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- Neatolinks: Pups That Naturally Look Like Pandas
- Dinnerware Surgery
- This Entire Pit Stop Is Just 2 Seconds Long
- Illustrator Imagines Animals As Quirky Humans
- The 12 Best Batman Encounters
- The Simple Joy Of Fitting Things Into Things
- The Truth Comes Out When The Spirits Go In
- Gimme That Broccoli!
- <i>Goodnight Moon</i> Parody Pokes Fun at Helicopter Parents
- Monkey Steals Camera
- Geordi LaForge Is Popular with the Ladies
- Twaggies Goes to Hollywood!
- New Art from <i>Calvin & Hobbes</i>'s Bill Watterson!
- Horse Powered Wood Splitter
- The True Story Of Flappy Bird
- George Washington Knew How to Party Hard. Here's His Bar Tab.
- Dave Doesn’t Get the Drag Lift
- Catom
- 10 Little-Known Facts about the Oscars
- Spoof Ad For Game Of Thrones- The Board Game
- What Time is it Now?
- The Oral History Of SpongeBob SquarePants
- 15 Inaccuracies Found In Common Science Illustrations
- Amazing Brick Sculptures By Brad Spencer
- The Ultimate Pop Culture Alphabet
- 1866: Britain Builds the First Jet-Powered Warship
- Never Gonna Wake Up
- Identifying Superheroes By Their Underwear
- North Korea at Night
- Trees On Your Sofa? Why Not?
| Neatolinks: Pups That Naturally Look Like Pandas Posted: 27 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST Scientists Discovered a New Form of Matter...In Chicken Eyes (Geekosystem) The Ultimate Drink Guide for Your Oscar Party (Movie Clips) These Puppies Look Just Like Pandas! (The Huffington Post) This Ring Gun Wouldn't Do Much Damage, But It's Still Cool (BoingBoing) Image: Derps of Past and Present (Nothing to Do With Arboath)  | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Feb 2014 03:00 AM PST Ceramic artist Beccy Risdel has a series called “Art / Craft” in which plates and mugs take on a totally odd sort of anatomy of their own.
See more pictures of the different objects in the series at Risdel's gallery. Some of her works are for sale. -via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| This Entire Pit Stop Is Just 2 Seconds Long Posted: 27 Feb 2014 02:00 AM PST I suspect that this video shows the Ferrari team at the Australian Grand Prix last year. Watch what a perfectly trained pit team can do. The car stops at 0:35. It moves at 0:37. In those 2 seconds, the team replaces all 4 wheels. Look at how well they work together--like the fingers on one hand. -via TYWKIWDBI | ||||||||
| Illustrator Imagines Animals As Quirky Humans Posted: 27 Feb 2014 01:00 AM PST If animals became bipedal, anthropomorphic members of what was originally a purely human society they would probably be extremely quirky individuals, prone to chasing cars, licking themselves in public and chewing on everything in sight. Since genetic hybrids have yet to become a reality we have to settle for imagining what human-animal hybrids would look like, but if your imagination machine is out of order then leave the imagining to illustrator Helena Frank. Her fun illustrations feature hybrids that look like humans wearing realistic animal mascot costumes, with big fuzzy heads making appropriately animalistic faces and generally looking a bit strange set upon humanistic bodies. -Via The Fox Is Black | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Feb 2014 12:00 AM PST I love the Batman mythos, but it's impossible to keep up with every Batman movie, comic book issue and TV episode that's produced. Thankfully, there are a few great works that Adam A. Donaldson of Nerd Bastards has helpfully rounded up. I've found that animated Batman is consistently better than the live-action movies, which are often overwrought and designed around stunts and special effects rather than good stories. #10 on Adam's list is a great choice: the episode "Epilogue" from Justice League Unlimited. It's the finale for that show, as well as Batman Beyond and pretty much the DC Animated Universe. Its 24 minutes of outstanding storytelling tells us a lot about both Bruce Wayne and his successor. Another great choice is #7 on Adam's list: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. This 1993 feature film is, in my opinion, the best Batman movie ever shown in theaters. It's partially an origin story, but it goes beyond that. Mask of the Phantasm features a cleverly-written script, great animation and a fine soundtrack. You can find the rest of Adam's list here. | ||||||||
| The Simple Joy Of Fitting Things Into Things Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:00 PM PST There’s something very satisfying about discovering that something fits into something else, like fitting two shoes together, one inside the other, so they only take up one slot in your shoe rack, nesting bowls together perfectly in the cupboard, and figuring out that an orange fits perfectly in the space left inside an avocado after you pull out the pit. A Tumblr called Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things explores the sheer delight we humans feel when we discover that things fit together so perfectly, and may inspire you to take a good, hard look around your house for things you can fit into other things. It’s not OCD, it’s the best way to save space! -Via 22 Words | ||||||||
| The Truth Comes Out When The Spirits Go In Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:00 PM PST The Truth Comes Out When The Spirits Go In St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner. Celebrate your favorite holiday with The Truth Comes Out When the Spirits Go In flask from the NeatoShop. This devilishly fun hip flask is made of stainless steel and features your favorite Irish proverb. A Celtic pattern adorns the back. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Barware & Cocktail items. | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:00 PM PST Tsutsuji the cat is offered a bite of broccoli, but doesn’t get much of a chance before it is taken by Ginnan, the broccoli-loving cat. Ginnan won’t share with the dog, either. Or maybe I should say “share with the Doge.” These cats are household siblings to Kabosu the Shiba Inu who became the famous Doge. This pet-centric household has some interesting moments. -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| <i>Goodnight Moon</i> Parody Pokes Fun at Helicopter Parents Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:00 PM PST In the great green-certified room there was a smart phone, and a silver spoon, and a picture of… Since 1947, millions of children have gone to bed enjoying Margaret Wise Brown's classic picture book Goodnight Moon. But the parenting methods used back then were, to put it mildly, crude. They did not nurture children, let alone push them hard to learn from the very beginning of their lives. Now Lizzy Ratner, Jen Nessel and Sara Pinto bring us Goodnight Nanny-Cam, a revision of Brown's book for tiger moms and dads. You can see more pages at 22 Words. P.S. Be sure to check out other Goodnight Moon parodies, such as this one for Dune, this one for Keith Moon and this one for Star Wars. | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:00 PM PST One thing we’ve learned in the age of YouTube is that all God’s creatures want a camera of their own. This guy was at the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, and decided to set up his GoPro camera to record himself feeding the monkeys. The monkeys came, and along with the food, one took the camera! The guy chased the monkey down, which is where you hear a little NSFW language, but the recording stops when the monkey removes the battery! A lady from the temple helped to get the camera back, by trading the monkey food for it. However, the monkey kept the battery. The lesson here is that, instead of taking a selfie, it may be better to keep a small camera attached to you. Only time will tell if a viral video is worth the cost of a stolen camera battery. -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| Geordi LaForge Is Popular with the Ladies Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:00 PM PST On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Geordi LaForge was notoriously awkward with women. Oh, working with them was fine. But if he tried to make a move, he’d dematerialize into a puddle of anxiety. His attempts at romance could be charitably described as clumsy (not that I’m one to talk). Well, that’s old Geordi. Maybe he took the advice of Worf, the resident love doctor on the Enterprise. But I think this photo by Victoria McNally reveals how Geordi became successful. He’s not self-conscious and pleading. He just hangs back, confidently, and lets the Sailor Scouts come to him. Atta boy, Geordi. | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:00 PM PST Big news for Twaggies on Neatorama! We've just inked a deal with video hub Dailymotion to bring you animated tweets! That's right! Forget the static single panels, folks! We're going to be taking your tweets and turning them into shorts! The first season will be 12 or 13 episodes with a few Hall of Fame tweets per episode. We're just gathering our tweetage now, so if you have one you think would be great for an animated short, send it on over! (@twaggies) | ||||||||
| New Art from <i>Calvin & Hobbes</i>'s Bill Watterson! Posted: 26 Feb 2014 05:02 PM PST In 1995, the great Bill Watterson shut down his cartoon Calvin & Hobbes and retired. He's famously private. When Jake Rossen of Mental Floss landed an interview with him last year, it became a major news story. It's unusual to see art made by Watterson after 1995. Pictured above is a promotional poster that he made for Stripped, a documentary about the past, present and future of cartooning. In the trailer embedded below, you can hear him, as well as other cartoonists, including Jim Davis (Garfield) and Matt Inman (The Oatmeal). -via io9 | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 05:00 PM PST Here’s a clever rig that is (or was in 2010) located in Liberty, Kentucky. Tong the horse is on a sturdy treadmill--apparently for the first time. He’s taking to the work well. He drives a wood splitter for Patrick Maloney on a cold winter day. -via Yababoon | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST Have you ever found yourself wondering what caused that strange little bird to fly off his comfy tree branch and flap his way in-between a bunch of pipes brought straight from Mario's world? Does the lack of a Flappy Bird backstory haunt your dreams? Don't give it a second thought, watch this animated explanation created by Kud and get to know how Flappy Bird began. By the end of the short you'll feel Flappy's pain, and you'll never want to push his buttons ever again. I know why the badly drawn bird flaps, it flaps for thee... -Via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
| George Washington Knew How to Party Hard. Here's His Bar Tab. Posted: 26 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST
In The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition, historian W. J. Rorabaugh asserted that early Americans routinely consumed alcohol at rates that would put college freshmen to shame. One of my college history professors once epxlained to me that this happened in part because although it was easy to grow grain in America, it was very difficult to transport it. The nation's road network was terrible--at least compared to western Europe. Consequently, the cheapest way to transport grain was to reduce its weight by distilling it into liquor. Drinking a lot was an early American tradition. At Reason, Stanton Peele describes one party at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia:
Emphasis added. -via Jim Treacher | ||||||||
| Dave Doesn’t Get the Drag Lift Posted: 26 Feb 2014 02:00 PM PST Frank Spencer (who everyone calls Dave) and friends went to do some real Alpine skiing in Veysonnaz, Switzerland. Dave and his snowboard had a little trouble getting the hang of the T-bar drag lift. I don’t think he has ever waterskied, or been towed by a rope of any kind. If he had tried three, four, five times …well, it wouldn’t have been quite so funny. But some say he’s still there, still trying to get up the mountain. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST
Well, cats are the nucleus of your atomic universe. Or at least that's how they think of themselves. NeatoShop artist Stephanie Jayne Designs drew up the cutest (c)atom design you'll see today. Check out Stephanie's official website and Facebook page, then visit her NeatoShop for more neat and cute designs:
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! | ||||||||
| 10 Little-Known Facts about the Oscars Posted: 26 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST The annual Academy Awards presentation will take place next Sunday in Hollywood. Have you made your predictions of the winners? While you're waiting for the show, you can watch this video from All Time 10s listing bits of trivia that you might not know about the Oscars. For example:
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| Spoof Ad For Game Of Thrones- The Board Game Posted: 26 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST Imagine a board game so complicated, so full of intrigue and rules, that it takes six boxes to contain it all. Picture yourself, and your friends, playing a game that requires you to devote your entire life to playing, a game that cannot be stopped once it has began. This is Game Of Thrones: The Board Game, a board game that will ruin your life faster than any MMO ever could, a board game that tests your resolve by turning your life into an episode of your favorite fantasy bloodbath. You may survive the game, but will your marriage? Game of Thrones: The Board Game, from the makers of SAW: Family Edition and Who Killed Daddy? -Via GeekTyrant | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST As he did with the comic called Frequency, Randall Munroe continues to experiment with embedding his comic xkcd. Today is one you may want to permanently bookmark. It shows a global map that rotates to show what time it is now all over the world! The image here has already changed, because it only shows what time it was when the screen shot was taken. Check the original moving map out now. | ||||||||
| The Oral History Of SpongeBob SquarePants Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST The seminal cartoon series SpongeBob SquarePants is now in its fifteenth year on the air, and whether you love the pineapple dwelling strangeoid or cringe at the sight of his stupid face you have to agree there’s something iconic about that undersea wearer of square pants. But before Stephen Hillenburg's absorbent series hit the small screen SpongeBob, and all the people and places that reside in Bikini Bottom, went through years of development and reworking until Spongeboy became the Bob we know and (some) love today. Cartoon fans, budding animators and chroniclers of all things Nick will love this 36,000-word oral history of SpongeBob SquarePants, compiled by Tom Heintjes, which is the most comprehensive history of SpongeBob ever published. -Via Cartoon Brew | ||||||||
| 15 Inaccuracies Found In Common Science Illustrations Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST There are limits to how well you can render a concept on paper, or in 2D, so science illustrations that are considered state-of-the-art are often somewhat inaccurate. Other science explanations have been simplified for students, and the simplification sticks in our heads. They also stick in our textbooks, often for decades after new information is available! Michael Stevens from Vsauce guest-hosts this week’s mental floss video. He explains some of the details you should know about classic science illustrations. The scale model of the solar system that he references can be found here. -via mental_floss | ||||||||
| Amazing Brick Sculptures By Brad Spencer Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST Sculpting with hard mediums such as marble and stone requires hammer and chisel and lots of sanding, but creating soft, human forms out of red bricks seems so ridiculously difficult it’s a wonder sculptor Brad Spencer is able to create such amazing works with the stiff yet crumbly ceramic material. Brad’s brick sculptures really capture the look and feeling of children climbing around on a brick wall, kids whose bodies are seemingly turning into brick as they play, complete with mortar seams that run through their bodies as they run through the wall. Brad creates sculptures of all kind out of brick, from free standing sculptures to walls with reliefs sculpted into them, and for some reason people just feel safer with Brad's sculptures hanging around their property! -Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| The Ultimate Pop Culture Alphabet Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:30 AM PST Illustrator Jeff Victor has a new series called The Ultimate Pop Culture Alphabet. It was an excuse to draw characters that wouldn’t fit into his other art series, and the result is absolutely neat. They run from Ariel to Zombie, with superheroes, sci-fi characters, storybook friends, and video game icons in between. You can see them all, large and identified, at Buzzfeed. See also: More art from Jeff Victor. | ||||||||
| 1866: Britain Builds the First Jet-Powered Warship Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST
During the 1860s, the Royal Navy experimented with new types of warships to replace the aging generation of screw-propelled steamships. Among them was the 1,160-ton HMS Waterwitch. This ship used a novel form of propulsion: water jets. This system was known as the Ruthven impeller--a water turbine invented by Scottish engineer Morris West Ruthven. The impeller measured 14.5 feet across and weighed 8 tons. It rotated on a vertical axis inside a chamber 19 feet across. Two water jet nozzles opening just below the waterline fed water into the chamber. Two 160-horsepower steam engines powered the pumps which sucked water through the nozzles and into the impeller chamber.
Because of its design, the Waterwitch could theoretically move forward or reverse at equal speed simply by reversing the jets. There was a rudder at the bow as well at the stern, so it could also control its movement in reverse. This could be helpful when attempting to ram an enemy ship, so the Waterwitch was equipped with armored rams at both ends. The Waterwitch engaged in sea trials in 1867. Unfortunately, it proved to be slow and could reach a speed of only 9.23 knots. In reverse, it could move 7.9 knots, which was not bad, but did not live up to expectations. The Waterwitch also proved to be difficult to maneuver. A Royal Navy panel assembled to examine the Waterwitch concluded that the design was a failure because it was difficult to draw water into the inlet of the pump and the water that was taken on board increased the weight of the ship. Also, the system experienced power losses due to bends in the water passages and friction from the water going through those passages. Naval architect Albert E. Seaton argues that the Waterwitch might have moved faster if it had heavier boilers, larger water passages and a bigger chamber for the impeller. But this, of course, would have made the ship heavier. Consequently, the Waterwitch’s innovations were not put to broader use. The ship was struck in 1887 and scrapped in 1890. | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:30 AM PST You just got Rickrolled again, but this time Rick brought some friends along! This mashup by nils incorporates the 2013 song “Wake Me Up” by Avicii and “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba from 1997 into the mix with Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The video features dancing video clips by Will Smith and John Travolta. It’s an odd mix of music and dancing from vastly different decades, but it works. After all, a dance beat is a dance beat no matter when it was recorded. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
| Identifying Superheroes By Their Underwear Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST Superheroes as a whole seem to have a fetish for tight fitting costumes, and whether those spandex clad superfolks know it or not their choice of exterior underwear makes them incredibly easy to identify. Toronto based creators of colorful artworks Design Different have come up with a handy dandy, full color guide to help people identify superfolks, both good and bad, by their underwear. So the next time you see a super flying around your neck of the woods you can consult the chart, learn their name and yell “Hey So-and-so! Git offa mah propertee!” -Via DesignTAXI | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:30 AM PST The crew of the International Space Station recorded video of the earth on January 30, over Asia at night. As they flew over the Korean Penninsula, you can see the stark differences between countries. Here, South Korea look like a big island, because North Korea has so few lights.
China appears comparatively well-lit, too. See a video of the flyover at Death and Taxes. -via Daily of the Day (Image credit: NASA) | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST Relaxing on a park bench under a tree is nice, but if you get home when it's already dark, you might not want to head over to the park and lay down on a bench (and even if you did, they might already be taken by other people laying down). Instead, you can always grab the Borghese by designer Noe Duchaufour Lawrance and manufacturer La Chance, which brings a little touch of nature into your home. Check out more pictures and read more about the cool tree-inspired couch at Homes and Hues: Relax Like You're In the Park With the Borghese |
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