Do you ever wish to go back to high school and have a "do over"? Well that's exactly what Wendy Brown did:A 33-year-old woman was charged with stealing her daughter's identity to attend high school and join...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/never-been-a-cheerleader-mom-stole-daughters-id-and-went-back-to-high-school/Illustration: Mary Parrish / Smithsonian InstitutionMark D. Uhen, a paleontologist from Alabama Museum of Natural History found that prehistoric whales didn't have flukes - they had legs and tails!After analyzing the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/13/prehistoric-whales-had-legs-and-tails-wiggled-hips/(source link) Living Room Candidate is a site that documents political ads for every presidential election dating back to 1952. This ad is from 1956. Link -Thanks, Brian!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/presidential-election-tv-ads/[YouTube - Link] Here's a really neat commercial that I guess is about enticing more folks to use the Metro in Madrid more often. If I could stare up into the World above me like this I would certainly love to use...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/transparent-underground/Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is chiefly known as the groundbreaking photographer who invented the zoopraxiscope, the earliest form of motion picture. Less well known but no less interesting is the fact th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/eadweard-muybridge-and-the-insanity-defense/Need a hubby of quality? Through Mail Order Husbands, you can snag a top-tier bachelor like this one. Link via The Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/mail-order-husbands/If I don't turn away now, I could be doing this all day! This game asks you so assemble parts of words. You can select the difficulty level. Your score will be measured in words completed, number of errors, and time sp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/word-fragments-game/Jacket Lunch Box is a blog by a Japanese artist who recreates album covers with food in a bento box! Link to slideshow. Link to blog (in Japanese). -Thanks, Andrew! ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/album-covers-made-of-food/With hurricane season in full force, Jalopnik has some tips that might come in handy for those living near the coasts. Evacuating from a hurricane involves more than just getting into your car and driving away from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/how-to-escape-a-hurricane-by-car/A group of submitters at 4chan set the lyrics to Enter Sandman by Metallica to pictures of appropriate LOLcats! Cute Overload has the collection. Link -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/metallica-rendered-in-lolcats/Maybe you've seen the classic map that shows how single women are concentrated on the East coast of the US, and single men outnumber women on the West Coast. Here's a version you can adjust for age! Of course, if you a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/where-the-single-people-are/Bernie Marks is practicing singing the Torah for his Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish ceremony that marks the symbolic passage to manhood. But at 78, Marks is a bit past the traditional age. When he was 13, he was living in a Pol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/78-year-old-to-celebrate-bar-mitzvah/(YouTube link) He makes it look simple. I'm sure it's not. -via the Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/how-to-make-a-glass-cat/Photo: Maximilien Brice, CERN 1. Why is it called the Large Hadron Collider? The first one is easy: Large because it is really big. The LHC is a large circular tunnel...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/12/10-things-about-the-large-hadron-collider-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/Photo: Jorge Barrios [wikipedia]Neatorama reader Jon Jason sent in this post from Scienceray titled Top 5 Animals with the Most Stunning Eyes - I was most fascinated with the cat with two different eye colors. It turns o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/odd-eyed-cat/Truth in Hydration is a bottled water companyTruth in Hydration is the blog of Tap'dNY, a bottled water company that sells ... New York tap water in bottles! To market their product, the company's "street team"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/bottled-ny-tap-water/What do you do with that tear-off flap from your NetFlix mailings? Rather than throwing them away, how about making ... a Netflix origami instead?Link - Thanks FlapperT!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/netflix-origami/Does anyone know the story behind this photo?Yay! It's time for Neatorama and Hobotopia's Caption Monkey game. Funniest caption will win an original Laugh-Out-Loud Cats cartoon by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.Contest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/caption-monkey-42-baby-bath-time/This font is WindlassThe annual Talk Like A Pirate Day is coming up on September 19th - so to get your blog ready, here's a nifty collection of Pirate symbols and fonts: Link - via Matt CuttsTalk Like a Pirate Day...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/pirate-fonts/Did superstitions develop to help mankind survive? Evolutionary biologist Kevin Foster of Harvard University and Hanna Kokko of the University of Helsinki thought so: Darwin never warned against crossing black cats,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/superstitions-helped-mankind-survive/Overuse of antibiotics had given rise to scary antibiotic-resistant microbes, and now, the same thing is happening to head lice:As school begins, health officials and parents across the country are bracing for this y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/super-lice-pesticide-resistant-bugs-took-just-3-5-years-to-become-immune/To bring a smile to passer-bys, the Glenn Group installed these guerilla street signs all over downtown Reno:The Glenn Group wrote sign copy, created layouts for the printer, and hung the signs. The design team’...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/guerilla-road-signs/Gilly Delaney thought that her beloved cat was killed by a car nine years ago - so it was a pleasant surprise when one day, the cat turned up alive!An overjoyed cat owner has been reunited with her missing moggy - ni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/missing-cat-came-back-nine-years-later/Australia's Vert Design Shop made this CNC cut flat pack hammer cleverly called MC Mallet - At $40, it's way cheaper to go to a local hardware store. But then again, a real hammer is no where near as cool a conversationa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/mc-mallet-stop-mallet-time/With all the hullabaloo over how the Large Hadron Collider will spawn a black hole that will swallow Earth, do you think that scientists will leave it up to chance? Noooo, of course not. They have a secret emergency abor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/11/large-hadron-colliders-secret-emergency-stop-button/The folks at CERN have successfully tested the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). They are now ready to move forward on the tests for which the LHC was built. The LHC has had a great deal of press of late - some positive,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/fantastic-video-explains-how-the-large-hadron-collider-lhc-works/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) The Best of the Best Cat ClipsYay! No need to hunt for the funniest cat video clips anymore. Here are the best of the be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/videosift-clips-of-the-week-5/Ok this isn't GiGi The Angry Cat who got respect out of an electric toothbrush. This cat on the other hand, (whose name is unknown at this time) packs a good punch and tries to gain respect out of a printer. Watch an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/cat-versus-printer/So, the scientists at CERN flipped on the Large Hadron Collider and life as we know it didn't end (yet). So to celebrate our continued existence, here's the "I Survived the Large Hadron Collider" T-Shirt on Nea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/09/10/i-survived-the-large-hadron-collider-t-shirt/The folks at Trossen Robotics sent us this: Disney's latest pixar animation movie star WALL-E made from LEGO! Forum user bazmarc, who created it, wrote:He is entirely made of Lego parts and Lego NXT Mindstorms Roboti...
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