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- Ducklings on a Water Slide
- Clever Camera
- Great Pictures From The 2011 Blizzcon
- The Anatomy of a Pumpkin
- 50 Breakfasts From Around The World
- 14 Sexy Costumes That Shouldn't Exist
- 10 Adorable Japanese School Buses
- Inception Animals
- Virtual Costume
- Steampunk Pumpkin
- How Woodpeckers Peck Wood without Hurting Themselves
- Propane Tank Jack-o'-Lanterns
- Live-Action Pac-Man Game
- Huge Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. Made from 4,242 Rubik's Cubes
- Baby Wookiee Is Adorable and Creepy
- Cloud Shadow of Mt. Rainier
- Real Life Imitates The Simpsons: Three-Eyed Fish Caught Near Nuclear Plant
- Hello Kitty Mustache Coin Bag
- Necco Fans Prefer Their Candy Artificially Enhanced
- Smashing Pumpkins in Slow Motion
- The Wizard, The Power Glove, and Children in Peril
- Time Twister
- Alternate Alternative Fuel for Robots of the Future
- Adventures in Depression
- Cinderella, Cinderella
- Five Minutes
- 13 Horror Movies and the 'True Stories' They're Based On
- The Grand Wizards of Elementary School
| Posted: 29 Oct 2011 04:52 AM PDT It must be fun; they keeping climbing up for more! These ducks were recorded at the Cabarrus County Fair in North Carolina. -via Arbroath  |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2011 04:51 AM PDT WVIL is the name of a cool concept that the Artefact Group has come up with. It’s a camera that features a touchscreen that works pretty much like the iPhone.
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| Great Pictures From The 2011 Blizzcon Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:02 PM PDT If you missed the 2011 Blizzcon, but are a huge fan of WOW and other Blizzard games, you won’t want to miss Geeks Are Sexy’s wonderful collection of the greatest costumes from the event. Some of the outfits are seriously impressive. |
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| 50 Breakfasts From Around The World Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:56 PM PDT In America, we love cereal and eggs and bacon, but every other country has their own classic breakfast and while some seem a little strange, others, like this English breakfast look utterly delicious. Learn what 50 other places eat for breakfast over at the link. |
| 14 Sexy Costumes That Shouldn't Exist Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:53 PM PDT BuzzFeed has a great collection of “sexy” costumes that make no sense. I actually think the one above is kind of cute, but it’s still idiotic to have a sexy version of Edward Scissorhands. |
| 10 Adorable Japanese School Buses Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:49 PM PDT School buses in America are so boring, but in Japan, it’s a whole different story. InventorSpot has a collection of 10 different buses from the country and I have to say, they are precious. |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:22 PM PDT
YouTuber MrSexyFoo specializes in a specific type of animal videos: dramatic animals in Inception, set to Zack Hemsey's iconic soundtrack. The ending is as mind-boggling as the film! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via I Heart Chaos See previously on Neatorama: 19 Things You Didn't Know About Inception |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:39 PM PDT
Let’s state upfront that redditor adriannezy is brilliant. She wanted to participate in Halloween at work, but not wear a costume that got in the way. So she generated a QR code that, when scanned, reveals a picture of herself in a classic Star Trek uniform. She writes, “I’ve had groups of guys holding phones up to my chest all day. It’s been awkward.” Link -via Super Punch |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 06:21 PM PDT
Thomas Willeford of Brute Force Studios has released a guide on how to make your very own steampunk pumpkin for Halloween: Link [PDF] - via GeekDad |
| How Woodpeckers Peck Wood without Hurting Themselves Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:59 PM PDT
Close examination of the birds’ movements permitted researchers to create a computer simulation. It revealed that:
Link -via Nerdcore | Photo: Flickr user texas_mustang |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:41 PM PDT Before you take a cutting torch to your own propane tank, make sure that it’s complete empty of fuel. Or just leave the work up to Scott Krichau, who made this and other jack-o’-lanterns from empty tanks. Link -via Dude Craft | Artist’s Website | Photo: Skull-A-Day |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:29 PM PDT (Video Link) It is the duty of all parents to teach their children those essential life skills that are passed down from generation to generation. Fine work, Nathan Glemboski. Someday your son will thank you. -via Kotaku |
| Huge Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. Made from 4,242 Rubik's Cubes Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:15 PM PDT |
| Baby Wookiee Is Adorable and Creepy Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:02 PM PDT Well, the good news is that this isn’t one of those dolls that pees. Although “I changed Chewbacca’s diaper” would make a great t-shirt, it’s probably not a good experience. eBay seller eyelovelucy makes realistic (as in semi-human looking) Han, Leia, Luke, and Chewy dolls. You need them to round out your action figure collection. Link -via Technabob | Previously: Baby Chewbacca |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 04:20 PM PDT
Take a look at this: a phenomenal sunrise of Mt. Rainier in Washington state, where the volcano actually casts a sky shadow on the clouds! From Seattle's Komo News:
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| Real Life Imitates The Simpsons: Three-Eyed Fish Caught Near Nuclear Plant Posted: 28 Oct 2011 02:19 PM PDT
A group of fishermen in Cordoba caught a mutant fish off a lake near a nuclear power plant that looked like it came straight out of The Simpsons. Folks, meet the real life equivalent of Blinky, the three-eyed fish:
Link [Google Translate] - via Geekosystem |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:49 PM PDT Hello Kitty Mustache Coin Bag – $16.95 There used to be a time when mustaches were only worn by the manliest of men. Not any more. Mustaches are now sported by the cutest of cats. Behold the adorable Hello Kitty Mustache Coin Bag from the NeatoShop. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Hello Kitty and Mustache fun!
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| Necco Fans Prefer Their Candy Artificially Enhanced Posted: 28 Oct 2011 12:17 PM PDT
You'd think that most people would prefer their favorite food to be made from natural ingredients, but not Necco Wafers fans. When the company changed their recipe to use natural flavors and colors, the fans clamored for the return of the original, artificially enhanced candy:
NPR has the story: Link |
| Smashing Pumpkins in Slow Motion Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:54 AM PDT What could be more Halloweeny than flying pumpkin guts and creepy music? Film by Devin Graham with original music by Stephen Anderson. -via Buzzfeed |
| The Wizard, The Power Glove, and Children in Peril Posted: 28 Oct 2011 09:49 AM PDT
The climax involves a video game tournament, so you can guess the ending. It doesn’t make any sense, either. Read more about how a favorite movie from a writer’s childhood becomes completely nonsensical when he watches it again as an adult. Link |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:59 AM PDT I haven’t spent this much time watching a clock move in …a long time. Hans Andersson, who gave the Rubik’s Cube-solving robot, built this clock called the Time Twister.
Read more about it at the Tilted Twister site. Link -via Laughing Squid |
| Alternate Alternative Fuel for Robots of the Future Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:25 AM PDT
It’s an interesting premise, the bug-eating robot. I’d personally never thought of feeding a machine anything other than electricity (or sunlight for the solar-powered variety). If you built a robot, which fuel source would you design it to run on? |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT Allie Brosh is back at Hyperbole and a Half after six months with what is believed to be an explanation for her absence. Her post is an honest and illustrated account of what it’s like to experience depression. In the comments, many others corroborate her experience. Link |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:47 AM PDT
(Image credit: DeviantART member TwilightxGirl) |
| Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:44 AM PDT Relax, the video is only a few seconds long. Five minutes is the subject matter. A reporter covers a building demolition, but failed to synchronize his watch. -via The Daily What |
| 13 Horror Movies and the 'True Stories' They're Based On Posted: 28 Oct 2011 07:42 AM PDT
Each of the 13 horror stories has a video clip from the film, and many have documentary clips from the stories that inspired them. Link |
| The Grand Wizards of Elementary School Posted: 28 Oct 2011 05:19 AM PDT
Members of the Ku Klux Klan liked to think of themselves as white knights. And when it came to compulsory education for schoolchildren, believe it or not, they actually were. To understand how this bizarre heroism came to pass, you have to go back to the 1820s, when about half the laborers in America’s cotton mils were children under the age of 15. Adults had a serious hankering to get those kids out of the workforce -not because they were concerned for their well-being but because adults resented the competition. After all, employers could get away with paying children much lower wages, and the little ones had energy to burn. Mary Kenney O’Sullivan, vice president of the National Women’s Trade Union League, put the situation bluntly: “Wherever child labor prevails there is a corresponding decrease in employment for adults.” In fact, getting rid of the kids was one of the first causes to unite the American label movement. When labor leaders realized they couldn’t just turn youngsters out in the streets to fend for themselves, they proposed a one-two punch of ending child labor laws and requiring school. Massachusetts was the first state to pass a compulsory education law. In 1837, its state legislature barred factory owners from hiring anyone under age 15 who hadn’t attended public school for at least three months during the previous year. The law was ignored, and factory owners kept hiring kids anyway. Five years later, Massachusetts passed a second law, which went after factories more directly, limiting the amount of time children could work. When this law was ignored as well, the state made education compulsory in 1852.
At the turn of the century, labor unions lobbied for compulsory education nationwide, and they soon found an unexpected ally. The Ku Klux Klan supported the idea of public schools as a way of forcing immigrants to conform to white, Protestant culture. By 1918, labor unions had succeeded in getting compulsory education laws passed in every state. Two years later, a Catholic organization in Oregon demanded that the laws be amended to include private schools. The KKK took a more outspoken stance, and its membership grew quickly in support of the public school system. Around the same time that the national KKK began strongly advocating for a federal ban on child labor, a rift opened up between the Northern Klansmen and Southern industrialists. In the ensuing public relations battle, the industrialists tried to win points with Southern voters by portraying the debate over child labor as another fight against the Yankees. But the pull of the KKK was too great, and the Klan won a victory for children nationwide -well, white children. Southern business leaders agreed to child labor laws, but only as long as the adult minimum wage remained low and African-American children were prohibited from attending white public schools. In 1938, the Fair Labor Standard Act officially ended child labor, but it didn’t do much to help black kids living under Jim Crow. The result: White children across the country were guaranteed an education at the expense of black children in the South. _______________________
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If you routinely and repeatedly bang your head against the wall in the vain hope that doing so will alter reality, then you should know that it’s not as safe as when a woodpecker does it. How can these birds hammer away like they do without suffering brain injuries? Scientists think that they have the answer:
Natural schmnatural! Bring back the yummy goodness of artificial ingredients!
The Wizard was a 1989 movie that was entirely made of product placement, mainly for Ninento’s Power Glove. I have never heard of this film that was catnip for kids (it’s about video games!), but it sounds like the most bizarre mishmash ever. It involves a road trip across the country for three runaways, one who has escaped from a mental institution, in which no police are involved and the people they meet don’t find anything odd about unaccompanied minors.
In what seems like the perfect solution to everything (or an episode of What Could Possibly Go Wrong?!), a pair of prototypes hint at a future in which robots eat bugs for fuel. Forget charging batteries or docking in your very own R2D2 — these autonomous, self-feeding droids could easily run along happily without us. The secret lies in two developments, both of which mimic the Venus flytrap’s prey-catching method:
If you are interested in the global folk tale we know as Cinderella, and you have a lot of time on your hands this weekend, you might want to check out a mega-post at Metafilter. From the original Chinese version in which a king becomes obsessed with a tiny bound-foot slipper to modern feminist interpretations, there are links for anything and everything to do with Cinderella, including books, film, poetry, opera, advertising, variations, and literary criticism. 
Some of the most over-the-top horror films are based on real-life stories, though you wouldn’t know it to watch them. For example, the story in The Exorcist was based on the exorcism of a 12-year-old boy named Robbie Mannheim.
How the KKK helped get children out of the factories and into the classroom.
By 1884, 16 states had instituted laws that forced children to go to school. Business owners, enamored with their short, low cost labor pool, denounced the status as “communist” and “un-American.” But the percentage of children in the workforce in cotton mills fell nonetheless; by 1890 it was just 10 percent. And not coincidentally, adult workers were awarded higher wages and better working conditions over the same period. From 1840 to 1880, average wages rose as much as 150 percent, while at the same time, the average workday fell from 13-14 hours to 10-11 hours.
But the fight wasn’t over -just because more kids were forced to go to school didn’t mean that they couldn’t work in factories. After all, there were always nights, weekends, and summer vacations, right? In 1923, a Klan newspaper warned that big business wanted to keep child labor legal to “secure a cheaper class of labor and hold the price paid to the American citizen down to a minimum at all times.” The Klan was nearing the apex of its size and clout, with more than 3 million members. Since a good portion of its ranks were poor whites, the Klan was more sympathetic to this group’s economic interests. It went on a full-throttle campaign to get kids out of the factories for good.
The article above, written by Erik Sass, is reprinted with permission from the Scatterbrained section of the September-October 2011 issue of mental_floss magazine. 
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