Something "neat" from Google! Google introduced an experimental (but functional!) "Voice Local Search" today in Google Labs. "Voice Local Search" is Google-speak for "free 411 business listing service that works us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/google-411/[https://youtu.be/HqbVbPvlDoM] (YouTube link)Carolyn Scott & Golden Retriever Rookie are masters of Canine Musical Freestyle, which is competitive dancing... for dogs and their owners. The pair were the top-ranking A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/canine-musical-freestyle/These peeps don’t come in a box, or an Easter basket. They aren’t even made of marshmallow! Evil Mad Scientist shows how to make your own meringue “pseudo-peeps†in your own kitchen. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/meringue-peeps/Rapitinui has a way to recycle the foil wrappers on your chocolate Easter eggs. Here are step-by-step instructions for making a lovely hat for your cat! Link -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/hats-for-cats/Artist Melissa Lynn Johnson does charming, colorful fantasy-inspired paintings. You can check them out at her webpage....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/fairy-tale-paintings/Benjamin Lester of Cosmos Online reports:Much of the amazing variation in size of different breeds of domestic dogs stems from tiny differences in a single gene, say researchers. When the team compared the dog DN...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/big-dogs-vs-little-dogs/1. The SPAM® MuseumOutside the Spam Museum. (Image Credit: jimmywayne22 [Flickr])The Great Wall of Spam (Image Credit: the queen of subtle [Flickr])If the on-site "wall of SPAM" is any indication, a tour through the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/10-strange-and-obscure-american-museums/For if you didn't knew Saul Bass [wiki] is a well-known designer of various motion picture title sequences such as Spartacus, Casino, Vertigo and Anatomy of a Murder (the video on top). A complete list and Youtube v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/movie-title-sequences-by-saul-bass/WIKISKY is a map of constellations with detailed information on objects in the sky - you can click on the various stars or search the database. You can even see the constellations in the sky from your location. Click...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/map-of-the-sky/I thought that the Wyoming Easter Egg masterpiece, as pointed out by commenter Smurf Kicker in Miss Cellania's previous post on the 2007 State Easter Eggs, deserves its own post. Here's the story from Chicago Tribune:*em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/wyomings-2007-state-easter-egg-a-masterpiece/Joe Selle, 42, was running unopposed for a City Council seat in Missouri City, Missouri - and got no votes, not even from himself!Selle, 42, said he simply forgot that Tuesday was election day, and apparently so did...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/missouri-man-ran-unopposed-in-election-got-no-votes/Now I've seen everything: here's Hulk Hogan singing a baby's lullaby for an ad in Japan. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via TV In Japan and Gorilla Mask...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/hulk-hogan-singing-a-lullaby/Fishermen caught a giant 90-year-old shortraker rockfish off the coast of Alaska:Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle measured, photograp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/giant-90-year-old-rockfish-caught-in-alaska/Wired has a nice photo collection of TV through the ages, from the early days (1928 G.E. Scanning Disk Television set) to Link: Wired | TV History.tv - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/tv-through-the-ages/Carolyn Pointing is a fanatic of the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and now, thanks to her husband Nick, she has her own replica of the magical flying car. Nick tried to explain his rational for building Carolyn the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/from-land-rover-to-chitty-chitty-bang-bang/We all break things, and a lot of us like to make things, too. Which of all the available glues is best for your job? The site This to That will tell you. Enter what you are gluing to what, and the database will recomm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/this-to-that/This video of a roller coaster ride was constructed using data from American housing prices over the last 117 years. Push play or go to Google Video. The graph used to plot the video can be found at Speculative Bubble...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/real-estate-roller-coaster/The 2007 Easter Egg Collection continues the tradition that began in 1994 where each state sends a decorated egg to the White House for display. Artists from across the United States created the decorated eggs, whi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/2007-state-easter-eggs/Thanks to Dan Piraro, we have another Bizarro caption contest. Funniest caption wins a Free Neatorama T-Shirt. Contest rule: one caption per comment, make it funny but please keep it civil. You can submi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/bizarro-caption-contest-2/Today's Friday, so it's VideoSift time! Let's check out a collective called "Did That Just Happen?" This selection of clips promises "Videos that cause your jaw to hit the floor, clips you have to watc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/videosift-did-that-just-happen/Özi pointed us to a this excellent song about candiru, the most feared fish in South America (even over the piranha!). The song was done by Ray Troll, Ashley Byler, Patrick Troll, and Stephan Jackson.Why? The candir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/the-candiru-song/Professor Solomon, author of Japan in a Nutshell featured before on Neatorama, has released another free eBook Coney Island, a neat history of the seaside resort in New York that was once America's most celebrated amusem...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/prof-solomons-coney-island-ebook-worlds-first-roller-coaster/In similar veins to the famous T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. project, here's a Peep destruction party:A couple friends and I had a Peep Destruction party which I photographed. We had various destruction methods including a homebu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/peep-destruction-party-many-ways-to-kill-peeps/Neatorama reader Michael Sherrod saw the post about plans of fictional houses by Mark Bennet and offered his own: a plan based on the Metropolitan Police Call boxes. You know ... TARDIS.Link - Thanks Michael!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/tardis-blueprint/To provide morale and entertainment to military personnel during World War II, FDR created the USO [wiki] (United Service Organizations). In the past, the USO had put together performances featuring famous entertainers o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/uso-sending-rock-bands-to-iraq-and-the-difficulty-getting-famous-artists-to-go-there/The notorious feud between the Hatfield clan in West Virginia and the McCoy family in Kentucky lasted for over 100 years. Over the past few decades, doctors have tracked a disease in the McCoys that may explain at leas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/06/genetic-diseae-linked-to-feud/
