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• <i>Star Wars</i> Sushi
• Amazing! How to Create Ice Instantly
• Duck Dive Salt & Pepper Shakers
• Explaining the Facts of Life to a Child
• This Man Invented the Plastic Pink Flamingo. He and His Wife Have Worn Matching Outfits for the Past 35 Years.
• World's Fastest Clapper Can Clap His Hands 802 Times a Minute
• The Difference between Physics and Economics
• How Humans May Look Like 100,000 Years in the Future
• Pretzel Gets to Know His New Friend, Woody
• Final Frontier, Poster Art Show Honoring Star Trek
• 221B Baker Street: The Cosplay
• LightSpin: Light-Painting and Bullet-Time Stop-Motion Photography
• It's Ad-venger Time!
• Sunny Side Up Hot and Cold Pack
• No Shorts? No problem!
• For Ladies Who Refuse to Be a Piece of Meat
• Spanish City Sent Dog Poop Back to Owners
• What to Eat After the Zombie Apocalypse
• Evaluating Product Placement in 12 Ad-Filled Films
• Girl Scout Cookie Coffee Creamer
• Even Baby Horses Need A Teddy Bear
• Lightsaber Knitting Needles

<i>Star Wars</i> Sushi Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:00 AM PDT Ewoks look so cute that I want to just eat them up! LydMc's sushi Ewoks also look great. She made her Sushiwoks with avocado, basil leaves, seaweed, smoked salmon and yams. LydMc also made Ewok kiwifruit, or what she calls Kiwoks. You can see them at the link. Link -via Obvious Winner

Amazing! How to Create Ice Instantly Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:00 AM PDT (Video Link) Grant Thompson calls his technique "waterbending." He uses it to instantly turn water into ice. The trick is to pour liquid water that is nearly--but not quite--crystallized onto ice. Contact with the ice triggers a visually stunning reaction. -via Daily of the Day

Duck Dive Salt & Pepper Shakers Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:00 PM PDT Duck Dive Salt & Pepper Shakers  Don't let  boring kitchen accessories foul your mood. Get the Duck Dive Salt & Pepper Shakers from the NeatoShop. This adorable set is shaped like ducks swimming in a pond. The Duck Dive Salt & Pepper shakers are a real quack-up.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Salt & Pepper Shakers.  Link

Explaining the Facts of Life to a Child Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:00 PM PDT It's very difficult to explain death to young children. But follow Ryan Hudson's advice and walk them through the steps. And remember: in Latin, a v is pronounced like a w. The spell won't work if you say it incorrectly. Link

This Man Invented the Plastic Pink Flamingo. He and His Wife Have Worn Matching Outfits for the Past 35 Years. Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:00 PM PDT Donald Featherstone, an artist, is most famous for inventing the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament. But people who know him and his wife Nancy well think of them as an incredibly close and romantic couple. For the past 35 years, they've worn matching outfits everywhere they go. Mrs. Featherstone writes: Whoever gets there first gets to choose what we're wearing. It's not a stampede, though; we're both amenable to the other's choice. If we're going to a party, we'll discuss what to wear like any other couple, except the difference is we want to look the same. Someone once told me that if she and her husband came down wearing the same colour top, they'd change. What a shame to be so insecure. We both have very strong identities as individuals and wearing the same clothes doesn't affect this; clothes don't make your personality. Instead, dressing the same gives me a lovely feeling of closeness to Donald. I've never not felt like doing it; we've done it for so long now that it would feel unnatural not to. Donald used to have to travel for business and when I packed his case, I'd tell him which outfit to wear on which day, so we coordinated even though we were apart. It helped us feel connected to each other. But his boss realised Donald was much more productive if I came along, too, so I'd help out at the conventions. It was good for business, because people would seek out our stall year after year to see what we were wearing. We don't like to be apart. Donald proposed on our first date and we've been together almost all the time since. If you want to do things by yourself, why get married? Why have separate hobbies? We never argue – Donald says he learned long ago to say, "Yes, dear", but in fact it's because we have a strong foundation. Being with him is never an effort. [...] All it is is a positive reflection of the nature of our relationship. We're a matched set. Link -via VA Viper (Photo: Webb Chappell/The Guardian)

World's Fastest Clapper Can Clap His Hands 802 Times a Minute Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:00 PM PDT (Video Link) Although his feat has yet to be confirmed by Guinness World Records, Bryan Bednarek may be the fastest clapper in the world. In this video, he claps his hands 802 times in one minute--about 13 claps per second. This feat beat the previous record of 721 claps in a minute. Excellent work! Let's give him a hand. Link

The Difference between Physics and Economics Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:00 PM PDT Zach Weinersmith points out that intellectual standards in one discipline don't always apply in others. Keep cycling through until you end up in the humanities. Or plumbing. We'll always need plumbers. Link

How Humans May Look Like 100,000 Years in the Future Posted: 08 Jun 2013 07:00 PM PDT Artist Nikolay Lamm collaborated with computational geneticist Alan Kwan of Washington University to come up with the sketch of what us humans may look like 100,000 years in the future: As our understanding of the universe increases, I predict that the human head will trend larger to accommodate a larger brain. But instead of some orthogonal evolutionary path that ends up with the 210th century human a la Futurama’s Morbo the anchor-alien, the rule of viable human biology will still apply and so the entire head will trend larger, though with a bias for a greater cranium growth than facial growth; the human 20,000 years from now would look to us like someone today except we would notice the forehead is subtly too large. [...] While evolution in space is only beginning to be explored today, I would hazard a guess that millennia of human space colonization of Earth-orbit and other solar system space colonies will also select for… 1. Larger eyes in response to the dimmer environment of colonies further from the Sun than Earth. 2. More pigmented skin to alleviate the damaging impact of much more harmful UV radiation outside of the Earth’s protective ozone. 3. Thicker eyelids or a more pronounced superciliary arch to alleviate the effects low or no gravity that disrupt and disorient the eyesight of today’s astronauts on the ISS. Read the rest over at Lamm's blog: Link

Pretzel Gets to Know His New Friend, Woody Posted: 08 Jun 2013 06:00 PM PDT (Video Link) My apologies to those of you who are afraid of snakes, but if a snake can ever be cute, then little Pretzel here certainly qualifies as he gets to know a wooden snake toy. Via Laughing Squid

Final Frontier, Poster Art Show Honoring Star Trek Posted: 08 Jun 2013 05:00 PM PDT Josh LN - Into Darkness Geek-Art blog has organized Final Frontier, an art show paying homage to Star Trek. The show, which runs at Le Dernier Bar Avant la Fin du Monde in Paris, features these fantastic posters and more: Link Maria Bergeron - Star Trek Into Darkness Andry Rajoelina - Shall We Begin? JB Roux - Star Trek View more over at Geek-Art: Link | Previously on Neatorama: Star Trek Into Darkness Fan Made Movie Posters

221B Baker Street: The Cosplay Posted: 08 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT Enough with the TARDIS cosplay already, bring on more set cosplay from other great British shows, like this 221B Baker Street cosplay based on BBCs Sherlock. Link Via Fashionably Geek

LightSpin: Light-Painting and Bullet-Time Stop-Motion Photography Posted: 08 Jun 2013 03:00 PM PDT Vimeo Link This is impressive: Montreal-based photographer  Eric Paré of Timecode Lab has combined light-painting, stop-motion photography, and Matrix-like 360° "bullet-time" technique into one. In his series LightSpin, Paré captured half a million photographs using 24-camera rig and compiled them together into a contemporary dance move unlike anything you've seen before: Every frame is lit by hand, one by one. Each picture has an exposure time of 1 second. The dancer has to stay still for that second ... then has 2 seconds to slightly move to the next position. The light is made with a roll of neutral density filter on a blinking flashlight. During this project, I triggered the cameras over 20,000 times, for a total of half a million images. Vimeo Link More of Paré's LightSpin below: LightSpin with Kim Henry LightSpin with Mariane Léger LightSpin with Michael Mega Watts LightSpin with Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin LightSpin with Merryn Kritzinger Behind the scenes with Stephane Hoareau and Nicolas Foisy at Timecode Lab Link: LightSpin official website | Gallery - via Core77

It's Ad-venger Time! Posted: 08 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT What would happen if the Adventure Time gang also had superpowers and united together to protect Ooo from evil? DeviantArt user m7881 has a good idea, as illustrated in this fun piece. Link

Sunny Side Up Hot and Cold Pack Posted: 08 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT Sunny Side Up Hot and Cold Pack Summer is almost here and soon it will be hot enough to fry an egg on the side walk. Don't let a hot day ruin your favorite meal. Keep your delicious lunch cool with the Sunny Side Up Hot and Cold Pack from the NeatoShop. This great little hot and cold pack is shaped like a sunny side up egg. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Kitchen Stuff.  Link

No Shorts? No problem! Posted: 08 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT It can get really hot inside the train cab, but male employees are forbidden by management to wear shorts. Thankfully, they've figured out a way to, ahem, skirt around the ban: "Of course people stare at you a little when you are on the platform, but you just have to put up with it," train driver Martin Åkersten told the local Mitti newspaper. Åkersten is one of a group of 13 male employees who have been wearing skirts in order to keep cool while working the Roslagsbanan commuter train services. "It can be over 35 degrees Celsius in the train cab on hot summer days," he said. Åkersten's employers Arriva have meanwhile responded positively to the move and have given their approval to the men in skirts. "To say anything else would be discrimination," communications head Thomas Hedenius told the newspaper. Link (Photo: Wikimedia)

For Ladies Who Refuse to Be a Piece of Meat Posted: 08 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT Don't let others look at you like a piece of meat...divert their meat-y glances to your rather fleshy purse and other fashion accessories instead. It's the perfect compliment for Lady Gaga's meat dress and the ultimate fashion statement for a female butcher. Link Via Foodbeast

Spanish City Sent Dog Poop Back to Owners Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT The city of Brunete, Spain, is tired of owners not picking up after their dogs, and came up with the perfect solution: mail the dog poop back to the owners! During the course of a week a team of twenty volunteers patrolled the town's streets on the lookout for dog owners who failed to scoop. They then approached the guilty owner and struck up a casual conversation to discover the name of the dog. "With the name of the dog and the breed it was possible to identify the owner from the registered pet database held in the town hall," explained a spokesman from the council. The volunteers then scooped up the excrement and packaged it in a box branded with town hall insignia and marked 'Lost Property' and delivered by courier to the pet owners home. Fiona Govan of The Telegraph has the post: Link

What to Eat After the Zombie Apocalypse Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT (Video Link) Can you maintain a healthy, nutritionally-balanced diet after the zombie apocalypse? Yes, but only if you're clever, resourceful and willing to eat bugs. Fact or Fictional explains what your best diet options will be in this great video. Via Laughing Squid

Evaluating Product Placement in 12 Ad-Filled Films Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT Whether you hate product placement for turning films into brand commercials or think it's a great way to fund movies by adding the reality of brands we encounter on a daily basis, there's no denying that some movies do it better than others. The Consumerist has a great look at 12 films loaded with product placement and evaluates the films based on three factors -the relevance to the story, the uniqueness of the brand to the film and how obvious the placement is. Unsurprisingly, the film with the highest score is 1989's The Wizard, which obtained a perfect score: Relevance: 10/10 Don’t take this high score as an indicator of quality. Rather, it’s intended to show that this movie is a 100-minute Nintendo ad, and thus the use of Nintendo products is totally relevant. Uniqueness: 10/10 Again, since the entire point of the film revolves around the Nintendo brand, it would be incongruous to have the characters continually playing a Sega console. Obviousness: 10/10 The poster for the movie features not just the actors from the film, but the Power Glove and an illustration of Mario. What films do you think featued the most obvious product placement and do you think it at least fit in with the storyline? Link

Girl Scout Cookie Coffee Creamer Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:00 AM PDT I don't drink coffee, but if this Coffee-mate creamer in Thin Mint and Samoa flavors even does a half-decent job of making my cup of Joe actually taste like a Girl Scout Cookie, I'll start sipping it down every chance I get. If only I could dunk Girl Scout Cookies in my Girl Scout coffee. Link Via The Mary Sue

Even Baby Horses Need A Teddy Bear Posted: 08 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT (Video Link) Breeze somehow lost his mother when he was only a few days old. While the Mare and Foal Sanctuary of Devon County, England was able to help nurse him back to health, they still couldn't provide the warmth and comfort Breeze's mother would ordinarily offer to the colt. They could, however, provide him with a teddy bear that he could cuddle with -and the replacement works. Little Breeze now cuddles up with his bear friend every night before bed. Via Pets Lady

Lightsaber Knitting Needles Posted: 08 Jun 2013 06:00 AM PDT Not as clumsy or as random as a knitting machine. This is an elegant crafting tool from a more civilized time. We've already seen a crochet hook that looks like a lightsaber. Now Instructables member Random_Canadian shows us how to make functional knitting needles that look like lightsabers. Link -via Fashionably Geek

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