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| Posted: 09 Oct 2011 03:49 AM PDT Photographer and designer Henry Hargreaves really likes to play with his food! From his font made out of bacon to mosaic pictures made out of burned toast to this, his most recent fun with food project-piles of food painted rainbow colors. Some look delicious, others disgusting, and it all looks like it would have felt right at home hanging on the wall of a Bob’s Big Boy in the 1980s. Take a gander at Henry’s website if you want to see more examples of his foodie art. Link –via DesignTAXI  |
| Before LOLCats There Were Action Cats! Posted: 09 Oct 2011 03:35 AM PDT This commercial parody from Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s paved the way for future kittie videos to take the interwebs by storm, and it’s an ad for a fake product I’d actually like to see sold in stores, especially around Halloween. It doesn’t get much better than armor clad cats battling it out with mini rocket launchers, oh wait, they glow in the dark?! |
| Street Sweeper Simulation Is The Epic Fail Of Video Games Posted: 09 Oct 2011 03:34 AM PDT Who knew that driving a street sweeper all over town, cleaning streets and stuff, wouldn’t make for a good video game? Probably everyone who has ever played a video game and doesn’t work as a street sweeper. Heck, I’d venture to guess that even a professional street sweeper wouldn’t want to go home and play a game involving street sweeping! So, the question I have as an avid gamer is this- how do these awful video games keep getting made and released upon an unsuspecting public? My guess is an anti-video game conspiracy bent on turning gamers against their favorite pastime. Stop shaking your cane at me! |
| Pokemon Parody By Creator Of Adventure Time Posted: 09 Oct 2011 03:31 AM PDT When Pendleton Ward, creator of the Cartoon Network hit series Adventure Time, and animator Natasha Allegri want to tell a joke they use an adorable animated short to deliver the punchline, a short that happily spoofs Pokemon with tongue-in-cheek reverence. Watch as Ash shows Pikachu the rules concerning passing gas in public, and be amazed when your normally stoic expression softens into a toothy grin! -via ComicsAlliance |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2011 07:58 PM PDT You may be most familiar with licorice as a food flavor, but it’s also a plant. Italian designer Cecilia Felli realized that it could provide a tasty alternative for people who like to chew on pencils. So chow down! Link -via Oddity Central | Photo: Foodiction |
| Judge Judy Would Like You to Get to the Point Posted: 08 Oct 2011 04:21 PM PDT And while you’re at it, use proper diction. Emily and Matt Fitzpatrick of Steotch, who also made the Locutus of Borg Serenity Prayer sampler, created this Judge Judy-themed cross stitch. |
| When They Got Back from the Moon, Apollo 11 Astronauts Went through Customs Posted: 08 Oct 2011 01:09 PM PDT NASA has confirmed that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins went through customs upon their return to Earth and the United States. They filled out the above form, declaring their travel itinerary and that they had brought back moon rocks, dust, and samples through the US border. They did not mention the whiskey smuggled inside Aldrin’s suitcase. Link -via Geekosystem |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2011 12:33 PM PDT
Milan design group Carnovsky created what is probably the most psychedelic fun wallpaper you'll ever see today (without having to ingest anything):
Link | Larger photos at Carnovsky's website |
| Florida School District Installs Fingerprint Scanners to Take Attendance Posted: 08 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT
The Washington County school district in Florida has a little problem with inconsistent attendance. After weighing their options, school officials decided to place finger scanners at the entrance to Chipley High School, where incoming students are scanned in each morning. Because most kids in the district ride buses every day, and because keeping track of everyone in the halls is difficult, the system will be moved to select buses for a trial period to determine if it’s a more efficient way to save time and to ensure students are accounted for from the time they arrive until they’re dropped off at home. The program has been in place for about two months, and so far, attendance is up–but not everyone is happy about it. Identity theft There are questions about the security of a device that reads a fingerprint, “which is a unique, identifiable piece of information,” and then “stores it in a database, and links it to a name” (Kelly Hodgkins, Gizmodo). Being that the students are mostly minors, it’s a legitimate concern, and one that Washington Co. Schools Superintendent Sandra Cook is quick to dismiss: There are only four or five points recorded in each scan, which are translated into a 60-digit passcode. “We can’t go backwards with it. We can’t turn around and take that number and recreate the points on a finger.” (DailyMotion) $$$ The scanners cost about $22,000. Per student, this breaks down to about $30 a year each, which is a problem for some parents, and an expense they say the school doesn’t need. But Clay Dillow at PopSci thinks it’ll all come out in the wash: “At $30 per student per year, the system isn't necessarily cheap. But considering the uptick in attendance (which means more money from the state in many districts) and the inherent increase in accountability and student safety, it may well be worth the cost.” 1984? Even accounting for privacy, security and the cost, isn’t it “kinda Orwellian that the school wants you to flash your fingerprint before you can learn”? And what does it say about the district schools? As Micheal Trei at DViCE comments, “it seems like a sad commentary if you need to treat students like prisoners to get them to attend.” But Superintendent Cook has no concerns. “When it’s all said and done, we’re going to find that this is going to be one of the most monumental things that Washington County has ever done,” she says. And parents can always opt out by signing a waiver and having their children check in with a teacher each morning. What do you think? Is it too “Big Brother” to ask students to scan a finger for attendance, or is this just an example of technology improving an inefficient process? Sources:
Image: pcstelcom.com |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2011 07:45 AM PDT Craftster member ChainCrafts made armor for his family because his wife wanted a “Post-Apocalypse/Zombie Slaying family photo shoot” for her birthday. She got her wish. The awesome photographs are shared at the Craftster forum. Link -via Boing Boing (Image credit: Bakan Photography) |
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Update: Muzition points out that Monday is Thanksgiving in Canada. Happy Thanksgiving! Elvis Meets the Beatles. It only happened once, and Eddie Deezen gave us a vivid description of that day in 1965. Friday, we brought you a roundup of the ways people use Van Gogh’s masterpiece in Starry Night is Everywhere! Mysterious Rappings was the story of the hoax that started the spiritualist movement. It started off a month of special Halloween-themed articles from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. The Annals of Improbable Research asked the question Which Came First — The Chicken Or the Egg? And then answered it by experiment! We had another gallery of awesome images on the Neatorama Spotlight Blog from the Nikon Small World microphotography competition. The latest collection is called Making the Ordinary, Extraordinary. Mental_floss magazine gave us The World's 10 Messiest Food Festivals. In the What Is It? game this week, the pictured object is an early TV remote control. This one is really neat in that it doesn't need batteries! Read more about it and see a video at the What It It? Blog. Yes, it was an easy one this week, and our first commenter, Benjamin Abbitt, had the right answer (but did not select a t-shirt). Most people guessed TV remote, but a few went for the funny answer. A t-shirt goes to Ceri for this one: "It's Captain Kirk's first phaser, an early version, before the design was more refined. The buttons are for tickle, shake, stun and kill" She was one of many to make jokes about Star Trek’s phasers -you should go read them all! Then there was a Tokyo Flash Treasure Hunt, which pops up when you least expect it. Congratulations to the winners, listed in this post. If that’s not enough, check out the Best of Neatorama. Use the slider at the top to access articles from the past six years. And with Halloween coming up sooner than you think, you’ll want to get your orders in for costumes, accessories, party supplies, and more from the Halloween Store at the NeatoShop! |
Gone are the days of a raised and hand and simple “Present.” Now students in one school district must submit a fingerprint to be counted in morning roll call.
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