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Men's Slipper Genie

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 08:54 PM PDT

Men’s Slipper Genie – $9.95

Do you have trouble getting your husband to help around the house? Stop nagging and get him the Men’s Slipper Genie from the NeatoShop.  Now every time he shuffles to the fridge to get another beer he will actually be cleaning the floor.  See husbands are good for something.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more trendy Footwear!

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Solitaire Win Sculpture

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 08:19 PM PDT

The art group Skrekkogle took the graphic of dancing cards that you see when you win computer solitaire and rendered built it. A thousand card faces were printed and laminated onto black foam, then positioned as you see here. Link -via The Daily What Geek

Kitten Dropped into Landfill by Hawk

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 08:17 PM PDT

A tiny black and white kitten was found at a dump in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and taken to the local SPCA shelter. He had been dropped there by a red-tailed hawk!

“He was dropped by the hawk from not a great height, so he didn’t suffer any broken bones. He has a slightly injured foot, which has healed, and he had some talon punctures in his side, which has now been treated by a vet and have healed also,” shelter manager Leon Davis said.

He said that the dump keeps birds of prey around to scare pigeons away and stop them from roosting on neighbourhood homes.

Shelter staff named the kitten Hawk, and he will be adopted out when fully recovered. The red-tailed hawks are employed by the dump to keep pigeons away. Link (with video) -via Arbroath

Full Moon Odyssey Mattress

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:44 PM PDT

This five-foot diameter mattress is from Korean designers Lily Suh and Zoono of i3lab. The image of the moon is by astrophotographer Chin Wei Loon. There’s also a glow-in-the-dark pillow to go with it. Link -via Laughing Squid

Mean People Make More Money

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:36 PM PDT

Psst! Want to earn more money? The secret to earning more money in the workplace is ... to be mean.

That's right: a new study found that agreeable workers earn significantly less than their meaner counterparts.

The researchers examined "agreeableness" using self-reported survey data and found that men who measured below average on agreeableness earned about 18% more—or $9,772 more annually in their sample—than nicer guys. Ruder women, meanwhile, earned about 5% or $1,828 more than their agreeable counterparts.

"Nice guys are getting the shaft," says study co-author Beth A. Livingston, an assistant professor of human resource studies at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

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Weekend Hunting Trip

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:35 PM PDT

There’s nothing quite like a weekend away from the family to spend with your buddies at the cabin. We might as well get a picture so we can remember these good times when we get too old go out regularly. Link -via reddit | Image: Jason Edmiston

How Marty McFly Met Doc Brown

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:19 PM PDT

One of the authors at mental_floss asked managing editor Jason English a question he couldn’t answer, so he asked the readers.

"Is it ever explained why Marty hangs out with Doc Brown? He's just in Doc's house to start the movie and it's just implied that they're good friends."

— Brett Savage

Among the many comments at that post was one from Bob Gale {wiki}, one of the co-writers of the three Back to the Future movies, who helped shape the history of all the characters. His explanation got its own post today. Link

Scientists Make Artificial Skin from Spider Silk

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 05:12 PM PDT

Researchers at the Hannover Medical School in Germany have developed artificial skin made from spider silk. When formed into a fine mesh, the silk from the golden silk orb weaver spider (left) can be grafted onto the human body:

The researchers found that human skin cells placed on these meshes could flourish, given proper nurturing with nutrients, warmth and air. They were able to cultivate the two main skin cell types, keratinocytes and fibroblasts, into tissue-like patterns resembling epidermis, the outermost layer of skin, and dermis, the layer of living tissue below the epidermis that contains blood capillaries, nerve endings, sweat glands, hair follicles and other structures.

Link -via Nerdcore | Photo via Flickr user leppyone used under Creative Commons license

Mayor Gives Ex-Wife 20-Ton Boulder as a Gift

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:46 PM PDT

The mayor of Acton Vale, Quebec, wanted to give his ex-wife a special birthday present, so he had a 20-ton rock left in her driveway. It painted with a greeting and topped with a pink ribbon. Isn’t that romantic? Maybe he wants to get back together with her. Jonathan Montpetit of The Canada Press writes:

Lariviere owns an excavation company. He said he used one of his own front-end loaders to transport the rock through the town streets in the wee hours Saturday.[...]

During the delivery, he was stopped twice by police who asked him for identification and questioned what he was doing.

“I told them the truth — that I was delivering a gift,” Lariviere said. “They weren’t able to stop me because what I was doing wasn’t illegal.”

Link -via Lowering the Bar | Photo: Paul Chiasson/Canada Press

My Neighbor Mister Rogers

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT

*clap*clap*clap* This simple but brilliant print was made by Dann Matthews, whose Star Wars hieroglyphics we’ve featured previously. Link -via Uniblog

Radial Guitar

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:59 PM PDT

Yoshihiko Satoh has been working with his conjoined guitars motif for a while now, including some beautiful guitars arranged in arches and circular patterns. I want to see Slash (yes, I know — he isn’t real, but don’t tell the kids) try out this one.

Link | Artist’s Website

On the Horizon

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:47 PM PDT

Joeri Bosma, a Dutch teenager, decided to spend every day of the seventeenth year of his life taking photographs. Here’s a self-portrait taken on August 3, inspired by the song “Horizon” by I Am Oak. I love the way that he’s blended himself into the background. Link -via Dude Craft

The Bear-o-dactyl of Urbino

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:37 PM PDT

Titian’s Venus of Urbino is a fine painting, but it’s lacking something. Two things, really: bears and pterodactyls. Sam Spratt has now remedied that problem. Thank you, Mr. Spratt. Link -via Geekosystem

Did Butch Cassidy Live Long Enough To Tell His Own Tale?

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:59 PM PDT

As a mythic figure of the Old West, they don’t come much bigger than Butch Cassidy. The outlaw became a legend in his own time, and was thought to have died in Bolivia in 1908. But new evidence, in the form of a manuscript supposedly penned by the legend himself, shows that he may have lived another twenty odd years of peaceful anonymity in Washington state. Entitled “Bandit Invincible: The Story of Butch Cassidy”, this 200 page discovery was acquired by a rare book collector who feels that the work is the real deal. Other historians are quick to dismiss it as nothing more than a fake, but many of the facts contained within the pages seems to be knowledge only Butch himself would have been privy to, and sightings of the outlaw in America well after he was supposed to have died seem to support the books authenticity. Looks like historians have a gunfight on their hands! Read more about this fascinating new find over at ArtDaily.

Link -image via AP Photo/Nevada Historical Society.

SPAM Lip Glaze / Balm

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:57 PM PDT

Spam Lip Glaze / Balm – $1.95

Are you looking for delicious way to keep your lips supple and soft? You need the toasted meat-flavored SPAM Lip Glaze / Balm from the NeatoShop.  This lip balm will make sure your mouth always stays meaty fresh.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more yummy Lip Balms.

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Robotic Hand Made By High School Kid

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT

If you’re upset about the state of education in America, here’s a ray of hope in the form of a robotic hand. Created by Colorado high school student Easton LaChappelle, this mechanical marvel was ingeniously printed out of paper and fiberglass, and is controlled remotely by Easton via glove control, which allows the young inventor the privilege of congratulating himself. Watch the hand in action over at PopSci.

Link -image by Easton LaChappelle

40,000 Watt Car Stereo System Gives New Hairdo

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:07 PM PDT

In what looks like some kind of truck that is outfitted with 40,000 watt stereo a young woman finds out exactly what some thumping base can do to your hair. Would hate to car pool with the guy who drives that.  Her hair blows up from what I assume are the sound waves?  (Can anyone here go all Bill Nye and explain to us how the stereo makes her hair do that?)

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12 Incredible Snapshots of Animals Silhouetted Against the Sun

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 11:05 AM PDT

Oh, now this is a great bunch of photographs, all a bit reminiscent of the opening shot in the Disney movie The Lion King. Great beasts in silhouette against a sunrise (or sunset, or in one case, the moon) would make great computer wallpaper. See a dozen of these at Environmental Graffiti. Link

(Image credit: Flickr user Xavi Talleda)

Surprise! This is Your Wedding Day!

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 10:37 AM PDT


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Shawn spent an entire year getting ready to throw a surprise wedding for Colleen, and make everything exactly the way she wanted it to be. No detail was overlooked. Shawn even brought her bedroom furniture to the wedding venue so Colleen could get dressed in familiar surroundings. It all came together this past Saturday. Have someone been chopping onions in here? -via Cynical-C

10 Worst Fake Video Games From Science Fiction

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 10:20 AM PDT

The vision of the future from the past (retro-future) is usually a funny and interesting topic. That’s why this list of video games from old science fiction films and television shows is so great. In the future we will achieve inter planetary space travel but our video games will be really lame (sadly it seems the opposite is unfolding.)

Science fiction is all about advancing into a shinier future – so why are people always playing such terrible video games in science fiction shows and movies? In the distant future, will we really be stuck playing bad 8-bit knockoffs, or trying to get a Frisbee into a tentacle mouth over and over? Here’s are the 10 most embarrassing games people play in science fiction.

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16 Unassuming-but-Lethal Poison Plants

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 10:07 AM PDT

While many types of plants contain levels of toxins for defense from insects and other predators, this list of plants are extremely lethal to humans. When foraging for plants to eat in the forest, be sure not to have any of these such as the “Angels Trumpet” on your menu.

What could be sweeter than the sound of an angel's trumpet? Perhaps the moaning agony of a trip that won't end. Related to petunias, tomatoes and potatoes, the angel's trumpet (datura stramonium) is a highly effective hallucinogen, but should not be consumed for recreational purposes as it can also be lethal. According to wikipedia: "The active ingredients are atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine which are classified as deliriants, or anticholinergics. Due to the elevated risk of overdose in uninformed users, many hospitalizations, and some deaths, are reported from recreational use." This common plant also goes by many other names, including jimson weed, stink weed, loco weed, and devil's snare. One 18-year-old who was house-sitting alone for his uncle recounts how he decided to prepare some angel's trumpet tea in curiosity and almost died (a friend burst in on him convulsing on the bathroom floor and the authorities assumed he was on an acid trip).

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Charles Bronson Lookalike Not Allowed To Visit Notorious Prisoner

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Steve Swatton has been campaigning for years  for the release of a “notorious” prison inmate Charles Bronson. Now that he would like to visit the bank robber Swatton is being prohibited by prison officials who may believe that he would swap places with the prison inmate. Which begs the questions: A. Why would Swatton want to swap places with a prison inmate? B. What kind of maximum security prison would make it possible for Swatton and Bronson to swap in the first place? Are they that easily confused by bald men with mustaches?

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The World's Largest Big Mac

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 09:10 AM PDT

Behold, the world’s largest Big Mac. The 14-foot-tall sandwich lives in the North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s, which also serves as the official Big Mac Museum. It was created for the Big Mac’s 40th anniversary in 2008. Pictured with the giant burger is Jim Delligatti, a franchisee who created the real thing back in 1967.

If you’re really curious, you can check out the official unveiling of the World’s Largest Big Mac featuring Ronald McDonald himself.

Link via Insanewiches
Photo: Henry Ray Abrams/AP

Psychoplates

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 08:56 AM PDT

Artist Isabelle Foirest designed a set of four porcelain dinner plates that contain inkblots inspired by the classic Rorschach test. After you eat, you can discuss psychological analysis with your dinner guests! They are dishwasher safe, which is good, because if you hand wash them, you’d never be absolutely sure they are clean. The four plates all have different inkblots. Link -via Dangerous Minds

Teddy Roosevelt's Diary the Day His Wife Died

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 08:51 AM PDT

Teddy was just 25 when his first wife, Alice, died of Bright’s Disease two days after the birth of their daughter. After her death, he never spoke of his wife publicly again and even deferred his daughter’s questions about her mother to other family members. Her name was also Alice, but because it reminded Teddy too much of her mother, she became known in the family as “Baby Lee.”


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DIY Embroidery iPhone Case

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 06:30 AM PDT

Love your iPhone, but wish it had a homier feel? Never fear – now you can use your best needlework skills to cozy up your case. For just $18, you get an embroidery-friendly case, plus embroidery thread in the appropriate colors to make whichever design you choose. You can also just use their grid paper to make your own design, if you want to take your DIY-ness to the next level. I think the kitties are hilarious, but you could also go more geek-like with Mario or the Apple or Superman logos.

Link via Design.org
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