Did you know that the current US flag was designed by a high school student for a class project? (He got a B, though his teacher changed it to an A after Congress accepted it as the national flag!)....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/the-evolution-of-national-flags/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again During World War II, Japan had a secret weapon designed to spark a massive forest fire in the United States. Thanksfully, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/attack-of-the-killer-balloons/Behold the carpet sofas, creations of Dutch artist Tonio de Roover. The sofas, called "East Meets West," look like you're sitting on magic flying carpets! LinkSee more neat looking sofas at Freshome's 35 of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/the-flying-carpet-sofa/How well do you know your animal traps? Our pal Rob H. of What is it? Blog has a neat featurette: a quiz of 28 of the strangest and most gruesome-looking animal traps.This one above is the man trap:A man trap, it was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/09/the-real-man-trap/Remember the "Guess the Movie Logo" game from Empire Online we featured a while ago on Neatorama? Well, here's something similar from Axonoïd: Can you guess the website from one letter of its logo?Link - *...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/guess-the-website-logo/Web Urbanist blog did a really neat (and thorough!) job exploring the artwork of the world's most infamous - and mysterous - graffiti artist, Banksy:And although the pseudonym and the signature style of the artist ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/the-ultimate-guide-to-banksy/Suzanne Broughton of Emphasis Mine blog was going through her sixth grade yearbook when she came across this inscription from James Cox:From the looks of it, he originally thought he was writing in Wendy's yearbook.*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/youre-a-babe-wait-no-youre-not/Photo: Boucherie Moderne / Bizarre MagIs this the next step in tattoo technology? Here's a 3D tattoo by Jean-François Palumbo of Boucherie Moderne:The diamond uses the same crimson and blue, but to different e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/3d-tattoo/Cops in Berlin are looking for a speeder, who was caught on videotape blazing down a steep stretch of a highway at 62 MPH (~100 km per hour), way above the speed limit ... on a skateboard!A video of the skateboarder, bro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/62-mph-on-a-skateboard/In the 1800's and early 1900's, the practice of "calling" upon or visiting relatives and friends was a refined affair: people used calling cards as as a mean of introducing themselves, as notes of thanks, or ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/gentlemens-guide-to-calling-cards/Here's a fun and geeky way to protect your portable computer: a "My Document" laptop sleeve! The "My Documents" folder on your laptop's file system is the location where most of your files live. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/my-document-laptop-sleeve/Photo: Doron [wikipedia]What if M.C. Escher designed a real life building? It'd probably be something like the Chand Baori stepwell near Jaipur, India. The amazing 13-stories well was built in the 9th century and has 3,5...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/the-well-of-chand-baori-if-mc-escher-was-an-architect-this-would-be-his-building/It's actually an ad for the Belgian State Bond (huh? Really - with a gallery and video clip no less!). The costume is made by Gareth of Alien Costume - via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/the-real-secret-behind-crop-circles/Can't sleep? Here's an article from Health.com that explains everything you'd want to know about the 11 types of insomnia (Yes, there are 11! If one didn't get you, the others will.)One of the weirdest is paradoxical ins...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/heres-why-you-cant-sleep-there-are-11-types-of-insomnia-eleven/Beakman's World was a kids' science show in the nineties. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests how well you remember the show. I am shocked that I scored 82%, since I never saw the show! Sometimes comm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/beakmans-world/(YouTube link) Fortune cookies are a strange, unfamiliar food in China. They were developed in Japan and popularized in the US. Nana Shi began selling them online in China and found that she needed to include instruct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/fortune-cookies-in-china/I'm not familiar with a vegetable called a marrow (it seems to be some kind of squash), but this one is apparently the biggest ever at 113 pounds! There were lots of huge vegetables at a giant vegetable show in England....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/world-record-marrow/Any of these prison escape stories would make an exciting movie (and some of them already have). Not all of the escapees were hardened criminals; some were prisoners of war, and Alfréd Wetzler (pictured) along with his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/top-10-amazing-prison-escapes/Gigi kills the toothbrush @ Yahoo! Video Well maybe not that angry but she sure is playful when it comes to electric toothbrushes. Cute! Link: Video.YahooCattoothbrush funny...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/08/gigi-the-angry-cat/(YouTube link) Why did I spent so much time trying to make a raisin milkshake when I could've been doing something fun like this? It turns out that you can make raisins dance in any kind of carbonated beverage. Link t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/raisin-in-champagne/(Flickr link) If you've ever wondered what your dog does while you are at work, this may enlighten you. Flickr user Bill Binns made a video of what his dog did from 8AM to 5PM. Relax, the time-lapse video is only...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/boues-big-day/Artist Tisha DeShields and her company Original Belly Works make decorative fiberglass shells from the protruding bellies of pregnant women. There's something especially beautiful about a very pregnant woman. But as my...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/art-from-pregnant-womens-bellies/[pic courtesy of Sausagefest] The Fresno Bee reports:A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed spices over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/home-invasion-victim-assaulted-with-sausage-dog-eats-evidence/What do you get when you mash up Star Wars with Pink Floyd? Here's a neat wallpaper, titled "I'll Never Join the Dark Side of the Moon" by James Lillis.Link: Wallpaper size (1600x1200, png format, 74KB...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/ill-never-join-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/Thes bears aren't early for St. Patrick's Day - it got its fur stained by algae: Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/green-bears/Think that you can only get great gas mileage if you buy a hybrid car? Here's Jay Leno talking about the 1959 Fiat Millecento, who got a whopping 40 MPG - the same as a Prius!This car was bought by a gentleman in Pen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/1959-fiat-millecento-a-classic-car-that-gets-40-mpg/Photo: Rosemary Travale [Flickr]Neatorama reader Rosemary Travale spotted this creative graffiti (technically graffito, I think) near the corner of Iriquois Shore on Trafalgar road in Oakville, Ontario, Canada:Some v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/batman-shadow-graffiti/Seventeen-year-old Orangeville, Ontario, Canada high school senior Sean Waring is fearful for his safety. So much so that he has taken different routes home every day so his followers won't know where he lives.Why? He sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/teenage-boy-taunted-for-wearing-eye-make-up/Photo: matteo86photonature [Flickr]Birds do it, bees do it, and the blue-tailed damselflies do it with the nimbleness of acrobats! Scienceray blog has an interesting gallery of mating insects:The incredibly elegant c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/bug-love-fantastic-photos-of-mating-insects/Marco Altini makes Cubeecraft (or also lovingly called "cubees") papercraft based on TV series characters. He has characters from 24, Alias, Dexter, Heroes, and many more TV series for you to download, print, c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/07/tv-character-cubees/
