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• Abandoned Dog Found on Google Street View, Rescued
• Pictures of Segregated America
• 70s-Era House Includes an Enormous, Luxurious Bomb Shelter
• Tupperware: What is It Good For? [no. 1031 - @B_poling82]
• Baking Bread
• Sailor Scout Ponies
• The Real Mermaids of San Marcos, Texas
• Billy-Bob Original Teeth
• The Pope's New Car is a 29-Year Old Beater
• Blurred Sanford
• Steampunk Phaser and Tricorder
• Blobfish Crowned World's Ugliest Animal
• CERN Lecture Belt
• Disney Villains Sugar Skulls
• Bloody Syringe Shirley Temples
• The 2013 Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony
• Amazing Space Facts You May Not Know
• Turn a Negative into a Positive
• Sally Prestige Infant Costume
• Bartman
• Embarrassed in the E.R.
• Reese's Chocolate-Dipped Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches
• One World Trade Center Time-Lapse
• Disney Princesses In Their Prince's Costumes
• The World's Best Lasagna
• Just a Turtle Wearing a Raspberry, No Big Deal
• Escape from Tomorrow Trailer
• The Tortoise and the Hare
• What Is It? game 292
• Mummy and Black Cat Salt & Pepper Shakers

Abandoned Dog Found on Google Street View, Rescued Posted: 13 Sep 2013 04:00 AM PDT No one was sure how long Sonya had been living on the streets of Los Angeles--possibly as long as 10 years. But when she appeared on Google Street View, Eldad Hagar of the charity Hope for Paws set out to rescue her. Sometimes humans are awesome. Video Link -via Geekologie

Pictures of Segregated America Posted: 13 Sep 2013 03:00 AM PDT Buzzfeed has a gallery of 17 photographs taken between 1937 and 1943 illustrating how segregated the U.S. used to be. Blacks and whites had separate water fountains, restrooms, movie theaters, diners, overnight accommodations, and pretty much everything else. However, there are a couple of signs indicating that both "white and colored" were served. Link (Image credit: Marion Post Wolcott/Library of Congress)

70s-Era House Includes an Enormous, Luxurious Bomb Shelter Posted: 13 Sep 2013 02:00 AM PDT (Photo: Christopher DeVargas) Look at the photo. What you're seeing is not the outside of the house, but the interior of the bomb shelter beneath it. Girard B. Henderson built it in Las Vegass in 1978 just in case he had to live out a post-apocalyptic lifestyle in luxury: The two-bedroom, three-bathroom house at 3970 Spencer St. might be the most peculiar in Las Vegas. It is buried 26 feet underground, underneath a typical suburban two-story house. [...] The home, which spans more than 5,000 square feet, is part of a 15,200-square-foot basement that also features a casita. Above ground, the only clues of what lies below are large ventilation units, air conditioners and two emergency exits scattered around a property. One of the exits looks like a cave, the other a shed. The underground refuge seems designed to stave off boredom and claustrophobia. It has a four-hole putting green, a swimming pool, two jacuzzis, a sauna, a dance floor with a small stage, a bar, a barbecue and huge murals of rural, tranquil settings. The house also has a laundry room, a full kitchen, a fireplace, a generator, fake trees, fake flowers, two elevators, fire alarm bells, smoke detectors, an intercom system and several large pantries. Light switches labeled “Sunset,” “Day,” “Dusk” and “Night” mimic those settings by dimming or brightening lights and stars on the ceiling, which is painted sky blue with white clouds. You can see more photos at the link. Link -via View from the Porch

Tupperware: What is It Good For? [no. 1031 - @B_poling82] Posted: 13 Sep 2013 01:00 AM PDT Tupperware is the waiting room for the trash can. — Billy Wipe Lightly (@B_poling82) July 15, 2012

Baking Bread Posted: 13 Sep 2013 12:00 AM PDT Baking Bread Kawaii by DarkChoocoolat Cooking has never looked so cute! Baking Bread Kawaii by DarkChoocoolat is the perfect shirt for baking, uh, that special bread. Visit DarkChoocoolat's official website and Facebook page, then check out his NeatoShop's page for more shirts. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog! Storm Neon Candy Trooper Storm Candy Trooper Keep Calm Dharma Wolf Revenge is Coming View more designs by DarkChoocoolat | More Funny 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!

Sailor Scout Ponies Posted: 12 Sep 2013 11:00 PM PDT Now my cosplay theme for the next con is settled. Macklin Xu made custom ponies inspired by characters from Sailor Moon. You can see them all at the link. Hey, Sailor Moon fans: is Sailor Pluto still considered a Sailor Scout? I don't know of Pluto's demotion impacted her standing. Link -via Equestria Daily

The Real Mermaids of San Marcos, Texas Posted: 12 Sep 2013 10:00 PM PDT Spring Lake, fed by the springs of the San Marcos River in central Texas, once had an “Aquarena,” or submersible theater. Aquarena Springs resort operated for fifty years, beginning in 1949. It's main attraction: mermaids! Hunter Oatman-Stanford remembers the heyday of Aquarena Springs, and interviewed two of the "aquamaids" who performed there, Peggy Sparks in the 1950s, and Sue Cregg, Oatman-Stanford's great-aunt, in the 1960s.    “Before we sat down on the picnic perches, we fed the fish frozen dog food,” says Cregg. “When we weren’t in a show, part of our job was to make balls of frozen dog food. Our meal for the picnic was celery with the strings stripped out of it so we wouldn’t choke, sprinkled with this gravel-type stuff. We’d sprinkle that from a shaker like it was salt. We also bottled our own Kool-Aid in Coke bottles. In order to drink underwater, you have to blow into the bottle to force the liquid into your mouth. And we had napkins to put in our laps; it was very elegant.” During Cregg’s time, the aquamaids also had to decorate their own swimsuits, sewing on rhinestones and sequins to resemble glittering scales. “We would do a suspension demonstration showing how we controlled where we were in the water by the amount of air we took in and let out. It was hard to get three aquamaids to be at the same place at the same time, but we did our best. Then the three clowns would come out and swim their part of the show, and go down to the stationary air hoses on the bottom of the river.” Read all about the aquamaids of Aquarena Springs at Collectors Weekly. Link

Billy-Bob Original Teeth Posted: 12 Sep 2013 09:00 PM PDT Billy-Bob Original Teeth  Are you tired of friends judging you by your good hygiene and pearly whites? Add a little yellow to your grin with the Billy-Bob Original Teeth from the NeatoShop. These prop-quality false-teeth will have you blending in with your hillbilly friends in no time.    Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Gag Gifts & Pranks.  Link

The Pope's New Car is a 29-Year Old Beater Posted: 12 Sep 2013 09:00 PM PDT (Photo: L'Osservatore Romano/AP) Pope Francis has a new car. Or, rather, a new-to-him car. Renzo Zocca, an Italian parish priest, offered his 1984 Renault with 186,000 miles, to the Pope: In response, the priest received a papal call on his cell phone at the beginning of August and they spent a half hour talking about the priest's work. Zocca said the pope had initially been unsure about the gift suggesting that it would be best if he gave it to the poor, but the priest had insisted that his much-loved car had already given much to the poor over the years and he wanted it to go to the pope as a "testimony" of the work he had done in it. Once Francis had been reassured the priest had another car, the pope flicked through his diary for the perfect day for the car hand-over. [...] Pope Francis has impressed many since his election earlier this year with his humble and direct style. On election he quickly stressed his desire for "a poor church for the poor" and refused many of the trappings that went with being pope, preferring a simpler, less-ostentatious style. He continues to live in the Vatican Santa Marta guest house rather than in the papal apartments and has abandoned the use of limos and motorcades to be closer to the people. Pope Francis plans to drive the car himself. Link -via Joe Carter

Blurred Sanford Posted: 12 Sep 2013 08:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) DJ Davyjones said he couldn't help but here the Sanford and Son theme music every time the Robin Thicke song "Burred Lines" played. They just go together like peas and carrots. -via Laughing Squid

Steampunk Phaser and Tricorder Posted: 12 Sep 2013 07:00 PM PDT While the Enterprise's steam drive is offline, Commander Riker and Lieutenant Worf must take the trans-porter down to the planet to find dilithium coal. They prudently equip themselves with Flo Svensson's steampunk Starfleet away team gear before departing. Link

Blobfish Crowned World's Ugliest Animal Posted: 12 Sep 2013 06:00 PM PDT The votes are in. With a face only a mother could love (and only then if you were a blobfish mother), the blobfish has been elected by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society (previously at Neatorama) as the world's ugliest animal. As such, the fish will now represent the society as its mascot. "This is one of the funniest fish faces in the ocean, although you're not likely to see a blobfish since they live in very deep water off Australia. In fact, it's pretty rare for anyone to see blobfish, although they're sometimes taken in nets hauled in by Australia's deepwater fishing fleet. They really do look like a big, blobby tadpole, just a mass of pale, jelly-like flesh with puffy, loose skin, a big nose, and beady, staring eyes. But looking like a floppy water balloon is what actually helps the blobfish make a living. This guy just sort of floats above the sea floor so it doesn't have to spend a lot of energy swimming around, sort of like when you float in the water wearing a life jacket. The blobfish beat out the axolotl, the proboscis monkey, the dung beetle, and several other hideous creatures. Link -via Metafilter (Image credit: NOAA)

CERN Lecture Belt Posted: 12 Sep 2013 05:00 PM PDT This is why I love Neatorama: In our earlier post about Everyday Carry items, Neatoramanaut Daniel Kim told us about this beauty, the CERN Lecture Belt. The folks behind CERN Love blog told us all about it: CERN Adventure Outfitters have created a new advanced utility belt specifically designed for the punishing environments of today’s physics lecture circuit. Lecture Belt (TM) combines style with function. Never again be caught in the middle of a public lecture without your laser pointer, cell phone, Leatherman (TM) utility knife, camera, canteen, first aid kit and massive skeleton keys. The “keynote speaker” model comes with a carabiner for those hard-to-attach jangle-tastic belongings that happen to have a loop attached. Hah! Thanks Daniel

Disney Villains Sugar Skulls Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT This art print from Esty seller NutCracks features villains from Disney movies illustrated as Day of the Dead sugar skulls! You see here Maleficent, Ursula, Cruela, the Queen of Hearts, and Snow White's stepmother the Evil Queen. Each character is also available in separate prints. Link -via Daily of the Day

Bloody Syringe Shirley Temples Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT Shirley Temples are delicious and look pretty, but if you serve them before they've been mixed, they can make a fantastic Halloween drink. Just fill syringes with grenadine and serve them up in a glass of 7-Up. Link

The 2013 Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT Tonight, the 23rd First Annual Ig Nobel prize Ceremony is being held at historic Sanders Theater on the campus of Harvard University, from our friends at Improbable Research. Ten laureates will be honored for research and achievements that first make people LAUGH, and then make them THINK! Genuine Nobel laureates will physically hand the prizes to the winners. Attending the ceremony will be Dudley Herschbach (chemistry, 1986), Eric Maskin (economics, 2007), Frank Wilzcek (physics, 2004), Sheldon Glashow (physics, 1979) and Roy Glauber (physics, 2005). One of them will also be the prize in the Win-a-Date-with-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest. THEME: The theme of this year's ceremony (though not necessarily of the individual prizes) is: FORCE. The ceremony will also include: • The premiere of "The Blonsky Device", a mini-opera inspired by the life and work (US patent #3216423, "Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force") of 1999 Ig Nobel Prize winners George and Charlotte Blonsky. The opera stars Maria Ferrante (as Charlotte), Martin Kelly (as George), Philip Lima (as The Zookeeper) and Miles Rind (as The Patent Examiner), under the direction of maestro Henry Akona. They will be accompanied by, "The Forces of Nature", a new orchestra composed of Harvard and MIT doctors and researchers. In a first for Neatorama, we are proud to present the ceremony to you in live streaming video. Continue reading to see the live webcast. Update: The live webcast went great, and has been replaced by a video recording of the September 12, 2013 event. PLUS, "as a courtesy to the NSA," Improbable Research had a second feed that showed what is going on backstage at the event. (YouTube link)

Amazing Space Facts You May Not Know Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) Jeff Wysaski decided to join in the long line of "amazing facts" videos you see so many of lately. However, his facts are augmented by the kind of thing he normally does. -via Pleated-Jeans

Turn a Negative into a Positive Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT I agree with artist Dami Lee: every hurt is an opportunity to go kitten all over someone. Always look on the bright side of life. Link

Sally Prestige Infant Costume Posted: 12 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT Sally Prestige Infant Costume 'Twas twenty years ago that the world was introduced to Sally from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington's confidant and love interest may be a frail patchwork doll on the outside, but on the inside she is full courage, kindness, and wisdom.  Now you can dress your little doll to look like your favorite The Nightmare Before Christmas character with the Sally Prestige Infant Costume from the NeatoShop. This sweet costume includes a dress and hairpiece.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Halloween items.  Link

Bartman Posted: 12 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT Bartman by Dann Matthews It's simple, we kill the Bartman preferably while wearing this geeky chic T-shirt by Dann Matthews. Visit Dann at his official website and Facebook page, then check out his NeatoShop page for more neat shirt designs. Salt of the Dead Grumpy Neko Ermahgerd of Thernder Kid's Show Kaiju View more designs by Dann Matthews | More Funny 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!

Embarrassed in the E.R. Posted: 12 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT What's worse than a trip to the emergency room? A trip to the E.R. for something really humiliating. These are real-life E.R. reports. "Forehead pain: Patient shot self in nose with BB gun." "Head injury: Rolled off couch and hit telephone." "40-year-old female using toothbrush to make herself gag, accidentally swallowed toothbrush." "Abdominal pain. Diagnosis: tight pants and belt." "Patient stuffed ear with toilet paper so roach wouldn't crawl in, now unable to remove." "Patient missed punching bag, hit metal safe." Concussion, severe headache: Patient being pulled on a sled behind golf cart, struck a bump, launched in air." "Pulled groin while riding a mechanical bull." "Bruised shoulder: Husband was throwing cell phone at cat, missed cat." "Patient, 23, used a sword to cut a piece of paper. Laceration left arm." "Accidentally swallowed guitar pick." "Patient, 31, was playing sex games with wife, had belt around neck, jumped over something and got hung up. Also fell down stairs." "Ankle injury from falling off stage doing karaoke." "Fell off monkey bars at police academy." "Patient playing with pillow case, buddy put a rock in it." "Insect bites on lips while riding a go-kart." "Generalized body rash after being in pool and hot tub at hotel." "Pain, swelling, blister on palm: Patient, 15, was playing video games, woke next day with swollen hand. Pain and swelling getting worse." "Patient has wrist pain after sex and bowling." (Image credit: Flickr user zoomar) This list was reprinted with permission from the Bathroom Institute's book Uncle John's Heavy Duty Bathroom Reader. Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute has published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. If you like Neatorama, you'll love the Bathroom Reader Institute's books - go ahead and check 'em out!

Reese's Chocolate-Dipped Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches Posted: 12 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT Like Sharknado, "Enough said!" We need creations like this in our lives. Trish dipped Eggo Minis in chocolate, then added them to ice cream sandwiches made of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Link -via Love from the Oven

One World Trade Center Time-Lapse Posted: 12 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT (YouTube link) Psst! Wanna watch the new World Trade Center being built in two minutes? One World Trade Center, or the Freedom Tower, stands at a symbolic 1,776 feet and is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Over the course of nine years it went from groundwork construction from the final touches, and Earthcam captured it all. The webcam company recorded the nine-year construction progress of One World Trade Center using hundreds of thousands of high-definition images. From October 2004 to September 2013, the company caught nearly every major moment including the installation of the spire back in May. -via The Daily Dot

Disney Princesses In Their Prince's Costumes Posted: 12 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT DeviantArt user godohelp has a great series of Disney princesses dressed in the outfits of their dream men. They may not be as pretty, but they certainly look a little tougher. Link

The World's Best Lasagna Posted: 12 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT How can you possibly say that any recipe is "the world's best"? There is no body of experts that control such titles, but a lasagna recipe submitted to AllRecipes in 2001 by John Chandler has some impressive statistics to back the claim. Chandler is, by day, a 43-year-old salesman and father of two, a self-proclaimed “Southern boy” who lives outside Dallas and grew up on college football and barbecue. Online, Chandler’s fans know him differently: He is the creator of the World’s Best Lasagna, an artery-clogging tower of sweet Italian sausage, ground beef and ricotta cheese that has reigned as the most popular recipe on AllRecipes.com for more than a decade. It has earned 10,423 ratings and been “pinned” to Pinterest more than 25,000 times. AllRecipes estimates that 12 million people viewed it in the past five years alone. Given the wild popularity of AllRecipes.com — it averages 20 million visits each month, according to analytics firm SimilarWeb — it’s entirely possible that Chandler’s lasagna is the most popular recipe on the English-speaking Internet. I checked out the recipe, and found that it's not all that different from the lasagna recipe in my circa 1974 Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, except I don't use any eggs. But when you want to make something delicious, you can't go wrong looking for a basic recipe for lasagna from the most popular recipe database on the internet. Link -via Digg (Image credit: Heather)

Just a Turtle Wearing a Raspberry, No Big Deal Posted: 12 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT This could be the worst evolutionary strategy ever -replacing a hard shell with a delicious, soft fruit. Of course, it's possible that this is secretly a brilliant strategy -make yourself too adorable to resist. Link

Escape from Tomorrow Trailer Posted: 12 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT (video link) Randy Moore's acclaimed but controversial surrealist fantasy/horror film Escape from Tomorrow has a trailer. Wikipedia has the story behind the movie: The film became one of the most talked-about films at Sundance, and then received some attention in the national media, because Moore had made most of it on location at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland without permission from The Walt Disney Company, which owns and operates both parks. Since Disney has a reputation for being fiercely protective of its intellectual property, the cast and crew used guerrilla filmmaking techniques to avoid attracting attention, such as keeping their scripts on their iPhones and shooting on handheld video cameras similar to those used by park visitors.[1] After principal photography was complete, Moore was so determined to keep the project a secret from Disney that he edited it in South Korea. Sundance similarly declined to discuss the film in detail before it was shown. It was called "the ultimate guerrilla film".[2] Escape from Tomorrow is scheduled to be released both theatrically and through pay-per-view October 11th. -via Boing Boing

The Tortoise and the Hare Posted: 12 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT Well, of course the hare took a dive. The odds were in his favor, so the insiders put all of their money on the tortoise, then made sure that the tortoise would win. Oh, and the tortoise? Yeah, he was in on it, too. Link

What Is It? game 292 Posted: 12 Sep 2013 06:30 AM PDT W00t! It's time for another collaboration with the ever-excellent What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what this odd item is? This week, we are looking for funny and clever answers, not the correct one, but if you guess correctly, you'll win our undying respect. If you have one of the two funniest answers, you'll win a T-Shirt from the NeatoShop! Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like. Please do not post any web link or URL - doing so will void your entry. You have until the answer is revealed on the What Is It? Blog tomorrow. IMPORTANT: Please write your prize selection alongside your guess, so visit the NeatoShop and take a look around. If you don't write your prize selection, then you don't get the prize. I think you'll like the selection of funny t-shirts and science t-shirts -or even t-shirts of your favorite blogs and websites.

Mummy and Black Cat Salt & Pepper Shakers Posted: 12 Sep 2013 06:00 AM PDT Mummy and Black Cat Salt & Pepper Shakers Halloween is right around the corner. Dress up your kitchen decor with the Mummy and Black Cat Salt & Pepper Shakers from the NeatoShop. This frightfully fun set features a mummy shaker and a black cat shaker. Both wait happily under a lamp post waiting to be called into action. The Mummy and Black Cat Salt & Pepper Shakers are a spooktacular way to spice up your table.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Salt & Pepper Shakers.  Link

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