This is a great game to play with your little kids: Math Popper challenges you to add, substract and multiply by "popping" the balloon with right answer.Sure it's easy at first, but it gets harder ... and harde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/good-with-numbers-try-math-popper/This Stilet triket looks like it just came out of a post-apocalyptic Escape from New York, but it's actually a very clever paint job by Luber Custom:What looks like rusty metal body panels is really just an airbrushe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/mad-max-worthy-custom-stilet-trike/You may have seen this before (it's from way back in 2005), but it was new to me: the famous Kitty Cat Dance. Why? Why not (plus it's better than being rickrolled - kittyrolled!)Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/kitty-cat-dance/For his art exhibition, Michal Tatarkiewicz turned a room into the inside of a subway car! Link | Michal's website - via Core 77...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/the-subway-car-room-by-michal-tatarkiewicz/My friends and I are planning a long weekend this summer. Cancun? Florida? California? Nope. We're going to spend four or five days wandering around Iowa. It all started when we were talking a couple of weeks ago...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/seven-places-to-check-out-if-youre-ever-in-iowa/Are Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal, two of the world's best tennis players, so great that they can walk on water? Well, almost: they played tennis on water on a specially constructed tennis court on top of a swimming p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/playing-tennis-on-water/You know what they say about March: In like a lion, out like a lamb. March is National Umbrella Month. In honor of the occasion, the Luchtime Quiz today at mental_floss is on umbrellas. I scored 80%. http://www.mentalf...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/what-do-you-know-about-umbrellas/Genealogists Christopher Child and Gary Boyd Roberts have spent three years tracing th family trees of the US presidential candidates. The results are interesting. Barack Obama’s distant cousins include President Georg...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/candidates-and-their-relatives/41-year-old Garrett A. Dalton of Naugatuck, Connecticut entered a radio station contest to win Hannah Montana tickets last year. He had to run a 40-yard dash in high heels carrying an egg on a spoon. The bad news: he did...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/high-heel-race-leads-to-legal-trouble/It only makes sense: a rug that lights up when you walk on it. They call it Footlume. "The glow that the rug emits is very soft," said co-inventor Leona Dean, of London South Bank University, who also noted the in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/rug-glows-with-each-step/Dave Worsley and a team of engineers at Swansea University were researching ways to protect steel when they hit on the idea of painting sheets of steel with solar cell paint. The idea is to coat every piece of steel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/paint-on-solar-power/21-year-old Frank Singleton of West Palm Beach, Florida was released Tuesday from being jailed on a trespassing charge. He immediately tried to carjack a Nissan in the jail's visitors parking lot! He grabbed the keys fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/26/that-didnt-take-long/(YouTube link) We’ve featured Linerider videos before, but this has to be the ultimate. Created by TechDawg, it contains over 126,000 lines. -via YesButNoButYes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/linerider-transcendental/Annette Edwards of Worcester has been working to breed the world’s largest rabbit. She may have done it with Amy, a four-foot rabbit that weighs in the neighborhood of 49 pounds. The headline says “three stone”, th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/big-bunny/Math major turned artist Kathleen Dustin makes purses - but not just any purses, her creations are nothing short of stunning. I love the "pod" series (above), where the purses are shaped like fruits and flowers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/kathleen-dustins-art-purses/Practical Polly made this excellent Wonder Woman sweater. She even posted the tutorial on Crafster:It took me 14 months to make, using 4ply wool, 3mm needles, a plain jumper pattern from the seventies, a ton of graph...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/wonder-woman-sweater/The Accidents of Youth is a 1819 book of short stories to warn children of the dangerous temptations they should avoid and the gory consequences for not following their mother's advice. Along with the text, there are sev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/the-accidents-of-youth-a-1819-book-about-the-gory-consequences-of-not-heeding-your-moms-advice/Apparently, in the Netherlands, women are encouraged to give birth the natural way, at home, and with the help of midwives (who's trained and will get you to the hospital if there is a medical reason). And that thing to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/birthing-stool/No one had seen a California wolverine since 1922. But pictures taken by remote cameras have confirmed that there is one in the Tahoe National Forest now. U.S. Forest Service research ecologist William Zielinski says hai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/california-wolverine/Been rickrolled? (Who hasn't?) Here's what Rick Astley, the guy whose song "Never Gonna Give You Up" is immortalized as a web meme/annoyance (thanks 4channers!) think about the whole thing:Over the last yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/rick-astley-talks-about-rickrolling/Debbie Shank suffered severe brain damage after a traffic accident 8 years ago that robbed her of much of her memory. She cries every time she's told that her son was killed in Iraq, as if hearing the news for the first...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/wal-mart-wants-disabled-womans-long-term-care-money-back/Photo: John H. BradleyThat burning crater near Darvaza, Turkmenistan, is called "The Door to Hell" by the locals. Decades ago, geologists were drilling for gas when they hit an underground cavern filled with ga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/door-to-hell-the-burning-crater-of-darvaza/This grill thinks winter has lasted too long already! From I Can Has Cheezburger. Link -via Reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/angry-barbecue/A group of college students who called themselves Fangs A Lot have opened a business in Britain named Animal Solutions. They sell false teeth for cats. And dogs and other animals, as needed. Cats have notoriously b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/cat-dentures/(YouTube link) Who knew macaques were such good swimmers? -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/swimming-monkeys/Salvador Dali and photographer Phillipe Halsman teamed up to produce the art photo Dali Atomicus, the picture of airborne water and cats. It wasn’t easy; there were 28 takes before the finished product was sho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/salvador-dali-bloopers/Black magic is taken very seriously in many parts of the world. In India, for example, people believe in "tantriks" (or black magic practitioners). So, when Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist Interna...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/om-lingalingalinalinga-kilikili-atheist-pwns-black-magic-guru/Does a boomerang return when thrown in zero-gravity? Japanese astronaut Takao Doi did the experiment aboard the International Space Station:Before he flew on the U.S. shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Stat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/japans-contribution-to-space-science-boomerang-does-return-when-thrown-in-zero-gravity/Weburbanist has a neat post about 5 Places You've Probably Never Thought to Go Skiing. Amongst the far out places are Lebanon (check the weather and the political climate before you go), Bolivia (the highest sk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/dubai-and-other-places-you-probably-dont-associate-with-skiing/If you don't understand a whit about what's happening with the credit crisis and the whole subprime mortgage mess, here's a primer - in cartoon form - at Joey deVilla's Accordion Guy blog: Link Or, if you're literary an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/03/25/the-subprime-mortgage-crisis-explained-with-cartoons/
