Remember, your boss can see what you put on your Facebook page! This t-shirt design by Hogboy was not selected for printing, but I got a laugh out of it! Link -via GizmodoStar Wars, Facebook, Tshirt, darth vader, sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/spacebook/Three decades after I bought Queen albums, my children sing the same songs. You know the music, but how much do you know about the band Queen? Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will show you! I scored 73%, altho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/the-queen-quiz/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThMd9YR1MAg][YouTube - Link]Lithuanian twelfth grader Andrius Šutas built his own robot for Rubik's cube solving and does not hesitate to share secrets of the build (i. e. s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/teenager-builds-robot-to-solve-his-rubiks-cube/A purebred Himalayan cat wandered into a hospital in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia about four months ago. With an owner nowhere to be found, a nurse adopted him. The nurse was recently transferred and could not take t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/cat-found-3800-miles-away/Adrian Bennett has been obsessed with the Mad Max movies since 1982 when he was a teenager in England. In 2001 he built his own Interceptor, the car Mel Gibson drove in the film. Three years ago, he moved his fa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/living-mad-max/According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries, fewer people died on the job in 2008 than the previous two years. Still, some jobs are much more dangerous than others. Using sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/americas-deadliest-jobs/If you look at his paintings, Bill Guffey may seem like the well-traveled artist. There are paintings of the landscape of Saint Martin la Plaine in France, houses in Anchorage, Alaska, and other far away places - but Bil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/bill-guffey-google-street-view-artist/Sofia Atrill's cat Humphrey is the real life version of the cat comic character Garfield: he eats only lasagna!Just like the character Garfield, Humphrey the cat refuses to eat anything else and consumes three portio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/lasagna-eating-cat-is-the-real-life-garfield/In the 1970s, cheap sonosheets (phonograph records printed on thin, flexible sheets of vinyl) became quite the rage in Japan. Like all fads, these recordings have largely disappeared - but you can still gawk at the fanta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/vintage-japanese-sonosheet-cover-art/In the Follydock IFCR festival in 2007, artists, designers, and architects came together in an abandoned part of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to design "follies" or strange and playful structures that defy tradi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/temple-of-trash/Space time continuum may be the stuff of Star Trek, but it's not mere fiction to Holly Branigan. The Edinburgh University psychologist can actually "see" time:"I thought everyone thought like I did, sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/the-woman-who-sees-time/Branch Bangle by Anthony Roussel, Photo: Rob PopperArtist and designer Anthony Roussel creates intricate jewelry from materials not usually associated with adornments - wood! This one above is a birch wood bangle - you c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/14/anthony-roussels-wood-jewelry/Most moviegoers don’t notice the math in popular films, but it’s there if you know what to look for. For example, one mathematician compared the spread of zombies to that of infectious diseases. The problem of z...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/things-mathematicians-see-at-the-movies/In this clip from National Geographic’s Wild Chronicles, two filmmakers study Johnny Rooks, predatory birds sometimes called Flying Devils, in the Falkland Islands. Meanwhile, the birds are having fun with the filmmake...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/flying-devils/Congressman Joe Wilson - you know, the guy who skyrocketed to fame for yelling "You lie" during a speech by President Obama - is technically correct. Kind of. According to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/men-lie-6x-a-day-twice-that-of-women/It all started out as a joke for Mario Frapolla, owner of Mario's Cafe Bar in Westhoughton, UK, but when his customers took him up on it, the Big Breakfast Challenge became a serious challenge: For £10.95, will...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/the-big-breakfast-challenge/RunPee is a handy site that let's you know when it's the best time to run to the bathroom during any given movie. Then they tell you what happens during the 4-5 minutes you were away. "This way you not only know when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/when-you-gotta-go-at-the-movies/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R12QVtuB0_Q][YouTube - Link] Michael Jackson may be dead, but his songs live on - and tribute music videos made by his fans continue to pour in. Here's a Michael Jackson a capella...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/michael-jackson-a-capella-medley/I knew my mom was dead wrong when she said leg warmers would never come back and made me throw them out. That'll be $20 for the replacements, mom. Here's an article at Fashion-Victim blog about 20+ fashion from the 80...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/things-the-80s-child-shouldnt-have-thrown-out/Your mother always urged you to sit up straight, and you should have listened to her. A study by researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain and Ohio State University finds that sitting up straight make...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/sit-up-straight/The pygmy goat is just about the coolest goat in the world. Friendly, engaging and, well, small - they jump and jump and - you get the picture. In fact they are pretty much the Itchy and Scracthy of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/not-so-gruff-the-pygmy-goat/These fantastic Super Mario fingernails almost look photoshopped, but they aren't. I have to admit though, the parts going back on the finger do look a bit uncomfortable -that's the true price of beauty awesomeness t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/13/super-mario-manicure/Corridors in science fiction movies may seem like a strange subject for an article, but that’s just because you’ve never thought about them. Martin Anderson notices them, rates them, and brings them to you for co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/12/sci-fi-corridors/The Framingham Heart Study began in 1948 and followed over 5,000 participants for decades. The volunteers made up 40% of the population of Framingham, Massachusetts. In 2003, Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/12/how-medical-data-revealed-secret-to-health-and-happiness/Jesse Bering writes in Scientific American that blushing may have evolved in the human race as a means of ameliorating conflict. By reducing the possibility of deception, it encouraged socially constructive beh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/12/why-we-blush-an-evolutionary-explanation/If you plan to visit the Knowsley Safari Park near Liverpool, England, beware of monkeys. Bad, bad monkeys:The cheeky monkeys - who are known for tearing off the odd wiper or wing mirror - have been targeting cars ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/12/monkey-mischief-bad-baboons-burgle-bloomers/Here is a list 15 ordinary advertisements that likely wouldn't be neat if it weren't for the poor placement. Personally, I ignore ads for the most part so I don't think i would be the one to notice the Folgers ad pla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/12/unfortunate-advertisement-placement/XP3 Ultra Clock, a "persistence of vision" clock - $59.95This one's a classic, but it's still pretty nifty. Here's a clock that uses an oscillating wand with LEDs and the concept of the persistence of vision to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/12/xp3-ultra-clock-using-persistence-of-vision-to-tell-the-time/Love, love, love this Illusion side table by designer John Brauer of Essey - the table is handmade from acrylic to look like a draped tablecloth! Design Year Book has more pics: Link - via FreshBumptable, illusion, John...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/12/illusion-table-by-john-brauer/Software piracy ain't anything new (before there was the Internet and all these fancy P2P piracy, there was the old school Sneakernet kind). Royal Pingdom blog has a very interesting, blast-from-the-past article about fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/12/wacky-anti-piracy-methods-of-yore/
