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• Snow White Teapot
• Man Survived Night on Frozen Bench in Underwear Thanks to Alcohol!
• Turtle Boogies to Satisfaction
• Not the What? The Who?
• Skeletons Light Painting
• Battlestar Choclactica
• Anti-Farting Law in Malawi
• Is Michael Jackson Driving a Taxi in Brazil?
• Baubike: The Bauhaus Bicycle
• Hamlet's Trial Ended in Hung Jury
• The Skin Gun
• Weird Inventions of Edison
• TARDIS Cookie Jar
• Cranberry Wakeboarding
• LEGO Haunted House
• Nerdy Girls Need Love Too
• The Best in Sexual Harassment Stock Photography
• Nice Peter's Picture Songs
• The 12 Worst Valentine's Day Gifts Ever
• One Man Band Covers Ren and Stimpy Theme Song
• No Technology Ever Dies
• RC Helicopter Hunts, Destroys Balloons with Missiles
• Film School Thesis Generator
• Asking People if They Have Seen Themselves
• Sad Koala Reminisces
• Trained Dog Can Detect Colon Cancer by Sniffing Poop
• Next on TLC: 12 Wives, 12 Problems
• Steve Jobs: The Sum of His Parts
• An Intimate Look at Infographics
• World's Oldest Person Dies

Snow White Teapot Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:16 AM PST How cute is this? The Snow White Teapot ($41.95) from the NeatoShop is perfect for a cup of tea while waiting for your Prince Charming to come and sweep you off your feet. Link | More fun and unusual Kitchen Stuff

Man Survived Night on Frozen Bench in Underwear Thanks to Alcohol! Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:16 AM PST Add this to yet another benefit of intoxication: it can save you from freezing to death! A drunk man found lying on a frozen park bench in his underwear survived because of the amount of alcohol in his blood. Aleksander Andrzej, 32, was spotted in the Warsaw park – where the temperature was -5C – and taken to hospital by police, reports Metro. A breath test showed he had 1,024 micrograms per 100ml, nearly 30 times the legal limit for driving, which doctors say helped him live. They believe alcohol in his blood acted like anti-freeze … Link (Photo: Shutterstock)

Turtle Boogies to Satisfaction Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:15 AM PST Joy is watching a turtle (red-eared slider?) dancing to "Satisfaction" by Benny Benassi. All you need is a happy tortoise, a toothbrush, and some electro house music! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Milk and Cookies

Not the What? The Who? Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:14 AM PST From Disorderly Conduct: Verbatim Excerpts from Actual Cases by Rodney R. Jones, Charles M. Sevilla and Gerald F. Uelmen, here's an actual court transcript featuring The Who: The Court: I got the Quadrophenia, but then he said somebody played in it, and I didn’t get that. Prosecutor: The Who. The Court: The what? Witness: Musicians. Prosecutor: The Who. Witness: The Who. The Court: Who? Witness: The Who. That’s the name of the band. The Court: So that’s the name of the group, the Who? Witness: Yes, the Who. The Court: Not the What? The Who? Witness: No, the Who. The Court: You got it, everybody? The Quadrophenia is a movie with the Who. Witness: Punk rockers. The Court: All right. Abbott and Costello would've been proud! Via Futility Closet

Skeletons Light Painting Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:11 AM PST We’ve featured a few light paintings on Neatorama, but never one as ghastly cool as Janne Parviainen’s Inquisitor, who wrote: Straight from the camera. When you’re standing two hours in a knee deep snow in minus 20 celcius degrees taking photos, playing with fire starts to sound like a great idea, haha! I only burnt my coat just a little while doing this, oops! Link – via 7 Deadly Sinners

Battlestar Choclactica Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:09 AM PST When Autumn of Geek6 challenged her friend Malaki to create Battlestar Galactica out of chocolate, he rose to the occasion. Color me impressed, here’s Battlestar Choclactica: Link – via Make

Anti-Farting Law in Malawi Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:09 AM PST Cutting the cheese in Malawi may just land you in trouble. You see, the government of that southeast African country has just passed a law banning farting in public! The government of Malawi plan to punish persistent offenders ‘who foul the air’ in a bid to ‘mould responsible and disciplined citizens.’ But locals fear that pinning responsibility on the crime will be difficult – and may lead to miscarriages of justice as ‘criminals’ attempt to blame others for their offence. One Malawian told the website Africanews.com: ‘My goodness. What happens in a public place where a group is gathered. Do they lock up half a minibus? ‘And how about at meetings where it is difficult to pinpoint ‘culprits’? ‘Children will openly deny having passed bad air and point at an elder. Culturally, this is very embarrassing,’ she said. Link

Is Michael Jackson Driving a Taxi in Brazil? Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:08 AM PST Michael Jackson may be dead, but his voice lives on in this Brazilian taxi driver named Jean Walker. The Buzz Log has a video clip of Jean singing the King of Pop’s Billy Jean, while driving through the streets of Minas Gerais: Link [embedded YouTube]

Baubike: The Bauhaus Bicycle Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:07 AM PST What do you get when you cross bicycling with Bauhaus design? Behold the BauBike by Michael Ubbesen Jakobsen: The BauBike is inspired by Bauhaus design. It is constructed around the geometric shape of the square and the equilateral triangle. The design is stripped down to clean lines and raw material. Link – via thecoolhunter

Hamlet's Trial Ended in Hung Jury Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:06 AM PST Did he or did he not? That is the question … US Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy presided over a mock trial of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, who was accused of murder some 400 years ago: It gave noted Los Angeles attorneys an opportunity to argue for and against the proposition that Hamlet was suffering from a mental disease when he stabbed Polonius, the adviser to the king in the classic Shakespeare play. After 20 minutes of deliberations, 10 jurors found him sane and two found him insane. Link

The Skin Gun Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:05 AM PST The standard technique of treating burn is slow – so slow that many burn patients die from infections before their skin can regenerate. Enter Dr. Jörg C. Gerlach. He developed the Skin Gun, which sprays stem cells and heals severely burned skin in just a few days. It seems like science-fiction, but it really works. Buzzfeed has the fascinating video clip, but be forewarned: it’s not for the squeamish. Link

Weird Inventions of Edison Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:04 AM PST One of Edison’s weirdest inventions: The Edison Talking Doll Perhaps you thought of the lightbulb, the phonograph, or even direct current when you think about Thomas Edison, but those aren’t the only things he invented (or technically, improved), as shown by this Oobject list: Link Previously on Neatorama: 10 Fascinating Facts About Edison

TARDIS Cookie Jar Posted: 02 Feb 2011 03:03 AM PST The interior of this TARDIS Cookie Jar ($31.95) may not be larger than the exterior like the time machine in Doctor Who, but it sure holds quite a bit of cookies. The geeky cookie jar plays back TARDIS sound effects when you open the lid. Link | A lot more fun hand-picked Doctor Who items at the NeatoShop

Cranberry Wakeboarding Posted: 02 Feb 2011 12:00 AM PST (YouTube link) OK, hear me out. So Red Bull sends this guy to Wisconsin, to go wakeboarding through a cranberry bog – and it’s an awesome spectacle. Accompanied, I might add, by a stirring soundtrack. Josh Tranby and the crew travel to Tomah, Wisconsin for a visually stunning wakeboarding session in a cranberry bog. Red Bull Winch Sessions explores what can happen when you combine high-powered winches with action sports such as snowboarding, wakeboarding, paragliding, and more. Link

LEGO Haunted House Posted: 01 Feb 2011 09:58 PM PST You couldn’t pay me enough to spend a night in this super-creepy haunted house – even if it weren’t roughly as tall as my cat and made out of LEGO. The detail on this creepy crib is, in addition to spooky, an exemplary piece of masterful brickwork. Mike Doyle’s latest LEGO house (perhaps even more hauntingly beautiful than the last) is a Victorian mansion that transcends the material so effectively, the plastic reads like real rotting bricks and mortar. I love the house-devouring trees, created with LEGO hinge cylinders to mimic the texture of tree bark, and ridged 3 mm hose, droid arms and other technic connectors for the creepy, spindly branches. Constructed brick by brick with 50k-60k LEGO parts over a period of approximately 450 hours. Link

Nerdy Girls Need Love Too Posted: 01 Feb 2011 09:16 PM PST (YouTube link) Amy Lee Radigan wants to make a nerdy love connection. The enchanting songstress has earned her indie cred with songs about, among  other things, a desire to be rescued by Mario, and now she’s looking for that special Timel Lord to spend forever with – or at least a couple of episodes, maybe even a season or two. I can’t imagine she’s actually having trouble finding that special someone, seeing as how she’s got the comics/gamer thing AND the rocker chick thing going on, but you know – my phone number is available upon request. Because I care. And because nobody should be alone on Valentine’s Day – except maybe Davros. Link

The Best in Sexual Harassment Stock Photography Posted: 01 Feb 2011 07:37 PM PST Do you need a stock photo to illustrate some point in a presentation? Specifically, that you shouldn’t grope your co-workers? Stock photo companies try to meet all sorts of needs, including this one. Abe Sauer of The Hairpin rounded up some of the oddest pictures of sexual harassment from stock photo archives, and this picture is among the tamest. All SFW, but really weird. Link via reddit

Nice Peter's Picture Songs Posted: 01 Feb 2011 07:37 PM PST Neatoramanauts: If you haven’t discovered the wonderful comedy of Nice Peter over on YouTube, you’re in for a treat tonight. Each Monday night he creates a new song to pictures he’s found online. This week’s had me LOLing pretty hard, so check it out: Nice Peter is also the brain and talent behind all those great Epic Rap Battles of History. Check out Darth Vader vs Hitler here, for example.

The 12 Worst Valentine's Day Gifts Ever Posted: 01 Feb 2011 07:07 PM PST “Refreshing” head wipes for bald guys? This strange product is real, although it’s not something guys would admit using …so of course it would make a horrible gift. Don’t worry ladies, there are plenty of ways for you to passive aggressively tell your man he isn’t attractive enough. This great product can remind him that he’s not only bald, but that he’s disgustingly sweaty too. Hooray for destroying your lover’s self confidence! This is just one of a dozen gifts that say, “I have no idea how to shop for Valentines Day.” Link

One Man Band Covers Ren and Stimpy Theme Song Posted: 01 Feb 2011 07:00 PM PST (YouTube link) Ren and Stimpy: we love it, we miss it, we can’t believe that something so wonderfully subversive was once on Nickelodeon, like all the time. Yet like so many great shows no longer with us, we keep it alive. We collect action figures, animation cels and DVDs. We sing “Happy Happy, Joy Joy” after we get a few drinks in us. Some of us – this guy here, for instance – even learn to perform the entire theme song all by ourselves, playing every instrument, editing the whole jammy together, and even wearing 3D glasses while playing the bass for some reason. Yes sir, I like it. Link

No Technology Ever Dies Posted: 01 Feb 2011 06:27 PM PST Kevin Kelly, an editor for Wired and Cool Tools, points out something that is both simple and profound. No piece of technology, once it becomes widely used, ever goes extinct. It doesn’t matter if that technology has become obsolete. There are and always will be people who will continue to produce it. Robert Krulwich of NPR reports: Nothing? I asked. Brass helmets? Detachable shirt collars? Chariot wheels? Nothing, he said. Can’t be, I told him. Tools do hang around, but some must go extinct. If only because of the hubris — the absolute nature of the claim — I told him it would take me a half hour to find a tool, an invention that is no longer being made anywhere by anybody. Go ahead, he said. Try. If you listen to our Morning Edition debate, I tried carbon paper (still being made), steam powered car engine parts (still being made), Paleolithic hammers (still being made), 6 pages of agricultural tools from an 1895 Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue (every one of them still being made), and to my utter astonishment, I couldn’t find a provable example of an technology that has disappeared completely. Link and Link via GearFuse | Photo: Archaeology.org

RC Helicopter Hunts, Destroys Balloons with Missiles Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:48 PM PST (Video Link) David Windestål’s RC helicopter, equipped with little missiles, hunts balloons across the frozen Swedish landscape. That’s cool enough as it is. What makes this video superneat is the way that the scene is presented like a classic arcade game with appropriate sound effects and text notifications. A “Dude Licking a Pole Production”? That’s the best name for an entertainment production company EVAR. Link via DVICE

Film School Thesis Generator Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:36 PM PST The Earnest movies were, like, deep. Really deep. There’s a lot in there, and Wonder Tonic’s automatic film school thesis generator will give you a lot of ideas that will further your pursuit of master of arts in film studies. Link via Urlesque

Asking People if They Have Seen Themselves Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:28 PM PST (Video Link) Comedian Jack Vale drove around pretending to be looking for people. He provided the physical description of whatever person he asked. No one recognizes his own appearance, or at least doesn’t want to admit to it. via Nerdcore

Sad Koala Reminisces Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:23 PM PST (YouTube link) A sad koala eats an apple and looks back on days gone by. The glory days. Where did it all go wrong? Couldn’t say, but the photoshopping and the almost-but-not-quite Incredible Hulk hitchhiking theme music make this a masterpiece. Link

Trained Dog Can Detect Colon Cancer by Sniffing Poop Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:21 PM PST A dog owned by Japanese medical researchers has a remarkable gift for detecting colon cancer victims by sniffing their excrement. The black Labrador Retriever has a 95% accuracy rate: In the study, the retriever performed as well as a colonoscopy, a technique in which a fibre-optic tube with a camera on the end is inserted into the rectum to look for suspect areas of the intestine. It correctly spotted which samples were cancerous and which were not in 33 out of 36 breath tests, equal to 95 per cent accuracy, and in 37 out of 38 stool tests (98 per cent accuracy). Link via Popular Science | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user DrStarbuck used under Creative Commons license

Next on TLC: 12 Wives, 12 Problems Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:13 PM PST (Video Link) Once upon a time, TLC was an educational channel. Now it shows increasingly eccentric reality and remodeling programs. If you haven’t watched it in a while, yes, this is a parody. But only by a little bit. Video by Mostly Water Theatre via Geekosystem

Steve Jobs: The Sum of His Parts Posted: 01 Feb 2011 04:13 PM PST While Apple mastermind Steve Jobs is on a medical leave of absence, designer Charis Tsevis has created a tribute to the man behind iEverything. Check out this stunning portrait of Jobs, composed of a collage of his many creations. The collage features all the products Jobs was credited as having a hand in—from the revolutionary (iPod and iPhone) to the less-than-inspiring (Apple TV and eMac). With Jobs currently on indefinite medical leave, Fast Co Design calls Tsevis' effort the "ultimate get well soon gesture". Link via Fast Co Design

An Intimate Look at Infographics Posted: 01 Feb 2011 11:26 AM PST Dave Fields explains how the rash of internet infographics from the past couple of years differs from …well, from what they should be. A well done infographic has the power to capture one's acute attention span and convey information that would have taken longer to simply read (oh no, not reading!). However, for every brilliantly thought out and well executed mashup of art and data, there now seems to be an influx of mundane and formulaic counterparts infesting the very internet that we hold so near and dear. Here we have an infographic that explores commonalities between the seemingly vast expanse of contrived infographics that appear to have spawned in mass over the past year. If you're an infographic purest, view at your own risk. Yep, the rest is in the form of an infographic that manages to be more entertaining than most. Link -via Rue the Day See also: Infographic

World's Oldest Person Dies Posted: 01 Feb 2011 11:23 AM PST Eunice Sanborn, who outlived three husbands, was 114 years old when she passed away Monday at her home in Texas, according to caretaker David French. Or was she 115? Census records show Sanborn was born on July 20, 1896, in Lake Charles, La., according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, which listed Sanborn as the world’s oldest person. But French said Sanborn always maintained the Census Bureau had made a mistake and she was really born in 1895. She celebrated what she believed was her 115th birthday on July 20, Agence France-Presse reported. Either way, with Sanborn’s death, the oldest person in the world is now 114-year-old Besse Cooper of Georgia. Link

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