Etsy seller OctopusMe has metal jewelry made from real octopi octopusses. I’m not sure I want to know how it’s done. Tentacles hanging from your earlobes would be an instant conversation starter. Link -via Dump Tru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/31/octopus-jewelry/Ice is a great insulator, as attested to by anyone who has visited an igloo. English Russia has a video report of a hot sauna built from ice! If that isn’t weird enough, you’ll see a builder chinking the cracks with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/31/ice-sauna/Wired has a gallery of some of the stranger gadgets the CIA developed since the 1940s. "Many of the devices first seen in movies and on TV actually came about," says Robert Wallace, former head of the CIA's cover...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/31/what-the-cia-learned-from-get-smart/Advertising has always been an enterprise fraught with uncertainty. How can you know if all that money you're paying is actually making you a return? Who's actually even giving your advertisements a look? And are those p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/31/billboards-with-cameras-bring-us-one-step-closer-to-minority-report/(YouTube link) You might think that videogames began with Pong, but here’s one that dates back fifty years! Way back in 1958, William Higinbotham invented Tennis For Two to liven up visitor day at Brookhaven Na...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/31/tennis-for-two/Leanne makes itty-bitty needle felted birds and nests that look like the real thing (only smaller). In this picture, you see cardinals, a goldfinch, a chickadee, and some robins, among others. The entire nest is only f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/31/tiny-needle-felted-birds/A terrific creation by Peter Aoun. There's more photos in his Flickr gallery. Previously: Captain Jack Sparrow LEGO Bust....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/iron-giant-made-out-of-lego/The movie Fight Club is almost a decade old, but the theme is still going strong. One day, Jeff of And I Am Not Lying blog got a cryptic text from his friend "Fight Club in Union Square. GET HERE." When Jeff go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/fight-club-in-union-square-new-york-city/Imagine giving your baby to your mother-in-law to hold and moments later finding out that she's trying to breastfeed your baby! That's what happened to a friend of babysugar of lilsugar blog:The granny had one boob o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/grandma-tried-to-breastfeed-baby/More DIY videos at 5min.com Who would have thought that Guitar Hero would be available for the palm-sized Nintendo DS gaming system? Well, friends, Guitar Hero: On Tour is indeed available and Nintendo/Activision have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/wacky-nintendo-game-advertisement/Have you ever heard of a snoring duck? Well, after watching this short (46 sec) YouTube clip, you can say that you have. That's it. Carry on! - Thanks benzoic!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/snoring-duck/Oh, how I love Bizarro, particularly this clever panel about Salvation Army's "Special Forces!" For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's website and blog....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/bizarro-salvation-armys-special-forces/Sex and the City was an HBO series for six seasons and now a theatrical feature film. Today’s lunchtime quiz at mental_floss asks how well you know the world of Sex and the City. I didn’t take the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/sex-and-the-city/OK, should I put sliced onions on the soles of my feet, or is it Vicks VapoRub? If I get hiccups, will someone drop keys down my back for me? These are just a few of 15 of the Weirdest Home Remedies and Folk Treatments E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/home-remedies-and-folk-treatments/John Arderne was a fourteenth century surgeon with the enviable title, Father of Proctology. Arderne specialized in the surgical treatment of anal fistula (fistula in ano), a "condition where a large, painf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/john-arderne-medieval-proctologist/(YouTube link) Comedic actor Harvey Korman died yesterday at the UCLA Medical Center after a long and distinguished career in movies and television. He was 81. In this scene from the 1974 movie Blazing Saddles*/em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/rip-harvey-korman/At least one company is happy about rising food prices: SPAM sales are soaring as consumers are turning more to the much maligned meat to extend their already stretched food budget!Kimberly Quan, a stay-at-home mom o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/cant-afford-food-theres-always-spam/Most Americans are mad about the ever-rising gas price (latest prediction: $6 to $7 per gallon in 6 to 24 months), but not Chris Pummer of MarketWatch. He said that when gas hits $8 per gallon, we should celebrate instea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/why-we-should-celebrate-8-per-gallon-gas/Here's a fascinating story from the Amazon: When anthropologists flew over the thick rainforest along the Brazilian-Peruvian border, they witnessed this: one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world: Skin painted...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/uncontacted-amazon-tribe-attacks-helicopter-with-arrows/German artist Gregor Schneider is planning the ultimate (literally!) performance art piece: he plans to show a person dying as part of the exhibition! “I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/wanted-dying-people-for-art/Photo: Dukes AuctioneersJohn Webber's grandfather gave him this golden cup to play with when he was just a child back in 1945. When John was moving house last year, he discovered it in a shoebox under his bed and on a wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/childhood-toy-turned-out-to-be-ancient-treasure/Joey deVilla saw an illustration of Gang Signs of Los Angeles and thought "Why should gangsta have all the fun?" So he hacked together a list of gang signs ... for geeks! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/geek-gang-sings/"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences." - Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader and orator...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/30/quote-robert-ingersoll-on-rewards-and-punishments/(YouTube link) This is obviously a case of life or death, from the kitten’s point of view. -via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/impatient-kittens/A monkey at the University of Pittsburgh is able to use a robotic arm to feed himself using only the power of brain signals. "It's the first time a monkey--or a human--is directly, with their brain, controlling a r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/monkey-thinks-robot-into-action/A fossil fish, estimated at 380 million years old, has been discovered in the act of giving birth. The fish and her offspring died while still connected by an umbilical cord. Dubbed "mother fish" by the scientists w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/oldest-live-birth-captured-in-fish-fossil/Analogy is the name of a clock by designer Jesson Yip. Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a new hybrid format. Presenting an everyd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/analogy/What do you get when you cross a bicycle with a wheelbarrow? Why, this awesome Dutch cargo bike that can carry up to three young children!It looks like a wheelbarrow attached to a bike - but transport experts believe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/dutch-cargo-bicycle/Miss Cellania posted about a raccoon that had to be rescued after falling into a garbage dumpster ... well, that's nothing compared to the travail this critter had to go through: When it comes to toilets, there's a s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/possum-rescued-from-toilet/Bad Idea: committing a crime in generalReally Bad Idea: Burgling a houseNeatorama-worthy: Burgling a house, while the cops are inside!Here's a strange story of what-a-co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/29/cops-and-burglars-raid-the-same-house/
