Cornier Than Ethanol - $14.95 | Design by Chris Murphy, modeled by Ana LiliaHere's the perfect T-shirt for those who love corny jokes like:Q: Why did Beethoven get rid of his chickens?A: Because they kept on saying "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/19/cornier-than-ethanol/Pic: Rogelio Bernal Andreo Today's image from Astronomy Picture of the Day, by Rogelio Bernal Andreo of Deep Sky Colors is something you have to enjoy in its full...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/19/dark-river-of-the-galaxy/How can you improve the classic kung fu movie 2 Champions of Shaolin? With a little editing, The Chemical Brothers turned the 1982 Shaw Brothers film into a music video masterpiece.Here's The Chemical Brothers' Get Yours...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/19/the-chemical-brothers-kung-fu-music-video/Origami's Hunter is a series of three lamps that look like mounted heads of a rhino, a deer, and a goat - if they were made out of origami. The lamps are a project of Chilean designer Verónica Posada of Due Amigos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/19/origamis-hunter-lamps/Photo: Jen Blum If you think about it, "bacon burger" is kind of a coy tease. Ground beef patty with a slice or two of bacon. Come on! A real bacon burger would be one made from ground bacon - but can that be done?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/19/bacon-burger-made-from-ground-bacon/Here's a clever use of thermochromatic ink (the kind of ink that changes color with heat): pour hot coffee into this mug, and watch Van Gogh's ear disappear!From the NeatoShop: Disappearing Van Gogh's Ear Mug | More &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/19/van-goghs-disappearing-ear-mug/German artists Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz of Kraud created what is probably the world's oinkiest footstools (or are they merely art pieces?) in the shape of three little pigs! Linkpig, footstool, Yvonne Fehling, Jenn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/19/stuffed-pig-sculptures-by-yvonne-fehling-and-jennie-peiz/Photo: Chuck Sutherland [Flickr]Seven years ago, Horace Burgess prayed and received divine inspiration. God said unto him "If you build me a treehouse, I'll see you never run out of material." And so Horace bui...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/the-ministers-treehouse/When you die, what happens to your Facebook profile? That's a question that most Facebookers don't really think about, but with 500 million members, the problems of death and ghost accounts are becoming very real for the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/the-ghosts-of-facebook/[YouTube Link]Guns, explosions, beautiful girls in bikinis and a giant sea monster. What could be better? Behold, "the Navy's next super weapon" and the best SyFy trailer EVAH! Behold, the Sharktopus!Trailer,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/sharktopus/To everyone who has ever gone back home and found their parents' house to be filled with strange crap, here's the site for you: Crap At My Parents' House by comedian Joel Dovev. Best of all, you're invited to submit phot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/crap-at-my-parents-house/Cool Shooters Ice Tray - $7.95 Phew! Is it hot here or what? The country may be baking under the hot sun, but you can keep your cool with these awesome ice trays from the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/cool-shooters/If you love exotic beer, this may just be the beer for you. No, it doesn't have fancy ingredients outside of grapes and flowers, but Chateau Jiahu by Dogfish Head Brewery is quite unique: it's made from 9,000-year-old re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/chateau-jiahu-neolithic-beer-made-from-9000-year-old-recipe/According to Greek mythology, the water of the Styx River is toxic (indeed, it's bandied about for ages as one of the things that could've killed Alexander the Great). But what made the water of Styx so poisonous? A new...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/did-toxic-bacteria-kill-alexander-the-great/Are you unwittingly fueling genocide by buying the latest and greatest smart phone? Alan Mascarenhas of Newsweek thinks that "conflict minerals" are the new "blood diamonds" of the 21st century:Co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/conflict-minerals-are-smart-phones-fueling-the-next-genocide/Photo: Jeremy Hsu/Space.comThe problem with space travel, fashion-wise, is that spacesuits are bulky and - let's face it - not very chic. Thankfully, private spacesuit designers Nikolay Moiseev and Ted Southern solved th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/haute-couture-spacesuit/Photo: Henri Vuillet / Puy en Velay townhallAfter being buried for tens of thousands of years in the Siberian permafrost, a baby woolly mammoth named Khroma is going on display in Musee Crozatier in Puy-en-Velay, France....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/khroma-the-baby-woolly-mammoth/Former lawyer David Arrick opened his own bakery to correct the culinary misperception that cupcakes are too effeminate for men. "That's how Butch Bakery was born, I thought they are all very feminine and pink...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/manly-cupcakes-for-manly-men/The Apaches were street gangs that roamed eastern Paris prior to World War 1. They adopted their name after Buffalo Bill brought his Wild West Show to Paris in 1905. They lived wild, criminal lives and could be recognize...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/the-apaches-of-paris/(Vimeo Link) This delightful animation by Pascal Monaco brings 35 minimalist movie posters to life. I recognized 7. How many can you identify? »35mm« is a shortfilm about cinema itself. We picked...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/animated-minimalist-movie-posters/The Faster Times and The Guardian report on a thriving youth subculture in Sweden called "raggare" that Katie Natopolis describes as: [...]a delightful mix of the style of a’50s greaser, the corpul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/swedens-redneck-greaser-subculture/Pandemic takes the idea of audience participation to the world of social networking. The Colony is a simulated-reality Discovery Channel show that creates the scenario of a disease pandemic and we watch to s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/pandemic/In case you missed the week's worth of Old Spice Guy videos, this brilliant remix will get you up to speed and have you dancing around the room. Link | YouTubeOld Spice...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/old-spice-remix-ftw/They are beautiful, otherworldly, full of secrets, and can kill you. It takes bravery and special training to venture into the hydrogen sulfide atmosphere of the Bahama caves known as inland blue holes. Those who dare ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/caves-of-the-bahamas/(YouTube link) Stinkers was raised as a pet, and later came to live at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. Do porcupines make good pets? No. Despite the puppy-like behavior, notice the handler is wearing thick le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/porcupine-pet/(YouTube Link) The Japanese toy company Tenyo made this robotic butterfly that looks and acts like the real thing. It was on display at the Tokyo Toy Show this year. http://www.japantrends.com/chouchou-robotic-b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/robotic-butterfly/Mike Cook is an artisan who makes knives the old fashioned way. He knapps flint and other stones into different shapes, like Stone Age humans did. In a juxtaposition of technologies, Cook knapped this one from fibe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/primitive-knife-made-from-fiber-optic-glass/Divers exploring a shipwreck near the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea found bottles of what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne. They probably date back to the 1780s and have an estimated value of $...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/divers-find-200-year-old-bottles-of-champagne-in-shipwreck/Los Angeles-based artist Jeff Nishinaka is a sculptor of paper. He creates amazingly detailed 3D renderings for both the fine and commercial arts, such as the above dragon. In the links, you can see a video demonst...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/17/the-paper-worlds-of-jeff-nishinaka/(YouTube Link) Hello scholars. Look at your grades. Now look at mine. Now back at your grades. Now back to mine. Sadly, they're not like mine. But if you stopped studying in a cave and started studying like me...
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