Urban Legend has it that when Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon, he said "Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky!"This is an oldie but goodie urban legend; supposedly when Armstrong was a child, he overheard his next door neig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/trivia-good-luck-mr-gorski/Dave Steward of Fort Madison, Iowa was fired from his job after seven years because he posted a Dilbert comic strip on an office bulletin board. In the offending strip, Dilbert compared company decision-makers to “dr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/dilbert-documents-dilbert-case/Steve James is serious about the environment. He built his own home near Dumfries, Scotland out of natural and recycled materials for a total cost of about £4,000. "Actually, you could make it for less than that,"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/eco-home-built-for-4000/Would you believe a dog that hitches a ride on a ski lift? A four-year-old collie named Guinness does just that at Glenshee Ski Centre in Scotland. He is owned by Graham McCabe, managing director of the ski centre,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/dog-rides-ski-lift/Photo found at One Large PrawnHooray, it's time for Neatorama and Hobotopia's weekly Caption Monkey game! This week's prize for funniest caption is the Meet the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats by Adam "Ape Lad" Ko...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/caption-monkey-21-kangaroo-knock-out-punch/Shapon Mitra of Bangladesh is a big fan of MacGyver, so to express his enthusiasm for his hero, Shapon opened a barber shop named "MacGyver Hairdresser." His specialty? The MacGyver mullet.No word if Shapon use...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/macgyver-hairdresser/Behold, the Oceáno, a collection of urinals for shy men by Roca, placed at descreet angle from each others that foil "peeking". Found at about:blank...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/urinals-for-shy-men/Now that's a cute cheese grater! Still a concept, "Scratch My Back" is created by Belgian designers Arnaud de Vicq, Bram de Baere, Luc Heylen, Ruud Belmans and Thomas Anden Abeele, part of designboom's desig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/cute-cheese-grater-scratch-my-back/Here's an art piece, made with tea candles as pixels, by Phil Hansen from August 2007 (theme: fire!). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via bog-brushArtwork by Phil Hansen previously featured on Neatorama:- The ABCs of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/tea-candles-as-pixels/Neil Neches of the New York City Transit's marketing and service information department gained fame when he inserted a semicolon in a public service placard:It was nearly hidden on a New York City Transit public serv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/the-usage-of-semicolon-is-confusing-most-people-are-afraid-of-it/Americans love pets. We pamper them and even consider them a member of the family, but at what cost? After spending more than a month's rent on vet bills, Ada Calhoun wrote this Salon.com article on how much is too much...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/whats-more-important-a-dog-or-a-car/One of my favorite blogs, Modern Mechanix has a scan from the 1930 Popular Science magazine on the first pictures of Pasteur Institute:Each day 8,000 tubes of vaccine and 12,000 tubes of serum leave one of the greate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/first-photos-of-the-pasteur-institute/"Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license" - Mark Twain, humorist and author (1835 - 1910)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/20/quote-mark-twain-on-voting/The Art of Manliness is a blog "dedicated to uncovering the lost art of being a man." As such, it has a collection of posts like How to Ask For (And Get) A Raise Like a Man, Talk Like Frank Sinatra and this par...
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