Red Bull Racing's F1 car isn't just fast--it's musically gifted. Listen to a driver play America's national anthem with its engine.
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The great news is that no one at the Neatorama office has to be left out! "Aw, John, you know I'd love to dress up as a pony at work, but there aren't enough wigs to go around." No siree. Etsy seller Erin has made many wigs, including ones for obscure characters such as Snips, Snails and Cadence.
Link -via Fashionably Geek
The kitchen and the workshop were never meant to be separate rooms. You can use your power tools to make cooking and cleaning so much faster. Here's a video showing tricks you can do with a cordless drill, including grating cheese and grinding pepper.
This is a great idea! I'll see if I can replace a pizza slicer with a circular saw. They're basically the same tool.
-via Nerdcore
At O'Brien Auto Performance in Tulsa, Oklahoma, kilt-wearing mechanics will fix your car while Celtic music plays in the background. Just be careful where you look:
David said wearing a kilt working on and under cars requires a certain kilt etiquette.
"Keep your knees down and your feet crossed, then everybody's happy and safe," O'Brien said.
He said they also need to be mindful of leather interiors on 100-degree days.
Especially if you wear a kilt "regimental style."
Link -via Dave Barry | Image: News 6
Dustin White made the ultimate office accessory: speakers built inside old .50 caliber ammunition boxes. You can find his instructions at the link and make your own.
By the 1940s, the wild whooping crane population in North America had dropped to about 15. Thanks to the work of dedicated conservationists since then, it has risen to about 500. It's a tough job and the project has demanded innovative thinking, including leading whooping cranes on migratory journeys with whilte ultralight aircraft:
A Canadian ultralight aircraft enthusiast named Bill Lishman — who would later become Duff’s co-founder — theorized that certain waterfowl could be trained to follow such a plane to a different migratory destination. In 1993, Lishman successfully led a group sixteen of Canada geese from Ontario to Virginia. Thirteen of the sixteen returned to Ontario the next year — without needing a human guide.
Lishman’s innovation centered on the fact that waterfowl, soon after their birth, imprint upon the first creature they see. Typically, this is their birth mother, but in a controlled environment, it could be basically any animal — including a person, if conditions are right. Duff, in an interview with NPR’s Talk of the Nation, explained: “Whooping cranes are hatched in the nest, in a marsh on the ground, basically, and they leave the nest almost immediately and follow their parents out to forage for food. And if they don’t follow their parents, they’re lost. So that natural instinct to imprint is there, and we just substitute parent for pilot and make sure they imprint on us.”
The pilots wear white costumes while leading the cranes because they don't want the cranes to think that humans will take care of them.
Link | Official Website | Photo: Operation Migration
Don't attack people. Your victims may not be as weak as they appear, as two teenagers in Vancouver, Washington discovered when they tried to grope Priscilla Dang:
One pulled in front of her as the other groped her from behind.
Fortunately for Dang she had studied Kung Fu for 18 years at a martial arts school owned by her family. She used the training to teach her attacker some manners.
"I grabbed him and said, 'You need to apologize, and he did,'" said Dang.
Then things escalated when the second teen started swearing at her.
Dang said that something snapped inside her and that is when her Kung Fu background really kicked in as she punched him twice in the face.
"He started coming in for a few, and I was lucky enough to dodge his shots. I came up for another one and I got him good, and I think that upset him," she told the news station.
Bystanders called 911 during the fight and police arrested the two boys.
Link -via Althouse | Photo (unrelated) via richard_north
This is a single-shot, muzzle-loading flintlock pistol. Reloading it takes a long time, but the user may not have much time. That's why the makers of this late Eighteenth/early Ninteenth Century Ottoman Albanian pistol built a club into the handle. Fire your shot, reverse the gun, then start swinging.
Link -via Hell in a Handbasket | Photo: swordbuyer
Next on When Animals Attack: an ordinary mom thinks that she's going to have an ordinary day. But then she wandered into a safari park and met...The Tongue.
-via Super Punch
The cake is only topped with M&Ms; it's not M&Ms all the way down. There's a vanilla cake buried under all of that chocolate candy. But that's as it should be, lest its eaters suffer death by chocolate. Natasha of The Cake Merchant baked it for an old friend.
Link -via Tasteologie
Blow it out, little GTO. But do it in a family-friendly style. Chris Meirose spotted this modified muscle car at his local county fair. Appropriately, there's a surfboard sticking out of the back.
Link -via Glenn Reynolds | Photo: Chris Meirose
Kotaku's Jason Schreier writes, "This fantasy cartoon series should really be on TV." He's right. Doraleous and Associates by Hank and Jed is a heroic and hilarious tale of a group of entrepreneurs launching an adventuring firm.
Do you plan to start a small business? You'll probably face the same problems that these characters do.
Filmmakers' Website -via Kotaku
I want one of these. I don't have a yacht, but the Neatorama warehouse should be an adequate replacement.
FreeStyle Slides makes only one product, but it's an awesome one. Each slide is custom made to fit your yacht's height and color scheme. Watch a video at the link.
Link -via The Presurfer
Who needs s'mores? Chris Rochelle has an even better idea for campfire food!
Cut the tops off about 10 oranges and scoop out the pulp. Fill the oranges three-quarters of the way with chocolate cake batter (cake mix works fine), then put the orange tops back on and wrap each orange in aluminum foil. Place directly onto the smoldering coals of the campfire, avoiding any intense flames, and cook for about 30 minutes, turning once or twice.
Don't eat the peel.
Link -via That's Nerdalicious!
Some Neatoramanauts may be old enough to know what this is. It's a checkout card for a library book, used in the days when library circulation was handled by bear skins and stone knives instead of computers.
In 1948, the Man Who Would Be King checked The Courageous Heart, a biography of Andrew Jackson, out of the library at Humes High School. It's for sale at Heritage Auctions.
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