I know most people love Peeps or hate them - no grey area. I'm one that loves them, but I like to cut a little slit in the package and let them get stale for a few days. Mmm, crunchy Peeps. For those of you that like a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/chocolate-covered-peeps/Cake Wrecks causes me to cringe all of the time, usually at gross spelling errors and colors that should never be used on a cake. But when one actually makes me laugh out loud, I know I have to share it with you guys....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/cake-wrecks-university-of-kentucky-wildblobs/To be fair, there may be other ways to explain their conclusions - and you might not need the clamps, harnesses and whips to replicate that kind of closeness (simply cooking a meal together might do the trick as well)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/study-says-spanking-brings-couples-closer-together/Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips (Atom Films Link) A short film by Atom Films user The555 about a man who decides to bring along his dungeon master to mediate a blind date. Clearly, he botched an in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/never-take-your-dungeon-master-with-you-on-a-blind-date/To be fair, the Russians aren't attacking. In fact, the US military knew this was coming and expected it. Debris from launched spacecraft and rocketry regularly fall back into the atmosphere. Stilll, residents who didn'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/dont-worry-folks-that-flash-over-virginia-was-just-russian-rockets/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJzRuprW_cc][YouTube - Link]A rattleback or wobblestone is an object with a smooth bottom that can be spun like a top. Unlike conventional tops, however, the rattleback has an asym...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/the-rattleback-wobblestone-phenomenon/In his art series Family Tree, photographer Bobby Neel Adams take portraits of family members (father/son, mother/daughter and so on) tear them down the middle and gluing them back together (no photoshop manipul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/family-tree-by-bobby-neel-adams/To protest the hyperinflation that has rendered the Zimbabwe currency worthless and to raise awareness of the dire economic situation there, the Zimbabwean Newspaper created an ad campaign featuring huge posters, wall mu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/zimbabwean-dollar-worlds-first-trillion-dollar-ad-campaign/Our pal AskMen has a neat (and somewhat controversial) list of the 29 Best Cities to Live In (if you're a guy), based on various criteria such as sports & entertainment, power & money, dating & sex, fashion a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/best-cities-in-the-world-to-live-in-for-guys/There's so much behind-the-scenes info on The Wizard of Oz, I couldn't possibly touch on all of it in one Neatorama post. I just picked some of my favorites, but if I missed your favorite bit of Oz-related triv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/movie-trivia-the-wizard-of-oz/These ten different timelines, which are all affected whenever someone uses a time machine, can be confusing (as all time travel stories are), but reading them may help you prepare for the new movie Terminator: Salva...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/10-timelines-from-the-terminator-universe/The Melvins were named after a much-despised Thriftway supervisor of band member Buzz Osborne. The group started in the early 80’s by the members who attended school together in Montesano, Washington. Throughout...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/music-tidbits-the-melvins/Throughout history there have been a few lost souls who have taken the beauty of science and instead of honoring it, twisted it and contorted it into something evil. Science, we are informed by conscientio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/10-real-life-mad-scientists/Preserved plants don't look much like their living counterparts after they are flattened and dried. The Harvard Museum of Natural History instead has displays of plants made of glass! Leopold Blaschka and his son...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/glass-botany/A ship discovered off the coast of North Carolina in 1997 has been identified by experts as the Queen Anne's Revenge, a ship used by the pirate Blackbeard. The ship was originally named Le Concorde befo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/blackbeard-relics-found/This wedding dress valued at 1.5 million dollars is made from 2009 peacock tail feathers! It was unveiled at a recent wedding expo in Nanjing, China. Link -via J-Walk Blog peacock, feathers, wedding gown...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/peacock-feather-wedding-dress/Dunkin' Donuts is inviting website users to create their next donut using a five-step selection process. Mine is a chocolate butter filled donut with peanut butter frosting and chocolate sprinkles. What's yours? https:/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/invent-dunkin-donuts-next-donut/Someone told me there was a canoe in this picture ... but I have to admit I got distracted and did not see it right away. Regardless, the canoes are great but the kayaks are even better: they are light-weight, easy-t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/clever-see-through-kayak-and-canoe-designs/Pothos has thousands of followers and gives regular updates. Pothos ... is also a plant. A built-in moisture meter relays messages about the plant's current state in order to remind its owner when it needs watering....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/yes-now-even-your-houseplants-can-twitter/There's plenty of things I don't like about diapers - they're expensive, they often leak, and they cause bum rash because babies sit in their poo for too long - but I can't imagine taking care of babies without...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/diaper-free-baby/Our very own John Struan, who blogs at Super Punch, wrote a very neat article summarizing the secrets of his blogging success. 3. Give more than you expect to receiveEvery selfish move I made failed. As...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/super-punch-blogging-secrets/Miss Cellania wrote a very funny post over at YesButNoButYes blog about people who submit fake names to TV stations ... and got 'em broadcasted! This one above is a classic:Dixie Normous is the fictional female lead...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/fake-names-on-television/AMARC, photo via Artificial OwlOur pal WebEcoist has a very neat post about the graveyards of "stuff" after they're no longer wanted. This one above is the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center or AMARC...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/the-boneyard-where-military-aircrafts-go-to-die/Like its name said, 100 Ways to Kill a Peep blog is dedicated to documenting the creative ways to kill the marshmallow candies. So far they've got about a dozen and a half or so, but I have no doubt they'll reach 100 soo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/100-ways-to-kill-a-peep/Remember the video clip of a guy tossing a cannonball into a pool of mercury? Well, here's something even more amazing: a 1972 photo from the National Geographic magazine showing a man sitting on a pool of mercury.Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/man-sitting-on-a-pool-of-mercury/"Thursday Jan. 1, 2009 18:20 Rousing from torpor to go to shops then come back and cook good things. Fried things, in all likelihood." James Bridle decided to collect all his Twitter messages...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/a-book-of-tweets/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8YYL4jyl_A][YouTube - Link]So here's the scoop: I'm about to turn 30 - this friday in fact. Also: I love waterslides. Then I found a competition which, if I get enough votes, will...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/laws-of-physics-broken-for-watersliding-fun/First lesson learned: Eskimo Ice Cream does not include cream. Fish, whipped fat, berries, sugar, but no cream. And don't you worry, Hawaiians, SPAM is included in this list. We took a culinary tour of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/8-regional-foods-youre-embarrassed-to-love/The Boston Latin School, a private prep school, issued a press release in the hopes of quashing rumors that the school is infested with vampires: "The headmaster believes that the outrageous rumors had reached a poi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/school-vehemently-denies-vampire-infestation/There are plenty of over-the-counter erectile dysfunction pills available now. Whether they work or not, they have names that could fit right in the Star Trek universe! In this mental_floss quiz, can you tell which of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/star-trek-character-or-erectile-dysfunction-pill/
