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- Cutting & Bottling Honey
- Pachimon Postcards
- Johnny Cash's To-Do List
- Bolshoi Cosmological Simulations
- First Ever Tattooed Barbie?
- Back At The Skywalker Home...
- Recite a Bible Verse and Get 50% Off Your Car's Oil Change: Righteous Bargain or Religious Discrimination?
- Baking An Apple Pie With No Apples
- The Inspector Spacetime Website
- 6 Cool and Real Spy Gadgets
- The Cutest Panda Picture You'll See All Day
- When Giant House-Eating Snails Attack
- McGill Dances for Cancer Research
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2011 04:15 AM PDT Phillip and Jenny have four beehives in their backyard in St. John’s, Newfoundland. You’ll find plenty of beekeeping videos and information on their blog, Mudsongs. In this video, we see what they do with honey when its harvested. Link -via Bits and Pieces  |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2011 04:13 AM PDT We’ve posted art from more than one person who takes everyday paintings or iconic images and adds fantastic monsters to them. It’s neat, but it’s not new. Back in the 1970s, Yokopro in Japan published postcards that did the exact same thing. The monsters are called pachimon kaiju. See a collection of them at How To Be a Retronaut. Link -via Everlasting Blort |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2011 07:56 PM PDT The Man in Black wanted to keep organized, so he kept a regular to-do list. Very smart. Also, his choices are smart. But is it really necessary to write down #5? Would he have forgotten otherwise? Link -via Ace of Spades HQ | Image: Julien’s Auctions Previously: The Johnny Cash Project |
| Bolshoi Cosmological Simulations Posted: 01 Oct 2011 07:12 PM PDT
Astronomers have completed the Bolshoi simulations - the aptly named supercomputer simulations of the cosmos (bolshoi means "great" in Russian), and the result is fantastic. Here's a video clip of the Bolshoi Fly-Through by Anatoly Klypin and Joel Primack, visualized by Chris Henze at NASA Ames Research Center. I gather there's a Pale Blue Dot somewhere in there ... More at the website of the Bolshoi Cosmological Simulations - via Science Daily |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2011 06:11 PM PDT
The woman that has everything has finally got inked. The tokidoki Barbie Doll by Simone Legno is the first ever tattooed Barbie to hit the streets ... er, collectors' shelves. Rage of conservative parents in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Via Nylon Blog |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:44 PM PDT This cartoon, that Geeks Are Sexy rightfully titled “You’re A Skywalker, Not A Street Walker,” just goes to show how everyone’s adolescent years are pretty much the same -even Princesses. Link Via Geeks Are Sexy |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:41 PM PDT
Is it a righteous bargain or religious discrimination? Would you recite a biblical verse even if you're an atheist simply to get the deal? |
| Baking An Apple Pie With No Apples Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:40 PM PDT
While you won’t win any cooking contests with this recipe, you’ll certainly be able to impress your chemist friends at your next dinner party. Link Via BoingBoing |
| The Inspector Spacetime Website Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:35 PM PDT If you are a fan of community, you may have seen their parody of Doctor Who on an episode a few weeks back. If not, here’s a link. So why am I bringing this up now? As it turns out, the internet is even geekier than most of us imagine and the show’s parody, called Inspector Spacetime, now has it’s own fan page on Tumblr filled with speculation about who will play the next inspector and what the fan’s favorite episodes are. Now that’s something even a sitcom writer couldn’t have predicted. Link Via The Mary Sue |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:27 PM PDT It’s easy to look at this picture and wonder, “why is this umbrella so special that it is locked in a glass case?” But that’s before you learn it was a brilliant Soviet spy weapon:
Yes, a man shot him with an umbrella that held a BB gun covered in deadly poison. Read about more insane spy weapons over at Cracked. |
| The Cutest Panda Picture You'll See All Day Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:14 PM PDT Here’s a fun riddle: what do you call twelve panda babies cuddling in a crib together? Absolutely adorable, duh. |
| When Giant House-Eating Snails Attack Posted: 01 Oct 2011 03:41 PM PDT
Forget zombie invasion! There's something scarier attacking Miami, Florida, slowly right now. Reeeeal slow. Behold the invasion of the Giant African Land Snails: Read more over at NPR's All Things Considered: Link |
| McGill Dances for Cancer Research Posted: 01 Oct 2011 12:19 PM PDT Watch scientists, researchers, and assorted geeks get down! McGill University in Montreal gathered scientists, students, and volunteers to make this dance and lipdub video. Their sponsor, Medicom, is making a donation to the Goodman Cancer Research Centre for each view the video gets. -via Geeks Are Sexy |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2011 10:20 AM PDT
Yep. Like Stephen Stills once said, "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with." Or something along that line. Via Accordion Guy (image: unknown) |
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For National Comic Book Day last weekend, Jill Harness explained The History Behind Comic Books and Comic Book Censorship. She also gave us The Origins of 7 Common Superstitions. Eddie Deezen wrote about 12 Books That Have (Ironically) Been Banned in the U.S. for Banned Books Week. Neatorama’s Spotlight blog featured a fantastic photo collection called Lives Within a Drop of Water. It’s a sneak peek at some of the awesome images from Nikon’s Small World microphotography competition. We’ll have more next week, too! If you missed it, you need to read A Day in Palindromia. This silly story from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader contains 52 different palindromes. The burning question is How Many Beans Make Soup? Improbable Research crunches the numbers. Speaking of soup, mental_floss magazine brought us How Cooked Food Made Us Human. I don’t know about you, but I always feel more human after a well-cooked meal. We have a Tokyo Flash Treasure Hunt going on. Put the clues together to win a watch from Tokyo Flash and some neat stuff from the NeatoShop!
Over at our Facebook page, you can catch extra content you won’t find at Neatorama, like this picture that I couldn’t resist snagging and sharing. Join the Facebook community of Neatoramanauts, and follow us on Twitter as well! And there’s a ton of new Halloween costumes, supplies, and party items at the NeatoShop that I bet you haven’t even seen! Check them all out and then order something that will surely impress your friends and neighbors for Halloween. |
Would you like to get 50% off your car's oil change? All you have to do at the Kwik Kar Lube & Service in Plano, Texas, is recite a Bible verse.
Notice anything strange about the apple pie pictured here? If you noticed there were no apples at all, you are right. That because the picture comes from The Awl’s recipe for an appleless apple pie that uses chemicals to trick your tastebuds. The most important ingredient? Cream of Tartar.
Every once in a while, to avoid doing something productive, I go snooping around Neatorama’s statistics and analytics. I’m no expert on such things, but there’s some interesting tidbits buried in the numbers. For instance, some of the search terms people use and find themselves at Neatorama are things we posted months or even years ago, like 
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