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- The Worst Wurst Lives Up to Its Name
- 10 Celebrities With Their Own Beverages
- Huskies Were Born For The Cold
- Dunder Mifflin Now Actually Sells Paper
- The Cutest Donuts Ever
- Pink Bear Plush Earmuffs
- Oskar and the Christmas Tree
- How to Turn Savings into Debt in No Time
- Photo Series Featuring Gamers And Their In-Game Avatars
- A Strange Little Trailer For Touch My Katamari
- LOST Posters Inspired By Star Wars
- Chair Made From Dropping A Mannequin Onto A Metal Cube
- Correlation Does Not Equal Causation
- Cannonball Run
- Cat Inherits €10,000,000 Fortune
- What Are the Real Odds?
- South Korean Luxury Residence
- Product Placement in News Reports
- Honest Boy Pencil Sharpener
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| The Worst Wurst Lives Up to Its Name Posted: 10 Dec 2011 08:02 PM PST We’ve featured some of photographer Slinkachu’s work here before, but of all his Little People Project creations, the Worst Wurst might just be the most disgusting. That’s because it features tiny people harvesting rat poo and then selling it at a food stand. The photos are great, but you might want to avoid looking at them while eating lunch. Link Via Laughing Squid  |
| 10 Celebrities With Their Own Beverages Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:56 PM PST If you live for celebrity food and beverage lines, then you’ll love Mental Floss’s list of 10 Celebrity Refreshments. Personally, I’d like to mix some of The Situation’s Devotion vodka mixed with some of Rush Limbaugh’s Two if by Tea. It might not be the most delicious drink, but the conflicting celebrity endorsements must give it a great kick. |
| Huskies Were Born For The Cold Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:52 PM PST Huskies have evolved to survive in some of the most extreme environments on earth, so what do they do when removed from the cold and allowed to live in a warm home? Help themselves to cooling implements of course. Via BuzzFeed |
| Dunder Mifflin Now Actually Sells Paper Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:49 PM PST
No word yet on how it competes with the big office chains, but I hear their customer service is simply unbeatable. Link Via The Consumerist |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:44 PM PST If you abide by the rule that the smaller something is, the cuter it must be, then it’s hard to argue that these are undoubtedly the cutest donuts in the world. They are made from Cheerios though, so the same can’t be said about their tastiness. |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:37 PM PST Pink Bear Plush Earmuffs – $7.95 Are you having trouble expressing your inner cuteness while bundled up in bulky winter clothes? You need the super adorable Pink Bear Plush Earmuffs from the NeatoShop. Warning: The Pink Bear Plush Earmuffs may cause you to experience cute overload. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Winterwear! |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:30 PM PST Oskar the blind kitten (previously at Neatorama) has grow into a good-sized cat -and he has a Facebook page. In this video, he wrestles that strange thing we call a Christmas tree. His friend Klaus watches from the sidelines. -via The Daily What |
| How to Turn Savings into Debt in No Time Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:28 PM PST
Ganziano’s mother tried to get the fees waived, with no luck. So she paid it and asked for a bank supervisor to contact her. A few weeks later, with no call from a supervisor, she told the story to a consumer columnist at the Chicago Tribune. That same day, the bank agreed to refund all the fees. Daniel Ganziano said he learned something from the experience: don’t trust banks. Link -via Boing Boing (Image credit: Flickr user Alan Cleaver) |
| Photo Series Featuring Gamers And Their In-Game Avatars Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:15 PM PST Have you ever wondered what people would look like if they could create their own ideal physical form, or what the heroes in their imagination look like as opposed to their everyday appearance? Well, this series by Robbie Cooper, entitled Alter Ego, explores the dynamics between the fantasy and real life forms of avid gamers. This series made me think “when I create an avatar, what physical traits do I normally care about, and why?” What about you, do your custom made characters resemble the way you actually look, or an idealized form? Link –via Flavorwire |
| A Strange Little Trailer For Touch My Katamari Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:03 PM PST All of the games in the Katamari Damacy series have been strange to say the least, so I guess Namco Bandai figured “why not make a commercial as strange as our game?” Well, they have definitely succeeded with this billiards inspired promo, which features a pool shark slowly transforming into the Prince of the Cosmos. –via Destructoid |
| LOST Posters Inspired By Star Wars Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:52 PM PST LOST is long gone, and yet people continue to find inspiration from the show, and create some pretty sweet fan art as a result. This Star Wars inspired poster series by JJ & Jen Harrison seem to be opening a new chapter in the story of the survivors, and the artwork is quite well done. Maybe LOST took place a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away as well? |
| Chair Made From Dropping A Mannequin Onto A Metal Cube Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:48 PM PST Dropping a cement filled mannequin on a perforated metal trapezoid is a really strange way of creating a chair, and it looks as you would expect it would-crumpled and uncomfortable. But hey, you can’t blame designer Ezri Tarazi for trying to come up with something new in the world of furniture design. If only he could find a more practical use for a cement-filled mannequin, say as a wrecking ball or to weigh down a snitch when he drops them in the ocean. Link –via DesignTAXI |
| Correlation Does Not Equal Causation Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:28 PM PST Nothing helps an argument like poorly assembled and decidedly misinterpreted statistics (when your opponent starts to point out your flawed reasoning, call him a Nazi). Still, Vali Chandrasekaran of Business Week thinks that we should all be careful drawing conclusions from merely correlated data points. There are several more humorous examples at the link. Link -via @MarilynTerrell | Previously: The Science News Cycle |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:51 AM PST The folks at Perception Builder reconstructed the path of the Mythbusters cannonball misfire from last week on this map. You can clearly see the area that was intended to contain the firing, and the incredible distance it actually went. See a larger map at the website. Link -via Fark |
| Cat Inherits €10,000,000 Fortune Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:37 AM PST
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo of a different cat via Flickr user Willie Lunchmeat |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 08:05 AM PST
Many factors can affect these odds, like the possibility that a certain chicken or flock laying several eggs that ended up in one carton, or the sorting of eggs by size. There are other factors as well, explained in this BBC article. Link -via Metafilter |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 08:02 AM PST Dutch architects MVRDV designed these skyscrapers planned for South Korea. It’s called The Cloud, and is described as “a pixelated cloud” with towers rising through it. Okay, now that you’ve seen the picture, what are you thinking? The architectural firm was caught off-guard by complaints from those who looked at the plan and saw the World Trade Center towers exploding. That’s the first thing I thought of, but MVRDV insists that the resemblance is coincidental. Read more about the controversy at Co.Design. Link -via The Daily What |
| Product Placement in News Reports Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:58 AM PST |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:23 AM PST Honest Boy Pencil Sharpener – $9.95 Do you know someone who needs a little reminder that honesty is the best policy? Get them the Honest Boy Pencil Sharpener from the NeatoShop. This guilt-laden Pinocchio shaped pencil sharpener works with standard size pencils. The Shavings empty out through the mouth. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Office & Desk fun! |
| Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:07 AM PST
We learned the origins of The Hokey Pokey from Eddie Deezen this week. Jill Harness gave us 10 Awesome Geeky Cooking Hacks you can try out yourself. Mental_floss magazine brought us Over the Rainbow: The Technicolor Life of the Man Who Created Oz. LIBRETTO: The Bacterial Opera was a transcript of the operatic performance at the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, courtesy of The Annals of Improbable Research. Forbidden Island, U.S.A. told us about the Hawaiian island of Niihau, from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. In the What Is It? game this week, the mystery item is is a check protector, it's a security device that marks the check when it's paid so it can't be cashed a second time and also prevents attempts at altering numbers. The first commenter who knew that was cbellamy, who did not select a prize t-shirt. The funniest answer came from Elim, who guessed it to be an antique squid ink extractor. Doesn't that draw a picture? For that, he wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! Thanks to the What Is It? Blog, where you'll find this and several other mystery items this week, all now revealed. At NeatoBambino we learned about a teenager who may cure cancer, had a link to the best toys ever for children, saw a new kid’s meme, and watched how kids just love internet memes. If you don’t have NeatoBambino bookmarked, you’ll find a link list of the latest posts in the right sidebar here at the main page.
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Up until now, if you wanted to actually have paper from Dunder Mifflin, the company made famous from NBC’s The Office, you would have to print out your own box labels and affix them to another brand of paper. Fortunately for those obsessive people who demand everything to be branded with a name they’ve seen on television, NBC has struck up a deal with Quill.com, a subsidiary of Staples, to sell official Dunder Mifflin paper.
Eighteen-year-old Daniel Ganziano had a savings account at TCF Bank, but he spent his money. The account eventually only had $4.85 cents left, so Ganziano quit making withdrawals. But the bank didn’t.
Tommaso grew up as a stray cat on the hard streets of Rome. But he’s come up in the world and, with the death of his human, has inherited an enormous sum:
Jen Clarke of West London opened four eggs in a row that were all double-yolked. The odds of such a thing happening must be astronomical -or are they?
Don’t you just love weekends? That’s when I can come up for air and realize I’m been online so much that the laundry has piled up, the refrigerator is empty, and the kids need a ride to the shopping center. Do I fix all that? Just a little bit, then I get back online thinking I’m going to get ahead on next week’s work. Then I find something really fascinating to read, or a game I should try out, or get lost in checking out link after link until I’m embroiled in something totally different from what I started out to find… you know how it goes. We want to contribute to that kind of entertaining time-wastage by bringing you the neatest links ever. And if you’ve missed any of our features this week, here’s some handy links to get you caught up!
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