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- Neatolinks: Propaganda, Snow and Adding Faces to Everything
- Gnomes Salt & Pepper Shakers
- Photo Series Depicts Guys Wearing Their Girlfriend's Clothes
- Before Street Lights, There Were Moonlight Towers
- Pick Them Back Up
- The 10 Weirdest Japanese Flavors of Toothpaste
- Reminder: Ewoks Eat People
- Enjoy Louis Armstrong's Recipe For Ham Hocks And Red Beans
- <i>Star Wars</i> Wedding Rings
- Coonrippy is Running for Governor
- The Coolest Animal Stories From Last Year
- Why New York State Legally Recognizes Haunted Houses
- Google Maps Glitches As Digital Art
- Lighting a Cigarette Russian Style
- Mountain Dew Flavored Cheetos
- Big Box from Amazon
- Cats in Space with Inspirational Quotes
- Winner Gold Medal Bottle Opener
- Who Would Play You in a Movie?
- Haunting Landscape Photo Series Inspired By The Brothers Grimm
- Whiskey Sriracha Caramel Corn
- Snow Shark
- New World Record for the Longest Scarf Knitted While Running a Marathon
- WCTU Drinking Fountains
- Animated Short- Exercises In Preparation For An Independent Life
- Whodunit: The Disabled Lookout
- The Universe Is in Us
- Symmetry: A Palindromic Film
- This Cool Forest Home Was Built for $11,000
- Amazing Video Of Hungary's Best Rope Skipping Team
| Neatolinks: Propaganda, Snow and Adding Faces to Everything Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST 25 Fantastic Photos From China's Ice and Snow Festival (Mental Floss) The Most Popular TV Show Set in Every State (Incredible Things) We Love These Propaganda Posters for Geeks (The Mary Sue) Everything is Made Better With A Face Added to It (Pizza and Pixels) Image: Despicable Monsters (Unreality Mag)  |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2014 03:00 AM PST Add a little garden magic to your kitchen table with the Gnomes Salt & Pepper Shakers from the NeatoShop. This enchanting set features two gnomes kissing. The set is made of glazed ceramic and held together by magnets. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Salt & Pepper Shakers. |
| Photo Series Depicts Guys Wearing Their Girlfriend's Clothes Posted: 07 Jan 2014 03:00 AM PST Photographer Jon Uriarte found male subjects willing to both wear their girlfriend’s clothes and have those images shared with millions on the web, which "addresses the recent change in roles in heterosexual relationships from the relations of our predecessors and how those changes have affected men in particular". There are some definite themes of gender identification, body image and transvestism going on in Jon’s series The Men Under The Influence, and the fact that the men look quite comfortable wearing women’s clothes is meant to be a statement about how important clothing is to our expression of gender identification. Or else you can just look at the whole series with a smile on your face, thinking these guys look ridiculous dressed in their girlfriend’s clothes, since many consider art to be purely subjective. Via Beautiful/Decay |
| Before Street Lights, There Were Moonlight Towers Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:00 AM PST
Before the United States became widely electrified, it was not practical to build individual street lights in many cities. That’s why some cities built “moonlight towers,” which were enormous carbon arc lamps rising hundreds of feet into the air and projecting light as far as 1,500 feet away.
They were called moonlight towers because their enormous lights served to replace the light of an obscured moon. They were useful, but ultimately not as practical as the street lights which replaced them. These provided more consistent illumination than moonlight towers, which could not illuminate any area blocked by a building. Changing the carbon rods could also be difficult.
Austin, Texas, though, still retains and lights 17 of the original 31 moonlight towers that it began erecting in 1895. |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:00 AM PST An article at the Daily Beast entitled Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win explains how doing something over and over, even though you make numerous mistakes, is better than sweating over every detail of fewer attempts. The secret is learning from your failures, which you can't do if you never fail. |
| The 10 Weirdest Japanese Flavors of Toothpaste Posted: 07 Jan 2014 12:00 AM PST Why yes, that is a tube of toothpaste with an eggplant on it. And no, that's not weird, it would only be weird if it weren't eggplant flavored. No, wait, still weird. But oddly, that's nowhere close to the weirdest flavor of toothpaste available in Japan. InventorSpot has a list of the top ten strange toothpaste flavors in Japan and they make our NeatoShop bacon and cupcake toothpastes seem downright traditional in comparison. My personal pick for the strangest flavor ever? Octopus balls -because as much as I love octopus, the last thing I want my mouth to smell like after I brush my teeth is a sea creature. |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2014 11:00 PM PST Ewoks are little teddy bears, right? People think of these creatures from Return of the Jedi as adorable, furry little friends. Shoot, we even sell Ewok plushes in the NeatoShop! But remember that before they joined forces with the Rebel Alliance, the Ewoks were about to eat Luke, Han and Leia. You may think of an Ewok as a friend, but he thinks of you as food. You think of him as tender-hearted, but he thinks of you as tenderized. This video by Brotherhood Workshop shows a scene deleted from Return of the Jedi. It gives the film a darker ending. -via Geekosystem |
| Enjoy Louis Armstrong's Recipe For Ham Hocks And Red Beans Posted: 06 Jan 2014 10:00 PM PST You know him as the voice of early Jazz, some called him Satchmo while others simply referred to him as Pops. Louis Armstrong was the charming and ridiculously talented Ambassador of the early Jazz scene, the performer of hits like "What A Wonderful World" and "Ain't Misbehavin" which are still beloved to this day, even by folks who otherwise can't stand Jazz. Louis' sign off in letters read “Red Beans and Ricely Yours, Louis Armstrong” which friends and family found adorable, if a bit odd, until they tried his famous Ham Hocks and Red Beans. Now you can try your hand at making Ham Hocks and Red Beans the Satchmo way with his favorite recipe, perfect for celebrating your in-laws finally leaving town after the holidays, or simply because you like to get down with some down home cookin'! |
| <i>Star Wars</i> Wedding Rings Posted: 06 Jan 2014 09:00 PM PST Would you like to have a marriage filled with rancor? Then maybe you should get a wedding ring shaped like one. These are 2 of several ring designs by J.A.P., a Japanese design firm. Others show Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Ackbar, Boba Fett, Jabba the Hutt and more. Personally, I'd go for the C-3PO ring because that guy knows how to express love in more than 6 million forms of communication. -via Landa Calrissian |
| Coonrippy is Running for Governor Posted: 06 Jan 2014 08:00 PM PST Mark "Coonrippy" Brown achieved internet fame by dancing with a raccoon and advertising raccoon repellent, among other videos. That success brought its own problems, when Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officials confiscated his pet raccoon Rebekah. Coonrippy is upset, and has announced his intentions to run for governor against incumbent Gov. Bill Haslam in the August Republican primary.
You can follow the progress of Coonrippy's efforts to get Rebekah back and his gubernatorial campaign on his Facebook page. -via Uproxx |
| The Coolest Animal Stories From Last Year Posted: 06 Jan 2014 07:00 PM PST I don't know about you guys, but I love animals and great stories about them. If you just can't get enough great animal stories, then you really shouldn't miss out on this list of the best animal stories from the last year. For example, scientists discovered a shark that uses its feet to walk around on the sand underwater this year. There was also the great story of slugs that have sex by penetrating each other in the head. You can find links to all the stories over on Scientific America. Oddly though, the yellow-footed rock wallaby above, which I pulled from the original source, isn't mentioned in the article though. |
| Why New York State Legally Recognizes Haunted Houses Posted: 06 Jan 2014 06:00 PM PST
In 1990, Helen Ackley put her lovely old home in Nyack, New York up for sale. Patrice and Jeffrey Stambovsky bought it. Then they learned something disturbing about the house: it was haunted. The Stambovskys did not discover this fact by witnessing ghosts themselves. Rather, they learned that the house had a strong local reputation as haunted. In their assessment, this lowered the value of their home. Ms. Ackley should have disclosed this important piece of information, therefore they sued her. In Stambovsky vs. Ackley, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that “as a matter of law, the house is haunted.” Ms. Ackley had failed to fulfill a legal requirement to inform the Stambovkys that the house was known to be haunted. The ruling goes on to describe the problem that Ms. Ackley had created for the Stambovskys:
-via Yester |
| Google Maps Glitches As Digital Art Posted: 06 Jan 2014 05:00 PM PST There’s a fine line between an annoying digital image glitch and one which transforms the image into something else entirely, a happy accident of unintentional creation that is extremely difficult to replicate. Google maps may seem like a mundane place to source digital art images, but the glitches created by Google’s map service can sometimes look quite spectacular, and may be the type of digital art images we see hanging on walls in the near future. At least that’s what artist Emilio Vavarella is hoping, as he races to collect these images and share them as his own in a series entitled Report a Problem. Via 22 Words |
| Lighting a Cigarette Russian Style Posted: 06 Jan 2014 04:00 PM PST You've got to really trust the guy in the excavator to just sit there and let him bring the bucket that close -especially when it's carrying fire! But the whole crew knows how good the operator is, and this gives him an opportunity to show off to the world. -via Daily Picks and Flicks |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:00 PM PST Like pork rinds and loneliness, Mountain Dew and Cheetos are two flavors that just naturally belong together. Frito Lay and PepsiCo have now joined forces to accelerate your journey of self-loathing. Frito Lay already markets its flagship product with Pepsi and strawberry flavors, so this seems like a natural progression. Redditor jumblebutt says that they are technically edible:
When I first saw this image, I thought that it was a ramen cup. I would think that Mountain Dew Cheetos ramen would also be a marketable product. |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2014 02:00 PM PST What is this all about? Redditor listrophy spotted an Amazon delivery across the street that seems a little …large. Of course, knowing how Amazon sometimes uses excessive packaging, several commenters assumed it was an SD card or something with a lot of bagged air. And a second box to follow. |
| Cats in Space with Inspirational Quotes Posted: 06 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST According to pseudoscience, today is Blue Monday: the most depressing day of the year. That's because many people are returning to work after a long Christmas vacation. Do you need an emotional pick up? Certainly sugar-filled foods would help, but let's find another way. Cartoonist Kelly Angel, whose work we've previously featured, made these Snapchat images and sent them to her roommate. You can find more here. Remember to be the cat that you want to see in the world. |
| Winner Gold Medal Bottle Opener Posted: 06 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST Winner Gold Medal Bottle Opener You have been training rigorously for the winter games. No one watches more trials than you. Bask in your glory. You are now a bottle opening, couch sitting, television watching champ. Now is the time to celebrate your great accomplishments with the Winner Gold Medal Bottle Opener from the NeatoShop. The games have not yet begun, but you are already a winner. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Barware & Cocktail items. |
| Who Would Play You in a Movie? Posted: 06 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST A quiz from UsVsTh3m finds the Hollywood actor/actress who would be best suited to play you in a movie about your life. Would it be an action film, a comedy, or a romance? The answers are up to you. I answered all the questions and was matched with Helen Mirren. I must say I am pleased with the result. I'm not too sure about the part that says "You're look great in a bikini." Of course I look great in a bikini, but there's some poor spelling in that sentence. Try it yourself and let us know the results! -via the Presurfer |
| Haunting Landscape Photo Series Inspired By The Brothers Grimm Posted: 06 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST (Images via Kilian Schönberger) Peruse this photo series by German photographer Kilian Schönberger and you’ll see why the Brothers Grimm were inspired to set their dark and creepy fairy tales in Middle Europe. The land fairly oozes spookiness, and looks like the perfect setting for a horror movie, or the next Silent Hill game. Kilian’s photo series was inspired by the stories he heard as a child, and the fact that he grew up looking at such a lonely, beautiful landscape, but the real wonder of his photo series is the fact that he is colorblind and has to have a friend check the image colors for him before he has them printed. Via DesignTAXI |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST Spicy, sweet and savory, this amazing caramel corn by Olives for Dinner combines some of our favorite flavors -booze, sugary goodness and Sriracha. Well, almost all of our favorite flavors...it is missing Nutella and bacon, but you could always find a a way to work these in as well -or just recognize that maybe the existing recipe is perfect just the way it is. I guess you'll have to try if for yourself and find out. Via Make |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST Teenagers Austin, Connor, and Trevor Bartz of New Brighton, Minnesota, built this giant snow shark in their front yard. It took 95 hours of work to complete it, and they even installed lighting so people can enjoy the horror at night! But the brothers have experience: they've built huge snow sculptures before, a pufferfish two years ago and a walrus last winter. See more pictures of the finished shark at 22 Words and at Buzzfeed. |
| New World Record for the Longest Scarf Knitted While Running a Marathon Posted: 06 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST
How long a scarf could you knit while running a full marathon? For David Babcock, it's 12 feet, 1 and 3/4 inches long. He set this record in October in Kansas City, breaking the previous record of 6 feet, 9 inches set by Susie Hewer in London last April. The task took Mr. Babcock 5 hours, 48 minutes and 27 seconds. Mr. Babcock, who is a graphic design professor at the University of Central Missouri, used to knit and run as separate activities. But in order to avoid monotony, he combined them. Here's how he does it:
-via Play with Your Yarn |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2014 08:30 AM PST The Women's Christian Temperance Union used many different tactics to curb alcohol consumption in the decades before Prohibition. One of those tactics made some kind of sense: providing public drinking fountains so that clean water was available to everyone, as an alternative to buying a drink at a saloon just because you were thirsty. It didn't affect the saloon business all that much, but it established the public drinking fountain as a common service. |
| Animated Short- Exercises In Preparation For An Independent Life Posted: 06 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST Fans of retro animation such as School House Rocks!, The Peanuts and the shorts featured on 70s kids shows such Sesame Street and Electric Company will simply adore this short by Priit Pärn, and those looking for a slick CGI short to watch will simply have to move on. Exercises in Preparation for an Independent Life is a hand drawn vintage masterpiece, with a surreal charm that juxtaposes crudely drawn scenes of childhood with repetitious, almost frightening scenes of adulthood that can only be described as Plymptonian, aka a lot like something you’d see in a Bill Plympton short. And that’s all in the first minute of the short, you’ll have to watch on to find the message which is there, begging for you to find it after you to get past the initial “wait, what just happened?” feeling. Via Cartoon Brew |
| Whodunit: The Disabled Lookout Posted: 06 Jan 2014 07:30 AM PST The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad featuring Jonah Bixby, a twelve-year-old crime solver and son of a police detective. Can you solve the crime?
For half his life, Jonah Bixby had been doing his homework in police stations. He would walk to the precinct house right after school, say hello to Sergeant Brown at the front desk, then make his way to some unused room and keep himself busy until his mother got off duty. One day in late October, Jonah sat alone in an observation room, working on some boring math problems. There was a one-way mirror between him and the interrogation room, and when the lights went on and people started entering the interrogation room, Jonah flipped the microphone switch. He knew he shouldn't do it, but he couldn't resist. It was just like having his own private police reality show. Jonah was surprised to see his mother beyond the one-way mirror. She was talking to another officer, and Jonah was able to piece together the details of their current case. There had been a robbery that afternoon at a warehouse. The police were tipped off by a silent alarm, but when they arrived on the scene the perpetrators had escaped. "They obviously had a lookout who warned them," Detective Carol Bixby told her partner. "The area around the warehouse is pretty deserted, but we did manage to round up three suspicious characters. I think we should question them together." Jonah knew this was unusual. The police almost always preferred to question suspects separately. But when the three men walked into the interrogation room, he saw that this was a highly unusual situation. The first suspect wore sunglasses and walked with a white cane. He was blind. The second was accompanied by a civilian police employee. They signed back and forth with their hands, and Jonah quickly deduced that this suspect was deaf. The third had his right arm in a plaster cast. "I guess you should all introduce yourselves," said Detective Bixby. Then she stepped back and watched the almost comical scene as the deaf man signed his "hellos" to his interpreter who spoke them aloud. Then the injured man held out his left hand instead of his right and the deaf man shook it, and the blind man held out his own left in a different direction, trying to find the injured man's hand, and finally... Finally, all the men had exchanged names and greetings. The deaf man was the first to speak, although his hands did all the talking. He had been on the corner of Spruce and Industry, waiting for a bus. He had seen the police cars driving by. Their lights were flashing, but of course he had no way of knowing if their sirens were on. "I certainly didn't call and warn anyone. How could I?" The injured man had just come out of his doctor's office when he was picked up. "I broke my arm this morning and just had the cast put on." Carol Bixby felt the plaster and could tell it was still wet. The blind man said he'd been on his way to a seeing-eye dog facility in the area. "My last dog died two weeks ago," he told the officers. "I can get around without a dog, but it's not easy." He claimed he heard the sirens passing by, but had no idea if they were police or fire trucks or ambulances. "We'll check out their stories," Carol told her partner. "But we have no cause to hold any of them right now." As she said this, she was standing by the mirror and could hear a light rapping on the glass. It was a code, Jonah's secret code, and Carol Bixby instantly knew her son was on the other side. "Excuse me," she said to her partner and the suspects. "I'll be right back." WHAT CLUE DID JONAH CATCH?
In addition to his work in mystery and crime puzzles, Hy was also one of the original writers for the groundbreaking TV series Monk. Currently, Hy is working on mystery novel series "Abel Adventures" as well as the Monk series of novels, starting with Mr. Monk Helps Himself (published by Penguin, order from Amazon here Check out Hy's official website and Facebook page - and stay tuned for more whodunits puzzlers on Neatorama from the master of whodunit mysteries himself! |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST By altering images from NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team, Tahar Abroudjameur created this stunning image of swirling stars and nebulae. He calls it The Universe Is in Us. |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST The short film Symmetry is a graduation project by the group Parachutes, written, directed, and edited by Yann Pineill. The second half of the movie is a complete reversal of the first half, both in time and flipped as a mirror image, that actually continues the story. It works because the cuts are short and there is no dialogue. Even the shot of the clock makes sense. |
| This Cool Forest Home Was Built for $11,000 Posted: 06 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST Admittedly, with the whole exterior bathroom thing, I'd rather live somewhere else on a regular basis, but I sure wouldn't mind traveling to Oregon's Cape Falcon Kayak to stay in this stunning Japanese House. The house was created in only one year on a budget of $11,000 by Kayak instructor Brian Schulz. Schulz design style was inspired by traditional Japanese architecture, but the building itself is almost exclusively made from locally sourced materials, many of which were salvaged. The totally sustainable house provides a great way to get back to nature while still enjoying beautiful architecture and style. Like homes that incorporate unique architecture, then head over to Homes and Hues to get a look at the Jenga House, the Little Concrete House on the Prairie or the Lawn Home of Austria. |
| Amazing Video Of Hungary's Best Rope Skipping Team Posted: 06 Jan 2014 05:30 AM PST Most people have tried their hand at jumping rope once or twice in their life, generally because they wanted to see what was such a big deal on the schoolyard, or because they were lured in by the strange rhyming songs being sung by those pigtailed rope swingers. But as you grow older you realize there’s something magical about jumping rope, and not just because the callers can predict how many kisses you will get with their song, and the art of jumping rope is alive and well in competitions across the globe. This video features Hungary’s rope skipping team blowing minds with incredible stunts and making it all look so easy, this ain’t no playground jump rope session- these guys and gals mean business! Via Stuff I Stole From The Internet |
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