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I Just Boldly Went Baby Snapsuit


I Just Boldly Went - $17.95

The I Just Boldly Went Baby Snapsuit from the NeatoShop is guaranteed to generate a few chuckles among your holiday guests. Once the laughs stop make sure to ask who among them is brave enough to change the baby.

Be sure to visit the NeatoShop for more baby snapsuit fun.

Strawberry Plush Earmuffs


Strawberry Plush Earmuffs - $5.95

Want to make a fashion statement this winter and keep your perfect earlobes comfy and warm? Check out the NeatoShop's adorable strawberry plush earmuffs.  They are deliciously sweet.

Be sure to visit the NeatoShop for more winter fun.

Merry Christmas Microbes Tree Ornaments


Merry Christmas Microbes Tree Ornaments - $24.95

In true geek fashion you can now trim your tree with very merry Christmas Microbes Tree Ornaments. The set comes with Common Cold, Brain Cell, Kissing Disease, E. Coli, and Amoeba.  All the things you might expect to encounter this wonderful holiday season.

For more microbe fun be sure to visit the NeatoShop.

Prank Gift Boxes

Wake And Bake Dream Griddle Prank Gift Box - $7.95

Prank gift boxes from the NeatoShop, because:

a) You love messing with your family.

b) You would really buy this crap if they made it.

c) You only give the very best gifts.

d) All of the above.

Be sure to check out the other fabulously fun prank gift items now available at the NeatoShop.

Emergency Inflatable Brain


Emergency Inflatable Brain - $6.95

Mental meltdown be gone! Emergency inflatable brain to the rescue!

If only it were that simple.

For more inflatable fun visit the NeatoShop.

Effervescent Bacon Drink Tabs


Effervescent Bacon Drink Tabs - $3.45

Effervescent bacon drink tablets for when you need a little bacon, but there is none to be had. This is the perfect chaser to any bacon free holiday meal you are forced to endure.  Now available at the NeatoShop!

Link / More fun and unusual bacon items

Not Your Typical Wooden Blocks


XYZ Blocks -  $29.95

If you think playing with your kids is boring maybe you just need to invest in cooler toys. Check out the XYZ blocks now available at the NeatoShop.  These are not your grandma's wooden blocks.

XYZ block's because sometimes you need a modern take on a classic toy.


Zombie Juice Water Bottle


Zombie Juice Water Bottle - $11.95

Check out the zombie juice water bottle new at the NeatoShop. It's an mmm... good gift for any fan of the living dead.  The NeatoShop carries a large selection of zombie items for all your gift giving needs.

Have you started your holiday shopping yet?

Stephenie Meyer Releases Eclipse Novella Online

If you love the Twilight series you might be interested in learning that Stephenie Meyer has written a little eclipse novella.  The best part is that The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner can be read in full for free online.  The catch is that  the site will only be available until July 5th and you can't download or print the material.

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This Cemetery Will Really Make Your Skin Crawl

If cemeteries in general give you the chills this place is really going to freak you out. Web spinning caterpillars have taken over a cemetery in the United Kingdom. They are believed to be bird cherry tree ermine moths.  These types of caterpillars form communal webs.  They later turn into white moths with black dots.
Nova Bickmore, 69, could not believe the sight when she visited her father's grave.

She said: ‘There were thousand upon thousand of caterpillars and a silk web all over the trees, which had no leaves left.

‘Some of the caterpillars were hanging down from the trees and others were all over the floor.

‘It was a really ghostly scene.’  In their caterpillar stage, the bugs, known as web worms, weave leaves of trees together and eat them from their nests.

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(photo: Peter Lawson/ Eastnews Press Agency Ltd)

Senior On Scooter Was Determined To Get To Casino

Charlie Martin's van broke down and she really wanted to play some slots.   This strong willed senior took  to her motorized scooter and hopped onto the freeway in hopes of reaching the casino.  She had to pull over because her oxygen tank was low.  As she got up she tumbled into the bushes and had to be rescued.
She said she took the fastest route possible, which is Interstate 25.

"I only had one person yell at me and it was a kid," Martin said. "I told him to shut up."

She was taken to the hospital to be checked over.  Even after all that she was still hoping to get a ride to the casino.

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Did A 6 Year Old Commit Suicide ?

A medical examiner in Oregon has concluded that a 6 year old girl committed suicide after being sent to her room. The police disagree with the finding and view it as an accident. The question has become whether a small child has the mental capacity to commit suicide.
While her mother and three siblings were in another part of the house, the authorities said, Samantha got inside an unused crib that had no mattress or box spring. She placed a child's belt around her neck and tied it to the upper railing of the crib, hanging herself. The first-grader died at a hospital after the family and paramedics tried to save her.

Dr. Clifford Nelson, the deputy state medical examiner, ruled the death a suicide, a conclusion police did not support.

"The disagreement is a little more philosophical than it is material to the case," McMinnville police Capt. Dennis Marks said prior to the public records request. "It's not that we disagree with the mechanics of what happened. It's the finding that a 6-year-old could form that kind of intent."

Nelson said it's a disturbing case, but he couldn't "fudge the facts to make people feel better."

For now, her death is listed as the youngest suicide on record in Oregon. This classification will likely have both legal and societal implications.

As a side note: this obviously falls under the "orama" part of neatorama.  As a parent I  personally found the article incredibly disturbing on many levels.

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Jet Blue Ad Pokes Fun At Spirit Airlines

Get ready, Spirit Airlines is going to charge you for carry on luggage starting in August.  But don't worry, Jet Blue's ad department has a suggestion for you:  Invest in their "Extrago Sherpa Shirt"  if you plan on traveling with Spirit anytime soon.
Included in a press release announcing a fare sale, Spirit Airlines also announced today that they are now charging for carry-on luggage for travel effective August 1.  The airline justifies the new fees as an attempt to, “improve inflight safety and efficiency by speeding up the boarding and deplaning process.”

In case you were wondering, JetBlue will continue to offer a free first checked bag, not to mention that you can bring your Mickey Mouse ears, your magazine collection, your favorite wrinkle-free slacks, and your lunch onboard, and enjoy free use of the overhead bins and more legroom than any other airline in its class.

But for those times when you can’t travel on JetBlue, we recommend you check out our expertly-crafted Extrago Sherpa Shirt*, special outerwear that we designed to hold “an entire trip’s worth of necessities, including the money you’ll save by not checking or carrying on your bag.”

http://blog.hellojetblue.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/06/spirit-airlines-to-charge-for-carryon-luggage/

Sadly, the item is not actually available for sale.  I would love one in pink.

Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies

Jaime Escalante, the East Los Angeles Math teacher made famous by the movie Stand and Deliver,  has died after a battle with cancer.
The subject of the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver," Escalante died at his son's home in Roseville, Calif., said actor Edward James Olmos, who portrayed the teacher in the film. Escalante had bladder cancer.

"Jaime didn't just teach math. Like all great teachers, he changed lives," Olmos said earlier this month when he organized an appeal for funds to help pay Escalante's mounting medical bills.

Escalante gained national prominence in the aftermath of a 1982 scandal surrounding 14 of his Garfield High School students who passed the Advanced Placement calculus exam only to be accused later of cheating.

The story of their eventual triumph -- and of Escalante's battle to raise standards at a struggling campus of working-class, largely Mexican American students -- became the subject of the movie, which turned the balding, middle-aged Bolivian immigrant into the most famous teacher in America.

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Large Hadron Collider Success



Like Miss Cellania earlier posted, scientists today are celebrating the success of the Large Hadron Collider.  CERN scientists were able to collide protons at energy levels never seen before, marking the beginning of a whole new world of physics experimentation. And, again we say, "Yippee No Black Holes."
There was cheering in the control room at CERN, the European nuclear research centre in Switzerland, as one of the biggest and most complicated scientific experiments got fully underway.

The experiment is seen as a major breakthrough in efforts to understand the fundamental nature of the universe.

Link (At the link you can listen to a BBC  interview with Dr Bose from Boston University.)

We just wanted to remind you that you can get your own Large Hadron Collider T-shirt by visiting the online shop.

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