Ask your granny to knit you one of these, A Guitar Hero scarf makes knitting more awesome than you could ever have imagined.And I’m even having trouble deciding on which song! Should I go for a fun 80’s song, a h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/rocking-guitar-hero-scarf/They often say a mother's love has no boundaries, and this series of photos shows the length the squirrel mother will go to to keep her baby safe. When the dog corners the frightened young one she leaps in for the att...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/a-daring-squirrel-rescue-never-get-between-a-mother-and-her-child/And together, we smell like a quesadilla? OK, maybe not. But a company in Geneva that researches flavors and smells for the food and perfume industry did find that men and women smell like those respective foods when t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/women-smell-like-onions-men-smell-like-cheese/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lm3UwXGgl8][YouTube - Link]Don't try this at home. - via darkroastedblendFrom the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.tricycle, stunt riding...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/tricycle-back-flip/This one should be easy! Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss challenges you to name all 50 United States in 5 minutes. Spelling counts. Even though I never learned the "Fifty Nifty" song, I did it in one minute and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/name-all-50-states/The Travel Telegraph blog is starting a series on recycled inns, and the first is Controversy Tram in Opmeer, Netherlands, created from Dutch and German trams that have been repurposed into four luxury apartments. Inside...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/spend-the-night-in-a-recycled-tram/(YouTube link) Farmer Paul Coppin tried an unusual tactic to rid his farm of rabbits. He disguised his tractor so he could sneak up on them. Rather than tell you what he disguised it as, I'll...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/tractor-in-disguise/I just love these miniature artworks by Portland artist Alexandra Peterson! She draws the picture, mounts it on wood, then seals it with "encaustic", which is a type of varnish she makes herself. My encaustic med...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/tiny-treasures/Bubble Spinner is not that difficult. You can work out your strategy after only a minute or two, but the rest of your day may be sacrificed to this simple game. The object is to cluster three or more of the same colored...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/bubble-spinner/This. Is. Awesome. I ran into the Audio Bone headphones people at 2009 CES, and was so impressed with their ear-free, bone conductance headphones that I had to carry them in the Neatorama Online Store.The Audio Bone Head...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/audio-bone-headphones/(YouTube link) Now, no matter what you think of rock-and-roll, I think you have to keep a nice open mind about what the young people go for; otherwise the youngsters won't feel that you understand them. Budd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/peggy-sue/Nowhere is it written that your nuclear waste storage facility can’t be easy on the eyes. As long as the place isn’t glowing too brightly, melting down or shrouded in a mushroom cloud, you can decorate it a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/my-what-a-lovely-nuclear-dump-you-have/The next piece of art to adorn your living room wall could be drawn by a tree. British artist Tim Knowles has developed a way of allowing nature to be an artist. His tree drawings are created by attaching drawing tool...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/artistic-masterpieces-created-by-trees/All the geek-lit coming out this week you need to know about.(Required reading from this week's pickin's in the world of books...) Who says philosophy majors never accomplish anything? Well, our fathers and guidan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/philosophers-math-nerds-and-other-super-heroes/Yippee! We're now carrying wonderful products from indie artists Ashley and Hannah of Hoopla in the Neatorama Online Store. This particular one above, My Punny Valentine, is a set of 5 revamped 1950's style Valentine car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/my-punny-valentine/[YouTube - Link] Here is an amazing CGI visualization of DNA coiling, replication, transcription and translation in real time as is occurring every second in our bodies. For me the most fascinating aspect of watchi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/molecular-visualization-of-dna/Self proclaimed mainstream-subversive art collective Superflex, decided they'd answer a question nobody had ever bothered to ask: "What does a McDonald's restaurant look like as it slowly fills with water?"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/mcdonalds-flooded-in-the-name-of-art/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80jvSARUoKs][YouTube - Link]They are so cute! Take a look at animal babies born in the ZSL (Zoological Society of London) zoos in London and Whipsnade. Guaranteed to make you smile...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/zsl-babies-2008/A cow with a name produces more milk than a cow without, say scientists at the School of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development at Newcastle University in the UK. By giving a cow a name and treating it as an indi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/cows-with-names-give-more-milk/... by someone driving by in a car, if those documents have RFID chips installed in them. A fellow in San Francisco installed an RFID reader in his car, with an antenna, and connected it to his laptop on the front sea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/how-your-passport-and-drivers-license-can-be-hacked/Designed by Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim, the Solar Vertical Lamp takes a typical vertical blind and outfits it with special mini photovoltaic and LED pixels to create a new form of interior lighting. By day the mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/solar-blinds/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCnRuoYMxE][YouTube - Link]Either somebody messed up or the news anchor just got pranked royally. When reporting a sad news about Molly Bish, a 16-year-old girl who disappeare...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/the-hamster-did-it/WebEcoist has some truly fantastic homes on their latest post, including this fantastic hobbit house above. The whole collection is quite nice. Linkdesign, homes, houses, cool, architects...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/15-fantastic-houses-hobbit-house/Hayden Hamilton has devised a tool called GreenPrint, software that analyzes what a computer sends to a printer, to eliminate paper waste and save ink.GreenPrint “looks for pages that have no type or just a few li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/green-print-to-the-rescue/Carts of Darkness is an interesting documentary film about a subculture of street life involving the homeless and the extreme sport of cart racing. The National Film Board of Canada has recently posted the e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/carts-of-darkness/This fruit carving is fantastic. There are some truly amazing ones on the link as well, this one is certainly fun. http://completeall.com/Art-and-Design/Watermelon-Carving.html Via BoingBoingArt, Food, weird, carv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/watermelon-mouth/Hello everyone! It's been a week since we've launched the Neatorama Upcoming Queue and I'd like to give you all a little update.Since we launched on January 26, we've had about 400 blog posts submitted, of which about 12...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/neatorama-upcoming-queue-an-update/Have you ever wanted to smell like a sweaty James Doohan? Well, then, good news! CBS is licensing three Star Trek-themed body fragrances in order to market the new movie in the series. Bonus points: in the comments,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/star-trek-themed-cologne-coming-out-soon/Obviously upset about the proposed budget cuts to New York City's zoos, Staten Island Chuck let Mayor Michael Bloomberg know exactly how he feels. As reported by the Staten Island Advance, the mayor tried se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/staten-island-chuck-takes-a-bite-out-of-mayor/Inventor and entrepreneur Ted Ciamillo is planning to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean later this year in a one-man submarine he designed. The sub will use a pedal-powered propulsion system based on a dolphin's tail....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/02/across-the-atlantic-in-a-human-powered-submarine/
