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• Cut Your Meals in Half with This Dinnerware Set
• I'm Drinking Till I'm Someone Else's Problem Flask
• Hope and Rosie Get Dinner
• A Truly Dreamy "Nightmare" Design
• <i>Starcher Trek</i>--A <i>Star Trek</i> and <i>Archer</i> Mashup
• "Lonely Seats" are Popular in Japanese University's Engineering Cafeteria
• Hunger Games Camp
• Holy Awesome Wedding Ring Batman!
• Military Kindergarten Toughens Up Wimpy Kids
• Do you Want Nachos or A Burger? Why Not Both?
• Panhandler Pranks Entire Subway Car
• Urine Deflectors
• Hello Kitty Black and White Dot Patent Leather Embossed Handbag
• Ventriloquist and Family
• Tell Me About It Kemosabe
• Make a Portrait …Before It's Too Late
• Movie Stars in the Wrong Roles
• Corporate Bank Structures Visualized
• Victorian Era Dinosaurs Make Quite the Family
• The Cat's Favorite Show
• Fast Food Workers Gone Wild
• This Week at Neatorama
• Ernest Hemingway Look-Alikes Mimic His Iconic Portrait

Cut Your Meals in Half with This Dinnerware Set Posted: 04 Aug 2013 04:00 AM PDT Having trouble sticking to a diet? This clever dinnerware set by Fajar Kurnia, Jeremy Chia and Jo Djauhari can help. Just cut your meal portions in half--literally. Link -via Foodbeast

I'm Drinking Till I'm Someone Else's Problem Flask Posted: 04 Aug 2013 02:00 AM PDT I'm Drinking Till I'm Someone Else's Problem Flask Are you an honest individual looking for a hip flask that reflects your honest intentions? You need the I'm Drinking Till I'm Someone Else's Problem Flask from the NeatoShop. This forthright vessel is made of stainless steel and comes with a funnel for easy filling.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Barware & Cocktail items.  Link

Hope and Rosie Get Dinner Posted: 04 Aug 2013 02:00 AM PDT (YouTube link) English Springer Spaniels Hope and Rosie dance for their dinner! You can imagine that the dance came first, and the song was a natural addition to the routine. -via Arbroath

A Truly Dreamy "Nightmare" Design Posted: 04 Aug 2013 12:00 AM PDT Nightmare by Alberto Arni Alberto Arni may have named this Jack Skellington-inspired T-shirt "Nightmare" but the spectacular design is a dream! Check out his official website and Facebook page, then visit his NeatoShop page for more neat T-shirts: Alberto Arni NeatoShop Page. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog! Always Angry Sparrow Banana Slip Barrell Roll Master View more designs by Alberto Arni | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop, earn generous royalties, and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

<i>Starcher Trek</i>--A <i>Star Trek</i> and <i>Archer</i> Mashup Posted: 03 Aug 2013 11:00 PM PDT (Video Link) The casting choices are perfect: Sterling Archer as Captain Kirk, Lana Kane as Lt. Uhura and Ray Gilette as Lt. Sulu. This funny mashup of Star Trek: The Animated Series and Archer shows a failing starship agency led by a lecherous idiot who manages to succeed in spite of himself. -via Nerd Approved

"Lonely Seats" are Popular in Japanese University's Engineering Cafeteria Posted: 03 Aug 2013 10:00 PM PDT Photo: Asahi Friends? Engineering students from the prestigious Kyoto University of Japan have got no time for friends! Thankfully, university officials recognize that fact and installed a series of screened seats called "bocchi seki" or "lonely seats" in the engineering school campus lunchroom. According to Asahi News, the seats turned out to be quite popular with the forever aloners: "If you are sitting at a big table by yourself it's like you don't have any friends and that is embarrassing," said one 22 year-old male student. "When I don't have much time or I'm in a hurry, the lonely seats are convenient," said a 22 year-old female student. Via Kotaku

Hunger Games Camp Posted: 03 Aug 2013 09:00 PM PDT When Country Day School in Largo, Florida, named their summer camp The Hunger Games, they thought it would be a fun theme that was popular with kids. Instead, adults were chagrined by the excited, violent talk among the participants. Campers practiced for the big Friday tournament with flags representing their "life." But they talked about killing each other, just like in the movie The Hunger Games. On Wednesday morning, the camp's head counselor, Lindsey Gillette, told the campers there would be a rule change to Friday's Hunger Games tournament. Instead of "killing" each other by taking flags, the campers would instead "collect lives." Whoever had the most flags would win. Gillette told the campers she changed the rules so that no one would get out early and have to sit on the sidelines. But privately, she said the violence the kids had expressed was off-putting. She wanted the camp to focus on team-building activities. And there were team-building activities, but the kids also learned strategy, conspiracy, and the art of the double-cross. You have to wonder what the camp officials were thinking when they announced the theme for this year's camp. Susan Toler, a clinical psychologist specializing in children's issues and an assistant dean at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, called the camp idea "unthinkable." When children read books or watch movies, they're observers, removed from the killing. "But when they start thinking and owning and adopting and assuming the roles, it becomes closer to them," Toler said. "The violence becomes less egregious." Read more about the camp at the Tampa Bay Times. Link -via Hypervocal (Image credit: Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times)

Holy Awesome Wedding Ring Batman! Posted: 03 Aug 2013 08:00 PM PDT Los Angeles artist Takayas Mizuno sells this custom made Batman wedding ring that would be the ultimate for any fans of the Caped Crusader. Just don't let any Joker swingers find you and start asking "Why so serious" about your vows. Link Via When Geeks Wed

Military Kindergarten Toughens Up Wimpy Kids Posted: 03 Aug 2013 07:00 PM PDT Got a wimpy kid? Toughen 'em up, military style! Principal Fong Yun of The Albert Kindergarten in Taichung, Taiwan, believes that kids today lack confidence and courage, so he set out to create a military-style training for children: Yun is convince her training will help the students deal with hardships like tough college admission exams, job hunting and even marriage. Many Taiwanese parents seem to share her beliefs, as all the classes at Albert Kindergarten are full and parents drive from over half an hour ever day just to drop their kids off here. The children climb ladders, do handstands, backflips and all kinds of other exercises that even hardened marines sometimes find difficult. In order to graduate, they must prove they’ve mastered the entire routine by passing a challenging test. More at Oddity Central.

Do you Want Nachos or A Burger? Why Not Both? Posted: 03 Aug 2013 06:00 PM PDT Slater's 50/50, home of the legendary all-bacon cheeseburger, has just released their monthly specialty burger and this one sounds particularly fantastic. It's a nacho burger topped with melted cheeses, lettuce, onion, tomato, black beans, bacon, tortilla strips, fresh salsa, and guacamole, then wrapped in a flour tortilla and deep fried and smothered in nacho cheese sauce, sour cream, and sliced jalapeños. I think we need to schedule a Neatorama food field trip to Slater's. Link

Panhandler Pranks Entire Subway Car Posted: 03 Aug 2013 05:00 PM PDT (College Humor link) Before you watch this, if you don't live in a big city, you should know that subway commuters are used to panhandlers who take advantage of a captive audience to tell a tale of woe and collect donations. It happens all the time. So these people were not expecting what they got in this incident from College Humor. -via Viral Viral Videos

Urine Deflectors Posted: 03 Aug 2013 04:00 PM PDT (Photo: The Cat's Meat Shop) In Nineteenth Century London, public toilets were rare. Well, it's better to say that officially sanctioned public toilets were rare. But that didn't stop people from peeing in alleys, on sidewalks on buildings. Property owners sometimes responded by building contraptions which made peeing on the side of a building hazardous. Here's one at Clifford's Inn Passage off Fleet Street. This alley is specifically mentioned in Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend. Link -via TYWKIWDBI

Hello Kitty Black and White Dot Patent Leather Embossed Handbag Posted: 03 Aug 2013 03:00 PM PDT Hello Kitty Black and White Dot Patent Leather Embossed Handbag Attention Hello Kitty fans! Perk up your style with the Hello Kitty Black and White Dot Patent Leather Embossed handbag from the NeatoShop. This adorable black purse features a white polka dot design with subtle embossed Hello Kitty face and bow details. A cute removable Hello Kitty Bow tag is attached to the handle.  Hello Kitty Black and White Dot Patent Leather Embossed Wallet also available. Buy both and make it a purr-fect set.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Hello Kitty items.  Link

Ventriloquist and Family Posted: 03 Aug 2013 03:00 PM PDT Jules Vernon was a vaudeville ventriloquist. In this "family" portrait, he shows off his characters. His wife is turned away from the camera, though. You have to wonder why -there's no way on earth she could be any uglier than the dummies! In fact, you can see more pictures of all of them in the Vent Haven Museum archives. Link -via Weird Vintage

Tell Me About It Kemosabe Posted: 03 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT (Video Link) If you never thought porcupines are cute before, then you must not have seen Kemosabe, The Animal Wonders Sanctuary's one-toothed chatterbox. I don't know what's cuter, his incessant chattering, his obsession with bananas or the way he gets all squirrley when she reaches for his belly. Via The Mary Sue

Make a Portrait …Before It's Too Late Posted: 03 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT Civil War photographer Matthew Brady began taking photographs years before the war, and made a good living taking portraits. In one upstate New York town, he was only approached by one reluctant customer after the man's son died. He was desperate for an image of the boy to remember him by. The tale is retold by Robert Wilson, the editor of The American Scholar, in “Mathew Brady,” his patient and painstaking new biography of the portraitist and Civil War photographer. Brady wasn’t one to overlook a sales tool. “You cannot tell how soon it may be too late,” he warned in an 1856 ad that ran in The New York Daily Tribune, advising readers to come sit for a portrait while they still could. When the Civil War began in 1861, thousands of new soldiers and their families became acutely aware that it might soon be too late. They were willing to pay a dollar apiece for tintypes, and Wilson reports that at Brady’s Washington studio, “the wait was sometimes hours long.” Brady's portrait studio was even decorated somewhat like a funeral parlor. But he had several tricks up his sleeve to drum up business even before the war. Read more about Brady and the new book about him at the New York Times. Link -via 3 Quarks Daily (Image credit: Matthew Brady/Library of Congress)

Movie Stars in the Wrong Roles Posted: 03 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT (Video Link) (Video Link) You may remember master impressionist Steve Love's take on Game of Thrones. He's back with miscast movie stars. Some, though, would probably work well, such as Jimmy Stewart as Don Corleone, Michael Caine as Gandalf, Sylvester Stallone as Gimli and Christopher Walken as Morpheus. Content warning: foul language.

Corporate Bank Structures Visualized Posted: 03 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT Shown on this map (which is interactive at the link) are companies that make up the Goldman Sachs group, which comprises thousands of business entities based all over the world. You recognize the shape of the United States and the UK, but you may have to check the drop-down menu to identify the others. The area highlighted in yellow here is the Cayman Islands, where the corporation has 739 subsidiaries. That big red blob in Europe? That's Luxembourg. You can mouse around to see each company and the other companies that it owns or is owned by. It can get confusing fast. There are also visualizations for Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo, at OpenCorporates. Link -via Metafilter

Victorian Era Dinosaurs Make Quite the Family Posted: 03 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT Did you know that before the dinosaurs went extinct they also had their own Victorian Era complete with awkward, uptight family portraits? Etsy seller Rachael O'Connell painted this great creation and you can get a copy of your own for your home for only $15. Link Via The Mary Sue

The Cat's Favorite Show Posted: 03 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT (YouTube link) Tama the cat jumps when her favorite TV show comes on! She knows exactly what she's going to see, because the show intro is the same for every episode. One of these days she'll catch that bird! In fact, there are several videos of Tama watching TV at Daily Picks and Flicks. Link

Fast Food Workers Gone Wild Posted: 03 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT What do you get when you combine young fast food employees with poor impulse control and low wages so they don't care about keeping their jobs? Fast food shenanigans that's pure Internet gold. Here are a few examples of fast food workers gone wild (before they got fired anyhow) ... now, who wants to go grab a burger? Burger King Bun Bed Need a quick nap? This Japanese Burger King employee decided to make a comfy bed out of burger buns. But we wonder: what the heck is in that bucket? The Taco Bell Taco-Licker It's one thing to lick a stack of taco shells, it's another thing to lick a stack of taco shells, then post the photo to Taco Bell's official Facebook page! That sure got management's attention, who got the last lick by firing the taco-licker. Feet-in-Lettuce Lettuce is the only thing healthy in that burger, right? Well ... "lettuce" hope that our leafy greens don't come from the this batch. Wheez the Frosty Cups? We don't need no stinkin' cups at Wendy's, as this employee demonstrates his superior wheezing-the-juice technique with the Frosty machine. Licking the Mashed Potato Apparently, this employee didn't get the KFC memo. It's finger lickin' good, NOT lickin' the mashed potato. Not the Footlong You're Expecting That's not the (half) footlong you're probably expecting from this Subway Sandwich Artist, who not only put his privates on the bread, but also froze his pee for some inexplicable reason. Just a Fast (Food) Bath All that shenanigans sure can make you dirty. Time for a bath ... in the fast food restaurant's industrial size sink! Note: All of the employees listed above have been (rightfully) fired from their jobs, so let's not think about doing any of these, mmkay?

This Week at Neatorama Posted: 03 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT School begins Monday for the last four daughters in the family. We have a senior, a junior, and two sophomores in high school, and my niece will be a freshman, although at a different school. We've already had the great sisterly clothing swap, and this year I am no longer doing their laundry, because I have no idea what belongs to who anyway. One kid has a political science paper due the first day, and another has three advanced placement classes in the first term. This year is going to be an adventure. Wish me luck. Here's what's been going on this past week at Neatorama. Zeon Santos introduced us to 11 Independent Artists at San Diego Comic Con 2013. Jill Harness told us about 5 Sitcoms You Might Not Know Were Based on Real People or Events. Eddie Deezen contributed A Few Facts You May Not Know About William Shatner. Alex posted some really neat illustrations on the Spotlight blog in A Book Can Change Your Life. Die-Hard Chicken, the story of Mike the Headless Chicken came from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. The Annals of Improbable Research gave us Experiments in Yawning. The Perfect Record: 19-0. Harriet Tubman's tips for taking slaves to freedom was from mental_floss magazine. Hy Conrad brought us another Whodunit: Bell, Booke, or Kendal? David Israel posed another edition of Questions In Need of Answers. We got a lot of information about the good things in life: pizza and videos games! If there's a nagging question you'd like other Neatoramanauts to answer, let us know, and we might use it. Hey! Have you heard about the NeatoShop's Dream Picnic Pin to Win Contest? It's a great way to practice using Pinterest if you're new to that social site, and you could win all kinds of neat stuff from the NeatoShop! If you're not on Pinterest already, this gives you a great excuse to jump in and start. You've got plenty of time, because the contest will be open until August 25th, but you'll want to get started as soon as you can. In the What Is It? game, the mystery tool is a probe for testing corn. It was thrust into a corn crib or other container and then rotated to scrape some kernels off the ears, which were then tested for temperature, moisture, quality, etc., similar to patent number 2,184,472. The first person who guessed that was Craig Clayton, who wins a t-shirt for his efforts! The funniest answer this week came from Jeff Snider, who guessed it was a hypodermic needle for whale doctors (now, that's what you call a veterinary specialty)! Unfortunately, he did not select a t-shirt. See the other mystery items of the week and the answers at the What Is It? blog. Last week I neglected to mention a new feature you should know about. Over on the right sidebar, we now have a list of the five Most Popular posts, which you can click and switch to the five Most Commented posts. That way you can find out what other people are reading right now and where the conversations are happening, so you can jump in with your two cents! Better check often, because they'll change before you know it. The post with the most comments for the whole week was Questions In Need of Answers. No surprise there. That was followed by The Camp Gyno and The Endurance of Science Fiction. The comment of the week came from Barking Bud, who pulled up the perfect video to go with the post Russian 1916 Wooden Aircraft Carrier? You'll just have to go see it. The most popular post was 5 Sitcoms You Might Not Know Were Based on Real People or Events. In second place was LEGO Librarians, followed by A Few Facts You May Not Know About William Shatner. The post that earned the most ♥s was What Bears Do in the Woods, followed by American Officer Writes a Letter to His Son on Hitler's Personal Stationery. We had a bunch of mostly animal-related posts tied for third place. The most emailed post was What Bears Do in the Woods. Because everyone knows at least one librarian, LEGO Librarians was second, and Life-Size TIE Fighterwas third. Looking ahead to next week: It's SHARK WEEK! The shark hat on the left is from the NeatoShop, where you'll find more sharks. To get youself in the mood, may I suggest reading the article The Ten Weirdest Sharks Ever. We've got some neat shark things planned for the coming week, too, plus our regular roundup of the the neatest things on the internet, so be here!

Ernest Hemingway Look-Alikes Mimic His Iconic Portrait Posted: 03 Aug 2013 06:00 AM PDT You may remember Henry Hargreaves's impressive foodphotography. More recently, he created a series of images based on a famous photo of Ernest Hemingway--that's the one at the top of the post. Mr. Hargeaves asked participants at an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest to pose for him. You can see more images from the series at the link. Link -via 22 Words

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