Printing an image on your latte is so 2008. Here's what OnLatte decided to do with their Latte Art Printer: make images on a Guinness!LinkFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Lee.guiness, printing, latte printer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/image-printing-on-a-guinness/Today's shocking news that Kung Fu Panda had won 15 "Annie" Awards and shut out WALL-E led me to explore the DVD. The extras include a bonus video of Danny Yip, executive noodle chef at Mr. Chow making noodles by ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/watch-a-master-make-pasta-by-hand/There's something delightfully fun about these semi-retro and slightly-sexist female merit badges created by Artist Mary Yeager. My female merit badges illustrate female "rites of passage" as well as the myriad phys...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/female-merrit-badges/Johanna Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic MP, was elected Prime Minister of Iceland this week. She is the first openly gay prime minister in world history. The 66-year-old politician lives with her partner, Jonina Leosdotti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/the-worlds-first-openly-gay-prime-minister/So, the first month of 2009 is almost over and it seems that so far the new year has been nothing but bad economic news after bad economic news.Last week, the folks at the US watched as big companies cut more than 100,00...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/hows-2009-been-treating-you-so-far/Most of the time, desert locusts live a solitary existence. But when they experience a sudden spike in serotonin, a neurotransmitter found in all animals, it's time to swarm! Scientists at the University of Oxford...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/what-do-locusts-want/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WzL_tu46mg][YouTube - Link]This dog must think that it's a seal - here's a YouTube clip of the dog skillfully juggling a basketball on its nose. (According to its owner, the dog w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/dog-or-seal/Writers may use words to weave a work of literary art, but Sarah King did something else with them: she shapes them into wonderful illustrations! Don't Panic Magazine has a nifty interview with Sarah: *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/the-artwork-of-sarah-king/Think you know Minnesota? The Coen Brothers movie Fargo may make it seem that Minnesotans are yokels, but the truth is, Minnesota is far, far weirder. Joshua Post Lee of The Black Table explains the things yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/six-things-you-should-know-about-minnesota/These days, TV, music and book spin-offs are a pretty slick business - but it wasn't always like that! Here's a list of some pretty badly thought out spin-offs from the mists of time:So Neil Simon writes a success...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/spin-offs-spinning-out-of-control/Senator Claire McCaskill is angry at the Wall Street "idiots" who are giving out $18 billion in bonuses in 2008. So angry that she has just introduced a bill to cap their pay: An angry U.S. senator introduc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/angry-senator-lets-cap-wall-street-idiots-salaries/Forget the Year of the Ox, according to Bruce Sterling of Seed Magazine, 2009 is the Year of the Panic. He lists 7 reasons why; for example, let's take look at insurance:4. Insurance and building codes. Every year, i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/lets-panic-like-its-2009/A police officer in Brisbane, Australia, got into hot water for trying to claim ... free donuts from a local Krispy Kreme:A Brisbane police officer got into a holey row with Krispy Kreme staff, demanding to be served...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/cops-vs-krispy-kreme-wheres-my-free-donuts/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn-e1g4vOak][YouTube - Link]Just watch this video to get an idea of how my husband’s mind works. Here it is:Jonathan’s video with Mrs. Bobbie. - via thetowellsFro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/mrs-bobbie-knows-her-computers/What's up with Google? Has anyone else seen this? Every single search I do on Google now returns "This site may harm your computer," even when I search for ... Google! Update: Seems like this bug was fixed a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/31/google-may-harm-your-computer/It's unimaginable to think that today's Hollywood A-List could someday die in obscurity. Just imagine, 50 years from now they'll be running one of those "In Memoriam" clip shows at the Oscars and your grandkid will turn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/five-a-listers-who-died-in-obscurity/Beware of naming your baby boy Ivan, Malcolm, Alec or Ernest: you could be setting him up for a life of crime. Two economics professors (inoffensively named David and Daniel) at Shippensburg University in Penns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/boys-with-unpopular-names-more-likely-to-commit-crimes/You may like land line phones and going out to Blockbuster video to browse down their aisles, but by the time your great grandkids are old enough to start to figure out the world, there will be plenty of things that will...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/10-things-youve-gotten-used-to-but-your-grandkids-wont-remember/Remember our post about the new Consumer Product Safety Act that will make it illegal to sell children's products unless they were tested for lead and phthalates?Besides threatening to put local artisans and small busine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/library-may-ban-childrens-book-to-comply-with-new-anti-lead-law/I can tell you that if I tried to decorate our basement in Sharpie, it would look nothing like this. Then again, I'm not so artistically inclined. The link has video of the entire room, which better shows just how ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/this-guy-should-do-an-ad-for-sharpie/This is strangely fascinating, and makes me want to go visit my parents' house to raid their LPs and see what I can do with them. Although I'm not convinced they have anything I want to be associated with. Lobo? Bes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/complete-the-album-cover/This starts out easy, but every time you successfully complete one of the all-white puzzles, you get another one with more pieces. I can't seem to stop playing... I want to know how large the final puzzle gets! If an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/white-jigsaw/My crocheting skills are pretty minimal (as are my knitting skills, and pretty much all of my crafting skills), but I'm tempted to give Master Shake (he's from Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force) a shot anyway....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/how-to-crochet-master-shake/When I was in high school, I worked at an antique store and developed a strange love for things that most 15-year-old girls do not usually adore (Depression glass, anyone?). That included vintage Valentines. I stil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/vintage-looking-valentines/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH1wq5itIKM][YouTube - Link]So after the absurdity of waiting forever to get my hands on a Wii Fit, I thought it might work for the site I work for to put together a quick video wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/an-embarrassing-look-at-the-wii-fit/Zoomdoggle took a photo of this Tom-tastic trash bin at his local pizza parlor: LinkFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Trace1138.Tom Hanks, Thanks, trash can, trash bin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/thanks/Andrew Novick is a engineer that works on the atomic clock. He was a member of the late 80's band The Warlock Pincher's and collector of collections. The man who has saved everything. Now a gallery in Denver Colorado is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/andrew-novick-the-man-who-saves-everything/It's not some scary new species but divers wearing dragon and lion masks to celebrate the Lunar New Year at Jaya Ancol Dreamland amusement park in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to the Chinese zodiac, it's the year of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-get-back-in-the-water/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7HCIGFdBt8][YouTube - Link] You'd probably think that giraffes are gentle animals by looking at them in a zoo. But in the wild, when push comes to shove, these wild animals fight...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/30/fighting-giraffes/Seeing the steampunk electric guitar reminded me of the Gatortar. It is a telecaster guitar, made with alligator skin by Louisiana artist John Preble. Check out the head stock - it's a claw!LinkFrom the Upcomi...
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