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• Nyan Cat Scarf
• How Tie
• Miniature Golf Course Based on Phobias
• Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes as an Adult and a Father
• Angry Birds Sandwiches
• Geeky Art Nouveau
• A Movie about Playing Dungeons & Dragons
• Koopa in Real Life
• Mesmerizing Pendulum Waves
• Ranger Robot Walks 40.5-miles on a Single Charge
• MMOV is Part 6x6 and Part DJ Booth
• Industrial Robots Have Lightsaber Battle
• IQ Collection Wire Puzzle
• Museum-Goer Accidentally Waded Into Carpet of Peanut Butter Art Exhibit
• Oldest, Oddest Fungi Finally Photographed
• Hansel and Greedo
• 91 Year Old Real Life Batman
• Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames Per Second
• Environmentally Friendly Ammunition
• Dr. Michio Kaku's "Sci-Fi Science" Attempts RoboCop
• Creative USB Drives
• ATB: All Terrain Bunny
• 100 Years of War Casualties
• US Navy's New Online Game to Battle Pirates
• Instant Inflatable Window
• Super Sausage to the Rescue!
• Atomic Energy for the Farmer
• Man Found Living on Top of Waffle House
• Man Walks Through Peanut Butter Art Exhibit
• National Jukebox

Nyan Cat Scarf Posted: 12 May 2011 06:05 PM PDT I love this! DeviantART member MasterPlanner made a rainbow scarf, complete with a detachable Pop Tart Cat! You can buy one for $75 plus shipping- if there are any left. Link -via The Daily What

How Tie Posted: 12 May 2011 05:10 PM PDT How Tie – $16.95 Are you looking for a practical and fun gift for your favorite graduate?  Get them the How Tie from the NeatoShop.  Don’t worry that he doesn’t know how to tie a tie. The instructions are printed right there on the front.  All he needs to do is follow the instructions. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Apparel & Accessories!

Miniature Golf Course Based on Phobias Posted: 12 May 2011 04:58 PM PDT Graduate students at the School of Visual Arts in New York City created an eighteen-hole golf course with each hole representing a particular phobia. Pictured above is Camille McMorrow’s piece on the fear of taking tests. The exhibit will be up through this Saturday. Link via Super Punch | Photo: Soo Ji Han Previously: Miniature Golf Course in a Funeral Home Basement

Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes as an Adult and a Father Posted: 12 May 2011 04:42 PM PDT The webcomic Pants Are Overrated (a sentiment that I heartily endorse) imagines Calvin 26 years after the end of Bill Watterson’s comic. He’s all grown and the father of a daughter (named, to continue the theme, after Francis Bacon). She can’t sleep. Click on the link to read the rest. Link via reddit

Angry Birds Sandwiches Posted: 12 May 2011 04:14 PM PDT With just a few ingredients, Ole and Shania Olmanson created a composed a convincing portrait. All they used were cheddar, mozzarella, salami, bagels, olives, and lettuce. Link via Craft

Geeky Art Nouveau Posted: 12 May 2011 04:05 PM PDT Megan Lara has created several images of geek icons reminiscent of the style of Art Nouveau illustrator Alphonse Mucha. This piece is part of a triptych also featuring Princess Peach and Samus Aran. In addition, Lara does tattoo designs, a medium that strikes me as quite appropriate for her style. Artist Website via Fanboy

A Movie about Playing Dungeons & Dragons Posted: 12 May 2011 03:51 PM PDT (Video Link) Zero Charisma is a film project led by Katie Graham, Andrew Matthews, and Thomas Fernandes. They hope to raise $15,000 to turn the above trailer into a feature-length movie. Here’s a synopsis of their story: Scott Weidemeier spends his time in exactly three ways: working a menial job at a local donut shop, caring for his abusive grandmother, and running The Greatest Dungeons & Dragons Game of All Time. Though overbearing and short-tempered, Scott is a hero to his fellow players–that is, until neo-nerd hipster Miles Butler joins the game, fueling Scott’s rampant insecurity and alienating him from his own players. Can Scott overcome his contempt for the mainstreaming of nerdery, or will this clash of the subcultures come to a head? The best line from the trailer: “I weep for the women of your generation.” Link via Nerd Bastards

Koopa in Real Life Posted: 12 May 2011 03:42 PM PDT Would life make more sense if you suddenly realized that you’re actually inside Super Mario Bros.? Also: turtles can climb fences? If snapping turtles can do this and develop opposable thumbs, we’re in trouble. via Geekosystem | Photo: unknown

Mesmerizing Pendulum Waves Posted: 12 May 2011 03:37 PM PDT (Video Link) This simple but beautiful video from Harvard University shows fifteen pendulums of increasing length swinging to and fro. Sometimes they appear to be in sync, but at other times, not. Here’s why: The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The length of each successive shorter pendulum is carefully adjusted so that it executes one additional oscillation in this period. Thus, the 15th pendulum (shortest) undergoes 65 oscillations. When all 15 pendulums are started together, they quickly fall out of sync—their relative phases continuously change because of their different periods of oscillation. However, after 60 seconds they will all have executed an integral number of oscillations and be back in sync again at that instant, ready to repeat the dance. Link via Kottke

Ranger Robot Walks 40.5-miles on a Single Charge Posted: 12 May 2011 11:48 AM PDT The students and faculty at Cornell’s Biorobotics and Locomotion lab constructed the weird looking robot you see here dubbed Ranger. The bot set a new distance record for walking 40.5-miles on a single battery with a single charge. It took Ranger 30 hours, 49 minutes, and 2 seconds to walk that distance to take the record. The previous record was set by last year’s Ranger at 14.3-miles. link

MMOV is Part 6x6 and Part DJ Booth Posted: 12 May 2011 11:43 AM PDT If I am honest, I don’t get the reason you would need a six-wheeled off-road vehicle with a DJ booth hidden inside. I guess if you have to start literally playing the backwoods, this thing might come in handy. It can also be configured to handle projectors for movies as well. link

Industrial Robots Have Lightsaber Battle Posted: 12 May 2011 11:34 AM PDT Robots and lightsabers are cool when apart but combine them, and you have something that is too much for most geeks to pass up. These Yaskawa Motoman robots are generally found on assembly lines, not dueling it out Jedi versus Sith style. link

IQ Collection Wire Puzzle Posted: 12 May 2011 09:48 AM PDT IQ Collection Wire Puzzle: Easy, Medium, Hard, Impossible ($9.95 – $10.95) Think you’re a topological genius? Test yourself with the IQ Collection Wire Puzzles from the NeatoShop. These disentanglement puzzles are so much fun that we find it hard to … well, extricate ourselves from playing them! Moms: this will give you a few minutes of precious peace and quiet as your kids try to solve ‘em. Link | More Toys & Games from the NeatoShop

Museum-Goer Accidentally Waded Into Carpet of Peanut Butter Art Exhibit Posted: 12 May 2011 09:40 AM PDT A hapless Dutch museum-goer got himself into a sticky situation when he unwittingly waded into a modern art installation: a carpet of creamy peanut butter by artist Wim T. Schippers! The hapless visitor somehow failed to spot the 14m expanse of edible goo at the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam, the second largest city in the Netherlands, Algemeen Dagblad reported overnight. Bemused tourists watched as the man sank into the 1100 litres of peanut butter – enough to fill more than 2000 regular-sized jars. He has been asked to pay for the damage after leaving a trail of footprints. "It is normal that people pay if they damage the art," spokeswoman Sharon Cohen told the Rotterdam-based newspaper. I hope he only has to pay in a couple of jars of peanut butter! Link (Photo: Patrick Wenmakers over at ad.nl) – via Arbroath

Oldest, Oddest Fungi Finally Photographed Posted: 12 May 2011 09:38 AM PDT The fungal cells in this picture are so small and hard to detect that they had to be colored with fluorescent dye before they could be recorded. They are attached to algae cells. The first views suggest that unlike any other fungi known, these might live as essentially naked cells without the rigid cell wall that supposedly defines a fungus, says Tom Richards of the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Exeter in England. He calls these long-overlooked fungi cryptomycota, or "hidden fungi." Of the life stages seen so far, a swimming form and one attached to algal cells, there's no sign of the usual outer coat rich in a tough material called chitin, Richards and his colleagues report online May 11 in Nature. "People are going to be excited," predicts mycologist Tim James of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who also studies an ancient group of fungi. But now scientists will have to either redefine what a fungus is, or classify a new group of species that are “almost-fungus.” Read more about it at Wired Science. Link (Image credit: Meredith Jones)

Hansel and Greedo Posted: 12 May 2011 09:36 AM PDT What do you get when you mash up modern pop culture with old timey fairy tale? This clever art by Wayne Dorrington, called Hansel and Greedo: via geekleetist

91 Year Old Real Life Batman Posted: 12 May 2011 09:28 AM PDT When I'm 91 years old I hope I have the stamina and good humor of New Zealand World War II veteran John Bray. Bray has been told  by local officials to stop going out at night to patrol the streets. Just like Batman, Mr Bray started out with a Robin-like partner, but decided to ditch him after he kept falling asleep on duty. Link

Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames Per Second Posted: 12 May 2011 09:27 AM PDT This film of the Apollo 11 rocket launch that put a man on the moon, was recorded at 500 frames per second. This slowed down video shows the first 30 seconds of the lift off where we get to see in great detail the fire power of these rockets. The narration provides some interesting additional facts as well. Link

Environmentally Friendly Ammunition Posted: 12 May 2011 09:27 AM PDT If you are going to kill people and blow things up, at least you can do it so the rest of the living can have a pollution free Earth. It seems the US military has been developing "green" ammunition for some time now. In 2007, responding to reports from the field that current rounds weren’t deadly enough, the Army jump-started efforts to make a more lethal round that was also environmentally friendly. Link

Dr. Michio Kaku's "Sci-Fi Science" Attempts RoboCop Posted: 12 May 2011 09:26 AM PDT The folks at The Devastator just released this parody video of The Science Channel series “Sci-Fi Science.” The bit features Dr. Michio Kaku attempting to recreate Robo Cop using "real science" although the science fiction fans have different ideas.  Watch full video at the link. Link

Creative USB Drives Posted: 12 May 2011 09:26 AM PDT Why are USB Drives one of the few computer items that people seem to be overly creative with? Why not make cool designs for our laptops and desktops we use all day? Regardless this gallery features some new and unique USB drives. Link

ATB: All Terrain Bunny Posted: 12 May 2011 09:24 AM PDT One day, the O’Rourke family of Tucson, Arizona, found a couple of abandoned bunnies in their backyard. Joe, one of the bunnies turns out to be a paraplegic, so young Liam O’Rourke designed this clever little device: the ATB (All Terrain Bunny). Check it out: There was a reason the mother rabbit abandoned them. Paul O’Rourke realized one bunny they named Joe had no use of his hind legs. Paul and his family helped nurse the bunnies back to health, but then they went one step further to help the paraplegic bunny. Paul’s son Liam designed and built a small cart for Joe to help him move around a little easier. The red wagon with yellow wheels took some getting used to, but ultimately seemed to improve his mobility. Link – via Make

100 Years of War Casualties Posted: 12 May 2011 09:23 AM PDT Clara Kayser-Bril, Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Marion Kotlarski collaborated to create this innocuously named yet truly gruesome infographic called 100 years of world cuisine. The project aims to provide an image to the statistics of the deaths caused by wars: Ten casualties. Ten million casualties. Our understanding of conflicts is often nothing more than a handful of digits, the more precise, the less meaningful. The anchor’s tone remains the same when talking about major wars or isolated outbursts of violence. The horror lays hidden beneath the rigidity of numbers. Figures give us knowledge, not meaning. We wanted to put a picture on these digits. A shocking, gory picture, like the reality of war. We wanted to give context, like a scale on which we could visualize each conflict next to the others. We’re not historians and our choices were, in part, left to our own judgement. It is obviously impossible to display all conflicts. It is also impossible to agree on when or where a conflict starts and ends. Focusing on the death toll should not take our minds away from those who survived through mutilation, exile or rape. This project remains artistic in scope and does not aim at scientificity. It sheds another light and, perhaps, restores meaning. Link – via fastcodesign

US Navy's New Online Game to Battle Pirates Posted: 12 May 2011 09:20 AM PDT Osama may be gone, but that doesn’t mean the Navy SEALs are resting easy. There’s Somali pirate huntin’ to do and this time you’re invited … to play an online wargame that is: “This isn’t World of Warcraft,” Schuette says. That’s an understatement. MMOWGLI tweaks the choose-your-own-adventure style of a war game. On Monday, after you visit a website hosted by the Naval Postgraduate School and sign up for the game, you’ll see a pirate scenario pop up onto your screen: Three pirate ships are holding the world hostage. Chinese-U.S. relations are strained to the limit and both countries have naval ships in the area. Humanitarian aid for rig workers is blocked. The world is blaming the U.S. for plundering African resources. What do you do? Two text boxes pop onto the screen. The first reads “Innovate,” and asks: “What new resources could turn the tide in the Somali pirate situation?” The second reads “Defend” and asks: “What new risks could arise that would transform the Somali pirate situation?” Link

Instant Inflatable Window Posted: 12 May 2011 09:18 AM PDT Instant Inflatable Window – $11.95 Has cubicle living got you down?  Do you long for an office with a window?  You need the Instant Inflatable Window from the NeatoShop.  Now you can finally  have a view worth working towards. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Office & Desk fun!

Super Sausage to the Rescue! Posted: 12 May 2011 09:17 AM PDT From the fertile mind of Thomas Hunter AKA Mr. Buffalo, here is Sausage Man (Super Sausage? Or my favorite, The Silver Sausage?) to the rescue! via Endless Geyser of Awesome

Atomic Energy for the Farmer Posted: 12 May 2011 09:12 AM PDT This 1948 advertisement for a “radioactive soil conditioner” promises a 20% increase in your tomato, beet, lettuce, and carrot crops. What could possibly go wrong? Link -via Boing Boing

Man Found Living on Top of Waffle House Posted: 12 May 2011 09:03 AM PDT An air conditioner technician in Augusta, Georgia, spotted something odd on the roof of the Gordon Highway Waffle House. A man was making his home atop the restaurant! Police and firefighters responded to the report. Another witness, Marvin Stone, says he "just pulled up to work, saw the fireman on the roof, saw a couple cops on the roof, started asking questions and came to find out there was a guy stuck on the roof." James Mayle, when asked if he'd seen anything like, said "No, you never expect anything like this, a person on top of the roof at a Waffle house? No, never that." We're told the unidentified man was dehydrated and taken to a nearby hospital. Link -via J-Walk Blog

Man Walks Through Peanut Butter Art Exhibit Posted: 12 May 2011 09:01 AM PDT A museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has an art installation that consists of peanut butter covering 14 square meters of the floor. The smooth peanut butter “carpet” has no fence around it because museum directors believe it would detract from the art. You can guess it would be easy for a visitor to walk into it -and that’s exactly what happened. Bemused tourists watched as the man sank into the 1100 litres of peanut butter – enough to fill more than 2000 regular-sized jars. He has been asked to pay for the damage after leaving a trail of footprints. “It is normal that people pay if they damage the art,” spokeswoman Sharon Cohen told the Rotterdam-based newspaper. The pricey installation – created by the artist Wim T. Schippers in 1962 and known as the Peanut Butter Platform – has suffered similar mishaps in the past. He was the third person to step into the exhibit over the years. Link -via Arbroath (Image credit: Patrick Wenmakers)

National Jukebox Posted: 12 May 2011 07:46 AM PDT The Library of Congress has an extensive online collection of historic sound recordings going back over 100 years! Select from classical, ragtime, opera, gospel, and ethnic music, as well as spoken word recordings. The National Jukebox debuts featuring more than 10,000 78rpm disc sides issued by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1900 and 1925. Imagine your computer as a new Gramophone purchased for family and friends to enjoy in your home parlor. Audition popular recorded selections of the beginning of the 20th century years—band music, novelty tunes, humorous monologues, hits from the season’s new musical theater productions, the latest dance rhythms, and opera arias. And, unlike a jukebox, you don’t have to insert quarters. Link -Thanks, Rich!

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