Oz Passport - Pocket Notebook Getting to Oz used to be quite an ordeal (traveling by tornadoes ain't what it used to be!), but if your travel brings you to places that made you realize you aren't in Kansas anymore, yo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/oz-passport-pocket-notebook/This cardboard creation by Bartek Elsner sure brings new meaning to metered Internet! Behold the Internet EX30, which you can use to regulate how much cats versus (ahem) other things that flow into your home's portio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/cardboard-internet-by-bartek-elsner/You already smell like a library. Now, thanks to the coffee company Intelligensia Coffee, you can taste a librarian without getting slapped: The Librarian's Blend is named for that person who always told you to keep q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/librarian-flavored-coffee/I've kept a special place in my heart for Soundwave. He seems...well, competent. Unlike so many other Decepticons. It's jarring that a highly advanced robot transforms into an audio cassette player. But sometimes wat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/soundwavecobra-commander-action-figure/According to Ken Segall, the author of Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple's Success, Steve Jobs devised an outlandish scheme to promote the iMac. Jobs would dress as Willy Wonka from Charlie &...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/steve-jobss-dream-to-become-willy-wonka/Anyone who speaks a second language can tell you that there are foreign words that do not have exact translation in English (and vice versa). Sometimes it's hard work to explain the wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/untranslatable-words-explained-with-science-fiction-and-fantasy-novels/When street artist Filthy Luker goes to work, invisible giants deface walls, tentacled monsters burst out of buildings and trees sprout googly eyes. Luker lives in a mad world, but a fun one. Link -via Colossal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/filthy-lukers-adorably-frightening-street-art/It boggles the mind to think about typesetting in Asian languages with the huge number of different characters! But still, the world's first moveable type was invented in China, centuries before Gutenberg's printing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/intricate-japanese-movable-type-sets/This is a whole, uncooked egg, minus the shell. To make one of your own, soak an egg in vinegar for two days. The acetic acid in the vinegar will break down the shell while hardening the contents. Link -via TYWKIW...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/how-to-make-a-naked-egg/Illustrator Ben Juwono of Hardly Working Blog tells us how to draw a chihuahua. You got that, Neatoramanauts? Link - via Super Punch chihuahua, Ben Juwono, h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/how-to-draw-a-chihuahua/Scrooge McDuck, that great genius of anatine finance, is fond of diving into his vast piles of money. No doubt all of us would like to do likewise. So how much would it cost? Matt Powers, whose qualifications include...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/how-much-money-you-need-to-realistically-recreate-the-scrooge-mcduck-gold-coin-swim/Ah, Bohemian Rhapsody, is there anything it can't do? It works as a theme music for the ride to jail after a drinking binge, magical song by a Starship captain, and n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/bohemian-rhapsody-on-the-way-to-school/That GPS unit on your car sure is fancy, but pigeons have got you beat: they have GPS built right into their brain! Researchers have spotted a group of 53 cells within pig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/pigeons-have-gps-built-into-their-brain/(Video Link) This polar bear does a handstand underwater. Why? Because he can, and the humans watching him probably can't. -via Marginal Revoloutionpolar bears...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/polar-bear-doing-a-handstand/Suddenly, I understand how enzymes work! Via CubicleBot chemistry, enzyme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/chemistry-explained-with-memes/If you're (factually) wrong, it turns out that you'd remember the correct information much longer if at the beginning, you're convinced that you're right. Actually, the more convince...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/the-science-of-hypercorrection/Ice Cream Sandwich iPhone 4/4S Case - $10.79 Are you looking for a deliciously fun phone cover for your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S? You need the Ice Cream Sandwich iPhone 4/4S Case from the NeatoShop. This sweet case is is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/ice-cream-sandwich-iphone-44s-case/Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch went into foreclosure a few years ago, and was sold off in pieces. But before that happened, urban explorers Scott Haefner and Jonathan Haeber sneaked in to document the amusement pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/a-peek-into-neverland/What?! Nutella isn't healthy? Mom Athena Hohenberg claimed that she was duped into thinking that the popular chocolate hazelnut spread was healthy for her daughter. So, she su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/mom-shocked-that-nutella-aint-health-food-sued-and-won/(YouTube link) B3ta member Mr. Eraserhead made quick edits of the Discovery show Blue Planet to create a music video for "Cusp" by Eraserhead. Sweet! -via b3ta Music, Song, sea creatures, ocean...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/cusp/This Civil War photograph was ...wait, are those porta-potties in the background? And a station wagon? Yes, this photograph is less than a year old, but you can imagine someone cropping it and using it as a Civil War...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/civil-war-reenvisioned/We've all learned to recognize the international symbols for restrooms, if nothing else, but you probably know a lot of them. But where did they come from in the first place? Rob Lammle at mental_floss takes you back...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/a-brief-history-of-international-symbols/(vimeo link) Three weeks ago, we showed you a video compilation of movie and TV stars' first film appearances called And Introducing... from Flavorwire. As always happens with these things, they got a lot of feedbac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/encore/Biochemist Jessica Polka is also a craftster. She crochets adorable specimens of sea creatures and other life forms. Her creations are one-of-a-kind, but you can buy the patterns at her Etsy shop. The creature shown...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/crocheted-creatures/(YouTube link) Maybe we should give up this life of crime and go roller skating! The ad for Roller Kingdom in Reno, Nevada was produced by Rhett & Link, the team who brought us Chuck Testa. Oh yeah, the kidnapper...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/prison-is-for-people-who-have-never-roller-skated/The floating house that was used as MacGyver's home in seasons 3-6 of the TV series MacGyver is for sale. The 1200 square foot house is not a houseboat, but is meant to be at least semi-permanently docked. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/macgyvers-home-for-sale/(YouTube link) The animation of a dramatic rescue, from Birdbox Studio. Not to give away the ending, but it kind of reminds me of the old Emily Litella skits from SNL in the 1970s. -via Everlasting BlortCartoon, anima...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/chop-chop/For those refined geeks who just can't stand how cheap and tawdry modern chemistry sets tend to be, Art. Lebedev Studio has created this gorgeous and classy set modeled after fine China. I don't know about you guys,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/the-fine-china-chemistry-set/Diapers Large Recycled Shopper Tote - $14.29 Are you still looking for that perfect Mother's Day gift for your favorite Mom or Mom-To-Be? Get her the Diapers Large Recycled Tote from the NeatoShop. This hilarious shop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/diapers-large-recycled-shopper-tote/(YouTube Link) Popular British game show Countdown gets a whole lot more intense when the letters spell out the name of that most famous of Great Old Ones-Cthulhu! This bloody animated short was made by Pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/27/cthulhu-pays-a-visit-to-countdown/
