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• Images Of Bears Doing Human Things
• A Cave in Iceland
• You've Aged
• Shine Bright Like A Diamond
• Chicken Beauty Pageants
• The World's Smallest Sandcastles Are Built on Individual Grains of Sand
• Fire Drill Engagement
• Little Red Riding Hood Is a Jerk
• Bank Error Put $31,000 into Teenager’s Account
• Bane Cat Was Born in the Darkness, Molded by It
• Obie the Tiger
• Wu-Tang Clan Takes a Novel Approach to Selling Records By Producing Only 1 Copy of an Album
• Mousetrap Chain Reaction in Slow-Motion
• Watch This Bridge Collapse with a Single Touch by an Excavator
• Little Nightmares
• Monster Under the Bed
• A Stomach Churning Series Of Photographs
• Woman is Launch Pad for Baby Goats
• Photographer Captures The Strange World Of Creative Dog Grooming
• The Happy Trombone Loop
• This Elevator Is a Pneumatic Tube That Shoots You Through Your Home
• He Thought He Was Superman
• Every Spider-Man Ever Will Appear In Upcoming Series Event
• Rescued Dog is Grateful
• This Clock Automatically Writes the Time on an Etch A Sketch
• ASCII Time Machine
• North Korean Students Must Get Kim’s Haircut
• PBS Off Book Examines The Rise Of Video Game Economies
• What Is It? game 320
• A Light to Maximize Your Space

Images Of Bears Doing Human Things Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PDT (Image Via Imgur) (Image Via Kevin Dietrich) There’s a reason they chose a bear to be the star of so many cartoon shows, from Yogi to Baloo to the Three Bears in those Looney Tunes shorts, because very few critters act as humanistic as bears. When a bear stands up and gives you a wave you can almost see your big, hairy uncle doing the same thing, and when they hold a newspaper, sit at a picnic table waiting for a basket full of goodies to come their way, or simply stick their tongue out at the photographer we instantly imagine a friend or family member doing the same thing. Enjoy this selection of images showing Bears Doing Human Things, put together by the animal loving folks at Bored Panda.

A Cave in Iceland Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:00 AM PDT Redditor VolcanosMeltMeDown is an American photographer who just spent a year in Iceland. She tells the story of how her Icelandic boyfriend recently took her to an ice cave. They got some lovely photographs, but then the story took a little twist. You don't want to miss the very last picture, either, for a laugh.

You've Aged Posted: 28 Mar 2014 02:00 AM PDT (Image: Tom Whyatt) But that's definitely me. I didn't have a beard and, well, I guess that I've put on a little weight. Call it in, Officer, if you want to check. -via Pleated Jeans

Shine Bright Like A Diamond Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:00 AM PDT Shine Bright Like A Diamond by The Hookshot Got an excellent friend or loved ones who's rare like a precious diamond? Here's a neat gift: the Shine Bright Like a Diamond shirt by NeatoShop artist The Hookshot. Best of all, no mining necessary! Visit The Hookshot's Tumblr and Facebook page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more neat designs: Moonlight Ride Freefalling Pounce Achievement Accomplished View more designs by The Hookshot | 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!

Chicken Beauty Pageants Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:00 AM PDT Photographer Ernest Goh brought us fish portraits a while back. Now he has a series of glamor photos of ornamental chickens, called Cocks. The photos are featured in his book COCKS: The Chicken Book. You can get a sneak peek at Goh’s website. -via Laughing Squid

The World's Smallest Sandcastles Are Built on Individual Grains of Sand Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT The artist Vik Muniz is always pushing boundaries. We've previously seen his peanut butter and jelly Mona Lisas, his art reproductions made with torn-up magazines and his clown skull. Those projects push the boundaries of materials. But Muniz also pushes out space. He found that as his studio physically expanded, so did his projects. Eventually, he used earth moving equipment to create drawings hundreds of meters across. Now, Muniz is going in the opposite direction. He had explored art at the gargantuan scale and was ready to create it at the microscopic level. So he sketched sandcastles and sent them to Marcelo Coelho, a designer who is skilled in the artistic use of a focused ion beam. With special equipment, Coelho can etch lines 50 nanometers wide. That's about one thousandth of the width of a human hair. You results are beautiful sandcastles on grains of sand. You can read more about the project and see more images at Colossal. -via Lustik

Fire Drill Engagement Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) When a firefighter loves a teacher, he just does what he’s gotta do. Justin Deierling and his buddies at the fire department in Greentown, Ohio, arranged for the local school to stage a fire drill. That was his opportunity to propose to Melissa, a teacher at the school, in front of all her students and co-workers. And the firemen had rings for all the kids, too! They got ring pops, and a thrill out of seeing their teacher so happy. See photos from the event at Flickr. -via The Chive

Little Red Riding Hood Is a Jerk Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:00 PM PDT (Chris Hallbeck/Maximumble) Yes, the Big Bad Wolf is the villain of the story, but only because he's just a bit worse than that little brat. She's come all this way just for the pleasure of insulting her own grandmother! Go ahead and eat her.

Bank Error Put $31,000 into Teenager’s Account Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:00 PM PDT First Citizens Bank in Hull, Georgia, has several account holders with the same name. But instead of double checking account numbers, they deposited one man’s $31,000 into the account of an 18-year-old with the same name. The teenager must have felt like he won the lottery, because that’s how he acted. He withdrew $20,000 in cash and spent $5,000 with his bank card. It was March 17, ten days after the deposit, before the original depositor complained to the bank. Only then did the bank discover the error. The suspect came back into the Hull branch on March 18 wanting to withdraw more money, but a teller informed him of the mistake and asked him to return the money, deputies said. The teen then insisted the money was from an inheritance. A deputy went to the teen’s house, where the teen again said he thought the money came from his grandmother’s estate. The deputy told the teen the bank wants the money back as soon as possible, so the teen told the officer he would go to the bank and try to settle the matter without going to jail, according to the report. Did he go to the bank and try to settle up? No. Bank officials are is still waiting, and say they will prosecute if he doesn’t return the money. -via Uproxx (Image credit: Flickr user Andrew MacGill)

Bane Cat Was Born in the Darkness, Molded by It Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:00 PM PDT (Video Link) Calm down, cat owner. Now's not the time for fear. That comes later. Bane Cat will destroy your house. Then, when he is done and your house is in ashes, you will have his permission to die. Robs Rants presents us the great villain from the cat version of The Dark Knight Rises. -via Daily of the Day

Obie the Tiger Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:00 PM PDT Obie is a full-grown tiger who lives at Valley of the Kings Sanctuary and Retreat in Wisconsin. According to his veterinarian, redditor 4CatDoc, he was taken from a drug dealer when he was just a cub. Obie is still alive and well, he is spoiled like a child. Who you have to keep in a cage. Bad analogy. He's treated like young Buddha. Since he was hand-raised by so many people, he gets a 20 pound meat-cake on HIS birthday with fat frosting, stuffed animals (buttons removed) to carry around, and is generally a content tiger. The biggest danger with Obie would likely being played-with-to-death or being layed upon, so no one goes in with him. The drug dealer also had a mountain lion kept in a 6 foot by 6 foot by 6 foot dog kennel in his basement. DEA was shutting him down, but learned he was getting a tiger cub. They arranged with the sanctuary to make sure we had room for after the raid. He was tired and scared and hungry, but adapted very well. The cats, not the drug dealer. Then again, the dealer was likely scared and hungry in prison, but honestly, I hope he did not adapt well at all.   There are more pictures of Obie, including a couple of baby pictures, linked at reddit.

Wu-Tang Clan Takes a Novel Approach to Selling Records By Producing Only 1 Copy of an Album Posted: 27 Mar 2014 06:00 PM PDT (Photo: The Come Up Show) Since 1992, the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan has sold millions upon millions of copies of its musical albums. But the way that people access music has changed a lot since 1992, so the group is adapting. It has produced a new album titled Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Wu-Tang Clan will create only 1 copy of the album.* That's right: just 1. (Photo: Forbes) You will not be able to purchase a CD online or at a physical store. You will not be able to download it online. There's only one copy of the 128-minute, 31-song album. It's in a handmade silver and nickel box in a vault in Morocco. Eventually, the album will be put on display at art exhibitions and music festivals. Later, it'll be up for sale--at a high price. Zach O'Malley Greenburg of Forbes reports: Wu-Tang’s aim is to use the album as a springboard for the reconsideration of music as art, hoping the approach will help restore it to a place alongside great visual works–and create a shift in the music business, not to mention earn some cash, in the process. The one-of-a-kind launch will be a separate endeavor from the group’s 20th anniversary album, A Better Tomorrow, which is set for a standard commercial release this summer. According to RZA and the album’s main producer Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh, a Morocco-based part of Wu-Tang’s extended family, the plan is to first take Once Upon A Time In Shaolin on a “tour” through museums, galleries, festivals and the like. Just like a high-profile exhibit at a major institution, there will be a cost to attend, likely in the $30-$50 range. Visitors will go through heavy security to ensure that recording devices aren’t smuggled in; as an extra precaution, they’ll likely have to listen to the 128-minute album’s 31 songs on headphones provided by the venue. As Cilvaringz puts it: “One leak of this thing nullifies the entire concept.” -via Marginal Revolution *Semantic question: if there's only one physical occurence of the album, then should one say that there are no copies? Doesn't a "copy" imply duplication?

Mousetrap Chain Reaction in Slow-Motion Posted: 27 Mar 2014 05:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) The Slo Mo Guys set up a chain of 150 mousetraps, and set them off manually. Dan doesn’t even have time to withdraw his hands an inch before they all go off! Luckily, only one of them actually trapped him, but that had to be a scary experience. We get to see it in glorious super slo-mo, then in real time, which takes no time at all. -via Viral Viral Videos

Watch This Bridge Collapse with a Single Touch by an Excavator Posted: 27 Mar 2014 04:00 PM PDT A skilled excavator driver has the hands of a surgeon and the soul of a classical pianist. S/he can do amazing things, like pushing a stalled truck or lighting a cigarette. This video allegedly shows one destroying a bridge in Guangxi Province, China. All it takes is one touch in the right spot. (Video Link) Yes, it's possible that there was some preliminary work done by demolitions experts. But I wouldn't rule out the excavator driver. -via Jalopnik

Little Nightmares Posted: 27 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT Little Nightmares by Warbucks Design Aw, lil' babies are so cute - even characters that'll grow up to be nightmares. Grab yours while they're cute! NeatoShop artist Warbucks Design illustrates how you can proudly wear little nightmares on your shirt. Visit Warbucks Design's Facebook page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more dreamy designs: Soldier of Winter - Rogers Got Ink? Misbehave White Rock Candy View more designs by Warbucks Design | 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!

Monster Under the Bed Posted: 27 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT This is an wonderful way to turn a negative into a positive! Parents get the idea sooner or later that making light of a situation does more long-term good than sympathy. Turning monsters into a cause for celebration goes way back, though. Jim Henson did it for years. Comic by Lunarbaboon.

A Stomach Churning Series Of Photographs Posted: 27 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT The best way to see what lies inside your stomach is to get a scalpel and split yourself wide open, or shrink a ship full of photographers down to the size of a pill and swallow them whole. But the best way to see what your stomach acid will do to anything it comes in contact with is to swallow some film and see what happens. That’s the idea behind “I turn myself inside out” by Luke Evans and Joshua Lake- frames of unexposed film were swallowed then retrieved after digestion (nicest way to put it), then the film was examined under an electron microscope and enlarged images, like the one above, were printed. Here's the idea behind the series from the creators: There is a physicality to film that we wanted to explore: the soft emulsion layer, its thickness, the way it reacts to touch and temperature. At this point we were really excited because there was absolutely no way to envision how the results would look, and that no two would be the same: would the film's gelatin content be completely digested by enzymes? Would we ever get the film back? -Via Wired UK

Woman is Launch Pad for Baby Goats Posted: 27 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT (YouTube link) A woman in a goat pen just wanted to watch and pet the kids. But they discovered she is perfect for climbing and jumping off! We just hope she managed to escape without too many hoof marks. -via Arbroath

Photographer Captures The Strange World Of Creative Dog Grooming Posted: 27 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT The world of creative dog grooming revolves around color usage, contour shapes, and other design principles that feel right at home in print but are hard to imagine seeing on your pet. Paul Nathan is a fashion photographer who was captivated by the strange beauty of creatively groomed canines, specifically those who compete in a national competition called Intergroom, so he put his pretty pictures of dogs looking rather ridiculous into a book appropriately entitled Groomed. Dogs that have undergone a creative grooming makeover look fine on stage with the other colorful contestants, but they would look completely ridiculous walking around the neighborhood! -Via Beautiful/Decay

The Happy Trombone Loop Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT (YouTube link) Christopher Bill, a 21-year-old student at the Purchase Conservatory of Music, not only performs Pharrell William’s “Happy,” but also demonstrates the magic of looping by computer. He goes from a simple beat to sounding like a full orchestra in no time at all! If you enjoy this, there’s a ton of other Christopher Bill videos, including trombone lessons. -via reddit

This Elevator Is a Pneumatic Tube That Shoots You Through Your Home Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT (Photo: Dayton Elevator) The company that manufactures it, however, would like to stress that it moves slowly and lacks the speed of a pneumatic tube at a drive-through bank or pharmacy. And the company emphasizes this issue as though it is a selling point rather than a disadvantage. Shoot, aside from the inevitable head injuries and broken bones, that sounds like a lot of fun! Dayton Elevator makes elevators, wheelchair lifts, and stairlifts. Their elevators operate through pneumatic pressure rather than pulleys and weights. The company says that, as a result, they're easier to install than conventional elevators. They also make any home look like the set of a 70s era science fiction show. -via Dornob

He Thought He Was Superman Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT Christopher Reeves was arrested in Utah for DUI and drug charges. He was wearing a Superman shirt at the time.   The 33-year-old Reeves (seen in the above mug shot) was allegedly speeding and driving erratically around 3 AM when Davis County sheriff's deputies pulled over his vehicle. Reeves, who appeared impaired, was arrested after failing a field sobriety test. A subsequent search of his car turned up a large bag of meth, drug paraphernalia, and the synthetic drug Spice. Investigators pointed out that Reeves is not related to the late Christopher Reeve, who portrayed Superman in film. He is presumably also not related to George Reeves, who played Superman in the 1950s TV series. The real Superman would not have needed a vehicle to go that fast. -via Arbroath

Every Spider-Man Ever Will Appear In Upcoming Series Event Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT No other superhero has had as many imitators, incarnations or variations as that wisecracking webhead Spider-Man, and even though it’s hard to keep track of all the men and women who have donned the Spidey suit it’s easy to see why Marvel loves coming up with new versions of their most popular hero. Series writer Dan Slott revealed an upcoming series event called Spider-Verse which will feature “every Spider-Man from every universe” in one big ol’ web slinging bonanza that will start in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man and expand across multiple titles. And what's the best part about this crazy event? Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham will be there!!!! -Via ComicsAlliance

Rescued Dog is Grateful Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT (YouTube link) A dog became trapped in a concrete-walled waterway in Romania. We don’t know how long he was there before two men hauled him out, but it was long enough for the dog to realize he was in danger.  He readily displays the pure joy of being on dry land and was very appreciative of the rescue. Contrast his reaction to that of the cat in Sweden that was rescued by a sailor from under a boat. Dogs cannot hide their feelings. Cat make it an art. That’s a good dog.   There has been much discussion about holding a grown dog by the scruff of its neck. While that isn’t the best way to handle a dog from the dog’s point of view, it is safest for a man approaching a frightened dog he doesn’t know. -via reddit

This Clock Automatically Writes the Time on an Etch A Sketch Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT This ingenious clock by Instructables member dodgey99 turns the knobs on an Etch A Sketch to write the time, then flips over to erase the markings and update. First, he adapted a pre-existing body of code that used stepper motors to write random lines on an Etch A Sketch. He carefully rewrote this code so that it would not only compose specific lines, but reset the stylus on an analog device. Then he used pulleys to connect the knobs to a pair of overpowered stepper motors mounted a frame of acrylic sheets. An Arduino electronic controller directs the motors. Check out the impressive result in action: (Video Link)

ASCII Time Machine Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT ASCII Time Machine by Wirdou Wibbly wobbly timey wimey looks better in the proper character-encoding scheme! Make sure your time travel adheres to the 128-character standard as illustrated by NeatoShop artists Wirdou. Check out Wirdou's official website and Facebook page then head on over to his NeatoShop for more fantastic designs: Chemical Avengers Here Comes The Sun Thorium Chemical Avengers Freedom! View more designs by Wirdou | 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!

North Korean Students Must Get Kim’s Haircut Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT North Korea has rolled out a new edict, stipulating that male college students must wear their hair like Glorious Leader Kim Jong-un. It appears that Kim wants to be a trend-setter, and he has the clout to make it so. But the hairstyle isn’t popular -in fact, it has its own reputation. "Our leader's haircut is very particular, if you will," one source tells Radio Free Asia. "It doesn't always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes." Meanwhile, a North Korean now living in China says the look is actually unpopular at home because people think it resembles Chinese smugglers. "Until the mid-2000s, we called it the 'Chinese smuggler haircut'," the Korea Times reports. Of course, if all college men are wearing the hairstyle for any length of time, it will develop a new reputation, but in the long run, it will not be a good one. -Thanks, Daniel Kim! Update: According to the Associated Press, the entire story is a hoax.

PBS Off Book Examines The Rise Of Video Game Economies Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT (Video Link) The billion dollar virtual economies created by massively multiplayer online video games are something very few people saw coming in the 80s, when video games were just beginning to hold their own against other popular forms of media. Even more surprising is how fast these virtual economies sprang up, and how people around the world are now making a living farming for loot in video games like World of Warcraft and EVE Online. This episode of the PBS series Off Book focuses on the strange virtual economies created by video games, and how this internal economic snafu has become quite a headache for both the game studios and international law enforcement officials. Dern gold farmers, dey tuker jobs! -Via Laughing Squid

What Is It? game 320 Posted: 27 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PDT It's once again time for our collaboration with the wonderfully entertaining What Is It? Blog. Do you know what the pictured item is? Can you make up something wonderfully wacky? That's what we're looking for: the funniest and most creative guesses. We will award t-shirts from the NeatoShop to two commenters who post the funniest or most outlandish use for this thing! Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. You have until Friday evening to come up with great guesses. Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, see? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts? See, you don't have to know the answer to win! And remember, there are more mystery items to figure out at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

A Light to Maximize Your Space Posted: 27 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT Do you use the space in your corners -especially the corner where the ceiling meets the wall? Most of us don't, but designer Tuomas Auvine found a clever way to let us use that space with his fashionable and totally functional 45° lights. They look great in the center of a room, but they really are fantastic for utilizing that underused corner space in your home and the light, which shines in a 45 degree angle really floods your living space with warm, comforting light exactly where you need it. See more pictures and learn more about the unique lamp at Homes and Hues: Make The Most of Your Space With the 45° Lamp

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