What would make a good dessert after a meal of grilled cheese sandwich? Why, a grilled cheesecake sandwich, of course! Jessie Oleson of Cakespy explains: Grilled cheese is pretty much the best thing since sliced brea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/grilled-cheesecake-sandwich/WebUrbanist has a great post with 15 images that look fake, but aren't. The dog above has two mutant genes that make it look like it's loaded on steroroids. The other 14 images are great too. LinkPhotoshop, dogs,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/images-that-look-photoshopped-but-arent/Most people have a hard time envisioning a number as big as a billion, much less a trillion. How much money is a trillion dollars? Some examples may help to put that amount in perspective.The G-20 summit com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/what-can-you-buy-with-a-trillion-dollars/This 2GB USB memory stick transforms into the Decepticon Ravage. At the link, there's also a laser mouse that transforms into the Autobot Grimlock and a USB hub that transforms into the Autobot Blaster. Link via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/transformers-usb-memory-stick/Of course you are familiar with Transformers, He-Man, and G.I. Joe, but there was also M.A.S.K. If you remember this show, you'll do well on Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. Link TV, mental floss, quiz, animati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/the-mask-quiz/(YouTube link) The guys who brought you An Engineers Guide to Cats demonstrate cat yodeling techniques. All it takes is their system and a mildly annoyed cat. Don't miss the orchestral arrangement at end! -via Viral V...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/advanced-cat-yodeling/Knowledge on evolution fills many books, which can be intimidating to someone just beginning to learn about it. Geeks are Sexy has a post explaining in layman's terms how evolution works and the reason why the theory is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/what-is-evolution/To Lebanese artist Ginou Choueir, potatoes are a lot like humans. Each potato has a distinct personality which he reveals by painting portraits on them. He's painted hundreds of them. Why potatoes? "I chose the p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/potatohead-people/(YouTube link) This recycling project looks like it could be fun, or at least a way to impress your kids! -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratoriesrecycling, pinball, VHS...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/how-to-make-a-pinball-machine-from-a-vhs-tape/Brian Dettmer, an American artist takes a very sharp knife and performs autopsies - on books of all things. So far so literary Damien Hirst, you might say. However, Dettmer does not simply s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/the-dettmer-book-autopsies/I've been training for a 20k that takes place at the end of May, and I can definitively say that you will never find me on anyone's "Fastest Runners" list. "Slowest Runners," "Saddest Runners," "Runners with the Worst F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/four-really-fast-runners/Gem-studded teeth were popular among people (mostly men) from all walks of life in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, purely for decorative purposes, a new study shows. As far back as 2,500 years ago, skilled dentists could dril...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/19/ancient-mesoamerican-bling/The first building in Savannah, Georgia was a "herb house" for the gardener tending the experimental botanical gardens that were going to make the city a Utopia. Instead, the city became a busy seaport. The garden house...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/shanghaied-in-savannah/Custom Bobble Head and Cake Topper - starting at $99W00t! I'm happy to announce that we've started a new collaboration with Wendy Lee of One and Only Figures to bring custom bobble heads and cake toppers to Neatorama's O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/custom-bobble-head-and-cake-topper-get-your-own-mini-me/(Vimeo link) William Castleman shot this video of the night sky at the Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, TX April 21-22. Watch as the core of the Milky Way passes over. -via reddittimelapse, astronomy, stars, stargazing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/milky-way-time-lapse/WebEcoist has twelve tales of animals escaping from captivity. Some were recaptured quickly; others weren't so simple. When zookeepers found that a Macaw had vanished, they were baffled because they knew his wings w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/great-escapes-by-animals/No kittens were harmed in this recreation of the carnival game Whack-A-Mole. This is almost as cute as the Whack-A-Mouse game we posted previously! LinkCat, kittens, whackamole...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/whack-a-kitty/Louise Hibbert works with wood and Sarah Parker-Eaton works with silver and gold. Separately and together, they create art inspired by microscopic plankton from the oceans. Patterns and form in nature have inspire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/plankton-as-art/Life in Moscow has certainly changed since Soviet Times, but apparently stray dogs have adapted well: they ride the subway just like ordinary people!Foraging dogs have long been part of Moscow’s landscape, but...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/the-subway-dogs-of-moscow/Swedish photographer Erik Johansson of alltelleringet created this fantastic image of what Tetris would look like in real life. See the rest of his creations here: Link - via Super PunchPhotoshop, tetris, Erik Johansson...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/tetris-in-real-life/You know you've made it as a meme when someone put a giant mural up ...Josh Zubkoff did one on the Invisible Bike LOLcat in a building in San Francisco: Link - via MySA Blog Favorite office Time WastersJohn of The Zeray...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/what-makes-a-meme-successful/Remember Anita Renfroe's song about motherhood Total Momsense that went round the Interweb a while ago? Well, she's back with version no. 2.Here's it is: Link [embedded YouTube clip] | Anita's websiteAnita Renfroe, Total...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/18/total-momsense-2-by-anita-renfroe/This Flickr pool puts all kinds of photos of jazz hands together. Most are pictures of people with splayed fingers, but some, like this warning sign, may be unintentionally jazzy. Link -via Buzzfeed (image credit: F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/jazz-hands/Frank Warren, the artist behind Post Secret, recently delivered the commencement address at St. Mary's College in Maryland. In preparation for it, he asked members of the graduating class to write a one-sentence respons...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/one-sentence-commencement-speeches/Nancy Simoes of Southwest Miami-Dade County, Florida, was in the kitchen cooking her family's favorite dish of fried salami when she got a heavenly message:"I had only three pieces in my skillet, and then as I w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/a-heavenly-message-in-fried-salami/Photo: Arjan Benning We've seen quite a few creative alphabets, but probably none as weird (and painful) as this set, made with clothespin and skin. It's called alfabet in huid (typeface in skin) by Thijs Verbeek.Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/alfabet-in-huid-typeface-made-from-skin-and-clothespins/Most of us are familiar with Shel Silverstein through his amazing works of art and poetry for children. But Sheldon Alan Silverstein was a lot more than that, so to honor the 10th anniversary of his passing, here are a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/the-many-sides-of-shel-silverstein/How many times have you begun to study for an exam and after 30 minutes get distracted and move on to doing something else, and at the end you are left with no other choice but to stay up all night studying for that fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/study-ball-makes-sure-you-study/The folks at Did You Know? have compiled a long list of average life expectancies of many, many animals. Including everything from ants (1-3yrs) to humans (70-80yrs) to the Galapagos land tortoise (193yrs!) Get ready to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/how-long-do-animals-live/If you thought a four-leaf clover was lucky, check out this thing: it's a 56-leaf clover. The clover was found by Japanese farmer and clover expert Shigeo Obara, featured previously on Neatorama. That's a lot of clover l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/17/14-times-the-luck/
