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• Dog Flips Over Ball, Keeps Going
• Stop Playing With Your Pillow & Go To Bed
• BBQ Sundae Is A Savory Treat
• Did I Say You Could Put This On My Nightstand?
• At Its Most Fertile, The Human Uterus Approximates the Golden Ratio
• Ratatouille's Linguini in Real Life
• The Photoplayer Is the Greatest Instrument Ever Devised
• Neighborly Feud Escalated with Swearing Cockatoo
• Thrilling Web Series: <i>Guy on a Buffalo</i>
• Black Satin Veronica Half Apron
• Toilet Paper Ads
• <i>Curious George</i> Breakfast
• Who's Your Daddy?--The Paternity Testing Truck
• Video Game Companies as Friends
• Directions
• Man Fights to Keep Wife Buried in His Front Yard
• Bank of Canada Redesigned Banknote Because It Was "Too Asian"
• Replacement Parts
• Miserable Monday is a Myth
• Happy Family or Hostage Situation?
• Yoda Pet Costume
• Tea Time with Alan Rickman
• Sunny Sings the Addams Family
• Cthulhu Wedding Cake
• I Wasn't Texting
• That's Some Toilet
• Eleven Great Musician-Politician Campaign Feuds
• Mo Farah Running Away from Things
• Banana Slicer Reviews
• The Lannister Family

Dog Flips Over Ball, Keeps Going Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:00 AM PDT (Video Link)  Tito loves his ball. I think it's a little too big for him, but he doesn't. -via The Mary Sue

Stop Playing With Your Pillow & Go To Bed Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT Lucy Sparrow of Felt So Good has some absolutely delightful geek pillows, notably, a number related to vintage gaming systems. The only way this plush Game Boy could become any more awesome would be if it was actually playable. Link Via The Mary Sue

BBQ Sundae Is A Savory Treat Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:00 AM PDT Summertime eating is all about BBQ and ice cream. While you probably don't want to actually combine the two, this is a good way to get as close as you can while still maintaining maximum deliciousity. Link Via That's Nerdalicious

Did I Say You Could Put This On My Nightstand? Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:00 AM PDT (Video Link) I feel you kitty. I get really annoyed when people put stuff on my nightstand as well. Of course, if I was his owner, I would probably consider getting him a cat bed so I could have my nightstand back. Via I Can Has Cheezburger

At Its Most Fertile, The Human Uterus Approximates the Golden Ratio Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT The Golden Ratio is 1.618. Since the ancient Greeks conceived of it, it has been found in nature and used by artists to depict idealized beauty. According to Dr. Jasper Verguts University Hospital Leuven in Belgium, it's also found in the dimensions of the healthiest uteri: Over the last few months he has measured the uteruses of 5,000 women using ultrasound and drawn up a table of the average ratio of a uterus's length to its width for different age bands. The data shows that this ratio is about 2 at birth and then it steadily decreases through a woman's life to 1.46 when she is in old age. Dr Verguts was thrilled to discover that when women are at their most fertile, between the ages of 16 and 20, the ratio of length to width of a uterus is 1.6 – a very good approximation to the golden ratio. Link -via The Hairpin | Image: National Cancer Institute

Ratatouille's Linguini in Real Life Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:00 PM PDT Before the movie, this guy was just another dorky teen. Now, he's the real life doppelganger of Alfredo Linguini from Disney Pixar's Ratatouille. The resemblance is uncanny! Via CubicleBot

The Photoplayer Is the Greatest Instrument Ever Devised Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:00 PM PDT (Video Link)  Joe Rinaudo owns a photoplayer from 1926. What's a photoplayer? I'm glad you asked. It's a machine that allows a performer to play many instruments simultaneously. During the days of silent movies, theaters would use them to play background music. Mr. Rinaudo spent years restoring and mastering his. Now I want one. Link -via Nerdcore

Neighborly Feud Escalated with Swearing Cockatoo Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:00 PM PDT It's one thing to have a feud with your neighbor. It's a whole 'nother thing entirely when said feud involves a cockatoo. A swearing cockatoo. Let's see if you can follow the twist and turns of this story of a what can only be called the opposite of neighborly love over at Rhody Beat: According to Melker, neighbors Lynne Taylor and Chris Levasseur, residents at 51 Harris Avenue, are harassing them extensively. She claims Taylor verbally insults them by yelling obscenities as well as threatening them. Now, says Melker, Taylor has also gotten her umbrella cockatoo, Willy, involved. Since June 2011, Melker claims the bird has been calling her a “f*cking wh*re.” This ruffles Melker’s feathers. Oh, did we tell you that the two neighbors used to be married to each other? Link - via MSN Now

Thrilling Web Series: <i>Guy on a Buffalo</i> Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:00 PM PDT (Video Link)  Although slightly derivative of the 1978 movie Buffalo Rider, the Possum Posse's Guy on a Buffalo has the potential to make the leap to regular television and catapult its filmmakers to fame. Watch the first episode as the main character, Guy on a Buffalo, faces down attacks by a bear and a Native American. -via Joe Carter | The Possum Posse's Website

Black Satin Veronica Half Apron Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:00 PM PDT Black Satin Veronica Half Apron - $49.95 (sold individually) Do you like to dress for success even in the kitchen? Don't serve up your next fancy feast without the Black Satin Veronica Half Apron from the NeatoShop. This chic apron features a cat applique made with rhinestones and pearls. Details like french lace and a scalloped waist make this apron the cat's meow!  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Aprons! Link

Toilet Paper Ads Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:00 PM PDT Captive audience and a territory not flushed with competitors are the dreams of advertisers. So when Jordan and Bryan Silverman came up with the idea of printing ads on toilet papers, they "rolled" with it: "It takes advertisers a couple of seconds to wrap their heads around advertising on toilet paper," said Jordan, who acknowledges his business elicits plenty of snickers and long pauses. The tag line on the company's website advises people, "Don't rush. Look before you flush." The company plans to distribute free, ad-supported toilet paper to public restrooms at restaurants, offices, stadiums and other venues. These locations can save money on a basic necessity in exchange for providing Star Toilet's advertisers with a captive audience. Link (Photo: Deborah Silverman)

<i>Curious George</i> Breakfast Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:00 PM PDT It should go without saying that Jill of Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons is a culinary genius. But now she has really outdone herself. With pancakes, chocolate chips, marshmallows, eggs and grapes she has brought George and the Man with the Yellow Hat to the breakfast table. Link

Who's Your Daddy?--The Paternity Testing Truck Posted: 20 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT Do you have a paternity testing emergency? Well, then, good news! There's a mobile clinic in New York City that offers DNA matching tests: In what may be a first anywhere, a “Who’s Your Daddy” truck is cruising New York City selling DNA tests to people who want to confirm their child’s paternity or even whether their parents are biologically related to them. The brown and white RV, which is bedecked in eye catching signs advertising its services, is more than just a moving billboard, according to driver and operator Jared Rosenthal. “The RV is set up to be a drug testing clinic and a DNA testing clinic,” he told ABC News. “It’s essentially a mobile office so while we’re working people will walk up and ask questions and sometimes even take a test right on board.” Watch a video at the link. Link -via Marginal Revolution | Photo WABC

Video Game Companies as Friends Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:00 PM PDT What kind of a friend would your favorite video game company be if they were humans? Dorkly has the answer (nailed it, by the way): Link - via Geeks Are Sexy

Directions Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) The Magdeburg (Germany) football team went five games straight without scoring a goal. The few fans they had left decided to help out in the only way they could. -via TYWKIWDBI

Man Fights to Keep Wife Buried in His Front Yard Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT James Davis of Alabama fulfilled his wife Patsy's wish of being buried outside their home, and now, he's in a fight with the City Council to keep her there: "Good Lord, they've raised pigs in their yard, there's horses out the road here in a corral in the city limits, they've got other gravesites here all over the place," said Davis. "And there shouldn't have been a problem." While state health officials say family burial plots aren't uncommon in Alabama, city officials worry about the precedent set by allowing a grave on a residential lot on one of the main streets through town. They say state law gives the city some control over where people bury their loved ones and have cited concerns about long-term care, appearance, property values and the complaints of some neighbors. "We're not in the 1800s any longer," said city attorney Parker Edmiston. "We're not talking about a homestead, we're not talking about someone who is out in the country on 40 acres of land. Mr. Davis lives in downtown Stevenson." The heart of the issue is what constitutes a cemetery, which the government can regulate, and a family burial plot, which is not uncommon in Alabama: Link (Photo: Jay Reeves/AP)

Bank of Canada Redesigned Banknote Because It Was "Too Asian" Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:00 PM PDT The Bank of Canada's new $100 banknote design included a picture of a woman using a microscope and a bottle of insulin to celebrate Canadian's medical innovation. Focus groups engaged by the bank to critique the initial design, however, complained that the woman was "too Asian": "Some have concerns that the researcher appears to be Asian," says a 2009 report commissioned by the bank from The Strategic Counsel, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. "Some believe that it presents a stereotype of Asians excelling in technology and/or the sciences. Others feel that an Asian should not be the only ethnicity represented on the banknotes. Other ethnicities should also be shown." A few even said the yellow-brown colour of the $100 banknote reinforced the perception the woman was Asian, and "racialized" the note. The banknote got redesigned so the woman has a "neutral ethnicity," but the move got slammed by Chinese Canadian National Council as "bending to racism": Victor Wong, the group's national executive director, called on the bank to amend its policy of not depicting visible minorities. "You're erasing all of us," he said from Toronto. "Your default then is an image with Caucasian features." The Strategic Counsel conducted the October 2009 focus groups in Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and Fredericton, at a cost of $53,000. The Toronto groups were positive about the image of an Asian woman because "it is seen to represent diversity or multiculturalism." In Quebec, however, "the inclusion of an Asian without representing any other ethnicities was seen to be contentious." One person in Fredericton commented: "The person on it appears to be of Asian descent which doesn't rep(resent) Canada. It is fairly ugly." Link What do you think? Did the Bank of Canada do the right thing?

Replacement Parts Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:30 PM PDT Organ transplants saves lives, but there aren't enough suitable and available organs for those who need them. There just aren't enough donors. Two doctors, Joseph Vacanti of Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts and David Cooper of the University of Cape Town Medical School in South Africa, are looking at ways around the human organ shortage problem. Faced with this common problem, Vacanti and Cooper have championed very different solutions. Cooper thinks that the best hope of providing more organs lies in xenotransplantation—the act of replacing a human organ with an animal one. From his time in Cape Town to his current position at the University of Pittsburgh, he has been trying to solve the many problems that occur when pig organs enter human bodies, from immune rejection to blood clots. Vacanti, now at Massachusetts General Hospital, has instead been developing technology to create genetically tailored organs out of a patient’s own cells, abolishing compatibility issues. “I said to myself: why can’t we just make an organ?” he recalls. Grow your own organs or use organs from animals? Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science writes about the research going on in both areas, and how they might possibly end the organ shortage, at TheScientist. Link

Miserable Monday is a Myth Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT Hate Mondays? Think that people have bad moods on Mondays more than any day of the week? Turns out that "Miserable Monday" is a myth: people hate Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays just as much! US investigators who looked at a poll of 340,000 people found moods were no worse on Mondays than other working days, bar Friday. People were happier as they approached the weekend, lending support for the concept of "that Friday feeling". Link

Happy Family or Hostage Situation? Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT This happy family was selected for a photo opportunity with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. You can tell they are overjoyed. This reminds me of a recent Twaggie about family portraits. -via Buzzfeed (Image credit: KCNA/Reuters)

Yoda Pet Costume Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT Yoda Pet Costume - $15.95 To shop early you need. Right around the corner, Halloween is. Delay, do not! Get your Yoda dog costume from the NeatoShop before, all gone, are they.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Pet Stuff and fantastic Star Wars items. Link

Tea Time with Alan Rickman Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT Perhaps you knew him as Severus Snape from the Harry Potter movie series, so you already know that Alan Rickman is one seriously epic actor. Case in point: watch him make a cup of tea. In slow motion. To the theme music of "Inception" by Hans Zimmer. And as directed by David Michalek. The ending, man. The ending! Geeks Are Sexy has the video clip. Watch and weep: Link [embedded YouTube]

Sunny Sings the Addams Family Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT (YouTube link) Sunny looks like Pikachu, but he's a yellow cockatiel. Here he shows off his musical talents with the theme from the TV show The Addams Family. -via Buzzfeed

Cthulhu Wedding Cake Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:00 AM PDT What better time to show off this Cthulhu wedding cake than on author H.P. Lovecraft's birthday! It was made by Kerry's Custom Cakes of South Park, Pennsylvania, for redditor lakshmispet's wedding. See more photos of it in the baker's Facebook gallery. Link -via Rue The Day Previously: two other Cthulhucakes.

I Wasn't Texting Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:30 AM PDT The more fun stuff we can cram into our phones, the more people think it's just a "little" distraction. Please don't draw and drive. This Twaggie was illustrated by MacLeod Cartoons from a Tweet by @andypitz. See a new Tweet illustrated every day at Twaggies. Link

That's Some Toilet Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:30 AM PDT Residential architect Andre Rothblatt designed this copper-heavy bathroom for a techie couple who introduced him to steampunk style. Not only is it stylish, but it also provides a handy place to hang your hand-washables! Link -via Boing Boing (Image credit: Andre Rothblatt)

Eleven Great Musician-Politician Campaign Feuds Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT Before selecting your election campaign music, better check out the politics of the musicians. The third or fourth time I read a story like this, I wondered why in the world didn't the campaign managers bother to get the music licensed. But it's not a copyright-infringement issue most of the time -the campaigns do get a license to use the music, usually through a third-party service. The issue is when the musician just plain doesn't like the politician or what he/she stands for. Since the music is properly licensed, the only recourse is to use the media to distance the musicians from the political campaign, and that can backfire on the politician. But since it rarely happens more than once to the same politician, we see it happen again and again as candidates rise to the big leagues. Read about eleven public candidate-musician spats at Time. Link

Mo Farah Running Away from Things Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:30 AM PDT Mo Farah won gold for Great Britain in the Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 meter races, which solidified his status as a national hero. A classic image showing the moment he realized he'd won the second gold medal lent itself to an photo mashup meme, many of which are enshrined in the Tumblr blog Mo Farah Running Away from Things. No, he's not panicked, but with the proper menacing background, it sure can look that way! Link -via Unreality magazine

Banana Slicer Reviews Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT Some of the greatest comedy fiction on the web can be found in Amazon reviews. For example, 1,082 of 1,089 people found this review of the Victorio Kitchen Products 571B Banana Slicer helpful: For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. "Use a knife!" they say. Well...my parole officer won't allow me to be around knives. "Shoot it with a gun!" Background check...HELLO! I had to resort to carefully attempt to slice those bananas with my bare hands. 99.9% of the time, I would get so frustrated that I just ended up squishing the fruit in my hands and throwing it against the wall in anger. Then, after a fit of banana-induced rage, my parole officer introduced me to this kitchen marvel and my life was changed. No longer consumed by seething anger and animosity towards thick-skinned yellow fruit, I was able to concentrate on my love of theatre and am writing a musical play about two lovers from rival gangs that just try to make it in the world. I think I'll call it South Side Story. Banana slicer...thanks to you, I see greatness on the horizon. And there's lots more: 99 reviews of the banana slicer, from different points of view (plus responses). You'll want to read them all before you consider purchasing this product. Link -via Metafilter

The Lannister Family Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:30 AM PDT DeviantART member bubug drew the Lannisters from the TV series Game of Thrones as if they were conceived and drawn by Charles Addams. That is, like The Addams Family! Link -via The Mary Sue

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