@Peeves - well, we used to have the submit-a-tip method. It was a lot of work sifting through the tips.

I'm predicting that a small number of dedicated users will dominate the Upcoming Queue. I'm okay with that, as long as the quality of the submissions remain high.

@BadCat - if the server couldn't find images in the post you select, then it'll return that message. You can still submit the post, though it probably won't do as well in the Queue because of the missing thumbnail.

When the server is bogged down or if the link has a lot of pictures, this step can be slow. It's something that we'll have to improve in the future.

@vom - this is a known bug, which should be fixed as of now. Thank you!

@Geekaresexy - outi clips to your ears and vibrate. Some people find the vibration neat, others not so much. Alljoy is more in line of what the Audio Bone is, but much bulkier.

Please don't copy and paste for descriptions. This is a neat story - and would've been promoted a while ago had it not been a copy & paste job.

I once had a hangnail but still posted on Neatorama. Does that count? :)

I can probably live with the dead mice, but the bed bugs? Uggh! They gave me the ooies.

It's a tough issue, but protectionism isn't the answer. If there's no market for high quality (and therefore more expensive) traditional garments, no amount of protection will save the makers ...

"Every single person on that bus should hand out $5-10 to this business."

I don't think that comes close to covering the loss of inventory and clean up cost. Perhaps Remi Gaillard should crash a prison next time. LET'S .... IMPRISON ... OURSELVES!! YEAAAH!! I betcha that would be entertaining! :)

Duplicate: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/23/videosift-picks-of-the-week/

Thank you for the feedback, everyone - The purpose of the Upcoming Queue is to open up Neatorama to its userbase. A blog is essentially a top-down enterprise: authors write and readers read (and occassionally comment). What we're trying to do is to encourage the flow of information the other way: let everyone guest post on Neatorama.

Obviously, there are kinks to be worked out. The software, VaroCMS by Rommel Santor, is marvelous. I can't say enough good things about it and about working with him. We just have to tinker with the implementation a bit, especially given the intrinsic nature of the blog as it has been for the past few years.

Re: Queue of the Day. It's a neat idea, but I'm afraid that it may just be too constricting.

@Paul - I just posted a test submission to the UQ, and found it to work ok. Perhaps clear your cache? We had a massive influx of visitors from Yahoo! yesterday and the servers probably were a bit tired :)

@someoneowned - yes, you're absolutely right! There have been many times that I thought a post wouldn't be too interesting turn out to be one of Neatorama's most popular posts. And vice versa - posts that I thought were a sure thing turned out to be duds. I've stopped thinking that I can arbitrate what is or is not interesting to other people :) And thank you for the kind words!

That is interesting. It's quite logical to build the cold well and the air vent, but those wouldn't have crossed my mind. I suppose if I were ever caught in a snowstorm, I would've perished had I not seen this video :) That or try to build an igloo!

This looks very familiar - have we posted something like this before? Anyways, neat find (or re-find), Jake ... and thank you for putting the NSFW warning.

@AJ - this is definitely an option. Let's see if we can fix the algo to be more selective, if not, then we may have to resort to manual selection of posts. This is not something I wanted to do, since this takes away the power to promote good posts from voters.

Thanks The Slapster! I've certainly underestimated the amount of work it's taking to control the Queue.

FTFY!

This is actually a lot harder than I originally thought! I suppose I'm just a horrible at guessing how old people are ...