Sorority Boots Overweight and ?Non-Conventionally Pretty? Members.

Fat and unattractive, … er "demonstrating lack of commitment to meet recruitment goals?" Delta Zeta sorority doesn’t want you around: Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, ...

Hat Hair.

No, it’s not a hairspray ad - this ad turns out to be for Phyto Plage, a protective sun block for hair (prevents hair discoloration). See a couple more here: Link

Man devotes life to making guitars out of 10,000 matchsticks in 400 Hours

Construction was completed in four hundred hours...working five hours per day. Matchsticks for the curved portions of the ukulele were pre-soaked and bent, and the glued-together sections were weighted into shape with the aid of flat-irons, fire bricks and pans of water.

Grafitti is a Fun Crime.

MySpace Not Guilty in Child Assault Case

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post reports that a Texas judge dismissed a $30 million case against MySpace for their role in a child assault case. 19-year old Peter Solis lied about his age on MySpace to gain the confidence the confidence of a 13-year old girl. The judge ruled, 'To impose ...

NJ High School Starts Alcohol Testing Students

Talk about an invasion of privacy.....A high school in New Jersey is to start using a controversial alcohol test to detect if students have been drinking up to a week before.

Smeagol and Gollum from LOTR sing with Barry White (video)

Xeni Jardin: My precious, baby. Right on, right on. video Link, there's an alternate "green" version here: Link. They've both been floating around for about a month. The guy who created 'em, amds, says he uses Avid Xpress DV to put these together, and he does a really nice job. (thanks, Wendy) Reader ...

Batman seen in Arizona

David Pescovitz: A student at a suburban Phoenix middle school spotted Batman race across the school grounds. After the student reported his sighting, his school and two others locked their doors while officers investigated. According to the student, Batman jumped a fence and vanished into the desert. ...

CPR Glove could save lives, looks kind of dorky

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, WearablesA pair of electrical and biomedical engineering students at McMaster University are entering this year's Ontario Engineering Competition with a rather neat project: the CPR Glove. While it just looks like a particularly lame-looking and ill-fitting glove on the outside, ...

World?s Largest Drain Hole.

Fogonazos has a neat story about the largest drainhole in the world: a spillway at the Monticello Dam in northern California. Link

Ridding Iraq of Live Munitions.

Foreign Policy has an interesting photo essay by Jonathan Olley about cleaning up the plethora of bombs and live munitions in Iraq: Iraq is virtually littered with bombs. After two decades of war and fighting, there are more than a million tons of live munitions lying under foot. When it comes time ...

The Whale Burger.

This is a Reuters video report on a Japanese restaurant owner that has introduced a whale burger. According to the report, young customers like the whale burger. Any readers have opinions on the taste of whale meat? Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]. Found at Japan Probe.

God Of War: Real, Sharp, Dangerous

Mother said don't play with matches, but said nothing about large God of War knives. And, get this, they are for sale. Which means, YOU CAN BUY THESE THINGS. Product description: Overall Length: 42 1/2" Blade Length: 28" Blade Width: 7" Handle Material: Black leather wrapped with a total metal decorative ...

Clip: What's A Stormtrooper LAN Party Like?

Stormtrooper LAN Party That's the 501st Legion, a group of cosplaying Stormtroopers, visited the G4 studios, where they held an inprompto LAN party. Those costumes sure look great, but aren't those guys a little short for Stormtroopers? Brian Ashcraft Storm Troop Here [The Last Boss]

The SpaceShip Man.

Building an UFO with his own two hands. Alfie Carrington is a construction worker in Michigan and he’s building a flying saucer. He’s actually spent the past 30 years and a lot of money building it. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]. Found at CBC’s The Hour. (previous Neatorama ...

Wii Brunswick Pro Bowling Announced

Yes, it's coming to the PSP and PS2, but motion control is going to make this game. The scary thing is that the press release for the Crave Entertainment game doesn't say a word about whether motion controls will be supported. They'd have to be, right? Right? Brunswick Pro Bowling will give players ...

New Wii Channel Goes Live

Boot up your Wii, head over to the Shop Channel, journey into the lonely Wii Ware section and you'll be presented with a chance to download the new Everybody Votes Channel. Right now you're probably asking yourself... "Everybody Votes? The hell?" Well, for starters, it's a free channel, so you're zero ...

Crackdown Premptively Patched

Crackdown isn't even out yet, and it is already getting a patch. While I find it disturbing that these days a game can go gold while still requiring a patch to help smooth out issues in online co-op play, I suppose it's much better that just buying a broken game and being stuck with it. From Microsoft: ...

Perfect score in Wii Sports: Bowling

February 12, 2007 No doubt many of our readers lucky enough to own a Nintendo Wii have witnessed a few killer streaks on Wii Sports: Bowling, however none will have topped this. If you want to blow away the competition next time your friends are over, watch this video of a gamer known only as el moco ...

The US$25 Million Virgin Earth Challenge

February 13, 2007 Sir Richard Branson?s US$25 Million Virgin Earth Challenge focuses on the biggest single problem faced by humanity today - global warming. It steps across the national boundaries which have prevented anyone a full appreciation of the damage we have done to the environment and the gravity ...