deputydog's new blog - and other great Neatorama posts

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It's time for our weekly update from Sift parter Neatorama.com. Check out the neat stories below and their site for lots of great stories (and material to submit to the Sift .

Letters of Note

Shaun Usher, AKA deputydog late of deputy-dog.com has a new blog. I don't know where they've come from- but he's sourced some amazing, rare old letters. You must read the one from Frank Zappa on the front page. Very cool.
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NASA Levitates Mouse Using Magnetic Fields

Hopefully this doesn't get nominated for an Ignoble prize because while it sounds kinds of silly- it's actually very neat. And I want my levitating skateboard damn it. I was promised it in when I was 20 at a movie theater. (yes I'm that old)
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Sleeping In Separate Beds May Help Marriages

As a 40 year-old married man- I read this with great interest. I couldn't agree more that intimacy != sleeping together all the time.
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Hunt For The Poo Squirter of India

"I was in Connaught Place, in the heart of New Delhi, and as I emerged from an underpass a shoe-shine man came up to me, and whispered into my ear.

He then pointed at my right shoe on which sat, to my amazement, a small worm of brownish goo. He offered to wipe it off, but I knew that something was, well, afoot, and cleaned my shoe with a few leaves."
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Why Don't We All Drive on the Same Side of the Road?

As someone who struggles to reverse their brain every time I visit my tierra natal - I was very curious to learn the answer to this. It's all Napoleon's fault.
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