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• Awesome Owl Tray
• The A Cappella Little Drummer Boy
• Happy Dogukkah Everyone
• A Nutella Bar Exists
• 6 Holiday Traditions We Should Stop Pretending to Enjoy
• Warning! Betrayal
• Magnificent Movember Mustache
• Lord of the Cake Pops
• Panda-monium Invades Thanksgiving!
• Black Friday Weekend Special: Get 600+ T-Shirts Designed by Your Favorite Artists at Super Low Prices!
• Ph.D. Comics Asks: What Is Aging?
• Jingle Bells Ring
• The Poor Batman of Rio City
• Finally You Can Go Eat Yourself
• This Week at Neatorama

Awesome Owl Tray Posted: 01 Dec 2013 04:00 AM PST Awesome Owl Tray  Do you know someone Whoo could use a little help finding their keys? Give them a wise place to store them with the Awesome Owl Tray from the NeatoShop. This adorable glazed ceramic tray is shaped like a cute little owl. It is perfect for holding keys, coins, and other little priceless possessions. The Awesome Owl Tray makes an awesome gift for an awesome friend.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Home & Garden items.  Link

The A Cappella Little Drummer Boy Posted: 01 Dec 2013 04:00 AM PST (YouTube link) Pentatonix sings "The Little Drummer Boy" from their new Christmas albumPTXmas, which contains eight a cappella versions of classic Christmas carols. -via Viral Viral Videos More from Pentatonix on Neatorama: The Evolution of Music The Wizard of Ahhhs Watch This Clown Sings Lorde's Royals

Happy Dogukkah Everyone Posted: 01 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST Now that Thanksgivukkah is over, it's time to enjoy Hanukkah on its own. While not everyone celebrate the holiday due to their religious beliefs, pretty much everyone can appreciate these adorable pooches in complete celebratory spirits. By the way, if you want to help your pooch celebrate the holiday, we offer great Hanukkah dog toys in the NeatoShop. We also offer quite a few great Hanukkah goodies for humans as well.  Via Cute Overload

A Nutella Bar Exists Posted: 01 Dec 2013 12:00 AM PST (Photo: Marc Much/Eater Chicago) This is real. You’re not dreaming. There is such a thing as a Nutella Bar. Yes: an eatery devoted to Nutella. It’s in Chicago at a place called Eataly Chicago. That’s a newly opened 63,000-square foot food theme park. You can get all sorts of food there, especially Italian food. There are eight restaurants, a butcher shop and a grocery store. The prize jewel is a stand-up bar where you can purchase pastries with Nutella on them. The business will open to the public on December 10. Who’s up for a road trip to Chicago? -via That’s Nerdalicious

6 Holiday Traditions We Should Stop Pretending to Enjoy Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:00 PM PST Cracked runs down some holiday traditions that aren't worth the effort that some folks put into them. I went there hoping to find something I can actually shed from my busy holiday schedule, but I found that I don't pretend to like any of them. In fact, the only one I actually participate in is the Thanksgiving leftovers -and I honestly LOVE having a refrigerator full of prepared foods that at least someone in the family likes and will eat. That means I won't be cooking again for quite some time. And the secret to making a good turkey sandwich is the generous use use of Miracle Whip. Anyway, the other traditions are kind of annoying, like the office Secret Santa gift exchange. It's an innocent enough idea, but if you deny the fact that it also turns any office into a melting pot of paranoia, resentment, and frustration, you probably invented the concept and aren't willing to acknowledge the hell you've unleashed upon the rest of the world. The problem is, your workplace is filled with a wide range of personalities, a lot of them of the awful variety. Inevitably, those personalities start to shine through in the gifts people give. That's just one -the rest of the not-so-fun-traditions are just as odd.  -via Daily of the Day

Warning! Betrayal Posted: 30 Nov 2013 08:00 PM PST Warning! Betrayal by Winter Artwork Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, and curse yourself if you miss out on this neat T-shirt from Winter Artwork Illustrations. For a limited time: Save 20% on Winter Artwork T-shirts and other select artists from the NeatoShop in our giant Black Friday Sale. Over 600 of the best T-shirts are now on sale! Check out Winter Artwork at his official Facebook page, Twitter, Tumblr, Behance and deviantART, then visit his NeatoShop page for more super neat designs. Legend of Zombies Fighting Imps Cookies! 11th of Hearts View more designs by Winter Artwork | 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 and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

Magnificent Movember Mustache Posted: 30 Nov 2013 06:00 PM PST As Movember draws to a close, the heroes of the movement take center stage. One of them, Jonathon Burnside, joins in the fun every Movember to grow a mustache and raise money for men's health programs. In his fourth year with the event, he grew an epic mustache that joined his chest hair to create the illusion of a cat! He said, ‘I just did a handlebar moustache and then cut half of it off,’ he explained. ‘I made a template to get the basic shape. Then I shaved negative space lines for the details, which did not show up on camera. ‘Then my wife did an outline in eye liner, which also did not show up on camera. Then I just went ahead and outlined it in Sharpie.’ With a name like Burnside, it's no wonder he's an expert with his facial hair. -via I Have Seen the Whole of the Internet

Lord of the Cake Pops Posted: 30 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST I'll be honest, I was a little hesitant to write about these Lord of the Rings cake pops at first because I'm a little over the whole cake pop thing. That is, until I saw that the bakers, Let Them Eat Cake Pops, made this amazing Bormir meme of their own pop. It is hard not to laugh at something this delightfully silly, even if you want to eat it at the same time. All of these fantastic cake pops do look super realistic though, as do their wonderful Walking Dead pops that feature not only the living characters but also a few walkers. Via Geeks Are Sexy

Panda-monium Invades Thanksgiving! Posted: 30 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST Neatoramanaut Chela Tu was inspired by the post A Pack of Pandas Invade Curry. So she and Carter Hubbard : Visual Linguist made some pandas of their own -just in time for Thanksgiving! At family gatherings I am the undisputed head chef and I typically steer away from what is considered traditional for the occasion and let my culinary imagination run wild. I'm not always successful but my mom, brother, and sister are always happy to help/eat. And then grandma moved in. I love grandma and as the matriarch grandma gets what grandma wants. Even if it means a traditional Thanksgiving meal. To satisfy my need to be different and in charge I made pink mashed potatoes and invited a pack of pandas to join the party. Here is our Panda Thanksgiving in pictures. Photographs by Jan Tu. See even more pictures in the Panda Thanksgiving Flickr set. Now I want pandas at my next family feast.

Black Friday Weekend Special: Get 600+ T-Shirts Designed by Your Favorite Artists at Super Low Prices! Posted: 30 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST Black Friday Weekend Special: 600+ T-shirts designed by your favorite artists are on sale over at the NeatoShop! Save 20% to 29% on this limited-time offer. Pick up the neatest T-shirts on the Web for your loved one and yourself - they make great Christmas presents! USA orders $75 and above gets free shipping. International orders get 20% shipping discount. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog, so buy something, mmkay? Some suggestions: Super 80's Good vs Evil by Punksthetic Moon the Sailor by JCMaziu Darthmen by Chema Bola8 The Clown King of Crime by The Epic Effect         Simply No Walk-Ins by In Stank We Trust The Legend of Minlink by Donnie Just Singing in the Rain by ddjvigo Welcome to Woodbury by Amanda Flagg         Better Stronger Faster ... Smaller by Firepower Tees Burn Unit by Wirdou Mushroom League by Fuacka For The Sake Of An Angel by ZombieDollars         Weenie by Dooomcat Adventures in Gaming by Matt Parsons Yellow Time Machine by BazNet Turtle Tower by Harantula         Asgardian Absinthe by Winter Artwork Burp by DarkChoocoolat Maneki Nekobasu by Dann Matthews You Are What You Eat by Mike Jacobsen The Village by Warbucks Design View: Black Friday Weekend Special | All Sale & Clearance items over at the NeatoShop

Ph.D. Comics Asks: What Is Aging? Posted: 30 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST (Video Link) You don’t have to get older. There’s a traditional alternative, but it’s unpleasant. Aging may appear to be inevitable, but Dr. João Pedro de Magalhães, a biologist at the University of Liverpool, disputes that. He’s devoted his scholarly life to studying the process of aging. The artists behind Ph.D. Comics, a funny webcomic about the graduate school lifestyle, produced this video. They illustrate a talk by Dr. Magalhães on the subject of aging. What is the process of aging at the cellular level? We don’t know for sure, but Dr. Magalhães explains three major hypotheses. He also describes what we may be able to learn from age-resistant animals, such as the naked mole rat.

Jingle Bells Ring Posted: 30 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST Jingle Bells Ring Shh... Is that Santa's sleigh? No, it's just your fingers typing away.  The Jingle Bell ring is an adjustable ring that features colorful jingle bells. Yes, the bells actually do jingle. Accessories really are a wonderful and simple way to make your outfit sing.       Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Jewelry and fantastic Stocking Stuffer ideas.  Link

The Poor Batman of Rio City Posted: 30 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST The Argentine photography collective M.A.F.I.A. (Movimiento Argentino de Fotógrafxs Independientes Autoconvocadxs) posted a gallery of Batman in his down-and-out period. Bruce Wayne Do Santos. Ex-millonario. Ex-propietario de latifúndios subterráneos. Ex-superamigo. Removido, desalojado, desterrado, vagando por Rio City. Una cruda mezcla de performance, comics y arte callejero. Bruce Wayne Do Santos. Ex-millionaire. Ex-owner of underground estates. Ex-superfriend. Dismissed, homeless, landless. Wandering the city of Rio. A raw mixture of performance, comics, and street art. (Translation by zompist.) There are many more pictures in the gallery at Facebook. -via Metafilter All photographs CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 - M.A.f.I.A.

Finally You Can Go Eat Yourself Posted: 30 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST Have you ever wished you could eat a picture of your wife, kids, pets, family or even yourself? Well, now you can thanks to Boomf, the company that allows you to print any picture of your choice on marshmallows. Just upload your Instagram pics to the site and bam -you can put any picture inside your delicious hot chocolate. Right now you can only get things shipped to the UK, but you can sign up to have the company email you when they start shipping to other companies. Via That's Nerdalicious

This Week at Neatorama Posted: 30 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST Happy Hanukkah! Man, we got holidays all over the place, don't we? Thanksgiving weekend traditionally opens the Christmas season -many put that point at the appearance of Santa Claus at the end of the Macy's parade. And many shoppers declared it as they fought their way through the Black Friday sales. Not me -after dinner, I crashed for a full eight hours. That's the longest I've slept in one night in years! Besides, the Black Friday craziness is something I don't want to participate in or contribute to. Shopping online is so much easier. We kicked off the Christmas shopping season with the 50 Funniest and Geekiest T-Shirts Money Can Buy. And they're all specially priced this weekend at the NeatoShop! This week, we had two book excerpts from picture books. First was Adam Koford's Down with the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats. And then we had Matt Hoyle's Comic Genius: Portraits of Funny People. John Farrier brought us an Exclusive Interview: Beth Evans, Cartoonist. Jill Harness showed us what it's like during Christmas Time At Disneyland & California Adventure. Eddie Deezen gave us Famous Names and Nicknames. Over at the Spotlight blog, we had Candy and Gingerbread Galleries by Henry Hargreaves and Caitlin Levin. The Annals of Improbable Research gave us Beauty Value Research Review. Man Meets Cartoon was from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. Mental_floss magazine told us How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football. Our Great Pics of the Week was the Thanksgiving Edition. We also had another set of images for the occasion in Thanksgiving Silliness. There's a neat new feature at Neatorama's Pinterest boards. We have lots of pin boards, so you can find what you like. One is called "Places and Spaces," about stories from all over the world. Now it has a map that plots where those stories come from! Click on one of the map locations, and the board will pull up the story that came from that place. Neat! The Conceptis puzzle this week was Maze-a-Pix. The weekly riddle from Pzzlr was called Pebbles. In our Whodunits by Hy Conrad, we have a new sleuth named Jonah Bixby. His first adventure here at Neatorama was After-School Homicide. In the What Is It? game this week, the tool shown is an ice pick with a retainer for removing cubes that had been formed on a block of ice by a Coolerator ice cube cutter, patent number 2,070,773. The Coolerator ice cube cutter was another of the mystery items explained at the What Is It? blog. Of course, we wanted your wrong but funny answers -and we got them! One winner is Peawatt, who explained, "This appears to be a gentleman's lice removal tool. Properly positioned by placing his organ in the lower chamber with handle pointing away from body, hot coal was placed on the upper pan. A slight tilting of the handle up and toward the body sent the hot coal off the pan, over the spikes, setting the pubic hair aflame. When the lice ran into the clearing, they were quickly dispatched by repeated stabbing from the three prongs." Cool! The other winner is Tapisbis, who said it is the "Ultimate s'mores tool, you place the first graham cracker & a liberal serve of chocolate in the lower tray; roast not one, not two, but three marshmallows on the prongs; whilst the marshmallows cook the chocolate melts; finally slide the final cracker off the top tray and enjoy perfection." Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop! We had a poll in the post Are You Turning Your Nose Up At Me? Well, At Least It's Cute. Your votes show that kitties have the cutest noses in the animal kingdom, with bunny rabbits in second place. The comment of the week was when BadSpeller used every fake British term in the post The Differences Between British and American English. We honestly did not have any posts with a particularly large number of comments this week. Maybe because it's a holiday, and we didn't feel like gatting everyone riled up. It's certainly not because y'all don't have an opinion -over at the Neatoramanauts Facebook page, there's always a rousing discussion on the "question of the day," like when a person can be justified in complaining about the weather. This week's most popular post was 2D or Not 2D. That was followed by For All Those People Who Think Helen Mirren Is A Beautiful Older Woman, and The Real Life Walter White. There was a four-way tie for the most ♥ed post this week between Meet Vinicio Riva, the Disfigured Man Embraced by Pope Francis, The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath, Royals A Cappella, and The Boxcar Library: A Bookmobile for a Logging Camp. The social media posts of the week were Spike Vest Protects Your Personal Space on Commuter Trains, 2D or Not 2D, and Giant Cat Couch, which where all shared a lot on Facebook. Here's a way to knock off a lot of the names on your Christmas gift list without dealing with the shopping, and you'll save money at the same time: Select a t-shirt from one of the internet's top independent artists, which are on sale right now at the NeatoShop! Those are gifts you won't see anywhere else, and you'll find one that's a perfect fit for someone you love.  Looking ahead, we've got December starting tomorrow, and next week we will gear back up and bring you more of the neatest stuff on the web and elsewhere, right here at Neatorama!

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