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- Starship Enterprise Coffee Table
- Valentine’s Day Cards For The Skyrim Addict In Your Life
- That’s A Pretty Sweet Samus Costume You’ve Got There!
- Goonies Meets A Game Of Thrones
- Retro Batman Trading Card Art
- 8 Year Old Girl Plays Electric Guitar Like A Rock Star
- SNK Reveals Portable Neo Geo System
- Catch Up On 50 Years Of Doctor Who In 10 Minutes
- This Prop Sword Looks A Bit Too Berserk For Cosplay
- Beckham and the Door Stop
- Russian Police: Doll Protests Are Illegal
- Uzbekistan Cancels Valentine’s Day
- Oreo and Peanut Butter Cup Cupcake Topped with Oreo Frosting and a Peanut Butter Cup
- It Would Be Awkward to Watch a Cat Eat These Sushi Rolls
- Things Exploding in Microwaves
- Dog Storage Lockers Could Be Useful for Parents as Well as Dog Owners
- Vanilla Ice, Indie Rock Hipster
- Turn an Enemy into a Friend with a Hug
- Girl Saved Unconscious Mom by Slapping Her With Pizza
- Aerobic House Cleaning
- Chicken Nugget Diet Not Adequate
- Micro-Macro: The Powers of Ten Remade with Food
- New Fossil Animal Looks Like a Tulip
- The New Blue Marble
- The World’s First “Carphone”
- Fashion Princesses
- To RP Salazar, with Love
- What Is It? game 211
- The Origin of the Beatles Haircut
| Starship Enterprise Coffee Table Posted: 27 Jan 2012 05:10 AM PST This majestic coffee table is one that only a true Trekkie could appreciate because it’s modeled on the obscure Enterprise-C. Barry Shields (up!) built it to appear in forward motion and suspended in space.  |
| Valentine’s Day Cards For The Skyrim Addict In Your Life Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:24 AM PST Show your favorite Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim addict that you still love them, even though they can hardly tear themselves away from the gaming console long enough to have dinner with you, by giving them these Skyrim inspired cards for Valentine’s Day! Created by artist Jemma Salume, they’re the perfect way to say “I’d take an arrow for you” or “Don’t try to block my love with your magic shield”, and will definitely help spread the geek love in your life. Link –via Rampaged Reality |
| That’s A Pretty Sweet Samus Costume You’ve Got There! Posted: 27 Jan 2012 12:09 AM PST The level of detail, from the overall shape and balance to the fine detail work and superb paint job, makes this one of the sweetest Samus costumes I’ve ever come across on the interwebs. I like that she decided to go with the original Power Suit, while letting her feminine side show more than it ever did in the original Metroid NES game, and gamer girls, especially those who enjoy playing retro games, always get my vote! |
| Goonies Meets A Game Of Thrones Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:52 PM PST This ridiculous mashup, which combines Chunk’s confession to the Fratelli gang in Goonies with a scene from the Game of Thrones TV series featuring Tyrion confessing to some rather nasty deeds, has some great reaction shots from the surrounding characters in the scene, and makes me want to demand a truffle shuffle from that wicked little man! –via The Mary Sue |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:51 PM PST The artwork from the 1966 Batman trading card set is so delightfully retro, with simpler character designs, hand painted panels, and less stylized versions of your fav villains, that I hope modern artists and designers take note when going for that retro look in their own artwork. It’s not all about warm and tacky color schemes, Hanna Barbera character designs and outdated fashion, it’s the fact that everything is done without using a heavy outline and vector shading to convey form. These beautifully rendered panels by Norman Saunders have a classical aesthetic, and I’d almost forgotten how mundanely human villains faced by the Caped Crusader used to be! |
| 8 Year Old Girl Plays Electric Guitar Like A Rock Star Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:48 PM PST There are some really talented kids out there, and thanks to YouTube they can show the world their skills, hopefully without all the praise going straight to their head. 8 year old Zoe Thomson plays guitar like a champ, and I think she should team up with 8 year old hardcore singer Juliet and form their own kiddie metal outfit, seriously, who wouldn’t want to see that?! –via BuzzFeed |
| SNK Reveals Portable Neo Geo System Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:47 PM PST With the wave of portable gaming consoles coming out, it’s not surprising that SNK has jumped on board and revealed their Neo-Geo Portable Device (hopefully tentative title), which will come pre-loaded with 20 classic titles like Metal Slug, King Of Monsters and Fatal Fury, has 2gb internal memory and an SD card slot for loading emulator ROMs, and even has an AV output for playing on the big What is surprising is how little we’ve heard about anything Neo-Geo over the years, considering their fan following and the fact that I still see Neo-Geo arcade units all the time in bars and taco shops all over town. I guess the ridiculously high $600 price tag really did put this otherwise awesome console to bed, so hopefully the release of this Portable Device, and a more affordable price tag, will help resurrect the arcade gaming giant. |
| Catch Up On 50 Years Of Doctor Who In 10 Minutes Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:46 PM PST Do you like Doctor Who, but you just don’t have time to catch up on the episodes you’ve missed over the years? Do you hate Doctor Who and want to know what all the fuss is about? Are you saying to yourself “I couldn’t care less, but I sure do enjoy Best Of… videos, especially when they’re set to a snazzy soundtrack”? If any of these apply to you, or you’re just bored and need to kill ten minutes, then you should check out A Babelcolour Tribute to Doctor Who, which shows a snippet from every single episode of the series since 1963 and is the perfect length for break time. After watching this video you may ask yourself “How did they fit so much in to such a short amount of time?” The answer, of course, is science… –via Topless Robot |
| This Prop Sword Looks A Bit Too Berserk For Cosplay Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:35 PM PST This hand crafted sword looks waaaaay too big to be lugging around all day during a convention cosplay session. Inspired by the sword carried by the main character Guts in the anime/manga series Berserk (as seen in the poster above the sword), it’s a super sized prop that looks really hard to handle. I applaud your effort sir, now get to work on that Final Fantasy VII Buster Sword stat! |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:25 PM PST If you ever have the occasion to install a door stop, be sure to get one with a heavy spring, because 1. puppies love to play with them, and b. they make that wonderful “thwannng” sound. -via Arbroath |
| Russian Police: Doll Protests Are Illegal Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:12 PM PST
Russian police does not take kindly to protests, even those carried out by toys and dolls:
Link - via Metafilter |
| Uzbekistan Cancels Valentine’s Day Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:00 PM PST
See also: Neat Valentine's Day gifts from the NeatoShop |
| Oreo and Peanut Butter Cup Cupcake Topped with Oreo Frosting and a Peanut Butter Cup Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:17 PM PST Melanie Janem is a modern day Prometheus, shining a sugary light into the darkness of our stomachs. Let us be thankful. Link -via That’s Nerdalicious! | Previously: Death by Oreo Cupcake |
| It Would Be Awkward to Watch a Cat Eat These Sushi Rolls Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:56 PM PST Although these rolls look simple, the instructions that food blogger Von provides show how complex is the work of a sushi chef. These are made from tomato-flavored tuna. Link -via Theresa Coleman |
| Things Exploding in Microwaves Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:49 PM PST (Video Link) This ad for Moe’s Southwestern Grill shows either how terrible or awesome microwaves are. I had no idea that bar soap would do that in a microwave. Question: what would happen if you tried to microwave a microwave? -via NotCot |
| Dog Storage Lockers Could Be Useful for Parents as Well as Dog Owners Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:30 PM PST You can’t take your dog into grocery stores, so where do you put him? If you tie him up outside, someone could steal him. The Hundehiet is one solution from Norway. Just stick your dog inside while you shop and pick him up when you’re done. Link -via Technabob | Photo: Henrick Eriksson |
| Vanilla Ice, Indie Rock Hipster Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:29 PM PST
Remember Vanilla Ice? The rapper turned real estate mogul (okay, not exactly mogul), is back. This time, as an indie rock hipster. So cool, right ;? <-- winkie to cover all of our bases!
Ice Ice Cube Baby Makers? We're so there! Link | Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] |
| Turn an Enemy into a Friend with a Hug Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. Jaws and Chief Brody. Ronald McDonald and the Burger King. They aren’t destined to be enemies. All they need is to show each other a little love, as Ingrid Aspöck’s cartoons illustrate. You should do likewise! Hug the next person that you see. Link -via Bit Rebels | Artist’s Website |
| Girl Saved Unconscious Mom by Slapping Her With Pizza Posted: 26 Jan 2012 02:28 PM PST
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One, two, three, four; Pick up a mop and clean the floor; Here's the solution to those pressed for time (and clean clothes), Aerobic House Cleaning by Steve Markovich:
Link - via Oddity Central |
| Chicken Nugget Diet Not Adequate Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:17 AM PST
That understatement is not news to Irvine’s mother, who has been warning her for years that her diet would send her to a hospital. But Irvine had eaten other things -fries, chips, and an occasional piece of toast to go with her nuggets. Link -via Arbroath (Image credit: NTI) |
| Micro-Macro: The Powers of Ten Remade with Food Posted: 26 Jan 2012 11:05 AM PST
Remember Powers of Ten, the iconic '60s film by Charles and Ray Eames we all saw in high school? It's been remade by Isaiah Saxon of Encyclopedia Pictura ... with food! Here's the charming Micro-Macro, where strings (as in string theory) are spaghettis, atoms are brussel sprouts, and so on: Hit play or go to Link [Vimeo] - via Kottke |
| New Fossil Animal Looks Like a Tulip Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:19 AM PST
(Image credit: Royal Ontario Museum) |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:07 AM PST NASA has released a high-definition image of the Earth it calls Blue Marble 2012.
The original Blue Marble image was taken in 1972 by astronauts aboard Apollo 17. Until today, it was my desktop image. NASA has made the new image available for download in several sizes. Link to story. Link to image. -via Buzzfeed (Image Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring) |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:53 AM PST On March 21, 1920, the Sandusky Register reported on an astonishing invention in which W. W. Macfarlane, traveling in a car (driven by a chauffeur), held a conversation with his wife back at the garage -500 yards down the road! The article is reprinted at Paleofuture. Link |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:21 AM PST DeviantART member viria13 put modern fashions on Disney princesses (and Anastasia, too). The artwork is lovely, but can someone tell me who “Kida” is? Link -via The Daily What |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:09 AM PST A misdirected email connects two people 9,000 miles apart who turn out to share more than the same name. This is the latest animation from the Rauch Brothers for StoryCorps. How do they find such great stories? This is one that is included in StoryCorps new book All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps which will be available February 2. Link |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:30 AM PST Once again, it’s time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what the object in this picture is? You can win even if you don’t know! Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will each win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop. Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don’t include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts? Check out the What Is It? Blog for more pictures of the details of this mystery thing. Good luck! |
| The Origin of the Beatles Haircut Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:50 AM PST
New York Press Conference 1964 In their early years as a fledgling rock and roll band in the late 1950s and into the early 1960s, The Beatles each sported typical slicked-back, greased-up Tony Curtis/Elvis Presley type D.A. haircuts. In an early explanation as to the origin of the Beatles haircut, George was quoted as saying that he came out of the swimming baths one day, his hair had fallen down over his forehead, and he just left it that way. The true derivation of the world famous coiffure is a bit more complex. In August of 1960, the newly-0named “Beatles” consisted of five members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, bassist Stu Sutcliffe, and a newly-hired drummer named Pete Best. The band was hired to play as series of gigs in August of 1960 in Hamburg, Germany. It was there that they met two people who were to have a profound effect on their future careers as icon and trendsetters: Astrid Kirchherr and Jürgen Vollmer. Kirchherr was a very original and creative photographer. One night she saw The Beatles play at a local club in Hamburg called the Top Ten Club (she was talked into going by her boyfriend Klaus Voorman and fellow artist and friend Jürgen Vollmer). Astrid, Klaus, and Jürgen struck up an immediate and close friendship with the five young, talented, and slightly homesick young rock and rollers. Also, Astrid and bassist Stu Sutcliffe almost immediately fell in love.
Although the exact dates are nebulous, it is indisputable that Stu was the first Beatle to sport the Beatle haircut on stage. When Stu came onstage to perform that night, John and Paul laughed hysterically and ridiculed poor Stu. Stu was soon to leave the band in early 1961 (he died tragically in April of 1962 of a brain hemorrhage at the early age of 21). George was actually the first of the later famous Beatles to wear the Beatle cut. Astrid recalled (after Stu), “then George came along and asked me to cut his hair that way.” She added that “John and Paul couldn’t decide whether to have the different haircut.” When George came on stage with his hair combed forward in front of an audience at the Top Ten Club “the rockers gave him funny looks” and he combed it back the next day. This was in the early months of 1961.  George Harrison, before and after. In October of ’61, John and Paul decided to take a spur of the moment vacation to Paris (one of john’s aunts had given him the princely sun of £500 for his 21st birthday). In Paris, they encountered their old friend Jürgen and asked him to give their hair the combed over treatment. According to Paul, “He (Jürgen) had his hair mod style. We said, ‘Would you do our hair like yours? We’re on holiday, what the hell, we’re buying capes and pantaloons, throwing caution to the wind.’ He said ‘No, boys, I like you as rockers. You look great.’ But we begged him enough. So he said alright. We sat down in his hotel and we just got it. The Beatle cut.” The new Beatle cut was not without its early drawbacks. Their road manager Neil Aspenall recalled, “The boys were an easy target for troublemakers who attended those early dates. Gangs would often make it a point of shouting insults at them. It was their childish way of looking for a fight or getting back at the Beatles because their girls thought so much of them.”
At the time, Ringo not only had a greasy swept-back haircut, he also sported a stylish beard. Ringo recalled John’s phone call to him, asking him to join the Beatles. “You can keep your sidies (sideburns), but lose the beard,” he was instructed. Early publicity photos, as well as Ringo’s picture on the Beatles’ first album Please Please Me, show Ringo clean-shaven, but still with a slightly swept-back coiffure. By late 1962, the Beatle haircut was firmly established as an easily-recognizable part of the Beatles joint persona. In the early months of 1963, the band had already gotten used to being referred to as “the four moptops” by the British press. In September of 1963, The Beatles record “She Loves You” was played on Dick Clark’s popular dance show American Bandstand. According to Newsweek, when kids saw a photo of four long-haired kids, they just laughed. The record received a mediocre 73 rating in the “Rate A Record” segment of the show. When they first came to America in February of 1964, TIME magazine referred to their hair as “mushroom haircuts.” Besides the obvious Beatles wigs, the Fab Four cottage industry also spawned Beatle hairbrushes, Beatle combs, and Beatle hairspray. Their then-controversial haircuts became fodder at every Beatle press conference. John stated that he hadn’t visited an actual barber in years; George cut his hair when they were on tour and his wife Cynthia cut it when he was home. Ringo’s girlfriend Maureen Cox, a hairdresser by trade, cut his hair (the two married in February of 1965). On the Beatles tour of Australia in mid-1964, two girls named Grace Ferrigno and Val Bahrens got to cut John, Paul, and Ringo’s hair in Melbourne (George was out at the time on a “scenic mountain drive.”) Later, the girls tried to sell the precious sheared locks of hair outside Festival Hall. They ended up making no sales. No one believed the hair was real. Interestingly, when asked in an early interview about what his future goals were, Ringo stated, quite sincerely, that his dream was to own a string of hair salons. Although he led an incredibly successful life with huge accomplishments, this was one goal Ringo was never to achieve. |
Planning something special for Valentine's Day? Not if you're in Uzbekistan. The authorities in the Central Asian nation has canceled Valentine's Day:
Meet Rita Lawlor, a seven-year-old girl from Sarasota, Florida, who recently became the youngest person to receive an award from her local fire department for saving her mom's life:
Is there a picky eater in your family? This story may be useful to back up your warnings to the child who won’t eat anything but chicken nuggets or peanut butter sandwiches or bread. British 17-year-old Stacey Irvine was admitted to a hospital after she collapsed and had trouble breathing. It came to light that she had eaten hardly anything at all besides chicken nuggets since she was two years old.
A prehistoric creature found in the Canadian Rockies has been named Siphusauctum gregarium, which is both a new genus and species. It lived 500 million years ago, when the area now nickenamed the “Tulip Beds” was underwater.
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(Image credit: Astrid Kirchherr)
In August of 1962, drummer Ringo Starr was asked to join the band. Drummer Pete Best never joined John, Paul, and George in combing his hair in their new over-the-forehead look. His hair was too curly. When later asked why he never combed his hair into a Beatle cut, he replied, “They never asked me.” This bit of non-conformity, while not the entire reason, was probably one of the contributing factors when when the Beatles decided to give poor Pete the sack after two years of loyal drumming with them.
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