The Uros people of Lake Titicaca along the border of Bolivia and Peru live on man-made floating islands constructed of reeds! The group developed this system to protect themselves from invaders, and now it protects their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/living-on-floating-islands/I was never any good at the real Etch-a-Sketch, and I'm certainly not any better at the virtual version. This picture to the left was done on a real Etch-a-Sketch (you can see more on the Ohio Art site), but maybe you'l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/virtual-etch-a-sketch/I didn't intentionally mean to pick another Rob Reiner film for this week's movie trivia post, but when RiderAng suggested Stand By Me, I knew immediately that I needed to dig it out of our DVD cabinet. Don't...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/movie-trivia-stand-by-me/Some of you might remember the phone order cake mishap post here at Neatorama. Obviously, ordering your cake online won't guarantee that things will be any better. Link [Flickr] - via DiggCake, error...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/birthday-cake-error/[YouTube - Link] If you have any spare funds left over from donating to Sarah MacLaughlin's pet fund, here's another worthwhile charity desperate for help. economy, humor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/sponsor-an-executive/Celebration, Florida is a planned community near Orlando that was developed by the Disney Company in the 1990s with early 20th c. architecture. Every night during December the palm-lined main street in the town...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/snowing-nightly-in-florida/Christopher Baker analyzed some 60,000 emails that he has sent and received since 1998 to reveal his social network, as represented in an interesting visual map: Like many people, I have archived all of my email w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/mapping-your-emails/This 1996 2006 WoW project by Aram Bartholl let people "play" as their World of Warcraft avatars in real life. If your name is Leeroy Jenkins, you'd have to use big fonts ;) The WoW project takes th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/the-wow-project-by-aram-bartholl/Bob Johnson has tried everything to keep fruit bats away from his orchard. The Queensland, Australia fruit grower is so frustrated by bats eating his crop that he has even resorted to playing his bagpipe among the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/fighting-bats-with-bagpipes/Cross-Stitch Ninja made this map of the first world of Super Mario Bros. 3 by zooming way in on a screenshot of the game, and making one pixel=one stitch. You can make your own video game cross-stitch patterns...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/super-mario-cross-stitch/We all (okay, most of us) have hair - but how much do you know about the stuff that grows on our head? AskMen has a neat article on the 5 things you didn't know about ... the human hair:4- Redheads may be ali...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/redheads-are-aliens-and-other-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-human-hair/Have to take a breathalyzer test? Whatever you do, don't eat ice cream beforehand. Here's what one Australian man found out the hard way: Bubble O' Bill ice cream treat will cause the test to come up positive for alcohol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/25/ice-cream-causes-breathalyser-false-positives/
