Ultraviolet Spy Pen - $9.95 Do you long to be a secret agent? Sorry we can't make that happen, but we can help you pretend! You just need to get yourself the Ultraviolet Spy Pen from the NeatoShop. With the fabulous...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/ultraviolet-spy-pen/A Tweet by @MikeLeffingwell reveals a sad family secret we were all just vaguely aware of. After all, if it were only a matter of softness or firmness, they could get one of those dual adjustable beds! The illustrati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/3-bears/This cute little double hamburger is not a Big Mac -or even a burger! It's a cheeseburger macaron, made with cookies and fondant. Ladybird x, who made it, calls them "Little Macs." See the process of making them at D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/little-macs/CAPTCHArt is a popular website that published user-submitted art inspired by "captchas," those little tests in which you prove you're a real person before you leave a comment at a website. Oddee sifted through and fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/20-funniest-captcha-art-pics/(vimeo link) This animation was produced by Qais Sarhan for his graduation project on child labor at the University of Leeds. -via Nag on the Lakeanimation, humor, cell phones, child labor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/how-mobile-phone-are-made/The following is an article from Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader. Here's a little-known slice of Americana: the story of how freed slaves changed the face of the American West....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/beulah-land/Sticking your face into someone else's picture isn't exactly a new phenomenon. Photobombing is apparently as old as photography itself -or at least the Civil War. LinkPhotography, portrait, Civil War, photobomb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/civil-war-photobomb/(YouTube link) Sam Klemke videotaped himself every year for 35 years, clips of which are presented backwards, so you can watch him watch him grow (or shrink, rather) into a 20-year-old wearing bell bottoms and platf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/16/the-backwards-life-of-sam-klemke/Photo link Who knew invasive plant species could be so gorgeous? Artist Nicole Dextras scoured her backyard (and her neighbors') for wearable weeds to comment on environmental issues in the fashion industry, such as t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/weedrobes-prom-dress-created-from-yucca-plant/They look like cups of hot chocolate, right? Keep scrolling. The blogger behind Diary of a Ladybird made these cupcakes out of fondant. All they need is some chocolate syrup on top! Link via Doobyb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/hot-chocolate-cupcakes/(Vimeo Link) How cute is this? The World's Smallest Postal Service began in 2008. Postmaster Lea Redmond started a tiny letter transcription service for patrons of San Francisco cafes and shops. Now an online service...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/worlds-smallest-postal-service/redditor SirCreate is making me hungry with this excellent model of Stay Puft from The Ghostbusters out of modeling clay. The missing bite is a nice touch. Link via Geekosystem If you like this, check...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/stay-puft-smore/Really, the studio name and logo displayed in the watermark is as inspired as the smoker itself. Philip Wise modified a 55-gallon drum into this perfect Ewok-smoker. Or whatever else you want to cook. Oh, was that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/r2d2-smoker/A simple but hilarious 3-panel cartoon by Matan Blumenblat and Aviv Or, cartoonists Israel. Once again, Clark Kent needs to discreetly change his outfit. Link (Google Translate) via The Mary SueDoctor Who, superma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/superman-in-the-uk/(YouTube link) Ransom Riggs of mental_floss takes a haunting tour through the history and current state of California's Salton Sea. Music by Michael Picton.abandoned, Salton Sea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/the-accidental-sea/Don't Break The Bottle CorkScrew - $24.95 Are you looking for a fun, and slightly aggravating, gift to bring to a dinner party? You need the Don't Break The Bottle CorkScrew game from the NeatoShop. Slip your favo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/dont-break-the-bottle-corkscrew/Hi ho, the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch! Craftster user noooitaremybirthday made this bookmark out of paper and polyclay. Link via CraftThe Wizard of Oz, bookmarks...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/wicked-witch-of-the-east-bookmark/Sammi Jo Stohler had a problem: her zebra Zach kept jumping out of his field, so much that she had an eight-foot fence built. So she turned his habit into an asset by training Zach to show off his jumps! Stohler took Zac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/zebra-is-a-jumping-horse/(YouTube link) It's not a romantic comedy until a beautiful woman takes a headlong plunge, which is not only a hint at comedy, but is often a way to set her up to meet someone who will turn out to be the man of her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/women-falling-down-in-romantic-comedies/When Hollywood movies are renamed for overseas audiences, the results can be literal or inexplicable, and sometimes remarkably apt. For example, Knocked Up was released in China as One Night Big Belly*/e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/the-fifty-funniest-movie-title-translations/(YouTube link) Warning: this is nothing like what you'd expect from the title. Performance artist Jillian Mayer is determined to scar her own descendants for life. -via The Daily Whatgrandma, scary...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/15/i-am-your-grandma/Belle does look into that mirror an awful lot, doesn't she? Artist Chris Hill noticed now nicely the princesses seem to match up with the Seven Deadly Sins. Ariel as Greed? Nailed it. His non-Disney Rapunzel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/disney-princesses-as-the-seven-deadly-sins/Daniel Kish had both eyes removed at the age of 13 months after being diagnosed with retinoblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer. He didn't let that slow him down. Though blind he can mountain bike, navigate the wildern...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/daniel-kish-uses-sound-to-see/Etsy seller 27thstreetpress has the right idea. When you're introduced to someone, just pull out this book and write down his/her name and contact information for future reference. Link via Copyranteretsy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/a-very-useful-little-black-book/(YouTube Link) Do you miss the feel of a manual typewriter? The USB Typewriter presents itself as "a new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence". This appeals to my retro gene. *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/retro-usb-typewriter/(vimeo link) Fate threw them together. He was 2%, she was whole. This video was commissioned by Friends of the Earth, a UK organization pushing for more recycling. Link -via Laughing Squidmilk, recycling, milk carto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/a-love-story%e2%80%a6-in-milk/Genius & InsaniTea Tea Bags - $11.95 Are you looking for a way to take the edge off of your crazy day? You need the Genius & InsaniTea Tea Bags from the NeatoShop. Go ahead and talk to your new little imagina...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/genius-insanitea-tea-bags/Why is it harder and harder for people to remember things as they get older? Is it because their brain is full?Not so, according to a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist:According to a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist, however,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/why-its-getting-harder-and-harder-to-remember-things-as-you-get-older/William Chua or Xiaobaosg is a Singaporean artist who described himself as a "kidult illustrator", but the first word that came to my mind was "phenomenal." Here's his series called Panda Revolution,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/14/panda-revolution/What's funnier than a fart joke on the Internet? Fart news on the Internet, of course!Here's a story of how two 13-year-old boys got into a bus-load of trouble when they cut the cheese on the bus:Administrators ruled...
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