they snapped hundreds of photos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/photos-from-the-lego-toy-fair/So. How racist are you? That's the question asked by an online psychology test by the University of Chicago. The test involves showing you a series of photographs of 100 black or white men, either holding guns or cellpho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/how-racist-are-you/Odynophobia is the most common fear in the world. It's the fear of pain.Most people don't like feeling pain - but being able to feel pain is actually a good thing. Consider the opposite: about 17 people in the U...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/trivia-the-fear-and-absence-of-pain/Flickr user petraalsbach took a series of photos of the construction, as well as interior shots, of the Shipping Container House in Wellington, New Zealand. The home is "built" using 3 shipping containers stack...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/the-shipping-container-house-in-new-zealand/Curious Expedition has a neat post about "living lights," a compendium of bioluminescence or biological sources of lights - from dinoflagellates in Mosquito Bay in Puerto Rico, fireflies, the Sparkling Enope Sq...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/living-lights-from-fireflies-to-glowing-worms/We've posted about spiffy Japanese bento lunch boxes before, but the ones made by the folks at Obacchi Jacket Lunch Box are special: they make album cover bento boxes! This one above is the Evil Empire album by Rage Agai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/album-cover-bento-boxes/Nick Dewar is one of those rare artists and illustrators whose work is immediately recognizable as clever at one glance. Born in Scotland and educated at the Art School in Glasgow, Nick is an award winning illustrator wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/nick-dewars-illustrations/To advertise its Google Video service in Germany, the giant Internet company put up a "see-through" billboard made like a Google Video window and then filmed the way people interact with it.Hit play or go to Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/google-video-billboard-ad/There is a paradox about guns and violence in America - and sometimes it takes an outsider's perspective to see it. Here's an interesting article from the BBC about the relative safety of American towns and cities, even...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/the-american-gun-and-safety-paradox/Clever: Designing a luxury timepieceVery Clever: Incorporating pieces of the sunken Titanic - what a gimmick!Genius: It doesn't even tell the time ... and sells out with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/27/300000-watch-that-doesnt-tell-the-time/UC Berkeley graduate student James Karl Buck, who was in Egypt covering an anti-government protest when he was arrested, helped free himself with ... twitter! On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/26/student-twitters-himself-out-of-jail/The sleepiest animal in the world is the koala, who sleeps 22 hours a day.Next is the sloth (20 hours), armadillo and opossum (tied at 19 hours each), lemur (16 hours), then hamster and squirrel (tied at 14 hours each)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/26/trivia-the-sleepiest-animal-in-the-world/Gotta love Japan! Every year, Maiwa Electronics hosts The Stupid Robot Contest to determine whose robot is the silliest.The contest rules are simple (and brilliant!):1. It must be mechanical2. It must be completely usele...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/26/the-annual-stupid-robot-contest-in-where-else-japan/What's going on with food? Rice price has skyrocketed around the world, leading to riots in third world countries like Bangladesh, Haiti, Egypt, and the Philippines. Two large warehouse chains in the US (Costco and Sam's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/26/why-food-prices-are-skyrocketing/Crafster Sammi Resendes of Geek Central Station made this awesome Indiana Jones amigurumi doll, which comes complete with Indy's whip and hat and indispensable accessories of the holy grail, magic stones, and the golden...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/26/indiana-jones-amigurumi-doll/Meet Tanya Andersen, a 45-year-old single mother who was sued by the RIAA for music piracy, and won (her case was dismissed after RIAA's own computer experts proved that she did not pirate any music).Now, Tanya is taking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/26/a-45-year-old-single-mother-is-going-after-the-riaa/"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them." - Dave Barry, author and humorist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/26/quote-dave-barry-on-religion/In America, many of us can be lax with our eating habits. Sometimes it requires a week of exercise to compensate for a holiday's worth of gorging. But in more extreme cases, it requires a team of surgeons to undo. Surgeo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/26/surgeons-remove-125-pound-belly-from-russian-woman/In Japan's, oshiyas or "pushers" are employed to squeeze people onto the overcrowded subway and train cars. They also perform the job of a "puller-off," pulling off passengers who try to get on the tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/trivia-japanese-pushers-squeeze-people-into-overcrowded-trains/"Food?" is a Flickr photoset by Zach Kowalczyk where he takes photos of food that has taken the shape of its container!This one to the left is cranberry sauce, which comes in a can (I think this is obvious to U...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/food-that-takes-the-shape-of-its-container/Boing Boing Gadgets is having a pretty interesting competition in collaborations with Seagate: readers are invited to submit art, writing, code, whatever - as long as the size is 1 kilobyte or less!This one to the left i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/art-in-under-1k-contest/We've posted about the attack of Jedi Master Jonba Hehol (known to his friends and family as 36-year-old hairdresser Barney Jones and founder of the Jedi Church in Holyhead, Wales) by a drunken "Darth Vader" be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/attack-of-the-drunken-dart-vader-the-video-clip/Remember the people who throws those cans around with amazing precision? Well, thanks to viral videos, they've apparently managed to parlay their skills into making an ad for Max Havelaar, a non-profit foundation organiz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/thats-one-way-to-shop/"Don't worry about temptation. As you grow older, it starts avoiding you." - Elbert Hubbard, writer and artist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/quote-elbert-hubbard-on-temptation-and-getting-older/Part of Cracked.com's gallery of 30 Video Game Villain Recruitment Posters. Via Hip Today. Previously: How a N.Y. Butcher Became America’s Most Famous Face, i.e., Uncle Sam....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/25/ninja-recruitment-ad/
