According to a City of Urbana (IL) website, in 1933When Illinois [closed] its banks in the depths of the Great Depression, the Urbana Association of Commerce [issued] "Urbana money," which [was] used...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/urbana-money/[YouTube Link] A slideshow lining up the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates with their respective Muppet identities, set to the tune of the Muppet theme music. 1 minutes, 5 seconds long. Via Iron...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/the-muppet-presidential-candidates/This has got to be one of the funniest advertisement trailer I've seen in a while. Notice of the baby's facial expressions. Hilarious! Link: Wilkinson.com Ad, Trailer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/wilkinson-sword-trailer/(YouTube link) A personal Valentine from Phil Hansen (featured previously at Neatorama). He posted the lyrics and the elaborate process of writing the song and making the video at Goodbye Art. http://philinthecircle.c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/the-abcs-of-love/Korean fast food chain BBQ Chicken has introduced the Col-Pop, a cup that holds both food and drink. The lower part of the cup holds soda, with an attached straw. The upper part holds chicken nuggets (and other foods i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/all-in-one-chicken-nugget-and-soda-cup/The Royal Thai Police have released this sketch of a suspected bank robber. With a sketch like that, it shouldn't take too long before he or she gets caught. According to a report on the newsclip.be Japanese langu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/have-you-seen-this-person/Here is a huge list of some of the world's largest and strangest tanks ever built. You'll need to scroll down a bit to see them all. Link: Ramugita (deleted - shame on this blog for copying) Original Links: Par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/worlds-strangest-tanks/Just Piece Of Paper . Crazy Paper Toy. - video powered by Metacafe This is really neat. I tried it myself (takes a while the first time) and the more you use it the better it gets due to the paper being folded o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/neat-paper-toy/A bizarre story told in pictures. Link -via The Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/today-is-the-day/This six-gill shark (Hexanchus) was filmed during a submersible dive off the northeast coast of Molokai at a depth of 1000m (3280ft). The 2 red laser dots are 6 inches apart, resulting in a length of about 18 ft for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/deep-sea-shark/Behold the coolest LEGO creation you'll see today: the insanely cool head of Predator space hunter by Brickshelf user MisterZumbi. The details are amazing: check out the dribble of green blood ...http://www.brickshelf.co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/predator-lego/Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. President sworn in without a Bible.Ansley Wilcox, who owned the Wilcox Mansion where Roosevelt was inaugurated, wrote: "According to my best recollection no Bible was used, but P...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/trivia-teddy-roosevelt-not-sworn-in-on-a-bible/To ConceptArt Forum user chewie, the cracks in the pavement and discolorations in the concrete are but background to this fantastic series of urban artwork Skelewags [under construction, but it's promising] Now,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/skelewags-clever-urban-art/Christian Gehrke of I Spy ... blog is an American living in rural Ireland. As such, he has a unique perspective on how things are in the land of Éire that Irish people may not see:1. Farmers rule the road and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/the-downside-of-living-in-ireland/Original photo: The Sweet Escape Photos by Jill GreenbergThe Photoshop Roadmap has a, excellent list of 70 Horror, Blood and Gore Photoshop Effects and Brushes. Included is this tutorial on how to Vampirize Gwen Stefani...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/how-to-vampirize-gwen-stefani-and-other-horror-photoshop-tricks/You don't need any excuse to eat cake, just get one that says "Happy Day!" Found at The Sledgehammer - Version 2.0...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/happy-day-cake/"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (1842 - 1910)via Tombo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/06/quote-william-james-on-common-sense-and-sense-of-humor/Here’s something you probably didn’t know about the White Cliffs of Dover. Inside the cliff above the town of Dover lies a shaft carved through the rock, with three concentric spiral staircases. These were built be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/the-grand-shaft/Conventional wisdom says that communities will save on health care by getting people to lose weight and quit smoking. But a recent Dutch study finds that, compared to obese people and smokers, healthy people place a ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/fat-people-cheaper-to-treat/This Walkalong glider is controlled by the air your body moves, but at first it looks just like magic! It was invented by Tyler MacCready, who was 10 years old at the time. Link [LiveLeak] - via Sanity Factory...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/the-walk-along-glider/Thanks to some gassy eight-grade boys who couldn't keep it to themselves (and instead made it a sport), Camden-Rockport Middle School in Tennessee Maine has now banned farting:According to this week's Fire Cracker sc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/middle-school-banned-farting/When it comes to sunscreen, it seems that it's your health or the coral reefs'. A new study finds that sunscreen ingredients are killing coral reefs:Four commonly found sunscreen ingredients can awaken dormant viruse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/sunscreens-are-killing-coral-reefs/The Panamanian golden frogs live near a noisy mountain stream, so croaking does it no good. So it has evolved a clever way to communicate to rivals and mates: it waves to them! Hilary Jeffkins, senior producer of Li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/panamanian-golden-frogs-last-wave/Liao Wei-Chueh and colleagues at Lite-On Technology designed the Moldable Mouse, made of modeling clay covered with a nylon and polyurethane blend fabric. Like the name implies, the mouse will retain its shape w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/moldable-mouse/*SQUEAL* This felted bacon scarf by etsy seller chrischunski is so awesome I was yipping with delight! This is a fun felted bacon scarf. The loose red, pink, and white merino wool has been welt felted with warm, soap...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/bacon-scarf-looks-so-real-its-scary/Photo: mleak [Flickr]Photo: mleak [Flickr]Carnegie Mellon University art student and Flickr user mleak is working on a project called From Whence It Came which involves etching processed lunch meat with a laser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/laser-etched-meat/German digital artist Till Nowak (featured previously on Neatorama) created this funny image of a newly-shaven bumblebee and his friends. This image is telling about the bumblebee Bernard who wanted to impress hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/the-shaved-bumblebee/I don’t know about you, but that sign would make me keep my distance! -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/trespassers/Chung Dha Lam, a student at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam in the Netherlands got the idea of his animated business card after receiving a special book called magic moving images. By using a printed overlay animation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/animated-business-card/No doubt lots of hot dogs, hamburgers and brats were consumed in honor of the Super Bowl on Sunday (we stuck to chicken wings at my house). I was doing some research for another article when I came across something call...
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