Bicycle license plates were required by many Wisconsin municipalities and are now quite collectible -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew-turnbull/4214524562/

The plates have since been replaced by adhesive stickes that go on the bike frame.

Red Bunny, unless you're deliberately just trying to be a troll, you must have absolutely no idea what the Solowheel is. You're going to build a motor and gyroscope in your garage?

Junk comments are junk comments.

To clarify - this would be the largest commercially available jigsaw puzzle. Ravensburger created a million-piece puzzle several years ago -

http://www.worldamazingrecords.com/2008/09/largest-jigsaw-puzzle-guinness-world.html

Alejo, the story of the Texas woman you mentioned is discussed at the Wired link in the Neatorama post...

"And then there’s Joan Ginther, who has won more than $1 million from the Texas Lottery on four different occasions. She bought two of the winners from..."

And the reasons why Mr. Srivastava told the Lottery about his discovery ("why on Earth did he do that?") are also explained in detail at the Wired link.

Neatorama posts are in general not meant to be comprehensive storehouses of information; we want people to go to the primary link sources to read more information in depth.

That's why we include "link" at the bottom of every post.

blahblah, the source article at Wired is marked with the blue word "Link" at the bottom of the post. It was posted there three days ago. What is your "MEh" all about? You don't feel we should link to their material?

This may be the image source -

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=58158873&postcount=858

At the risk of sounding pedantic, I believe a lot of sources are misinterpreting "Antogo" as the name of the lake. The best article I can find is this one from last month -

http://reportage.co.uk/features/antogo-the-sacred-dogon-fishing-ritual/

- which explains Antogo as the name of the fishing ritual. The pond/lake in the village of Bamba appears to be unnamed.

Four days before that incident, 200 cows were found dead in a field in Wisconsin -

http://tinyurl.com/200cows

Perhaps someone drove them down to Illinois...

Wes, the OED accepts both "millennia" and "millenniums" as valid plurals of "millennium."

http://oed.com/view/Entry/118508

One of the conspiracy theories was emailed to me today. The special assistant to the secretary of the Air Force has been found murdered; his career focused on biological and chemical weapons sprayed from aircraft. And the Arkansas kill was near Pine Bluff Arsenal, which received thousands of tons of phosgene from Iraq...

The rest of the story is in the European Union Times -

http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/top-us-official-murdered-after-arkansas-weapons-test-causes-mass-death/

Noone hates/decries/mocks YouTube comments more than I do, but I thought this one was interesting:

"I know this creep. He was with my kids grandma, had her doing alot of bad things and even hurt her. He is very smart and manipulative, but he really is a bad person.. He doesn't deserve anything? from anyone!! I seriously DOUBT he's clean... He used to pimp out my ex mother in law for crack, but deserves this because of his voice? I am saddened by this whole thing.."

The comment may be inaccurate/fake etc, but it seems too precise to be a random troll. I'm not trying to disrespect Mr. Williams here; just posting the comment for future reference after we hear how things work out for him in the future.

In the Parkland Hospital (Dallas) emergency room, a posted list of rules included -

#1 - Don't hurt yourself.
#2 - Don't yell at the nurses (see #1)

It would be interesting to compile a blog post of Rules #1 from various professions and businesses.

Very interesting - and a nice example of the technique.

Very interesting, John. Thanx for posting.

This is interesting, especially in light of the research reported here -

http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/01/head-to-toe

which addressed the question of why the human face has gotten smaller during evolution, and attributed the changes to the cooking of food:

"As bones grow, their size and shape respond to biomechanical stresses, so he decided to study the effects of chewing hard versus soft food on the growth and development of the skull in various animal species. In one experiment, he fed soft food to one group of pigs, hard food to another. The stresses of chewing made the upper and lower jaws of the pigs eating hard food grow larger. The study suggested that there is a link between smaller jaws and regularly chewing very high-quality soft food. And humans, he points out, have never had greater access to high-energy processed food than they do now. “I think many people today never have to actually chew anything all day long,” he says. “You can see the effects of that shift in our heads now in terms of molar impactions”—small faces and jaws leave too little room for teeth."