Certainly not me. I remember my first like it was yesterday. Oh, when I first laid eyes on you Dig Dug, my heart went pitter patter. Nothing else compares, not even Pole Position.This clever Atari Mug: You Never Forget Y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/atari-mug-you-never-forget-your-first/David Dietle wrote a highly entertaining post on Cracked about the 10 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist. The list starts off with a bang with this one:#10. Bleeding Tooth FungusThe bleeding...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/bleeding-tooth-fungus-and-other-creepy-plants-that-shouldnt-exist/Real men don't cry ... or do they? Lee Glickstein and Pete van Dyk founded a group dedicated to promoting crying as a therapeutic practice:A few moments before 4 p.m. on a recent Wednesday, nine men ages 25 to 67, fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/men-of-tears/What do you get when quantum physicists learn to play a con game? A paper in Nature Physics, of course! We won't pretend to understand a word in this report at Physorg, but we hope it will one day bring on a quantum supe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/quantum-physics-shell-game/Sure, we all miss MST (MST3K - Mystery Science Theater 3000). But the show lives on forever in our hearts, on our DVD shelves, and through our geektastic arts & crafts. Craftster user MageAkyla has created her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/crochet-tom-servo/Confused about the situation in Egypt? It's understandable, there's a lot going on and with the Internet clampdown you're left in the hands of the news organizations, which already had their hands full with coverage...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/indy-explains-egypt/(Video Link) Alexander Chen took Massimo Vignelli's iconic 1972 map of the New York City subway system and turned it into a musical instrument. The routes are treated like strings, and whenever a train intersects a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/nyc-subway-map-turned-into-a-musical-instrument/Japanese artist Motohiko Odani makes gloriously fluid sculptures. I can't quite figure out what material he uses. This unicorn sculpture lies at the center of an exhibit of his work called "Phantom Limb" at the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/motohiko-odanis-twisty-sculptures/P. Wesley Tyler, Jr. captured this spooky image. What you're looking at a hole-punch cloud: Hole-punch clouds are miniature snowstorms that can occur in thin, subfreezing cloud layers. The lack of fine particl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/hole-punch-clouds/(Video Link) An octopus seen off the coast of Blairgowrie, Australia, was able to enter and exit the narrow opening of a beer bottle. I can respect an octopus that can handle his beer. via Geekologieoctopi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/octopus-in-a-beer-bottle/Heart Spatula - $9.95 Valentine's Day is almost here! Are you still looking for that perfect gift for your sweetie? Well, nothing says I love when you cook me dinner like the Heart Spatula from the NeatoShop. Be sure t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/heart-spatula/A company called Sonitus Medical recently acquired FDA approval for its new hearing aid system. It's called SoundBite, and involves two machines: one that slips behind the user's ear, and another that fits on the molars...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/hearing-aid-is-attached-to-your-teeth/(YouTube link) Tron and Star Wars: two classic sci-fi film franchises. Both were considerably better a few decades ago, yet are fueled by such creative ideas - not to mention rabid fans - that they remain eternally aw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/tron-wars/The Buster Sword is a special weapon that appears in Final Fantasy VII. Flickr user Michaelcthulhu either made or commissioned a realistic version of one. In the linked video, he does his best to swing it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/real-life-buster-sword/Literary theorist and columnist Stanley Fish has listed and described what he regards as the five greatest sentences ever composed in the English language. Among them is this selection from John Bunyan's 1678 work *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/stanley-fish-lists-the-best-sentences-in-the-english-language/Michelle Curtis of New Zealand has a very prized cat for a pet. Her cat, Buddy, is Siamese-Bengal. Buddy went missing for a few days. When he was returned Michelle was horrified to find out that neighbors had neutered...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/neighbors-neuter-rare-cat/The folks at Urlesque have been busy making ads for Facebook. No, not to sell anything; these are just for laughs! Anyone with a Facebook Account can create advertisements on Facebook. You could legitimately advertise y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/30-facebook-ad-parodies/Dr. Keith Swanson of Atlantic, Iowa was going to retire and work for free over seas. Instead his wife talked him into opening a "donations only" clinic. This way he could do his charity work right in his home town. To...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/doctor-accepts-donations-only/Yan Fortin, the webmaster at Geeks Are Sexy, has been working on a secret project for the past nine months and today unveiled ...his new clone! No, we can't leave it at that, because his mama deserves credit a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/the-littlest-storm-trooper/Sure, there's always money in the banana stand - but where's the murder weapon? In the stair car? Perhaps hidden in the walls of the model home? Gone but not forgotten, Arrested Development lives on in the strange...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/clue-arrested-development-edition/YouTube Link The Orange County Zoo in California has a new and unexpected attraction. A wild bald eagle has moved into a tree above the cage of the zoo's captive bald eagle Olivia. Bald eagles are spotted from time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/wild-bald-eagle-sets-up-camp-next-to-captive-bald-eagle/This Valentine's Day, give your loved ones something better than flowers. The Red Rose Towel Treat from the NeatoShop is a red rose that she can actually use: it's a cleverly folded cotton wash cloth! At $4.95, it's a gi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/red-rose-towel-treat/Photo: Adam ChinitzHere's an idea for your next dinner party: a Dexter-themed dining room by designer Amy Lau:Amy Lau has captured, tongue-in-cheek, the essence of Dexter, the Miami P.D. blood-splatter expert by day/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/dexter-dining-room/Eric Jacqmain covered an ordinary fiberglass satellite dish with 5,800 mirror tiles to create a home-made death ray that can "melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete and turn dirt into lava" with the inten...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/homemade-solar-death-ray/Photo: LiiPo Ching/Mercury NewsForget luxurious shampoos, relaxing shaves, and facial treatments at spas. These beauty treatments don't come close to the Vietnamese art of ear picking:"It brings a lot of happine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/ear-picking/Whaaat? You're still using a roll of paper towel? Here's the high-tech version of the good ol' paper towel stand. Behold, the CleanCut Paper Towel Dispenser, a machine that can cut paper towels to any length you want, re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/high-tech-paper-towel-dispenser/Photo: hello naomi [Flickr]Nom nom nom ... waka waka waka? There are a lot of Pac-Man-inspired cakes out there, but these Pac-Man wedding cupcakes by Baker Hello Naomi (previously featured on Neatorama) are quite ambitio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/pac-man-cupcakes/Old and busted: waiting half-a-day to see the doctor in the Emergency Room.The new hotness: InQuickER (get it?), a pay-to-be-seen-faster system that lets you make an appointment to go to the ER. Fees for the service,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/inquicker-appointment-based-er-visit/Photo: Bradley AmbroseTired of your boring ol' vacation? Try extreme vacations, which will definitely make you feel alive, if they don't kill you first. National Geographic has a gallery of 20 of the most extreme, hair-r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/extreme-vacation-descending-into-an-active-volcano/A secret crisis is brewing in Australia: Gen Y women are losing the traditional "female" skills such as cooking, ironing, and sewing:Only 51 per cent of women aged under 30 can cook a roast compared with 82...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/oh-noes-gen-y-women-are-losing-female-skills/
