Don't visit RideAccidents if you love going on carnival and theme park rides! The website compiled a record of all types of injuries and fatalities from amusement rides around the world.For example: Woman, 60...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/website-compiles-carnival-and-theme-park-rides-accidents/Those smart advertising people at Canadian ad agency Leo Burnett [Flash] came up with this clever art/public service/marketing of Campbell's Soup installation that tugged on your heart string:In a grocery store 4,820...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/clever-ad-eliminates-hunger-and-sells-soup-all-at-the-same-time/Neatorama reader Jonathan wrote:Sure, Amazon may recommend killing yourself (Neatorama today), but I was able to buy happiness from Woolworths!And who says you can't buy happiness! Link (I've enlarged and sharpe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/you-can-buy-happiness-at-woolworths/DJ Earworm has taken the Billboard Top 25 songs of 2007 in the United States and mashed them all up into a 5 minute long song The United State of Pop.I don't know what is sadder, that I only know like one or two...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/mashup-of-the-billboard-top-25-of-2007/An Australian couple put some golf balls in their chicken coop to encourage their hen to lay eggs (who knew this would work!?) but discovered that a python had eaten them by mistake!The magnanimous couple took the snake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/python-mistook-golf-balls-for-chicken-eggs/Some 36 years after a man who called himself D.B. Cooper parachuted out of an airliner with a bag of $200,000 in stolen cash.Now, the FBI has re-opened the case and issued a new picture of what he looked like, in hope th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/fbi-still-looking-for-db-cooper/Ryan and Andrea of Rattle-n-Roll create baby announcements styled after rock-n-roll gig posters! They’ll make announcements to send out, and posters for your nursery or as keepsakes. Pick your template and colors, or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/rattle-n-roll/(YouTube link) Jeremiah suffers from polio, but he developed a dance routine that will impress you! He makes his living performing in Uganda. -via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/pole-dancer/Much better than drawing on your palm, this map of London was printed on a lady's leather glove. George Shove created these to help visitors find their way around during the Great Exhibition of 1851. Link -via Ectoplas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/glove-map/A baby was born in a McDonald's restroom in Vancouver, Wash, and the mother didn't even know she was pregnant. It was the evening shift last Friday at the fast-food restaurant when employee Danille Miller suddenl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/baby-born-at-mcdonalds/Billy Mavreas of yesway blog has a neat collection of some wonderful illustrations by Lloyd Scott for Using Our Language, a 1942 grammar book for fifth and eight graders.This one below is my favorite, just becau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/cartoons-from-1940s-grammar-books/Blogger sickbastard, poor guy, is apparently hated by the giant e-tailer Amazon! LinkI'm guessing the book is Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/amazon-recommends-killing-yourself/The ZIP in ZIP code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."In addition to the publicly known one, the White House has a secret ZIP code for the President and the First Family to receive private mail....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/trivia-zip-code/Brazilian designer Rafael Morgan's Light Drop is a lamp that you (literally) turn on by turning the tap - the more you twist, the brighter the light gets. Rafael's design is supposed to make people think about saving wat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/light-drop-lamp-shaped-like-a-dripping-faucet/Laura Victore created this fun and functional earplug earrings called Ladybuds, so you'll always have a handy (ear-y?) hearing protector with you at all times! Designed by a woman who loves NASCAR and rock n’ r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/ladybuds-ear-plug-earrings/Lendorff Kaywa, a collaboration between London's knitware designer Office Lendorff and a mobile phone service company Kaywa, is offering a Space Invader QR-code scarf.The scarf has a secret message encoded in a 2 dimensi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/space-invader-scarf/"Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students." - Robin Williams, actor and comedian (b. 1951)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/quote-robin-williams-on-time-as-a-teacher/As part of the China Chair Project art exhibit, artist Xiang Yun created this chair and footstool shaped like a prickly cactus from a hand-molded silicone!Why, it's the perfect chair for a house guest who has overstayed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/cactus-chair/
