But unfortunately I have to pick just one winner – and to make it fair, I actually have a method: I let random.org pick a winner at random (unless that person didn’t want tickets, then I pick another number).

Congratulations to Marci who won the two tickets! And to everyone else, I thank you for playing (to Ruby: congrats on the recent wedding!)

Thank you for those who gave kind words of support – Neatorama is fun, but it’s also a lot of work, and it gets harder and harder to blog/work/play with the kids … there’re only so many hours in a day!

I’ll take a look at the specific recommendations – you guys have got some great ideas!

Please give me tickets, and feel the satisfaction of giving me my FIRST Concert experience!

Additionally, Neatorama is one of the blogs I frequent Daily. I wouldn’t know how to improve your blog. I can tell you that I enormously enjoy the longer articles and lists. I also like the quizzes. I think it’s great that you seem to have ?partnered up? with Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. Have you considered attempting to create relationships with other Interesting Nuggets of Knowledge companies, such as Weird USA and their corresponding State books?

Thank you for your consideration!

Neatorama is one of my favorite sites – one that I subscribe to through RSS and that I look forward to reading everyday. I honestly can’t think of any improvements because you’re so ecclectic that you prety much cover everything. Keep up the good work!

Icy

It’s neatly eclectic. I don’t like equally all the posts but really can see the ‘neatyness’ in it. There’s always something new and interesting.
So sorry Alex, no ideas, no help besides a couple of url suggestions, just cheering the good work, enjoying a good time. Thanks.

Love the site, not sure what you could do to improve… More posts?

I always learn new stuff when I come here, I love the tokyoflash games, and the guess what it is games. They always lean towards something cool.

Quite Frankly, I enjoy the current composition immensely to come back every day. I know thats not what your looking for, but I felt I needed to put in my 2 cents.

B

P.S. I don’t want the tickets. I just wanted a logical place to say ‘well done’ and … well…. ‘thanks’ for providing this site.

edit: I will take her(gf) if you pick me

Maybe because I have commented maybe a hundred times and I still don’t have an account!! I like the trust in its readers and I like the layout you switched to this year.

Sometimes when I check Digg and Reddit I feel so full of politics and deaths and people lying or being bad. When I come back to my Neatorama I’m filled with sunshine dust and moon water, it is that wonderful. My girlfriend and I read Neatorama together so when i call her in Maryland, I live in Philly, we can chat about the latest post and go off on tangents about the subject like I remember the tree house post you put up awhile ago, that was(is) our dream to live in a tree house, that had us talking all night until she fell asleep on the phone. Neatorama is so cute like that.

Or when you posted about Hobbit houses awhile back or any post from Uncle Johns great bathroom reader.

My least favorite thing is the oddball videos someone will post, like those music videos, no offense Mr Stanhope!, but I think you are doing a wonderful job being my cavalier knights of smiles

- mrmark, mrelrayes, mark, etc.

Neatorama is awesome — I visit every day! Don’t change a thing, except maybe the What is it? posts (boooo-ring, or maybe I’m just bitter cuz I never know what the object is . . .)

Only thing I can suggest is… maybe a few more flash games? (I do have an idea for a collaboration if you’re interested in going down that route)

But in regards to what you’re doing right, I only discovered this blog a week ago and love it. I’ve already posted a handful of links to my Rue The Day Blog.

You have awesome content on topics I’m interested in. Keep it up.

please don’t burn out! i love the site just as it is (with the exception of the overly long articles to have to scroll over). i have turned everyone in my life onto your site, and constantly find myslef talking about things i’ve read here.

I think a more separated forum for discussion (with registered user names) would be neat for everybody to talk about the things posted.

And I’d love the tickets. Bob Dylan would be amazing.

Love the site, my major issue is this. I often access the site from a PDA (sprint mogul running Windows Mobile 6 pro)

The site is very hard to navigate on this phone. Some mobile browser optimization would pretty much be the only thing i could ask.

That being said, im sure very few people are accessing the site this way and it would be a pain in the butt to optimize for the phone. I’ll still read everyday.