What would make a good dessert after a meal of grilled cheese sandwich? Why, a grilled cheesecake sandwich, of course!

Jessie Oleson of Cakespy explains:

Grilled cheese is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread. After all, it is sliced bread--with the added awesomeness of cheese and butter. Can it really get any better?

After being hit with what can only be described as a stroke of pure genius, I can definitively say yes. It can get better.

Say hello to the grilled cheesecake sandwich.

"Is this serious?" you may be asking yourself.

Oh yes. Made out of slivered cheesecake layered between slices of buttered pound cake, this sandwich is serious all right--as serious as a heart attack.

http://www.cakespy.com/2009/04/grilled-cheesecake-sweet-take-on.html

Custom Bobble Head and Cake Topper - starting at $99

W00t! I'm happy to announce that we've started a new collaboration with Wendy Lee of One and Only Figures to bring custom bobble heads and cake toppers to Neatorama's Online Store.

These custom bobble heads are perfect for weddings (as a cake topper), graduation presents, or even if you simply want a mini me figurine. These durable personalized figures come with completely customized, hand-sculpted face in poly-clay. Turnaround time is fast: just 2 to 3 weeks when you choose from the wide selection of the available body-types.

And yes, this one is a bobble head of Neatorama author Miss Cellania, who didn't have the slightest clue that I made her one!

Link to all custom bobble heads and cake toppers | Graduation and Wedding bobble heads

Life in Moscow has certainly changed since Soviet Times, but apparently stray dogs have adapted well: they ride the subway just like ordinary people!

Foraging dogs have long been part of Moscow’s landscape, but they stayed mostly in the city’s industrial zones and lived a semiferal existence. They mainly relied on discarded food, rather than handouts, so they kept their distance from humans.

With old factories being transformed into shopping centers and apartments, strays have become more skillful beggars. [...]

... many Muscovites appear to enjoy, or at least tolerate, the dog population. Most of the dogs go out of their way to avoid antagonizing people. Even pooping in the metro is rare, researchers say.

Link [with an embedded Video Clip of a stray dog riding the subway!] | Wall Street Journal article about the cushy life of Moscow's subway dogs - via Rue The Day

Swedish photographer Erik Johansson of alltelleringet created this fantastic image of what Tetris would look like in real life.

See the rest of his creations here: Link - via Super Punch

You know you've made it as a meme when someone put a giant mural up ...
Josh Zubkoff did one on the Invisible Bike LOLcat in a building in San Francisco: Link - via MySA Blog Favorite office Time Wasters

John of The Zeray Gazette asks this interesting question: what causes an Internet meme? What gives some web sensation staying power?

What makes some video, idea, or motif a predominant meme? Why do people blog about bacon, zombies, and lolcats, but not so much about pork shoulder roast, mummies, and parakeets? Why does one guy mouthing the words to Numa Numa in front of his PC become famous, while almost all others who do likewise do not?

John went on to explain his theory, which includes penetrability (i.e. how a successful meme crosses niche web communities) and instantaneous comphrehensibility (how easily it can be grasped in under 10 seconds).

Actually, I can answer that question with one word: 4chan.

What do you think? Link

Remember Anita Renfroe's song about motherhood Total Momsense that went round the Interweb a while ago? Well, she's back with version no. 2.

Here's it is: Link [embedded YouTube clip] | Anita's website

Nancy Simoes of Southwest Miami-Dade County, Florida, was in the kitchen cooking her family's favorite dish of fried salami when she got a heavenly message:

"I had only three pieces in my skillet, and then as I was flipping it. The first letter was a G, a perfect G; and then I got the O, and I thought to myself, how cool will it be if the third letter was a D," said Simoes.

That third letter was a D, and everyone was in shock in her house.

Link - spotted by Neatoramanaut Gauldar over at the Forum

Previously on Neatorama: August: A Busy Month for Religious Sightings!

A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs - most prominently cocaine.

The Superior Council of Scientific Investigations, a government institute, said on its website that in addition to cocaine, it found trace amounts of amphetamines, opiates, cannabinoids and lysergic acid -a relative of LSD - in air-quality control stations in the cities.

But authorities say that the amount is so miniscule that there's no reason for alarm: Link (Photo: cuellar [Flickr])

Psst! Got a guinea pig? Chances are, fluffy (guinny or piggy or whatever it is you call a guinea pig) is cold and needs a custom-made guinea pig coat.

But where would you get one? eBay to the rescue! A seller named sydneybear has got you (and your guinea pigs) covered. Eliot Glazer of Urlesque has the roundup in the blog's Today in eBay feature: Link

Stupid criminals who love to brag about their crimes aren't new, but add social networking to the mix and police have a new tool to bust them. It's a new kind of justice ... Facebook justice!

Asylum has a nifty post about the 6 crimes solved by the popular social networking website. For example:

Lesson #1: If you spray paint a special tag all around town, you might not want to brand it to your Facebook page.

We totally get the need to broadcast talents to friends on Facebook -- that's what it's for, right? But unless you're Banksy, your masterful tags probably won't go over too well with the feds. That's why, when specific tags were appearing all over Winnipeg, officers received a tip directing them to Facebook, where they found the same designs on an 18-year-old's page.

Lesson #2: If you get caught on surveillance camera, just because you don't have a mug shot on file doesn't mean your face isn't already out there for the finding.

Smile! ... Or not. The Queenstown police of southern New Zealand nabbed their first Facebook crook after they caught a good shot of a burglar looking directly at the security camera after removing his mask. Quickly after posting the shot to their two-month-old page, tipsters sent suggestions and they identified the 21-year-old thief.

Link

Photo: Munish Bansal, South West News

Munish Bansal is a proud father of two, with a bit of a photography obsession: he has photographed his children every day for 13 years (so far)!

Accountant Munish, 36, from Gillingham, Kent, said: 'It started when I took a picture of Suman on the day she was born.

'I did the same the following day, and the day after, and the day after that. Before I knew it, she had turned one and I had 365 images.

'It seemed a shame to stop, so I kept going - and did the same when Jay came along. Now I've got thousands and thousands of pictures of my two beautiful kids in each and every stage of their lives.'

Link

Want to "jumpstart your career in the blogosphere" with an internship at one of the world's largest blogs? Arianna Huffington's blog Huffington Post, currently ranked #1 by Technorati, has an opening. But there's a catch: you have to pay at least $15,000 ...

Forget a paying internship. Forget working for free. You're going to have to fork over more than $13,000 if you want to intern at HuffPo.

Oh, and did we mention you'd only be there for two or three months? At least you get to pick which office you'd work at -- New York or D.C.

Incredibly, so far 10 people have bid on the internship, which is "valued" at $500, on online auction site charitybuzz.com. HuffPost founder Arianna Huffington donated the internship.

Link

Since Osamu Shimomura discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in jellyfish back in the 1960s (his work earned him the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien), the science of biology has never been the same. Since then, this incredibly useful tool (I even used it in my dissertation way back when) has found its way to transgenic pigs, dogs, and even cats.

NatGeo News has a nifty photo gallery of the various "glowing" animals - some of which crossed the line from science into commerce (the fluorescent GloFish). This one above is the GFP Rhesus Macaque Monkey, used to study Huntington's disease by researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta.

Link - Thanks Marilyn!

Photo: Brent Stirton

In 2007, photojournalist Brent Stirton went to the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia to document the life of people of remote tribal groups that continue to live as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Except that they have AK-47. Plenty of AK-47s:

In the sprawling, desolate Southern Omo River Valley region of Ethiopia are several tribes living as they have for centuries, in voluntary isolation from the modern world. Recently, however, the tribes -- Dassanech, Mursi, Hamar, Karo, Bume, Beshadar and others -- are under increasing pressure from the outside world. Most recent is the Omo River dam project to provide hydroelectric power to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. This will reduce the river to one-fifth its size and eliminate the flood plain so valuable to Omo Valley tribal farmers. The geographically distant government in Addis Ababa appears to place little importance on the threat to these unique Omo Valley cultures, and the days of their existence as intact cultures are numbered. [...]

Outsiders are regarded as a source of money, AK47s are everywhere and people are aggressive in their pursuit of cash for photographs. It’s sad really, for the people of the region have a limited idea of what money can buy but already have a taste for it. As money acquires more value in their society, it will eat away all that makes their society unique.

Brent's photo gallery make for a very interesting visit: Link (warning: some indigenous tribes nudity) - via CreativeRoots | Brent's blog Photo Journeys at Discovery Channel

Delfina Delettrez Fendi (yes, of that Fendi) has a new line of to-die-for jewelry. This skeleton wrist jewelry was part of her debut at the Paris Fashion Show. WWD has the gallery (what's up with the taxidermied animals as props?): Link - via Haute Macabre