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Animals That Sit Like Humans Posted: 03 Jan 2009 12:06 AM PST Percy Bright started a pretty nifty post on BuzzFeed, one of my favorite websites on the Web. It’s all about animals that, for whatever reason, sit like humans: Link

Finding Line Drawing Using Google Image Search Posted: 03 Jan 2009 12:05 AM PST Maybe my Google-fu isn’t as strong as yours, so I’ve just found out that you can find nifty things like line drawings, faces, and clip arts in Google Images! Here’s what you’ll find if you look for line drawings of "Neatorama": Link - via Chris Glass

Sexy Turkey Hat Posted: 03 Jan 2009 12:04 AM PST If you start knitting this now, you too can have your very own "Sexy Turkey Hat" for Thanksgiving 2009. Etsy seller Angela Catirina, who is a force to be reckoned with in the world of crafts, is selling the pattern to this unbelievably awesome headwear (I dare you to find something more awesome, folks): Link | More about Angela at ExtremeCraft

Kit Kat Benchvertising Posted: 03 Jan 2009 12:04 AM PST Photo: Noah Dylan Goldblatt [Flickr] Toxel blog has a pretty nifty post about some clever and creative bench advertisements (benchvertising?) - My favorite is the Kit Kat Bench above. Link - via Chair Blog

Bizarro: Betcha Can’t Stop Thinking About Pie Charts Now! Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:06 PM PST What is it with pie charts and the webbernets? This Bizarro comic panel reminds me of a post Miss Cellania wrote for our pal mental_floss last summer: Fun with Pie Charts. For more Bizarro goodness, check out Dan Piraro’s website and blog.

Hawk Got Served by Breakdancing Kid Posted: 02 Jan 2009 10:32 PM PST [YouTube - Link] Harry the Hawk, the mascot of the the Atlanta Hawks basketball team got pwnd by this kid, who showed him how to DANCE! - via videosift

Lego Clown Tank by Angus MacLane Posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:19 PM PST It’s easy to make a clown horrifying, but Angus MacLane managed to make a clown adorable. Click here for a gallery of images of his Lego Clown Tank. Previously on Neatorama: Kung Fu Clowns.

Tacky Hillary Memorabilia Posted: 02 Jan 2009 07:33 PM PST In an effort to ensure this site isn’t biased towards the left, I thought you may all appreciate these silly Hillary Clinton items. Although, to be fair, now the site seems sexist against women politicians, so I assume everyone will still be unhappy. Link

Where The Wild Things Are Bento Posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:57 PM PST I bow to the food prep-fu of Anna The Red of Bento Factory, who made these excellent Where The Wild Things Are Bento Boxes. Link

Sarah Palin Toilet Paper Posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:23 PM PST I know Neatorama isn’t a political blog, (yet another thing I love about it), but I just couldn’t resist the chance to share this special Sarah Palin toilet paper. Regardless of your own political affiliation, you have to admit, it takes a special person to have a toilet paper printed with your face on it. Maybe you never liked Palin, maybe you’re just upset at her for losing the election, but whatever your reason for wanting to buy this, it’s still going to run you a pretty hefty $9. So I guess you’d better really want it. Also, if this floats your boat, you may enjoy the John McCain punching bag for the same reason. Link

Caffeine Test Strips Posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:23 PM PST D+Caf strips are strips of paper coated with antibodies that react to the presence of caffeine. Strangely, these appear to be made to help people avoid caffeinated drinks — a desire that I simply cannot fathom. But if you’re interested, for 50 cents a strip, you can avoid the pleasures of real coffee. Link via Geekologie

Hunter S. Thompson motivational posters Posted: 02 Jan 2009 05:42 PM PST Hipster blog Sloshspot has a great idea: Motivational posters by/about the late, great Hunter S. Thompson! HST inspired countless thousands of writers over the years. I wonder what sort of inspiration these posters could provide? [Sloshspot.com]

Shoes on a Florida Expressway Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:55 AM PST Commuters driving to work early today on the Palmetto Expressway in Florida encountered something weird: thousands of shoes on the road: According to Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Pat Santangelo, thousands of pairs of used shoes mysteriously appeared at 7:42 a.m. on the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway between the Bird Road and Miller Drive exits. Employees of the Florida Department of Transportation’s Road Rangers service, which is meant to provide roadside assistance, managed to push all the shoes into one lane using large brooms. A private contractor was hired to use a front-end loader to pick up the shoes by the dozen and load them into a large dump truck, Santangelo said. ”At this point, no one’s claimed the shoes,” Santangelo said. Link

Can You Sleepwalk Into a Crime? Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:53 AM PST Can you sleepwalk your way into crime? That’s what happened to Adam Ball, who sleepwalked into an underaged girl’s bed: Just over a year ago, Alan Ball went to a New Year’s Eve house party, drank heavily and fell asleep on a sofa. At some point during the night, he got up, went upstairs and climbed into bed with an under-age girl, whom he kissed on the lips. After a year in which this lorry-driving father lost his job and was able to see his five-year-old daughter only during supervised visits, a judge at Preston Crown Court this week cleared him of sexual assault after the 35-year-old claimed he was sleepwalking at the time of the incident and had no memory of the events. Marcus Dunk of The Daily Mail has the story: Link (Photo: Bruce Adams)

The Holy Grail of Rock, “A Hard Day’s Night” Chord, Solved by Math Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:53 AM PST Take that, sweet mystery of rock ‘n roll. Math has just solved the Holy Grail of Rock: the mysterious "A Hard Day’s Night" chord. Dalhousie University math professor Jason Brown applied Fourier transform to solve the Beatles’ riddle: there was a mystery piano! … the frequencies he found didn’t match the known instrumentation on the song. “George played a 12-string Rickenbacker, Lennon had his six string, Paul had his bass…none of them quite fit what I found,” he explains. “Then the solution hit me: it wasn’t just those instruments. There was a piano in there as well, and that accounted for the problematic frequencies.” Link

Abandoned London Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:51 AM PST Photo: IanVisits [Flickr] Inspired by a scene of abandoned London in the zombie horror flick 28 Days Later, Ian Mansfield of IanVisits blog decided to bike down to London early Christmas morning and snap a few photos. This one above is of Piccadilly Circus, in London’s West End, completely devoid of humans. Link | More at Ian’s Flickr photoset

Thor, Norse God and Crime Fighter Posted: 02 Jan 2009 11:51 AM PST There are two remarkable things about this BBC news report from Edinburgh, Scotland. First, a man tried to break into a flat carrying a pitch fork. And second, he was chased away by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor. "Thor" was actually Torvald Alexander, who was dressed-up for a New Year’s dress party. Link If you’re curious, Telegraph has a photo of Torvald in his Thor costume.

World’s Most Obedient Dog Posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:06 AM PST (YouTube link) He’s got more self-control than any human I know! Yeah, this would be even better without the laugh track. -via Bits and Pieces

Did A Comet Wipe Out The Mammoths? Posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:05 AM PST Scientists have long pondered an event 12,900 years ago that caused the disappearance of the Clovis people of North America and the extinction of large mammals such as the mammoth, mastodon, saber-toothed cat, and the North American camel. One theory is that a comet broke into fragments and showered burning material over the continent. Now there’s some evidence -a layer of nanodiamonds have been found at a layer of sediment buried 12,900 years ago. The diamonds could have only been formed by a high-pressure high-temperature event. These diamonds are measured in nanometers — mere billionths of meters — and one of them would not suffice for an engagement ring unless the recipient had an extremely small finger. Indeed, these diamonds are visible only with the aid of the most advanced microscopes. The wide distribution of the nanodiamonds could be a sign that the comet broke into pieces in space and that the fragments burned up explosively over a broad area of North America. The heat and pressure from the event transformed carbon on the planet’s surface into the tiny diamonds, the scientists said. “Imagine these fireballs exploding in the air. A Clovis hunter standing and looking at these things would have seen a canopy of fire as these things came in and exploded,” said Allen West, a geophysicist and one of the paper’s co-authors. “There would have been no sound. There would have been massive explosions. Brilliant light, brighter than the sun. There would have been radiant heat — it would have been capable, at the very least, of giving him serious burns and, at the maximum, of incinerating him.” This theory would explain the climate change at the time, when the warming planet was plunged into another, shorter ice age. Skeptics cite lack of a crater or other surface evidence in refuting the theory. Link -via Digg

The Ten Deadliest Volcanic Eruptions Posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:00 AM PST Volcanos are the most dangerous type of natural catastrophe, and have killed more people than most of us are aware of. Read about each of the ten deadliest eruptions in recorded history. To give you an idea, the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which you are probably most familiar with, only comes in at number ten. Pictured is Galunggung Volcano in Indonesia. Link -Thanks, Grzegorz Paslawski!

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