Hey, this is pretty spiffy if it indeed works: Greenhouse Eneplug which lets you charge your USB powered gadget directly from the AC power outlet.Not yet available, but you can pre-order it for May: Link - via GeekAlerts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/21/greenhouse-eneplug-ac-to-usb-charger/If you ever need your appendix removed in the future, there is a good chance you'll never even have a scar. That's because doctors have successfully performed the world's first appendectomy ... through the patient's mout...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/21/scarless-appendix-removal-surgery-through-your-mouth/Venezuelan broadcasting regulator Conatel has forced The Simpsons off the air during the morning cartoon hours, calling it a bad influence on children, and replaced it with ... Baywatch!No. Really. Link(The Simp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/21/citing-concerns-for-kids-venezuela-replaced-the-simpsons-with-baywatch/Professor Leif Kullmann of Umeaa University, Sweden, and colleagues have discovered the world's oldest living tree: a 10,000 year-old spruce in central Sweden:Researchers had discovered a spruce with genetic material...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/21/worlds-oldest-tree-10000-year-old-spruce-in-sweden/(YouTube link) This girl is ten years old. My daughter will be eleven when her piano recital comes up next week. If I show her this video, she’ll never be able to perform her elementary piece. -via mental_floss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/20/keyboard-recital/When Jerry and Darla Merrow's boat washed up on the remote Fanning Island - after spending 95 days drifting across the Pacific - the couple managed to hitch a ride on a cargo ship back to California.Unfortunately, the ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/20/snickers-the-sea-dog-rescued-at-last/I was skeptical when I saw Cover Browser's game - where you drag pieces of an image to reveal the full cover of a comic book - but it's actually kind of fun! (It really should have a little timer to see how fast you can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/20/cover-browser-puzzle-game/We've covered Pixeloo's "untoon"-ing of cartoon characters before (basically turning cartoons into "real" people), but his latest creation is unreal. Here's Jessica Rabbit "untooned": Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/20/jessica-rabbit-untooned-by-pixeloo/Dairy farmer Rob Taverner believes that a happy cow is a productive cow, so every morning he performs tai chi in front of his herd to get them "in the right moo-d to produce lots of milk":The 44-year-old or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/20/farmer-performs-tai-chi-to-make-cows-happy/[https://youtu.be/-oB6DN5dYWo] (YouTube link)Now this is what a work safety video should be like! Here's a German training video for forklift operators, called "Forklift Driver Klaus" [in German with English subtitl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/20/best-work-safety-video-evar-forklift-driver-klaus/What happened when an F-111 fighter jet collided with a large pelican? It's amazing that the pilot recovered the plane and landed safely:AN F-111 was left "shredded" and incapacitated and was forced to make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/when-an-f-111-collided-with-a-pelican/Marlboro was originally branded as a woman's cigarette.Filtered cigarettes were considered feminine as reflected by Marlboro's original slogan "Mild as May." In the 1930s, Marlboro even changed the cigarette ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/trivia-marlboro-was-a-womans-cigarette/Some things in life are so ridiculous yet so awesome that they leave us breathless. This may just be one of those things: behold, the Inflatable Toast Mattress!Breakfast in bed? No, breakfast is bed! Link - via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/inflatable-toast-mattress/Waitaminute - something ain't right here! Actually, that's the Covini C6W, a six-wheeled sportscar that supposedly have more traction for cornering and braking.You can see more at Dark Roasted Blend's World's Strangest V...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/covini-c6w-six-wheeled-sportscar/Found at Joey deVilla's The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, photo by Miss Fipi Lele. Would someone tell me the background story of this rocketastic motorcycle mod, pretty please?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/rocket-bike/"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov, author...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/quote-isaac-asimov-on-knowledge-and-wisdom/[https://youtu.be/at_f98qOGY0] (YouTube link) This promo song from The Discovery Channel is perfect for Earth Day (which is Tuesday). From ad agency 72andSunny. -via Viral Video Chart...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/i-love-the-world/Would a jackalope be kosher? How about a dragon? In honor of upcoming holidays like Passover, I thought I would ask Jeff’s better half, Ann VanderMeer, editor of Weird Tales and a practicing Jew, to give us an id...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/imaginary-animals-are-they-kosher/[Video Link] Dr. McCoy's classic line, plus a few contributions from Spock and Uhura. 41 seconds long. http://www.glumbert.com/media/deadjim via Ace...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/every-hes-dead-jim-line-from-classic-star-trek/If you are envious of people who can do latte arts, then buy yourself some parts from eBay and build yourself a coffee printer for your home! (Results may vary from those in the video). Link [youtube video] - via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/19/homemade-coffee-printer/I admit it: I'm an adult (although I suppose that's arguable) who watches cartoons. And I'm not just talking The Simpsons or Family Guy (although I like those too) – I have a real thing for [adu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/five-cartoons-you-should-look-into/Cineleet has a neat post about a few movies that have the basic tenet of a Western film (morality tales featuring an antihero, code of honor and ruthless villains) for guys who don't like Westerns.Take this Japanese samu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/westerns-for-guys-who-dont-like-westerns/Neatorama reader Melia Gleason wrote to us about Scenes from the Morgue blog by Chad Plambeck, a blog dedicated to retro-pulp movie ads that appeared in the The Grand Island Independent newspaper published by the company...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/scenes-from-the-morgue-retro-pulp-b-movie-ads-galore/ZOMG! This is the funnest Flash game evar: Doeo is a simple yet maddeningly addictive game from Marcus Richert (aka Raitendo).The game play is simple: collect the Doeos as they pop up - sometimes in unexpected places - t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/doeo-flash-game/In the 1940s, film giant 20th Century Fox lent several hand-bound books to the University of Southern California library. These books contained examples of various documents and forms used during filmmaking and studio op...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/tale-of-a-studio-book-from-the-library-to-an-antique-store-to-the-internet-and-back-to-the-studio/Apparently Neatorama reader Jason Sanders never heeded his parents advice of not playing with his food. That turned out to be somewhat of a good thing, because we now can watch this: Pacarrotman, a 35-second Pac-Man stop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/pacarrotman-pac-man-with-veggies/You can download and print foldable paper finger puppets of the US presidential candidates. These would be pretty handy for your next political argument with friends or family, or for staging your own photo-op or debat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/candidate-finger-puppets/(YouTube link) Darryl Gold re-edited the classic western High Noon to include killer robots! -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/high-tech-noon/(Live Leak link) You don’t see a crime committed with a crossbow every day. Shopkeeper Mohammed Razaq had just loaded a DVD for his five children when a man with a crossbow tried to rob the store. Security footage s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/crossbow-robbery-foiled/The story of how Felix Dadaev came to be Stalin's body double is somewhat similar to the plotline of the movie "Dave," except set in Soviet Russia and with a larger dose of paranoia. According to the Daily Mail: ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/18/stalins-juggling-body-double-finally-tells-his-story/
