Once again, it's time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Do you know what the pictured item is? Can you make a wild guess? Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/what-is-it-game-187/Dino Pops Popsicle Mold - $16.95 Are you looking for a fun way to beat the heat? You need the Dino Pops Popsicle Mold from the NeatoShop. This great set includes 4 sculpted dinosaur shapes 3 sculpted dinosaur shapes a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/dino-pops-popsicle-mold/That Fabio is everywhere lately, isn't he? And now he's on KOIN-TV in Portland, Ore., doing the weather (Portland is home to Wieden + Kennedy, the ad agency responsible for the Old Spice ads). It's fantastic. Perhaps...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/fabio-turns-weathercaster/Gathering Iwatake at Kumano. Woodblock print by Hiroshige II. When making soup requires scaling a cliff, and grabbing a few olives involves avoiding gunfire, it’s time to find some comfort food that’s a little...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/5-foods-people-die-for/If I didn't have a purse and wasn't careful to always put my keys back in it every time, I'd always lose my keys. For those of you with the same problem, but without a purse system, you can now keep track of your keys by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/magnetic-light-switch-plates/Environmental Graffiti has a great list of crazy tools inmates used in their escape attempts. My personal favorite is the shotgun above. This was more than just ingenious; it worked as well! A shotgun made of iron...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/15-unbelievable-inmate-escape-tools/The Jaws poster was so iconic that is has become ripe for parodies and being as how it's Shark Week right now, there's no time like the present to appreciate these great spoofs on the original movie artwork. LinkA...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/25-funny-jaws-poster-spoofs/Apparently Two and A Half Men will soon be killing off Charlie Sheen's character in order to make room for Ashton Kutcher. In honor of the characters demise, Mental floss has a great article reflecting on 11 other show...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/11-characters-memorably-killed-off/Don't just settle for a heart-shaped paper sentiment--really unsettle the object of your obsession and send a heart-shaped vase. It's great for corny Valentine's puns, for sure. Or you can give it to your cardiologis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/flower-pump-vase/Sometimes we writers here at Neatorama come across some really strange and oftentimes borderline creepy stuff that just has to be shared--after all, if we have to look at it, why not share the joy? Such is the case...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/04/iwanna-hold-your-hand/Picnic Table Condiment Set - $17.45 Is it too hot to eat outside? Bring the picnic indoors with the Picnic Table Condiment Set from the NeatoShop. This fantastic 5 piece condiment set includes: ketchup and mustard s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/picnic-table-condiment-set/Carli Davidson, a photographer in Portland, Oregon, has a set of deliciously amusing photos of wet dogs shaking themselves dry. The heavy-jowled dogs work especially well under centrifugal force. Link -via Fubiz (Goo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/shake/M.C. Escher's illustrations are even more surreal when they're reflected in falling drops of water. redditor smsilton captured this amazing image using a 60mm macro lens. Check out the thread to find out how he did i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/m-c-escher-in-a-drop-of-water/Provided that you've got a big budget planned for your wedding, Etsy seller melangerienyc has an original idea for invitations. She'll make custom View-Master slides and package them with View-Masters in pretty boxes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/view-master-wedding-invitations/Does your mousing hand ever grow weary of the task of upvoting or downvoting content on reddit? Chris of The New Hobbyist found a solution with this USB-powered, 3D-printed upvoting and downvoting device. It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/usb-reddit-upvotedownvote-device/(Video Link) And by "largest", I mean that the crafting surface was 11,000 square feet of beach. Sand artists carefully shaped each change around an actual human figure. The cameras were just Nokia N8 cellphones hel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/gulp-the-worlds-largest-stop-motion-animated-video/The Juno spacecraft, after a planned launch in August, will travel to and then orbit the planet Jupiter. On board will be three LEGO minifigs representing the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and the astronomer Gali...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/these-three-minifigs-are-on-their-way-to-jupiter/Artist David Poppie likes to make artistic statements out of everyday objects including pencils and cassette tapes. Finally, a dignified resting place for all those Ray Stevens and Barry Manilow tapes you can't admit to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/cassette-art/Somehow, I have gone through life without knowing -- until today -- of the existence of Battlepug. This hilarious webcomic by Mike Norton tells of a nameless barbarian warrior. He was orphaned as a boy when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/battlepug/This stunning sculpture known as the Mud Maiden can be found at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Mevagissey, UK. Flavorpill shows us this and nine other wondrous botanical gardens around the world. Link via Flavor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/10-surreal-botanical-spaces/Who needs a generator when you've got the Nissan Leaf, an 100% electric car that can power your house for 2 days via the "Leaf-to-home" system, a converter that attaches to your home's electric panel and allows for t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/the-electric-car-that-can-power-your-house/The Oinkster Restaurant in Eagle Rock, California recently implemented an interesting marketing ploy. Instead of traditional paper coupons, they commissioned 2nd Wind to cut wooden burger nickles out of red oak using...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/burger-nickels/These beautiful "wastlandscapes" are made of 65,000 discarded CD's. This 500 square meter installation is currently at Paris's Centquatre museum and were hand sewn together. Ultimately, they will be broken down a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/discarded-cd-art/Kids these days, what with their "Internets" and doing the Twitters and whatnot. Why, you can send perfectly good long-distance messages with a teletype machine! That's what a fellow named Mdziewie did. He rigged a 1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/teletype-printer-adapted-to-send-and-receive-text-messages/(Video Link) YouTube user rachelgfisher was driving down the highway when her husband noticed that a snake slithered out from under the hood. He identified it as a water moccasin, a poisonous snake common to the sou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/snake-on-a-car/Our friends over at Geeks Are Sexy has a neat new T-shirt featuring what signage for an alien restroom may just look like: After light-years of hyper sleep you may...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/alien-restroom/(YouTube Link) A robot that can learn, think and act for itself might make some people lose sleep over the possibility of a Terminator-esque robotic revolution, but scientists in Japan feel that this advancement in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/the-robot-that-can-think-for-itself/Jack and Sally Key Caps - $8.95 Are you looking for a fun way to distinguish your keys? You need the Jack and Sally Key Caps from the NeatoShop. This set of two key caps includes Jack Skellington and Sally from The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/nightmare-before-christmas-jack-and-sally-key-caps/(YouTube Link) Whether or not this whale is enjoying the show is up for debate, but one thing is certain-his eyes are locked on the mariachis as they play. Maybe it's their shiny suits or instruments that have caught...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/beluga-whale-enjoys-mariachi-band-performance/If you love zombies and running (I'm looking at you, Stacy Conradt), you'll love this: marathon through the woods while being actively chased by volunteer zombies. If that's your thing (and I think for a lot of you it mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/03/run-for-your-lives-the-zombie-5k/
