We all know what traffic signs mean, right? Stop. Go. Yield - pretty basic stuff. But how much do you really know about traffic and road signs?Here's a little quiz by the people at USA Traffic Signs. See if you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/traffic-signs-quiz-do-you-know-what-those-traffic-signs-really-mean/The Chinese had achieved a dubious distinction in South Africa: they're officially declared as "black" by the Pretoria High Court!In a landmark ruling the Pretoria High Court accepted the Chinese as a ̶...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/south-africa-classifies-chinese-people-as-black/We haven't posted about a fun Flash game in a while, so it's my great honor to introduce to you the most awesome little Flash puzzle game EVAR: Puzzle Farter.Your task, should you accept it, is to guide lil' farter towar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/puzzle-farter/(YouTube link) I have no idea what product this ad is for, but I had to laugh at the fat cat. -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/fat-cat-exercising/Lucy Kellaway was on a mission to get rid of the corporatese phrase "going forward" that she hated so much, and wrote a post about it on the BBC Magazine. Her post garnered so much reaction that the BBC culled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/50-office-speak-you-love-to-hate/In the original "The Dukes of Hazzard," The General Lee is the name given to the 1969 Dodge Charger muscle car driven by Bo and Luke. The car inspired countless imitation, but this one is particularly bad: Beho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/the-worst-general-lee-ever/The Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan, has a fish tank so big that it's called the Kuroshio Sea. The gigantic tank is 10 m (33 ft) deep, 35 m (115 ft) wide and 27 m (89 ft) long and holds the equivalent of 3 Olympic-si...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/gigantic-aquarium-tank-holds-four-four-whale-sharks/Over at Polls Boutique, Our pal Cliff Pickover asked the world "If Jesus, Moses, Mohammad, Buddha, and Confucius were gathered in a room, who would be the first to speak? What would he say?" You can vo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/if-jesus-moses-mohammad-buddha-or-confucius-were-in-a-room-together-who-would-speak-first/Photo: Bryan DerballaAlex Klein and Bryan Derballa travelled to Israel and Gaza to surf and experience life first-hand in the area filled with hate, tension, war but also vibrant culture and life. They are documenting th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/god-went-surfing-with-the-devil/Boing Boing Gadgets blog has a neat post about Waste of Time, a functioning grandfather clock made entirely out of old bicycle parts.The contraption was made by Yedidya Vardi and Vladimir Zviagintsev, and BB Gad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/grandfather-clock-made-from-bicycle-parts/(Vimeo link) The folks at My Home and Verizon Vios gutted a Teddy Ruxpin and modded it to Twitter. You can listen to your Twitter feeds just by listening to the bear! But the best part is that this particular bear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/twittering-teddy/(Live Leak link) Would you like a floor show with your ice cream? Ayden the treatmonger has some fun with the tourists in Istanbul. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/its-all-in-the-presentation/If you can afford to ride around a golf course in your own cart, you can afford to make it look the way you want. In some places, it’s legal for these electric carts to cruise the neighborhood, and you don’t have t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/crazy-golf-cart-mods/Just because the visitor reaction to the last music video I posted here was SO POSITIVE, I'm posting another one here this morning. This one is for another English act, The Ting Tings, with their tune Shut Up and Let...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/the-ting-tings-shut-up-and-let-me-go-music-video/Thanks to the good folks at American Eagle Outfitters, we have two tickets to the New American Music Union, a two-day summer music festival this August 8 & 9 in Pittsburgh, PA, for one lucky Neatorama reader.Line-up...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/20/new-american-music-union-free-tickets-to-a-lucky-neatorama-reader/The Phoenix Mars Lander has announced the discovery of real ice on Mars! Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories NASA has just a little bit more information. Some bright material that was photographed four days ago...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/ice-found-on-mars/This is the video for the UK's Estelle singing American Boy (with Kanye West). Estelle is beautiful and the song is nothing short of awesome, is it not? What do you think? YouTube....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/american-boy/In an homage to kid_icarus' excellent haiku in the comment of our recent post about a certain Japanese DVD niche market, I'm making this shirt for him (her?). Anyhoo, kid_icarus: all you have to do to claim this shirt is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/best-neatorama-comment-reward-haiku-t-shirt/When Paul Curtis (aka Moose, previously on Neatorama here) tells people that he cleans for art, many are baffled - how can cleaning be considered art? Here's Paul explaining his latest project, the reverse graffiti of Sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/reverse-graffiti-artist-moose-does-the-broadway-tunnel-in-san-francisco/The Chongqing Wild Zoo in China is creating a musical group that is unlike any other: they're trying to teach wolves to sing... Luo Yong, a keeper at Chongqing Wild Zoo, said he discovered the wolves' singing ability...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/sings-with-wolves/A health spa in Russsia has just unveiled its tribute to a medical procedure it administers there routinely: the enema!"We administer enemas nearly every day," said Alexander Kharchenko, the head of the san...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/russian-spas-giant-tribute-to-enema/Good guys and scientists have pondered the question of "why are women attracted to bad boys" for ages. Now, Peter Jonason of New Mexico State University has figured out why bad boys seem to get their women: sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/science-answers-age-old-why-are-women-attracted-to-bad-boys-question/Almost three weeks ago, Colleen Leduc got a call from her 11-year-old autistic daughter's school. The school reported her to Children's Aid Society that the girl might have been sexually abused ... based on the words of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/school-officials-reported-mom-to-child-services-because-a-psychic-told-them-to/Science has made a significant stride in curing melanoma, a form of skin cancer, by using cloning cancer-fighting immune cells and injecting them back into the patient:Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Researc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/doctors-inject-cloned-immune-cells-cure-man-of-cancer/Photo: dietollevonlioe [Flickr]Life in the Fast Lane blog has a very neat post about 4 ancient cities of color: The Blue City of Jodhpur, the PInk City of Jaipur, the Amber City, and the Red City of Marrakech.Jodhpur, sh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/ancient-cities-of-color/The post entitled New Meaningful Life Of Famous Logos shows various logos in their natural habitats. Watch for the bonus goofy discussion after the gymnastics picture. Link -via Dump Trumpet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/logos-in-the-real-world/A “mind-boggling” crop circle has been spotted in a barley field in Wiltshire, England. The design is a code that represents the first ten digits of pi. Michael Reed, an astrophysicist, said: "The tenth digit h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/pi-crop-circle/(Live Leak link) Must’ve been really dirty, to need a hosing inside. -via Bits and Pieces...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/car-wash/Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest is the home of the Hungarian Agricultural Museum. It’s also the home of hundreds of antlers. Hundreds of antlers, horns, hooves, and fur. Stuffed birds and mounted bears. Cutlery...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/the-cathedral-of-antlers/The Mosuo culture of the Hunan and Sichuan provinces in southwestern China is a matriarchal society, with women calling the shots. In this video report from National Geographic, one woman explains why she doesn’t want...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/19/the-kingdom-of-women/
