deputydog's new blog - and other great Neatorama posts
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. [Link] | |
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) [Link] | |
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. [Link] | |
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." [Link] | |
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. [Link] | |
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deputydog using capital letters?! What has the world come to?
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^I know, right? Maybe he finally replaced that faulty SHIFT key.
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*promote DD's new venture.
Self promoting this Sift Talk post - promote requested by original submitter dag.
"NASA Levitates Mouse Using Magnetic Fields"
Just sifted this video showing that process in action (I think), just with frogs, grasshoppers and stuff. Definitely fascinating.
Oh and deputydog's new site/blog is awesome! He's added a lot already. I've got it bookmarked now.
dd's blog, letters of note, is fan-tas-tic. you MUST check it out. a real treasure... I love it
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