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- Neatolinks: Schools You Probably Can't Get Into
- Famous Bands Recreated in LEGO Minifigs
- Your Favorite TV Cars as Transformers
- What Rhymes with Niagara Falls?
- George Washington Dunking on Kim Jong-Un While Lincoln Blocks Stalin
- Asbestos City
- Learn Dothraki the Easy Way
- Onion Reveals Its True Evil Face
- Watch Billy Dee Williams Dance to Disco <i>Star Wars</i> Music
- The Mystery of the Sea Unicorn
- Twitter Bot Pranks Gullible People with Hilariously Fake Facts
- Christopher Walken Dancing
- This Elegant Library Is Literally Guarded by a Colony of Bats
- The Wheels On The Bus Go "I Hate You"
- Kneel Before Me
- Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament
- Hands Are Symbols Of Desires And Fears
- Life Satisfaction as Ranked by Country
- Yacht Problems Excite Crowd
- How To: The Garbage Body Prank
- Superman With a GoPro
- Tech Support Gandalf Is Here To Help
- Ivanovitch Tries to Reach the Sink
- Alicia Watkins's Cross Stitch Microbes
- How to Get Out of Jury Duty
- Meth City
- Ashley Eckstine To Unveil Geek Couture Line At Comic-Con 2014
- Spaghetti Popsicles
- Adoring the Angles of the North Star Apartments
- How 163 Famous People Have Been Portrayed on TV and Film
| Neatolinks: Schools You Probably Can't Get Into Posted: 19 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PDT Get Ready for 300: Rise of an Empire By Reading Up on 10 Awesome Female Military Leaders (The Mary Sue) 15 Trenchcoats That Stole the Show in Movies (Scribol) In Case You Were Wondering, the New Star Wars Will Take Place 30 Years After the Original Series (Geekosystem) The 50 Schools With the Most Nobel Prize Winners (The Presurfer) Image: Photo Manipulation to Blow Your Mind by Erik Johansson (Martineken Blog)  | ||||||||
| Famous Bands Recreated in LEGO Minifigs Posted: 19 Mar 2014 03:00 AM PDT Malaysian artist Adly Syairi Ramly builds scenes of bands you’ll recognize if you’re a fan. From the Beatles to Napalm Death, these minifigs reflect the most notable features of the musicians. Some even recreate album covers! See twenty bands in minifig form at The Chive. | ||||||||
| Your Favorite TV Cars as Transformers Posted: 19 Mar 2014 02:00 AM PDT The Delorean from Back to the Future Darren Rawlings, an animator and illustrator in Canada, imagines a world in which all TV shows and movies are spinoffs of The Transformers. Which is, of course, as it should be. His series “If They Could Transform” takes the most famous on-screen cars and envisions them as transforming fighting robots. I am left wondering which are Autobots and which are Decepticons. The General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard The Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo Ecto-1 from The Ghostbusters -via Roadtrippers | ||||||||
| What Rhymes with Niagara Falls? Posted: 19 Mar 2014 01:00 AM PDT Dave McKinley of WGRZ in Buffalo, New York, wrote a poem about Niagara Falls and the fact that it is not frozen. Many folks heard that it was and came out on a cold, cold day to see the phenomenon. The water is still running, and it was a lovely sight with all the snow and ice surrounding it. And the poem is clever. -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| George Washington Dunking on Kim Jong-Un While Lincoln Blocks Stalin Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT Go Team Freedom! Whup them Commies! In this painting, two American presidents work together to win the championship. Redditor I_may_be_Dead composed this image on a commission by another redditor named fact_school_cat. When he's not being awesome on reddit, I_may_be_Dead is known as Aaron Needham. And, yes, he's open for more commissions. -via John Noonan | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:00 PM PDT Wittenoom, Australia, lies in the Pilbara region of the Western Australian desert, but you won’t find it on modern maps. The name has even been erased from road signs. But at one time, it was a thriving mining town. From 1943 to the mine's closure in 1966, more than 165,000 tons of asbestos were extracted and shipped out of Wittenoom. However, poor public knowledge about the dangers of asbestos allowed the toxic dust to be spread throughout the town; it clung to the miners' clothing, infecting homes, gardens, and schools. Of the 20,000 men, women, and children who worked or lived in Wittenoom in these decades, it is predicted that roughly 25% will die of asbestos-related diseases such as asbestosis, lung cancer, or mesothelioma. It wasn't until 1978, however, that growing health concerns would lead to a full-scale evacuation. Since the evacuation, the Australian government has gone to great lengths to erase the town from maps and even history. As a 2013 flier said, "Visiting Wittenoom is not worth risking your life." However, a few stubborn longtime residents are reportedly still living there. The story of Wittenoom is one of Five Ghost Towns Abandoned after Disasters that you can read at Atlas Obscura. | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:00 PM PDT It’s easiest to learn a language when you’re a child. So get your kids off to a good start by teaching them a language in the Game of Thrones universe. It’s easy and fun with these videos by Muzzy, a language video training program. And there’s more! In addition to Dothraki, children can also learn Valyrian, White Walker and Hodor. The last one, is, of course, increasingly important in international commerce. This video by Nacho Punch parodies the commercials of Muzzy, a children’s educational series that teaches foreign languages. Here’s the original commercial that the parody addresses. -via Kotaku | ||||||||
| Onion Reveals Its True Evil Face Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:00 PM PDT This is why cutting an onion makes you cry. It's because it's evil* *Actually it's because of cutting an onion breaks its cells open, thus releasing enzymes that turns sulfenic acid into propanethiol S-oxide, a volatile sulfur compound that wafts up to your eye, react with the water in your tears to form sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid (the chemical that disfigured Gotham district attorney Harvey Dent and turned him into Two-Face in the Batman comics- see? Comics are scientifically useful!) burns, so your eyes produce more tears to wash it away. In short, onions make you cry because it's evil. | ||||||||
| Watch Billy Dee Williams Dance to Disco <i>Star Wars</i> Music Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:00 PM PDT Billy Dee Williams played Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars movies. He recently reprised that role on the reality television show Dancing with the Stars. Here he is dancing with Emma Slater, who is appropriately coiffed with Princess Leia buns. They cha-cha-cha to a medley of Star Wars tunes, including the title and cantina themes. Before you condemn the judges: keep in mind that if the Emperor has a Death Star pointed at your planet, you’ll follow his lead, too. The audience should be more understanding. -via Tor | ||||||||
| The Mystery of the Sea Unicorn Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:00 PM PDT At one time, Vikings made a lot of money by selling narwhal horns to European royalty as unicorn horns. Of course, they were secretive about where they obtained the horns. We know more about narwhals now, a lot more. They are a type of whale in which one tooth grows into a long, straight tusk -but only in the males. But what purpose does it serve? A new experiment points to the theory that the tusk is a sense organ.
An experiment in which scientists manipulated the water around narwhal’s tusks appears to prove the theory. Read about it and a whole lot more we now know about narwhals at The Loom. | ||||||||
| Twitter Bot Pranks Gullible People with Hilariously Fake Facts Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:00 PM PDT As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “The problem with quotes from the internet is that they’re often fake.” The internet is littered with falsehoods that spread quickly because they can be easily retweeted or reposted with a couple of mouse clicks. To my shame, I’ve been occasionally suckered by them.* There are widely-followed Twitter accounts, such as @HistoryInPics and @HistoricalPics, that have been accused of taking manipulated photos and passing them off as real or adding wildly inaccurate captions. Rebecca Onion of Slate described the problems that these Twitter accounts pose here. Eric Drass, an artist, agrees. There’s a problem with images that are unsourced or fake images circulating the internet, becoming facts in the minds of people who don’t know any better. To highlight the problem, he created @factbot1, a program that automatically generates random facts, finds relevant images, then tweets them. -via 22 Words *One of the hardest research projects I’ve ever had was, oddly enough, the 2013 Neatorama Desk Calendar. It’s filled with 365 bits of interesting trivia. I found that the majority of neat trivia that I uncovered didn’t stand up to fact-checking. | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 05:00 PM PDT Christopher Walken may play creepy roles most of the time, but he loves to dance. In fact, before he was an movie star, he trained as a dancer for musical theater. This video has clips of 57 different Christopher Walken movies going back as far as 1977, and he dances in most of them. That’s a lot of movies! See a list of the films at HuffPo. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| This Elegant Library Is Literally Guarded by a Colony of Bats Posted: 18 Mar 2014 04:00 PM PDT
And I mean literally as in literally and not figuratively (it is now necessary to be clear about that). This is the library of the National Palace in Mafra, Portugal. It's a beautiful building constructed by and for the now abolished Kings of Portugal. The palace has a library that would make any booklover quiver in joy. The volumes are well-preserved, in part due to the resident bats. Yes, bats. The staff permits bats to live in the library. They come out at night and feed on book-eating bugs. Kevin Hartnett writes in The Boston Globe:
It totally makes sense. Remember that Batgirl was a librarian. (Image: American Library Association) -via Carmen Jade | ||||||||
| The Wheels On The Bus Go "I Hate You" Posted: 18 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT The dog owner on the bus will go "wah, wah, wah" after Dachy the Dachshund gets his revenge. Remember, with this breed of dog, it's death from the ankles down! Via Neatorama's Facebook page, where you'll find more neat pics like this one - go give us a like, wontcha? | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT
Kneel before ... wait, which one would you kneel before? We may be confused as to which villain we'd genuflect to, but one thing is for sure: we'd kneel before Firepower Tees for creating this awesome T-shirt! Visit Firepower Tees' official Facebook page, then check out his NeatoShop for more neat 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! | ||||||||
| Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament Posted: 18 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT What’s your favorite webcomic? You should know quite a few just by reading Neatorama on a regular basis. Now you can vote for your favorites, or find plenty of new webcomics to try out! Comic Mix presents the 2014 Mix March Madness 2014 Webcomics Tournament, despite the banner image at the site clearly saying 2013. The 128 competitors are divided into the regions of Cardy, Infantino, Morales, and Plastino. You’ll find the brackets at the first round voting post. but if you don’t know xkcd from SATW, Axe Cop from Penny Arcade, or the difference between Zebra Girl and The Oatmeal, you should take advantage of the links in the brackets to check out webcomics you might fall in love with. | ||||||||
| Hands Are Symbols Of Desires And Fears Posted: 18 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT Appendages are growing out of all sorts of strange places in this creep-tastic series of digitally manipulated photos by Babak Hosseiny and Jeffrey Vanhoute entitled “O les mains”. There are fingers where hair should be, angry arms ordering a hand to pull back on some poor guy’s face by his eyelids, and all sorts of appendage shaped protrusions in all kinds of wrong places. Hosseiny was influenced by a Wittgenstein book he'd read about hands being the symbols of a person’s fears and desires, and together with Belgian photographer Jeffrey Vanhoute he brought this idea to light in a disturbingly surreal manner. The images in the series were created using traditional studio photos of the subjects, which were then digitally composited together, creating the desired, and decidedly creepy, effect. (NSFW due to artistic nudity) -Via Hi-Fructose | ||||||||
| Life Satisfaction as Ranked by Country Posted: 18 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT Where does your country rank in overall life satisfaction? According to this article over at Quartz, data from the Gallup World Poll as presented in Paris-based think tank Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s Society at a Glance 2014 report, 15 countries are ranked above the United States. The top 10 countries reporting high life satisfaction are:
Life satisfaction, according to the report, is determined by both economic development as well as people's diverse experiences and living conditions. There's a broad regional/cultural grouping as four out of the top five countries are Nordic. The report noted that, on average across OECD countries, women report slightly higher levels of life satisfaction than men, and that life satisfaction decreases with age. The bottom 10 countries are
If you're wondering, the poll asked 1,000 to 4,000 residents of a country the following: "Imagine an eleven-rung ladder where the bottom (0) represents the worst possible life for you and the top (10) represents the best possible life for you. On which step of the ladder do you feel you personally stand at the present time?" | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT A luxury yacht named the Victoria, estimated to be worth at least £1million, tried to negotiate the Richmond Bridge in London on Sunday. It did not go well. The river was about 7 feet higher than normal, and they boat kept crashing into the stone bridge in front of an appreciative crowd of onlookers.
The yacht was able to return home once the water level had dropped. Meanwhile, the incident is enshrined in YouTube videos. See part two here. -via Arbroath | ||||||||
| How To: The Garbage Body Prank Posted: 18 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT Instructables member pranksgiving has a great/terrible idea for a prank and instructions on how to carry it out. You can follow them to create the impression that someone left a bundled dead human body by the dumpster or your co-worker's cubicle. He offers this disclaimer:
But won't that spoil all of the fun? Besides, how will you get in serious trouble if you let people in on the prank? | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT If Superman strapped a camera to his forehead while he went about his crime fighting business, it might look something like this sequence from Corridor Digital. It’s not all just flying around, either- he fights crime and does good deeds along the way. This really should be a video game. Maybe with enough response, it will be eventually. Hey, it worked with Goat Simulator! -via Gamma Squad | ||||||||
| Tech Support Gandalf Is Here To Help Posted: 18 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT When you call tech support with a computer problem you usually reach someone who is really far away, but you probably had no idea that some of those calls were being routed to Middle Earth! Tech Support Gandalf is the meme flavor of the year month week, and he’s full of all kinds of computer wisdom- You should always let the installation wizard finish doing its thing, for the installation wizard completes precisely when he means to, and when in doubt Google it. We’ve included a blank version, so you can try your hand at creating a Tech Support Gandalf image of your own. -Via Uproxx | ||||||||
| Ivanovitch Tries to Reach the Sink Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT Ivanovitch’s favorite toy, a small rubber chicken, is in the sink. Normally, the cat would jump on the trash bin lid to get to the sink. Today, the bin does not have a lid. Ivanovitch could be forgiven for not knowing that …the first time. But in his desire to retrieve the toy, he forgets. | ||||||||
| Alicia Watkins's Cross Stitch Microbes Posted: 18 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT What's your favorite parasite? No matter what your preference, Etsy seller Alicia Watkins has it. Want some typhus? How about some botulism? Check out her extensive line of harmful bacteria, protozoa and viruses. Who is this artist? Ms. Watkins doesn't say much about herself. But she notes that "The semicolon is my favorite punctuation mark." That tells you everything that you need to know about her. -via Geek and Nerd Knits | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT Mr. Forthright shares his wisdom of the many ways you can get kicked off jury duty. In reality, just being truthful in response to every question will probably get you out of serving. You will still miss a few days of work, because the system is anything but streamlined. | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT ... Some call it dark. Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home. Crooked cops. Sexy dames. Desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge. Others lust after amazing T-shirt designs ... NeatoShop artist Punksthetic made us a different kind of "yarn" - the cotton kind - with this mash up design called Meth City. Take a look at Punksthetic's Facebook page then visit his NeatoShop for more neat stuff:
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! | ||||||||
| Ashley Eckstine To Unveil Geek Couture Line At Comic-Con 2014 Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT Actress, fashion designer and Sith seductress Ashley Eckstein is planning to debut a “Geek Couture” line, from her fashion label Her Universe, at Comic-Con 2014, with a little help from the geek royalty at Nerdist. From the look of her preliminary drawings those who can afford to shell out hundreds, possibly thousands, of dollars for a TARDIS themed outfit, or a pair of shorts and a top inspired by Bumblebee from the Transformers are going to be mighty excited to get their hands on one of her fancy geek getups. But even if you can't afford to buy a piece from the collection you can still submit your own design, and thirty lucky winners will have their designs entered into the show, with two grand prize winners selected to co-design new clothing for Her Universe. -Via Topless Robot | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PDT From the land that gave the world strawberry Cheetos and octopus soda, we now have spaghetti popsicles! The Japanese brand Gari-Gari Kun (Crunchy Crunchy Boy) already has popsicles in what we’d consider traditional flavors: orange, grape, pineapple, and has offered some odd limited edition flavors in the past, like bean paste and corn stew.
Okay, I was almost on board with frozen spaghetti, but apparently its a tomato-flavored ice cream, which I don’t do. The limited edition flavor goes on sale March 24th. -via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Adoring the Angles of the North Star Apartments Posted: 18 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT What's in an angle? Not just great style, that's for sure. The North Star Apartments in Slovakia prove that with their stunning lines that not only look wonderful, but also help keep the residents cozy in their homes. The striking balconies manage to reflect light into the windows while similtaniously blocking out traffic noise and providing residents with a little extra privacy. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the building looks fantastic. You can see more cool pictures of the unique complex at Homes and Hues: A Few Angles Make A Big Difference In The North Star Apartments | ||||||||
| How 163 Famous People Have Been Portrayed on TV and Film Posted: 18 Mar 2014 05:30 AM PDT Redditor VictorVan has exhaustively cataloged and compiled images of the actors who have played famous historical figures. He divided them into several lists: 43 Presidents of the United States Are you surprised by any of the casting choices? -via 22 Words |
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