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• Lady Gaga Paper Doll Reveals Her Secret Identity
• Working Lancer Rifle Made Out Of Legos
• Ceramic Pots With Creepy Realistic Mouths
• Human Body Sponge Sculptures
• Mummy Dearest Apron
• AT-AT Dog Costume
• Paper Haunted House Silhouettes
• Male Crickets Risk Lives to Let Females Go First
• Dumbbell Cutlery Turns Eating into Exercise
• Beautiful Wooden Revolver Model
• Back to the Future Model Train Set
• Laughing Stone
• Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #18 Winners
• Extreme Jacuzzing
• The Cast of The Princess Bride Reunites
• France Bans Ketchup in School
• 17 Vowel-Free Words Acceptable in ‘Words With Friends’
• Parents of a Certain Age
• Double Trouble
• Who Embodied Evil Before Hitler?
• Deep Fried Poutine
• Don't Hold Back, Just Push Things Forward

Lady Gaga Paper Doll Reveals Her Secret Identity Posted: 08 Oct 2011 01:42 AM PDT According to this hilarious Lady Gaga paper doll the pop star has been moonlighting as Voltron, Defender of the Universe! The meat dress, the spaghetti wig, it’s no she’s such a fashion icon-she wears all the food that models aren’t allowed to eat. Link –via ComicsAlliance

Working Lancer Rifle Made Out Of Legos Posted: 07 Oct 2011 11:47 PM PDT (YouTube Link) Office cubicle warfare just got a whole lot cooler. This LEGO replica of a Lancer Rifle, the type carried by the characters in the very popular Gears Of War video game franchise, is so well designed that it functions as a rubber band gun, and has a clip so you can fire in burst mode. Good thing the chainsaw doesn’t work, or else someone would lose more than an eye! –via Joystiq

Ceramic Pots With Creepy Realistic Mouths Posted: 07 Oct 2011 11:35 PM PDT Don’t worry, these pots won’t bite, and once you plant something in them the chatter will stop, I promise. These creepy ceramic creations are the product of Ronit Baranga’s sick imagination, and their realistic look is enough to keep all but the bravest souls from reaching in. These would make great Halloween candy bowls, especially if you made the little ones dig around for their treat! Link –via BoingBoing

Human Body Sponge Sculptures Posted: 07 Oct 2011 11:30 PM PDT At first glance, these sponge sculptures by Etienne Gros might make you blush, screaming things like “Not Safe For Work!” or “Kids, Look Away!” But they’re sponges, people, not naked bodies, so don’t start posting angry comments just yet. And if you don’t think the naked body is a work of art, how about these naked sponges? Link –via DesignTAXI

Mummy Dearest Apron Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:02 PM PDT Mummy Dearest Apron – $26.95 Does your dear Mummy need a new apron to preserve her clean clothes? Get her the Mummy Dearest Apron from the NeatoShop. This spooktacular Apron looks like a mummy’s wrapping and is embroidered with “Mummy Dearest.” This apron is fit for a queen. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Halloween fun and fantastic Aprons! Link

AT-AT Dog Costume Posted: 07 Oct 2011 07:53 PM PDT Geek cred is obviously very important to dogs these days. Katie Mello made this AT-AT costume for her dog so that he’ll be the coolest dog going trick-or-treating this year. Link -via Super Punch | Previously: A Real AT-AT Dog

Paper Haunted House Silhouettes Posted: 07 Oct 2011 07:43 PM PDT With Halloween coming up, you can dec-horror-ate your haunted house with easy, do-it-yourself paper silhouettes! Craft magazine has instructions and PDFs available so you can sketch out the shapes or take them to a print shop. Link -via Boing Boing

Male Crickets Risk Lives to Let Females Go First Posted: 07 Oct 2011 07:27 PM PDT So as the cautious man (or my mother) says, “Safety first.” However, for the male cricket–as gallant as he is–he’ll risk his life for a lady friend. In danger, a male cricket will wait until his female partner dives into their hiding burrow to ensure that if she’s pregnant, his genes will survive. At the entrance, it's ladies first: the male cricket waits while his partner dives in first. It's a delay that could cost him his life. This may all seem very chivalrous, but the male's seemingly selfless actions also make selfish sense. He may die, but he ensures that his genes pass on to the next generation. Male insects often stay close to female ones after they mate, and people have generally assumed that they're standing guard. If the female mates again, the first male's sperm will be flushed out by the second male's contributions. If he wants to ensure that he fathers he offspring, he'd do well to keep other suitors at bay. But Rolando Rodriguez-Munoz from the University of Exeter found that this narrative of conflict doesn't quite work for field crickets. He set up a network of infrared cameras to study a wild population of the crickets that had all been individually marked and genetically analysed. The cameras recorded thousands of hours of video, and Rodriguez-Munoz watched them all. The article goes on to describe the advantages both partners have when the male is accommodating to the female. Men, take notes. -Link | Image Credit Roberto Zanon

Dumbbell Cutlery Turns Eating into Exercise Posted: 07 Oct 2011 05:48 PM PDT The Irish design firm Cheeky Shop came up this this great way to get into shape. Step 1: acquire a cheesecake. Step 2: get out this cutlery set. Step 3: eat! The knife and fork weigh 1 kilogram each and the spoon 2 kilograms. Link -via The Presurfer

Beautiful Wooden Revolver Model Posted: 07 Oct 2011 05:37 PM PDT There’s little information available at the Japanese-language website about this model. But from the pictures, it’s clear that this is a precise model of the Nagant M1895 revolver, a handgun produced in vast numbers by Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. Other pictures at the link show that it’s articulated at several joints and can be loaded with wooden cartridges. Link (Google Translate) -via The Firearms Blog

Back to the Future Model Train Set Posted: 07 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT (Video Link) YouTube user troopertrent made a model DeLorean like the one featured in Back to the Future Part III. In that movie Marty McFly and Doc Brown had to push the time machine with a steam engine train to get it up to 88 MPH. troopertrent pushes his model DeLorean with a model train. As you can see at the end of the video, he went all-out on this production, because this is a completely functional model DeLorean time machine. -via Nerd Bastards

Laughing Stone Posted: 07 Oct 2011 05:04 PM PDT Yes, the stones have been laughing at you. No one else believes you, but I do. Look, that one is doing it right now! Link -via Spoon & Tamago | Sculpture and photo by Hirotoshi Ito

Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #18 Winners Posted: 07 Oct 2011 05:03 PM PDT Last week, we ran a neat treasure hunt with the good folks of Tokyoflash (answer page here). Today, let's announce the lucky winners. Congratulations to: Vekven who won the Vandelay Industries T-shirt Tim who won the Liquid Glass Thinking Putty attorneyadrian who won the Monolith Action Figure The Grand Prize, courtesy of Tokyoflash, goes to: MadMolecule who won the Kisai RPM LED Watch! Congrats, guys! And for those of you who played, we thank you! Please stay tuned for the next Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt on Neatorama!

Extreme Jacuzzing Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:56 PM PDT Are you serious about using your jacuzzi? Are you ready to take it to the max, or do you just use it to relax? If the latter, then you’re definitely not ready to participate in the sport of extreme jacuzzing, which involves sitting in a jacuzzi in the most extreme environments. In the past, this band of daredevils has warmed up in a jacuzzi at the top of an Alpine peak. For their latest stunt, they suspended a jacuzzi 39 meters below a bridge in the Switzerland. Link and Official Website (Google Translate) -via Bit Rebels | Photo: Jaccuzzi.ch

The Cast of The Princess Bride Reunites Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:42 PM PDT The movie The Princess Bride is twenty-four year old, but it endures in pop culture, which often makes use of its more famous scenes and lines. In the above segment from the TV show Good Morning America, six cast members come together to talk about the making of the movie and how fans continue to remember them for it. -via The Mary Sue | Previously: Princess Bride Trivia

France Bans Ketchup in School Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:34 PM PDT You say catsup, I say ketchup ... but the French say it's simply banned. That's right, if you love ketchup in France, and you're in school, then you're out of luck. In an effort to promote healthy eating (and to protect traditional French cuisine), the French government has (largely) banned ketchup from school and college cafeterias: "France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children," said Bruno Le Maire, the agriculture and food minister. Ronald Reagan's White House may have considered ketchup — made famous by Henry John "H J." Heinz, who produced the first bottle in 1876 — a vegetable. But Gallic gastronomes view it with the same disdain as American television series, English words and McDonald's restaurants: unwelcome cultural impostors. Jacques Hazan, president of the Federation of School Pupils' and College Students' Parents Councils, told the Times of London that the new regulations are a "victory." Kim Willsher of the Los Angeles Times reports: Link

17 Vowel-Free Words Acceptable in ‘Words With Friends’ Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:12 PM PDT Words with Friends is a popular game for your smart phone or iPad. I don’t know how well these words would go over in Scrabble (probably not at all), but they will work when you play with your iPhone/Andriod-toting friends! BRR – The way you tell people that it's super chilly and the way you tell your WWF opponents that you don't care what they think of you. CWM – Oh, boy – pronounced "koom," it's another name for a "cirque," which is a bowl-shaped mountain basin often containing a lake. HMM – Accepted (in addition to "hm") as a sound of contemplation. When you're thinking just a wee bit harder, it's "hmm" instead of "hm." NTH – Having the quality of being the last in a series of infinitely increasing or decreasing values. (As in, "the nth degree.") There’s more, with 5, 6, and even 7 letters in this list at mental_floss! Link

Parents of a Certain Age Posted: 07 Oct 2011 08:18 AM PDT I was almost 40 when my youngest child was born. Being an older mom isn’t easy, but I personally have nothing to compare it to. New York Magazine has an extensive article on the growing number of women in their 50s and 60s who, with the help of modern technology, are becoming mothers for the first time. Some people think it’s creepy, others are concerned about the children, and obstetricians worry about health problems. But some research finds a bright side. In 2008, Brad Van Voorhis, head of the fertility clinic at the University of Iowa, decided he wanted to measure how well children conceived through in vitro fertilization do on intelligence tests, hoping to dispel lingering concerns about their cognitive abilities. So he and his team compared the standardized-test scores of 463 IVF kids ages 8 to 17 against the scores of other kids in their classes. They found that the IVF kids scored better overall and in every category of test—reading, math, and language skills. And they found that the older the mother, the better the kid performed. Van Voorhis guesses that the children of older mothers outperform their peers because the mothers, who've waited so long to have them, are more engaged. It's a recipe for success: "Fewer kids at home, more attention to the kids they do have, and more money to devote to their education." Other studies corroborate these findings. In research published in the journal Fertility and Sterility in 2007, Richard Paulson, head of the fertility program at the University of Southern California, found that mothers in their fifties reported less parental stress than those in their thirties and forties, the same level of mental functioning, and the same perception of fatigue. The fiftysomething women in his small national sample, incidentally, were also less likely than their counterparts to employ a nanny. They are more checked in. Link -via The Frisky (Image credit: Wayne Lawrence/Institute for Artist Management)

Double Trouble Posted: 07 Oct 2011 08:15 AM PDT (YouTube link) Simon’s Cat teaches a kitten what’s what. It’s not at all simple, as anyone with more than one cat knows already.

Who Embodied Evil Before Hitler? Posted: 07 Oct 2011 08:13 AM PDT My daughter is studying governments and needed some examples of dictators. A Google search led her to say, “Boy, everybody hates Hitler!” I gave her more examples, but they were all from the past 100 years. Before World War II, did any one person serve as a metaphor for oppression, cruelty, and all-around evil? Slate tackles the question. The Pharoah. In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, many Americans and Europeans had a firmer grasp of the bible than of the history of genocidal dictators. Orators in search of a universal symbol for evil typically turned to figures like Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, or, most frequently, the Pharaoh of Exodus, who chose to endure 10 plagues rather than let the Hebrew people go. In Common Sense, Thomas Paine wrote: "No man was a warmer wisher for reconciliation than myself, before the fatal nineteenth of April, 1775 [the date of the Lexington massacre], but the moment the event of that day was made known, I rejected the hardened, sullen tempered Pharaoh of England for ever." In the run-up to the Civil War, abolitionists regularly referred to slaveholders as modern-day Pharaohs. Even after VE Day, Pharaoh continued to pop up in the speeches of social reformers like Martin Luther King Jr. But he wasn’t the only example, just the most commonly used. Link -via Breakfast Links

Deep Fried Poutine Posted: 07 Oct 2011 07:05 AM PDT My first reaction to this headline was “Aren’t french fries already deep fried?” I guess that’s no barrier to deep-frying them again. In this recipe, the poutine (french fries, cheese curds, and gravy) are stuffed in an eggroll wrap and then deep fried. The deep fried poutine turned out really well and tasted great, but it was a little dry due to the lack of much filling. Now that I think about it though, I'm sure that dipping them in gravy before each bite could easily solve that problem. Either way, if I made it again I'd definitely try to pack some more fries, cheese curds and gravy into the egg roll wrappers. Your move Canada! Anyone want to try this and report back to us? Link -via J-Walk Blog

Don't Hold Back, Just Push Things Forward Posted: 07 Oct 2011 07:03 AM PDT (vimeo link) How many different songs can you include in a mashup and make it sound good? Chris from Ithaca Audio proves that if you know what you’re doing, the answer is “all of them.” The tune is available as a free download. Link -via Buzzfeed

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