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• Bloody Evidence Chef’s Knife
• Jell-o Jewels Sparkle With Deliciousness
• There’s A Squid In Your Water
• NES Controller Doorbell
• Rating Attractiveness: Consensus Among Men, Not Women
• Women Happiest at 28
• Paragolfer Machine Lets Paralyzed People Golf
• Wanted: “People-Effective” Person for $197,000 Job
• Living with Really Big Cats: Cheetahs, Lions, and Tigers

Bloody Evidence Chef’s Knife Posted: 27 Jun 2009 06:03 PM PDT This chef’s knife is so awesome it’s criminal! Behold the Evidence Chef’s Knife, complete with fired-on, food-safe "blood" design and evidence tag! At just $14.95, it’s a steal (though we definitely don’t recommend that you use it to commit any crime): Link Also check out these other fun kitchen stuff at the Neatorama Online Store: Food Face Kid’s Dinner Plate Wrench Salad Tools Pac-Man Pot Holder Your purchase helps support the blog! Thank you!

Jell-o Jewels Sparkle With Deliciousness Posted: 27 Jun 2009 01:17 PM PDT Yummy, classy and fat free. These Jell-o jewels have real gold powder in them. They’re part of a Jell-o mold competition in Brooklyn. The cheeseburger and shishkabob ones are fantastic, along with the oyster pearls. It’s all worth a look. Link

There’s A Squid In Your Water Posted: 27 Jun 2009 12:46 PM PDT Bandai toy company from Japan has finally realized that bottles of water just aren’t cute. As Japan is the cute capital of the world, this just wouldn’t do. To fix the problem, they developed these adorable floating squids that can be added to any bottle of water. Thank god for Japanese innovation. Of course, they’re only available in Japan, but at least they’re affordable at only $6 each. Link

NES Controller Doorbell Posted: 27 Jun 2009 12:18 PM PDT An intrepid Nintendo fan hacked a wireless doorbell together with a NES controller. It looks really cool, I just wonder which button actually makes the door ring. Link

Rating Attractiveness: Consensus Among Men, Not Women Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:28 AM PDT Here’s another case of science proving what we all knew in the back of our minds. Men pretty much agree on what makes a woman attractive, while women have their own ideas about what is attractive in men. A survey led by Wake Forest University psychologist Dustin Wood showed pictures of people to 4,000 adults of all ages, and had them rate the photographs for attractiveness on a scale of one to ten. Men’s judgments of women’s attractiveness were based primarily around physical features and they rated highly those who looked thin and seductive. Most of the men in the study also rated photographs of women who looked confident as more attractive. As a group, the women rating men showed some preference for thin, muscular subjects, but disagreed on how attractive many men in the study were. Some women gave high attractiveness ratings to the men other women said were not attractive at all. Link -via Digg (image credit: Flickr user mod as hell)

Women Happiest at 28 Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:25 AM PDT A survey of women by hair color products maker Clairol has pinpointed the age of maximum happiness for women: A spokesman for home hair colour brand Clairol Perfect 10, which carried out the study of 4,000 women, said: "Everything in life hits its peak at some point, and nearly reaching your thirties isn’t so bad now. "The age of 28 has been pinpointed as the time in a woman’s life their hair looks the best, body shape is at its peak and confidence is at an all-time high. "The security of your job, having a steady income, being in a relationship and having strong friendships all help create the perfect point in our lives when everything comes together. Reaching and surpassing your twenties no longer triggers the downward spiral of your looks and self-confidence. Link

Paragolfer Machine Lets Paralyzed People Golf Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:24 AM PDT [Skip the intro to mark 1:00 for the good stuff!] Being paralyzed shouldn’t stop someone from engaging in a sport lovingly described by Mark Twain as "a good walk, ruined," thanks to the Paragolfer machine by Parabasetec. Check out the paragolfer in action (yes, it’s a promo video, but it’s amazing nonetheless): Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]. If you want one, be prepared to shell out upwards of $26K.

Wanted: “People-Effective” Person for $197,000 Job Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:23 AM PDT Psst, want a £119,000 job? (That’s US$197,000 for us Yanks) The job of "Director of Organisation Development" in Yorkshire can be yours … if only you can decipher the want ad: Huddersfield-based Kirklees Council’s job description mangled the language with phrases like "cross functional experience" and "people effective". The council advertised the position as "a key leadership role that will help make a complex organisation increasingly confident, energetic and focused as it delivers the outcomes that the Kirklees communities require". It said the successful candidate would be "a leader with presence, passion and panache" who would "play a key role in ensuring the effective integration of national, regional and local drivers". Another impenetrable passage warns that the new director will face the challenge of making sure "that the diversity of Kirklees is understood by all in the organisation; is valued as a strength but a strength that challenges us to respond to its complex implications; and is reflected in the career structures within the organisation". Link

Living with Really Big Cats: Cheetahs, Lions, and Tigers Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:22 AM PDT If you think having to "share" your bed with your pet cat is bad, that’s nothing compared to what Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen has to do: the sanctuary worker shares her South African home with really, really big cats: four cheetahs, five lions, and two tigers! Riana bought her first cheetah, Fiela in 2006, after realising the big cats were in trouble and heading for extinction with only 1000 left in Africa. She left her full time job working for the department of justice - a position she had held for 22 years - and found temporary employment on a game ranch where she could raise her beloved big cat. [...] The cats in Riana’s own home are truly part of the family and are allowed to roam freely. Imagine the size of their litterbox! Amy Oliver of the Daily Mail has more: Link (Photo: John Lienbenberg/Barcroft Media)

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