Smart: getting your exercise by playing Wii. Genius: marketing a wrist weight wrap as a gaming/exercise accessory! Link - via Gizmodo and Eduyayo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/wii-weights-combine-gaming-and-exercise/This 1790 intricately designed Valentine is valued at £4,000, making it the world's most expensive Valentine card (and no embedded diamonds, either!). Link - via A Welsh View...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/worlds-most-expensive-valentines-day-card/A Dutch primary school teacher has a strange and poignant final project for her class:Eri van den Biggelaar, 40, has just a few weeks to live after being diagnosed last year with an aggressive form of cervical cancer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/students-build-coffin-for-dying-teacher/On auction right now on eBay, here's the original Pink Panther car from the cartoon show:This is the 1 and only - truly original! - PINK PANTHER car from the cartoon show which featured on our tv screens from the lat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/original-pink-panther-car-on-auction/MIT Professor of Vision Science Edward H. Adelson made this old (but neat) optical illusion: believe it or not, A and B are both the same color!Link - via Say No to Crack...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/checker-shadow-illusion/A strange 1926 photo, from gnotalex's photostream at Flickr:Members of Cañon City Klan No. 21 pose on and around the ferris wheel at the site of a carnival at 8th and Greenwood in Cañon City, Colorado....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/strange-kkk-on-a-ferris-wheel-photo/Eight-year-old math whiz Parker Garrison realized that a new exhibit at Discovery Place didn't quite add up:When the 8-year-old math whiz at Charlotte Christian visited the "Jelly Belly Presents Candy Unwrapped&...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/8-year-old-math-whiz-proved-discovery-center-wrong/Henry and Matt at Brohans has compiled 8 of the funniest Christopher Walken Saturday Night Live skit ever.A must see: Link - via Gorillamask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/funniest-christopher-walken-snl-skits-ever/Mental_floss has a list of the 5 weirdest patron saints - for example:Saint Drogo (1105-1185), a Flemish nobleman who was reportedly able to bilocate, maintaining his presence in two locations at once. Witnesses clai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/weird-patron-saints/British comic Mark Thomas is quite hilarious. His stuff is political and very cutting. This is a YouTube clip of his old tv show - and there's no doubt he's influenced Ali G with this bit. Somehow, he convinced G...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/the-original-ali-g/A 15-year-old would-be graffitti artist in Ontario couldn’t resist the lure of a new bridge. He tied a rope to the bridge and lowered himself with a spray can, but left his cell phone behind. The rope became tan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/dangling-teen/Twice a year, tens of thousands of librarians make a trek across the United States to a meeting of the American Library Association. They come to learn, to network, to collect free stuff, and possibly to mate. Afte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/march-of-the-librarians/This video of the best 10 NES commercials gives us a look at the good ol’ days of video game advertising. Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]. Found at Japan Probe....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/top-10-japanese-nintendo-nes-commercials/Question > Would you eat the burger? Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/the-burger-magic-trick-in-japan/This week's collaboration with What is It? blog brings us this object (5-1/2 5" tall). What is this mysterious object?[No t-shirt for this round - congrats to Fodder, who won the last round.]Update...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/what-is-it-game-11/Mental_floss blogger Ransom Riggs found this unfortunate case of juxtaposition of a bus stop advertisement for the Oscars and a Los Angeles high school sign about Black History Month! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/a-bad-ad-placement/If you think you hate Valentine's Day, you've still got nothing on these people. They *really* hate it:A Muslim women's group in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir group burned greeting cards and beat young couples to stop pe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/radical-kashmiri-muslim-group-really-hates-valentines-day/Fogonazos has a neat story about the largest drainhole in the world: a spillway at the Monticello Dam in northern California. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/worlds-largest-drain-hole/Since I don't play World of Warcraft (WoW) [official website | wiki], I totally missed out on the Internet phenomenon of Leeroy Jenkins [wiki] that went 'round the Net a while ago. The story goes:The clip begins with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/the-world-of-warcraft-phenomenon-of-leeroy-jenkins/Here's some plush Tetris blocks, designed by Harri Koskinen for Play+Soft: Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/15/plush-tetris-blocks-for-kids/This is a Reuters video report on a Japanese restaurant owner that has introduced a whale burger. According to the report, young customers like the whale burger. Question #1 > Any readers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/the-whale-burger/The '180 Things I Hate About You' exhibition is a collection of screen printed dartboards that feature artists' most loathed things. This is Miles Donovan's contribution to the show. For more info click here....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/180-things-i-hate-about-you/Foreign Policy has an interesting photo essay by Jonathan Olley about cleaning up the plethora of bombs and live munitions in Iraq: Iraq is virtually littered with bombs. After two decades of war and fighting, there...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/ridding-iraq-of-live-munitions/We've seen a popcorn pop in slow-motion before on Neatorama - here's a collection of a whole bunch of things in slo-mo: a gallery of movies taken with Phantom high-speed cameras by Vision Research: http://www.visionresea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/gallery-of-slo-mo-movie-clips/Amongs the many weird and wonderful inventions in the collection of The Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions is this coin-operated holy water dispensing machine:Designed by the Greek inventor Heron, this coin-o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/coin-operated-holy-water-dispensing-machine/For ants, limbo is a way of life:Desert ants generally scurry around at high speeds whilst foraging to limit their exposure to the life threatening conditions of their habitat. Climbing over or crawling beneath obsta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/desert-ants-do-the-limbo-as-a-way-of-life/Everywhere in parks and on the river banks of Osaka rivers, one sees blue tents or barracks covered with blue plastic tarps, at times scattered throughout park areas, sometimes lined up in rows, or united to form...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/homeless-in-osaka/It's Valentine's Day [wiki], enjoy this music video! Click Play or go to Link [YouTube]....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/i-wanna-love-you-tender/Via: VideoSift ...'nuff said....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/red-coat-brown-trousers/Unlike the Road of Death in the Yungas region of Bolivia, the Guoliang Tunnel Road in China doesn't claim hundreds of lives per year. This certainly doesn't mean it's a safe or easy drive, just that it is so remote...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/14/the-scariest-road-in-the-world/
