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- Ivory Soap In A Microwave
- Beechcraft Car
- Meltdown
- 840-Barrel Paintball Machine
- Jum Nakao's Cut Paper Dresses
- Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night Rendered in Pork Products
- Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks
- TV News Crew Confuses Star Trek Organization with US Navy SEALs
- Chicken Tape Dispenser
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us - Giveaway!
- Porsche 911 GT3 Hybrid Racer has the Most Complex Steering Wheel Ever
- Life-Size Portal Turret Can't Shoot, but Looks Cool
- 2000 Year Old Computer Made From Legos
- Game Boy Online
- Post Apocalypse Wallpapers
- A Website About Nothing
- Steampunk Computer Terminal
- The Loneliest Plant In The World
- Leg Reattached Backward
- S'Mores Without The Campfire
- Long Truck Is Long
- 400 Excuses & Lies For The Workplace
- Almost a Good Idea
- Tesla Vanity Plate
- To Sit or Not to Sit
| Posted: 11 May 2011 04:09 AM PDT According to Steve Spangler, the tiny amount of water in Ivory’s famous air bubbles heat up and expand. The end product is a “soap souffle”! -via The Daily What  |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 08:02 PM PDT Shove a 1943 Beechcraft body onto a 1979 Jeep Cherokee chassis, and this beauty is the result. The Beech Car was built by Bob A. Pfeiffer in 1984 and is now up for sale. The custom-built interior still looks much like an airplane, especially the driver’s seat. It was used, among other promotional purposes, to transport a hockey team’s cheerleaders onto the ice. Link | Photo: Craigslist |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 07:13 PM PDT This stop-motion film by Dave Green shows what happens when the refrigerator thermostat malfunctions. It’s a horror story. -via The Daily What |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 04:08 PM PDT (Video Link) This commercial for an energy drink features a paintball machine with 840 barrels. It fires a single volley with different colors to produce, in just a second, a image through a stencil. The action starts at 0:35. via This Is Colossal | Previously: Paintball Art |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT In 2004 in São Paulo, Brazilian artist Jum Nakao held a fashion show exhibiting many amazing dresses composed of delicate sheets of intricately cut paper. In an interview about his work, Nakao wrote about a subsequent and similar exhibition by writing:
Link via Dude Craft | Photo: Once Upon a Fold | Artist’s Website | Interview |
| Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night Rendered in Pork Products Posted: 10 May 2011 03:41 PM PDT |
| Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks Posted: 10 May 2011 03:36 PM PDT So, here we have Dirk Benedict, who played Lt. Starbuck in the classic Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff, who played Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in the modern Battlestar Galactica, in a Starbucks coffee shop. The mind reels. Link | Photo: unknown |
| TV News Crew Confuses Star Trek Organization with US Navy SEALs Posted: 10 May 2011 03:27 PM PDT In the Star Trek universe, the Maquis was a military organization created by Federation colonists who ended up on the Cardassian side of the border when the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union signed a peace treaty. SEAL Team Six of the US Navy is a different organization, although a German TV news crew confused the two:
Link via io9 | Image: TrekMovie |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 02:47 PM PDT
Are you looking for a way to bring some country flair to your desk? You need the Chicken Tape Dispenser from the NeatoShop. This little cutey will have your coworkers clucking with envy. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Office & Desk fun!
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| All Your Base Are Belong To Us - Giveaway! Posted: 10 May 2011 01:09 PM PDT
It’s an amazing look at some of the greatest games of all-time and how they have affected us. I’ve started reading it this past weekend and can’t put it down. So here’s what you do to win: 1) Read some of the book on Neatorama’s own BitLit blog! We’re serializing it all this week! 2) Check out The Game Station’s interview with Goldberg right over here. 3) At the end of the interview, there are some questions. The first pertains to the BitLit excerpt. The second pertains to the interview. The third is pretty random, but let’s us know you can follow instructions. 4) Leave your answers as a comment on The Game Station interview post. We’ll pick 10, yes 10 random winners who will get copies of the book. And ONE extra lucky winner will get the book inscribed by Goldberg himself! So what are you waiting for?! Go win a copy now! |
| Porsche 911 GT3 Hybrid Racer has the Most Complex Steering Wheel Ever Posted: 10 May 2011 11:24 AM PDT My car is much more focused on performance and power than it is on creature comforts. When I get into my wife’s SUV, it takes me a while to acclimate to all the gadgets and gizmos the car has. I can only imagine the shock to the system having to drive the Porsche 911 GT3 Hybrid at normal speeds would have with all those buttons on the wheel. Having to drive it very quickly would surely give a new driver a headache. The wheel has a plethora of buttons and knobs to deal with for various car functions. This hybrid racecar uses its hybrid system not for improving fuel economy, but to increase performance. That little red button near the spoke that says “boost” is the only one I know the use for. Press that button and the hybrid system gives the driver more power to pass other cars. link |
| Life-Size Portal Turret Can't Shoot, but Looks Cool Posted: 10 May 2011 11:13 AM PDT I am a a big fan of video games and if you have ever played the game Portal, you will recognize this DIY creation right away. The builder handcrafted the turret and it took about a month to build. It has motion detection, a laser pointer, and when it senses motion it plays the sound of bullets firing. It even has a button that plays the Portal theme song. I hope the next version incorporates NERF guns or Airsoft so the turret can really shoot. link |
| 2000 Year Old Computer Made From Legos Posted: 10 May 2011 10:37 AM PDT Andrew Carol's works a day job as an engineer for Apple, but in his spare time uses his skills to recreate ancient computers out of Legos. See link for video.
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| Posted: 10 May 2011 10:37 AM PDT For those of us who owned the original 1989 Nintendo Game Boy nothing is more exciting and nostalgic then playing some of those green and yellow video game classics of our youth. GameBoyOnline.com claims to have over 800 games that you can play in the browser without downloading an emulator. I know what I'm doing at work today.. rescuing that Princess once and for all. Link |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 10:36 AM PDT It's always good to remember that things could always be worse. That's why these really neat post apocalypse wallpapers for Mac and PC give us pause for that that we really do have it better now then when we will be telling the children about "the before time." Link |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 10:36 AM PDT Jerry Seinfeld has launched a website featuring daily clips from his own archives of every stand-up performance, interview and recording that has ever been made of the comic. To see what the deal with it is, check out the link for today's latest video clip. Link |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 10:35 AM PDT Steampunk ascetics glorifies the Victorian age though creating retro futuristic technology. This computer terminal goes all the way. See link for full gallery. Link |
| The Loneliest Plant In The World Posted: 10 May 2011 08:17 AM PDT
The tree produced a cone in 2004 for the first time ever, which is the signal for reproduction, but there was no female for it to pollinate. Link (Image credit: Andrew McRobb/RBG Kew) Previously: Another species of cycad at Kew Gardens is even older. |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 08:13 AM PDT
It took 18 months of physical therapy for Dugan to learn a new way to use his leg. Now 13, he is playing baseball again. Link -via J-Walk Blog |
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| Posted: 10 May 2011 07:00 AM PDT Yep, that’s a long truck! According to commenters, this kind of transport is used to haul sugar cane in Brazil. Normally they only travel from farm to farm, and it is unusual to see one on a highway. -via the Presurfer |
| 400 Excuses & Lies For The Workplace Posted: 10 May 2011 06:38 AM PDT
Do you hate your job? You need 400 Excuses & Lies For The Workplace from the NeatoShop. Enclosed in this handy little tin are 400 ready-made excuses and lies to get out of working. These flashcards are perfect for when you need a good laugh. We know you would never actually use them. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fabulous Cubicle Toys! |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 06:08 AM PDT This building apparently doesn’t have a freight elevator. In order to avoid carrying boxes upstairs, these guys hatched a plan. The language in the video is Turkish, and the video was posted to a Russian video site, where there is no more information available. -via Buzzfeed Update: This is an award-winning ad for a Turkish bank. You can see the full version here. -Thanks, Murat! |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 05:59 AM PDT Redditor enginesoftime saw this vanity plate on a Tesla Roadster and snapped a picture. But the fact that it has a numeral added, plus Nikola is spelled with a “c” made me wonder how many other vanity plates on Tesla cars refer to the original Nikola Tesla. This roundup of Tesla vanity plates has clever ones, but they mainly refer to fuel efficiency. The funniest one went viral about a year ago. The geekiest Tesla license plate would be one that just says “NIKOLA,” don’t you think? It has to exist out there somewhere! Link |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 05:10 AM PDT The following is an article from the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.
A Physician's Reasons Why Men Should Stand Western Europe is abuzz with the latest flare-up in the war between the sexes, and for the moment, the women seem to be winning. If outrage continues to mount, it will soon be not just uncool and politically incorrect for a man to urinate while standing up, but out and out ILLEGAL. Yes, the liberated women of France and Germany and Holland have vowed to put their men down—on the toilet. They carry placards showing a huge red X scrawled across a man standing to urinate. They shout: "Laissez tomber votre Their motives, or so they insist, have nothing to do with penis envy and everything to do with hygiene. On the face of it, their argument seems to hold water. No one enjoys stepping in a puddle of urine. Given the distance between the toilet bowl and the penis of an upright man (approximately 24 inches, depending on anatomic variations), and  The author's toilet Forgive me, ladies, but I beg to differ. Before joining the fray, let me establish my credentials: during my life, I have urinated approximately 118,000 times (five times a day for 65 years) and on countless occasions have watched other males urinate in public restrooms. (I am not a voyeur, of course; all of these glimpses were caught from corner of my eye, with no intention to invade the privacy of others.) Furthermore, during medical school, I spent four years studying the human body. Combining my knowledge from these sources, I must warn the mothers and wives and cohabitées of Europe that their efforts to sustain the purity of their bathroom floors will surely come to naught, defeated by the anatomy and physiology of the male genitourinary tract. Unfortunately, some men pursue this goal with excessive vigor, indulging in what can only be described as "shaking off the last drop." It is precisely these movements—and not the free-falling stream itself—that deposit most of the unwanted urine on lavatory floors throughout the world. (And sometimes, given a sufficiently vigorous shake, on the walls, or even on the ceiling.) Let me interrupt my argument for a moment to address the mortified gasps from some female readers. I know your "drying off" ritual is far more civilized than the one described above, but this difference derives only in part from the inherent uncouthness of men. We must also consider anatomy: the female urethra spans only a miniscule length in comparison to that of the male, and as a result, it harbors only a tiny dollop of urine. The male ritual seems barbaric to women because they need only daub themselves with a tissue to remove the few drops remaining on the external genitalia. Granted, their method is more aesthetic, but it's not our fault that a discrete little wipe doesn't serve our needs. We can't help it. To reiterate my point, men scatter urine not so much during the actual urination as during the "shaking off" that follows. As a result, forcing men to sit while emptying their bladders will serve little purpose, since no man wants to shake himself off while remaining seated on the toilet. To do so he must run the risk—a great risk indeed for the famously well-endowed men of Western Europe—that his instrument will bash against the toilet seat, or dip into a bowl teeming with coliform bacteria. Because of this reasonable and compelling reluctance, all the obedient men who sit to void their bladders will inevitably defeat the purpose of sitting by rising to scatter their offensive droplets on the floor.  The author's sink But all is not lost. Eons ago, a hydraulic genius designed the perfect instrument for receiving urine from the male organ with a minimum of mess and bother. I speak here of the lowly urinal, the gleaming porcelain icon that adorns public toilets throughout the western world. For those female readers who have never visited a men's restroom, let me describe this icon: its bowl is broad as a toilet bowl but sits much higher from the floor, at just the right level to encourage a direct hit from a majority of the men who stand before it. Better yet, the urinal comes with a backsplash to catch any misguided drops, while the push of a button flushes all its surfaces with a cleansing gush of water. Voila! What more could a man or woman ask? Any nation that bans urinals will pay for this folly with an increase in floor-soiling when millions of men stand up to shake off their drops over a toilet located two feet below their penis. Let us remember that the toilet was designed for defecation rather than urination, and, as noted above, it serves the latter purpose rather poorly, while for the urinal, the very opposite is true. Unfortunately, urinals give no help on the family front, since few of them are installed in private homes. But we must not lose hope: the solution is at hand. In fact, every home already contains the solution, and it rests only a few feet from the toilet itself. Let us consider the sink, a porcelain instrument whose opening spans a greater width than the toilet, and whose height above the floor brings it much closer to the average male instrument. The young and short-legged among us must stand on our toes or use a stool, but this is a small price to pay for urine-free floors. By my calculation, considering only the physics of hydraulic trajectory, urine aimed at a sink by a man of normal height is 8.5 times less likely to go astray than when aimed at a toilet. Furthermore, this logic applies equally to both urination and to the drip-dispersing ritual that follows. Yes, I can hear the howls of protest. Urine in the sink? Yuck! Indeed, our culture is replete with disparaging references— "piss on it," "filthy as piss," "I don't give a piss"—but rest assured that such prejudice is for the most part misguided. Which is to say, urine has long suffered a bum rap. To quote Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:
What Merriam-Webster leaves out is the most important fact of all: urine from a normal male is also sterile, completely free of bacterial contamination. In fact, as any soldier trained in desert warfare will attest, this warm, salty liquid serves as an excellent wound cleanser, provided contamination is avoided by delivering the stream directly from its source. In my paean to urine, however, I will not go so far as to advocate its consumption. Though the habit is unlikely to cause serious harm, those "alternative" practitioners who insist it will cure a variety of ills can offer not one jot of scientific evidence to support this idiocy. Despite urine's innocuous nature, when contaminated it provokes an aesthetic and hygienic disaster by offering an excellent growth medium for bacteria. After an hour or two in a warm environment, these organisms produce breakdown products that stink to high heaven. This problem is easily avoided, however, by the simple expedient of washing away the urine soon after it is voided. So at last we have the solution to our excretory dilemma. First, encourage men to continue using the urinals in public toilets, while at home insist they both urinate and squeeze their last dribbles into the sink rather than into the toilet, then rinse the sink with a generous splash of water. To facilitate this, the wise hostess will keep a plastic cup _____________________
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