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- Cowboys & Freddie Wong
- Rubik's Cube Cake
- William Shatner Leads 3,000 People in a Great "KHAN!"
- Why Can't Astronauts Whistle in Space?
- The Saddest Movie in the World
- Light Scythe
- London's Underground River
- Flickin' Chicken
- This Week at Neatorama
- Gus and the Pool
- The Most Powerful Animals on Twitter
- Hot Enough to....
- Caltech Protest, 1968
- The Tooth Fairy Affair
| Posted: 24 Jul 2011 05:15 AM PDT Filmmaker and shoot-em-up enthusiast Freddie Wong gets to play with even more firepower in this short, with the help of John Favreau, director of the soon-to-be-released film Cowboys and Aliens.  |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:10 PM PDT Sure, you could decorate the exterior of a cubical cake so that it looks like a Rubik’s Cube from the outside, but Vicky McDonald went beyond that goal for her cake in honor of Erno Rubik’s birthday. As you slice her cake, it continues to look like a Rubik’s Cube, with varying interior colors. She provides instructions on how to make one at the link. After posting this marvelous creation, she received an email from Rubik himself:
Link -via The Mary Sue Previously: Rubik’s Cube Cake |
| William Shatner Leads 3,000 People in a Great "KHAN!" Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:02 PM PDT (Video Link) In a famous scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Admiral Kirk screamed “Khan!” in rage and despair against his enemy, Khan Noonien Singh. This has become one of the great battlecries of Trekkies everywhere. So, appropriately, William Shatner led 3,000 fans in this call at Comic-Con. Behold its majesty, and tremble. -via Kotaku |
| Why Can't Astronauts Whistle in Space? Posted: 23 Jul 2011 11:20 AM PDT
Link -via First Things | Photo: NASA |
| The Saddest Movie in the World Posted: 23 Jul 2011 09:38 AM PDT
Cue the argument for Old Yeller. Excuse me, I think I need a handkerchief. Link -via Metafilter Link to the specific scene from The Champ. |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 08:36 AM PDT This image of Nyan Cat was created using Light Scythe, an open-source invention for writing text and drawing images with light in mid-air. I can’t begin to tell you I understand it, but you can see for yourself. Link -via I Can Has Cheezburger (Image credit: Flickr user Mechatronics Guy) |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 08:26 AM PDT The River Fleet in London is a tidal river that once provided water for many industries. Over the years, it became quite polluted, then was consigned to flow underneath the city as London grew, until it was eventually incorporated into the sewer system. But the river is still there, filling its tunnels at high tide and ebbing to a trickle at low tide. Read about what happened to the River Fleet and see plenty of pictures at Kuriositas. Link (Image credit: Flickr user sub-urban.com) |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:40 AM PDT Flickin’ Chicken – $19.95 Are you looking for fun drinking family friendly game for your next shindig? You need the Flick’ Chicken game from the NeatoShop! Lay out the targets and watch the poultry fly. Whoever throws the rubber chicken closest to the target wins. Beware! This game is not as easy as it looks. These featherless fowl have some serious bounce. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more hilarious Toys & Games! |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:16 AM PDT
Adrienne Crezo brought us Science Sides with Captain Obvious: Unsurprising Study Results this past Wednesday. Eddie Deezen contributed a post about his favorite comic strip with Charlie Brown and Snoopy: A Brief History. The Ancient and Modern Ecology of Execution was reprinted from the Annals of Improbable Research. We learned about the Soviet lunar program in The Secret Race to the Moon, courtesy of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. From mental_floss magazine, we heard of some Great Moments in Presidential Debt. Once you are caught up on the main site, we have a lot of other offerings! News, information, and humor from and about babies and children can be found at NeatoBambino. Read some fresh new literature on our newest sub-blog Bit Lit. Soothe your eyes at the Neatorama Art Blog. Check out past articles on all kinds of subjects at The Best of Neatorama. Join in the discussions at our Facebook page. And be sure to follow Neatorama on Twitter! |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:14 AM PDT Gus and his buddy have a wading pool in the backyard to keep them cool, but Gus has a better idea! -via Bits and Pieces |
| The Most Powerful Animals on Twitter Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:11 AM PDT Animals have invaded your favorite social networking site -and what’s worse, they have more followers than you do! So what’s all the buzz about? ShortList will introduce you to cats, dogs, birds, and even snakes that Tweet. Maybe you’ll find a Twitter critter you want to follow yourself! Link |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:10 AM PDT Bake cookies in a car? You betcha! In Amarillo, the temperatures have soared to over 100 degrees, and about 200 degrees in a closed car. Brittany Nunn of the Amarillo Globe-News baked chocolate chip cookies in her car. They took quite a while to bake, but the car smelled wonderful afterward. Link -via reddit |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:08 AM PDT Students at Caltech didn’t do much public protesting against the Vietnam War or the draft or the voting age, but on January 6, 1968 they found time to rally for something dear to their hearts.
A nationwide campaign kept the series on TV for one more year. Link -via Buzzfeed (Image credit: Harry Chase/Los Angeles Times Archive/UCLA) |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2011 06:05 AM PDT A young boy comes up with a scheme to get some carnival money. A short film featuring traditional hand-drawn animation by Izabela Melamed. -via Metafilter |
Now I’m not talking about whistling in a vacuum. It’s obvious that attempting to do so would fail. But even astronauts on spacewalks in protective suits can’t whistle. Why not? Former astronaut Dan Barry explained:
What movies make you cry? When I saw The Champ during its initial theater run, I did not expect to cry, but I did, and so did everyone in the audience. Watching 9-year-old Ricky Schroeder begging his father not to die was just too much. When researchers Robert Levenson and James Gross began looking for a trigger that would ethically induce sadness in volunteer test subjects, they searched for the most sure-fire tear-jerking film ever. It took years, but they found The Champ.
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