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- The Evolution Of 8-Bit Art
- Great Geek Jewelry from Etsy
- World Map Aquarium
- Survival of the Fittest Slugs
- Photos Of Faces Pressed Against Glass
- 12 Bizarre Lakes From Around the World
- Pokémon Cars
- Blade Runner-The Watercolor Edition
- Watch This Little Monkey Enjoy Dinner
- Cuttlefish Fights For Spawning Rights
- Perfect for Wedding Solos: Skull Violin
- Awesome 3D Pac-Man Street Art
- Game of Thrones, The Romantic Comedy
- A Pixar Style Version Of Justice League America
- An AT-AT for the Bike Lane
- Classic Cartoon Character Twitter Art
- What Separates Average Computer Programmers from Extraordinary Programmers? Beards.
- Tintin Meets The Cthulhu Mythos
- License To Trim
- The Company That Quietly Knows Everything About You
- The Bug-Zapping Light Saber
- The Baby Avengers Cake
- Blogging Buzz Correlates with Movie Box Office Success
- World’s Largest Collection of Mechanical Puzzles
- New Level of Fakery in China: Fake U.S. Bank
- Keep Calm And Carry On Bandages
- The Funniest Father’s Day Tweet
- Mutant Bikes of the 1940s
- “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. For everything else, there’s MarxCard”
- 10 Fictional Restaurants
- World’s Growing Obesity is Like Adding an Extra Billion People
- Batman Blows His Cover
- NBA Goes Geek Chic
- How do we know someone is no longer alive?
- The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat … at the Pig Race!
- Puttin’ on the Ritz
- Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #20
- Camera Trap Sex Tape
- Is There an App for That?
- Naked Shopping is a Hit
- The Kraken Arises!
- V’Ger is Exiting the Heliosphere
- Bug Pops
- Fog-Covered Horse Racetrack
- Honest Movie Trailer: Avatar
- The Artistic TARDIS Project
| Posted: 19 Jun 2012 04:55 AM PDT The PBS series Off Book is back with another look at a cutting edge artform, this time focusing on the gamer friendly world of 8-bit art. 8-bit art has become even more popular since the good old days of video game consoles, and has even spawned an awesomely geeky form of electronic music to occupy your time between gaming sessions. So sit back and wax nostalgic as colorful, but not too colorful, pixels dance across the screen to that charmingly minimal 8-bit sound! –via Geekosystem  |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2012 04:49 AM PDT Are you geek ladies lacking in jewelry that reflects your interest in making fun of terrible old movies? Well then, head over to Pica Pica Press’ Etsy store and enjoy their fine selection of MST3000, video game and other geek-inspired jewelry. Link Via The Mary Sue |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2012 03:50 AM PDT Let your fishies tour the globe from the comfort of your home with this world map aquarium. No guarantees that your finned friends will appreciate being world travelers, but you’ll appreciate the fun to be had pretending your little fishies are pirates and merchant ships battling it out on the high seas. Even better than the playtime potential is the fact that this world map aquarium is also a coffee table! No wonder designer Takuro Yamamoto won a TIFF Award for this cleverly designed fish cage. |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2012 03:41 AM PDT Now that’s one way to deal with an infestation. In case you were curious how things turned out, it turns out only one died so far, the rest turned back after taking in the scope of the challenge. Link Via BoingBoing |
| Photos Of Faces Pressed Against Glass Posted: 19 Jun 2012 02:48 AM PDT Animals, and babies, look really cute…until their faces are pressed against glass! This fun gallery of creepy glass pressed faces features 29 images of facial smooshing which transforms these otherwise darling little mugs into utter creepsville. |
| 12 Bizarre Lakes From Around the World Posted: 19 Jun 2012 02:31 AM PDT From a boiling, blood-red lake in Japan to a carbon-dioxide-filled lake in Africa, these 12 bodies of water are both absolutely stunning and fascinating. Of course, just because they’re unique doesn’t mean they’re actually places you should go swimming -in fact many of them, including the two I just mentioned could outright kill you. |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2012 02:00 AM PDT If you want to play while on the road, now’s your chance. The Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy and Toyota are giving away three Pokémon-decorated cars, one of which looks like Oshawott and another like Pikachu. Link (Google Translate) -via Kotaku |
| Blade Runner-The Watercolor Edition Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:55 AM PDT The dreamlike quality of Ridley Scott’s classic scifi film Blade Runner has been captured in a most painterly manner by Anders Ramsell, who reproduced thirteen minutes of the film (so far!) via 3600 watercolor paintings. He plans on making over the entire film in this colorfully abstract manner, and I for one can’t wait to see the rest! –via Topless Robot |
| Watch This Little Monkey Enjoy Dinner Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:29 AM PDT Admittedly, you probably won’t want to watch all ten minutes of this video although it is undoubtedly adorable, it still is a long time to watch this little spider monkey munch on his dinner. In case you were wondering, this little guy isn’t a pet, he was orphaned and is being cared for at the Arcas Wildlife Sanctuary in Guatemala. Via Cute Overload |
| Cuttlefish Fights For Spawning Rights Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:00 AM PDT Giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) look so fluid and graceful in the water! But hold your admiration if you are another cuttlefish, because this one is shoving his rivals out of the way so he can make baby cuttlefish. The stakes are high:
This footage was taken off Whyalla, South Australia, by photographer Howard Hall. Read more at One World One Ocean. Link |
| Perfect for Wedding Solos: Skull Violin Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:00 AM PDT The face of death peers out from this electric violin by Stratton:
It’s a bit pricey at $2,999, but it’s guaranteed to get attention. Link -via Boing Boing |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:56 AM PDT This mind blowing work of 3d street art makes me want to walka-walka-walka on the other side of the street so I don’t get lost in the maze! Painted, and subsequently, photographed by Leon Keer in Venlo, the Netherlands, this cute and colorful work illustrates the world’s undying love of video games. Link –via Obvious Winner |
| Game of Thrones, The Romantic Comedy Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT (Video Link) I’m just glad that it’s not a teen romantic comedy set in a high school. Please, HBO, do not do this with Season 3. -via The Mary Sue |
| A Pixar Style Version Of Justice League America Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:52 PM PDT Digital artist Daniel Araya created these fun concept art pieces that envision what a Pixar version of DC’s Justice League of America would look like. The characters look like they’d fit right in with The Incredibles, but the fact that Disney owns Marvel Comics means that a DC/Pixar movie is about as likely as a real life Superman falling to earth just outside of Smallville, USA. Link –via NerdBastards |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT Pedalpalooza is a bicycle festival in Portland, Oregon. Last Saturday afternoon, it conducted a Star Trek vs. Star Wars-themed ride. This tandem bike, though too underpowered for a campaign on Hoth, navigated the city streets with ease. Watch a video of it at the link. Video Link -via Technabob | Official Website |
| Classic Cartoon Character Twitter Art Posted: 18 Jun 2012 10:43 PM PDT Are you a Tweetaholic looking for a fun way to show your love for classic cartoons? Then take note of these works of Twitter Art by Gregory Wadsworth, an illustrator with an eye for adding character to 140 word tweets. They’re sure to make most people on Twitter go “who’s that?” Link –via Cartoon Brew |
| What Separates Average Computer Programmers from Extraordinary Programmers? Beards. Posted: 18 Jun 2012 10:00 PM PDT Some programming languages become widely used. Others languish in obscurity. How can you predict which languages will succeed and which will fail? Tamir Khason has figured it out: it’s not the the language, but the developer. Languages devised by people* with full beards or, in some cases, mighty mustaches, thrive. Those made by the clean-shaven gain few fans. Take, for example, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, who are pictured above. They have fine, beardly beards. They also invented C. A coincidence? Maybe. But certainly a beard can’t hurt. And studies that I just made up show a strong correlation between having a beard and being super intelligent. So why take chances? Start growing one today. Link -via Glenn Reynolds | Photo: Quibik *Intentional use of gender-inclusive language, as you will see at the link. |
| Tintin Meets The Cthulhu Mythos Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:41 PM PDT Intrepid newspaper reporter Tintin has come up against some tough opponents in his time, but facing off against the Great Old Ones might be too much for his incredible mind to handle! This fun “what if?” scenario comes to you courtesy of graphic designer Muzski, who shows us how cool a collaboration between H.P. Lovecraft and Herge could have been. Check out the rest of the Tintin X Cthulhu Mythos covers at the link below, if you dare… Link –via Geek Tyrant |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:00 PM PDT
Bang! You're ... fabulous! Juergen of For 91 Days blog took some neat photos of the streets of Daeyeon Dong, Busan in South Korea, featuring this hairdresser shop that's to "dye" for: Link - Thanks Juergen! |
| The Company That Quietly Knows Everything About You Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:00 PM PDT
You probably have never heard of Axciom, but it has heard of you. Actually, not only has it heard of you, it knows all about you:
Nathasha Singer tells us all about Axciom in this enlightening New York Times article: Link |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:30 PM PDT You’ve heard the jokes about how a light saber resembles a bug zapper… Caleb Kraft decided that joke needed to be made real! Read more about how it was done at Hack A Day. Link -Thanks, Caleb! |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:00 PM PDT
Whatever you do, don't make Baby Hulk mad! Check out The Baby Avengers cake by HummingBread Custom Cakes : Link - via That's Nerdalicious |
| Blogging Buzz Correlates with Movie Box Office Success Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:00 PM PDT
Link - via The Mary Sue | The research paper at New Journal of Physics *That quote is from Hollywood Reporter. Just to clear up the confusion about "social networks" which most people interpret to primarily be Facebook and Twitter - Delving a bit into the details, the researchers actually measure the number of daily blog posts for 25 movies, rather than Facebook or Twitter mentions. |
| World’s Largest Collection of Mechanical Puzzles Posted: 18 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT
In 2006, puzzle enthusiast and author Jerry Slocum donated his extensive collection of mechanical puzzles (he's got more than 30,000 puzzles and about 4,000 puzzle-related books) to The Lilly Library at Indiana University. Today, you can browse the image collection online: Link - via bookofjoe |
| New Level of Fakery in China: Fake U.S. Bank Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT
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| Keep Calm And Carry On Bandages Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:49 PM PDT Keep Calm And Carry On Bandages – $5.45 Oh, no! You have a boo-boo! Gather your strength, raise your moral, and defend your wound with the Keep Calm And Carry On Bandages from the NeatoShop. This fantastic set includes 20 bandages printed with the “Keep Calm and Carry On” design. With this bandage victory is sure to be yours! Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Health & Wellness items! |
| The Funniest Father’s Day Tweet Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:30 PM PDT The best Father’s Day Tweet was sent by Ronan Farrow, who is the only biological child of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen together. In case this Tweet doesn’t mean anything to you, his mother actress Mia Farrow adopted several children and then had a relationship with director Woody Allen for 12 years, but they never married. Allen fell in love with one of Farrow’s children, Soon-Yi Previn, who had been adopted by Farrow and then-husband Andre Previn. Soon-Yi Previn was around ten years old when Allen and Farrow became lovers, and 22 when Mia Farrow discovered Previn’s affair with Allen in 1992. That’s when Farrow broke off with the 57-year-old Allen, and he married Soon-Yi in 1997. So Allen is Ronan Farrow’s father, but also his brother-in-law. Got it? Link -via The Daily What |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:00 PM PDT
Forget the hipster fixie bike and say hello to the mutant bicycles of the 1940s. LIFE magazine wrote: “By artfully applying welders’ torches to metal tubing, the chapter’s members transform ordinary, utilitarian bicycles into traveling monstrosities. By far the most outlandish ideas have come from the Steinlauf family, who produced from their bicycle repair shop most of the oddities [shown in the article]. They are hazardous; generally at least one member of the clan is to be found in the hospital.” Link (don't miss the Gangster bike!) |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:30 PM PDT
German bank Sparkasse Chemnitz held an online vote to let people choose amongst 10 different images for its new credit card, and Karl Marx (oh, the irony!) won. The Interweb, of course, demands a tagline for this gem: Link - via Metafilter |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT Why do fictional restaurants end up seeming better than the real thing? Because you can’t eat there and be disappointed! They don’t have to deal with things like location, expenses, talent, or business sense because they are just …fictional. Read about ten such tempting eateries at Unreality, with more discussed in the comments. Shown here is the Hukilau Cafe in the film 50 First Dates. Link |
| World’s Growing Obesity is Like Adding an Extra Billion People Posted: 18 Jun 2012 01:30 PM PDT
According to researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the increasing level of fatness in the world is as bad as an extra billion people:
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| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 01:01 PM PDT This is a perfect example of someone who's already in a hole and just keeps digging. After all, the only “secret identity” easier to figure out was Clark Kent! |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:36 PM PDT
Scott Cacciola and Ben Cohen of the Wall Street Journal bravely explains the spectacular spectacles phenomenon: Link (Photo: LeBron James goes geek chic by Wilfredo Lee/AP) This undoubtedly signals that the hipster glasses trend has crested, so be prepared for the next big thing: monocles! |
| How do we know someone is no longer alive? Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:00 PM PDT
He goes on to talk about how our complex criteria for death has evolved over history, and where it may be tomorrow. Link -via Not Exactly Rocket Science |
| The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat … at the Pig Race! Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:33 AM PDT
You know what will motivate the pigs? Loser gets made into bacon! (Too bad for Pig #4) Just kidding ... ALL of them will be made into bacon! Previously on Neatorama: German Sausage Lovers Choose Which Pigs to Eat |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT A flashmob in Moscow performs a huge production number to “Puttin’ on the Ritz” outside in February. That’s the way to warm up a cold Russian day! If you can read the annotations, maybe you can give us more details. -via the Presurfer |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 10:35 AM PDT
For those of you who haven't played before, the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt is an online scavenger game with very neat prizes. Win a Tokyoflash watch of your choice and some neat stuff from the NeatoShop. Plus it's easy to play! We'll give you a set of clues, for example:
Put the answers together to form this link: http://www.neatorama.com/neatobambino-3-lynx Go ahead and copy and paste that to your browser. We'll wait. Got that? Easy, right? Let's get started! Here are the clues for today's Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #20: 1. Visit Tokyoflash and check out the watch you see above (neat, huh?). Fill in the blank: "A unique _____ shaped lens, a colorful spiralling display ..." 2. Check out the NeatoShop's Pirate Shop and find the item that can open a door. Fill in the blank: "... shaped like a _____ pirate's skull" 3. Back to Tokyoflash and find a stylish silvery watch that you put in your pocket, not on your wrist. Fill in the blank: "... it brings a new _____ to the classic ..." 4. Lastly, visit the NeatoShop's Funny T-Shirt section and find out what Zero said to Eight. Fill in the blank: "Nice ____" Visit Tokyoflash and the NeatoShop to find the clues. Then string them together to form the URL: http://www.neatorama.com/answer1-answer2-answer3-answer4 (all one-word lower case, separated by dash). Hurry - this contest will be open for a limited time only. Good luck! |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 10:00 AM PDT
On the one hand, the politician is guilty of trespassing, as the area was clearly posted as forbidden. But the tape will not be made public, as its release is against Austrian law and carries a $25,000 fine. Link -via TIME Newsfeed (Image credit: Flickr user glaaasi) |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT The question “Is there an app for that?” is actually the challenge in today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. You’ll be given descriptions of something a smart phone might or might not do, and you decide whether that’s an existing app to do it or not. This is one of those quizzes that will be obsolete soon, as someone will take these ideas and make apps for them, if they don’t already exist! I only got three out of ten right. If you have a smart phone, you will do better. Link |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT
The shoppers were mostly Danish, who often cross the German border to shop because prices are generally lower. Link -via Arbroath |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT Sam Malmberg made this awesome scene of a attack by a deep-sea monster! The creation is part of a set of 13 works called Fantasy Lego that you can see in a Flickr set. Load the photos in order, and follow the story narrated in the photo descriptions! Link -via Super Punch (Image credit: Flickr user Groovybones) |
| V’Ger is Exiting the Heliosphere Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:30 AM PDT Voyager I, the space probe launched 35 years ago, has gone farther than any probe before, and is still communicating with earth. Soon it will be completely free from the influence of our Sun -in other words, it is leaving the solar system.
Scientists are monitoring certain cosmic ray particles hitting Voyager, the kind that do not easily enter the heliosphere, to monitor its progress. Read more about it at the Atlantic. Link -via Not Exactly Rocket Science (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:17 AM PDT Bug Pops – $12.95 The weather is starting to get warmer. Are you on the look out for a fun way to cool off? You need the Bug Pops from the NeatoShop. This cool set includes 6 bug shaped popsicle molds. They are easy to use, dishwasher safer, and BPA free. Homemade popsicles are a great frosty treat the whole family will love. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Ice and Popsicle Trays!
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| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 07:00 AM PDT (Video Link) I haven’t the foggiest idea who won this horse race. Fog covered the Elwick track in Tasmania, making the horses and riders all but invisible to spectators:
Link -via The Presurfer |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:30 AM PDT Avatar get the “honest movie trailer” treatment from Screen Junkies. Sometimes the truth hurts, especially when it raises ticket prices. Language may be slightly NSFW, and on the off chance you haven’t seen Avatar, this contains spoilers. -via The Daily What Geek |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT Years ago, a bunch of artists painted Darth Vader helmets, creating a variety of unique designs. For those that prefer Doctor Who over Star Wars, you might want to check out the new project that features a variety of painted classic British call boxes. Granted, they might not actually be TARDISes, but they certainly look close enough when painted in outrageous colors and are disguised as things like Big Ben. Hey at least these might be better disguises than a big blue box hiding in the middle of ancient Rome. |
Will that movie be a box office success? Akira Ishii and colleagues from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics at Tottori University in Japan may have cracked the secret of predicting box office success: how much blog coverage they have.
Fake watches and knock off Louis Vuitton bags? In china, such fakery is so common it's pedestrian. Well, rice trader Lin Chunping took it to another level with this brazen act: he pretended to buy a fake U.S. bank!
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Camera traps are hidden in the forest to record wildlife without disturbing their natural behavior. But some folks think they should be clearly labeled after one caught an unnamed Austrian politician having sex on film.
A new Priss supermarket opened in Süderlügum, North Frisia, Germany, on Saturday with a special promotion offering €270 worth of groceries to the first 100 shoppers who showed up in their birthday suits. The offer went over much better than expected, with around 250 naked people waiting as the store opened.
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