A museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has an art installation that consists of peanut butter covering 14 square meters of the floor. The smooth peanut butter "carpet" has no fence around it because museum directors believe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/12/man-walks-through-peanut-butter-art-exhibit/The Library of Congress has an extensive online collection of historic sound recordings going back over 100 years! Select from classical, ragtime, opera, gospel, and ethnic music, as well as spoken word recordings. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/12/national-jukebox/This French medical poster is from a exhibit called "Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection" currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Strange how vintage art and the French language can m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/12/health-for-sale/It is once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is? Do you know what it is? Place your guess in the comment section below. One g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/12/what-is-it-game-177/THE DREAM STUDENT [caption id="attachment_45952" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="A store in Georgia Tech's student center is named for Burdell."][/caption] (Image credit: Wikipedia user...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/12/really-successful-people-who-never-actually-existed/The Marquis Los Cabos resort in Mexico now offers a thousand-dollar popsicle. What makes it so pricey? It's made with 24-carat gold flakes and a luxury band of tequila that costs $1500 a bottle. The icy treat is serve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/12/1000-popsicle/(YouTube link) This cat may not have opposable thumbs, but he knows someone who does! As one commenter said, you know who wears the pants in this relationship. -via redditCat, box...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/cat-opening-a-box/Fugu Mints - $2.95 Are you timid by nature? Do you wish you could fool people into believing that you are brave and adventurous? Well, now you can with Fugu Mints from the NeatoShop! Tricking your friends into thinkin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/fugu-mints/Wellington R. Burt (d. 1919) amassed a vast fortune during his lifetime, but he didn't want it to spoil his children or grandchildren. They needed to make it on their own in the world, so he bequeathed to them comparativ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/man-shuts-out-his-family-from-inheritance-for-a-century/(Video Link) Michelangelo of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was noted for his preferences for grotesque pizza toppings, such as chocolate sprinkles with clam sauce. These dedicated fans took up the onerous ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/tmnt-fans-make-michelangelos-most-disgusting-pizzas/It's like you can't walk through Manhattan without tripping over a superhero. I guess you New Yorkers are pretty lucky that way, though you do end up attracting a lot of supervillains, too. At the link, you can vi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/new-yorks-superheroes/(Video Link) Have you ever played one of those labyrinth games where you're trying to move a marble around a wooden maze by altering its pitch? This is a giant version which is played with a bowling ball and control...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/worlds-largest-labyrinth-game-is-played-with-a-bowling-ball/Oh! The garbage chute was a really wonderful idea. What an incredible smell you've discovered! Let's get out of here! via Walyou | Photo: UnknownStar Wars, r2d2, trash can...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/r2d2-garbage-can-mod/Wouldn't it be great to sit on a chair of bubbles while you ponder whether we're in yet another Internet bubble? French designer Marie Galoyer has come up with a way to do just that. At a mere €4,000, the Sitting B...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/the-bubble-chair/Stephen Hawking recently gave a talk at Arizona State University, and Claudia Dreifus of The New York Times's Science Times sat down with him for a brief yet fascinating interview about science and his life in general:*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/interview-with-stephen-hawking/If you think that's a big shark, that's because it was the biggest great white shark ever caught by man:The two-ton Apache put up a fight—at one point breaking free from his barbless hook, said expedition leade...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/the-largest-great-white-shark-ever-caught/Who says that criminals have to look as bad as their horrible actions? Meet the "Mad Hatters," an all-female pickpocket ring made up of middle-aged and elderly women in Detroit who sport stylish hats:"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/the-mad-hatters-all-female-criminal-ring/First it was the pavement that never ends, then the hamster bicycle , followed closely by the stairs to nowhere and the infinite cross-country skiing. Please join in me in welcoming the next logical sequence in gym machi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/mt-ever-climb/Video Link This might make a massive traffic jam a little more tolerable. As part of their "Spread Happiness" mantra, Coke put up a big screen in Bogotá, Colombia, so stranded people could at least be entert...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/coca-cola-turns-highway-into-movie-theater/Party Rats - $5.95 Do you know someone who is planning a fabulous graduation or summertime party? Get them the Party Rats from the NeatoShop. Com on everybody! Strap on some colorful, plastic, light up rats and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/party-rats/If you really want to feel small and insignificant today, take a look at this sliding scale of the universe. The scale takes us all the way from the building blocks of matter to the edge of the visible universe. h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/interactive-scale-of-the-universe/Fans of science fiction master Isaac Asimov’s classic Foundation Series (or “I, Robot”) are familiar with his “Three Laws of Robotics.” A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/would-the-three-laws-of-robotics-work/We all tend to be forgetful once in a while or have thoughts that are counterproductive. However in psychology there are several areas of human thought that have been identified as common faults. My favorite is The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/common-faults-in-human-thought/Love it or hate it, there is no contesting that Wal-Mart is America’s biggest retail chain. This time lapse video proves it by documenting the spread of the chain (along with its sister store Sam’s Club) from 196...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/wal-mart-taking-over-the-country-flowing-data/And you thought your place was a dump. What if you actually lived in a dump truck? This industrious person has utilized every bit of a small living space inside of an old garbage truck. See link for full gallery....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/living-in-a-dump-truck/(YouTube link) You know when it's the devil. A truly frightening advertisement. -Thanks, Andre Price!Ad, exorcism, Dirt Devil...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/the-devil/The Galactic Empire Times, which looks suspiciously like the New York Times, has a breaking story. CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/obi-wan-kenobi-is-dead-vader-says/(YouTube link) "Per Aspera Ad Astra" (through hardships to the stars), part four of The Sagan Series, is a promotion for NASA. Creator Reid Gower, is admired by NASA, but they have no funding for public relations wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/per-aspera-ad-astra/The design called PIT IN uses a desk or table as a bike rack. The bicycle seat then serves as a chair while you work or take a break. That is, if you are OK with sitting on a bicycle seat while you're not riding. Thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/desk-doubles-as-bicycle-rack/Among hundreds of women who acted as spies during the Civil War, Elizabeth Van Lew stands out as one of the most effective. She was a prominent member of Richmond society who opposed both slavery and secession, but kept...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/11/elizabeth-van-lew-an-unlikely-union-spy/
