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- An In-N-Out Shooter’s Sandwich
- Socrates Narrowly Acquitted at Retrial 2,400 Years after His Execution
- A View Of London Reflected In Puddles
- A Bicycle Built for Eleven
- Super Mario Bros. Level Built inside Aquarium
- I Don’t Know What That Wet Stuff Is, But I Like It!
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- Man Robs Hardware Store, Tries to Use Golf Cart from Nudist Colony as Getaway Vehicle
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- A Collection Of Dean Pelton’s Costumes From Community
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- Why Guinness Bubbles Sink
- A Breakdown Of Gore’s Run By Tomer Hanuka
- Penguin 337 Captured
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- Fat or Fiction
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- Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard
- Too Close for Comfort
- Gorgeous Dashboards of Concept Cars
- On Music: Beatlemania Week – No. 1
- Snail-Based Fuel Cell
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- Nailed It!
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- Honduran White Bats
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| The Top Ten Botched Escapes from Gilligan’s Island Posted: 30 May 2012 05:05 AM PDT
I am the world’s biggest Gilligan’s Island fan, and this was a tough list to narrow down. But, trooper that I am, I am hereby presenting my choices for the top ten botched escapes from Gilligan’s Island. If the below plots seem stupid, ridiculous, and absurd to you, you’re right! Welcome to the world of Gilligan’s Island. For some reason, the ridiculous adventures of a goofy sailor, his skipper, a millionaire couple, a farm girl, a hot movie actress, and a professor on an uncharted island captured the hearts of countless millions of fans the world over. Not quite as subtle as Benny Hill, and not as scholarly as the Three Stooges, Gilligan’s Island nevertheless, in my own humble opinion, contains all the elements for a fine show: great slapstick comedy, funny verbal comedy, incredibly gorgeous women, friendship, and excellent comedy acting performances by all seven cast members. Note: interestingly, the myth that “Gilligan kept spoiling the others’ chance of rescue” is a bit of an urban legend. Of the 10 failed rescue attempts below, only the last one is directly caused by Gilligan -as we shall see. 1. The Mosquitoes It was the mid-’60s, and rock groups emulating The Beatles were everywhere. And on the island there were The Mosquitoes: Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving.The four long-haired musicians came to the island for a bit of R&R, but the restless, very-anxious-to-get-off-the-island castaways just had to interfere. They dreamed up a four-man guy group (featuring Gilligan on drums) to scare The Mosquitoes into leaving. They were terrible, and flopped. But the three-woman group The Honeybees (Ginger, Mary Anne, and Mrs. Howell) really impressed them with their talent. The Mosquitoes were so impressed by The Honeybees, they fled the island, afraid of the competition.
Fed up with men and the male world (pretty much like every other woman who has ever lived, several times a year), a homely, drab woman arrives on Gilligan’s Island. Knowing how unhappy drab women’s lives are, Ginger, the sexy movie star, give unattractive Eva Grubb the Pygmalion once-over (makeup, a tight dress, and of course, the obligatory removal of the glasses). Lo and behold, Eva is now a sexy knockout -and a dead ringer for Ginger. She realizes that she is hot now, and can be attractive to men, so she leaves the island -alone- to take over and resume Ginger’s acting career by impersonating Ginger in Hollywood. 3. The Jungle Boy A jungle boy is discovered living on the island. Holy cow -it’s a young Kurt Russell! The castaways get a brainstorm: why not sew together a bunch of old raincoats and inflate them to form a hot-air balloon, one big enough to fly the jungle boy to civilization? Sure enough, their idea works, and the jungle boy is rescued. Unfortunately, he speaks no English, so he can’t communicate to his rescuers about the castaways. (Interestingly, Kurt Russell was later to star in the movie Escape from New York.) 4. The Hollywood Producer Before Steven Spielberg, before George Lucas, before Jerry Bruckheimer, there was Harold Hecuba. Played with typical panache by comic legend Phil Silvers, Harold Hecuba, the famous Hollywood producer, lands on Gilligan’s Island. Hoping to impress him with her acting talent, Ginger, along with the other castaways, stage a musical version of Hamlet for Hecuba. Impressed he is, so he, like so many others, leaves the island without the castaways. He wants to put on the musical Hamlet idea into a movie and grab the concept’s credit for himself! 5. The Russian Cosmonauts Ivan and Igor, two Russian cosmonauts, land on the island. They are actually going to take the castaways back to civilization with them, but no, it’s never that easy, is it? The castaways somehow all get drunk on vodka and fall unconscious. Unable to rouse them awake, Ivan and Igor are forced to leave without them. 6. The Surfer
5. Wrong Way Feldman
Wrong Way Feldman, a disabused former pilot, has actually been living in seclusion (for 33 years yet!) on the island, before Gilligan and his pals arrived. The castaways finally fix up his plane and coax him to fly again. He does, and like all the others (except Gilligan and company, of course), he makes it back to the mainland. But they don’t call him Wrong Way for nothing -he forgets the coordinates of the island and can’t remember where it was located. 8. Wrong Way Feldman -Again! What are the odds of one person making it back to and back safely from Gilligan’s Island not once, but twice? Oh, about a jillion gazillion to one, maybe? But our old pal Wrong Way Feldman, now disillusioned with civilization, flies back to the old island. Somehow, the castaways upset him so much he flies off again in his plane. Would you believe he makes it back home, and again can’t help the castaways get rescued? If you don’t believe it, you may be quite rational, but you are not a dyed-in-the-wool fan of Gilligan’s Island.
The castaways discover there was actually a raft hidden on the shipwrecked boat, the SS Minnow (well, fancy that)! Unfortunately, they also discover a lost gold mine on the island. The weight of the raft will only hold the castaways and their absolute essentials. But, in a scene reminiscent of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the greedy castaways all secretly bring their gold stashes on board. The weight of the gold sinks the raft, along with their hopes of an escape. 10. The Mars Camera A satellite camera sent by NASA mistakenly lands on the island. Okay, it’s simple enough. When NASA sees the images on camera of the seven stranded castaways, they will surely send someone to rescue them. But when Gilligan somehow upsets all the others, they chase him through some glue and some feathers, which stick to them. The castaways now all resemble giant birds, and of course, this is what the scientists at NASA see when the camera is activated. They assume they are seeing images of “birdmen” (and “birdwomen”) on Mars. Then, to top himself off in his rescue-killing, Gilligan trips over the camera’s wire and disconnects it -permanently.
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| Monkeys + Synthesizers = One Cool Ad Posted: 30 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Leave a synthesizer unguarded around a bunch of monkeys, lemurs, marmosets, suricates, baboons and a sloth and you might be surprised by their musical talent. Then again, they might just trash their instruments instead of using them to make slick electronic music! This is actually just a fun, animal filled ad for the Volt Festival 2012, an electronic music festival taking place on June 9th in Sweden. Oh well, the critters in this commercial sure are cute! –via Best Week Ever |
| Keep Warm With The Death Star Fire Pit Posted: 30 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT Yes, it’s a fake picture, but darn it…we definitely need to make this real. Maybe if enough blogs cover this awesome picture, Think Geek will step up and add it to their already impressive collection of Star Wars goods. Or maybe Alex can make it real and add it into the Neatoshop. Link Via Geekologie |
| Posted: 30 May 2012 02:42 AM PDT This series of Leveson Inquiry cake pops are the ultimate in baked geekery, created by Miss Insomnia Tulip to commemorate Lord Justice Leveson’s investigation into the UK newspaper industry conspiracy. Hacking in to phone lines? Taking part in an international conspiracy scheme? Let them eat cake! Link –via Boing Boing |
| Posted: 30 May 2012 02:35 AM PDT If your a fan of Alton Brown, you probably already knew he is a serious nerd. But did you know he happens to be a huge Doctor Who fan? On his Twitter account, he confessed that he’s always wanted to play as a Time Lord with an American accent. I don’t know about you guys, but I’d be down with Mr. Brown being The Doctor. |
| Space Out On These Trippy GIFs Posted: 30 May 2012 01:47 AM PDT Do you have a day to spare, staring at your computer screen as GIFs threaten to suck your mind into a space warp? Then you’ll love this gallery of 50 tripped out GIFs which are guaranteed to blow your mind. They might make you feel a bit uncomfortable in your own skin after a while, so keep reminding yoursel-f-they are only animated GIFs, your computer has not been taken over by a digital entity. Or has it?! (cue dramatic music) |
| An In-N-Out Shooter’s Sandwich Posted: 30 May 2012 01:26 AM PDT A Shooter’s sandwich consists of a hollowed out sourdough loaf that has been filled with the meats and cheese of choice and then pressed overnight until it can be sliced like a pie. Serious Eats decided to make their own Shooter’s sandwich with 16 In-N-Out burger patties and the result looks heavenly the serious fans of the burger chain -although I wouldn’t be content unless mine also had their famous Spread all over it. |
| Socrates Narrowly Acquitted at Retrial 2,400 Years after His Execution Posted: 30 May 2012 01:00 AM PDT
This, it has seemed to some observers of history, was a bum rap. So a panel of legal experts in Athens retried him. Their votes tied 5 to 5, thus narrowly securing an acquittal:
That was probably a prudent decision. Link -via Blame It on the Voices | Photo: surfstyle |
| A View Of London Reflected In Puddles Posted: 30 May 2012 12:46 AM PDT Now this is an interesting way to see London-reflected on the surface of a puddle, melding with the street and distorted by ripples in the water. Photographed by native Londoner Gavin Hammond, these beautiful pics are like glimpses into another dimension, revealed after a rainy day has washed the grime off the streets. I would love to have prints of these pics framed and hanging on my wall, they are truly breathtaking! Link –via Flavorwire |
| Posted: 30 May 2012 12:18 AM PDT Sadly, all of these wonderful men couldn’t actually ride on a bike together…not unless they want to create a paradox. Link Via The Mary Sue |
| Super Mario Bros. Level Built inside Aquarium Posted: 30 May 2012 12:01 AM PDT (Video Link) The fish show no interest, but that’s probably because they’re working through Diablo III right now. In a few weeks, they’ll take advantage of the wonderful if static gameplay that Cedrick Bearss made available to them. -via @itscolossal |
| I Don’t Know What That Wet Stuff Is, But I Like It! Posted: 29 May 2012 11:18 PM PDT He seems like he can’t decide if it’s fun or scary -either way, barking seems like a good response. |
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| 50 States, 50 Sandwiches, 50 Posters Posted: 29 May 2012 10:00 PM PDT Kelly Pratt’s ongoing poster series shows the ingredients of iconic sandwiches from each state of the United States. So far, she’s made eleven sandwich posters, including one of the greatest sandwich ever invented: the Reuben. At the link: apparently people in Massachusetts eat sandwiches consisting of peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. Link -via Nag on the Lake |
| Man Robs Hardware Store, Tries to Use Golf Cart from Nudist Colony as Getaway Vehicle Posted: 29 May 2012 09:00 PM PDT
This would make a pretty good mission scenario for the next Grand Theft Auto game. Link -via Dave Barry | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user @cdharrison |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 08:00 PM PDT These cookies have fewer than 6 million flavors, but they’ll serve your dietary and translation needs from Endor to Tatooine. Jill of Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons made them by dipping oreos into a candy melt, then adding eyes made out of caramels and chocolate chips. |
| A Collection Of Dean Pelton’s Costumes From Community Posted: 29 May 2012 07:38 PM PDT It’s safe to say that Dean Pelton is the most colorful member of the Greendale Community College All Stars on the hit TV show Community. He has a flair for theatrics, with an ever changing wardrobe to match, so sitcom geek and cartoonist Dennis Culver decided to put all of his costumes together on one colorful illustrated poster. Prints are available for purchase at Dennis’ website, in case you’re looking for something to put on your wall that reminds you how not to dress if you want to be taken seriously! |
| Anatomical Diagram Of The Incredible Hulk’s Skull Posted: 29 May 2012 06:53 PM PDT This anatomical diagram by Glendon Mellow attempts to put scientific data behind Bruce Banner’s superheroic transformation from man to Hulk. However, this chart raises further questions, like does Bruce’s skull actually transform? And does this new research illustrate that the Incredible Hulk is actually some sort of modern incarnation of Paranthropus robustus? Link –via Nerd Approved |
| Theologically Inaccurate Painting Posted: 29 May 2012 06:30 PM PDT See the trees in the background? There are supposed to be three of them. That’s a major oversight by artist Gary Soszynski. A friend of redditor bajafresk picked up this otherwise excellent find in Venice Beach. Link -via Geekosystem | Artist’s Website |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 06:00 PM PDT
I can think of one appropriate way to celebrate this scientific breakthrough! Link |
| A Breakdown Of Gore’s Run By Tomer Hanuka Posted: 29 May 2012 05:47 PM PDT Tomer Hanuka is a prolific illustrator with a crisp, colorful style and a flair for infusing his drawings with a sense of intrigue and kinetic energy. Juxtapoz has posted a very insightful breakdown of one of Tomer’s illustrations, entitled Gore’s Run. It’s an interesting look at how an illustration goes from rough sketch to full color work suitable for print in four distinct stages. |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 05:00 PM PDT
It's been a sweet few months of freedom for Penguin 337, who broke out from Tokyo Sea Life Park in a daring escape, but at the end, The Man always win. Alas, the intrepid penguin has been recaptured: Link |
| Cantaloupe The Kleptomaniac Greyhound Posted: 29 May 2012 04:50 PM PDT Meet Cantaloupe, the kleptomaniac Greyhound who can’t keep her paws off other people’s stuff! Her thieving antics have been captured on video by her owners, who intend to press charges against this dastardly dog. Will she do hard time for her crimes, or can a dog named Cantaloupe become reformed and carry on a normal doggy life? Only time will tell… –via Stuff I Stole From The Internet |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 04:30 PM PDT Bacon: a sure-fire cure for anything! This song from Rhett and Link will be stuck in your head for a while. If that happens, you know what to do -rub some bacon on it! -via The Daily What |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 04:00 PM PDT
Now why didn't we think of this first? Behold, Beer Pong Beer, the beer specifically designed for beer pong games.
Yes, it's a marketing gimmick ... a clever marketing gimmick: Link |
| Artist Makes Self Portraits Out Of Frozen Blood Posted: 29 May 2012 03:52 PM PDT What you see here is a self portrait of the artist Marc Quinn, an incredibly lifelike and detailed cast, that he made out of his own frozen blood. Marc has been making these portraits every five years since 1991, so it would be interesting to see them all together, progressing in age over the last twenty years. Each piece takes over four liters of blood to construct, which is gathered over a five month period. These frozen bloody heads would make the ultimate centerpiece for the Monster’s Ball! |
| On Music: Beatlemania Week – No. 2 Posted: 29 May 2012 03:44 PM PDT “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
While visiting his folks in England, Harrison made up his mind to write a song based on the first words he saw upon opening a book. Which book? Any, random book on their shelves. So he plucked a book down, opened it up and saw the words "gently weeps." Said Harrison:
Applying the same technique, I have just started composing a song called "New and Neat Stuff from the Neatoshop." For all episodes in this week-long Beatlemania mini-series, click here. |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 03:00 PM PDT
Curious about calories? Serious about sugars? Flummoxed by Fat? The website Fat or Fiction, made by Anna Brooks, Christina Winkless, and David Paul Rosser answers all of your questions about the nutritional content (or lack thereof) of your favorite naughty snacks in a few gorgeous interactive infotography: Link - via Notcot |
| Sweet Destines Cupcake Fortunes And Wraps Posted: 29 May 2012 02:31 PM PDT
Do you foresee a wonderful party in your future? Don’t leave anything to chance. The odds are in your favor when you serve cupcakes with Sweet Destines Cupcake Fortunes And Wraps from the NeatoShop. The Sweet Destines Cupcake Fortunes And Wraps set includes 12 cupcake wraps and 12 cake toppers. The Cake toppers have hidden fortunes inside. Peel-away the center to reveal your fate. May the luck be with you when you throw your next soiree. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop amazing Party Supplies!
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| Posted: 29 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT
Hey, jumbo jet, where are you going? On May 23, 2012, strong winds of 70+ mph (112 kph) blew through an airplane boneyard in Mojave California and lifted this 747 jet. Mike Massee wrote: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Laughing Squid |
| Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard Posted: 29 May 2012 01:00 PM PDT
What happened to Ben & Jerry's kills an ice cream flavor? It gets a burial in the company's "Flavor Graveyard." NPR's Morning Edition has the story: Link |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT  Edvard Westermarck Incest is a repugnant subject for most people because of its forbidden nature. Research shows that this reaction is more cultural than it is biological. There are a couple of mechanisms found that explains how it happens. The first is the Westermarck effect, named after Edvard Westermarck, who wrote about it in 1891.
It also explains why unrelated children raised together in communes, or even students who spent years together in small schools, tend to date each other less than they date those outside those communities. That idea of the Westermarck effect gains even more credence when we consider the opposite, which is called genetic sexual attraction, or GSA.
There are quite a few examples of GSA in modern times, when long-lost relatives have the means to find each other after many years apart. Read more about both these effects at Damn Interesting. Link |
| Gorgeous Dashboards of Concept Cars Posted: 29 May 2012 12:00 PM PDT
If you love gawking at gorgeous dashboards of concept cars, head on over to Dark Roasted Blend, who has a massive gallery of the neatest car interiors. This one above is from the 2009 Cadillac ELR, which is (supposedly) coming into production as the Cadillac Converj: Link - Thanks Avi! |
| On Music: Beatlemania Week – No. 1 Posted: 29 May 2012 11:25 AM PDT We’re trying something new this week! Instead of a list, we’re going to try breaking a story into episodes. Think HBO mini-series style, only with posts on a blog. This week’s theme is the Beatles. All week, we’ll be looking at some interesting stories and factoids about specific songs. So let’s start episode #1 with “Dear Prudence.” "Dear Prudence"1968 was an eventful year for not only the Beatles, but actress Mia Farrow. For starters, while filming her first hit film, Rosemary's Baby, in the Dakota (where John Lennon was murdered 12 years later), her then-husband, Frank Sinatra, served her with divorce papers on set. Then there was the trip with her brother and sister and world-renowned Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh, to his ashram in India for a Transcendental Meditation teacher training course. The Farrow siblings were later joined by all four Beatles. Mia's sister, Prudence, took the training so seriously, she wound up meditating some 23 hours a day, rarely coming out of the cottage she was living in. This inspired John Lennon to write the lyrics: Dear Prudence, won’t you come out to play Lennon said later that “She’d been locked in for three weeks and was trying to reach God quicker than anyone else.”
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| Posted: 29 May 2012 11:00 AM PDT
Perhaps some day in the distant future, whenever you'd run out of battery all you have to do is slap on a fresh new snail. That's right, scientists have invented the snail-based fuel cell:
No, it doesn't seem to hurt the snail:
Link | Research paper over at JACS |
| Halo’s United Nations Space Command Logo in the BBC Posted: 29 May 2012 10:22 AM PDT
Oops! Someone at the BBC meant to grab a logo for the United Nations Security Council for its broadcast on the violence in Syria, but got this image from the video game Halo's fictitious United Nations Space Command instead. Geekosystem has the video clip: Link |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 09:00 AM PDT I guess that’s one way to keep your covers from being stolen! Wait until she reaches a certain stage of life in which she turns the thermostat down to around 50 degrees and still wakes up because its “too hot.” That is better illustrated in a different Twaggie. See all the new illustrated Tweets at Twaggies. Link |
| Anodizing (or the beauty of corrosion) Posted: 29 May 2012 08:41 AM PDT Bill Hammock, the Engineer Guy, explains how our hi-tech gizmos work as well as they do because of a thin layer of corrosion. -Thanks, Bill! |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 07:00 AM PDT Take a cotton ball and add little yellow pig ears and snout. It might resemble a Honduran White Bat, but still still wouldn’t be as cute! These bats are about two inches long and snuggle up in groups under large leaves in the forest. See more photographs at Baby Animal Zoo. Link -via Metafilter |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 06:28 AM PDT Angry Face Spatula Turner – $5.95 Do you hate to cook? You need a spatula that reflects your displeasure with the task. Get the Angry Face Spatula Turner from the NeatoShop. This flexibile nylon kitchen tool is perfect for cooking meals against your will. Smiley Face Spatula Turner also available. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more lively Kitchen Stuff! |
| Posted: 29 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT How many years does a PC have to sit to gather this much dust? My computer comes in a small brick, with little room to accumulate debris, but I still vacuum the vents occasionally to guard against cat hair buildup. How about you -how often do you clean out the inside of your computer? The discussion under this video at Geeks Are Sexy has lots of stories that start out “This is nothing! One time we got a computer that had…..” Link |
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2. Ginger’s Lookalike, Eva Grubb
Is it my imagination, or do an inordinate number of other people land on the island and somehow get off and manage to leave all seven castaways stuck there? And so we see the champion surfer, played by actor Denny Miller. Yes, he can surf off the island and get back to the mainland, but the muscular surfer has eyed the voluptuous Ginger and the innocent hottie Mary Anne. The girls respond in kind, After all, after several months of nothing but Gilligan, the skipper, and the professor, wouldn’t you, ladies? But soon the ladies realize that they must act disinterested or the surfer dude will never want to leave. So Ginger and Mary Anne feign indifference to muscle boy (after initially drooling over his physique) and he decides to surf back to civilization. And he makes it -with one caveat. Surfer boy hits his head on a rock, gets amnesia, and can’t remember any of the castaways or his experiences with them.
9. Thar’s Gold on That Thar Island!
The Greek philosopher 
A man in Osceola County, Florida stands accused of robbing a Lowe’s outlet. Unfortunately for him, the golf cart that he picked up at a local nudist colony was not up to the task of delivering him away from the scene:
Science has answered the question that has beguiled beer drinkers for ages: why the bubbles in Guinness sink.
Many consider this George Harrison's best song, at least of those he wrote as a Beatle. In the late '60s, Harrison was deeply into the I Ching and the concept of Relativism, which states that points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration.
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