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- Country Mints Star Wars Coins as Legal Tender
- A Documentary About Street Fighter Legend Balrog
- Cool 3D Short-Defective Bigbot
- Unique Hand Stitched Leather Bowser
- Personal Brewery Delivers Fresh Beer In A Week
- Interesting CGI Designs By Serial Cut
- The Ultimate In Dog Cosplay
- 15 Awesome Pop Up Books
- Get A Drink With This Starbucks Card
- The Worst-Worded Question In Trivial Pursuit
- Free Slaughterhouse-Five Books For Kids
- Roommate Citation Nifty Note
- Laika's Revenge
- Copper Underpants
- Data Sandals
- Guinness World Record: Tightest Parallel Parking Job
- Ukiyo-e Nintendo
- Drifting a Cobra in a Small Room
- River Rock Balancing
- Rainbow Art by Stark
- Star Trek Book of Opposites
- BEHOLD! Dwarves!
- David vs. McDonald's
- Fried Butter on a Stick
- Self Defense Fashion From The US Patent Office
- Should Bert and Ernie Get Married?
- Mars Rover Looks For Life
- Courts Fine Troll Lawyers for Filing Phony Lawsuits
- The Feast of St. Lawrence
- Skeleton Shaving
| Country Mints Star Wars Coins as Legal Tender Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:25 AM PDT
Link -via Ace of Spades HQ | Photo: Daily Telegraph  |
| A Documentary About Street Fighter Legend Balrog Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:07 AM PDT For the Street Fighter fanatic in all of us, a documentary has been made detailing Mike Bison’s (aka Balrog) rise to fame as one of the greatest video game champions of all time! Watch as he turns from a skinny twerp who was constantly bullied to the head butting machine we all know and love. Be sure to check out the parts with Mike’s dad, Greg, who will warm your heart with his amazing performance. |
| Cool 3D Short-Defective Bigbot Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:06 AM PDT
Defective Bigbot Short from Michele Boldoni on Vimeo. A group of friends put together this cute CGI short about a defective robot, and it looks quite nice considering these amateurs had no experience as professional animators. It’s no surprise that they all found jobs while making the short, they definitely have the skills! Hear what the artists have to say about the project at the Vimeo link above. -via 3d World |
| Unique Hand Stitched Leather Bowser Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:01 AM PDT What could possibly make such a cool looking Bowser figure, complete with movable arms, wrists and head and hammer, even cooler? Make him out of leather. This rugged little version of the big bad boss carries a price tag worthy of his royal stature-$300, over at the artist Megan’s custom toy site. This may be one expensive hunk of leather, but at least you’ll have something to brag about. Link -via Destructoid |
| Personal Brewery Delivers Fresh Beer In A Week Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:01 AM PDT
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| Interesting CGI Designs By Serial Cut Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:00 AM PDT Creating eye candy for visual ad campaigns generally means using illustration to create something people will remember. Computer generated imagery has dramatically changed the design industry, and creative studio Serial Cut aims to show the world just how cool 3d design can be. With designs ranging from simplistic to absurd, most of which boast an impressively realistic look and shine, it’s no wonder they’re the talk of the town. Follow the link to see more slick cgi artworks by Serial Cut. |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:33 AM PDT Dante was looking quite stylish at the Otakon Convention in the great Okami Amaterasu costume his owners made for him. While I’ve seen a lot of great cosplayers in my day, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dog with such a great costume before. Have you? Link Via The Mary Sue |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:28 AM PDT Pop Up books are largely considered children’s territory, but WebUrbanist has a great selection of 3D books that grown ups can enjoy too. I certainly would enjoy getting my hands on some of these. How about you guys? |
| Get A Drink With This Starbucks Card Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:20 AM PDT
Link Via The Consumerist |
| The Worst-Worded Question In Trivial Pursuit Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:13 AM PDT I can understand a writer making this mistake in the midst of writing dozens of questions a day, but shouldn’t an editor have caught this? |
| Free Slaughterhouse-Five Books For Kids Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:01 AM PDT
Link Via The Mary Sue |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:12 PM PDT Roommate Citation Nifty Note – $3.95 Are you headed back to school? You need the Roommate Citation Nifty Note from the NeatoShop. These 50 sheets of roommate citations will make sure you are well prepared to deal with your roommate’s:
This is the ever so polite way of telling your roommate that you are not there Mom. Be sure to check out The NeatoShop for more hilarious Back to School items. Link | More Nifty Notes |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:15 PM PDT Laika was the first living creature from Earth in space. She rode into orbit in Sputnik 2 and died there — as the Soviets knew she would. Nick Abadzis has created a graphic novel which depicts alternate scenarios for Laika. It looks like the Soviet space program may come to an early end. Link -via Nerdcore | Graphic Novel |
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So it will no longer be necessary to change your underpants every week. Hooray! Link -via Gizmodo | Photo (unrelated) by Flickr user Michelle loves Severus used under Creative Commons license |
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| Guinness World Record: Tightest Parallel Parking Job Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:32 PM PDT (Video Link) This German-language video shows Ronny Wechselberger breaking the world record for parallel parking — that’s sliding into position quickly with as little clearance as possible. He set a new record at 26 cm. The notes at the video link state this record was set in April. Since that time, Zhang Hua of China broke it at 24 cm.-via Doobybrain |
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| Drifting a Cobra in a Small Room Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:12 PM PDT (Video Link) If it’s Wednesday, then it’s time to drift your AC Cobra in your living room. No, sorry, your ‘74 Chevy Vega, though technically a classic car, will not look as cool. -via Jalopnik |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:01 PM PDT Michael Grab is an artist who works in an unusual medium: balanced rocks. He stacks rocks from rivers on top of each other with no additional connections. It is a meditative act for him, as well as an exploration of “notions of impermanence and death.” Check out his gallery at the link. Link -via Boing Boing (where there’s a video) |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:35 PM PDT Photo Credit: Jen Stark By now, most devout artistic-leaning internet surfers and of course, Neatoramans have seen Jen Stark’s amazing 3D paper sculptures which consists of hundreds of sheets of paper meticulously cut away. Her latest art show displays a series of wooden dowels that have been colored to create an optical illusion. Depending on your point of view, it resembles either the top of a cupcake or from the side, a giant colored pencil. Either way, it looks cool, and Stark’s continual mastery of color is superb to say the least. Link via My Modern Met |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:34 PM PDT
What better way of teaching future Starfleet officers the strange new worlds of opposites than by using illustrations from the greatest sci-fi show ever? David Borgenicht went where no man has gone before with his book: The Star Trek Book of Opposites, published by Quirk Books. NeatoBambino has a peek inside: Link - Thanks Mari Kraske! |
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Chances are if you are a regular reader of Neatorama, you’ve already got your geek on and have seen this promotional still from the set of The Hobbit. Still–just in case. (And at least one of them are hot! Go figure. Why did this well-armed group need Bilbo again?) The first photograph is a composite and the second is–don’t ask me why–a “final full-body rendering” for all the dwarves and conveniently includes their names–Lord knows I can’t tell them apart. Check out all things dwarf and Hobbit related at The One Ring.net, which is working as Peter Jackson’s ersatz PR team. |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:33 PM PDT Photo Credit: Tomin Taipei Here is a very graphic depiction of the Italians giving McDonald’s a slight hint. That’s fine. No McSpaghetti for us, and I don’t think that’s such a bad thing. Think the mob financed it? Who knows. But I gotta say, I don’t think anyone will find the Hamburglar any time soon. |
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| Self Defense Fashion From The US Patent Office Posted: 10 Aug 2011 11:10 AM PDT The US Patent Office sees the a lot of strange inventions coming through their submission process, hoping to get a patent. However who knew that there was a whole category of "Self Defense Fashion?" This collection of real life inventions submitted to the Patent Office includes a pendant that is filled with pepper spray to thwart off would be attackers. What are some good self defense fashion accessories that you would actually wear? |
| Should Bert and Ernie Get Married? Posted: 10 Aug 2011 11:10 AM PDT
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| Courts Fine Troll Lawyers for Filing Phony Lawsuits Posted: 10 Aug 2011 11:05 AM PDT
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Smithsonian has the story, and a list of other saints connected with cooking. Link |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:42 AM PDT An electric razor that shaves close to the bone! This x-ray, featured at Modern Mechanix, was taken in 1941, back when x-ray scientists and technicians didn’t bother wearing lead aprons and spent their spare time coming up weird things they could x-ray. Link -via J-Walk Blog (Image credit: L. F. Ehrke, Westinghouse Research Lamp Laboratories) |
Nuie, an autonomous island nation and dependency of New Zealand, will mint coins bearing the images of Star Wars characters. They will be fully legal tender there:
If you love the suds but hate the difficulty and month of waiting for your tasty brew to be ready, then this self contained home brewery might be just what you need. The personal brewery combines the stages of fermentation and carbonation, which greatly accelerates the brewing process and delivers a 50 pint batch faster than you can drink what you brewed last week. For now, it can only make light ales, and it’s daunting $5000 price tag might keep it from flying off the shelves, but this shiny little wonder will definitely get better, and cheaper in the future and may make brewing at home the only way to fly.
Jonathan Stark is either a marketer or someone performing a strange social experiment. Either way, he has offered up his Starbucks card for free public use. Surprisingly, people have continued to add money to it, so the card has continued to be useable for a long time now. You can even check the balance on the card before you order up a drink by following the automatically updated Twitter feed.
The Republic High School in Missouri recently banned Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five. In response, the Vonnegut Memorial Library is offering the students a free copy of the novel so they can read it on their own and draw their own conclusions. According to the library’s representative:
A Chilean company called Monarch has developed a new type of underwear that, it claims, makes you cleaner:
Photo Credit: WETA Workshops
There’s always a new fried item at the Iowa State Fair, and every year it gets crazier. Fried Twinkies and Oreos are passé by now, so vendors at the fair have skipped a step in the process and are just frying straight up sticks of butter. The butter obviously melts in the batter when it’s fried, so it’s not like you’re actually sinking your teeth into a stick of lard. One taste-tester likens it to a cinnamon roll, but I still think I’ll be passing this one by. Check out the link below to see what happens when you bite into it…
It has long been a topic fascinating to some fans of the long running classic children's television program Sesame Street; Are roommates Bert and Ernie actually a couple? Now a group , Change.org is petitioning to have PBS let the male puppets get married and people from all over the political spectrum are weighing in for and against it. What do you think? Should the puppet pals get hitched?
The Mars Opportunity Rover has made its way into the Endeavor crater where it will carry out examinations of the soil to test for evidence of life on the Red Planet. Opportunity is headed to Spirit Point which is named after the other Mars Rover Spirit which ceased functioning last year.
Real life "trolling" has taken the form of corporations who file many patents on products that they don't actually produce in an effort to file patent lawsuits against others in hopes of getting large out of court settlements. In this case however justice came down on the right side by fining the phony company and the lawyers involved.
Today is the feast day of St. Lawrence, who tradition says was martyred by being roasted alive. He supposedly even made a joke about it: "Turn me over, this side is done." St. Lawrence is now the patron saint of cooks, which may be a nod to his famous sense of humor.
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