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- These Critters Sure Love Their Popsicle
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- The Top Ten Banned Video Games of All Time
- How Not To Perform CPR
- Tired Of Traditional Massage Therapy? Then Get Some Goats!
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| I Have No Patience For Patients Posted: 18 Feb 2012 11:49 PM PST This word of the month PSA was spotted someplace where the people either have an ironic sense of humor, or they don’t have access to a dictionary. Hopefully it wasn’t found airing this ridiculousness on a college campus that specializes in giving out English Lit degrees. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this PSA it’s that you should never depend on educational committees to teach you the correct usage of a word.  |
| The Noiseless USB Karaoke Microphone Is A Lifesaver Posted: 18 Feb 2012 11:34 PM PST Are people getting tired of hearing you sing, and now they’re starting to shoot dirty look daggers into your heart, causing you to lose faith in your future career as a singer? Then you need to get this plunger looking thing and strap it on your noisemaker. It’s called the Noiseless USB Karaoke Microphone and it just might save your life. If you can’t control the urge to belt out a tune in public your life might be in danger, because not everyone appreciates hearing your rendition of Don’t attract attention to yourself, sing your little heart out with this guy in place and, not only will you look like a crazy person and scare the bad people away, you’ll avoid bringing the wrath of the tone deaf down upon your head. So Karaoke it up, in peace. |
| These Critters Sure Love Their Popsicle Posted: 18 Feb 2012 11:30 PM PST Does anyone know if honey dew is ok for kitties and puppies? I certainly hope so because they are pretty darn into this frozen snack. |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 11:22 PM PST The Fro Design store recently put up this great wanted poster for The Doctor. I don’t know about you guys, but I can’t wait to see who fills in that last window. |
| 11 Things You Might Not Know About The Pekingese Posted: 18 Feb 2012 11:10 PM PST
The dogs also have quite a royal bloodline, as you’ll find out if you read the whole article. |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:44 PM PST Etsy seller MyAlterKnits sells scarves in the shape of the sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who -your choice of the 9/10th doctor’s screwdriver or the 11th. She also has a few related knitted doodads in her shop like a Cyberman helmet hat and River Song’s TARDIS book cover. For those that don’t dig the Who, she sells other geek goodies as well. Link Via The Mary Sue |
| The Top Ten Banned Video Games of All Time Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:37 PM PST
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| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 07:17 PM PST I’m sure you’ve all been taught the proper way to perform CPR by now, but where’s the fun in that? Sure, you might end up saving a life, but then what-a certificate of commendation, a handshake, a smile? LAME. This chart shows you how not to perform CPR, and I think this should become the new approach to assisting those whose life is quickly fading away. I mean, look at number 6-Picture Life Together, are you really going to get a life partner, imaginary or not, out of regular boring old CPR? And if the person dies while in your care, you’re left with free Capri-Sun, instead of some pain in the neck lawsuit, so either way it’s a win-win situation. Being inept can have it’s perks… |
| Tired Of Traditional Massage Therapy? Then Get Some Goats! Posted: 18 Feb 2012 07:02 PM PST This guy has it all figured out-why pay a fortune having some professional masseuse work out the knots in your back and spinal column when you can have a bunch of tiny goats do it for free? They have fun jumping on you, playing king of the hill –via TDW |
| The 50 Most Ridiculous Outfits From New York Fashion Week 2012 Posted: 18 Feb 2012 05:48 PM PST Okay, so you should be able to tell from the headline that this was a particularly bad year for fashion at the New York Fashion Show. Granted, there are probably at least 10 outfits every year that make people want to break out in fits of laughter, but to have a whopping 50 examples, many of which look like they’re straight out of a Sci-Fi movie from the 1960s, makes 2012 the year of Fashiongeddon. Bask in the ridiculousness, show your friends so you can share a laugh together, and imagine the price tags attached to these examples of when good fashion design goes horribly wrong. |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:40 PM PST In 1964, Lina Diacono furnished and decorated her new home in Sydney, Australia. She liked her work and decided to keep it. For forty-eight years, she’s kept all of the original furniture and appliances — and in excellent condition. Touring her house is like visiting a Mad Men set. At the link, you can find a photo gallery, as well as a neat feature that layers old photographs of the home with new ones taken from the same perspective. Link -via Ace of Spades HQ |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:30 PM PST Meter Monster wants your quarters and fingers. Hanasaurusrex left this yarn bomb on a parking meter in Honolulu, Hawaii. Link -via Booooooom! | Crafter’s Website |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 02:24 PM PST Poppet with a camera made this awesome Ghostbusters birthday cake featuring the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man getting zapped! See more pictures of it in her Flickr set. Link -via Geeks Are Sexy (Image credit: Flckr user poppet with a camera) |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:08 AM PST It’s a minifig! It’s a superhero! It’s portable data storage! Actually, it’s all of those things! Instructables member Britt Michelsen made a flash drive that looks like the Golden Age version of the comic book superhero The Flash. It makes perfect sense when you think about it. Link |
| Animals Sculptures from Shattered CDs Posted: 18 Feb 2012 09:26 AM PST It’s been a long time since you’ve listened to those Sir Mix-a-Lot CDs. Why not put them to some good use? Sean Avery takes CDs, breaks them into fragments, and then creates amazing animal sculptures. Link -via Bit Rebels |
| ASUS Computer Warranty Voided if Your Computer Is Damaged During a Space Invasion Posted: 18 Feb 2012 09:02 AM PST
Link -via The Presurfer | Image: 20th Century Fox |
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When Jones first moved to the village, he found out there were many different pronunciations of the name as well. Accompanying the linked article are some other places in Wales that you might find hard to spell. Link -via Arbroath |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 07:58 AM PST This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows plasma spinning around on the surface of the sun, looking a lot like what we’d call tornadoes. Except these whirls are as large as our entire planet and move with gusts up to 300,000 miles per hour! The action was recorded on February 7-8. Read more about it at NPR. Link -via Metafilter |
| Posted: 18 Feb 2012 06:00 AM PST
On Monday, Jill Harness gave us 15 Romantic Records Perfect For Valentine's Day. Eddie Deezen told us about Head: The Monkees' Strange Movie. I hope this clears up any confusion. The Value of Love, Using the Dylan Model was reprinted for Valentines Day from the Annals of Improbable Research. Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers brought us The First Black American Sea Captain. And The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was from mental_floss magazine.
The most-commented-on post of the week was Dad Shot Laptop Over Daughter’s Facebook Post. Coming in second was Lunch Bags Inspected for Nutrition. These stories lit up the internet this week, and there are updates: Tommy Jordan was visited by authorities who found no evidence of wrongdoing and his daughter has a job offer, and the teacher in the lunch fiasco should have just given the child a carton of milk. If you haven’t been over to our Facebook page lately, you’ll find additional discussions on our posts plus extra stuff you won’t find on the blog, like marvelous images with no context, such as this: If that’s not enough, check out the Best of Neatorama. Use the slider at the top to access articles from the past And since no one reads all the way down to the end of these weekend wrap-up posts, I’ll just sneak in a request for a personal favor. Have a Happy President’s Day! |
This year’s West Minister Dog show was a Pekingese and while most people know what the dogs look like and might even have a friend or family member who have one, you’d be surprised how much you don’t know about the breed. For example:
It might not surprise you that Call of Duty 4 was banned in the Middle East or that Postal was banned in Australia, but some of these top ten banned games are a bit of a shock. For example, Mass Effect was banned in Singapore for its lesbian love scene. The most surprising item on the list though? Football Manager 5 (that’s a soccer game for my fellow Americans). Why was it banned? Because the game lists Tibet as an independent country and that is just not acceptable for The People’s Republic of China.
I have bad news for you. You’re not getting a free new monitor from ASUS. That company’s lawyers cleverly phrased the warranty to make it useless to most customers:
Okay, how would you spell Betws-Y-Coed? The Welsh village may just be the most misspelled place name on the internet. Kevin Jones runs the town’s tourist website, and discovered that people have searched for the place using at least 364 different misspellings!
Someone once told me that they made February the shortest month because it’s the awfulest part of winter. I beg to differ- they made February the shortest month because if it were any longer, we’d cram even more holidays into it! But maybe both theories are right, and we tend to create February holidays because we need to cheer ourselves up to get through the last part of winter. This week is full of them! Carnival is in full swing, President’s Day is Monday, Mardi Gras is Tuesday, Wednesday is, of course, Ash Wednesday, and it’s also George Washington’s actual birthday. Whew! But through it all, you can turn to Neatorama as a shortcut to the best things on the internet -and exclusive articles, too, like these we had this last week:
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