Here's Star Wars Darth Vader Back Buddy, which Entertainment Earth touts:Have the power of the Dark Side on your back at all times! The back pack features Darth Vader's helmet as he clings to your back. This item mak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/star-wars-vader-backpack-darths-got-your-back/So that's what it's for! Whew! Found at Say No to Crack, which has a lot more funny old ads....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/vibra-finger-gum-personal-massager/Here's an excellent clip: Beer Song, the LEGO version! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Miss Cellania (whose topic of the Day "Beer" is worth drinking to!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/lego-beer-song/Photographer Steve Strawn has a neat portfolio of some very cool shots of glasses in the process of breaking. Link - Thanks Steve!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/glasses-in-the-process-of-breaking/Tampon Crafts lives up to its name by presenting you this DIY guide on how to make your very own Tampon Pan Flute:It’s summer and the birds are singing their sweet songs. Join them with a musical tampon applica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/tampon-pan-flute/Unless you live in earthquake-prone California, you probably don't think twice about earthquakes. But just because you don't live on the west coast, that doesn't mean you're safe:We may not be able to accurately pred...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/earthquake-risk-in-memphis/Justine Ashbee is living proof that fantastic art does not need to be made using fancy brushes and paints - she uses Sharpie pens to create hers!Here's an example, called iconoclastic reverb (2006):Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/justine-ashbees-sharpie-pen-artwork/Remember the AT AT baby stroller we posted before on Neatorama? The Official Star Wars Blog tracked down Rick Russo, the proud owner of the now famous stroller and interviewed him (with tips on how to make your own): Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/star-wars-at-at-stroller-update/Although she was born with no arms, Dawn Larson has learned to lead a full life and can even drive using her feet. She's never had any problem in public, until McDonald refused to serve her: Normally, Larson first gi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/12/no-shirt-no-shoes-no-arms-no-service/Wash your hands with hand soap. Soap shaped like little hands! Each hand is hand made. Isn't that handy? http://foliage.myshopify.com/products/handsoap -via BB Spot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/hand-soap/The Barbarian Group is the group of designers responsible for Burger King’s Subservient Chicken marketing campaign. Now they have created The McLeod Mirror Series. McLeod Mirror Series 1: See Yourself in O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/see-yourself-in-others/In 1810, U.S. Senator Philip Reed of Maryland proposed the above amendment to the U.S. Constitution, essentially stating that anyone accepting a title of nobility would be stripped of their citizenship. Under such a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/the-missing-thirteenth-amendment/We've seen the 7-11 To Convert Stores to Kwik-E-Mart for Simpsons Movie Release story and the Real Life Kwik-E-Mart (photos). Let's wrap it up with a couple of videos: Simpsons Kwik-E-Mart Store Orlando Florida...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/real-life-kwik-e-mart-videos/This ad from a 1924 Popular Mechanics touted that "no matter how thin your hair may be, this remarkable new scientific invention is absolutely guaranteed to give you a brand new growth of hair in 30 days." Plus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/hair-growing-fez/i-am-bored has a neat collection of several ambigram pictures that work upside down or right side up!Link | More Upside Down Pictures at Amazing Art...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/upside-down-pictures/Here's something to file away for future reference: if you make your own hovercraft (how awesome is that?), remember: it won't work over sewer grates.Link [embedded Break Video]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/hovercraft-sewer-grates-pwnd/The always neat mental_floss blog has an article on everything you'd want to know about the Oregon Trail [wiki]:1. Awesome hairstyles were par for the course. The photos (well, daguerreotypes) in many exhibits showed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/oregon-trail-trivia/Puhlman has a very sleek nixie clock by Frank Clewits for sale. At €250, it's kind of steep, but that's the price of nixie coolness. Or you can just gawk at the photos for free!Link | Video of the clock in action a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/puhlman-nixie-clock/Here's a compilation of death scenes and game overs from some classic Nintendo games. I was a sucky game player so unfortunately, I'm very familiar with them.Link [embedded YouTube] - via Blue's News...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/video-game-death-scenes/From Oddee: a list of presidential palaces from around the world. This modern one to the left is the Palácio do Planalto in Brazil Link - via eBaumsworld...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/presidential-palaces-from-around-the-world/Neatorama reader Chip Bryant saw the Chevy V8 Grilll we posted before and sent in his own creation, the oil pan grill. Excellent little hibachi, dude! Thanks Chip!More BBQ grill shenanigans at Neatorama's Top 10...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/oil-pan-grill/This is a really nicely done ad with a neat ending (I won't give it away, if you just play it here). This ad for Epuron GmbH, created by the Nordpol+ Hamburg agency, won the Golden Lion for best advertising spot at the I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/epuron-ad/Can you tell the difference between real and computer graphics? Here's a challenge by AutoDesk:Link - Thanks Dumidu!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/real-or-computer-graphics/You never know what might turn up when you're digging around the British Museum. Last Thursday, Professor Michael Jursa found a cuneiform receipt from a person named in chapter 39 of the book of Jeremiah, as the Telegrap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/biblical-find-at-the-british-museum/Absolutely Bananas has "5 reasons why EVERYONE should know how to Photoshop their head onto someone else's body." Reason number four: 4. Because you wouldn't want your children to know THE TRUTH about how you spen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/reasons-to-learn-photoshop/This much is true: there are large badgers in Basra. Local farmers have caught and killed some of the animals {video}. But the rumor is that they were introduced by British forces. Local vetrinarians are trying to assure...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/giant-badgers-spark-rumors-in-iraq/Peng Shulin lost half his body when he was hit by a truck in 1995. After life-saving surgery, he was bedridden for twelve years. When doctors from the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing learned of Pengââ‚...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/walking-again-after-12-years/Scientists are in a race against time to study a giant squid that appeared on a remote Australian beach. State parks officials have identified the carcass as an Architeuthis, {wiki} which can grow up to 33 feet long. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/rare-giant-squid-washed-up-on-beach/(Yes, this was on Neatorama before)Yay! I'm happy to announce a new collaboration with Ape Lad's Hobotopia: a weekly caption contest where the funniest caption wins a free monkey drawing!Contest rule is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/caption-monkey-balls-of-steel/Terry Border of Bent Objects blog makes simple yet humorous sculptures out of wires (hence the title of his blog) and everyday objects.I particularly like this comb, who "came by the house looking for work, and quick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/11/bent-objects-by-terry-border/
