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- Tortoises Enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner
- Zappos Pays Toll For Everyone
- Fascinating Architectural Figure Drawings
- Delicious Angry Birds Pizza
- Photo-Realistic Paintings Of Food
- 12 Awesome Han Solo Tributes
- Ralph Steadman's Vision Of Wonderland
- A Happy Hamster Thanksgiving
- Take The Books Of Skyrim With You Everywhere
- Cool Custom Star Wars Action Figures
- This Cake Is Made Of Pure Evil
- Inglourious Animals Animated Mashup
- Cartoon Eyes Street Art By Timm Schneider
- Dreaming In Paint
- The Well of Death
- BBC Builds Dalek Model That Imitates the Actions of On-Screen Daleks
- Beautiful but Deadly Snakes
- South Korea Builds Robot Prison Guards
- Six Famous Thought Experiments
- Unwanted Visitor, Portrait of Wildfire
- Call From Jail
- The Deadly Dole Air Race
- The Arctic Circle
- This Week at Neatorama
| Tortoises Enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner Posted: 27 Nov 2011 12:21 AM PST |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2011 12:16 AM PST
Link Via Consumerist Image via Dan4th [Flickr]  |
| Fascinating Architectural Figure Drawings Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:57 PM PST Figural forms built out of architectural elements, these illustrations by Sean Edward Whelan look like sculptural cityscapes from a science fiction movie. Full of finely illustrated detail, you will continue to see more and more of what makes up each figure as you look over them. It’s easy to get lost in the clutter of objects, so try to keep your eyes firmly planted in your skull. |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:55 PM PST Red bell peppers, olives, mushrooms and whatever that yellow stuff is have never looked so menacing on a pizza before. Link Via Geeks Are Sexy |
| Photo-Realistic Paintings Of Food Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:50 PM PST If you prefer your comfort food without all the calories, then the photo-realistic paintings of Pamela Michelle Johnson may be just the thing you need this holiday season. With all the warm, rich colors of real food, these food paintings are not only drool inducing, they’re also massive in scale, typically over five feet square! Check out the delicious gallery at the Flavorwire link below, but try not to lick the screen. |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:46 PM PST If there’s anything cooler than a hidden door, it’s a hidden door that features Hans Solo in carbonite on the inside. For more awesome tributes to the rebel hero, be sure to check out this great Oddee article. |
| Ralph Steadman's Vision Of Wonderland Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:42 PM PST Self proclaimed Gonzo Illustrator Ralph Steadman decided to take on Alice in Wonderland in 1967, and he brought his usual flair for warped character designs and messy style to Alice’s fantastic world. The oddity of Steadman’s style seems like normalcy when related to Wonderland. There’s a great gallery of images at the article link below, including another Lewis Carroll work Steadman brought to life with his illustrations called “The Hunting Of The Snark”. |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:41 PM PST Sure Thanksgiving is over, but while watching your family members stuff their faces might not be all that entertaining, seeing a hamster munch down a pint-sized dinner is certainly enjoyable. |
| Take The Books Of Skyrim With You Everywhere Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:06 PM PST If you enjoy reading through the books in the new Elder Scrolls video game Skyrim, but don’t have time to read them all while playing the game, don’t worry! Capaneus has put the collection together for your ereader of choice, so Skyrim’s literary masterpieces can be with you always. Link –via Destructoid |
| Cool Custom Star Wars Action Figures Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:03 PM PST These custom action figures are sculpted from scratch by Dayton Allen, and include characters from, among other sources, The Old Republic and The Force Unleashed video games. They’re way too awesome to be considered mere toys. Check out more of Dayton’s masterfully sculpted Star Wars character figures at the links below. Link –via Super Punch –Dayton Allen |
| This Cake Is Made Of Pure Evil Posted: 26 Nov 2011 10:42 PM PST If you happen to be planning an Evil Dead themed wedding or birthday party, then this Necronomicon shaped cake was made just for you. Entitled the Necronomicnom, if you ingest a slice of this scary pastry, it’s sure to bring out some inner demons. Makes for one hell of a good time! |
| Inglourious Animals Animated Mashup Posted: 26 Nov 2011 10:14 PM PST This is one badass Fantastic Mr. Fox X Inglourious Basterds mashup! Watch as Mr. Fox and his animal squad prepare to fight the Nazis in an alternate furry version of WWII. –via Heavy |
| Cartoon Eyes Street Art By Timm Schneider Posted: 26 Nov 2011 10:10 PM PST It’s funny how much personality you can add to inanimate objects simply by attaching a pair of cartoon eyes. Cookie monster trash cans, hungry trash cans, bashful locked outlets, Timm Schneider’s street art would be a pleasure to come across in the urban jungle. Link –via Laughing Squid |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 07:07 PM PST Grant Woolard (previously at Neatorama) dreamed he was in the world of famous paintings. How many do you recognize? But you don’t really have to know your Monets from your Manets to enjoy this animation. -Thanks, Grant! |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 12:31 PM PST (Video Link) Driving in a bowl isn’t new, but neither is this rickety track made from salvaged wood. The Mauth Ka Kuan or Well of Death from a circus in India features spectacularly fearless drivers. Skip about two minutes into the video to watch them get truly insane. |
| BBC Builds Dalek Model That Imitates the Actions of On-Screen Daleks Posted: 26 Nov 2011 12:05 PM PST
You can watch a video of the toy at DVICE. |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PST Mark Laita composed a series of photographs of dangerous snakes from across the world. My favorite image is this one of the rhinoceros viper, a snake found in West and Central Africa. Link -via My Modern Met | Photographer’s Website |
| South Korea Builds Robot Prison Guards Posted: 26 Nov 2011 11:37 AM PST
The government should keep in mind that, with rising energy prices around the world, such a program could be expensive to maintain. There are, however, alternative energy sources. Link -via Technabob | Photo: Yonhag |
| Six Famous Thought Experiments Posted: 26 Nov 2011 08:34 AM PST Six famous thought experiments explained humorously in a minute each, by David Mitchell of the BBC’s That Mitchell and Webb Look. Produced by The Open University. -via The Daily What |
| Unwanted Visitor, Portrait of Wildfire Posted: 26 Nov 2011 08:32 AM PST These sculptures of flames by artist Herb Williams are an outdoor installation at the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. The name of the work is “Unwanted Visitor, Portrait of Wildfire.” But take a closer look -the flames are made of crayons! As the suns hits them, temperatures rise and fall, and the wind blows, the sculptures will melt, move, and change considerably, as they are designed to do. Link -via Laughing Squid (Image credit: Ashton Thornhill) |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 08:30 AM PST When you only have one phone call, you’d better make it a good one! -via the Presurfer |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 07:36 AM PST
The carnage didn’t stop there. Nor did it stop once the race was over. Read more about the deadly Dole Air Race at Atlas Obscura blog. This story is part of a regular feature they call Morbid Monday. Link |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 07:33 AM PST Kevin Parry took a year to complete this stop-motion animation at Sheridan College. Filmmaker Tim Burton called it “a cross between 2001 and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” And then he said it was “really cool.” -via reddit |
| Posted: 26 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST
As the new Muppet Movie opened this week, Jill Harness gave us A Short Look At The Muppet’s Long History. Eddie Deezen gave us some interesting holiday reading with How Straight-laced were the Pilgrims? The Annals of Improbable Research found a gem among registered patents and brought us A Device to Deter a Bear. The Meanest Towns in the West were ranked by Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. From mental_floss magazine, we had The Quest to Solve the Hardest Math Problem in History (and the Minds that were Lost Along the Way). The biggest post of the week was the one about the Cherpumple, called A Cherry Pie, an Apple Pie and a Pumpkin Pie, Each Cooked Inside a Separate Cake, and Then All Cooked Together inside Another Cake. It received the most views, the most comments, and the most links from other sites. Now, if we could only get statistics on how many people actually tried this at home…
In the coming week, get your Christmas decorations and ornaments ordered from the NeatoShop so you’ll have time to enjoy them. As far as Christmas gifts go, you don’t have to worry about shipping time (yet). What you need to worry about is that popular items may sell out! But isn’t it wonderful to be able to buy everyone something different, funny, useful, or just plain neat without having to go shopping? |
Zappos certainly got in the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday on Wednesday evening, they went ahead and paid all of the tolls for drivers heading through one section of the turnpike between 5-7 PM. While it was only a $1.50 savings per person, but certainly a great way to cheer people up as they headed home for the holiday weekend.
When the Daleks on TV speak, your toy Dalek speaks. When the Daleks on TV move, yours moves. When the Daleks on TV exterminate humans, yours exterminates humans. It is indeed a flawless plan:
In order to control its population of rebellious human prisoners, South Korea’s Ministry of Justice plans to test robot prison guards:
The Dole Air Race of August 16, 1927 was from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, for a prize of $35,000. Fifteen planes were registered. Eleven qualified to start. Two crashed on the way to the starting point, and another crashed during a test flight before the race. Things only got worse once the race began.
For the first time in my life, I went to a Black Friday sale. It was a sight! I was naive enough to think the madness you see in the news wasn’t applicable to my tiny little town… wrong! The available inventory of the one item that tempted me was completely claimed by people who had lined up 24 hours early. There’s no way I’d give up Thanksgiving with my family to buy something (besides, I was working). So I saved even more money by not buying it. My Christmas shopping will entail getting smaller, more unique, and personal items by 
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