From Hello Kitty Hell, which has outdone itself with this one. How much does Sanrio have to pay a cycle racer to wear this? Link -via Everlasting Blort...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/hello-kitty-motorcycle-racing-leathers/Take a walk in the grass wherever you are in these flip flops that have real grass growing in the soles! They are supposed to last up to four months with proper care. Have you watered your shoes lately? It's a promotio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/grass-flip-flops/When the carnival comes to town during your local festival, you may be tempted to play a game of chance or skill. Keep in mind that the advantage is to the house; otherwise, they wouldn't be in business. If the price of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/how-to-win-carnival-games/Google may be the big fish on the Net, but Google Street View Car got no respect from the cops on the street! Neatorama reader Chris Whiteoak sent us these series of photographs of a Google car being pulled over by the p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/cops-pwnd-google-street-view-car/In her project Fold Loud, artist JooYoun Paek created a very neat "musical origami," where by folding a piece of paper, you'd be making electrical contacts to control the music: Each f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/fold-loud-musical-origami-by-jooyoun-paek/Go Gators! After a 15-year struggle on the list, University of Florida has finally clinched the number one spot ... of the Princeton Review's Top 20 Party Schools!The University of Florida can raise a glass to anothe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/the-partiest-of-all-party-schools-university-of-florida/You'd think that Steven Spielberg's first movie would be all about dinosaurs and aliens or something like that - but you'd be wrong. Very wrong: here's Amblin' (1968), the first film written and directed by Spie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/steven-spielbergs-first-movie-amblin-is-borin/We all hate commuting to work, but Dave Prager of Our Delhi Struggle blog really, really hates his commute. After all, the traffic is murder and the scenery is worse. That's because two years ago, the Indian gov...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/30/indian-government-seals-illegally-constructed-buildings-with-a-bulldozer/Want a pair of really vintage jeans? These Levis are over 100 years old! This old pair of LEVI'S were found in a mine in the Rand Mining District, on the Mojave Desert,. California. They are covered in candlewax...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/vintage-levis/The media is full of scare stories, but everything is relative. The New York Times give you the lowdown on ten things that you shouldn't bother worrying abut on your vacation. Now, I can’t guarantee you that any...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/10-things-to-scratch-from-your-worry-list/The annual Rapa das bestas, or horse-wrestling festival, was held earlier this month in Galicia, Spain. People gather all the untamed horses in a corral, where men and women of all ages wrestle them to the ground...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/spanish-horse-wrestling-festival/(Vimeo link) Marc Israel loves his cat Barkley. Find out more about Barkley at mental_floss. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/barkley-the-cat/The Toy Zone has 20 examples of album covers faithfully recreated with Lego bricks. Link -via Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/lego-album-covers/Today marks the anniversary of the day Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married in a lavish ceremony 27 years ago. As we all know, that didn't turn out so well. But their marriage was only one in a long, Royal lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/royal-marriages-that-didnt-go-so-well/Today's Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game is special ... it comes from my own garden!A few weeks ago, my wife Tiffany planted a zucchini plant in our backyard ... and promptly forgot about it. Today,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/caption-monkey-37-giant-zucchini/"[The Internet] is not a truck. It's a series of tubes." - U.S. Senator Ted StevensAh, the Internet: you use it every day for school, work or fun. In such a short period of time, the Net has grown into...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-internet/Designer Dima Komissarov has come up with a neat solution for making the tie tying process a bit easier, by simply printing the instructions right on the piece of cloth. Job Interview? Briss? Court Appearanc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/how-to-tie-a-tie-tie/A cat watching TV suddenly realizes that someone is standing in the background. Link [YouTube]cats...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/dramatic-cat/Our pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford of Hobotopia has a neat shirt for sale at shirt.woot.com - it's titled "Death Has Keen Eyesight" and it's yours for only $10 (including shipping - how do they do that? Mu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/adam-kofords-woot-t-shirt/Photo: Neven Mrgan [Flickr]I suspect Neven Mrgan is a genius: he's turning some of the best tweets from famous twitterers (is that a word?) into fortune cookies! (Who wouldn't want Merlin Mann's tweets after some satisfy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/twitter-fortune-cookies/This is pretty neat: the Australian company Lightwell created a 6 m (~ 20 ft) long interactive table exploring Australia's deadliest animals.The largest and most ambitious multimedia element in the exhibition is a si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/interactive-table-dangerous-australian-animals/"There is still no cure for the common birthday" - John Glenn, astronaut & U.S. SenatorThere may be nothing you can do about growing old, but that doesn't mean you can't laugh about it. PM Caregive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/bumper-stickers-growing-old-is-funny/What if major corporations were in charge to invent the stop sign? What would a stop sign created by committee look like?Here's a funny video clip by: Link [embedded YouTube clip]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/the-stop-sign-if-it-were-designed-by-a-committee/Add this to the thing I don't understand: why do film companies pull YouTube videos of their movie trailers? I mean, if the clip is of the movie itself, then I understand - but movie trailers are teasers to make people *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/why-do-movie-companies-pull-movie-trailers-from-youtube/Meet the Senegal birchir aka the dinosaur eel. This amazing African fish has a unique scale physiology that teach scientists how to design better body armors:Long and skinny and of ancient heritage, the 40-centimetre...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/dinosaur-eel-may-lead-to-better-body-armor/Went to the Cubs/Marlins game yesterday and my husband just happened to be modeling his lovely Neatorama shirt! It must have been good luck, because the Cubbies pulled off the W. Of course, you can get your very...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/go-cubs-go-to-neatorama/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is a classic: can you tell which item is a discontinued flavor of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and which is a real band on MySpace? When this quiz first appeared, the founder of Ben...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/ice-cream-quiz/When does size matter? In warfare, apparently. Dark Roasted Blend takes a look at the biggest cannons through history. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/big-guns/For every internet success story, there are many more failures. Most just disappeared quietly, but these 25 had rather public flameouts. Why did they fail? Some offered a product no one needed. Some went up against anoth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/28/25-internet-startups-that-bombed-miserably/NOTCOT at GLOW: Usman Haque's Primal Source from Jean Aw on Vimeo. Ok, first things first before you press play. Please, PLEASE put the sound on to Mute. Why? Well, lets just say the folks wh...
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