Remember the Yoda backpack we featured previously on Neatorama? Well, if you prefer carrying something more fuzzy than an old green unknown tridactyl species, then this is the bag for you: the chewbacca plush backpack!Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/chewbacca-backpack/Attention slobs! Tired of getting hassled by your parents/spouse/roommate for not making up your bed in the morning? Well, tell them that science has proven that messy beds are actually healthier:Research su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/proven-by-science-messy-beds-are-actually-healthier/The Oprah Show featured a two part series on the "Secret Lives of Hoarders" this week, and featured two empty-nesters named Sharyn and Marvin. In addition to 75 tons of garbage (that's 15 industrial sized dumpsters), th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/17/oprah-helps-hoarding-woman-remove-75-tons-of-garbage-from-inside-her-3000-sq-foot-home/You're looking at Shimajiru, an electronic "poop helper" to help kids go to the toilet.Shimajiro is the toilet training tiger that swept all over the Web in a video a little while back. When either of the t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/shimajiru-the-electronic-poop-helper/Sci-Fi Metropolis in collaboration with master propsmith Richard Coyle, created this 1:1 scale model of a laser pistol from the 1960s sci-fi TV series Lost in Space. We should warn you though ("Danger Will Robinson!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/laser-pistol-from-lost-in-space/On the night and early morning of February 24 and 25, 1942, a singular event unfolded in the skies over Southern California – the continental United States was attacked by an enemy... or was it? The reports of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/the-great-los-angeles-air-raid-of-1942/(YouTube link) This time-lapse video covers nine days of radishes growing from seed. The jumps in the video are the six-hour period every day when the grow light was turned off. Those little sprouts grow fast! -via Cy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/radishes-growing/On November 16, 1904, British engineer John Ambrose Fleming patented the vacuum tube {wiki}. This ushered in the age of modern electronics, leading to the development of radio, TV, and other forms of electronic equipment...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/happy-birthday-vacuum-tube/93-year-old Ma Zhong Nan of China never imagined that a small scalp injury five years ago would blossom into 4 inch horn. About two weeks ago the horn began to itch and Ma decided to seek medical attention. Those attempt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/the-horned-man-of-china/Mammals are warm-blooded, covered with hair, bear live young, and produce milk to feed them, and we like to think of ourselves as the best mammal around. However, in many categories other animals have us beat, paws...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/5-extreme-mammals/Seems like scattering one's ashes at sea is so passe - the trend now is to surreptitiously scatter ashes in ... Disneyland!On Friday, workers at the Anaheim theme park spotted a guest on the ride sprinkling an uniden...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/burial-at-disneyland-surreptitious-scattering-of-ashes-on-park-rides/Jared von Hindman of Head Injury Theater, who did the Alphabet of Horror we featured previously on Neatorama, came back with his second set: the Alphabet of Geeky Horror!Link - via Blue's News...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/alphabet-of-geeky-horror/Japanese scientists had genetically engineered a mouse that has no fear of cats simply by controlling its sense of smell:By tweaking genes to disable certain functions of the olfactory bulb — the area of the br...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/scientists-genetically-engineered-fearless-mouse/Work in Progress forum user oimorrigan created 50 large buildings for a set of Apocalyptic Manhattan (in his apartment) for the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000.Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/gamer-built-a-model-of-apocalyptic-manhattan/Scientists had just discovered how placenta avoid being attacked by the mother's immune system: it fools the body's defenses by acting like a parasitic worm!The placenta plays a vital role in pregnancy, acting as a l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/placenta-fools-the-immune-system-by-acting-like-a-parasite/Susan Taylor, 55-year-old mother and part-time nurse, had just done something that people had been doing for decades: hang her clothes to dry. But with that, she became a renegade:The regulations of the subdivision i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/fighting-for-the-right-to-dry/Dutch police have arrested a 17-year-old gamer for ... stealing virtual furniture from the online community and game Habbo Hotel: The game, which has individual communities in 31 countries and a yearly turnover of &p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/teen-arrested-for-virtual-burglary/Elvis is Alive Museum avoided certain death when Andy Key bought its entire collection on eBay for $8,000:With an $8,000 eBay bid, Key won the Elvis is Alive Museum's collection and plans to move the museum from its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/elvis-is-alive-museum-is-not-dead/While we're talking about reports of death that are greatly exaggerated, here's one strange story about a false death: When Angela Oaks' pet dog Candy developed tumors in her ears, she reluctantly agreed to have the dog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/family-reunited-with-euthanized-dog/But in this next story, the guy is truly dead ... from being buried beneath a pile of peanuts!Branch's co-workers had reported him missing about noon Tuesday. Local fire department workers and sheriff's investigators...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/man-found-dead-buried-under-mound-of-peanuts/Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniels were seized in raids in Nashville and Lynchburg, Tennessee, and may be poured down the drain. Some of the bottles are nearly 100 years old! Authorities are still determining ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/jack-daniels-may-go-down-the-drain/Deputy dog has a list of ten doghouses he’d live in if he were “slightly smaller.” Some of them are available to buy. This one is worth between 15 and 20 thousand dollars! http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/10-doghous...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/16/10-doghouses-for-pampered-pooches/[YouTube Link] A hilarious song about a man encountering his now undead co-workers after a zombie uprising. By Jonathan Coultron. Hat tip to Matthew Johnson. Music, zombies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/15/re-your-brains/Passion & Flower, a documentary by Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick, chronicles the invention of the "greatest medical discovery ever": the vibrator!The film chronicles the invention of the vibrator and its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/15/vibrator-the-greatest-medical-discovery-ever/Here are two bits of trivia about stop signs:1. Stop signs originated in Michigan in 1915.2. They weren't always red. In fact, the first stop signs were black lettering on white background. In 1924, the signs were yellow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/15/trivia-stop-signs-werent-always-red/Image: griffjon [Flickr]Is this sign truly necessary? From a Flickr gallery on abandoned swimming pool - via The Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/15/swim-at-own-risk/Every morning, Liz Bullard of Bournemouth, England, takes her son to school and then ... picks up her cat from the sidewalk!A cat is baffling his owner by wandering off at night before expecting to be collected by ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/15/cat-to-owner-pick-me-up-same-time-same-place/Colleen Venable is obsessed with giraffes (it all started when she lost a giraffe toy as a child, which sets off a 3 year hunt for that particular stuffed animal. Long story short 1,712 giraffes later, she found it!).As...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/15/connect-the-dots-tattoo/One Man’s Institute for the Exceptional Documentation of Silly Time Wasting Videos has compiled a giant assortment of the Best of Monty Python clips. This one's called the Lumberjack Sketch [wiki], by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/15/a-compendium-of-150-monty-python-sketches/(YouTube link) It appears as if Snoopy has been looking at too many LOLcat images, but this is how he asks for food, water, or a lost toy! ~via Arbroath...
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