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• Comedy Video – Unlikely Dark Knight Quotes
• This Is One Sharp Looking Ruler
• World Class Junk Tin Box
• No Females in The Aliens Game? There’s a Petition for That
• Jaw Dropping Shark Attack Bench
• The Founding Avengers
• Fan Made G.I. Joe Video Game
• Photo-Realistic Paintings of Hero Toys
• Beautifully Surreal Anatomical Art
• Why Turtles Don’t Eat Raspberries in the Wild
• This Little Drummer Boy Really Rocks
• How to Make a Breadcrab
• Pee-wee Herman’s The Dark Knight Rises
• Now You See It, Now You Don’t
• Snake Oil Soap
• The 100% Bacon Burger Sounds Gross and Delicious
• The Autism Epidemic
• Fancy Diving
• Liven Up Your Ice Cubes
• Happy Homes
• Honk to Open the Door
• Sausage
• Watermelon Dragon
• Professional Snuggler Will Cuddle for Money
• DeLorean Monster Truck
• Why Does Getting Hit in the Testicles Hurt So Much?
• The Liberator Pistol
• Cow Dance
• Superhero Ice Pops
• My Little Pony Holster
• Bazinga Baby Snapsuit
• Bryan Cranston Picks 13 Favorite ‘Breaking Bad’ Moments
• Doctor Who Plush Bunnies
• The Largest Underwater Gypsum Cave on Earth
• Whopper with Cheese
• How To Shoot Liquid Flow Photographs
• A Tour of the Moon
• Digg Sold
• Anais Mittins

Comedy Video – Unlikely Dark Knight Quotes Posted: 14 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT (YouTube Link) This collection of unlikely Batman quotes are brought to you by Chicago’s own Octavarius, a group of folks known for bringing the funny. You’re unlikely to hear Batman say any of these lines in the new Dark Knight movie, so you’ll just have to imagine how much better the film would be if he talked about Tumblr, hated on Pez dispensers and sang I Swear by All 4 One! (NSFW due to language) –via TDW

This Is One Sharp Looking Ruler Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT This machete shaped ruler by Palehorse is strictly for hardcore measuring, and not for settling schoolyard arguments. It has a deadly cool style and the lovely warmth of natural wood, one sharp looking inch at a time. It won’t help you cut a path through the jungle, but it’ll make it easy to measure the length of the spider latched onto your face! Link  –via Gizmodo

World Class Junk Tin Box Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:29 AM PDT World Class Junk Tin Box – $10.95 Attention all you globetrotting explorers! Are you looking for the perfect place to store your most prized and worthless possessions? You need the World Class Junk Tin Box from the NeatoShop. This delightful hinged box is printed with a charming retro design. Get one to store your beloved trinkets today. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fabulous Money Banks & Storage items. Link

No Females in The Aliens Game? There’s a Petition for That Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:00 AM PDT You’d think every game made these days should offer a female character, especially if it’s based on a movie where the main protagonist is a woman. For some reason though, Gear Box’s Aliens: Colonial Marines decided not to offer players the chance to fight as a woman. Does that upset you? Well, you’re not the only one. In fact, there’s now an online petition with over 3,000 signatures fighting to have a female character added to the game. If you’re passionate about the integrity of the Aliens franchise, you’d better head over and sign it. Link Via The Daily What

Jaw Dropping Shark Attack Bench Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:23 AM PDT Forget about that boring old park bench, plant your keister on this shark bench…if you dare! This shark attack bench is on display at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, and it was clearly installed to drum up business for the local shark repellent store. Link

The Founding Avengers Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:00 AM PDT Granted the 4th of July may be over, but as I mentioned in the last post, Comic Con is going strong, so it’s still a good time to share this delightful artwork spotted at the Trader Joe’s in San Rafael, CA. Link Via That’s Nerdalicious

Fan Made G.I. Joe Video Game Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:25 AM PDT (YouTube Link) It’s hard to believe that this G.I. Joe video game is fan made, and available to download for free! Attack Cobra Island plays like a classic sidescrolling arcade brawler, and even though it isn’t the prettiest fan made game I’ve ever seen, it has lots of retro charm and looks like more fun to play than the original G.I. Joe game on the NES. If only someone would make a G.I. Joe game where you can play as Cobra… –via GeekTyrant

Photo-Realistic Paintings of Hero Toys Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:00 AM PDT Zeon and I are at Comic Con this weekend and while we won’t have anything to show you until later in the week, I thought you might all appreciate these fantastic hyper-realist paintings by Simon Monk for the time being. There is a whole set featuring all sorts of costumed crusaders locked inside tiny plastic bags. It kind of reminds me of that Simpsons episode featuring “The Collector.” Link Via Laughing Squid

Beautifully Surreal Anatomical Art Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:22 AM PDT These gorgeously inaccurate anatomical artworks are by Valerio Carrubba, an Italian artist with a penchant for combining images of what lies beneath the skin with the beauty of the natural world. His works are inspired by anatomical artists of the past, such as Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery and Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, but he adds an interesting background element to form a complete, if somewhat disgusting, picture. –via Juxtapoz

Why Turtles Don’t Eat Raspberries in the Wild Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:59 PM PDT (Video Link) Poor little Peanut. All he wants is to eat a raspberry, but the fruit keeps running away from him. Via I Can Has Cheezburger

This Little Drummer Boy Really Rocks Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:42 PM PDT (YouTube Link) Attention rock drummers-watch out for this little drummer boy, because he’s poised to take the music industry by storm before he hits puberty. The talented kid featured in this video is Jaxon Smith, which is already a cool name for a rocker, and he has some serious skills on the drums that didn’t come from playing Rock Band. Watch him play along to the Foo Fighters hit Pretender, at six years old he keeps a beat better than most bar band drummers! –via Videogum

How to Make a Breadcrab Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:00 PM PDT Bruk bakes amazing things, most especially breadcrabs. And if you think this one is impressive, you should see the one that’s built with a dip reservoir in the middle. Link and Recipe -via Geekosystem

Pee-wee Herman’s The Dark Knight Rises Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:00 PM PDT (Video Link) For this clip from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Paul Reubens voiced over all of the dialogue using the many tones of Pee-wee Herman. But that’s just a taste of the entire film, which is excellent, except for Chairry’s horrible, horrible death scene. -via Nerd Approved

Now You See It, Now You Don’t Posted: 13 Jul 2012 09:00 PM PDT Street artist David Choe gained some notoriety when it was revealed that he was paid in stock for a mural he painted at Facebook headquarters several years ago -stock that turned out to be worth millions when the company went public. His latest project was not so lucky. Choe painted this mural on a wall at the Big Island Harley-Davidson in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on Sunday. By Tuesday afternoon the entire wall had been painted over again in a solid gray! What happened? Choe had the support of the Harley-Davidson shop, but some complaints from the public spurred the the property owner that holds Harley-Davidson's lease to order the art painted over. However, in a prepared digital statement sent on Wednesday to West Hawaii Today, Choe said he had strong support from the motorcycle dealership as well as the (BJ) Penn Hawaii Youth Foundation before starting the mural. He noted the mural was not meant to be "dark," but rather "all love and light," and apologized for offending anyone. "Hawaii is a healing, spiritual sanctuary," Choe said. "The aloha spirit of this island cleanses and heals me; I feel refreshed and alive again when I'm here. I feel like I'm smiling (in Hawaii) while dying inside when I'm on the mainland, so I wanted to give back to the island. I had never painted an iwa (iwi) bird, or octopus, or humuhumunukunukuapuaa or Brother Iz, but I wanted to represent the aloha spirit and paint all these things, bright and colorful, to show my love for Hawaii." Luckily, the mural survives in photographs. Link -Thanks, Lilinoe! (Image credit: David Choe)

Snake Oil Soap Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:30 PM PDT Snake Oil Soap – $5.95 Gather round folks! Behold the Snake Oil soap from the NeatoShop. This little bar of soap contains real cobra oil. That’s right, cobra oil so you can cleanse yourself from top to bottom. It makes the perfect gift for those who believe in fast talking, quackery, and love using questionable products. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more hilarious Soaps & Lotions! Link

The 100% Bacon Burger Sounds Gross and Delicious Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:00 PM PDT If obesity is a truly American characteristic, then Slater’s 50/50 new ‘merica Burger is the perfect tribute to our great country. Only available in the month of July, this burger features a patty made from 100% bacon, thousand island dressing with bacon in it, bacon cheddar cheese and a strip of bacon on top. I’m simultaneously disgusted and hungry. Link Via Geekosystem

The Autism Epidemic Posted: 13 Jul 2012 07:00 PM PDT The CDC estimated that rate of autism for 8-year-olds in the United States is one in 88 children. Why are there so many people with autism today? Consider that no one was autistic before 1944 -because the condition had not been named or described until then. By 1953, one doctor said the diagnosis had "threatens to become a fashion." Is autism over-diagnosed or is it more prevalent for some reason? Or could it be that awareness and better diagnostic techniques identify people with autism that would have once been labeled as something else? To most experts in autism and autism epidemiology, the biggest factors accounting for the boost in autism prevalence are the shifting definitions and increased awareness about the disorder. Several decades after the introduction of autism as a diagnosis, researchers have reported that professionals are still engaging in "diagnostic substitution": moving people from one diagnostic category, such as "mental retardation" or "language impairment," to the autism category. For instance, in one recent study, researchers at UCLA re-examined a population of 489 children who'd been living in Utah in the 1980s. Their first results, reported in 1990, identified 108 kids in the study population who received a classification of "challenged" (what we consider today to be "intellectually disabled") but who were not diagnosed as autistic. When the investigators went back and applied today's autism diagnostic criteria to the same 108 children, they found that 64 of them would have received an autism diagnosis today, along with their diagnosis of intellectual disability. Further evidence of this shift comes from developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop and colleagues, who completed a study involving re-evaluation of adults who'd been identified in childhood as having a developmental language disorder rather than autism. Using two diagnostic tools to evaluate them today, Bishops' group found that a fifth of these adults met the criteria for an autism spectrum diagnosis when they previously had not been recognized as autistic. Another strong argument against the specter of an emergent autism epidemic is that prevalence of the disorder is notably similar from country to country and between generations. A 2011 UK study of a large adult population found a consistent prevalence of 1% among adults, "similar to that found in (UK) children" and about where the rates are now among US children. In other words, they found as many adults as there were children walking around with autism, suggesting stable rates across generations—at least, when people bother to look at adults. And back in 1996, Lorna Wing (the autism expert who'd translated Asperger's seminal paper) tentatively estimated an autism spectrum disorder prevalence of 0.91% [PDF] based on studies of children born between 1956 and 1983, close to the 1% that keeps popping up in studies today. It appears that quite a few people that were warehoused in insane asylums in previous centuries would now be diagnosed more accurately. Read a lot more about the rates of autism at The Crux. Link (Image credit: Flickr user dierk schaefer)

Fancy Diving Posted: 13 Jul 2012 06:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) The Olympics begin in two weeks. This diving sequence will help get you into the mood, although it was not taken at an official meet. I would give this guy an eight for style, but his technical score would only be a two or so. -via reddit

Liven Up Your Ice Cubes Posted: 13 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT You can make ice cubes out of almost anything, I see, and looking through these gorgeous pictures and tasty recipes makes me wish I drank something besides hot coffee and tea. See nineteen ways to make ice cubes at Buzzfeed. Link And if you want to take the easy way to make ice cubes in interesting shapes, you need to see the selection of ice trays at the NeatoShop. Link

Happy Homes Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) Each home has its unique personality, and its own face. This ad for NEST thermostats shows some of the happiest homes. -via Swiss Miss

Honk to Open the Door Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:00 PM PDT Dieter Volkers’s Doorclaxon is a combination squeeze horn and door knob. Use it to announce your arrival with dignity. Link | Photo: Dieter Volkers

Sausage Posted: 13 Jul 2012 02:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) As Pete Bennett demonstrates, if you want your dog to dance with you for any substantial amount of time, just carry some sausages. But you’d better let him have a bite, or he’ll never trust you again! -via Joanne Casey

Watermelon Dragon Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:30 PM PDT Shawn Feeney refers to his creations as “edible alchemy.” I like that. The FBI-trained forensic artist makes fanciful sculptures from fruits and vegetables. This dragon sculpture is composed of 14 watermelons and 2 pineapples. Link -via Geekologie

Professional Snuggler Will Cuddle for Money Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:00 PM PDT Jacqueline Samuel’s business, dubbed The Snuggery, is the best place to go for a good cuddle: Jackie started thinking about a business centered around cuddling at the start of grad school, and says she and her sisters even tried selling hugs on the street for $1 each, making up to $80 per day. And although she hasn't been able to get certified as a professional cuddler, the University of Rochester graduate has studied the "Cuddle Sutra" and is versed in over 100 non-sexual positions. Still most of the time, she and her clients start out by spooning. Some of her affection-seeking customers (all men) have questioned her about getting some extra attention, but Samuel says most of them respect her boundaries. Video at the link. Be sure to let us know in the comments if you think that the NeatoShop should offer this service. Company Website -via Oddity Central | Photo: The Snuggery

DeLorean Monster Truck Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. That’s all thanks to Rich W.’s amazing DeLorean DMC-12 monster truck. You can view more pictures of it and his other DeLorean mods at the link. Link -via DVICE Previously by Rich W.: The DeLorean Limo

Why Does Getting Hit in the Testicles Hurt So Much? Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:00 PM PDT Even if you don’t have testicles, you’ve probably seen enough nutshots, in real life or on the ‘net, that you know better than to cause one intentionally. You’ll pay for that sin, in guilt if not in kind. Men know how painful it can be. And the pain doesn't just stay down there in the scrotum. It insists on radiating throughout the groin and up into the abdomen (and, psychically, out to every other dude standing within a few feet), leading to a weird stomach ache. This is the work of a phenomenon known as referred pain, which is when a sensation originating at one spot travels along a nerve root to other parts of the body and is perceived as happening there, too. It's the same thing that's going when you get an ice cream headache. In this case, the pain starts in your balls and travels up the perineal and pudendal nerves and the spermatic plexus, which cover real estate in the groin and abdomen, around the spine and even a little ways down into the anus, to make it feel like death has come for most of your lower body. There are several reasons why testicles are so sensitive. Matt Soniak tackles the questions and the answers at mental_floss. Link (Image credit: Flickr user sentex64)

The Liberator Pistol Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:30 AM PDT The FP-45 pistol was a small and specialized but potentially terrifying weapon. Technologically, it was simple: it fired just a single .45 caliber bullet down an unrifled barrel. It was so cheap that the United States could afford to manufacture hundreds of thousands of them and airdrop them over Nazi-occupied territory. The plan was that untrained civilians would use them to kill solitary German soldiers: The pistols would be air dropped by the hundreds of thousands into enemy occupied territory, where it was expected the Germans would never be able to recover all of them. Useless as a battlefield weapon, the issue of providing useful weapons to the enemy was moot. On the other hand… as a weapon of terror in the hands of the resistance, the Liberator might have had extraordinary value. A common civilian, alone with a conquering German soldier, suddenly produces the single shot .45 and drops the man in a surprise attack, afterwards making off with the soldiers weapons. Now the German Army is down one soldier, the resistance has one more battle rifle, and every other German soldier has to wonder…. will he be next? I say might have had, as the OSS never carried out the plan to any degree. Aside from a few FP-45′s finding their way to the Philippine resistance and perhaps China, the Liberators were not deployed as expected. They languished in warehouses, and after the war… almost all were destroyed. At the link, you can find more pictures and a video of a Liberator being fired. Link | Photo: Liftarn

Cow Dance Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT (YouTube link) The street dance troupe Boadicea will be performing at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in London later this month. Here they are cows, dancing for Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, in support of the Supporting Better Dairy campaign. Link  -Thanks, Jon!

Superhero Ice Pops Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:30 AM PDT If your favorite comic book superhero was a popsicle, what flavor would it be?Dutch artist Vincent Vermeij (Chungkong) took that idea and made art out of it. Superhero Ice Pops prints are for sale individually. Link Previously: Chungkong’s Exoplanet Travel Posters

My Little Pony Holster Posted: 13 Jul 2012 10:00 AM PDT DeviantART member Annadill made this holster for his TM Colt Python. He inscribed it with the three apple cutie mark of Applejack. Unlike standard Pythons, this one doesn’t fire .357 cartridges, but airsoft pellets. Annadill made it for the Equestria Task Force, his My Little Pony-themed airsoft team. Link P.S. A previous MLP post of mine earned a facepalm from gunblogger SayUncle. It was one of my proudest moments as a blogger. I’m aiming for a full facedesk from him now.

Bazinga Baby Snapsuit Posted: 13 Jul 2012 09:45 AM PDT Bazinga Baby Snapsuit – $17.95 Attention The Big Bang Theory fanatics! Do you long to raise socially awkward children? Start by dressing up your geeky bundle of joy in the Bazinga Baby Snapsuit from the NeatoShop. This brilliant shirt is the perfect way to make sure your intellectually superior baby starts off on the right foot. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more  Baby Outfits! Link

Bryan Cranston Picks 13 Favorite ‘Breaking Bad’ Moments Posted: 13 Jul 2012 09:30 AM PDT Who knows Walter White, the main character of AMC’s Breaking Bad, better than actor Bryan Cranston? After all, the role has won him three Emmys! In this post, he selects the pivotal scenes in which "something propelled Walt to the next thing or changed him somewhat or made the situation more profound." With video evidence, but no spoilers from season five, which begins Sunday night. Link

Doctor Who Plush Bunnies Posted: 13 Jul 2012 09:00 AM PDT The Doctor bunny, Donna bunny and Rose bunny are ready for another adventure. Etsy seller Catherine Boucher crafted these plushes as well as others featuring characters from Game of Thrones and Harry Potter. Link -via The Mary Sue

The Largest Underwater Gypsum Cave on Earth Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:30 AM PDT Russia's Orda Cave is the Largest Underwater Gypsum Cave on Earth. It’s not easy to get to, but the photographs are truly awesome. Read all about it at Environmental Graffiti. Link (Image credit: Viktor Lyagushkin)

Whopper with Cheese Posted: 13 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT One thousand slices of cheese. Researchers at RocketNews24, who previously invented the Whopper with 1,050 strips of bacon, have once again pushed back the boundaries of burger science: This time Mr. Sato was considerate enough to call Burger King 3 days ahead and ask if 1000 slices of cheese on a Whopper was a thing that could actually happen. The manager graciously agreed to let him have it his way and 3 days later he went to the store to pick it up. Like last time, the burger was so epically huge that the staff had to tape together several sheets of wrapping paper in order to completely cover it. They also provided Mr. Sato with a few plastic trays to load the 12kg (25lbs) burger on so he could safely transport it to our office. Link -via Kotaku

How To Shoot Liquid Flow Photographs Posted: 13 Jul 2012 07:30 AM PDT Photograph Corrie White shoots beautiful pictures of liquid flowing in liquid. She posted a tutorial on how it’s done, from dying the liquid to clean up. And guess what? This picture is actually upside down! Read it all at PetaPixel. Link -via the Presurfer

A Tour of the Moon Posted: 13 Jul 2012 07:00 AM PDT (YouTube link) NASA takes us on a tour of the moon, courtesy of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. -via Geeks Are Sexy

Digg Sold Posted: 13 Jul 2012 06:30 AM PDT Once upon a time, the news aggregator site Digg was valued at $160 million. Yesterday, Digg confirmed that the site has been sold to Betaworks for $500,000. Some say the decline of Digg can be traced to the rise of Facebook and Twitter, while others blame mismanagement and a switch to support of sponsors over users. A series of redesigns, some of which weren’t well-received by users, also hurt the company. A site relaunch in the summer of 2010 triggered a backlash, with most users saying they preferred the old Digg. By the end of 2010, Digg’s audience had fallen by more than half, according to ComScore. Newer social-news website Reddit Inc. also stole some of Digg’s thunder. Last December, Reddit drew more visitors than Digg for the first time, according to comScore, and since then it has maintained that lead. In March of last year, Mr. Rose, the founder, resigned from the company. He is now a venture capitalist with Google Ventures. Betaworks intends to fold Digg into News.me Inc., a digital media start-up that Betaworks launched in April 2011. News.me sends users links to news articles that their connections on Twitter and Facebook are reading and talking about. News.me, which uses an iPad and iPhone app and daily email newsletter, has about 10 employees. None of Digg’s remaining employees will be retained. Read more about the deal at the Wall Street Journal. Link -via Metafilter

Anais Mittins Posted: 13 Jul 2012 06:00 AM PDT (YouTube link) Meet Anais Mittins. Le jeune fille chat is carrying a torch for Henri, the Existential Cat. This is her feline love letter. -via Buzzfeed

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