Make a cone out of a piece of bread, line it with peanut butter, and top with a scoop of your favorite homemade jelly-flavored ice cream! Grathio Labs has the complete instructions. Once you get the cone made, the rest is simple. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

The first Fill in the Bubble Frenzy with boy genius Mal and his talking dog Chad last week had a great reception -98 comments! Let's see how you fill in the empty speech bubble this week. The best entry will win any T-shirt available in the NeatoShop -take a look around, pick one out and tell us what shirt you’d like with your submission in the comments. Enter as many times as you like, but leave only one entry per comment, please. Even if you have no idea what he's saying, check out the other entries! Also check out Mal and Chad’s comic strip adventures by Stephen McRanie at malandchad.com.

Update: We have a winner! Noah didn't use words, but he filled in the bubble. See his entry here.

Sometimes it's hard to tell from a musical act's name whether it refers to a person or the band as a whole. If you know, you'll ace today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. It's harder than you might think, as the acts span many years. I scored 100% but that's only because I spent decades in broadcasting. Link

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Have you ever thought about building your own claw game? Winning is easier when you don't have to feed money into the machine! Will Gorman was inspired by Toy Story to construct one for his son out of Lego bricks. The complete instructions are posted at BattleBricks. Link

This detail won't give you much of a clue about the picture at NeatoGeek, but if you can come up with something awesome to say about it, you could win a free t-shirt from the NeatoShop in NeatoGeek's new caption contest. Be sure to put your t-shirt choice in your comment along with the caption. I can't wait to see what you creative folks come up with! http://www.neatorama.com/neatogeek/2010/08/17/caption-contest-7/

New York illustrator Christoph Niemann took a flight from New York to Berlin and documented the absurdities of airline travel in pictures in his blog at The New York Times. I honestly love the idea of a "delete neighbor" button. Link

Urban explorer Kyle Merriman, who brought us pictures of Nara Dreamland, has a new collection of photographs from an abandoned hospital in Tainan, Taiwan.

As we entered it was clear we weren’t the first visitors it had received. Prescription drugs, lay scattered across tables and floors, while others remained unopened. Broken syringes crunched underfoot and bottles of formaldehyde still kept their mysterious contents. The wind followed us inside, slamming random doors and causing the peeling wallpaper to dance. It was a spooky place to say the least.

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NeatoBambino has the new Decipher the Doodle contest up! Take a look at a drawing from Alex and Tiffany's four-year-old, and see if you can figure out what she is trying to illustrate. The commenter with most correct answer and another with the funniest answer will each win a prize (worth $25 or less) of their choice from the NeatoShop. Just be sure to state your preferred prize with your comment. This illustration is only a small detail of the doodle. Good luck! Link

While you're at NeatoBambino, take some time to join in the discussion about Pediatricians and their Questions. Link

Thailand has "panda fever", much like the panda mania that swept the US a few years ago. But American zoos never painted other animals to look like pandas! Thailand's Chiang Mai Zoo has a pair of pandas on loan from China who produced a baby named Lin Ping. The birth doubled the zoo's attendance and revenues, causing other zoos to jump on the panda bandwagon.

At several sites across the country, commercial aquariums and animal parks are painting their animals in panda colors to keep up visitor numbers in the face of tougher competition -- as well as educate people about the threats elephants and crocodiles face in the wild.

Mr. Kamla, a 25-year-old crocodile-handler, fielded a barrage of questions from schoolchildren recently at Buengchawark Underwater Sea Paradise as he and a colleague painted a three-month-old Siamese crocodile in panda colors.

"They're an endangered species, too, like the panda, so we hope some of our knowledge will trickle down," Mr. Kamla says.

Prasit Vejprasit, an administrator at the aquarium, says busloads of schoolchildren -- the mainstay of the aquarium's business -- continue coming to the site, a couple of hours' travel northwest of Bangkok, encouraged in large part by the panda-colored crocs. He says teachers often call to confirm the aquarium is still painting crocodiles before sending their classes.

The children seem to enjoy the novelty. "Most crocodiles are scary but this one is cute," says Siripob Dara, 9 years old, before he asks Mr. Kamla how long it can grow and what it eats.

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Previously at Neatorama: Panda-painted Elephants

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Get a closer look at how Maru does his thing with boxes. This is almost hypnotizing. -via The Litter Box

The wooden shoe is symbolic of the Dutch for many of us, but how did they come about, and why? The shoes have several advantages, including one illustrated by a Jackie Chan video in this post at Rue the Day. Link

See lots of pictures of cats in their best finery, plus a link to outtakes from the cat fashion show last week at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. The occasion was the 15th birthday of the official hotel cat Matilda. Link -via Nag on the Lake

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If you or your children are tired of supermarket coloring books and their generic designs, or if you yourself like to doodle with color, try something a little more interesting. Illustrator Carlton Hibbert has a collection of artistic patterns that you can download, print, and color. Quite a few artists and illustrators have contributed to the collection, and all patterns are licensed under Creative Commons, which means you can use them freely. Link

Der Spiegel has an image gallery of "Trummerfrauen," or "rubble women" who were charged by the occupying Allies with cleaning up the wreckage of German cities bombed during World War II. There weren't enough German men left to do the job, and the women had to use their bare hands and whatever equipment they could round up on their own. The job still took years. Recovered materials were sorted to be reused. Link -via TYWKIWDBI

This week we welcomed a new contributor and a new contest -all in one! Mal and Chad's Fill in the Bubble Frenzy is a caption contest using custom-drawn panels by comic artist Stephen McCranie, the creator of the webcomic Mal and Chad. Congratulations to the first winner of the new contest, Wrexlabs!

"You Think I'm Mad, Don't You?" from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader gave us the lowdown on the mad scientists portrayed in ten recommended films.

From mental_floss magazine, we had 6 Common Baby Names that Might Hurt You. They didn't do so well for others.

Over at NeatoBambino, Tiffany has some tips for packing your preschooler's backpack, in case you are sending your baby off to school for the first time.

This week's post A Non-Math Look at Math Shapes is the requested followup to A Non-Math Look at Math Objects from a couple of weeks ago. I suppose you think it's funny to put a non-math person through this.

A post at NeatoGeek, Jonathan Archer, Badass, contains some spoilers if you haven't seen the entire TV series Enterprise. However, the comment thread turned into a debate about the merits of the last Star Trek series.

The latest acquisition in the Museum of Possibilities is Might Toilets Be Placed Anywhere in The Home?

We'd like to welcome painter Michelle Banks to the Art Blog. Check out her gallery of heart rhythms, bacteria, and dividing cells rendered in beautiful watercolors.

Congratulations to marcintosh who won a t-shirt from the NeatoShop in this week's NeatoGeek Caption Contest. See the winning caption at the link.

The winner of the What Is It? competition this week was Augie. Congrats!

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