I haven't been able to track this product down to an online vendor, including the official Cheetos website, but this delicious photo is going all over the intertubes. If I can find it, and some Mountain Dew-scented...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/cheetos-flavored-lip-balm/Just in case you haven't had enough of Harry Mania this week, I thought we'd travel back to when the whole movie craze started. Enjoy, Muggles!Other actors who auditioned for the role of Harry: William M...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/movie-trivia-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone/(YouTube Link) Urlesque has a post full of mashups of Disney animated movie trailers, such as the above mix of Sin City with Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, as well as Kill Bill with Beauty...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/disney-movie-trailer-mashups/(YouTube Link) The pop culture blog Urlesque has a post full of mariachi band cover songs, such as the above "Sweet Home Alabama". Others include "Beat It" by Michael Jackson, "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/mariachi-band-cover-songs/Nine squirrels regularly visit this home in Santa Monica, Cailfornia. The resident sets out toys and other objects for the squirrels to interact with, then trains a webcam on them for your entertainment. This site has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/bad-manners-squirrel-diner/17-year-old Zac Sunderland arrived home in California Thursday after a year of sailing around the world solo in his 36-foot sailboat named the Intrepid. He is now the youngest person to ever pull off such a stunt. Sunder...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/teenager-sails-around-the-world/Mawgan spent a long time scribbling over a cute kitten calendar a relative had received as a gift. Now he/she has scanned the best of the resulting works for all of us to enjoy. Link -via b3ta kitten, doodles...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/kitten-graffiti/Can you tell your Harry Potter characters from hideous skin diseases? That's the challenge today in the Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss. Despite a slight knowledge of Latin, I only scored 58%, which is in the range of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/harry-potter-character-or-skin-disease/GatgetHER has pictures of and links to seventeen bizarre and/or clever kitchen gadgets, such as this nose-shaped egg separator. The others gadgets include a device that turns a hard-boiled egg into a cube, one that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/17-wacky-kitchen-gadgets/South Africa is apparently one really dangerous place. Case in point: ATMs there are weaponized - yep, weaponized - with pepper spray. What could go wrong? Apparently, this:The technology uses cameras to detect peopl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/south-african-atms-are-weaponized-with-pepper-spray/At one point in time in my graduate studies, I stopped being surprised at weird biological discoveries because, as one of my college professors said, when it comes to science, "there's an exception to every rule, in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/dna-is-dna-is-dna-right/First it was bluefin tuna, then Playboy bunnies, then the world's wheat crop. Now the Great Barrier Reef is going to be gone in 20 years, according to marine scientist Charlie Veron:Charlie Veron, former chief scient...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/great-barrier-reef-gone-in-20-years/Element 112 has been officially added to the Periodic Table as "copernicium," in honor of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus deduced that the planets revolved around the Sun, and finally refuted the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/copernicum-element-112-added-to-the-periodic-table/A mysterious mass of black goo has been observed oozing through the Chucki sea off the coast of Alaska. It was first observed neat Wainwright and moved toward Barrow, where samples were collected for testing. Nobody...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/huge-blob-of-arctic-goo/National Geographic takes on conspiracy theorists over the Apollo moon landing. Each accusation is countered by spaceflight historian Roger Launius of the Smithsonian Institution or astronomer Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/8-moon-landing-myths-busted/Artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have taken piles of trash and turned them into interesting abstract artworks depicting people or animals. The piece above is called White Trash (With Gulls), it is comprised...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/amazing-shadow-art/A promotional shirt for Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles. Looks like an ordinary and rather plain t-shirt, right? But flip over the front and pull it over your head.... And you're wearing a zombie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/flip-top-zombie-shirt/Ever wonder where the zoo critters get their names? Well, most of them are named by the keepers, but if you've ever wanted to name one yourself, particularly the baby tapir shown above, here's your chance. The Belfas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/baby-tapir-naming-competition/Swiss decay photographer Timm Suess just published a travel journal through the Chernobyl zone of exclusion. The whole collection includes 450 powerful HDR images, all Creative Commons-licensed. Videos and sounds too.L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/450-powerful-pictures-from-chernobyl/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fTYzoSDAS4][YouTube - Link]The Grant Building, one of the downtown skyscrapers in Pittsburgh has an aviation beacon that instead of flashing at regular intervals, was set up to fl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/how-do-you-spell-pittsburgh/This little guy was found with a broken leg, but vets couldn't convince themselves to put it down, so instead they gave it a bionic leg made with steel pins, nuts and bolts so she could start walking around on her ow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/baby-goose-with-a-leg-brace/They don't make robotic destroyers from the future like they used to. Or perhaps I should say, they won't build them like the used or, or will do better in the future than they had done in the more recent future. Any...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/terminator-tazed-in-nevada/Andew Chase is a photographer who creates mechanical sculptures of animals and photographs them in different poses. This cheetah is his latest creation in preparation for his photo book Trionic Morphatractable En...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/the-mechanical-art-of-andrew-chase/Niagara Falls in Motion is a wonderful time-lapse photography, shot over 3 nights in by Matthew Wartman (the video clip is made even more wonderful with The Winner Is, music by Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa)Matthe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/niagara-falls-in-motion/This development from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Science Institute in Germany has made the creation of human skin much cheaper: The basic skin production system, which Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft hopes to start selli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/scientists-find-way-to-mass-produce-human-skin/Biologist Charles Anderson has uncovered what he believes to be the longest migration route of any insect in the world. He plotted the appearance of the dragonflies known as globe skimmers in the Maldives and deduced tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/longest-insect-migration-11000-miles-from-the-maldives-to-africa-and-back/Time capsules have been used for centuries in one form or another - to hide the tombs of Egyptian Kings and to keep histories past living on. One of the most celebrated time capsules is the Crypt of Civilization at O...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/the-past-is-alive-in-time-capsules/Tool use in apes is not unheard of, but this gibbon has taken it to a whole new level by enhancing her singing with the sound of an enclosure door slamming:Each time her song reached its natural climax, the gibbon sl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/gibbon-uses-slamming-door-in-her-singing/A rock named Blue Genesis was brought back from the moon by Apollo 16, the final moon mission, in 1972. Moon rocks remain rare and precious for that a single reason - because we never went back for more.The astronaut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/reflections-in-a-sliver-of-the-moon/As you all know, I'm a big fan of Tokyoflash and their nigh-unreadable watches (unless you're a major geek and can count in binary in your sleep, of course). So it's with great pleasure for me to tell you that Tokyoflash...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/16/new-independent-watches-from-tokyoflash-are-gorgeous/
