After you're done with these sneakers from Dutch footwear maker OAT Shoes, don't throw 'em away. Bury 'em in the ground, instead. Don't worry - you're supposed to do that:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/shoes-that-grow-into-trees/The Soviet Union launched fruit flies into space in 1947. I did not know that until today. Since then, we've sent many living species up into space for exploration and experimental purposes, and eight of those were m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/mammals-in-space/Spanning from over a decade ago to this summer's memes, Ranker has gathered together 35 catchy viral musical videos that swept the internet. You can relive the good old days of "All Your Base" and "Peanut Butter Jell...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/the-catchiest-viral-internet-songs-of-all-time/The gnat-ogre, Holcocephalus fuscus, is a tiny insect that eats even tiner insects. You've got to look really close to ever see them, although they may be in your back yard. Aptly named, gnat-ogres are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/the-gnat-ogre/Arfsolut Vodka Plush Dog Toy - $11.95 Do you have a trendsetting dog who appreciates the finer things in life? Get him the Arfsolout Vodka Plush Toy from the NeatoShop. Your sophisticated pooch will love this squeak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/arfsolut-vodka-plush-dog-toy/The Planet of the Apes franchise is rebooting this week and for most science fiction fans the original film is a classic. However there are many other great stories of animals who become “uplifted” to human level int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/stories-about-animals-who-gain-human-intelligence/A common experience is to hear faint beat of your own heart, normally after a vigorous workout. However for Stephen Mabbut, the noise of his own eyeballs moving in his head was so loud and audible it was driving him mad....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/man-can-hear-his-own-eyeballs-move/(vimeo link) Here's another contender for the title of coolest error page. The site Nosh is about food, but the video on its 404 page is about... a dead page, of course. Link -via redditerror, error page...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/this-page-is-no-longer-active/If you’re like me then you always wanted your own pair of covert spy glasses just like in a James Bond movie. Apparently a lot of people out there do as well because one company was able to raise over three hundred tho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/video-spy-glasses-raise-over-300k-on-kickstarter/This neat scene from a 1979 Danish film “The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders” shows an electronic Lego device that expertly sneaks into a building, making its way up a flight of stairs. I don’t know who the Olsen Gan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/break-into-a-building-using-lego/Abandoned places can be creepy. Morgues are always creepy to most people. Put them together, and you've got some really creepy places -and even more so when you know their history. Environmental Graffiti has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/10-creepiest-abandoned-morgues-on-earth/Most people have trouble not stuffing their face and gaining a few extra pounds on chocolate. But have you ever heard of a fish with the same problem? Apparently the fish outgrew its tank, getting fed a daily diet of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/fat-fish-weaned-off-of-chocolate/(YouTube link) Pinball gets a new twist when you play on the street, with people as the balls and bumpers! This stop-motion video is from the 2011 Animation Block Party Film Festival in New York City. -via The Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/person-pinball/by Daniel M. Berry Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada In software engineering, we are told that a software requirements specification should specify what...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/what-not-how-the-case-of-specifications-of-the-new-york-bagel/Shark Week is cool, but I've always thought that having a yearly shark week seemed a little silly -after all, how much more are you really going to learn from one year to the next? College Humor has 10 reasons why having...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/10-reasons-bear-week-would-be-better/National Geographic Traveler magazine has announced the winners of their 2011 photo contest! First place went to the photo shown here, taken by Ben Canales at Crater Lake National Park. Read the story behind the pict...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/natgeo-traveler-photo-contest-winners/According to a new scientific paper, cancer might actually be a newly evolved species of parasite based on the fact that the cells depend on their hosts for food, but otherwise act independently and to the detriment of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/is-cancer-a-new-parasite-species/Every city has graffiti, but awesomely geeky street art like these ones on BuzzFeed are few and far between. Enjoy more skilled Mario graffiti at the link. LinkArt, mario, graffiti, super mario, video games...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/super-super-mario-brothers-art/Brighton artist Dan Mountford has quite a gift when it comes to creating double exposed images. Fubiz has a collection of his images for your viewing pleasure, many of which seem to say a whole lot about the people i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/awesome-double-exposure-pics/You've probably already heard that Nickelodeon has started replaying their most popular 90's shows again, but have you wondered whatever happened to the creators of the shows? Wonder no more with this great Split Sider a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/where-are-they-now-90s-nick-shows/Trashed! Sticky Notepad - $9.95 There are days when a bright, perfectly smooth, yellow sticky note just doesn't feel right. For those days when nothing comes easy there is the Trashed! Sticky Notepad from the NeatoS...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/trashed-sticky-notepad/Who says that Ancient Greeks don't have a sense of (lethal) humor? The lead sling bullets above have a winged thunderbolt engraved on one side and the inscription "take that"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/ancient-greek-winged-thunderbolt-sling-bullet-says-take-that/Photo: akama1_lego [Flickr] Well, it's no fire-breathing pony, but it's still very impressive indeed. Aaron Amatnieks built this LEGO dragon that breathes fire: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/fire-breathing-lego-dragon/(Video Link) This viral marketing video by Thinkmodo shows a young woman walking around Bryant Park in New York City. Her head is encased in iPads, each of which shows one part of her head. It's a promotional item f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/ipad-head/In 1975, Marcia Weber bought a caboose made in 1909. Over the past thirty-six years, she's gradually turned it into a functional home with indoor heating and plumbing. There are beds, a full kitchen, and even a washe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/old-caboose-turned-into-a-house/It's a simple design, but there's something mesmerizing about this tattoo by Xed Lehead. The shading is really nice work. Link -via F-Yeah Tattoos | Photo: Needles and Sinstattoos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/hypnotic-tattoo/(Video Link) An active windshield wiper may not seem like a good place to perch, but this bird isn't choosy. That, or he's not going to let the humans push him off. -via Blame It on the Voicesbirds...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/bird-shall-not-be-moved/You went to school at that place? You're braver than I thought. redditor MrDrProfFrPatrick noticed that his school, Parkland High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is shaped like the Millennium Falcon. Link |...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/millennium-falcon-school/After considering the new Smurfs movie, the folks at Slate compiled an interactive color wheel to show the spectrum of colors by which we know our favorite cartoon characters. At the site, you can mouseover...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/the-cartoon-character-color-wheel/A psychometric consulting firm named AptiQuant asked 100,000 people to take an online IQ test, and then correlated scores with the web browsers used to take them. The blue bars represent test results from 2006 and th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/study-suggests-that-internet-explorer-users-are-a-bit-slow/
