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• How to Get in Shape While Working Out
• Eyeball Women's Ankle Socks
• Mario Goes Berserk
• The Average Football Game Has Only 11 Minutes of Action
• Sound Taxi
• A Bad Lip Reading Of The Hunger Games
• Amigurumi Tattoo Machine
• The Human Beggar Zoo in China
• The Glove and Boots Wedding Proposal
• Drawn to Facts No. 005: A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots
• The Man Who Moved a Mountain
• Smart Casual Phone
• Boo Spooky Straws
• Optical Illusion House
• The Hobbit, a Feature Length Movie Made by London Schoolboys
• But I Wanted Showdare!
• The Apology Van
• Effective Tree Cutting Method
• Dirty Secrets of Internet Data Centers
• Gangnam Kim Jong Style
• Campfire Cologne Makes You Smell Like Burning
• Conveniently Peeled Bananas
• Dinosaurs On The Wedding Cake!
• Insta-Tux
• Breakbad Mountain
• The Snookiville Law and Other Legislation Named for Famous People

How to Get in Shape While Working Out Posted: 24 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT If you're one of those whovians who watches whole seasons in single days, then you might have a hard time staying in shape. Fortunately, one of The Daily What's users created this handy exercise plan so you can work out while geeking out. Link

Eyeball Women's Ankle Socks Posted: 24 Sep 2012 03:00 AM PDT Eyeball Women's Ankle Socks - $3.95 Do you have an eye for fashion? You need the eye catching Eyeball Women's Socks from the NeatoShop. This visually appealing pair of ankle socks features a striking eyeball design. People won't be able to take their eyes off them.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Footwear! Link

Mario Goes Berserk Posted: 24 Sep 2012 03:00 AM PDT (YouTube Link) Apparently all the stress and strain of fixing pipes, jumping over barrels and saving princesses has gotten to poor Mario- he found a battle axe and he's about to lose his mind! Will he ever find his way back to the Mushroom Kingdom? Do pixelated critters regenerate when they're chopped into little square bits? And what's with the turtle shell on your head Mario?! (NSFW due to language) --via Obvious Winner

The Average Football Game Has Only 11 Minutes of Action Posted: 24 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT Does it seem like there's not much going on during the typical NFL game broadcast? That's because out of an average of 174 minutes, the ball is in play only 11 minutes: In other words, if you tally up everything that happens between the time the ball is snapped and the play is whistled dead by the officials, there's barely enough time to prepare a hard-boiled egg. In fact, the average telecast devotes 56% more time to showing replays. So what do the networks do with the other 174 minutes in a typical broadcast? Not surprisingly, commercials take up about an hour. As many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of the total air time, excluding commercials, is spent on shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps. In the four broadcasts The Journal studied, injured players got six more seconds of camera time than celebrating players. While the network announcers showed up on screen for just 30 seconds, shots of the head coaches and referees took up about 7% of the average show. Link -via TYWKIWDBI

Sound Taxi Posted: 24 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT Honk! Sound artist and designer Yuri Suzuki, in collaboration with headphones maker Aiaiai, created this eye-catching car called the Sound Taxi: The Sound Taxi is equipped with microphones that record its surrounding noise. As it makes it’s way through the streets of London, a specially designed software program inside the vehicle converts the noise into unique music in real-time. Passers-by will hear the music via the 67 speakers built into the entire car body and the big, shiny Indian horns mounted on top of the taxi’s roof. Finally, the passengers of the sound taxi can tune-in to the converted sounds via headphones installed inside of the vehicle. Coming soon to London streets near you: Link | Mashable has the video clip

A Bad Lip Reading Of The Hunger Games Posted: 24 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT (YouTube Link) YouTuber BadLipReading is turning an otherwise useless skill into an artform, and their dialog overhauls have almost reached a point of synchronicity with their take on The Hunger Games. Will bad lip reading become the new hotness in movie production? Probably not, but the amount of funny you can squeeze out of a mere handful of scenes will ensure that creators of online video content will continue to have plenty of footage to play around with! --via Vh1

Amigurumi Tattoo Machine Posted: 23 Sep 2012 11:00 PM PDT This cute little fellow made by Ohioja wants to ink you up. It won't hurt a bit. You want your girlfriend's name on your arm? Great idea! Now hold still. Link -via Craft

The Human Beggar Zoo in China Posted: 23 Sep 2012 10:00 PM PDT When beggars began to turn up in droves at a local religious festival, Chinese officials came up with a rather unusual - and some say cruel - solution, a human cage: According to a Nanchang official, in recent years the number of beggars turning up for the local religious festival has increased to a point where they’re actually making temple visitors uncomfortable with their lamenting and pleading for some pocket change. So this year, to make sure everyone attending the festivities will be left alone, they decided to separate the hundreds of beggars in small metal cages around the festival grounds, where people can still give donations if they wish, but without being followed around and nagged while they’re on a day out with their family. “The beggars are quite comfortable in their cages, people send them food and water as gifts. In a way it is better for them there than having to find a place on the busy streets,” festival organizers said.” The beggars can leave whenever they like but they have to leave the city too, they can’t go into the fair,’ they added. Human rights activists are not amused: “Do they want people to believe the region has no poor people and just put on a good show? These people need help. We should not be allowing them to be locked away in cages. These people are human beings too,” one said, while another commented “They are treating them like zoo animals. What will they have to do next – tricks for their food? This is nothing but public humiliation!” Oddity Central has the post: Link

The Glove and Boots Wedding Proposal Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) We've had a couple of Glove and Boots videos here before. This one is a bit different, as the puppets Fafa and Mario were recruited to produce a personal marriage proposal. How could any woman resist an engagement ring that sings ...along with a gorilla? -via The Daily What

Drawn to Facts No. 005: A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots Posted: 23 Sep 2012 08:00 PM PDT Illustration by: Jacob Hanover Fact:A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots. Check out all of our illustrated facts here.

The Man Who Moved a Mountain Posted: 23 Sep 2012 07:00 PM PDT Dashrath Manjhi lived in the little village of Gahlour, Bihar, India. The nearest medical facility was in Gaya, which was only about 8 km away as the crow flies, but 50 km away by road due to a mountain. Manjhi's wife, Falguni Devi, was injured in the 1950s, and died on the long route to the hospital. Manjhi (and his neighbors) were of low caste and therefore the village was low on the government's priority list for road building. So in honor of his late wife, Manjhi took it upon himself in 1959 to cut through the mountain to provide medical access to his village. By himself. With hand tools. He knew his voice will not create any reaction in the deaf ear of the government; therefore, Dashrath chose to accomplish this Herculean task alone. He sold his goats to purchase chisel, rope and a hammer. People would call him mad and eccentric spirited with no idea of his plans. Unfazed by his critics’ discouraging remarks, Dashrath hammered consistently for 22 long years to shorten the distance from 50km to 10km between Atri and Wazirganj. The day came when he stepped through a flat passage — about one-km long and 16-feet wide — to his dream, ‘the other side of the hill’. Manjhi became famous for his accomplishment, and was given a state funeral upon his death in 2007. He was also the subject of a movie. However, Manjhi's family is still impoverished and the road he cut is still unpaved. Link -via Metafilter, where'll you'll find additional links.

Smart Casual Phone Posted: 23 Sep 2012 06:00 PM PDT So, Neatoramanauts. Did you get a new smartphone? Perhaps the new iPhone 5? Well, however stylish your smartphone is, I betcha it's not as clever as this smart-casual phone as drawn by Gemma Correll: Link

Boo Spooky Straws Posted: 23 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Boo Spooky Straws - $2.95 (sold individually) Halloween is coming! Are you on the hunt for some frightfully fabulous Halloween Entertaining items? You need the Boo Spooky Straws from the NeatoShop. These delightful straws are shaped like the word Boo. Hurry! Get some today before they are all sucked up.  Boo Spooky Straws are available in Purple, Orange, and Green. Buy one or buy them all.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Halloween items! Link

Optical Illusion House Posted: 23 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT I'd love to play in a house filled with balloons, but this is not it. Artist Ciaran Brennan painted this house so that from the right angle, it looks like there are gaping holes with balloons pouring out of them: Painting on the house for real this time, painted this optical illusion for a party we have at our house each year. I didnt get to finish it completely ,I wanted to paint the inside of the house through the hole in the wall but I ended up just making it dark. Some of the front baloons are real baloons, they shrunk a bit before I took the photo so they seem a bit out of scale with the painted ones.  Link -via Super Punch

The Hobbit, a Feature Length Movie Made by London Schoolboys Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT Suck it, Peter Jackson! A team of schoolboys from Tower House prep in southwest London have released their own feature-length version of The Hobbit: Seventy boys aged eight to 13 from Tower House School star in their own feature-length version of Tolkien’s classic, which includes battle scenes and even a CGI dragon. The 90-minute movie, filmed at locations around the country, was put together “on a shoestring” and required some of its young actors to spend hours in make-up being fitted with fake scars and prosthetic noses. [...] Paul Geary, head of drama at the school in East Sheen and the film’s director, said: “The boys showed great dedication to this project which shows the quality of drama that a school can produce. "It was our ambition to do something totally unique, something no other school has ever done. As far as I am aware we are the first prep school to do a full feature-length film.” London Evening Standard has the story: Link | Official page - via digital spy

But I Wanted Showdare! Posted: 23 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT Maybe it's just me, but I want to know if they taste different depending on how the chef pronounces them. Link Via That's Nerdalicious

The Apology Van Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT Photographer Tom Wilkinson snapped a photo of this apology van, parked up next to a busy roundabout outside Shildon, County Durham, England, with the text: Linda I'm sorry I'm a fool and an idiot sometimes. I love you with all my heart! Please come home and put this right We miss you!! I miss us. I want to grow old with you, Will you marry me? No words of a reply from Linda: Link

Effective Tree Cutting Method Posted: 23 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) This guy gets the award for the most efficient lumberjack ever. You might not believe that seeing him chop away with an axe at the beginning, but stay with it. -via the Presurfer

Dirty Secrets of Internet Data Centers Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT Photo: Ethan Pines/The New York Times Quick: what industry uses 30 billion watts of energy (the equivalent of the output of about 30 nuclear power plants), wastes 90% of that and pollutes the environment by belching diesel exhaust, all while cloaked in near total secrecy? You're using it, actually. Behold the data centers that power the Internet: “It’s staggering for most people, even people in the industry, to understand the numbers, the sheer size of these systems,” said Peter Gross, who helped design hundreds of data centers. “A single data center can take more power than a medium-size town.” Energy efficiency varies widely from company to company. But at the request of The Times, the consulting firm McKinsey & Company analyzed energy use by data centers and found that, on average, they were using only 6 percent to 12 percent of the electricity powering their servers to perform computations. The rest was essentially used to keep servers idling and ready in case of a surge in activity that could slow or crash their operations. A server is a sort of bulked-up desktop computer, minus a screen and keyboard, that contains chips to process data. The study sampled about 20,000 servers in about 70 large data centers spanning the commercial gamut: drug companies, military contractors, banks, media companies and government agencies. “This is an industry dirty secret, and no one wants to be the first to say mea culpa,” said a senior industry executive who asked not to be identified to protect his company’s reputation. “If we were a manufacturing industry, we’d be out of business straightaway.” James Glanz of The New York Times has the story: Link

Gangnam Kim Jong Style Posted: 23 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT Agree that this is the best Gangnam Style parody in the world or they'll will dispatch an elite team of North Korean assassins forthwith.

Campfire Cologne Makes You Smell Like Burning Posted: 23 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT Are you looking for a way to smell more like a camper and less like an apartment renter/part time yoga class attendee? You're life is missing the smell of the great outdoors- a campfire made from twigs and branches you gathered at the last minute because you were starting to get cold. Campfire Cologne has all the smell of a campfire and none of the liquid that's normally associated with colognes. Simply light the sticks, let the smoky goodness waft your way, and feel your inner beard start to smile. Mmmmm...that's good burning! Link  --via Super Punch

Conveniently Peeled Bananas Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT The European supermarket chain Billa uses a slogan urging more "common sense." Then at least one store in Austria offered bananas for sale as you see here: peeled and packaged in styrofoam trays with plastic wrap.   But the stunt by the German-owned Billa supermarket chain - part of the Rewe group that has thousands of stores in 9 European countries, has caused outrage among users after it was posted on the firm's Facebook page. Last night staff moved to distance themselves from the sale of ready-peeled bananas and apologised for the "one off" mistake, saying it would not happen again. I guess someone explained to them that bananas come in their own nature-made packaging that's even safer than plastic wrap. Link -via Arbroath

Dinosaurs On The Wedding Cake! Posted: 23 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT Maybe the cake is actually a space ship! I am impressed that they made this so soon after the episode came out, but I can't help but wonder if the sand and rocks are some kind of candy. Link Via That's Nerdalicious

Insta-Tux Posted: 23 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT Insta-Tux - $14.95 Be prepared for any formal occasion with the Insta-Tux from the NeatoShop. This fantastic kit includes a ruffled shirt front and matching bow tie. The ruffled shirt front easy attaches to any button down shirt. It is perfect for clowning around or celebrating a formal occasion.  The Insta-Tux is available in Green, Light Blue, Orange, and Red. Get one or get them all.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Halloween items! Link

Breakbad Mountain Posted: 23 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT (YouTube link) Creative editing once again takes a story out of context and makes into something completely different. In this case, the TV show Breaking Bad become a tender love story -between Walt and Jesse. You could say they have "chemistry."  -via Buzzfeed

The Snookiville Law and Other Legislation Named for Famous People Posted: 23 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT It is an uncomfortable truth that Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi is famous. (I'm sorry.) Equally uncomfortable is that, as a result of her reality-TV fame, a new law was recently proposed in New Jersey that would give locations hosting reality shows more control over filming within their jusrisdiction. For instance, production crews will have to pay the city for police escorts and increased security instead of leaving taxpayers to foot the bill. The so-called 'Snookiville law' is scheduled for introduction on Sep 24, 2012. Here's a look at this and other laws named for celebrities, including Tim Tebow, Tom Cruise and Sonny Bono. Link | Photo: CC NVS_Inc

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