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• 5 Terrifying Animals That Could Save Your Life Someday
• Food on My Dog
• Big Brother Arrives
• Strike a Pose Snap Happy
• Pilot Proposes to Girlfriend While Pretending That Their Plane Is Crashing
• The New Cat
• Bacon Potato Fritter
• Downloadable Weeping Angel Mask
• If Disney Villains Had Won
• Bullet Jewelry
• Behind the Bowling Alley
• Roll Out the Burlap!
• CG Animated Short - The Butterfly Effect
• Hipster Paradox
• Duck Mask
• Beetlejuice Terrarium
• My Daughter, the Poet
• Queen Victoria, Artist
• 10 Stupid, Crazy, Wonderful Gadget Fails
• Ryan Gosling Face Chair
• Which Science Fiction Franchises Depict Space Warfare the Most Accurately?
• In Which Nation Is Beer the Cheapest? USA! USA! USA!
• Flood Fill
• Susan Glenn
• This Week at Neatorama
• Koala Fuzzy Friends Slippers
• Recycled Tire Coffee Table
• Get Sketchy With The Simpsons Drawing Club

5 Terrifying Animals That Could Save Your Life Someday Posted: 30 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT Sharks, vampire bats, crocodiles: the stuff of horror movies. Yes, these animals can kill you, but medical science is turning lemons into lemonade, so to speak. For example, the venom of a cobra: Well, scientists think that part of what makes venom so nasty is that it suppresses the body's ability to fight back by hampering the immune system's normal healing process. So if you had a disease caused by an overactive immune system, a chemical that slows it down would be the proverbial vigilante crime fighter keeping a corrupt police department in check. This may be why in India cobra venom is considered an arthritis cure -- arthritis is caused by the body's own immune system keeping the sufferer's joints chronically inflamed. So then you start looking at other even more horrible diseases, like multiple sclerosis and HIV -- both of which involve royal cock-ups in the immune system. Read about five such terrors from nature at Cracked. Link -via Gorilla Mask (Image credit: Flickr user Greg Younger)
Food on My Dog Posted: 30 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT	Oh, humiliation - they name is ... Food on My Dog, a Tumblr blog by Andrew J. Small, featuring his dog Tiger (who, on the plus side, gets to eat most of the food that got put on her head): Link - via Lost in E Minor
Big Brother Arrives Posted: 30 Sep 2012 03:09 AM PDT (YouTube link) Brothers Bailey Leonard and Meyers Leonard grew up close, especially after their father died. Bailey joined the Marine Corps. Meyers grew a foot taller and became a basketball player. What you see here is older brother Bailey coming home from Afghanistan. The younger Leonard now plays for the Portland Trailblazers. Read more about his family's story at ESPN. Link -via Viral Videos
Strike a Pose Snap Happy Posted: 30 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT Strike a Pose Snap Happy - $14.95 Are you looking for a way to snaz-up your party photos? You need the Strike a Pose Snap Happy set from the NeatoShop. This great grouping includes 14 disguises and props. Let your guests dress up and strike a pose at your next fabulous shindig.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Party Supplies.  Link
Pilot Proposes to Girlfriend While Pretending That Their Plane Is Crashing Posted: 30 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT (Video Link)  It's beautiful when romance and terror come together in one loving moment. Ryan Thompson, a pilot, wanted to convince his lady friend to say 'yes'. So, naturally, he created the impression that the small plane that he was flying was about to crash. My wife tells me that if I had done this, she would have punched me. -via Daily of the Day
The New Cat Posted: 30 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT (YouTube link) Avery Ellis' cat has some trust issues. Watch the video first, then highlight the blank area for a comment from the YouTube page that will make you feel a bit better about this. yeah, i had just come from the set of my drummer's movie "interplanetary" (there's a temp trailor in my faves) in which i was a character who died and instead of washing it off on set, i drove home with it... freaked a few other drivers out! -via Arbroath
Bacon Potato Fritter Posted: 29 Sep 2012 11:00 PM PDT That, dear Neatoramanauts, is the Colonel's Bacon Potato Fritter, which is basically mashed potato mixed with bacon, sour cream and herbs and then deep fried. Sadly, it's only available at KFC Japan: Link - via The World's Best Ever So, what do you think? Yum or Yuck? Would you eat it?
Downloadable Weeping Angel Mask Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:00 PM PDT Doctor Who fans know how terrifying the Weeping Angel is, and what an awesome Halloween costume it would be. Download and print your own mask! Link -via The Daily What Geek
If Disney Villains Had Won Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT It seems like fan art is all "Disney, Disney, Disney!" these days, but once in a while a worthy collection of images presents itself, like this series by Justin Turrentine that imagines what the ending of popular Disney movies would have looked like if the villains had won. Cruella gets her spotted coat, Ursula has one heck of a meal thanks to Flounder and Sebastian, and the Evil Queen gets a particularly gruesome present in a box. Here's to the bad guys winning once in a while! Link  --via DesignTAXI
Bullet Jewelry Posted: 29 Sep 2012 08:00 PM PDT Yesterday, I featured Andrew Tuohy's amazing high speed photo of a handgun being fired underwater. Tuohy is more than just a firearms expert. He's also skilled craftsman. At the top, you can find a floral sculpture--a present for his mother--that he made from spent bullets. For the project pictured below, Tuohy set sapphires, topaz, tsavorite and peridot in, again, bullets that he fired and then recovered. Bullet Flowers Link and Bullet Gemstones Link
Behind the Bowling Alley Posted: 29 Sep 2012 07:00 PM PDT Have you ever wondered what the a bowling alley looks like in those areas not open to the public? Redditor Kiowa707 is a student mechanic who works at a bowling alley, keeping the pinsetters functioning. He posted a series of pictures to show us what is back there behind the scenes. Link
Roll Out the Burlap! Posted: 29 Sep 2012 06:00 PM PDT We roll out the red carpet for dignitaries and celebrities, but what about World War II fighters plane that need to land in battlefields without airstrips? For them, the Army rolled out the burlap: A FACTOR in Allied victories on the Western Front has been the availability of airstrips for our fighters directly behind the battle lines. Thanks to a new type of mat which resembles tar paper, Army engineers have been able to lay these emergency fields in record- breaking time. When a location suitable for an airfield has been rolled and graded, a device known as a “stamplicker,” towed by a truck, rolls over it strips of burlap material called “Hessian Mat.” These rolls are 100 yards long and 36 inches wide. As they pass through the rollers of the stamplicker, which is towed at a speed between 2-1/2 and 4 miles per hour, they are coated with a 50-50 solution of gasoline and asphalt, called “RC-3 cutback.” The strips are laid with a 50 percent overlap and their seams are sealed with a special tar compound, the resultant surface having about the same non-skid properties as an asphalt highway. Modern Mechanix has more on this modern marvel, as published in the Jun 1945 issue of Mechanix Illustrated: Link
CG Animated Short - The Butterfly Effect Posted: 29 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT (Vimeo Link) There's good looking CG animation and then there's The Butterfly Effect, a short that is so gorgeous I want to tell the creators Dan Sumich and Passion Pictures to reel it in a bit, because they're making everybody else look bad! It's about a guy having a particularly bad day, let's just leave it at that... --via Cartoon Brew
Hipster Paradox Posted: 29 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT Choose your fashion carefully! I'm no hipster, but maybe this is where Spandex may come in handy. From Sticky Comics, by Christiann MacAuley. Link
Duck Mask Posted: 29 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT Duck Mask - $21.95 Halloween is coming! Are you hoping to find a mask that is a real quack-up? You need the Duck Mask from the NeatoShop. This latex masked, shaped like a duck, fits the bill. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Halloween Masks. Link
Beetlejuice Terrarium Posted: 29 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT A little gasoline ... blowtorch ... no problem. All you have to do to get your grubby paws on this Beetlejuice terrarium, sold by etsy seller Faceoftheearth is say "Beetlejuice" three times and then fork over $350. See? Simple. Link - via Uncrate
My Daughter, the Poet Posted: 29 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT Redditor geni91782 thought this fill-in-the-blank school assignment completed by his daughter was worth sharing. It certainly is. Link -via TYWKIWDBI
Queen Victoria, Artist Posted: 29 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT Among the Queen's talents was a gift for art. Victoria filled her notebooks with sketches and watercolors: From her subtle yet rich watercolors to her seemingly austere but remarkably expressive black-and-white ink sketches (with a style reminiscent of Wendy MacNaughton’s), the drawings complement her observations of daily life and capture everything from members of the Royal Family to foreign military uniforms to the people and places the Queen encountered during her travels, and even her faithful dog. Pictured above is Victoria's watercolor of her beloved Prince Albert. Link
10 Stupid, Crazy, Wonderful Gadget Fails Posted: 29 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT Remember when this microwave with a computer was launched? They said it would be handy for looking up recipes! The thing is -who needs a recipe to use a microwave? And the computers we already were using were fully capable of looking up recipes. This is just one example from a list at Gizmodo of gadgets that crashed and burned because they were redundant, poorly designed, or just plain silly. Link -via the Presurfer (Image credit: Fabian Bimmer/AP)
Ryan Gosling Face Chair Posted: 29 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT Hey girl. Do you want to sidle up to Ryan Gosling? Sure you do! But parking your butt next to Mr. Adorable turned out to be more difficult than not crying during The Notebook, so here's the next best thing: a limited edition Ryan Gosling Face Chair. Yours for a mere $950. Link
Which Science Fiction Franchises Depict Space Warfare the Most Accurately? Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:50 AM PDT It's all speculative, of course. Humans have never engaged in a space naval battle...that we know about. Star Trek and the like aren't real, but physics is. So Foreign Policy interviewed naval analyst Chris Weuve about the real science behind interplanetary combat in science fiction: FP: What about ships turning in space like airplanes? CW: Babylon 5 was closer in that it understood that there is no air in space and you don't bank. But even on that show, the ships would be under thrust, and then they decide to go back the way they come, they would spin around and almost immediately start going in the opposite direction. That doesn't work. They ignored the fact that acceleration is cumulative. But I do like that they can rotate in flight and fire sideways. Babylon 5 and the new Battlestar Galactica are far and away the best in trying to portray vector physics. There are a lot of problems with the way they do it, but I'm willing to give them an A for effort. FP: Which are the most realistic sci-fi movies in portraying space warfare? CW: There isn't any show that does a really good job across the board. Some do better at different parts. For example, the new Battlestar Galactica is probably the best at depicting life on board a ship. That ship is very spacious compared to a U.S. Navy warship, but the inside of it looks correct. One of my all-time favorite TV shows is Star Trek, especially Star Trek: The Next Generation. But one thing that drives me crazy is that on Star Trek, you're either on watch or off duty, when a real naval officer has a whole other job, such as being a department or division head. So he's constantly doing paperwork. Most shows don't get that right at all. And which science fiction franchise is the worst in terms of the physics of flight? Star Wars. Read why at the link. Link -via VA Viper | Image: Balsavor
In Which Nation Is Beer the Cheapest? USA! USA! USA! Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT Well, of course! Our national anthem began as a drinking song. That's the stock we come from. Behold our awesomeness: Analysts at UBS, a Swiss bank, have calculated that it takes a German earning the national median wage just under seven minutes of work to purchase half a litre of beer at a retail outlet. At the bottom of the pint glass, low wages and high taxes mean that boozers in India must toil for nearly an hour before they have earned enough to quench their thirst. Link -via Dave Barry
Flood Fill Posted: 29 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT Flood Fill is a simple game that gets maddeningly difficult as soon as you think you've got the hang of it. The point is to assign colors to a grid and not have any color blocks touch the same color. Good luck! Link -via mentalfloss
Susan Glenn Posted: 29 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT Usually, AXE deodorant body spray takes the low road of advertising. Their ads - humorous and effective as they are - can be summed up simply as (boobs) "use this to get chicks" (boobs). But not this one. Check out the "Susan Glenn" ad, as narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, and tell us if it's a better form of "macho" advertising than the usual: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]
This Week at Neatorama Posted: 29 Sep 2012 07:02 AM PDT Guess what I got for my birthday -a brand new iMac! It's a shame that these things go obsolete so fast, but if I had any kind of normal job, the old one would have been fine. The old Mac Mini will still serve me well by keeping the kids away from my new computer. Today I am backing up and migrating 67 GB of information. And that's after I deleted everything that wasn't crucial. I hope the new setup will allow me to be more efficient in bringing you neat stuff. That is, once I figure out how to make the text large enough to see. Meanwhile, in case you were busy, here are our exclusive features from the past week that you may want to catch up on.    David Israel presented some neat insights on what it's like to work with Curiosity in the article Now That’s Rocket Science: An Interview with JPL’s Steve Collins. Jill Harness brought us Four of the World's Dumbest Animals. Eddie Deezen gave us a couple of great articles, The Beatles' Final Film: Let It Be and When The World Series Opened on Yom Kippur. The Annals of Improbable Research gave us Plucked From Obscurity: Aviators’ Safety Spinner. Air Force One was a chapter from one of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers.   And the story of The Candy Bomber came from mental_floss magazine. Over at the Halloween blog, we brought you Neatolicious Fun Facts: Salem, Massachusetts and 12 Gross Candies Perfect For Trick or Treaters, in addition to links on everything to do with Halloween! The Halloween blog will only get busier as we get into October. In the What Is  It? game this week, the mystery item is a billiard cue lock (you gotta pay if you wanna play). Anker had that one right, and wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop!  The funniest answer cam from Malyss, who described a "manicure manacle:" It is an extreme manicure manacle. Normally, you would find these in pairs and they would be bolted onto the arms of chairs at a nail salon. The person having the extreme manicure would place their wrists through the manacle and the salon associate would lock the customer's wrists into place before beginning the manicure. That's good for a t-shirt, too! Thanks to everyone who played, and be sure to check out all the mystery items at the What Is It? blog. There was a tie for the posts with the most comments, between We Are Hungry and Should Seat Belts for Pets be Mandatory? Those are both open for more discussion. Neatoramanauts also have discussions about various items at our social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter,Google+, and Pinterest as well. In fact, if you have any kudos, criticisms, suggestions, additions, or you just want to say hi, you can comment right here! And thanks.
Koala Fuzzy Friends Slippers Posted: 29 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT Koala Fuzzy Friends Slippers - $20.95 Can't get enough of your favorite marsupial? You need the super adorable Koala Fuzzy Friends Slippers from the NeatoShop. This comfy pair of slippers is perfect for spending a fun and solitary night indoors.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Footwear! Link
Recycled Tire Coffee Table Posted: 29 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT It's the perfect living room piece for the gearhead in your family. Instructables member bigern00 drilled holes for three wooden legs, then added shaped plywood supports and a wooden top to make this table a sturdy, durable structure. Link
Get Sketchy With The Simpsons Drawing Club Posted: 29 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT Lovers of all things Simpsonian should take a gander at a fun new site called the Simpsons Drawing Club, where you'll discover mind melting masterpieces like the drippy drawing above by Sam Taylor entitled "Melthouse". Sam is joined by artists such as Jack Teagle and Isaac Lenkiewicz, who'll be hanging their sketches up on that there Tumblr site for the interwebs to enjoy. Simpsons Drawing Club- it's a mighty fine way to kill time between episodes of The Simpsons! Link  --via Laughing Squid

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