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• Great Moustaches Mug
• From the Annals of the History of Psychology: Nude Psychotherapy
• Security Company Uses Box to Show How Easy It Is to Break into Your Home
• Old Computer Monitor Turned into Dog Bed
• The Geometry of Pasta
• Creative Photography by Jason Lee
• Boukje Voet's Book Sculptures
• RIP Stephen J. Cannell
• Boat Made of Chocolate
• This Week at Neatorama

Great Moustaches Mug Posted: 02 Oct 2010 11:45 PM PDT Great Moustaches Mug – $10.95 So. You think you know your ’staches. We’ll see about that: can you identify these 14 of history’s greatest mustaches? Just use this guide, handily printed on the 12 oz. Great Moustaches Mug from the NeatoShop: Link | See also: Fun and Unusual Glassware & Drinkware

From the Annals of the History of Psychology: Nude Psychotherapy Posted: 02 Oct 2010 01:57 PM PDT In the 1960s (of course), psychologist Paul Bindrim, building upon the work of Abraham Maslow, invented a form of psychotherapy that involved everyone getting naked: Nude therapy was based on the idea of the naked body as a metaphor of the “psychological soul.” Uninhibited exhibition of the nude body revealed that which was most fundamental, truthful, and real. In the marathon, Bindrim interrogated this metaphor with a singular determination. Bodies were exposed and scrutinized with a science-like rigor. Particular attention was paid to revealing the most private areas of the body and mind-all with a view to freeing the self from its socially imposed constraints. “This,” Bindrim asserted gesturing to a participant’s genitalia and anus, “is where it’s at. This is where we are so damned negatively conditioned” [...] Determined to squelch the “exaggerated sense of guilt” in the body, Bindrim devised an exercise called “crotch eyeballing” in which participants were instructed to look at each others genitals and disclose the sexual experiences they felt most guilty about while lying naked in a circle with their legs in the air [...] In this position, Bindrim insisted “you soon realize that the head end and the tail end are indispensable parts of the same person, and that one end is about as good as the other.:” Link via io9 | Unrelated photo of Bob Newhart statue via Flickr user Digital Sextant, used under Creative Commons license

Security Company Uses Box to Show How Easy It Is to Break into Your Home Posted: 02 Oct 2010 01:46 PM PDT The security company ADT wanted to convince apartment and condo owners in Santiago, Chile that it’s really easy to break into their homes. So the ad agency DDB made spring-loaded boxes and shoved them under the front doors of prospective customers. At the link, you can see a video from the ad agency showing how they work. Link via Geekosystem | Photo: Copyranter

Old Computer Monitor Turned into Dog Bed Posted: 02 Oct 2010 01:40 PM PDT Flickr user Monica Wagner turned an old computer monitor into a bed for her dog, Zelda. At the link, you can view fourteen images of it. Sometimes the cat takes over. Link via Gizmodo

The Geometry of Pasta Posted: 02 Oct 2010 11:19 AM PDT How many of these pasta shapes can you name? How many can you use in a recipe? This is a small sampling of the pastas listed at The Geometry of Pasta. Click on a shape and find out what to call it and how to use it in Italian meals. There are recipes as well. Link -via the Presurfer

Creative Photography by Jason Lee Posted: 02 Oct 2010 09:46 AM PDT Jason Lee is a wedding photographer, but his really creative side comes out when he shoots his adorable daughters. You’ll find more pictures and an interview with Lee at My Modern Met. Link -via reddit

Boukje Voet's Book Sculptures Posted: 02 Oct 2010 09:10 AM PDT Dutch artist Boukje Voet shreds books into elaborate sculptures. Pictured above is the novel Catching Butterflies (according to Google Translate), which Voet shaped accordingly. Link (in Dutch) via DudeCraft

RIP Stephen J. Cannell Posted: 02 Oct 2010 06:38 AM PDT (YouTube link) TV writer and producer Stephen J. Cannell has died as a result of melanoma. He was 69. Cannell created (or co-created) dozens of TV series in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, including The Rockford Files, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Silk Stalkings, The Commish, Hardcastle And McCormick, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Baretta. He also wrote novels and screenplays. Shown here is a montage of all but two of the evolving logos Stephen J. Cannell Productions tagged the end of the shows with. Link -via Metafilter

Boat Made of Chocolate Posted: 02 Oct 2010 06:24 AM PDT (Video Link) To settle a bet, chocolatier Georges Larnicol built and launched a boat made from chocolate. The 3.5 meter craft managed to stay afloat with three people inside for an hour and a half. It wasn’t the 55-year-old’s first attempt to set sail in a chocolate boat. In August his plans were scuppered when his Chocolate boat Mark I broke into pieces. But Mark II, which took more than 400 hours to construct, met with more success and pleased with the outcome, Larnicol is promising to build a bigger 12-metre boat complete with chocolate mask for 2012. Link via The Presurfer

This Week at Neatorama Posted: 02 Oct 2010 06:00 AM PDT I’ve been alluding to new things coming from Neatorama, and this week a couple of those things made their debut. We launched a new weekly distraction for you called Neato-Puzzles! Every Tuesday you’ll get a new puzzle in collaboration with Conceptis Puzzles. The first one is a fairly easy sudoku puzzle. There are puzzles of all kinds with different levels of difficulty coming in the weeks ahead. We also presented a new giveaway contest called Name That Weird Invention. Come up with a name for Steven Johnson’s strange concept of the week and win prizes! In the first contest, congratulations go out to to Evan who won Steven Johnsons’s book What The World Needs Now. Congratulations also to runners-up Trevor and heaterc who won T-shirts from the NeatoShop! Their winning suggestions are at the contest post. Look for a new invention on Monday. Stacy took a look back at the first Gordon Gekko movie in Movie Trivia: Wall Street to prepare you for the sequel in theaters now. David Israel visited The New Los Angeles Holocaust Museum and got an exclusive interview and tour as the museum prepares to open later this month. Jill Harness wrote about both the brain and the body this week with Hacks to Help You Stay Healthy and Tricks Our Minds Play On Us. She also brought us The Real Life Inspirations For 14 Simpsons Characters. Thursday was the 50th anniversary of the premiere of the first prime-time animated TV series, so I looked up 10 Neat Facts About The Flintstones. Steven Johnson had some futuristic (and yet peculiarly retro at the same time) ideas for Automated Dining to add to the Museum of Possibilities. Over at the Spotlight Blog, you can get an up close and personal look at Mark Racop’s awesome Authentic 1966 Batmobile® Replicas. You probably didn’t know about The Limburger Cheese War before you read this week’s article from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. The folks at the Annals of Improbable Research brought us an Ig Nobel Libretto: "Chicken versus Egg", and also awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prizes this week. Mental_floss magazine gave us The 411 on 911: A Brief and Incomplete Timeline. Even though we have new puzzles and contests, our old giveaways are still here! Congratulations to kantoboy, who won Mal and Chad’s Fill in the Bubble Frenzy with the caption “Dear Mal, You have won the Island Getaway Sweepstakes. Congratulations!” Kantoboy gets a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! And we had the What Is It? game as well. I’ll add the winners’ names here as soon as I get them. In case that’s not enough to keep you busy this weekend, check out what’s going on at NeatoBambino and see what’s new at the NeatoHub!

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