What a delightful combination: cats and trains! Katze vs. Gartenbahn is a series of five YouTube videos featuring a giant cat attacking passenger trains. No, that's not it. It's about a model train in a garden that occasionally disturbs the cat who naps there. In video number three, shown above, the cat is occupying a trestle, and has no place to go when the train comes through, except up on top. Continue reading to see more.

Neatorama readers are familiar with Centralia, the town on a Pennsylvania coal seam that's been burning for 60 years. That's nothing compared to Burning Mountain in New South Wales, Australia, where an underground fire has been burning for at least 6,000 years! Like Centralia, it is also a burning coal seam, and it's moving along the seam at a fairly steady rate, which gives away its age.

The fire is estimated to be about 30 meters deep, and moving south at about a meter per year. The smoldering fire leaves the ground above it warm and kills off vegetation as it moves. The difference it leaves in the forest above is the clue to how long it's been burning, although it may be more ancient than we know. As the coal burns, it causes shifts and cracks in the earth above it, which let in just enough oxygen to feed the fire.

The area is a nature reserve, and is far enough away from settlements to pose no threat to people. How long will Burning Mountain continue to burn? No one knows. Read about this astonishing natural phenomenon at ScienceAlert. -via Strange Company 

(Images credit: Beruthiel)

Saratoga Springs, New York, is famous as the birthplace of the potato chip. The story goes that in 1853, railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt dined at at Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs and sent back his fried potatoes because they weren't thin enough. Chef George Crum maliciously compiled with Vanderbilt's demand, and fried up super-thin potato slices until they were extra crispy. But Vanderbilt loved them, and the potato chip was born. Crum opened his own restaurant, and became famous for his chips.

Since then, earlier recipes for the same dish were found, but Crum's chips caused people to make the pilgrimage to Sarasota Springs to try them. That was just the beginning of the story, as other people made the snack accessible to all, from the Ohio man who got them into grocery stores, to the California woman who bagged them for freshness, to the movie star who dared us to try to eat just one. Read the history of the potato chip -or chips, since you can't eat just one- at Smithsonian.

In the olden days, librarians would make printed guides to doing research for various topics. These were called pathfinders or research guides. Then the internet happened, and librarians adopted the practice for online environments. Then the Springshare developed LibGuides, which is basically an online content management system for libraries.

This isn't an advertisement for LibGuides. I just love their product. A professor can email me a class research assignment and I can throw a research guide for it online in as little as 15 minutes.

Now Rice University's Fondren Library has kicked up the game. Librairan Jeanette Sewell, who identifies as "the Official Golden Girls Librarian" offers her patrons (and us) a LibGuide on The Golden Girls. This is timely, given the recent departure of Betty White from among us.

I'm especially impressed with Sewell's scholarly bibliography on The Golden Girls, which would be especially helpful for both pop culture researchers and casual fans.

-via Rebecca Baumann

This is a restored Lamborghini 5C TL tractor that was built in the 1960s. Owning this would make you the envy of all the guys down at the co-op! If you're not a gearhead, you might be surprised to know that Lambourgini built tractors before the company ever built cars.

Ferruccio Lamborghini grew up on the family vineyard and was always fascinated by farm machinery. After World War II he designed tractors that would get Italy back in its feet again. He became so wealthy that he could afford nice sports cars, which eventually included Ferraris. But as an engineer, he wasn't happy with his Ferrari, and let the company founder, Enzo Ferrari, know about it.

He took his grievances to Enzo Ferrari and the two famously head-strong men had a wild argument over it – the result being that Ferruccio started his own car company to show Enzo how it should be done.

The two companies remain each other’s greatest rivals to this day.  

While Lamborghini's name became forever associated with luxury sports cars, he continued to build tractors into the 1970s. Read about Lambourgini and his tractors at Silodrome. -via Fark  

Get the details of this particular model at the auction listing. Bidding will close on January 10.

Yeah, we know there was a Terminator 3, but even if we consider it canon, there's room for further adventures anywhere in that messed-up timeline, as we've seen from the many other forgettable Terminator sequels, and you can improve upon them as you will.

After the events of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sarah Connor and her son John took on new identities. But now there are several terminators (model T-800) sent back to find them. Fabrice Mathieu (previously at Neatorama) edited together more than a dozen movies to create this clever dialogue-free action sequence. -Thanks Fabrice!

📺 Mike Judge tweeted a teaser about an upcoming Beavis and Butt-Head movie on the streaming service Paramount+. The thing is, they're now middle-aged men with balding heads, bad teeth and pot bellies. But some things don't change: surely they'll still be wearing old heavy metal T-shirts like all the middle-aged men I know.

😻 When Milo the dog gave birth prematurely to a litter of puppies that didn't survive, she was so heartbroken ... until she got to adopt some rescue kittens.

🏠 What is old is now cool again. Straight outta a sixties house: Linoleum is making a comeback.

🎵 From country to rock to rap, here's the funniest butt song remix we can all get behind. No and if or but(ts) about it. Punny enough for ya? Ba-dum-bum.

🍜 How do you clean a spilled ramen? Why, with a Cup Noodle ramen-shaped mop, of course.

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Anyone else already giving up on their New Year's resolutions? In case you aren't sure what you're looking at, Juanita the armadillo is napping in her exercise wheel. pic.twitter.com/hCYPmwBjtB

— Cincinnati Zoo (@CincinnatiZoo) January 3, 2022

2022 is almost a week old, so how's your New Year's Resolution holding up? Are you still going strong or have you given up on it?

The Cincinnati Zoo tweeted an adorable photo of its armadillo named Juanita taking a nap on her exercise wheel. Or maybe her New Year's Resolution is to get on the exercise wheel more often - she just never specified that it's for actual exercise. So there, napping on her exercise wheel technically satisfies that resolution.

Now that we're about done with the year-end "best of" lists, we can look to the very worst. Uswitch has combed through IMDb reviews, searching for negative phrases, to compile lists of the most boring TV show and movies from the last couple of decades. Here are the movies.

1    The Last Airbender
2    Annabelle
3    Suicide Squad
4    Total Recall
5    Battle Los Angeles
6    Justice League
7    Green Lantern
8    Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
9    Alice in Wonderland    
10    Clash of the Titans    
11    The Wolfman
12    Ice Age: Continental Drift    
13    White House Down
14    X-Men: Apocalypse
15    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

I've only seen two of these movies, and I can't argue about them. Still, any list of "worst" guided by viewer opinions needs a caveat in that the movies that no one bothered to go see were probably even more boring.

They also have a rundown of the most boring TV shows, and since the list was compiled in November, a look at the worst Christmas movies and TV specials as well. See all the boring media listed, with discussion about some of them, at Uswitch. -via Mental Floss

In the 21st century, Americans mostly buy and drive cars with automatic transmissions. That's not the case in the United Kingdom, where more cars with manual transmissions were bought every year up until 2020. And even today, automatics are barely ahead in sales. That's because in the UK, everyone, or let's say almost everyone, learns to drive using a manual transmission.

See, when a teenager goes to take the test for a driver's license, the car they use for the test determines what kind of license they receive (if they pass the test). If you use an automatic vehicle, you get a license to drive automatic vehicles only. If you use a car with a manual transmission and pass, you get a license for either kind of car. If you get a restricted license for automatic only and then decide later that you want an unrestricted license, you have to take the test over again with a manual transmission.

The UK has a bit fewer than a million people with automatic-only licenses, and almost 40 million with licenses for both types of transmissions. There is a bit of a stigma attached to the automatic-only license. Read more about the way the UK drives at Jalopnik.

Tinsley is a Shiloh Shepherd and packmate of the human Cam Laundry. A few days ago, Tinsley, Laundry, and another human were driving down a snowy highway in New Hampshire. Laundry, who was driving, had an accident and crashed the car.

Other drivers saw Tinsley late that night, trying to get their attention. She led police to the scene of the crash, where Laundry and his friend were immoblized and suffering from hypothermia. EMTs rescued and treated the humans while Tinsley calmly observed.

After Laundry and his friend were released, he set about rewarding Tinsley for her work. He tells NBC 5 News that the dog has venison burger and backstrap in her future.

-via Laughing Squid

It's a special kind of heartbreak when you come up with a great idea for a story, incubate it in your mind, write it down, polish it, and convince yourself it's worthy of a Hollywood movie, then ...you see a trailer for that movie. This isn't about plagiarism, but about convergent ideas. You can't sue for plagiarism if you've never pitched the script or published the story. Often it's not the exact story, but close enough so that you can give up on the idea of a movie being produced, at least anytime soon. Just ask Liz Smith, who in 1997 imagined a story about a rich young man who falls involve with a poor woman while both are traveling on the Titanic. Inverse has the stories of five screenwriters who were crestfallen when they found out their stories had been beaten to the punch, and how they coped with the disappointment afterward. -via Digg
 

Imagine that you've spent years planning the perfect wedding for you and your spouse. You've got everything: a luxury resort destination site, elaborate bachelor and bachelorette parties, gourmet menus, an artistic cake, and a band to perform at the reception. All that you need now is a custom hashtag so that all of the influencers at your wedding can post their content on Instagram and Twitter.

That's where the problem comes up. Some other couple has already taken #FarrierWedding, so there's no obvious way to tag your wedding and only your wedding.

That's where Happily Ever #Hashtagged comes in. The founder, Marielle Wakim, started her firm in 2016 to respond to this market demand. She tells the Wall Street Journal that her carefully developed skill for inventing clever, original, and appropriate hashtags makes her $50 fees worth it. Wakim can write hashtags that incorporate specific themes, names, or ideas and create alternate versions for elements of the wedding.

Wakim isn't alone. Her business is one of at least several who are filling this #nicheweddingmarket. Read about them at the Wall Street Journal.

-via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Marko Millivojevik

NASA’s Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on August of 2022 and head toward a 140-mile wide asteroid named 16 Psyche. It lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists are interested in the asteroid because they believe it may be a planetesimal, which resembles the earth underneath its mantle and crust. We could learn about how our planet formed. But the asteroid is interesting for something else.

Asteroid 16 Psyche reflects light in a way that lead scientists to believe it is made of metal, or at least contains a lot of iron, nickel, and gold. The resources on the asteroid could be worth as much as $10 quintillion! And now you're thinking of the movies Armageddon, Avatar, Prospect, or Alien, in which earth's biggest corporations send crews to other planets to extract their natural resources. While that may be a long way off, 16 Psyche has captured NASA's imagination for many reasons, which you can read about at Smithsonian. -via Fark

(Image credit: NASA)

Look at this rat. Look at this marvelous rat. Reorganize your brain around this image of a rat.

Claire McFadden brings us a song that you think maybe is trying to teach us something or make a point, but eventually you come to realize, no, it's some kind of art. Or maybe it's just one of those weird things that make the internet an interesting place to be. It gets funnier as it goes along. Contains one NSFW word. (via Metafilter)