Oh, the sacrifices scientists will do for science! University of New Mexico psychologist Geoffrey Miller "tapped the talent" at local gentleman's club (read: strip club) to find out what factor fertility plays...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/16/maximizing-a-strippers-tip-the-secret-is-fertility/Are you bored? Got nothing to do? If you think that boredom is something to be avoided - read this. It turns out that boredom may actually be a good thing:But are we too busy twirling through the songs on our iPods...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/16/the-benefits-of-boredom/[Video Link]Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee told reporters that when he was in college, he and his friends used to cook squirrels in a popcorn popper -- because that was the only appliance they were allowed to use...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/16/mike-huckabees-squirrel-recipe/Peter Kelly reponded to the post about rattlesnake vodka with this photograph he took in Vietnam. The caption reads These are artistically arranges snakes in bottles of liquor. People drink this. Really. Lin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/16/snake-juice/The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission seized an unusual cache of vodka at a rattlesnake farm in Palo Pinto County. The 411 bottles each contained not only vodka, but also a ten-inch rattlesnake! Sgt. Charlie Cloud said...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/16/rattlesnake-vodka-seized/Member of Parliament Tommy Tabermann has proposed that the four weeks of annual vacation in Finland be expanded to include a 7-day “love vacation” to strengthen relationships. According to Tabermann, the purpose...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/16/finnish-love-vacation/Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb wrote an article titled 10 Sites For Finding Wonderful Things, and guess who made it to the list?Yup - it's this lil' blog! Here's what he said about Neatorama: Neatorama is a lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/10-blogs-to-find-wonderful-things/Photo: hatayanaorg favorite blog on all things LEGO (here's one reason why), has a really neat post about the piece of Peace exhibit in Japan. It features UNESCO World Heritage sites built out of LEGO bricks by Kazuyoshi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/sagrada-familia-cathedral-and-other-unesco-world-heritage-sites-in-lego/Photo: Ben Ray at Environmental Graffiti (more there, and on Flickr)Downtown Atlanta was hit with a giant EF-2 tornado with winds up to 130 mph on Friday. And if that's not enough, today the city is hit with a massive su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/tornado-hit-atlanta-hope-everyones-ok/Reuters has an article up about a recent survey of HR managers about the greatest interviewing mistakes that they've ever seen: - When an applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/top-10-job-interview-blunders/I laughed out loud at this one. Two employees prank their extra large boss and catch it on video. Before anybody gets too feisty, let it be known that I'm on Team Fat Man as well. Us big guys can dish it out as well...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/pranking-the-boss/Lacey Henderson’s right leg was amputated when she was nine years old due to a tumor in her kneecap. But at her mother’s suggestion, she tried out to become a cheerleader in high school. Not only did she make the tea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/one-legged-cheerleader-stands-tall/Be still, my heart! Swedish designer Måns Salomonsen created this awesome bookshelf shaped like a heartbeat in an electrocardiogram. http://www.steneby.se/showPage.asp?PID=1175675264&Temp=0 - via Freshome (See also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/heartbeat-bookshelf/"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split." - Raymond Chandler, author...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/quote-raymond-chandler-on-split-infinitive/This two-faced baby, born in a small rural village in Northern India just a couple of days ago, has already attracted a lot of worshippers:Word spread quickly among villagers about the newborn baby girl.The baby is seen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/two-faced-baby-in-india/Two pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached themselves on Mahia beach in New Zealand and conservationists had trouble trying to get them back out to sea. That is, until Moko the bottlenosed dolphin, who is well known l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/dolphin-helped-beached-whale-by-giving-them-a-good-talking-to/Need a job? Jacob Share of JobMob posted a compilation of 36 beautiful resumes that stand out from the boring ol' black-and-white ones job seekers everywhere make by the millions.This one to the left is the resume of gra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/do-beautiful-resumes-help-you-get-the-job/Meet the Radical Rodents, the "coolest and hippest mice in the world" and keen surfers from Down Under! Their owner, Shane Willmott of Queensland, takes the mice surfing when the sea is calm and said that they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/radical-rodents-surfing-mice-from-down-under/Helen and Jerry Stathatos got a beautiful garden and they know that they've got the bees to thank for it. So, for 20 years, they've tolerated a colony of bees that live in the walls of their house!The situation at th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/the-walls-are-buzzing-because-theyre-full-of-bees/If you like to go on vacations, move to Italy. The average number of vacation days every year there is 42 days.In the United States, on the other hand, employees only get an average of 13 days of vacation each year....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/trivia-italy-is-for-vacation-lovers/The pic of Marvel Comics superhero The Thing of Fantastic Four is definitely one of the best examples of trompe l'oeil I've seen. It was drawn by Justen Ladda in 1981 at PS 37 in the Bronx, New York. Link (click on the "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/15/the-thing-optical-illusion/Get Irish Now from Irish Spring lets you put yourself into an Irish scene and send it out for a holiday greeting. Customize your look and add a message. See the one I made here. Then make your own! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/14/make-a-st-pats-greeting/[http://youtu.be/BDMBtQjS1bQ] (YouTube link) In honor of Pi Day (every year on 3/14), here is Hard N Phirm with their song Pi. The lyrics are here. If you just want to hear the recitation of pi digits again, Y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/14/happy-pi-day/Cyanobacteria {wiki} could one day be grown in moon soil, which is inhospitable to other plants because its nutrients are locked up in minerals that are tough to break down. Igor Brown of NASA's Johnson Space Center says...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/14/hardy-earth-bacteria-can-grow-in-lunar-soil/Why use a dustmop when you can just clean the floor by walking on it? Microfiber fingers on the soles of these slippers grab dust, dirt, and hair as you walk around. The sole is detachable for cleaning. The drawback is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/14/slipper-genie/A beekeeper in Macedonia was upset that a local bear was constantly raiding his hives, despite various schemes to frighten it away. Zoran Kiseloski pressed criminal charges against the bear, who was convicted in absentia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/14/bear-convicted-of-honey-theft/In 2007, Oklahoma made watermelon its official state vegetable.Yes, you read that right: on April 17, 2007, the Oklahoma State Senate passed a bill declaring that not only is watermelon a vegetable (related to cucumbers,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/14/trivia-oklahoma-declared-watermelon-as-its-official-state-vegetable/Given how many horrendous karaoke performances we've been subjected to, we weren't at all surprised to learn that the guy who invented the karaoke machine can't sing, can't read music, and plays the keyboards about...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/14/the-man-who-invented-karaoke-and-why-he-didnt-get-rich-from-it/Deputies in Ness City, Kansas, responded to a call from a man that said that there was something wrong with his girlfriend. This is what they found in the guy's bathroom:Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on...
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