Lego’s newest and coolest set is a 3,800 piece diorama of the Death Star from Star Wars. It builds 14 scenes and comes with 21 mini-figs. The finished size is 16 inches tall. You can pre-order this set beginning July...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/lego-death-star-set/The cola wars of the late 20th century were waged with as much strategy, secrecy, and technology as many conventional wars. When Coke was threatened by the Pepsi Challenge, they responded ten years later with Merchandise...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/merchandise-7x-100/Any Dr. Who fan should check out the Dalek Project. See Daleks of all kinds, learn how to build your own Dalek, and network with other Dalek fans. We like Daleks, here at Project Dalek. We like them a lot. We want...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/project-dalek/Unfortunately, I've never witnessed a ticker-tape parade. I imagine a lot of us haven't; it doesn't appear that they are very common outside of New York City. I know they're around, of course, but NYC is definitely wha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/six-ticker-tape-parades-we-wish-we-could-have-seen/A few months ago, brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor gave a talk at TED about how the brain works. She was researching the differences in brains of normal people to those suffering from schizophrenia and other mental illn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/brain-scientist-fascinated-by-own-stroke/We probably all know that Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod or that he proposed the turkey as the national emblem of the United States.But did you know that he was related to the Folger family (of the coffee f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/9-things-you-didnt-know-about-benjamin-franklin/Oh, how true that is. This Bizarro comic strip hit too close to home (I've, um, done the exact same thing!). For more Bizarro, check out Dan Piraro's website and blog....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/bizarro-deluxe-caller-id/In Soviet Russia ... babushkas aren't afraid to settle their differences with violence. Old lady violence, that is. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Freshome!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/babushka-fight-club/We all know what traffic signs mean, right? Stop. Go. Yield - pretty basic stuff. But how much do you really know about traffic and road signs?Here's a little quiz by the people at USA Traffic Signs. See if you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/traffic-signs-quiz-do-you-know-what-those-traffic-signs-really-mean/The Chinese had achieved a dubious distinction in South Africa: they're officially declared as "black" by the Pretoria High Court!In a landmark ruling the Pretoria High Court accepted the Chinese as a ̶...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/south-africa-classifies-chinese-people-as-black/We haven't posted about a fun Flash game in a while, so it's my great honor to introduce to you the most awesome little Flash puzzle game EVAR: Puzzle Farter.Your task, should you accept it, is to guide lil' farter towar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/puzzle-farter/(YouTube link) I have no idea what product this ad is for, but I had to laugh at the fat cat. -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/fat-cat-exercising/Lucy Kellaway was on a mission to get rid of the corporatese phrase "going forward" that she hated so much, and wrote a post about it on the BBC Magazine. Her post garnered so much reaction that the BBC culled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/50-office-speak-you-love-to-hate/In the original "The Dukes of Hazzard," The General Lee is the name given to the 1969 Dodge Charger muscle car driven by Bo and Luke. The car inspired countless imitation, but this one is particularly bad: Beho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/the-worst-general-lee-ever/The Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan, has a fish tank so big that it's called the Kuroshio Sea. The gigantic tank is 10 m (33 ft) deep, 35 m (115 ft) wide and 27 m (89 ft) long and holds the equivalent of 3 Olympic-si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/gigantic-aquarium-tank-holds-four-four-whale-sharks/Over at Polls Boutique, Our pal Cliff Pickover asked the world "If Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, Buddha, and Confucius were gathered in a room, who would be the first to speak? What would he say?" You can vo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/if-jesus-moses-mohammad-buddha-or-confucius-were-in-a-room-together-who-would-speak-first/Photo: Bryan DerballaAlex Klein and Bryan Derballa travelled to Israel and Gaza to surf and experience life first-hand in the area filled with hate, tension, war but also vibrant culture and life. They are documenting th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/god-went-surfing-with-the-devil/Boing Boing Gadgets blog has a neat post about Waste of Time, a functioning grandfather clock made entirely out of old bicycle parts.The contraption was made by Yedidya Vardi and Vladimir Zviagintsev, and BB Gad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/grandfather-clock-made-from-bicycle-parts/(Vimeo link) The folks at My Home and Verizon Vios gutted a Teddy Ruxpin and modded it to Twitter. You can listen to your Twitter feeds just by listening to the bear! But the best part is that this particular bear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/twittering-teddy/(Live Leak link) Would you like a floor show with your ice cream? Ayden the treatmonger has some fun with the tourists in Istanbul. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/its-all-in-the-presentation/If you can afford to ride around a golf course in your own cart, you can afford to make it look the way you want. In some places, it’s legal for these electric carts to cruise the neighborhood, and you don’t have t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/crazy-golf-cart-mods/Just because the visitor reaction to the last music video I posted here was SO POSITIVE, I'm posting another one here this morning. This one is for another English act, The Ting Tings, with their tune Shut Up and Let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/the-ting-tings-shut-up-and-let-me-go-music-video/Thanks to the good folks at American Eagle Outfitters, we have two tickets to the New American Music Union, a two-day summer music festival this August 8 & 9 in Pittsburgh, PA, for one lucky Neatorama reader.Line-up...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/new-american-music-union-free-tickets-to-a-lucky-neatorama-reader/
