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- 15 Great Gifts of History
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- The Pneumatic Burger Delivery System
- The Santas Are Closing In
- Ugly Sweaters Aren't Just For Christmas Anymore
- 2013, Illustrated
- Man Fills out Job Application at a Store, Shoplifts on His Way out, Gets Arrested When He Comes in for an Interview
- 10 Incredible Real-Life Mad Scientists
- The 50 Most Popular Toys From The Last 50 Years
- Poodle Knit Baby Hat and Socks
- Santa Hugging a Shark
- Animating the AT-ATs
- In Other News: Dogs Still Love Peanut Butter
- The Living Shoes Of The Future
- Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team Takes on NFL Alumni
- In 1814, This Massive Warship Cruised Lake Ontario
- The Saber Cats of Los Angeles
| Final Christmas Sale on the NeatoShop: Save 20% Off Hundreds of Neat Stuff! Posted: 16 Dec 2013 04:13 AM PST Christmas is almost here, but there's still enough time to get the neatest stuff from the NeatoShop for Christmas delivery. Hurry - quantities are very limited: once they're gone, they're gone!
USA orders $75 and above gets free shipping. International orders get 20% off shipping. Last day to order for USA by standard shipping is Dec 18, 1 PM PST (T-shirt orders by Dec 17, please). Express and Next Day service are available - please check the NeatoShop for more details. View All Sale & Clearance  |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2013 04:00 AM PST Scott Sherwood has amassed a huge collection of images from around the world executed by different photographers over 50 years. Here’s a clever craft that he made from selections of his 35mm film archive. Mr. Sherwood carefully arranged the 1,152 slides by dominant color. They flow from pink to red to orange to yellow to green to blue to purple. He placed them inside slide mounts, which are connected to each other with 7,000 metal rings and held on to a curtain rod with 36 large rings. The 5’7” by 6’ curtain took 4 months of work to complete. -via Recyclart |
| 16 Cool Christmas Tree Alternatives Posted: 16 Dec 2013 03:00 AM PST Looking for a good excuse to drink a hundred or more bottles of wine without looking like a wino? Then tell everyone you're trying to collect them to make a Christmas tree. If you don't have space for that you can always make a tree out of the corks instead. In fact, you might be surprised just how many things you can make into a Christmas tree. InventorSpot has a great list of 16 such alternative trees like the cool ladder above. |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST Frisbee master Brodie Smith shows us a compilation of his trick shot Vines. He's amazing with a Frisbee, but you'd expect that. He's also pretty good with a basketball, football, and skateboard, too! Maybe it's the secret stuff he drinks. -via Daily Picks and Flicks |
| Posted: 16 Dec 2013 01:00 AM PST Dolly Faibyshev is a Russian-American photographer who lives in New York City. Her work focuses on "the meaning of the American dream in all of its forms." She's especially interested in mid-Twentieth Century modern design. In her mind, that is best represented by Palm Springs, California, the site of the above mailbox. In an interview, Ms. Faibyshev explained why:
You can see more photos in her Palm Springs series here. -via Lustik |
| Batman In Classic Movies - The Christmas Special Posted: 16 Dec 2013 12:00 AM PST Batman may seem like a super serious guy, but he just acts that way in order to strike fear into the hearts of Gotham’s evil-doers and ne’er-do-wells. In reality Batman is a real blast- he invented the Batusi, loves to surf, and he really knows how to celebrate the holidays. Check out his guest starring roles in classic Christmas movies like A Christmas Story, The Santa Clause and It's A Wonderful Life, and watch him totally screw up Christmas scenes from such films as I Am Sam and Love Actually. It's surprising that anyone takes him seriously at all after seeing him screw up the lines in such iconic Hollywood movies! (NSFW due to language) |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 11:00 PM PST
Are you going to eat this meal or is it going to eat you? Don't take any chances and dig in right away. Stab it in the brain with a chopstick. You can find English-language instructions on how to make your own here. You'll need green drink powder to get the facial coloration just right. The eyes are two halves of a quail egg. A diced quail egg white also provides teeth. The nostrils are sliced seaweed and the infected tongue is a slice of ham. -via Foodiggity |
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| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 10:00 PM PST Shorty and Kodi http://www.neatorama.com/tag/Shorty-and-Kodi/ really enjoy giving a banana -and each -other- a hard time. Good thing the banana is made of fabric ( and possibly catnip), because if it were a real banana, it wold be a mess in no time! I know, because my cat, the one of the four I am closest to, looks exactly like Shorty. -via Tastefully Offensive |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 09:00 PM PST Not sure if your friend is talking about you behind your back? Well then perhaps he or she could use a great Seal of the United States with a bug in it, like, say the one the Soviet Union gave U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman as a gift of friendship back in 1945:
There are plenty of other great gift ideas from history on this great Mental Floss article. |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 08:00 PM PST Go, video, go! You can do it! Keep loading ahead of the playback. Failure means that I won't get to watch this My Little Pony episode without being interrupted. Push it! There's drama in everyday life, as illustrated by Essenti of the webcomic CUTBU. And, yes, yelling at your computer helps. -via Pleated Jeans |
| The Pneumatic Burger Delivery System Posted: 15 Dec 2013 07:00 PM PST You may think you're receiving your food in a timely manner when dining at fast food restaurants, but now that this pneumatic tube burger delivery system has been introduced by C One Espresso cafe in New Zealand it seems they may be taking way too long to get that tray of fried goodness delivered to your table. C One shoots tubes full of burgers and fries straight to the customer in a system they feel is both more efficient and more hygienic, since the food is handled less than when placed on trays by employees outside the kitchen. I can't help but think about how the old bank drive thrus can now be used to deliver burgers straight to my car. Via Gizmodo |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 06:00 PM PST It's a hard time of year for people with claustrophobia, as Dan Piraro of Bizarro Comics illustrates. There are Clauses everywhere and rooms tend to get smaller and air in shorter supply wherever they go. |
| Ugly Sweaters Aren't Just For Christmas Anymore Posted: 15 Dec 2013 05:00 PM PST Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made you out of wool, I put you on a sweater and now I look the fool. It seems ugly sweaters aren’t just for Christmas anymore, so now we have two chances a year to embarrass ourselves by wearing sweaters so hideous even Liberace wouldn’t have been caught dead in them. Ugly Hanukkah sweater parties are sure to be a blast, where the manischewitz never stops flowing, the latkas are fried up just right, and the eight menorah candles are lit so everyone can take turns burning their ugly sweaters, freeing themselves of its curse before the new year. Via Poorly Dressed |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 04:00 PM PST Mario Zucca created a collage of news stories and pop culture events of 2013 commissioned by Beutler Ink. He posted a map to explain the references, along with process shots and details, but before you consult it, try to decipher them all yourself to see how well you recall what happened this past year. -via reddit |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 03:00 PM PST
Last month, a man walked into a Sports Page sporting goods store in Marshalltown, Iowa. He asked for a job application, filled it out and turned it in. Then, according to police, he felt entitled to a five-fingered pay raise: he shoplifted $153 of clothes and left the store. Managers reviewed security camera footage and recognized the suspect. So they called him in for a job interview. The police were waiting and arrested him for the theft. The moral of the story: don't go to job interviews. -via Weird Universe |
| 10 Incredible Real-Life Mad Scientists Posted: 15 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST
Believe it or not, that's not the craziest of the bunch. Read more horror stories in the list 10 Incredible Real-Life Mad Scientists. -via Environmental Graffiti |
| The 50 Most Popular Toys From The Last 50 Years Posted: 15 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST Toys are as intrinsic to the holiday season as eggs are to the nog, and for the last fifty years toys have been a big deal in the consumer market, fueling a frenzy that results in over 30 billion toys being sold each year. This year's hottest items seem to be a tossup between next gen gaming consoles xbox one and the ps4, but in years past kids went crazy for Zhu Zhu Pets, Furbys, Rubik's Cubes, Robosapiens, and a creepy guy named Elmo that really wanted to be tickled. Here's an illustrated list of the "most popular holiday toys from the past 50 years" by Abby Ryan, may you have a very nostalgiac and happy holidays! Via 22 Words |
| Poodle Knit Baby Hat and Socks Posted: 15 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST Being a baby can be ruff. Doggone it! There are just so many cute things to wear. Give your favorite baby a sweet holiday treat with the Poodle Knit Baby Socks and The Poodle Knit Baby Hat from the NeatoShop. The poodle themed hat and socks feature knitted ears and button eyes. The Poodle Knit Baby Hat ans Poodle Knit Baby Socks are sold separately. Buy them both and make it a barktastic set. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Baby & Tot items. |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST
This shark clearly made Santa's nice list! On Wednesday, a member of the staff of the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo dressed as Santa Claus and embraced a zebra shark. -via Lustik |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST Award-winning special effects artist Dennis Muren tells us how Industrial Light & Magic made the Imperial Walkers in The Empire Strikes Back actually walk, while we see a time-lapse video of the work. They used stop-motion animation, which means a day of work like this would yield about five seconds of usable footage for the Battle of Hoth. You can see the finished scene here. -via Laughing Squid |
| In Other News: Dogs Still Love Peanut Butter Posted: 15 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST Yes, dogs still love peanut butter and they still look hilarious while eating it. For those who need proof of this, and for those who appreciate this simple fact, the Instagram series titled #peanutbutterseries is a must-see. As you might have guessed, the series pretty much just features pictures of dogs eating peanut butter. But when you have such a delightfully goofy photo series concept, do you really need more than that? There are hundreds of dogs in the series, so you'll certainly be entertained for a while if you go check it out. Via Laughing Squid |
| The Living Shoes Of The Future Posted: 15 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST Shoes are always getting scuffed up, worn and generally beaten to heck as we wear them during our daily routines, so multidisciplinary designer and researcher Shamees Aden decided to bioengineer self-repairing and terrain-adapting shoes of the future in his series called PROTOCELLS. He teamed up with Dr. Martin M. Hanczyc to create these shoes made out of living cells, and claims they could become a reality by 2050. They look like they’re made out of Play-Doh, or some kind of sea sponge. Let's hope these protocells don't develop a taste for human flesh, or we're all in big trouble. Via Animal NY |
| Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team Takes on NFL Alumni Posted: 15 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST The Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team, a group of athletes who lost limbs in Iran and Afgghanistan, played a scrimmage against a group of retired NFL players in November. Some played with prosthetics, some in wheelchairs, and some just as they are. Does it really matter who won the game? No, but you'll find out anyway. |
| In 1814, This Massive Warship Cruised Lake Ontario Posted: 15 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST This is painting of HMS St. Lawrence. With 112 guns, it was the largest warship ever seen on the Great Lakes and the largest Royal Navy vessel to ever sail entirely on fresh water. After Napoleon abdicated, the British government offered the famous Duke of Wellington the command of its forces in North America. For several reasons, Wellington declined. Among them, Wellington stated that what Britain needed in the war against the United States was not a huge army, but naval control over the lakes between the United States in Canada. These waters alone were the highways that could carry British armies into the United States.
Early in the War of 1812, Britain gained control over Lake Huron. The Americans eventually gained superiority on Lake Erie and Lake Champlain. But Lake Ontario was different and this huge warship is one reason why. Niagara Falls blocked Lake Ontario from Lake Erie and rapids at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River limited the size of vessels that could travel from the sea onto Lake Ontario. Thus it was necessary to build large vessels on-site.
The United States Navy on Lake Ontario had nothing that could possibly counter it. HMS St. Lawrence launched on September 10, 1814. The next day, the United States defeated the Royal Navy on Lake Champlain. Four days later, it stopped the British attack at Baltimore (which inspired The Star-Spangled Banner). The war was winding down as both sides were exhausted and willing to take peace talks seriously. Yeo took the St. Lawrence on its maiden voyage on October 16. He considered attacking the naval installation at Sackets Harbor, New York. But it was too late in the year for a sustained offensive, so Yeo shut down the St. Lawrence for the winter. In December, the diplomats signed a peace treaty, ending the war. The massive HMS St. Lawrence never saw combat. It was promptly decommissioned. In 1831, it was cut down and sunk as a wharf in Kingston harbor. (Portrait of Yeo by Henry Richard Cook) Bonus item: one of the American defenders of Sackets Harbor was a teenage soldier named Hiram Cronk. Cronk lived to the age of 105, dying in 1905. He was the last American veteran of the War of 1812. You can see a video of his funeral here. |
| Posted: 15 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST Pictured above is a recreation of Smilodon fatalis, the species of saber-toothed cat that is the mascot of the Page Museum in Los Angeles. At one time, several species of sabercat roamed North America, but they disappeared along with the other big extinct mammals whose bones are found in the La Brea tar pits. Not fossils -millions of actual bones that have been preserved for thousands of years in asphalt.
Research in the tar pits has shifted from finding the largest and weirdest animals 100 years ago to preserving all the evidence of prehistoric creatures, no matter how small, in order to build a more complete picture of the ancient environment that may give us more clues as to why Smilodon is no longer with us. Aeon magazine has an article about the sabercats and what we know about them, including how our knowledge of them has changed over the past few decades. -via Not Exactly Rocket Science |
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