The USA's Independence Day holiday is Friday, but most people refer to it as The Fourth of July, or just The Fourth. None of the questions on today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss have to do with the holiday, but they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/the-fourth/Kurt Vonnegut's new book Armageddon in Retrospect is about war and peace. Included is a letter he wrote to his family in 1945 explaining the late author's stint as a POW in Dresden. His experiences became the ba...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/slaughterhouse-1945/Years of copper mining left behind a toxic waste pit near Butte, Montana that is so massive the EPA's Superfund is relying on containment instead of cleanup. It was thought that nothing could live in that water -even mig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/the-pit-of-life-and-death/(YouTube link) The latest from filmmaker Lasse Gjertsen (featured many times on Neatorama) is a short animation featuring a friendly game of Rock, Paper, Scissors... and other things. Contains brief cartoon nudity.La...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/roshambo/Every year for 17 years, researchers asked hundreds of thousands of people in 52 countries the same two questions:"Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/the-world-is-actually-getting-happier/What - just what - happened when Hell Boy got interviewed by James "Booyah" Lipton of Inside the Actors Studio? Find out here: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via The Fire WireHere are some more Hellboy Inte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/hellboy-inside-the-actors-studio-interview/Inspired by Lewis Carroll's book "Through the Looking Glass," Yasmin Sethi created this Alice chess set where the pieces are opaque until they are put on the board - then they magically turn transparen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/alice-chess-set/Great Moments in History is a tumblr blog dedicated to (re)documenting important historical events ... on the Etch-A-Sketch! This one is, if you haven't guessed already, is their take on the Hindenburg disaster.Link - *e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/great-moments-in-history-as-told-by-etch-a-sketch/Scientists knew that Earth is crying since the 1970s, but they've just recently been able to listen to it.The "cry" is actually a series of chirp and whistles created by solar wind particles colliding with the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/02/earths-cries-as-heard-from-space/Imagine coming home from work to your new home and finding everything gone! Bobo and Joy Dickson bought a house had been headed for foreclosure, but JPMorgan Chase apparently didn't get the message that the former o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/family-loses-belongings-in-foreclosure-mixup/It was 71 years ago today that aviator Amelia Earhart, along with navigator Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific, never to be found. It was Earhart's second attempt at flying around the world. The disappearanc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/amelia-earhart/I received a bottle of foaming soap as a gift and had wondered if I could refill it, since it measures the proper amount for hand washing so well. A comment at Consumerist led me to an Instructable on exactly this ques...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/make-your-own-foaming-soap/Bad: Car accident on the highway ...Really Bad: It was an overturned big rig ...Neatorama-worthy: ... carrying 12 million bees! BBC has the story:Motorists on Canada...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/automotive-bee-in-your-bonnet-truck-carrying-12-million-bees-overturned/Marathon runners are hard core, and their supporters are too! Here are a few funny signs that people hold during races (the last two are the best!) at Elite Feet: Link - Thanks Matt!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/take-a-dump-in-your-pants-if-you-have-to/Next time you eat a Twinkie for a snack, think of the children in Tanzania. Here's what they eat for an afternoon snack (I won't tell ruin the surprise and tell you what it is, but if you're squeamish, this video isn't f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/afternoon-snack-in-tanzania/I'm a big fan of Ferry Halim's flash games ever since Miss Cellania posted one a while ago, so I'm pleasantly surprised when this one got recommended to Neatorama.Sunny Day Sky is a fun (and easy) Flash game where you ge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/sunny-day-sky-fun-flash-game-by-ferry-halim/Amoeba Boy (who made the awesome steampunk R2-D2) has come up with another neat thing: steampunk X-wing fighter biplane papercraft.This time, he's even provided the cutout plan if you want to make your own: Link - Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/steampunk-x-wing-biplane-fighter/We've blogged about Sustainable Dave's attempt to save all the trash he generates in a year. This month marks Dave Chameides' 6th month anniversary of his effort (he blogs everything - and I mean everything - that he thr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/sustainable-dave-is-half-way-in-saving-his-trash-for-a-year/A grandma in North Carolina was not amused when her granddaughter pointed out what the "WTF" in her license plate stands for. So, after her complaint to the DMV, she got the state government of North Carolina t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/grandma-found-out-what-wtf-on-her-license-plate-meant-didnt-lol/Here's a list of twelve curious facts about the Nobel Prizes. For example, however well-deserving, Mohandas Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize, but the prize was once withheld for a year in his honor: Amazing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/12-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-nobel-prizes/Today is Canada Day, {wiki} formerly Dominion Day. On June 20, 1868, a proclamation signed by the Governor General, Lord Monck, called upon all Her Majesty's loving subjects throughout Canada to join in the celebra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/happy-canada-day/(YouTube link) Skype is putting together a laughter chain, and you're invited to be a part of it! Watch the chain (the latest version is much longer than this video) and record yourself laughing along with those who'v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/skype-laughter-chain/I don't know if these are posted in rank order or not, but they are the most common things kids tend to stick up their noses. 1. Crayons 2. Beads 3. French fries 4. Fingers 5. Marbles 6. Spaghet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/top-ten-things-kids-stick-up-their-noses/10-year-old Cameron Delonde was retrieving a dropped toothbrush from the toilet when he found a set of diamond rings! Cameron and his father traced the rings to the former homeowner who had lost them 12 years earlier. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/diamond-rings-found-in-toilet-12-years-later/The name of the window dressing business is Nets2go, but that is not usually interpreted as "internet". One customer, however, asked for very specific designs on all the different window blinds in his home. Besides the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/web-in-the-windows/Photo: TACDIt's the three bears of alarms: the sprinkler bell, the smoke bell, and the ever-mysterious "trouble" bell! Hm .... I wonder what that one would be for!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/the-three-bears-of-alarms/Those large orange balloons are a portable biogas system called Supergas by Superflex and Unversity of Tropical Agriculture in Cambodia.Supergas is designed to produce 4 cubic meter of gas - enough for a day's worth of c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/supergas-biogas-brewed-from-dung/My old car stereo doesn't work too good anymore, but it still works for AM - and I've been listening to Michael Josephson's commentary on ethics while driving to and from work.This one is from a while ago, but it's a goo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/teaching-a-child-not-to-steal/Jorge Cham of PhD Comics (stands for Piled Higher and Deeper, a cheeky acronym for the graduate student comic strip) nailed the essence of the vicious cycle of staying up late. It's ironic because I'm staying up late to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/the-vicious-cycle-of-staying-up-late/My wife throws away perfectly good food when they reach the expiration date stamped on the package - as if they know that - ding! - it's time to go bad. Jonathan Maitland of the Daily Mail has a similar problem with his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/01/eating-expired-food/
