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• How I Became Bait for Bloodsucking Leeches
• This Guy Is Spider-Manning All Wrong
• Time to Cut the Ca....Exterminate!!!!
• Maleficent Hat
• Woman Finds Original Renoir at a Flea Market
• Hermit Crab Migration
• Astronaut Touching the Sun
• Chicken Nugget Cupcakes
• Modern Freaks
• Wine Stain Portraits By Amella Fais Harnas
• We Should Ban Life Jackets & Other Flotation Devices
• The Nabuyatom Crater
• I Am The Very Model of an Amateur Grammarian
• Law School Dropouts Who Became President
• Cute Bat Purse
• The Inebriator Robot Bartender
• A Collection Of Japanese Television Pranks
• Family Photo Clock
• Map of the 'Verse
• Delightful Behind The Scenes Photos of Godzilla
• Inch-Tall Crocheted Superheroes
• What If The X-Men Starred In Star Wars?
• Meet The Realistic Flintstones
• A Rubik's Cube for the Blind
• Breaking Bad + Star Wars = Most Ridiculous Mashup Art Ever
• Telephoto Kitchen Lens Timer
• Dog and Fish Play Together
• Evocative Photo-Paintings of Nighttime Cityscapes Around the World
• The Comprehensive Guide to Regional Sandwiches of the United States
• Corsets For Sexy Geek Gals

How I Became Bait for Bloodsucking Leeches Posted: 09 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT Mark Siddall is an expert on leeches. To find new species, he travels the world and wades into strange waters, offering his own flesh as bait. My expedition to Peru was especially fruitful. We started out in the Andes Mountains, elevation 16,000 feet, to look for a lake that had been recorded in the 1880s as having the highest-altitude leech ever found. We found the site, but the problem was that local mining operations had obliterated the lake. Fortunately, just as we were about to leave for lower ground, I spotted another small lake nearby. We jumped in, turned over some rocks to unsettle any leeches that might be in the sediment, and felt some pinches on the skin. We found the highest leech ever, a new species I’m still trying to classify. But it gets really weird when he begins to describe specialized leeches that target certain body parts. Link (Image credit: Zina Saunders)

This Guy Is Spider-Manning All Wrong Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:00 AM PDT (YouTube Link) The guy in this video is singlehandedly ruining Spider-Man's good name, acting less like a hero and more like a merry prankster! Most of the citizens that encounter the slapstick Spidey seem appropriately amused by his antics, but he's definitely getting on the wrong side of the law, and that'll cost him if he ever thinks about starting his own superheroic organization. --via i09

Time to Cut the Ca....Exterminate!!!! Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:00 AM PDT Reddit user eclaire4186 had some of the greatest wedding cakes I've ever seen. These wedding cakes you have to cut before it's too late! Link Via When Geeks Wed

Maleficent Hat Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT Maleficent Hat - $14.95 Tired of playing Ms. Nice? It's time to wake up and get in touch with your favorite childhood villain. This beautiful and sinister Maleficent Hat from the NeatoShop is shaped like Maleficent's headdress. Being the mistress of all evil can be so much fun.   Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Halloween items. Link

Woman Finds Original Renoir at a Flea Market Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT It could be worth as much as $100,000, but the 5.5-inch-by-9-inch Renoir painting purchased at a flea market cost less than $50 and came with a Paul Bunyan doll. The buyer liked the look of the frame and took it to an auction house to have it assessed. And that's when art experts realized that the tiny little oil could be Renoir's Paysage Bords de Seine, which has been missing since sometime after 1925. There's little doubt that the work is a forgery. "You just see it and you know it’s right," said one art expert working at the Virgian auction house. Link

Hermit Crab Migration Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT (vimeo link) Millions of hermit crabs were observed on the move, carrying their homes on their backs at Nanny Point in the Virgin Islands. The music makes their trip seem like an epic quest! Where are they going? What do they hope to find there? I had no idea, so I looked around and found an article that explained: Take the hermit crabs in the Virgin Islands. The adults are terrestrial, but the larvae develop in the sea. The adults must migrate to the waters edge in order to reproduce and release their eggs into the water. -via The Daily What

Astronaut Touching the Sun Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT For all of you who've held up the Leaning Tower of Pisa in clever forced-perspective photos, take a look at this photo and weep: NASA spacewalker Sunita Williams looks as if she's reaching out to touch the sun in this picture, which is one of the coolest views ever sent down from the International Space Station. Of course, the sun is actually about 93 million miles behind her. This is one of those joke pictures like the ones that show someone plucking up the Eiffel Tower — only it was taken in outer space. In addition to the Suni vs. sun angle, this picture is special because the photographer is mirrored in Williams' shiny helmet visor. If you look closely at the full-resolution image, you can catch sight of Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide holding up the Nikon D2Xs camera that took the picture, with one of the space station's solar arrays behind him. The setting reminds me of Neil Armstrong's famous Apollo 11 picture of Buzz Aldrin, which similarly shows the photographer's reflection. Link

Chicken Nugget Cupcakes Posted: 08 Sep 2012 11:00 PM PDT Stefani Pollack, the cupcake scientist who developed the buffalo wing cupcake, has once again advanced the fontiers of cupcake science. She sliced cupcakes into pieces, dipped them eggs, buttermilk and breading, then deep fried them. You can use any sauce that you like, but I suggest ranch. Link -via Bit Rebels

Modern Freaks Posted: 08 Sep 2012 10:00 PM PDT From Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man, here is Modern Freaks: Link - via Laughing Squid. I dare say I've actually had/met 5 out of the 7 listed. How 'bout you?

Wine Stain Portraits By Amella Fais Harnas Posted: 08 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT Creative artist and wine lover Amella Fais Harnas has come up with a great reason for going through so many bottles of fermented grape goodness - she paints portraits in wine stains! Amella's works are delightfully warm in color, and the softly bleeding edges add a nice organic feel to each piece, although the gallery must smell like a wino convention after the paintings have aged on the walls for a while. Link  --via Hi Fructose

We Should Ban Life Jackets & Other Flotation Devices Posted: 08 Sep 2012 08:00 PM PDT Text from the poster above: We Should Ban Life Jackets & Other Flotation Devices They only encourage risky behavior. The only 100% effective way to prevent drowning is total abstinence from going in the water. And if you do, by chance, find yourself struggling with drowning, then no life-saving or otherwise procedure or act should be allowed to be administered. You got yourself into this mess, you have to live with the consequences. You should see drowning as a gift. Also, if you were forcibly pushed into the water, don't worry. If it was a legitimate pushing, your body will find a way to shut out all the water and survive the drowning. Via Accordion Guy POLL: What do you think, Neatoramanauts? Should we ban life jackets? Yes No

The Nabuyatom Crater Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:00 PM PDT In Kenya lies Lake Turkana, the world's largest alkaline lake. This is the Nabuyatom Crater, a geological marvel of that lake. It's a caldera--the remnants of a collapsed volcano. Link -via TYWKIWDBI | Photo: Christian Strebel

I Am The Very Model of an Amateur Grammarian Posted: 08 Sep 2012 06:00 PM PDT Tom Freeman of The Stroppy Editor took the Major-General's Song from the Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan and adapted it to suit the modern swashbuckling world of grammar nazism: I am the very model of an amateur grammarian I have a little knowledge and I am authoritarian But I make no apology for being doctrinarian We must not plummet to the verbal depths of the barbarian I’d sooner break my heart in two than sunder an infinitive And I’d disown my closest family within a minute if They dared to place a preposition at a sentence terminus Or sully the Queen’s English with neologisms verminous I know that ‘soon’ and not ‘right now’ is the true sense of ‘presently’ I’m happy to correct you and I do it oh so pleasantly I’m not a grammar Nazi; I’m just a linguistic Aryan I am the very model of an amateur grammarian Somebody needs to make a YouTube clip! Read the rest (to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's masterpiece, of course) over at Tom's blog: Link - via Metafilter

Law School Dropouts Who Became President Posted: 08 Sep 2012 05:00 PM PDT Who says a dropout can't lead the nation? Though 25 of our former and current 44 Commanders in Chief were practicing lawyers at some point before taking office, some others just didn't seal the deal, leaving law school before earning a degree. Business Insider has their stories, from Woodrow Wilson (shown here) to Harry S. Truman, plus one bonus almost-president. Link

Cute Bat Purse Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT Cute Bat Purse - $24.95 Is your current boring purse driving you batty. Dump that pedestrian bag and get a purse you can really sink your teeth into. You need the super Cute Bat Purse from the NeatoShop. This adorable purse can be used as a cross body bag or a clutch.   Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Bags and Totes and fantastic Halloween items.  Link

The Inebriator Robot Bartender Posted: 08 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT Making cocktails requires accurate mixing of various ingredients at the right quantity - a task that is easy enough, until you've had a few drinks under your belt. But fear not, for The inebriator is here. Behold, the Arduino-controlled robotic bartender: Link - via Walyou (who has the video clip of the bot in action) Best of all, you don't have to give it a tip!

A Collection Of Japanese Television Pranks Posted: 08 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT (YouTube Link) Everyone knows that the Japanese have cornered the market on extreme pranks, and this video collection serves as further proof of their pranking superiority. Watch ghosts scare the crap out of people, uncomfortable elevator rides and a toilet that doubles as a sled, much to the user's dismay. It'll really tickle your funny bone, mostly because the pranks are happening to someone else... --via Stuff I Stole From The Internet

Family Photo Clock Posted: 08 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT "Sweetie, what time is it?" "Oh, it's half past your weird uncle." "Good, I was afraid that it was already your boozer sister." I love this crafting idea by Ange Marsden--especially the fun conversations it could provoke in more eccentric families. Link

Map of the 'Verse Posted: 08 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT Take my love, take my Flash Take me where I cannot browse I don't care, I'm still free You can't take HTML5 from me This one's for you, Browncoats. Behold, Map of the 'Verse, encoded by Koen Hendrix in HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and XML: Link - via Metafilter

Delightful Behind The Scenes Photos of Godzilla Posted: 08 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT It's sometimes fun to watch Godzilla, but no matter how much you enjoy the movie, you still aren't having nearly as much fun as the people who worked on it and these behind-the-scenes photos from the movie prove it. Link

Inch-Tall Crocheted Superheroes Posted: 08 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT Do your dolls need action figures? Etsy seller Crivens Studio can set you up. She crocheted thimble-sized versions of Batman, Superman and Ironman. She should try a really challenging subject: the Atom. Link -via Technabob

What If The X-Men Starred In Star Wars? Posted: 08 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT Reimaginings and crossovers involving popular characters and licenses are a dime a dozen, but when someone creates a piece as awesome as this X-Men starring in Star Wars poster by Rey Arzeno it must be shared. This piece looks less like a movie poster and more like the cover of an awesome comic book series from the land of geek dreams, and the awesome use of color really makes it pop! Link  --via i09

Meet The Realistic Flintstones Posted: 08 Sep 2012 10:30 AM PDT Have you ever wondered what Fred and Dino would look like if they weren't Hanna Barbera cartoons, but something more realistic? Well, DeviantArt user arvalis knows and her idea seems pretty spot on. Link

A Rubik's Cube for the Blind Posted: 08 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT You can design a Rubik's Cube with Braille letters to signify colors. Doing so, howevever, presents a problem: But when you turn a braille letter upside down, it becomes a different braille letter. So as the user rotates the cube it becomes impossible to read the colors. Brian Doom solved that problem by giving a cube six distinct textures, each of which represents a color. Link -via Smart News

Breaking Bad + Star Wars = Most Ridiculous Mashup Art Ever Posted: 08 Sep 2012 09:30 AM PDT If you've ever watched the hit TV drama Breaking Bad then you know that it has nothing in common with the scifi series Star Wars, but that hasn't stopped people from showing us what it would look like if BB and SW had a baby. These images are ridiculous, hilarious pieces of eye candy that should be viewed, stowed away in your mental scrapbook then summarily eliminated, for the sake of future generations of film goers. Oh, and a few images contain spoilers (crazy, huh?!) so don't look if you're trying to live a spoiler free lifestyle. Link  --via Uproxx

Telephoto Kitchen Lens Timer Posted: 08 Sep 2012 08:30 AM PDT Telephoto Kitchen Lens Timer - $13.95 Are you looking to create a picture perfect meal? Make sure you keep an eye on the time with the fantastic Telephoto Kitchen Lens Timer from the NeatoShop. This great timer makes the perfect gift for any photography lovers.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more amazing Kitchen Stuff. Link

Dog and Fish Play Together Posted: 08 Sep 2012 08:30 AM PDT (Video Link)  This is amazing! Sasha the dog met a carp while swimming in Lake Mead, Nevada. They nosed each other for a while, then started swimming together like they were friends. -via Blame It on the Voices

Evocative Photo-Paintings of Nighttime Cityscapes Around the World Posted: 08 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT Artist and professor Courtney Johnson uses a technique called "cliché-verre" to create her incredible cityscapes. It requires painting the scene on glass, then scanning and printing the work on photo paper, making a faux-photograph of sorts. “Historically employed during times of change, cliché-verre serves as a bridge between the past and the future as we transition into the digital era, and also as we move from the era of landscape to the cityscape,” she writes. “The images in this series depict characters in our new global mythological system: cities.” The entire Glass Cities collection, including cities from San Francisco (shown above) to Kuala Lumpur, is gorgeous. Check it out on Flavorwire. Link

The Comprehensive Guide to Regional Sandwiches of the United States Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:30 AM PDT Serious Eats compiled a mouth-watering list of 48 sandwiches that can be found in different regions of the United States. I'm especially intrigued by this New York City concoction called a "bagel and lox." Its essential ingredients are a bagel, cream cheese and smoked salmon. Yum! Link -via Marginal Revolution | Photo: adactio

Corsets For Sexy Geek Gals Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT We've featured plenty of geek lingerie before, but this is the first time I've seen so many great geeky corsets in one place. From clever uses of logos and colors like this one to designs incorporating licensed fabric patterns, Castle Corsetry has some of the greatest waist cinchers out there for us geek gals. Link Via The Mary Sue

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