Giant Inflatable Heads - $11.95 Are you having a bad hair day. Cover that unruly mane with a Giant Inflatable Head from the NeatoShop. Pop open the box, blow up your new and improved head, and simply affix it to you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/giant-inflatable-heads/The Opportunity rover sent back a few “postcards” from The Red Planet this weekend. The photos which were taken using the rover’s panoramic camera show the edge of the Endeavor crater. Amazing that these photos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/nasa-rover-snaps-new-photos-of-huge-crater/Mathew Eshelman, a Pennsylvania lawyer has been disbarred due to his gaming obsession. He started screwing up the real life game of the criminal justice system so he could continue his non stop gamming...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/lawyer-disbarred-for-addiction-to-video-games/A Filmmaker named Jeremy Noritz with a passion for Steampunk began renovating his 1.3 million dollar apartment when he bought it in 2006. Now he is selling the Manhattan dwelling for 1.75 million which is now fully St...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/steampunk-themed-apartment-in-manhattan-only-1-75-million/Do you know which countries produce the most crude oil? That's the subject of today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. You are challenged to name the 12 nations that produce the most oil (not the ones that *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/who-produces-the-oil/If you have followed through the Legend of Zelda games, you've interacted with hundreds of different creatures whether it be sword fighting or milk jug hustling. This genealogy tree by artist Jude Buffum compiles 200...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/hyrulean-biology/(YouTube link) The most ridiculous (and most difficult) online game in the world, QWOP, requires you to control a runner's legs with your keyboard. Now, for some reason, it has been made into a live-action story. -v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/qwop-the-movie/Sunflowers were grown as a food crop thousands of years ago in North America, although they looked very different from modern flowers. Sunflower seeds were exported to Europe in the 16th century as ornamental plants. But...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/the-strange-history-of-the-sunflower/When George Bernard Shaw began designing his ideal writing hut, he decided to construct it on top of a rotating Lazy Susan. It was drawn as a simple 8'x8' square with two large windows on one side for lighting and he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/george-bernard-shaw-turns-a-lazy-susan-into-an-eco-friendly-hut/(YouTube link) By OK Go (with help from The Muppets). This is from The Green Album, available as of today. And it's not over when the fat lady sings! -via MetafilterSong, muppets, OK Go...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/the-muppet-show-theme-song/A how-to on turning a light bulb into a terrarium has been posted before, but if you haven't gotten started on the project yet 1-800-Recycling has a few amazing examples to use as inspiration. The one pictured above...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/planters-out-of-old-light-bulbs/by John Trinkaus, Baruch College, City University of New York John Trinkaus was awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize in literature, for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/hand-sanitizing-an-informal-look/If you've been using heavily patched, older versions of the English language, you'll be pleased to know that a completely updated and revised edition just entered beta testing. One reviewer at The Register think...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/english-v3-31-released/(YouTube Link) Spiderman hasn't come to save the day, he'd rather go around annoying people while capturing all the fun on video camera. In Poland, Spiderman hits the streets and harasses the people he once saved, usi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/polish-spiderman-is-a-public-nuisance/Hand Soap - $7.95 Are you looking for a punny gift that provides hours upon hours of good clean fun? You need the hand-shaped Hand Soap from the NeatoShop. This silly and sanitary gift is delightfully musk scented....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/hand-soap-2/The girlfriend of redditor TroyPDX got stung by a yellowjacket, so "it was on like Donkey Kong." He prepared for his attack on their nest by getting drunk and improvising a beekeeping suit out of duct tape, rubber bo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/protective-suit-improvised-to-remove-nest-of-yellowjackets/Isaac Osei started out driving a taxi in New York City when he immigrated to the US about thirty years ago. He has built up that business into a fleet of fifty cars operating day and night. But that's not his only occupa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/nyc-cabbie-also-works-as-a-king-in-africa/(Video Link) Don't worry, it's not the real R2-D2! It's just a model. The staff at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado stuffed a cardboard R2 unit with treats and let Emmett, a grizzly bear, have his way...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/grizzly-bear-destroys-r2-d2/No, reality isn't losing coherence -- at least any more than it is normally. This surreal picnic table does indeed flow toward and over a railing. It's an art installation by Michael Beitz at the Bemis Center for C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/liquid-picnic-table/(Video Link) For their latest stunt, the people of Improv Everywhere left a megaphone on a lectern in several spots around New York City. A sign on the lectern invited people to "say something nice." New Yorkers pro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/heres-a-megaphone-say-something-nice-to-new-york-city/You may be aware that comedian Stephen Colbert has formed his own political action committee in order to mock the system. Now however some people are taking him very seriously. The Colbert Super PAC may be a stunt,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/stephen-colberts-pac-is-more-than-a-gag/New images have been released of the zombies in the film based on the book World War Z. Is it me or do they kind of look like mummies? Linkzombies, film, world war z...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/first-look-at-the-zombies-from-world-war-z/We have featured some posts on real life hobbit houses in the past but now you can rent hobbit house for only $245 a night in Montana.While the exterior is an "authentic" looking replica of the hobbit dwelling, the i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/stay-at-a-real-life-hobbit-house-for-245-a-night/Have you ever wanted to build your own space ship or space station but didn't know how? Well now you can with these helpful blueprints from NASA. Perhaps someone will be able to make a very accurate scale replica of so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/12-nasa-blueprints-for-building-your-own-spaceship/In what could be considered a mock protest to the end of the Space Shuttle program photographer Neil DaCosta and art director Sara Philips have posted a gallery of astronauts suicide photos. Apparently this is the on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/astronaut-suicide-photos-in-response-to-end-of-shuttle-program/Love your hair gel? How very ancient Egyptian of you! That's right: researchers have discovered that ancient Egyptians use hair products in life and in death. Mi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/stylish-mummies-use-hair-gel/Last week, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED to you logophiles) added a new entries into its venerable dictionary. I'm pretty sure you've heard of some of the new entries:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/woot-oed-added-new-tech-words/Looking for a roommate? Christie Young of Good Magazine has a few rules you should follow. (Oh, how times have changed from when I was looking for a roommate back in college) ro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/rules-of-finding-a-roommate/The reports of the death of disco are greatly exagerrated. Disco, that funkadelic music of the 70s, didn't die ... it just went silent. In a hip way, of course. Witness the ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/22/silent-disco-thats-the-way-i-like-it/Zombie Teeth - $8.95 Are you on the hunt for a way to look like a Zombie without having to go to the trouble of becoming a member of the undead? You need Zombie Teeth from the NeatoShop? This great set of reusable rotte...
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