Last month, a school in the UK banned the word "school", because it is just too negative:When’s a school not a school? When the local ‘school’ bans it if you to ask the residents of Sheffield, UK. [.....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/dont-use-the-s-word/Who ever said that crime doesn't pay? It certainly did for this guy: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, who made the rank in Forbes' annual list of The World's Billionaires.Mexico's most wanted man, "El...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/mexican-drug-lord-joined-forbes-list-of-worlds-billionaires/Designers Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg created this interesting office for Nothing, a Dutch advertising agency: everything is made from cardboards! The Nothing team took the idea behind the company n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/the-cardboard-office/Vickie Mendenhall bought a used couch for $27 and received a surprise bonus: a cat that had been hiding in it for two weeks!Mendenhall, who bought the couch at Value Village for her new home at 3104 N. Madison St. in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/used-couch-came-with-furry-stowaway/"They arrived eager and early, cramming the sidewalk leading to the entrance. " A lot of people like to play bingo. But this one in York County, Pennsylvania is different: it's all about meat. I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/meat-bingo/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Ricky Gervais + Elmo = Hilarity! It doesn't get much better than this comedy gold Elmo intervie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/videosift-clips-of-the-week-22/Virgin's Disease You know you've got it if: You're suffering from green skin, menstrual cessation, and lethargy. Victims: In 1554, doctors de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/3-defunct-diseases-you-dont-have/Jason Song was reading a book about making homemade bacon when his wife suggested they both undertake the 'food stamp challenge.' The challenge? Seeing if the two of them could subsist on $72 worth of foo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/can-two-people-eat-on-67-a-week/These three girls are the first official ambassadors of cute for Japan. In an effort to compete with China and other world super powers, Japan has decided to exploit their status as one of (if not the) cutest countri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/13/japanese-cute-ambassadors/It's the one and only chalk board mug!Doesn’t matter what your hot beverage of choice is, the everyday mug has now turned into a mode of communication. This ingenious mug is glazed with a chalk board surface allo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/chalk-board-mug/For the Adelaide Fringe Festival, a team of artists known as the Crateman Crew created this Katamari-esque sphere of milk crates: The crate sphere was designed to be rolled down the street as the final act in the par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/the-crate-sphere/Image: FedrusArtists and designers get inspiration from a lot of things - even plants. Take cactus for instance. Here's a round-up of succulent designs inspired by cact (this one above is fit for your house guests that w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/cactus-inspired-designs/Those of you who are sick of Daft Punk can skip to the next item. Those who aren't can try mixing your own version of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" with the iDaft Console. I spent way too much time playin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/idaft/Imagine taking a seat in this toilet stall! Georgia Max Coffee chose to redesign the toilets of a number of key ski resorts in Japan. The cubicles were fully wrapped on all sides, so that the person caught short w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/ski-jump-toilet/People who see Shorty on the banks of the river Test in Redbridge, Southampton, England tend to call emergency services because they are convinced the poor pony is stuck in the mud. Four times Hampshire Fire and Rescue S...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/crossbred-pony-is-not-stuck-in-the-mud/Dark Roasted Blend takes a look at the history of the Wall of Death, a staple of amusement parks in the age before television. Roll Up, Roll Up, It's Thrills, It's Spills - It's the Amazing "Wall of Death"! Der...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/walls-of-death/(vimeo link) Photographer Keith Loutit has mastered the art of tilt-shift photography-- that is, a technique requiring a special camera lens to impart the illusion that what you're looking at are miniatures, not life-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/a-little-mardi-gras/It's been a while since our last What is it? game, but this one should make up for the absence: do you know what the strange tool to the left is used for?Place your guess in the comment section - the fir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/what-is-it-game-93/The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader If you think about it, Pac-Man is a strange game concerning a tiny, pie-shaped creature who ate power pills so that he could catch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/14-weirdest-video-games-in-history/Everyone knows cats love cardboard boxes, so here's a classy prop airplane made of cardboard by SUCK UK for your cat to play in. He or she can pretend to be fighting the Red Baron ...http://www.greenergrassdesi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/cat-plane/Decorative and fashion art is often impractical, ridiculous, or just unutterably silly. These pillows probably fit in the latter category - but you have to admire the inventiveness of the person who conceived them....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/peanut-butter-and-jelly-pillows/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btS3iuA6Xoo][YouTube - Link]Israel company FLIX has Ronen, a "portly, but eager intern" recreate six classic YouTube moments in just two minutes! - via urlesqueFrom the U...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/six-youtube-classics-in-two-minutes/The Internet has provided us with some pretty memorable moments in online video over the years - some of them amazing, some ridiculous, and some downright silly. It's about time that these moments are captured in the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/video-clips-made-into-de-motivational-posters/Someone in New York has a full tummy and a dirty scanner. This is a relatively new blog with scanned images of sandwiches from delis around New York. I can really see this taking off as a calendar!LinkFrom the Upcomi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/scanwiches/Our friend Tokyoflash is asking visitors to participate in a design process by giving feedback and opinions to help with the development of Buetooth necklaces that let you connect wirelessly to your cell phone or compute...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/tokyoflash-bluetooth-necklace-design-survey/Broker: what you become after investing in stocks &n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/12/neatiolicious-fun-facts-dow-jones-industrial-average/A collection of everyday items made outrageously expensive. Hopefully these items are strictly for marketing/PR purposes as it would be a shame to waste this kind of money on such crap.If you’ve ever wondered what...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/11/24-ridiculously-expensive-everyday-items/In 2003, Leonardo Notarbartolo and his associates broke through ten layers of security and helped themselves to a stash of diamonds in a vault below the Antwerp Diamond Center. The estimated value of the diamonds taken r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/11/the-worlds-biggest-diamond-heist/In 2007, we saw the Daft Hands: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger video clip swept through the InterWeb. Fast forward two years later and we get this little beaut: Dwarfed Punk, Daft Punk's epic song set to Snow White and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/11/daft-punk-snow-white-dwarfed-punk/(YouTube link) McCann Erickson of Madrid produced this commercial for Coke, but you can easily pretend it's not an ad. -via YesButNoButYes coke, encounter...
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