For the past three years, Phillip Herr of the US Government Accountability Office was tasked by Congress to find out what's wrong with the US Postal Service. He came to this conclusion (unsurprising to some, I'm sure):*e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/us-postal-service-is-collapse-imminent/Yellow Submarine Mug - $9.95 Does your boring, old, coffee, mug make you feel blue? You need the Yellow Submarine Mug from the NeatoShop (yes, officially licensed from The Beatles). Printed inside the mug: "Love...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/yellow-submarine-mug/The last time I had an actual meal on an airplane, it was almost certainly a frozen Banquet turkey and dressing dinner in a different package. That doesn't mean the novelty of eating inside an airplane has worn off,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/airline-food-just-got-awesome-sorta/NPR posted overhead views of Joplin, Missouri before the tornado hit Sunday, and two days after the devastation. You can move a slider over the pictures to compare the two. Be warned, it's sad. http://www.npr.org/201...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/joplin-before-and-after/It’s always interesting to me when people start bringing economics into such other worldly endeavors as space exploration. However financial gain will ultimately be the driving force to get us there. Twenty trillion U...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/the-first-trillionaires-will-make-their-fortunes-in-space/It’s hard to believe that NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit which was only supposed to function for a short period of time had been going strong on the Red Planet for years. Sadly however its mission is coming to an end. Fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/obituary-of-marss-robot-geologist/The day when we no longer use cash or credit cards is quickly approaching. Soon you may be using your smart phone to pay for items at stores and restaurants. For now, though, the “tap-to-pay” system is taking baby...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/google-wants-to-be-your-wallet/Scientists have created the largest 3D map of the universe that covers 380 million light years. The project took over a decade to complete. It's called the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) and is based upon the University...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/3d-map-of-the-universe/This game may just waste a few hours of your day, but you will enjoy doing it. Try to angle the lines under the dropping ball to create different musical tones. You can adjust the speed and rate at which the balls drop....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/ball-droppings/A billboard campaign aimed at promoting colon cancer awareness has been kicked to the curb in Washington state. The ads, which feature the slogan "What's up your butt?", were initially approved unanimously by the Tri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/insert-your-own-butt-joke-here/What could be interesting about the business of renting storage units? The fact that they are used for so many other things besides storage! Renting a storage unit is cheaper than renting office space, retail space, a gy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/the-secret-life-of-storage-units-in-honolulu/I saw this and immediately figured it was a response to Firefox 4, which has caused me to use Force Quit more in the last couple of months than any time since I bought my latest computer. DeviantART member Ron Guyatt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/keep-calm-mac-user/(YouTube link) The illusion comprises a morphing sequence between two faces. The observer has to fixate a dot superimposed on the morph. When the dot is moving, morphing can hardly be seen. However, when the dot sudde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/the-morphing-face-illusion/Holgate Windmill in York, England was a working grain mill for over a hundred years before it was shut down 70 years ago. It was never torn down because of its historic charm, and a neighborhood grew up around it. Now, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/holgate-windmill-a-new-spin-on-an-old-industry/(YouTube link) What kind of entertainment would you expect at Maker Faire? Arc Attack performing the Dr. Who theme on Tesla coils as Adam Savage of Mythbusters dances in a Faraday cage. Of course. -via Buzz...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/dr-who-theme-on-tesla-coils/I know you Neatoramanauts are a smart bunch, so many of you probably have piles of books lying around your house. If you’re looking for some new bookshelves and bookcases to put all of those great books away, here...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/27/18-seriously-cool-bookshelves-bookcases/Garden Gnome Tissue Holder - $24.95 Seasonal allergies got you down? You need the Garden Gnome Tissue Holder from the NeatoShop. Nothing perks you up like a cute, little, bearded, guy in a pointy hat bearing tissu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/garden-gnome-tissue-holder/[caption id="attachment_46740" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Image: Bernie Boston"][/caption] You probably don't know who Paul Cole and Antoinette Sithole (or George Harris, above) are by name, but you've def...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/famous-for-being-photographed/These letters were part of Dear Me: a Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self, a 2009 project to raise money for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Some of them are funny (love the one from Jonathan Ross), some of them are p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/celebrities-write-letters-to-their-16-year-old-selves/A DPU manufacturer called InFocus recently held a contest for the worst ever PowerPoint slides. Although they don't say it explicitly, I gather that these were not slides that were intentionally designed to be terrib...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/contest-for-the-worst-powerpoint-slide-ever/College Humor imagined what the cereal aisle at the grocery store might look like if the heart-healthy, full-of-fiber cereals had fun mascots like the sugary ones do. The Grape Nuts one is my favorite - I think it ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/if-boring-cereals-had-mascots/(YouTube link) No matter what kind of dreams you have, it's all right when mommy holds you in her arms. -via Daily Picks and FlicksCat, Cute, kitten...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/in-mommys-arms/Ross Crawford faced four challenges with this project. He had to be able to shape the LEGO pieces into generally curved shapes. The assembly had to be strong enough to withstand the pressure of four tight strings. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/playable-lego-ukulele/Guy Nesher, a photographer based out of Tel Aviv, shot this picture of the Salar de Uyuni. At over four thousand square miles, this region of Bolivia is the largest salt flat in the world. It functions like a natural...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/across-bolivias-salt-desert/Wanted: Dead or Alive was a half-hour Western television show which ran from 1958-1961. It starred Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. The character was noted for wielding a modified Winchester...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/steve-mcqueen-tv-rifle-now-for-sale/This is pretty amazing. Katie Alves recreates movie scenes on the eyelids of models, such as the above presentation of The Nightmare before Christmas. Other featured films include The Lion King, *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/movie-scenes-in-eye-shades/Get it? It's a gummy bear shaped into a bearskin rug by Brock Davis. Well, I thought it was funny. Link via ColossalBrock Davis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/gummy-bearskin-rug/A few years ago, to mark the 75th anniversary of the comic strip Blondie, Chip Zdarsky imagined the futures of six classic comic strips. Ones that, for no comprehensible reason, refuse to die. Link via Po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/comic-strips-in-the-future/Etsy seller Daniel Tyrkiel made three candles shaped like a human spinal column. Why? This time around both wizards and muggles must join forces to defeat the dark horde. I created this light as a symbol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/spinal-column-candle/Artist Cyprien Gaillard made a pyramid for an art installation at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The pyramid had a total of 72,000 bottles of beer, each inside their blue case boxes. According to the artist,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/26/artists-makes-beer-pyramid-and-lets-museum-visitors-drink-it-up/
