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• Shark Ride
• Dog Tries to Play Fetch with a Sculpture
• The Man Who Saved His Porsche from a Flood on an Inflatable Raft
• Tiny, Functional Atari 810 Disk Drive
• Wolverine/Boba Fett Cosplay
• Strength & Beauty Wonder Woman Mug
• The Art of Negative Space by Tang Yau Hoong
• Tintin Shot First!
• Kitten Crash Test
• What Do Kids Think of Osama's Death?
• Men Don't Just Think About Sex. They Think About Sex, Food, and Sleep
• The Cat From Hell
• For Sale: Home Alone House
• The Quarterlife Crisis
• World's Largest Model Airport
• Ride The Bench
• When Ants The Size Of A Hummingbird Roamed The Earth ...
• US Military Tosses Kittens Out of Airplane
• Funny T-Shirts
• What Do Bosses Do All Day?
• The City Limits: Gorgeous Timelapse from Dominic Bodreault
• Cats That Look Like Hitler
• Hiding Lockheed Plant During World War II
• Top Ten Evil Lairs
• Nao Humanoid Robot Plays Card Games With Kids
• Solve The Energy Problem by Mining The Moon
• Algorithm Connects 9/11 Victims
• Night of the Little Dead
• 4 Wildly Successful Companies Started by Stay-at-Home Moms
• Stretch Body Bits

Shark Ride Posted: 07 May 2011 04:26 AM PDT Enal lives in a stilted house in Wangi, Indonesia. His friend lives in a penned off area of the sea. Although this is a remarkable scene for us, it might not be for Enal’s people, the Bajau Laut. These Malay marine nomads have a symbiotic relationship with the ocean which photographer James Morgan explored. He wrote: Traditional Bajau cosmology – a syncretism of animism and Islam – reveals a complex relationship with the ocean, which for them is a multifarious and living entity. There are spirits in currents and tides, in coral reefs and mangroves. Morgan snapped this amazing shot to become The Telegraph’s 2010 Travel Photographer of the Year. Link and Article via This Is Colossal | Photo: James Morgan

Dog Tries to Play Fetch with a Sculpture Posted: 06 May 2011 05:35 PM PDT (Video Link) Stupid, obstinate sculpture. Can’t you see that the dog wants to play fetch? He’s even presented you with a stick. Just pick it up and throw it already! via Geekosystem

The Man Who Saved His Porsche from a Flood on an Inflatable Raft Posted: 06 May 2011 05:27 PM PDT Bill Musselman lives in Kentucky on the Ohio River. When it recently flooded, he certainly wasn’t going to let take away his prized 1992 Porsche American Roadster. So he and a friend lashed together three bladders designed to carry 7,500 pounds. It worked! Built by AirDock, Smokey and Bill used 3 bladders that make up a system for supporting a boat up to 27-feet in length and 7500 lbs in weight. With the turbo bodied cabriolet weighing in at less than half that amount, the bladders worked perfectly. "Two of the three bladders were in the back where the engine weight is. It was very well balanced. It was surprising." Each bladder has ropes that tie/lash them together and then there is a separate pump going to each section Link via Jalopnik | Photo: Porsche Purist

Tiny, Functional Atari 810 Disk Drive Posted: 06 May 2011 05:16 PM PDT Blogger rossum recently played Zork for the first time in three decades, and it inspired him to make a tiny model of the Atari 810 drive. This one, however, reads SD cards. The picture above shows his drive sitting on top of an original 810. Link via Geekosystem

Wolverine/Boba Fett Cosplay Posted: 06 May 2011 04:59 PM PDT Adam WarRock (who wrote a great song about not knowing anything about Doctor Who) snapped this shot of a cosplayer at WonderCon in San Francisco. Does the merger make Wolverine or Boba Fett look more impressive? Link via Walyou

Strength & Beauty Wonder Woman Mug Posted: 06 May 2011 04:40 PM PDT Strength & Beauty Wonder Woman Mug – $12.95 Is your Mom an amazing woman?  Show her how much you love her by getting her the Strength & Beauty Wonder Woman Mug from the NeatoShop.  She will probably love your gift so much that she will offer to make you a snack and do your laundry.  Isn’t Mom great! Be sure to check out all fantastic Glassware & Drinkware available at the NeatoShop!

The Art of Negative Space by Tang Yau Hoong Posted: 06 May 2011 04:00 PM PDT Little Red Riding Hood Sky Invaders Spock in the Spork Love, love, love these clever illustrations by Tang Yau Hoong. From the artist’s series of The Art of Negative Space: Link – via Yay Every Day

Tintin Shot First! Posted: 06 May 2011 04:00 PM PDT Cartoonist Dan Hipp’s mashups of Tintin book covers with today’s pop culture themes are so cool that I think Captain Haddock would be hard pressed to come up with an insult. Blistering barnacles – I think Hergé himself would love this! Check out Dan’s blog here: Link – via Nerdcore A few more after the jump: Seriously, go check out Dan’s blog.

Kitten Crash Test Posted: 06 May 2011 03:46 PM PDT (Video Link) One YouTube commenter wrote “this is not funny in any way! the owner probably died? from an overdose of cuteness”. Probably. Don’t worry — no cats were harmed in the creation of this funny video, made perfect by the dramatic theme music. via The Mary Sue

What Do Kids Think of Osama's Death? Posted: 06 May 2011 03:35 PM PDT Fresh Perspectives asks: Was Osama’s death really only symbolic or will it change the war on terror? The panelists in this show are children. The result? Giggles-a-plenty. Link via beckbennett

Men Don't Just Think About Sex. They Think About Sex, Food, and Sleep Posted: 06 May 2011 03:32 PM PDT I’m sure you’ve heard of the old urban legend that guys think about sex every seven seconds. What a load of sexist poppycock! Guys don’t only think of sex. They only think of sex, food, and sleep: The median number of thoughts about sex by college-age men was 18 times a day to women’s 10 times a day, the study found. But the men also thought about food and sleep proportionately more. "In other words, there was nothing special about sexual thoughts," study researcher Terri Fisher, a psychologist at The Ohio State University, Mansfield, told LiveScience. "Males thought more about any of the health-related thoughts compared to females, not just thoughts about sex." Link

The Cat From Hell Posted: 06 May 2011 03:31 PM PDT Think you’ve got a bad pet (oh, sorry … animal companion). Well, count yourself lucky because it ain’t this cat, who seems to have deservedly earned the nickname "Cat From Hell": "One of my clients was a big guy who moved in with his girlfriend who already had the cat," Galaxy told AOL Weird News. "He was trying to be understanding of the cat — until it started peeing in his mouth while sleeping." David Moye of AOL Weird News has the full story: Link (Photo: Animal Planet)

For Sale: Home Alone House Posted: 06 May 2011 03:31 PM PDT Here’s your chance of owning a piece of movie history: the house that Macaulay Culkin bravely defended in the movie Home Alone is up for sale. The price is a bit steep, but it’s been proven to withstand intrusions by idiotic burglars. The 4,250-square-foot, 14-room home sits on a half-acre lot and features four bedrooms, 3.2 baths, a large screened-in porch with a chandelier and, of course, the staircase sledded down by Culkin in John Hughes’ 1990 film. Link

The Quarterlife Crisis Posted: 06 May 2011 03:30 PM PDT Midlife crisis used to be for old guys, but young people today have got their own version: "quarterlife crisis." It is hitting twenty- and thirtysomethings shortly after the enter the real world. Author Damien Barr said that a "growing number of 25-year-olds are experiencing pressures previously felt by those in their mid-forties": "Plenty of people are going to say the quarterlife crisis doesn’t exist," he said. "The truth is that our 20s are not, as they were for our parents, 10 years of tie-dye fun and quality ‘me’ time. Being twentysomething now is scary – fighting millions of other graduates for your first job, struggling to raise a mortgage deposit and finding time to juggle all your relationships. "We have the misfortune to be catapulted into a perilous property market. We’re earning more and spending more than ever. We’re getting into debt to finance our degrees, careers and accommodation." He added: "The Depression Alliance estimates that a third of twentysomethings feel depressed. "If, as we’re constantly told, the world is our oyster, it’s definitely a dodgy one. Unlike the midlife crisis, the quarterlife crisis is not widely recognised. There are no ‘experts’ to help us. We have no support apart from each other." Link

World's Largest Model Airport Posted: 06 May 2011 01:54 PM PDT Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg, which has the world’s largest model railroad, has yet captured another superlative to its name: it has recently opened Airport Knuffingen, the world’s largest model airport. Over an area of 150m², there will be almost 40 different aircrafts taking off and landing, up to 360 times, daily. Since 2011, more than 150.000 working hours, and round-about 3.5 million Euros have been invested in this spectacular project. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]

Ride The Bench Posted: 06 May 2011 01:53 PM PDT If one bicycle seat is kind of uncomfortable (at least for us fatties), how about 22 of them? Here’s Jeremy Petrus’ Mishmash bench, made from Selle Royal’s bicycle seats: Link – via Core77

When Ants The Size Of A Hummingbird Roamed The Earth ... Posted: 06 May 2011 01:53 PM PDT Be thankful that you don’t live 50 million years ago, or you’d have to use a baseball bat instead of a shoe to kill this ant: A winged ant queen fossilized in 49.5-million-year-old Wyoming rock ranks as the first body of a giant ant from the Western Hemisphere, says paleoentomologist Bruce Archibald of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. The new species, Titanomyrma lubei, is related to giant ants previously found in German fossils. These long-distance relatives bolster the notion that the climate of the time had hot blips that allowed warmth-loving giant insects to spread from continent to continent, Archibald and a U.S.-Canada team propose online May 4 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Link

US Military Tosses Kittens Out of Airplane Posted: 06 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT Photos have surfaced that allegedly show the US military tossing kittens out of an airplane. When Gen. G. Rover Barkly was asked about the photos he said, “We wanted to find out if a cat really does always land on its feet. The upside is that if they don’t make it the first time, we have eight more tries per animal. That is a bargain for the American taxpayer.” I made that all up naturally, that photo is one of the more humorous ones from a Slate story titled “Cats of War.” link

Funny T-Shirts Posted: 06 May 2011 12:02 PM PDT Dark Side of the Moon - $14.95   I Want To Believe, The Alien Version Resistance Begins at Ohm Evolution of Gamers Brainier Than The Average Bear ROFLCOPTER Pilot I'm No Cupcake Get ready for T-Shirt weather with Funny T-Shirts from the NeatoShop. From geeky to one-liners, we've got tons of neat T-shirts cheap! Free shipping to USA and Canada on orders $75 and up: Link

What Do Bosses Do All Day? Posted: 06 May 2011 11:20 AM PDT Besides pestering you with thankless tasks, what exactly do CEOs do all day? Thanks to a new Harvard Business School study, now we know: Researchers asked the chief executives of 94 Italian firms to have their assistants record their activities for a week. You may take this with a grain of salt. Is the boss’s assistant a neutral observer? If the boss spends his lunch hour boozing, or in a motel with his assistant, will she record this truthfully? Nonetheless, here are the results. The average Italian boss works for 48 hours a week and spends 60% of that time in meetings. The most diligent put in another 20 hours. And the longer they work, the better the company does. Less diligent chief executives are more likely to have one-to-one meetings with people from outside the company. The authors speculate that such people are trying to raise their own profile, perhaps to secure a better job. Bosses who work longer hours, by contrast, spend more of them meeting their own employees. Link

The City Limits: Gorgeous Timelapse from Dominic Bodreault Posted: 06 May 2011 11:19 AM PDT I’m a sucker for beautiful nighttime cityscape time-lapse like this one shot by photographer Dominic Bodreault from late 2010 through early 2011 in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Manhattan, and Chicago. Simply gorgeous (the music by Hans Zimmer is also spot on). Take a look at weep: Hit play or go to Link [Vimeo] – via PetaPixel

Cats That Look Like Hitler Posted: 06 May 2011 10:46 AM PDT Would you love a cat that looks like Hitler? Apparently cats looking like Hitler is such an epidemic that there is an entire website dedicated to cataloguing these Kitlers. If you have one you can post your Feline Führer and show him to the world before he tries to take it over. Link

Hiding Lockheed Plant During World War II Posted: 06 May 2011 10:45 AM PDT It's amazing what a little camouflage can do.  Apparently during World War II to avoid potential bombing the government went to great lengths to disguise an aircraft  plant.  Check out more of these amazing photos at the link. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air. Link

Top Ten Evil Lairs Posted: 06 May 2011 10:45 AM PDT When we think "Evil Lairs" most of us fondly remember Dr. Evil's hollowed out mountain with his face on it from the Austin Powers movies (at least I do).  In reality there are plenty of actual evil lairs to marvel at. My favorite is H.H. Holmes’ Murder Castle. This was no ordinary hotel: most of the rooms were windowless, with stairways to nowhere and hallways that ended in dead ends. Holmes also built gas jets into hotel-room walls, a wooden disposal chute and person-size kiln in the basement. This was the perfect place to murder someone. Link

Nao Humanoid Robot Plays Card Games With Kids Posted: 06 May 2011 10:44 AM PDT When I was a kid we had to make do with a Light Bright to entertain us. Now it looks like we are one step closer to children having a robotic, artificially intelligent play friend. Which will be perfect for the child with no friends. Visual pattern recognition is an important part of human intelligence. It's a complex process, requiring parallel processing of different types of information such as the shape, color, and contrast of a person's face. If the robots of the future are going to be able to imitate–or improve upon–our behavior they're going to need to be pretty adept at pattern recognition. The Nao program for pattern recognition only sees in 2D, but for the purposes of the card game it's enough. Link

Solve The Energy Problem by Mining The Moon Posted: 06 May 2011 10:41 AM PDT How to you kill two birds with one stone? We haven't been back to the moon since the Apollo missions and we have a looming energy crisis. Former NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt has a big plan to solve both those issues.  Former astronaut, Apollo moonwalker, geologist and former Senator Harrison Schmitt has a modest plan to solve the world's energy problems. All we need is $15 billion over 15 years and some fusion reactors that have yet to be invented. Link

Algorithm Connects 9/11 Victims Posted: 06 May 2011 10:37 AM PDT The National September 11 Memorial will open this fall in New York City. The names of 3,500 victims of the terrorist attacks that day will be inscribed on the wall surrounding the fountains. Instead of arranging the names alphabetically, they will be grouped by affinity: police officers together, firefighters together, passengers on each plane together, and for those who were in the World Trade Center or the Pentagon, friends and co-workers will be grouped together. “It's about making meaning not just for the people who know the individuals, but for the people who are going there,” says Jake Barton, Local Projects’ founder. “In that way, people can learn the human relationships and stories underneath the names themselves.” If, for example, you see the 650 employees from Cantor Fitzgerald together, you realize that an entire company was nearly wiped out. Had they been arranged alphabetically, that bit of meaning would have been lost. “The Memorial Finder, covers the gap,” says Barton. “It tells you the specific panel and number, where you can find an individual, but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.” While the project makes intuitive sense, wrangling 3,500 victims' names was anything but simple. An algorithm created by programmer Jer Thorp allows, for instance, the names of firefighter John T. Vigiano II and his brother, police officer Joseph Vincent Vigiano to be placed next to each other, while both are grouped with the other victims in their respective units. Read more about this project at Fastco Design. Link -Thanks, Joe Jalbert!

Night of the Little Dead Posted: 06 May 2011 10:34 AM PDT (YouTube link) We don’t yet know a lot about the movie Night of the Little Dead, except that it stars Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller) and Adam Savage (of Mythbusters), but that is enough to make me want to see it! Link

4 Wildly Successful Companies Started by Stay-at-Home Moms Posted: 06 May 2011 10:33 AM PDT The secret to success is finding what people need and providing it -which takes hard work, of course. Mental_floss brings you the stories of four women who worked at home raising children AND had an idea that made them entrepreneurs. What a great way to get into the mood for Mothers Day! Link

Stretch Body Bits Posted: 06 May 2011 07:22 AM PDT Stretch Body Bits – $1.95 Life can be stressful when you are the type of person who is always lending a ear, hand, nose or foot.  Are you looking for a way to put the play back in your day? With the Stretch Body Bits from the NeatoShop stretching yourself thin just became more fun. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun-tastic Gag Gifts & Pranks!

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