A quick update about the Mystery Sale: Thank you to everyone who has participated! Your purchase helped a great deal to support the blog.As many of you know, right after we announced the Mystery Sale yesterday, our serve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/mystery-sale-update-hurry-get-yours-today-before-its-gone/W00t! I'm happy to tell you that we've just started a new partnership with BuzzFeed, one of the neatest websites on the Web about, well, things going 'round the Web.I'm sure plenty of you have gone over to visit Buzzfeed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/buzzfeed-on-neatorama/I'm a big foe of multitasking: I find that I can't concentrate and actually get less things done when I try to do multiple things at once (i.e. parallel processing) rather than just doing 'em in series. Perhaps...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/using-laser-to-improve-concentration/Scientists are one step closer to finding the cause for autism. In a new study, Joseph Piven of University of North Carolina and colleagues found that children with autism have enlarged area of the brain called the amygd...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/enlarged-amygdala-the-cause-of-autism/We all know about Mount Rushmore and the Great Sphinx of Giza, both carved in situ without the intention of ever being moved. Such sculptures are often referred to as living rock. Others, li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/living-rock-massive-monuments-sculpted-in-situ/Remember the days before Nick Jr, Cartoon Network, video games, and iPods? What did kids do for fun? They listened to records! Here's a bunch of interesting photos of kids music record covers. ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/kids-albums-from-the-seventies/LiveJournal blogger Archmage got his wife to crochet him a Cthulhu ski mask for a recent sci-fi-themed costume party. From the always spiffy Boing Boing:My buddy Frank's wife Dianna whipped up a Cthulhu ski mask f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/cthulhu-ski-mask/Leptotyphlops carlae was discovered by biologist Blair Hedges in a jungle on Barbados last year. It's only four inches long as an adult and as thin as a strand of spaghetti. Linksnakes, barbados...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/smallest-snake-in-the-world-discovered/A cafe in Knoxville, Tennessee is offering a new caffeinated delight. It's coffee made from beans that have been, shall we say, processed through the digestive tract of a small Southeast Asian mammal prior to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/for-gourmands-digested-coffee-beans/Google Maps: LinkYou'd walk your pet dog, so why not a pet boa constrictor? That's exactly what Leon Kidd, 25, did when he got his pic snapped by Google Street View. Thank goodness, Telegraph was there:Leon Kidd, 25,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/google-street-view-of-a-man-walking-his-boa-constrictor/Tired of getting burglarized regularly, a bakery in Split, Croatia, decided to solicit the protection of a certain Hollywood action star. At least in spirit:The posh bakery shop in Split, Croatia, had often been brok...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/chuck-norris-protects-croatian-bakery-from-burglars/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is another edition of Spellbound, where you are challenged to spell names that aren't quite standard. This round is harder than it seems. You'll be given a picture of a popular TV...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/spellbound-3/Amos Avery had a very good reason for making a booger ball. When my daughter Ellen was four I started teasing her that I was saving all of my boogers in a big booger ball. I don’t know why I told her that except t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/booger-ball/It was 72 years ago today that the Hindenburg caught fire, resulting in the deaths of 36 people (35 onboard and one on the ground). So why did it catch fire in the first place? Nearly three-quarters of a century later,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/the-hindenburg-what-happened/Due to fear of swine flu, Afghanistan has quarantined its pig. Yes, the nation's only pig, normally on display along with other exotic wildlife at the Kabul Zoo. The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/lonely-pig-in-quarantine/(College Humor link) College Humor brings us the long-awaited sequel to the Font Conference. It's Helvetica vs. Arial with help from their peeps in a fight to the death! -via Geeks Are Sexyfont, typeface, type...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/font-fight/You can't really appreciate the design of this scarf until you see how it looks when it's rolled up. The picture is at the link, where there are also pattern directions so you can make your own. From Craftster....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/toilet-paper-scarf/Photo: Dave BullockDave Bullock, one of our favorite photographers here on Neatorama, has just sent us his latest photos from his visit to the innards of the National Ignition Facility. Wired has the story:It may loo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/inside-the-national-ignition-facility/Native Names, the Interactive Map. Graphic: Oliver Uberti, National GeographicA lot of places in the United States have their names derived from Native American words (I'm looking at you, Punxsutawney!). But do you know...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/you-name-the-town-what/Pink salt from the Himalayas has been used for seasoning by chefs at fancy restaurants ... and now, you can cook food directly on the slabs of the stuff!The thick 8-by-11-inch piece of solid salt can be placed direct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/cooking-food-on-slabs-of-salt/Tired of getting those "Your car warranty is about to expire" robo-call? I get those several times a week, even though I'm on the do not call list.Well, thanks to some clever people over at reddit (oh, how I lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/your-car-warranty-is-about-to-expire-spammer-identified/A newfound frog species in the Boophis genus, photo: Miguel VencesAfter finding more than a hundred new frog species in Madagascar over the past 15 years, scientists thought that they'd found everything - but a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/200-new-frog-species-found-madagascar-shut-down-everything/Psst, moms! Want to know the secret of having your husbands pick up some of the workload at home? Here's the secret:New research into the idea of "maternal gatekeeping" shows how attitudes and actions by th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/how-to-get-fathers-to-share-the-workload-in-parenting-let-him/Sin Chew Daily (coincidence? I. Don't. Think. So) and China Press reported a bizarre car accident that led to a man being Bobbitized in Singapore:The daily reported that the incident occurred in a Singapore park wher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/man-bobbitized-in-car-accident/The real estate market may be bad everywhere, but it is particularly bad in Victorville, California, where the real estate crash has turned quite literal. There, failed developments are being torn down because the cost o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/housing-crunch-turns-literal-in-victorville-cheaper-to-demolish-than-to-complete-building/It's often difficult to help children cope with crises and disasters, so FEMA came up with this idea (brilliant or silly? Your call): a children's coloring book of disasters. Now, the coloring book has been yanked from F...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/06/femas-coloring-book-of-disasters/Imagine that your mail comes delivered by a mule, or maybe by a missile! These are just a couple of methods the US Postal Service has used, tested, or considered in it's 234-year history. http://www.popularmechanics.co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/10-ways-to-deliver-mail/Connie Culp of Ohio lost the middle part of her face in the fall of 2004, when her husband shot her and then himself. He survived with minor injuries and was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Connie was left with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/americas-first-face-transplant-patient-hopes-her-story-teaches-people-not-to-judge/I guess this is one way to get rid of sunglasses lines from being out in the sun too long. But the future mom in me is saying, "You're going to get those caught on something and rip them right out of your face." The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/eyeglasses-piercing/How cute are these? If you're attending a graduation party (or throwing one), the lovely Bakerella shows you step-by-step how to make these mouthwatering mortarboards. Reese's cups and Godiva squares? Yes, please!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/05/a-tasty-treat-for-graduates/
