Khoi Vinh knows how his dog Mister President thinks. He contructed this flowchart to show how he (and other dogs) think. Makes plenty of sense to me! http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2007/0918_think_like_a.php -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/dog-logic-flowchart/This ad must be a spoof. It's obviously set in the UK, but I can't imagine Volkswagen would release a tv ad like this. Personally, I like the sentiment......
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/volkswagen-polo-small-but-tough/flight404.com's cool algorithm-generated butterfly designs. Not as beautiful as real butterflies, but interesting nonetheless. Link to flight404 blog post here Link to high-rez 1 1/2 min. QuickTime movie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/biomimetic-butterflies/"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." - Elbert Hubbard, writer (1856-1915)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/quote-elbert-hubbard-on-stupidity/Ah - the wonders of YouTube! Here's an old tv show I never thought I'd see again. Originally produced by the BBC back in the late 80's early 90's it was a mash-up of newsreel archive footage with a fictional comic stor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/the-staggering-stories-of-ferdinand-de-bargos/Princeton economist Alan Krueger and four psychologists found that men and women dislike pretty much the same activities like paying bills, but one thing really stood out:Men apparently enjoy being with their parents...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/the-happiness-of-men-and-women/In 1787, the Continental Congress of the United States authorized the official penny, with the motto:"Mind Your (Own) Business"Read more about it here: Mind Your Own Business [wiki]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/trivia-first-us-pennys-motto-mind-your-own-business/Oooh, here's the R2-D2 Pepper Mill. All you have to do is twist its head (dome?) and it'll crap pepper!http://mgrsti3030s.seamlesstech.biz/templates/frmTemplateR.asp?CatalogID=14149&SearchYN=N&subFolderID=177 - via techn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/r2-d2-pepper-mill/We all know this: when you got to go, you got to go. But usually, by the age of four most of us managed to control the urge. But not this guy:Bad: Urinating on the sidewalkReally bad: In...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/peeing-while-walking/The Star Wars slippers we recently posted on Neatorama too cute for you? Try these on for size: the rat slippers!Actually, just a clever ad for foot cream. More at 2wenty 4our: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/rat-slippers/Those who only knew “Crocodile Hunter†Steve Irwin from TV may forget that he was always involved in serious wildlife research. Just yesterday, a research paper was published listing Irwin as one of the autho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/steve-irwins-last-research-paper/Visionary director Michel Gondry has created a new commercial for Motorola's RAZR phone. The filmmaker, well known for his work with Beck and Bjork, takes us to a place we could only wish our phones took us. There is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/michael-gondry-creates-razr-commercial/What happens to all of those huge hulking ships, planes, trains and construction vehicles that are just too expensive to properly disassemble? Well, in many places of the World a little back-handed passing of money...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/where-vehicles-are-left-to-die/15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford was the first black student to attend a white school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Journalist Will Counts took this picture of Eckford’s entrance, with student Hazel Bryan shout...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/school-integration-in-little-rock/Keep your feet toasty warm this winter in slippers that resemble Darth Vader or Yoda! A sweet geeky gift from Think Geek. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/star-wars-slippers/Does he get points for effort? No? Maybe he should take another semester! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/one-semester-of-spanish-love-song/This t-shirt design is pretty cool (vote for it by following the link above, if you're so inclined), but I'd rather have the toy. The shirt reminded me of one of the first posts at my own site - - Toy Lab:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/godzillamazingervoltron-combine-to-form-a-super-figure/"Now you can make a tiny stove even MacGyver would be proud of." Link [metacafe]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/diy-miniature-stove-video/Australian man Tim Cope had just completed a 6,200 mile (10,000 km) journey on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary, following the footsteps of Genghis Khan. And boy did he find adventure along the way:Both he and the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/man-completed-trek-in-the-footsteps-of-genghis-khan/Miss C wrote a gruesome yet interesting article on our pal mental_floss blog about some very disturbing X-rays. Like this one:Gavin Docherty was hit by a nail gun in a workplace accident. His co-worker immediately dr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/gruesome-x-rays/Scientists found a rare albino ratfish and declared it still as ugly as the normal ones:"They're pretty ugly," said Jon Reum, a University of Washington doctoral student who spent his summer working on the mari...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/rare-albino-ratfish-looks-as-ugly-as-it-sounds/This has got to be one of the strangest robberies and dumbest criminals ever:A 24-year-old man was arrested in Pennsylvania for holding up a convenience store wearing nothing but a hat.CCTV footage showed Ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/naked-criminal-tried-to-rob-a-store/"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." - Willis Player, businessman (1915-1981)A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." - President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/quote-liberal-and-conservative/Venezuelan man Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a traffic accident and was taken to the morgue. During the autopsy, Carlos woke up!"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, accordi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/man-woke-up-during-autopsy/Paul and Teri Fields, fans of the Cubs baseball team, decided to name their baby boy Wrigley. That's right, Wrigley Fields, as in the Cubs home stadium! Link Previously on Neatorama: Couple Tried to Name baby "@&quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/couple-named-baby-wrigley-field-after-the-cubs-stadium/Meet Rich Hall [wiki], a comedian and writer who was the inspiration for Moe Szyslak, the barman from The Simpsons: He said he has always thought the cartoon landlord - who is obsessed with Homer's wife Marg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/the-real-moe/If you flip a coin, you'll have equal chance (50-50) of getting head or tail, right? Wrong. Stanford math professors proved that a flipped coin will land as it started 51% of the time.source: Persi Diaconis, et al. Dynam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/trivia-coin-toss-is-not-random/There is nothing more touching than a picture of two of the cutest baby animals in nature living it up together. Two baby tigers and two baby orangutans both abandoned have become the best of friends at an Indonesi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/26/best-friends-forever/
