Whoa! That's an awesome R2-D2 (red R2? Is it R2-M5?) birthday cake by Mark Randazzo of Mark Joseph Cakes. B-Side blog has photos from the build (the droid has Rice Krispy Treat legs!)http://www.bsideblog.com/2008/06/maki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/r2-d2-cake-by-mark-randazzo/Bad idea: Burgling a supermarketReally bad idea: Getting caught ... then escaping while still handcuffedNeatorama-worthy: Running to a police station to get the cuffs re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/thief-ran-to-police-station-to-remove-handcuffs-after-being-arrested/After the state's Supreme Court decision to legalize same sex marriage on May 15 took effect Monday evening (when most county clerk's offices were closed) - so today, the rush is on. One of the first gay couples that got...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/californias-same-sex-marriage-a-word-from-george-takei/Psychologists William Szlemko and his colleagues at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have made a link between road rage and ... bumper stickers! People who had a larger number of personalized items on or in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/road-rage-linked-to-bumper-stickers/Joe Meno, editor of the BrickJournal magazine, created this cute LEGO version of Wall-E, the hero of the newest computer animated sci-fi movie by Pixar/Disney.Here's what Joe wrote about his LEGO Wall-E: Wall-E uses...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/wall-e-the-lego-version/We posted a YouTube clip about a guy going berserk in an office before on Neatorama ... but what happens when the entire office joined in? Here's The Great Office War by Runaway Box (looks like a lot of fun!)Who will win...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/the-great-office-war/How far would you go to become taller? Would you wear heel lifts ... or would you break your leg in a excruciatingly painful leg-lengthening surgery to gain inches?In Germany, Jeff’s femurs (thighbones) were se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/would-you-break-your-own-legs-to-become-taller/That's the Yamaha MT-01, a concept power cruiser that got motorcycle enthusiasts atwitter. But take a closer look at the photo above: that's not a real bike - it's actually an ultra-realistic paper model of the motorcycl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/ultra-realistic-paper-craft-motorcycle/As promised, here's the follow-up story to my board games article from last week, when we discussed Monopoly, Clue, Life and Scrabble. I guess I'm feeling nostalgic today, because I feel like writing about the oldies-bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/board-games-part-two-gumdrops-and-the-or-plus-three-more/It’s usually easy to figure out the city with the biggest number of people in any US state. The second-most populous city doesn’t get as much press about that fact. Can you guess the second most populous city in 15...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/coming-in-second/The “solstice moon” will be visible tomorrow night. It just might be the biggest thing you’ve seen in quite some time! There's no better time to see it. The full Moon of June 18th is a "solstice moon", comin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/solstice-moon/You see pictures of misspelled or otherwise wrong road marking on the internet all the time, but you don’t know how old they are or whether they are altered, and you rarely find out where they are. But this la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/lane/(YouTube link) The Trons are a band of robots from New Zealand. They had a MySpace page earlier but the link isn't working right now. -via Viral Video Chart Update 6/18/08 by Alex - here's an interview with The Tro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/sister-robot-by-the-trons/(YouTube link) Recorded at the 2008 Star Wars Weekend Hyperspace Hoopla show at Disney's Hollywood Studios. (via Everlasting Blort)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/dance-off-with-the-star-wars-stars-2008/Make your own silly receipts online with the Custom Receipt Maker! Link -via The Generator Blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/receipt-maker/(YouTube link) A puppy in Evansville, Indiana was smashed in a cardboard compactor! The female lab-pit bull mix may have been compacted more than once. The crew who found her at the recycling company is looking for a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/puppy-survives-compactor/The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader Every TV show wants one, but few achieve it: a catchphrase. The best ones not only propel their show into the limelight,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/holy-catchphrase-batman-16-famous-catchphrases-in-tv-history/Photo from LOLadayHooray! It's time for Neatorama and Hobotopia's Cpation Monkey! So after you gaze at the cuteness that is the Taco Bell puppy, submit your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/caption-monkey-33-cute-taco-bell-puppy/Awesome: TV show starring a chimpAwesome-r: ... with a bulldog sidekickOnly in Japan: ... dressed as Ultraman and Godzilla, destroying a miniature city!Check out this Pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/chimp-and-bulldog-re-enact-ultraman-vs-godzilla/What to get that geeky gourmand in your family? How about these salt and pepper shakers shaped like the "S" and "P" keys from a computer keyboard?http://giftsforengineers.com/137/index.php?main_page=p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/salt-and-pepper-keyboard-key-shakers/J.K. Rowling was unemployed and living on welfare when she penned Harry Potter, which earned her billions of dollars. With that rags-to-riches story as a background, listen to what she said at this year's Harvar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/jk-rowling-on-the-benefits-of-failure-and-the-importance-of-imagination/One of the greatest characters in cartoon history is Calvin's dad in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Here's a neat collection of Calvin's dad explaining how the world actually works to his i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/calvins-dad-explains-how-life-works/Illustration: Tom WellerThe Evolutionist Model holds that man descended from apes, but it doesn't explain "the tremendous expansion of intellect and other intangibles that characterize humanity." The Creationis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/this-is-it-evolution-and-creationism-combined-into-a-coherent-model/The idea of getting bacteria to synthesize petroleum is not new, but $140 a barrel oil is breathing new life to the quest. Here's a story of LS9, a start-up company that wants to genetically engineer bacteria to eat wast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/17/bacteria-eat-waste-and-poop-out-oil/We've posted about the the bacon lollipop, bacon cup, bacon scarf, bacon pig, and other things bacon-y ... so it's to our great pleasure to bring you this next big thing in baconland: The baconhenge!The AntiCraft has the...
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