When 11-year-old Caroline Gonzalez was named "Mayor for a Day" of Forney, Texas, she wasted no time in putting her power to use: she gave Justin Bieber his own street!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/11-year-old-mayor-of-the-day-first-order-of-business-naming-justin-bieber-street/A young bull was spotted in South Ayrshire, Scotland in a delicate situation. His head was wedged into a ladder. Passers-by called the SPCA to report the problem. The farmer who owns the animal was contacted and said h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/bullock-rescued-from-ladder/Mathematician Pierre de Fermat was born 410 years ago today, as we learn from the Google doodle of the day. The doodle recreates Fermat's Last Theorem, which he left scribbled in the margin of a book. Fermat’s cla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/pierre-de-fermat/(YouTube link) This guy may soon find himself transferred to a windowless office. -via Breakfast Linksparking lot, parking, window...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/playing-with-cars/Police in Forth Worth, Texas, chased a shirtless man driving a stolen forklift through city streets. The forklift had been taken from a construction site. A witness videotaped the chase and then posted it to YouTube. He...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/police-chase-forklift/Christine Sismondo, author of the new book America Walks into a Bar, explains how the local tavern contributed mightily to what America is today. In colonial times, it was a place for people to discuss anything...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/the-spirited-history-of-the-american-bar/(YouTube link) YouTube member slamacow shows us what 8-bit video game characters do when you're not busy making them commit violence upon each other. Now that you know, you might see them in your dreams. -via The Da...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/what-video-games-do-behind-your-back/These days, getting a hold of your favorite spice is simply a matter of heading to the grocery store and buying a bottle. If you want a particularly rare variety, you might need to drive to a specialty grocer. But only a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/the-spicy-history-of-your-favorite-spices/Men's Slipper Genie - $9.95 Do you have trouble getting your husband to help around the house? Stop nagging and get him the Men's Slipper Genie from the NeatoShop. Now every time he shuffles to the fridge to get ano...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/mens-slipper-genie/The art group Skrekkogle took the graphic of dancing cards that you see when you win computer solitaire and rendered built it. A thousand card faces were printed and laminated onto black foam, then positioned as you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/solitaire-win-sculpture/A tiny black and white kitten was found at a dump in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and taken to the local SPCA shelter. He had been dropped there by a red-tailed hawk! "He was dropped by the hawk from not a great height, s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/kitten-dropped-into-landfill-by-hawk/This five-foot diameter mattress is from Korean designers Lily Suh and Zoono of i3lab. The image of the moon is by astrophotographer Chin Wei Loon. There's also a glow-in-the-dark pillow to go with it. Link -via Laug...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/full-moon-odyssey-mattress/Psst! Want to earn more money? The secret to earning more money in the workplace is ... to be mean. That's right: a new study found that agreeable workers earn significantly l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/mean-people-make-more-money/There's nothing quite like a weekend away from the family to spend with your buddies at the cabin. We might as well get a picture so we can remember these good times when we get too old go out regularly. Link -via reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/weekend-hunting-trip/One of the authors at mental_floss asked managing editor Jason English a question he couldn't answer, so he asked the readers. “Is it ever explained why Marty hangs out with Doc Brown? He’s just in Doc’s house to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/how-marty-mcfly-met-doc-brown/Researchers at the Hannover Medical School in Germany have developed artificial skin made from spider silk. When formed into a fine mesh, the silk from the golden silk orb weaver spider (left) can be grafted onto the hum...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/scientists-make-artificial-skin-from-spider-silk/The mayor of Acton Vale, Quebec, wanted to give his ex-wife a special birthday present, so he had a 20-ton rock left in her driveway. It painted with a greeting and topped with a pink ribbon. Isn't that romantic? Maybe h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/mayor-gives-ex-wife-20-ton-boulder-as-a-gift/*clap*clap*clap* This simple but brilliant print was made by Dann Matthews, whose Star Wars hieroglyphics we've featured previously. Link -via Uniblogmy neighbor totoro, Fred Rogers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/my-neighbor-mister-rogers/Yoshihiko Satoh has been working with his conjoined guitars motif for a while now, including some beautiful guitars arranged in arches and circular patterns. I want to see Slash (yes, I know -- he isn't real, but don...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/radial-guitar/Joeri Bosma, a Dutch teenager, decided to spend every day of the seventeenth year of his life taking photographs. Here's a self-portrait taken on August 3, inspired by the song "Horizon" by I Am Oak. I love the way t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/on-the-horizon/Titian's Venus of Urbino is a fine painting, but it's lacking something. Two things, really: bears and pterodactyls. Sam Spratt has now remedied that problem. Thank you, Mr. Spratt. http://www.samspratt.com/...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/the-bear-o-dactyl-of-urbino/As a mythic figure of the Old West, they don't come much bigger than Butch Cassidy. The outlaw became a legend in his own time, and was thought to have died in Bolivia in 1908. But new evidence, in the form of a manuscri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/did-butch-cassidy-live-long-enough-to-tell-his-own-tale/Spam Lip Glaze / Balm - $1.95 Are you looking for delicious way to keep your lips supple and soft? You need the toasted meat-flavored SPAM Lip Glaze / Balm from the NeatoShop. This lip balm will make sure your mouth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/spam-lip-glaze-balm/If you're upset about the state of education in America, here's a ray of hope in the form of a robotic hand. Created by Colorado high school student Easton LaChappelle, this mechanical marvel was ingeniously printed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/robotic-hand-made-by-high-school-kid/In what looks like some kind of truck that is outfitted with 40,000 watt stereo a young woman finds out exactly what some thumping base can do to your hair. Would hate to car pool with the guy who drives that. Her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/40000-watt-car-stereo-system-gives-new-hairdo/Oh, now this is a great bunch of photographs, all a bit reminiscent of the opening shot in the Disney movie The Lion King. Great beasts in silhouette against a sunrise (or sunset, or in one case, the moon) w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/12-incredible-snapshots-of-animals-silhouetted-against-the-sun/(YouTube link) Shawn spent an entire year getting ready to throw a surprise wedding for Colleen, and make everything exactly the way she wanted it to be. No detail was overlooked. Shawn even brought her bedroom furn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/surprise-this-is-your-wedding-day/The vision of the future from the past (retro-future) is usually a funny and interesting topic. That's why this list of video games from old science fiction films and television shows is so great. In the future we wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/10-worst-fake-video-games-from-science-fiction/While many types of plants contain levels of toxins for defense from insects and other predators, this list of plants are extremely lethal to humans. When foraging for plants to eat in the forest, be sure not to have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/16-unassuming-but-lethal-poison-plants/Steve Swatton has been campaigning for years for the release of a "notorious" prison inmate Charles Bronson. Now that he would like to visit the bank robber Swatton is being prohibited by prison officials who may b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/16/charles-bronson-lookalike-not-allowed-to-visit-notorious-prisoner/
