(YouTube link) The Trons are a band of robots from New Zealand. They had a MySpace page earlier but the link isn't working right now. -via Viral Video Chart Update 6/18/08 by Alex - here's an interview with The Tro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/sister-robot-by-the-trons/(YouTube link) Recorded at the 2008 Star Wars Weekend Hyperspace Hoopla show at Disney's Hollywood Studios. (via Everlasting Blort)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/dance-off-with-the-star-wars-stars-2008/Make your own silly receipts online with the Custom Receipt Maker! Link -via The Generator Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/receipt-maker/(YouTube link) A puppy in Evansville, Indiana was smashed in a cardboard compactor! The female lab-pit bull mix may have been compacted more than once. The crew who found her at the recycling company is looking for a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/puppy-survives-compactor/The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader Every TV show wants one, but few achieve it: a catchphrase. The best ones not only propel their show into the limelight,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/holy-catchphrase-batman-16-famous-catchphrases-in-tv-history/Photo from LOLadayHooray! It's time for Neatorama and Hobotopia's Cpation Monkey! So after you gaze at the cuteness that is the Taco Bell puppy, submit your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/caption-monkey-33-cute-taco-bell-puppy/Awesome: TV show starring a chimpAwesome-r: ... with a bulldog sidekickOnly in Japan: ... dressed as Ultraman and Godzilla, destroying a miniature city!Check out this Pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/chimp-and-bulldog-re-enact-ultraman-vs-godzilla/What to get that geeky gourmand in your family? How about these salt and pepper shakers shaped like the "S" and "P" keys from a computer keyboard?http://giftsforengineers.com/137/index.php?main_page=p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/salt-and-pepper-keyboard-key-shakers/J.K. Rowling was unemployed and living on welfare when she penned Harry Potter, which earned her billions of dollars. With that rags-to-riches story as a background, listen to what she said at this year's Harvar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/jk-rowling-on-the-benefits-of-failure-and-the-importance-of-imagination/One of the greatest characters in cartoon history is Calvin's dad in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Here's a neat collection of Calvin's dad explaining how the world actually works to his i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/calvins-dad-explains-how-life-works/Illustration: Tom WellerThe Evolutionist Model holds that man descended from apes, but it doesn't explain "the tremendous expansion of intellect and other intangibles that characterize humanity." The Creationis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/this-is-it-evolution-and-creationism-combined-into-a-coherent-model/The idea of getting bacteria to synthesize petroleum is not new, but $140 a barrel oil is breathing new life to the quest. Here's a story of LS9, a start-up company that wants to genetically engineer bacteria to eat wast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/bacteria-eat-waste-and-poop-out-oil/We've posted about the the bacon lollipop, bacon cup, bacon scarf, bacon pig, and other things bacon-y ... so it's to our great pleasure to bring you this next big thing in baconland: The baconhenge!The AntiCraft has the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/baconhenge/Bob Hezzelwood, aka "Beach Bob" was sitting on the South of Bonita Beach in Florida when he was ticketed ... for wearing a speedo!Beach Bob says that routine was broken up when a Lee County Sheriff's Deputy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/ticketed-for-wearing-a-speedo/Disneyland has a new Tomorrowland attraction, called the Innoventions Dream Home, a showcase/model home built by Taylor Morrison that is chockful of new technology from HP, Microsoft, and Life|ware. The interactive mirro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/tomorrowland-dream-house-at-disneyland/Remember when you put a can or an aluminum foil in the microwave when you were a kid (and didn't know any better)?Well, here are YouTube clips of the strangest 20 things that grown people have microwaved. Someone even ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/strange-things-people-have-microwaved/In the past few decades, in order to raise revenue, postal administration of various countries have issued a growing number of .... scented stamps!This one to the left is the coffee-scented stamp by the Brazilian postal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/scratch-and-sniff-postage-scented-stamps/Artist Ralph Dickinson has made a short film that profiles a dear friend of mine from college, Greg Grey. Greg was and is a beautiful person. He is one of those rare geniuses who straddles that ragged edge between br...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/portrait-of-greg/[cc-licensed image courtesy Flickr user chaospheonx] There's trouble in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game universe of Age of Conan:Along with its solid gameplay and excellent graphics Age of Conan h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/accidental-breast-reduction-hobbles-online-game-age-of-conan/Psst! Our friend mental_floss is running a super secret deal for their excellent magazines. They told me that it's the best subscription deal for the magazine ever, and I believe it ... I can't tell you the price here on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/psst-super-secret-mental_floss-magazine-deal/W00t! Thanks to Neatorama reader Mel Phistopheles of Black is the New Black blog who sent us a photo of himself wearing the Neatoramabot T-Shirt. It looks great, Mel!If you get your own T-shirt from our new online store,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/neatoramabot-t-shirt/Ah, Internet Cafes ... it used to be just a place where you can browse the Internet and grab a cup of coffee, but competition being what it is, some Internet cafes are offering something a little more than a cup of joe:....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/strangest-internet-cafes-from-around-the-world/Ever smelled a new shower curtain? According to the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, a Virginia-based advocacy group, that smell is toxic:Vinyl shower curtains release over 100 toxic chemicals into the air...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/shower-curtain-smell-yup-toxic/Philadelphia has a clever new program to try to get drivers to slow down: optical illusion speed bumps!The city is putting out high-tech plastic devices that create a 3-D image that looks like a bump in the road. Chi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/optical-illusion-speed-bump/I <3 Firefox (Neatorama just downloads and displays faster on Firefox than any other browser) - so it's my pleasure to try and help spread the word about Firefox 3's Download Day 2008.In one sentence: on June 17, 2008...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/firefox-3s-guinness-world-record-attempt/Muschi the cat and Meuschen the bear are so close that zookeepers in Berlin had to reunite them after they were separated: The pair were split up last October when the bear was locked in a cage while her living space...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/cat-and-bear-bff/In other strange animal pairing news, a pet cat in China has adopted a rat which she nurses alongside her four kittens! Sun, 81, says that a neighbour came to see the kittens on the day they were born and was amazed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/cat-adopts-rat-or-just-saving-it-for-later/Men, do you have trouble sticking to diets and budgets? Belgian researcher Bram Van Den Bergh may have identified the culprit: The Bikini Effect.In the study, detailed in the Journal of Consumer Research, men alterna...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/the-bikini-effect/Something strange is happening in the skies over a small Texas town - and with so many people as witnesses, it's hard to dismiss it as simply a hoax: Stephenville, Texas, may have just seen UFOs! They first saw a set...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/ufos-in-texas-aliens-may-just-be-looking-for-milk/Early last week, a pod of 26 dolphins beached themselves in Cornwall, England ... and experts are suggesting that they've committed "mass suicide":The dolphins that died after beaching in Cornwall had inges...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/16/dolphin-mass-suicide-is-sonar-to-blame/
