Families differ on how they give their kids money. Kelly writes about how her family does it, and the many questions that go along with allowances. * Should the allowance be given freely OR tied to chor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/kids-and-allowance/This diagram (actually an Euler diagram {wiki}) sorts out professional baseball team names. Even more interesting is the accompanying list of links and explanations for every team name included. Link -via Jason Kottk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/team-names-an-entymological-venn-diagram/People love watching unbelievably intricate contraptions designed to perform simple tasks. Days to design and build, a minute or two to use (depending on how many times something goes wrong), and possible YouTube stardom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/the-top-ten-food-based-rube-goldberg-machines/The breakfast aisle at the grocery is full of cereals with silly names, but some from the past are real winners. In today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you are challenged to distinguish real cereal names from s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/was-this-really-a-cereal/(YouTube Link) This one-minute stop motion video appears to be a Portuguese-language commercial for a fruit juice brand available in Brazil (Google Translator version). It's a trippy depiction of moving wafer cooki...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/stop-motion-wafer-cookie-keyboard/Image: Book Fail Inspired by the now famous FAIL Blog, BookFail is a gallery of book covers of strange, absurd, and improbable books. It's somewhat similar to the Judge a Book by its Cover blog, except that you can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/bookfail-a-gallery-of-bizarre-books/(YouTube Link) The Galileo Robot has retractable wheels within its rear wheels that extend on command, expanding the hub of the wheel into a tank track. This allows the vehicle to have the advantages of a tracked v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/robot-converts-from-wheeled-to-tracked-vehicles/(YouTube Link) "Apple Store Love Song" is a song by Fatty Spins about meeting a girl/Apple product at a brand store. Although one might think that it was green-screened, it was actually shot at the Apple Store in N...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/i-fell-in-love-at-the-apple-store/What is it about one-take video clips that capture our imaginations? Perhaps it's because we've become so cynical about video editings that the pure, raw form of a single, uninterrupted shot truly sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/28/7-most-amazing-one-take-video-clips/This little girl's Colonel Sanders Halloween costume is too precious. Her mom not only made the entire outfit, but she also made the wig out of wool yarn and the effect is pretty priceless. Link Via Craftzinehal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/colonel-sanders-child-costume/If you've ever thought that New York's Fashion Week is taken way too seriously, then you might be like the Snuggie marketing team. Yes, they actually introduced new fabrics and colors, but the reasons behind the show...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/ny-snuggie-fashion-show/Shredsors - $19.95Need to destroy that top secret memo but got no office paper shredder? Here's the product for you: a strange yet effective combination of scissors and shredders. Behold, the Shredsors - a pair of scisso...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/scissors-shredders-shredsors/[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Image copyright Warner Bros., used under fair use."][/caption]Or as writer Matt Blum likes to call them, the Top 10 Unanswered Questions in Geeky Movies. Yes, Wire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/movie-plot-holes/While it seems most establishments with drive-thru windows are in agreement that bicycles are forbidden, and refused service, Washington-based restaurant Burgerville is leading the way to change that. All 39 of their s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/cycle-through-windows-emerging/Speechwriter, author and famous New York Times columnist William Safire has just died of pancreatic cancer. I don't always agree with Safire's politics, but I've always found his wr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/william-safire-r-i-p/Poor Lulu. When the bovine miscowculated the steepness of the pathway near the German castle of Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, she was stuck down in the valley with moo way back up to the farm. What to do?Help came in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/moooo-lulu-the-cow-got-a-free-cable-car-ride/It's a house carved out of a solid tree trunk! This astonishing mobile tree house started off life as a mobile information centre for Forestry Tasmania. It has recently sold on e-bay for AU$12,000 where it grabbed the at...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/mobile-tree-house/The Saguaro - now there is one big cactus. A native of Mexico and Arizona (with some in California too) it attracts a number of visitors - especially when it flowers. Not all of them are desirable however, wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/the-super-sized-saguaro-and-its-greedy-guests/(YouTube Link) This floppy disk drive has been altered to play the Darth Vader theme from Star Wars. I have no idea how, but here's an explanation floating around the blogosphere: I can't find any documentat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/The Blood Lamp only works once, and you need to add of a drop of your blood to activate it! The idea is to stop and think about how badly you need light before you use it. Designer Mike Thompson created the lamp in o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/the-blood-lamp/Nothing draws attention like oversized objects, and when you’re traveling along the highway, hungry people notice big food. During the 1930s, buildings that look like something else popped up all over to draw in tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/appetizing-architecture/Photo: Urban Collector Calm down, it's not actually blood. It's just an energy drink made to look like blood, and it's served in an IV bag: The fruit punch flavor packs 4 hours of energy along with iron, prote...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/26/blood-energy-drink/Image: Artist's Rendering, MENA Infrustructure The Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Causeway will connect the Persian Gulf states of Qatar and Bahrain over a 40 km causeway. Construction is scheduled to begin next year at a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/26/the-worlds-longest-bridge-will-be-13-miles-long/Incredible pictures of a hummingbird, from egg to leaving the nest. It is hard to imagine just how small they are from the pictures, so keep in mind the opening of the nest is about the size of a quarter! http://com...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/26/the-birth-of-a-hummingbird/Many communities have enacted smoking bans in public places, some of which have been in effect for several years. How is that affecting our overall health? According to an analysis of studies, the bans are significantly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/26/smoking-bans-cut-heart-attacks-by-up-to-a-quarter/Photo: Thomas Ziegler / WWFI, for one, welcome our new Cat Ba leopard gecko overlord. That fantastically sinister-looking leopard gecko (with the equally cool species name of Goniurosaurus catbaensis) is one of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/26/cat-ba-leopard-gecko-and-other-new-species-of-the-mekong-river-region/Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.First, it was Paris Hilton and now, Barack Obama. Eric Spiegelman noticed that when President Obama hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/26/obama-or-obamabot/Do you use Twitter or Facebook? I really get the most out of Twitter when events like the Iranian elections went down. (the only reason to like Twitter, aside from this). Chuck Klosterman has a seriously cool int...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/klosterman-on-facebooktwitter/Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, we still don't know if Russia's doomsday weapon is still operational. It's a bit of a worry, because the weapon, code name The Dead Hand, is 50,000 times more powerfu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/is-russias-doomsday-bomb-still-operational/WebMD recently consulted with experts to determine the most important drugs from throughout history. They were looking for drugs that changed the medical landscape by either treating a large number of people with a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/10-drug-breakthroughs-that-changed-the-medical-world/
