This delectable Swiss Chocolate Knife is made of the finest Swiss chocolate, and is filled with hazelnut praline. With its featured Victorinox Swiss Army logo, this fine confection is modeled after the Swiss Army Spa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/swiss-chocolate-knife/Hooray! It's time for our weekly collaboration with the What is it? blog. Today's mystery object is shown to the left. Can you guess what it is for?Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/what-is-it-game-81/The Oddee crew took photographer Robert Dam to La Paz, Bolivia to shop in a neighborhood where talismans and odd ingredients are sold to those practicing the supernatural arts. These dried llama fetuses are supposed to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/bolivias-witches-market/First, they took away Solomon Islanders' rights to bear arms and then ... crocs! Here's the story of how peace is having a tragic side-effect for the unarmed villagers:Under the peace deal most Solomon Islanders surr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/why-we-shouldnt-give-up-the-right-to-bear-arms-crocs/Better watch your back if your cat is showing any of these 9 signs. If you're still not sure, there's a handy quiz included. http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php -Thanks, Matthew Inman! ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/how-to-tell-if-your-cat-is-plotting-to-kill-you/Can there be anything more boring than drain pipes? Well, not these: deputy dog blog has a few photos of the neatest drain pipes around the world.This one to the left is Buster Simpson's Downspout Planter System in Seatt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/drain-pipes-art/Stock market blues got you down? Well, take heart that you're not losing as much money as Sheldon Adelson. The casino and hotel magnate had lost (at least on paper) $30 billion in investments in the past year!Put ano...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/losing-100-million-a-day/(Vimeo link) This little French girl is so adorable! A breathtaking story by Capucine. Starring baby monkeys lost in frightening trees, a witch, crocodiles, a tiger, a "popotamus" and a lion, and even a "tremend...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/once-upon-a-time/Poor Anthony Michaels. When Classmates.com told him that long lost school friends were looking for him, he signed and paid ... only to find out that no one was! Now, he's suing Classmates.com for being a scam:When Cl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/no-one-was-looking-for-him-so-man-sues-classmatescom/Fiction meets reality in Google Street View. On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/street-with-a-view/This 200-year-old vampire killing kit was recently sold at an auction in Natchez, Missisippi. The winning bid? $14,850! Link -Thanks, Commander Flatus!vampire kit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/vampire-killing-kit/It seems logical that in areas where people are suffering from the flu that more search terms about the flu would roll into Google Search. So Google Trends has taken data from search inquiries related to the flu and ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/google-flu-trends/We've blogged about the growing number of narrowly focused blogs, but the phenomenon isn't limited to teh InterWeb. Lisa Katamaya of Tokyo Mango found a store in Akihabara that plies pliers! http://www.tokyomango.com/tok...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/the-plier-store/Bunker-busting bombs are pretty darned effective against hardened underground bunkers, but maybe it's not such a good idea to blow up chemical or biological weapons (that may just spread 'em, which makes things worse).So...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/pentagons-weapon-against-wmd-bunkers-rocket-ball/A team of Princeton University scientists analyzed proteins involved in energy production of cells and discovered that they have the ability to control their own evolution:"The discovery answers an age-old quest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/scientists-found-proteins-that-direct-own-evolution-maybe/1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. is one swanky place - but that's not the case in other cities. As a new US President is set to move into the famous 1600 Pennsylvania, Ironic Sans blog decided to take a virtua...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/1600-pennsylvania-avenues-in-cities-across-usa/Carpooling is a really good idea. It saves gas, money, the environment ... But if you live in Ontario, Canada, it is also illegal.Well, here's the story of a startup company called PickupPal, who wants to make it easier...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/carpooling-in-canada-youre-breaking-the-law/Arvo, the LEGO brothers/artists extraordinaire who made the awesome LEGO Iron Man we featured before on Neatorama also made this: the most realistic Alien ever built with LEGOs! http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/13/alien-lego-by-arvo/Canadian artist Susy Olivera uses photos and foam to create a 3-D collage. This one above is titled Time is Never Wasted. More on her website: http://susyoliveira.ca/site.htm [Flash]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/3d-photo-sculpture-by-susy-olivera/There were three medieval kingdoms on the shores of a lake. There was an island in the middle of the lake, over which the kingdoms had been fighting for years. Finally, the three kings decided that they would send th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/pythagoras-is-rolling-in-his-grave/Apparently, you can make a rockerless rocker - all you need are two metal strips, wheels, a little Yankee ingenuity and Gandhi. Found at the always-entertaining Modern Mechanix....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/how-to-make-a-rockerless-rocker/Don't flirt with that woman! That's Miss Alice Reighly, president of the Anti-Flirt Club of Washington, D.C. The 1923 club is for women and girls who have been embarrassed by men trying to flirt with them! So much for th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/anti-flirt-club/This is not your father's formaldehyde-filled FEMA trailer ... Artist Paul Villinski gutted a 30-foot Gulfstream "Cavalier" trailer of its toxic materials and rebuilt it into Emergency Response Studio,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/artist-modded-fema-trailers-into-hip-emergency-response-studio/The Sentio is a digital tactile watch for the blind designed by Matthew Wagerfield. The watch has segments that rise 1 mm from the surface of the watch to signify the hour and minute. The face of sentio exhi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/tactile-watch-for-the-blind/Now that is an awesome staircase! The creative "floating" stairs are designed by Florence architect Guido Ciompi for The Gray Hotel in Milan, Italy. The Contemporist Blog has more: Link - via stair porn (SFW ac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/amazing-floating-stairs-at-the-gray-hotel-milan/November is Peanut Butter Lovers Month. How much do you know about the peanut butter industry? Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will tell. I scored 58%, which is only slightly better than average. http://www.ment...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/peanut-butter/Matthew Inman, who brought us 9 Reasons NOT to Date a Tyrannosaurus Rex and other funnies, has posted instructions for how to turn your car into an unstoppable murder machine! Link -via Everlasting Blort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/unstoppable-murder-machine/Zilly Rosen of Zillycakes baked over 1200 mini cupcakes and frosted them with 9 different shades of fondant. Then she assembled them into a portrait of president-elect Barack Obama! She took the portrait to the Obama h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/obama-portrait-in-cupcakes/A baby born in Leizhou, Guangdong province, China has eight toes -on each foot! The unidentified newborn also has ten fingers, but no thumbs. Doctors say the odd arrangement could be genetic, or could have been caused by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/counting-fingers-and-toes/The sand on these beaches comes in black, white, green, red, purple, and pink! It's all a matter of what kind of rock was pulverized to form the sand. Four of these five beaches are in the the United States. Shown is P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/12/5-strangely-coloured-beaches/
