From Advertising/Design Goodness:A driver from a distance will see a police car hiding behing a billboard, as the police typically do in Turkey/ thus the driver instinctively slow down or make sure that they are goin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/05/fake-cop-car-below-billboard/Jim Hill has the story and photo of a remote-controlled animatroic "Mobile Muppet Lab" featuring Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker:The way I hear it, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker were the real highlight of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/05/muppet-mobile-lab-starring-dr-bunsen-and-beaker/Do you get hiccups frequently? Opiniorama shares a method to stop hiccups quickly (in case you don't have a spoonful of peanut butter!):I decided to do a little stretching while holding my breath so placed my hands a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/stretching-cures-hiccups/Flickr user hangingpixel took this very neat photo of a full circle rainbow from the Telstra Towers, Canberra, Australia. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hangingpixels/251818480/ [Flickr] There's also a video clip of a full...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/full-circle-rainbow/An Ice-Push is a strange weather phenomenon where shore winds cause ice to be pushed onto the beach. Here's a clip of such happenings in Miles Cove, Newfoundland, Canada. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/ice-push/Here's Jack Bauer interrogating the Mooninites, a funny audio mash-up at YTMD: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/jack-bauer-interrogates-the-mooninites/Learn how to disco dance with Finland's Ã…ke Blomqvist. Click play or go to Link [YouTube] ....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/disco-lesson-1/Randall Munroe at the wonderful blog xkcd took George Washington’s Farewell Address of 1796 and painstakingly translated each point into 21st century American English. He said the process was “fun, depress...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/washington-farewell-address-translated/When he met Bill Gates, Romanian President Traian Basescu [wiki] basically said that the country built its IT industry based on pirated Microsoft softwares!Basescu said, during a joint news conference with Gates, tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/romanian-president-we-owe-it-all-to-piracy/Who makes the best coffee: Starbucks, McDonald's, Burger King, or Dunkin' Donuts? Consumer Reports did a taste test and found out that (surprise!) it wasn't Starbucks!The magazine proclaimed McDonald's Premium Roast...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/mcdonalds-coffee-tastes-better-than-starbuck/Every year, over 60,000 people are injured, often severely, by table saws. To prevent these injuries, SawStop has developed a revolutionary table saw that virtually eliminates the risk of losing a finger. To see wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/04/the-worlds-safest-table-saw/Is it Mars, Venus, the moon, or the sun? The French title of this video is "Who wants to win a neuron?" You could beat this guy (and you can get the gist of this clip) even if you don't speak French. Via Ju...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/03/what-orbits-the-earth/Simple Simon read about the London flat for sale that was only 7’x11’. He took that as a design challenge. Can such a small space be made livable? His plans include a space-saving sleeping loft. My sugges...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/03/cozy-apartment-design-challenge/Conjoined Twins - video powered by Metacafe Abby and Brittany Hensel are the conjoined twins from Minnesota you may remember from the TV special Joined for Life. They share many body organs, and each twin controls one a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/03/the-hensel-twins/Tomorrow, most of America will stop and watch the biggest football game of the year: Super Bowl XLI [official site | wiki] in Miami, Florida.Here's a couple neat links about the Super Bowl from MSNBC:Super Bull! The real...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/03/the-greatest-and-the-worst-super-bowl-ads-of-all-time/You’ve heard the phrase “like nailing jelly to the wall†to describe a difficult task. Graeme Cole decided to find out exactly how difficult it was to nail jelly (or Jello for Americans) to a wall. H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/03/nailing-jelly-to-a-wall/Since the founding of the United States, guns have remained an integral, yet controversial, component of American culture. The passion for guns held by many Americans stretches across all social and racial boundarie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/american-gun-owners-in-their-homes/My brother-in-law Timmy Weigand is a great pro motocross racer. He shattered his finger and knuckle into more than 250 pieces last year in a crash when riding and had to undergo three surgeries.Because of his superhuman...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/timmy-weigand-races-again/Neatorama reader Raymond Penners sent us this neat little map message that looks like a smoke signal from the Eiffel tower!If you'd like to send your own map message, go here: Link - Thanks Raymond!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/send-a-smoke-signal-from-all-over-the-world/Joshua Opperman started this unique auction website to fulfill kind of a sad niche. Here's his story:A few years ago, I thought I had met the love of my life. She was smart, beautiful, and funny. I was finally ready...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/ring-auction-for-jilted-lovers/[https://youtu.be/0vNvc9n1ikI] (YouTube link)Bullitt [wiki] is most-remembered for its central car chase scene through the streets of downtown San Francisco, one of the earliest and most influential car chase se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/best-car-chase-ever/Montreal artist Socalled performs Tony Slydini's torn-and-restored-newspaper-magic-trick. Slydini [wiki] was a world renowned magician . Click play or go to Link [YouTube] ....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/the-magic-trick/Click play or go to Link [YouTube] . Found at VideoSift ....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/the-tmnt-fan/In the dreary monotony of daily life, the best most of us can hope for is a promotion and a 3% raise. But a small subset of the human population dreams big – of bloody coups and secret torture chambers, perso...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/before-they-were-despots-dictators-and-their-old-jobs/Galileo said that objects will drop to the ground at the same speed, no matter their weight. A hammer and a feather should land at the same time. However, objects on earth are affected by air resistance, causing the fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/galileos-theory-tested/For all you Lego fans, a short western animation. Click play or go to Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/the-wild-west-with-legos/This is one of the neatest things on VideoSift: Top 100 Web Videos of 2006. Some, nay, make that *all* of the web's most awesome video clips can be found on this list! Showreel V...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/videosifts-top-100-videos-of-2006/Here's our weekly Bizarro feature! See if you can find the "secret codes" on the comic strip. (As always, please visit Dan Piraro's excellent website Bizarro for more!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/time-out-for-pie/Sea Launch streamed a live Webcast of its launching of a 209-foot satellite-carrying rocket from an unmanned floating platform. The video was meant to promote the company's launch to the general public and interested inv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/rocket-launch-live-webcam-for-investors-what-could-go-wrong/From Lets Paint TV, John Kilduff shows you that it's possible to fit in art, exercise, and blend a drink into your busy life. Just do it all at once!Link - Thanks Chris!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/02/lets-paint-exercise-and-blend-drinks-all-at-once/
