Getting drugs sure got a whole lot easier for Belleville, Washington Illinois residents. The police there place signs to let everybody know exactly where to buy them!The police have only two signs, and when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/drug-house-advertising-by-the-cops/(Slate V Link) Super Bowl Sunday is nearing fast. Who's it gonna be, Colts or Saints? Either way, you have to love what Slate V cooked up here; a great imagining of what the game might look like if it were direc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/if-filmmakers-directed-the-super-bowl/Ernest Hemingway once famously said that he could write an entire story in just six words - "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." (Before the age of Twitter, no less)Inspired by that, SMITH Magazine invited write...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/six-words-memoirs/Can your kid get into trouble for playing with a two-inch LEGO gun at school? Here's a story that illustrates why we should have zero tolerance for inane "zero tolerance policies":Patrick Timoney, a 9-year-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/stupid-rules-kid-threatened-with-suspension-over-two-inch-lego-gun/Continuing the trend of posting about stupid rules, how about socks? Can you get into trouble for wearing novelty socks? Apparently so if you're a paramedic for the North West Ambulance in the United Kingdom: Uniform...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/stupid-rules-novelty-socks-are-banned/(YouTube Link) Pranksters Dan Podosek and Yuki Palermo like to pretend to hold a rope across walkways and roadways to see who will stop rather than break the invisible (and non-existent) rope. Here's their Christma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/the-invisible-rope-prank/Director Alfred Hitchcock was a busy man. He had a lot of projects going at once, and many had to be abandoned along the way due to inadequate budgets, scheduling conflicts, and other reasons. Mental_floss takes a look a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/13-hitchcock-films-that-were-never-made/[caption id="attachment_29279" align="aligncenter" width="411" caption="Photo: GM/NASA"][/caption] This week's developments in technological advances, like General Motors and NASA's Robonaut2 (cleverly and deviously n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/singularity-watch-inching-closer/If you think that dinosaurs looked like giant lizards, you'd be forgiven as that has been the depiction in stories, movies, and even in school textbooks. Scientists, however, have recently reached a different conclusion:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/dinosaurs-looked-like-giant-chickens/Marie Byrd Land and Bir Tawil Triangle are the only two land areas on Earth not claimed by any country.Marie Byrd Land is a portion of Antarctica so remote that no country in the world bothered to claim it. It's the sing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/earths-last-frontier-the-last-unclaimed-land-on-earth/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1R5vDG2Tg] YouTube link. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel is a classic children's story first published in 1939. In this video the illustrations come from the clas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/mike-mulligan-and-his-steam-shovel-as-interpreted-by-werner-herzog/Scientists say that it's just pareidolia - a fancy word meaning that humans tend to see images or faces in random things, but surely they're wrong. Sure, you can shrug off religious sightings as overly active imagination...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/seeing-science-in-physics-experiments/Justin Van Genderen designed a series of five posters of places in the Star Wars universe. They remind me of vintage travel agency posters. See posters featuring Tatooine, Hoth, the Degobah System, and Bespin as well...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/minimalist-star-wars-planet-posters/A weekend trip to Granada, Spain gives us all a look at the Nazrid Palaces of the Alhambra, built in the 14th century by the conquering Moors of North Africa. Considering the history, it's astonishing that these buildi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/the-nazrid-palaces-of-the-alhambra/(YouTube link) The secret is out! The internet's favorite Japanese Scottish Fold, Maru, carries a security blanket. I've had several cats that did the same. -via ArbroathCat, Maru, blanket...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/marus-security-blanket/This list of hilarious answers to game show questions proves that American contestants aren't the only ones who fall apart under pressure. Here is a sample: BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2) J...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/the-worst-uk-game-show-answers-ever/I love it when people turn the ordinary into something special, it's a nice change of pace. For example, check out these 31 cool benches, found all over the world. Link From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by ninig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/31-awesome-benches/[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf4L1KnwG-o][YouTube - Link]Bunchland Magazine, a digital magazine that features awesome and creative families from all over the world, received this submission for our food sect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/how-to-make-frozen-frankenpops/[caption id="attachment_29268" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Photo: Joe Stevens"][/caption] "Vans and the places where they were" is a project by filmmaker/photographer Joe Stevens that artfully presents......
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/vans-and-the-places-they-were/In China, death doesn't necessarily stop one from getting married. In the Chinese tradition of ghost marriage, one or both of the parties are dead.There are many practical reasons to marry a dead spouse....
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/ghost-marriage-not-even-death-can-stop-you-from-getting-married/A burglar in Palm Harbor, Florida was unable to escape from police, even though he cleverly hijacked a pedal boat: Deputies said Schaumburger fled down a street with a dead end at Lake Tarpon. With nowhere to go,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/poor-choice-of-get-away-vehicle-pedal-boat/Kaba Kick is a toy available in...well, somewhere in East Asia, presumably. It's like Russian roulette, but for kids: The player points the gun at his or her own head and pulls the trigger. Instead of bullets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/russian-roulette-for-kids/Here are the perfect Valentine's Day gifts for the lovable, arrogant bastards (and double bastards) in your life:(L) Arrogant Bastard Ale Beer Bottle Tumbler (R) Double BastardQuantities are very limited! More BottleHood...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/valentines-day-gifts-for-the-arrogant-bastards-in-your-life/Forget the Neatorama redesign - that was nothing compared to this beauty. Yes, you've found it at last ... Behold, the world's most beautiful website. No, it's not a joke - it's the website of an actual store called Yvet...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/the-future-of-the-internet-is-here-ladies-and-gentlemen/Cognitive fluency is a fancy name given by psychologists to describe something simple: most people prefer things that are easy to think about than those that are hard.That's pretty intuitive albeit overly simple - but do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/easy-is-true-how-our-brain-likes-to-think-easy-thoughts/Here in America, people (or at least Republicans and Libertarians) are conditioned to think that Big Government = Bad Goverment. One of the argument against Big Government is that a nanny state prevents a strong and vibr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/does-big-government-prevent-volunteering-and-a-vibrant-society/Rickshaw cyclist Chen Chuanliu can't afford daycare so he has to think of a way to prevent his 2-year-old son from wandering off on his own when he has a fare.His solution? Chain him up on a pole!The rickshaw cyclist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/chinese-daycare-toddler-chained-to-a-tree/When a conscious person answers a yes or no question, certain parts of the brain become active. A new medical study revealed that people thought to be in a vegetative state demonstrate the same brain response, even if t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/brain-scan-shows-vegetative-patient-responding-to-yes-or-no-questions/If you're a brand new pilot, it's probably handy to have labels like this, pointing out where the door is, where to sit -- that sort of thing. Working with the advertising agency Atmosphere, the South African airlin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/a-jetliner-with-labels/(YouTube Link) French daredevil Henri Rochatin, now 65, has been performing stunts since the age of 5. In this video, he balances on a chair on two glasses which are on top of another chair, which is balanced on fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/04/daredevil-balances-chair-on-glasses-over-precipice/
