You’ve heard of the 5-second rule: anything that drops on the floor and is picked up within five seconds is still safe to eat. Students at Connecticut College ran an experiment to test contamination of foods dropp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/the-5-second-rule/Jamie Wieck designed this business card for Another Bloomin’ Designer. For this project I set out to design a business card that a prospective client would want to keep on their table rather than in their p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/bloomin-business-card/Or, to be more precise, incredibly adorable baby white lions, born over the weekend at a zoo in France. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070523170304.2xda9z87&show_article=1&image=large. Thanks, CraigC...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/white-lions/Back in 2005, POP Montreal made this neat commercial. Click play or go to Link [YouTube]....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/pop-montreal-international-music-festival/I met some of these on my walk this morning at Meadowbrook Park in Champaign IL: Here's anotherview:And another:Can you see what they're made of?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/giant-bugs/To promote awareness of its cheese, the Stilton Cheese Makers Association is making a cheese ... perfume!The makers of the famously pungent Stilton blue cheese have launched their own perfume.And they have a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/cheese-perfume/A sea monster sat on a rock sad and all alone ... until one day, a little girl floated on a little boat. See what happens next in this delightful story called "Lonely Sea Monster" by Deanna Molinaro.Link | Dean...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/deanna-molinaros-lonely-sea-monster-book/How can you make donuts more harmful to your health (and oddly appetizing!)? Fry it in butter, of course!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/butter-fried-donut/Found at The Humor Archives....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/i-wonder-why-im-not-catching-anyone/Check out Andy Singer's website for more No Exit cartoons: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/23/no-exit-intellectual-property-management/Here's a chair you can sit in when you 're really "tired." -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/tired/A contractor who's taking the construction plan a little too literally. Link - via Buzz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/why-you-shouldnt-follow-directions-too-closely/This is not a photograph, but a digital painting recreating a photo of a model named Tica. Artist Dru Blair has a detailed explanation of how it was done, including larger images of the process. http://www.dru...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/dru-blairs-art-of-technology/Eighteen-year-old Samantha Larson reached the peak of Mount Everest on May 16th and became the youngest person to have ever climbed all the world’s “seven summitsâ€. Link to story. Link to her websit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/samantha-larson/Thank’s a lot Mr. Smeary it’s all because of you. Isn’t there a Mr. Smeary in any given office? If not you can print out this PDF File and make your own. Link via: Ehrensenf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/i-feel-so-smeary-today/These playful sets of chair and bookshelf by NEL, called "Fill In The Cat," have silhouettes of cats and birds! http://www.nel.com.mx/nel/projects/fill_in_the_cat_1.htm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/fill-in-the-cat-bookshelf/Jason Taylor combines his love of art and diving to create a series of underwater sculptures as artificial reefs! This one is titled "The Lost Correspondent"Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/jason-taylors-underwater-sculptures/This amazing photo of the aurora borealis or Northern Lights over Bear Lake, Eiselson Air Force Base, Alaska by Senior Airman Joshua Strang won the 2006 Wikimedia Commons.Check out more winners here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/northern-lights-in-alaska/This one's titled "AT AT the Playground." See more of Casey Weldon's neat paintings here: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/casey-weldons-at-at-the-playground/(Image credit: Lazy Lightning [Flickr])Call it the poor man's dream, a casino without walls, or a tax on the stupid, the lottery has deep and widespread roots. Here's a look at five stories about the numbers game.1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/22/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-lottery/This gives you an idea of how difficult it was to make progress in a war that spanned five years. There’s a date and casualty counter in the corner. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-us-civil-war-in-four-minutes/That's Sgt. Dan, a 1999 Volkswagen Beetle police car in Delaware who offers road safety tips to children. Before it, there was Trooper Dan, a 1971 Beetle named after the guy who came up with the idea, Lt. Dan Bramble Sr....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/sgt-dans-vw-beetle-police-car/This is a follow-up to Alex's post on rabbits with Shope papillomavirus.Most of the jackalopes you see mounted on the walls of restaurants and souvenir shops are fakes of course, but some people think that the legend of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/jackalope-disease/I don’t know how feasible the idea of a single-story -storey skyscraper with one continuous corridor is, but it’s fascinating to think about. The building would be built in a spiral. If you walked aroun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/a-one-storey-skyscraper/The design for the RAK Convention and Exhibition Centre in Dubai the United Arab Emirates looks kind of familiar, don't you think? Link - Thanks Wille!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-death-star-in-dubai/This chart tracks what baseball teams are paying their players vs. their winning record. You can move the date at the top (at the site) to follow how the teams are doing through the baseball season. A steep blue li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/baseball-salary-vs-performance/Pimp That Snack! has step-by-step instructions for creating your own Rubik’s Cube Cake! Link -via Grow-A-Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/rubiks-cube-cake-2/The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest was recently held during the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. The Leaning Tower Illusion from Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and Elena Gheorghiu won first place....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/best-visual-illusion-of-the-year/A restaurant situated inside a top security prison in Italy opened just two months ago, and is already so popular that officials are considering opening other branches. Serenaded by Bruno, a pianist doing life for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/a-pasta-you-cant-refuse/Did you ever wonder how Disney World got supplies to each park area without delivery trucks? You never see a garbage truck in Frontierland, either. A former Disney Cast Member explains the tunnel system installed under...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-tunnels-under-walt-disney-world/
