Peepshi is a snack that looks like sushi but tastes like Peeps, because it is made from Peeps and Rice Krispies. Peepshi is actually an art project, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. Learn how at Serious Eats. Link -via Holy Kaw!

Yes, it's made of popcorn, plus M&Ms, pretzel sticks, and marshmallows. Would you try it? Get the recipe at Cookies and Cups. Link -via Everlasting Blort

A prison break usually involves someone wanting to get out, but someone actually broke into New Plymouth Prison in New Zealand Friday night. Firefighters responded to a blaze in the prison administration building and found the curtains on fire. Police were called because the window was found to have been forced open. A 50" plasma screen TV set was missing.

The level of security at the prison varies from building to building, according to the Corrections Department website.

The old jailhouse is surrounded by a large stone wall topped with razor wire, while a newer unit is surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire.

Security measures include searches, dog teams, electronic security devices, cameras and closed circuit television.

Link -via Arbroath

(Image source: New Plymouth Prison)

Aaron Zenz took his family to see Banksy's film Exit Through the Gift Shop, and his daughter Gracie was inspired to be a street artist -when she grows up. The family came up with a street art project that involves no vandalism. They painted rocks with bright colors and funny faces and left them in public places. See lots of pictures of these rocks in their new locations at Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty. Link -via The Daily What

It's the Name That Weird Invention! contest. Steven M. Johnson comes up with all sorts of crazy ideas for the Museum of Possibilities. Can you come up with a name for this one? Commenters suggesting the funniest and cleverest names will win a free T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Contest rules: one entry per comment, though you can enter as many as you like. Please make a selection of the T-shirt you want (may we suggest the Science T-shirt, Funny T-shirt, and Artist-designed T-shirt categories?) alongside your entry. If you don't select a shirt, then you forfeit the prize. Good luck!

Update: First prize goes to Alexandru Popa for "The Hairmet." Second prize was won by Manticore for "The Mullmet." Both t-shirts from the NeatoShop!

This post is here to make it easy for you to take advantage of what Neatorama has to offer. Here are some of the highlights from last week you can catch up on over the weekend, in case you missed something during the busy work week.

In honor of March being National Craft Month, Jill found 28 Delightfully Geeky Videogame Cross Stitches to share with us -and there are more geeky crafts coming next week!

Switching over to the natural world, Jill also wrote Weird Connections: Beetles, Bees & Beets.

We learned about The Physics of Breakfast Cereal, courtesy of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

Cartozoology is a scientific discipline you might not have known about until we published the article from the Annals of Improbable Research.

From mental_floss magazine, we had a roundup of arm stories called Up in Arms.

Over at the Spotlight Blog, you can get a enlarged and up close look at a real-world optical illusion in The "Bias of Thought" Bookshelf. How does it work? I don't know!

And don't miss out on all the new stuff up at NeatoBambino!

In this week's Name That Weird Invention! contest, first prize for naming the combination shoes and tool kit goes to Deo for Espadrills. The second place winner is amanderpanderer, who called them SKIL-lettos (the newest SKIL multi-tool). Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!

The What Is It? game on Thursday drew over 100 entries! Several of the over 100 guesses were correct, but Twist was the first to say it is a device used for making lots of holes before sowing seeds -it’s called a “dibble board.” See a couple more pictures here. The award for the funniest answer goes to artsnarf, who says this is Gojira’s (Godzilla’s) toothbrush! Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop.

We haven't mentioned it for a while, but Neatorama sponsors the recurring How Did You Know? contest at mental_floss. Several days of clues lead up to fabulous prizes, including daily prizes for those who follow along. Congratulations to Jennifer Smith, Wayne Schiff, Allison Stombaugh, Chelsea Tymms, Alexi Runnelsand, and all the other recent winners! Watch for the next contest and you could be one of those winners, too!

We have a catalog of exclusive Neatorama articles going back years. You can peruse those that spark your interest by using the handy index we call The Best of Neatorama. Or you can find more great links from elsewhere on the 'net at the NeatoHub!

Phil Johnson, a homeowner in New Zealand, has put a rock up for sale. The rock found its way to his home during the recent earthquake in the Christchurch area.

For sale 1 owner 25 - 30 tonne landscape feature (answers to the name Rocky) ...

He is in pristine condition (just a little bit of concrete dust). Suitable for garden feature, or as in our case a magnificent addition to your living area.

Rocky will enhance your "indoor outdoor" flow considerably, especially if you load him in through the garage roof like we did.

The other pictures at the auction site are just as interesting. The Q&A section is priceless! Humor aside, the proceeds from this particular auction go to the Christchurch Earthquake Relief Fund. The current bid is $8,000. Link -Thanks, Phil Fahey!

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All those settings and modes on your digital camera -what do they really do? You'll be surprised! Another strange video from Sheepfilms. -via b3ta

What was your favorite sugar-coated cereal when you were a kid? Does it exist anymore? It may be featured in this roundup at Urlesque. You can recall when ice cream cones, donuts, milkshakes, candy, and of course, pop culture characters were honored in breakfast cereal. And you won't need an insulin shot just for looking! Link -Thanks, Hillary!

(Image credit: Urkel For President by Flickr user JasonLiebig)

Raymond Daniel Towler was imprisoned for almost 29 years for a crime he did not commit. Convicted by eyewitness testimony in 1981, he heard about DNA testing during the OJ trial in 1995. Fifteen years of trying to get proper tests done on the physical evidence of his case finally paid off when he was exonerated in 2010. But so many years behind bars makes the real world seem a strange place.

So many choices. Which car insurance. Which cereal. Which deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo. Rows and rows of products. Varieties, sizes, colors. Which is cheaper? Which is better? What's the best buy? Which gum to chew? When he went into prison there were, like, two kinds of chewing gum. Now there are a zillion. One of the small gifts he gives himself is trying all the gums. "I can spoil myself a little so long as I stay within my means," he says. Papaya juice! Kiwi and strawberry nectar! Green tea! Arnold Palmer — he was a golfer when Towler went down. Now he is a drink, sweet and so incredibly thirst quenching.

The entire compelling story can be read at Esquire. http://www.esquire.com/print-this/ray-towler-profile-0311?page=all -via Boing Boing

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March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month! Gastroenterologist Patricia Raymond is also a comedienne known as The Divine Ms. Butt Meddler. Here she sings her way into your ...heart, with a song about what your first colonoscopy will be like. Oh yeah, it's available for download from iTunes. You'll find more jokes and stories, plus useful information about our #2 cancer killer at her website. Link -Thanks, Dr. Raymond!

Reading science articles can be much more entertaining when you start with the most ridiculous sentence therein. The blog Out of Context Science finds those lines for you, and provides a link to the original article as well. I may spend the entire weekend reading these. Link -via Nag on the Lake

What goes up must eventually come down, but tall brick and mortar chimneys and cooling towers must come down carefully. During controlled demolitions, people come from all over to get photographs at a safe distance, like this awesome photo montage of the chimney demolition at Henninger Brewery in Frankfurt, Germany in 2006. See the rest of this collection of pictures with stories at Chimney Liner Pro. Link -Thanks, Johny!

(Image credit: Wikipedia user Heptagon)

I haven't found the original source of this image, but isn't it clever? For anyone who doesn't get the joke, check out the song by Lionel Richie. -via reddit

The official name for the geological epoch we are in now is the Holocene. But there is a movement among those who study such things to refer to the current stage of geologic time as the Anthropocene epoch, a term coined by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen, which means "age of man." This would seem obvious to historians, but in the context of global geology, does the presence of man make that much difference?

Way back in the 1870s, an Italian geologist named Antonio Stoppani proposed that people had introduced a new era, which he labeled the anthropozoic. Stoppani's proposal was ignored; other scientists found it unscientific. The Anthropocene, by contrast, struck a chord. Human impacts on the world have become a lot more obvious since Stoppani's day, in part because the size of the population has roughly quadrupled, to nearly seven billion. "The pattern of human population growth in the twentieth century was more bacterial than primate," biologist E. O. Wilson has written. Wilson calculates that human biomass is already a hundred times larger than that of any other large animal species that has ever walked the Earth.

In 2002, when Crutzen wrote up the Anthropocene idea in the journal Nature, the concept was immediately picked up by researchers working in a wide range of disciplines. Soon it began to appear regularly in the scientific press. "Global Analysis of River Systems: From Earth System Controls to Anthropocene Syndromes" ran the title of one 2003 paper. "Soils and Sediments in the Anthropocene" was the headline of another, published in 2004.

More and more, geologists are coming around to the idea that humankind has such an effect on the earth that we are, indeed, living in the Anthropocene epoch. Read the entire story at National Geographic in a feature article that is part of the year-long 7 Billion project. Link

(Image credit: Mitch Epstein)