These drinking glasses made from agar agar are edible and eco-friendly, just toss them aside when you're done. The cups are made entirely out of agar agar and cast in different flavors, such as lemon-basil, ginger-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/use-your-glass-and-eat-it-too/BBQ Sword Cooking Fork and BBQ Sword Spatula ($27.95 ea.)For your next BBQ, make like D'Artagnan and fearlessly grill hotdogs and hamburgers with your trusty BBQ Sword Cooking Fork and Spatula. Take a look at Neatorama's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/bbq-sword-cooking-fork-and-spatula/Why do Aussies like to shorten words? That's the research question that Nenagh Kemp of University of Tasmania (or Uni of Tassie) is asking:"What we'd like to find out is how people feel when they're listening to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/why-do-aussies-like-to-shorten-words/Camper English over at Alcademics was so inspired by the Double Rainbow Guy that he decided to create a cocktail to honor him.Before you go crazy trying to figure out different densities of colored liquid required to get...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/double-rainbow-cocktail/Photo: RaboDirect Australia [Flickr] Money doesn't grow on trees. Or does it? As a publicity stunt, RaboDirect of Australia sponsored a stunt where a tree in a park in Sydney is festooned...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/real-life-money-tree/Remember going to summer camp when you're young? Now imagine that place as your wedding destination. Yes, that's right: camp wedding is the hot new trend!Instead of bridesmaids and groomsmen, there will be "head...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/wedding-at-camp/Archaeologists have found something at Stonehenge that is so exceptional that they're calling it the most exciting find there in fifty years: a second, Neolithic henge.The new "henge" - which means a circul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/found-stonehenges-second-henge/All you and I have to do to tell a fiction from a non-fiction is to read a piece of text - but how can a computer tell the difference? It's tricky, but doable:Joseph Stevanak and Lincoln Carr at the Colorado School o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/how-computer-tells-fictions-apart-from-non-fictions/Photo: dragon dream [Flickr]It takes a clever person to create good similes, but it takes a genius to create one as non-sensical as this one above! Well played, sir! Update 7/22/10 - Groucho Marx! Thanks everybody!ban...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/best-simile-ever/Somehow it fits that the long-hidden trove of never-published writings by Franz Kafka are trapped in a situation that can only be called "Kafkaesque":Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/22/kafkas-work-trapped-in-a-kafkaesque-legal-fight/(YouTube Link) Whenever you feel the need to surf, but you're too far away from the ocean, simply call a friend, get a hold on a giant blue tarp, grab your skateboard and start surfing. Linksurfing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/tarp-surfing/Fingerstache - $4.95 | More Gag GiftsWhat is it about the fingerstache that captured the fancy of the hip crowd of the web? Of course, kids have been drawing mustaches on their fingers (or upper lips, much to the conster...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/fingerstache/This is a photograph of what is alleged to be the first American bookmobile. It was built in 1905 by the public library of Washington County, Maryland. Mary Titcomb, the librarian responsible for its creation, desc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/the-first-bookmobile-in-the-united-states/During the Apollo space program, astronauts were apparently ineligible for traditional life insurance. So they and NASA came up with an innovative solution. The answer was provided by NASA in the form of 'Insuranc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/life-insurance-for-astronauts/If you have an immune system disorder called celiac disease or are allergic to gluten (or know that someone who is), then you know that eating the wrong thing can lead to severe pain. Even though the role of gluten in ce...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/fragments-of-gluten-that-trigger-celiac-disease-isolated/If you have a rabbit phobia, it's best that you don't teach high school. Here's what happened to one teacher in Germany:A German court on Tuesday threw out the case of a schoolteacher against a pupil who allegedly to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/lawsuit-by-teacher-with-rabbit-phobia-thrown-out/Yes, according to the law - and we should all pause to think of the implication. After all, haven't you ever clicked "I accept" without reading the pages and pages of legal fine prints? There may be a clause th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/is-breaking-a-websites-terms-of-service-a-crime/Fragment #3Jaime Salmon is a contemporary sculptor specializing in photorealistic sculptures using silicone, pigment, fiberglass, acrylic and human hair.This one above, titled Fragment #3 (2008), is so hauntingly real th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/photorealistic-sculptures-of-jamie-salmon/London-based designer Chambers Judd modified the floppy disk drive pictured above. Normally it lies flat, but the moment that it comes in contact with a liquid, little legs raise it up out of danger. Video at the l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/floppy-disk-drive-stands-up-to-avoid-spills/Researchers led by Paul Crowther, professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, UK, have discovered a cluster of young stars that are about twice as big as the maximum size that astrophysicists thought co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/astronomers-discover-stars-previously-thought-to-be-too-massive-to-exist/Ranger, a robot built by researchers at Cornell University, broke a walking record for an untethered robot when it walked more than fourteen miles in eleven hours without recharging: Guided by students with a remote c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/walking-robot-breaks-distance-record/(YouTube Link) This short film is an instructional video on how to bathe a cat. It's roughly based on Bud Herron's essay "Cat Bathing as a Martial Art" and provides sound warnings on the dangers of wet, enraged cat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/how-to-wash-a-cat/Police in Argentina are on the lookout for two escaped prisoners. Due to a manpower shortage, only two of the fifteen guard towers at a prison were manned. One had a crudely-made dummy inside which did not fool the pri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/prisoners-escape-after-guards-place-dummy-in-guardtowe-instead-of-an-actual-guard/Older readers of Neatorama will remember an era when Burma-Shave signs entertained drivers on the nation's highways (the complete text of all the jingles has been assembled at Burma-Shave.org.) The company also po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/free-free-a-trip-to-mars-for-900-empty-jars/We've previously mentioned that engineers in various firms have been developing cars that can drive themselves. A group of Italian engineers is putting their automated car to a rather rigorous test: driving from Italy t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/driverless-vans-traveling-from-italy-to-china/Robert Sosebee of Austell, Georgia came home to find he had been ticketed for keeping livestock in the city. But he doesn't own any chickens, except for a couple of ceramic hens decorating his lawn. Sosebee believes tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/man-gets-livestock-citation-for-ceramic-chickens/Charles Jenkins of Indianapolis, Indiana was awakened from sleep Tuesday morning by a loud crash. He found an intruder climbing through the living room window. Jenkins said he grabbed his cane and hit the intruder in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/70-year-old-fights-off-intruder-with-his-cane/Gary Detro lost his high school class ring at a football game in Sherman, Texas during his senior year. That was in 1969, and he never found it. Until now. Fast forward to July, 2010. Crews working on Bearcat Stadium's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/missing-class-ring-found-41-years-later/This beat up piano doesn't look like much but it was once played by the Beatles and Pink Floyd among others at the Abbey Road's Studio 3. It goes on the auction block on August 15 and is expected to fetch £150,000. *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/piano-used-by-the-beatles-for-sale/The 1984 film Ghostbusters starred Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, and Dan Akroyd as paranormal exterminators in New York City (later joined by Ernie Hudson). The script was written by Ramis and Akroyd. The movie was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/21/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-ghostbusters/
