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- My Kind of Cat
- The Strange Tale of Britain’s Last Witch
- The Evolution of Pizza
- Old Age Simulation Suit Lets People Experience Aging Before Their Time
- Student Accepted at All 8 Ivy League Schools
- This <i>My Little Pony</i> Tattoo Neatly Summarizes the Brony Mentality
- True Facts About the Octopus
- A Hobbit Hole You Can Really Live In
- I Like My Toast on the Dark Side
- Be Excellent To Each Other
- Silly Walk Road Sign Brings Monty Python to Norway
- Arthur
- This Is Gold-Embossed Toilet Paper
- The Birth of the Lightsaber
- This Man Built a Motorized Model Tank from Amazon.com Boxes
- Funny You Should Ask
- Urged on by His Mom, Man Impulsively Buys Tank
- Introducing Samuel Adams HeliYUM
- That Day When a Professor Pranked the AP
- 25 Things You Might Not Know About The Shining
- Ninja Turtle
- Photographer Makes Fun of Outrageous San Francisco Rent Prices
- Watch This RC Car Go 188 MPH
- Cheeteau: The Cheetos Perfume
- 15 Facts You May Not Know About Diablo
- Airborne Circle of Life
- When an Elephant Falls on You
- Stunning 3D Tattoos Appear to Leap off the Skin
- Rosetta Stone Klingon
- This Artificial Marble Makes for Real Beauty
Posted: 02 Apr 2014 04:00 AM PDT I need this cat. I have lots of yard work to do. If you like this sort of thing, you'll find lots of classified ads, police blotter tales, and bizarre news at Bad Newsaper. | ||||||||
The Strange Tale of Britain’s Last Witch Posted: 02 Apr 2014 03:00 AM PDT You may have thought that witchcraft trials died out hundreds of years ago, but Scottish medium Helen Duncan was prosecuted for being a with in 1944! She was an accomplished performer who drew believers to her psychic appearances and seances by producing “ectoplasm” from her mouth and foretelling the future. But one forecast was so uncanny that it caused an investigation.
Duncan was right, but that information was classified. Was she a spy or a witch? Read about Helen Duncan and her legal troubles at Dangerous Minds. | ||||||||
Posted: 02 Apr 2014 02:00 AM PDT Here we have a history lesson that may make you hungry. That’s okay, just hit the pause button and go get some leftover pizza out of the refrigerator. We’ll wait. Bring me a slice while you’re at it! -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
Old Age Simulation Suit Lets People Experience Aging Before Their Time Posted: 02 Apr 2014 01:00 AM PDT (Photo: The Guardian) What's it like to get old? If you're lucky, you'll find out eventually. But it can be valuable to learn now. Health care professionals in particular can benefit from personally experiencing the struggles of their elderly patients. That's why South Bank University in London acquired a suit designed to simulate the physical limitations that often occur with advanced age. Like something out of "Harrison Bergeron," the suit designed by Wolfgang Moll has weights that wrap around the body, reducing strength and dexterity. Earmuffs limit hearing and special goggles simulate a variety of eye impairments. South Bank University loaned its suit to Josh Halliday, a reporter for The Guardian and a healthy young man. You can watch him struggle to maneuver up and down stairs and along the streets of London. A walk around the block becomes exhausting. -via I Own the World | ||||||||
Student Accepted at All 8 Ivy League Schools Posted: 02 Apr 2014 12:00 AM PDT Kwasi Enin, a senior at William Floyd High School in Shirley, New York, applied to, and was accepted, at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale.
I’ve never heard of someone applying to all eight Ivy League schools. Enin was also accepted at four other colleges as well. Where will he go to school? He hasn’t decided, but is leaning toward Yale. Financial aid offerings may sway his decision. Enin plans to study medicine. -via Uproxx | ||||||||
This <i>My Little Pony</i> Tattoo Neatly Summarizes the Brony Mentality Posted: 01 Apr 2014 11:00 PM PDT Fluttershy is my favorite pony. I'm not alone in that sentiment. Lots of bronies identify with Fluttershy, the gentle pegasus whose Element of Harmony is kindness. My Little Pony tattoos are common. But this one, I think, expresses the basic impulse beneath brony culture. Shakara Tattoo inked it on the arm of DeviantART member Captain Ambivalent. She attributes the line to singer and songwriter Morrissey. ---------- Now permit me to play devil's advocate here: how does being gentle and kind require strength? I'm having trouble making the logical connection. | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 10:00 PM PDT Ze Frank is back with his True Facts series, and it’s about time we learned a little something about the octopus. To be honest, if you’ve paid attention, you’ve heard all these facts before over the years, but there’s something special about the way Ze presents it, giggles and all. Some of the footage is from the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Maybe I should warn you that this video contains scenes of octopus sex, but if you can figure out what's going on in those scenes, you're doing better than me. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
A Hobbit Hole You Can Really Live In Posted: 01 Apr 2014 09:00 PM PDT It's not just a hole in the ground. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole. No, Ashley Yeates built a real hobbit-hole and that means comfort. He's a professional landscape designer. It really shows, as you can see from the above photos. You can see more at his blog, including built photos showing how he built this semi-underground home complete with electricty. Not even Bag End could boast of that! It all began with a dead apple tree. Yeates dug it up, then excavated a hole beneath it. He built a frame with wood and sheet metal and then added polished wood interior furnishings that any wealthy hobbit would be proud of. -via Geek x Girls | ||||||||
I Like My Toast on the Dark Side Posted: 01 Apr 2014 08:00 PM PDT Check out this awesome toaster shaped like Dark Vader’s head! Its heating elements are shaped like Vader’s helmet on one side and the Star Wars logo on the other. Or it might be something like a cattle brand, who knows? The toaster is expected to be available in June and will retail for $50. And with this thing sitting on your kitchen counter, your other appliances will not dare to get out of line. -via mental_floss | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 07:00 PM PDT
Greetings, my excellent friends. It's about time that NeatoShop artist Retro Review travel back in time to create this awesome T-shirt that's top of the world. It's so cool that everybody wants some! This Wyld Stallyns-inspired design is perfect for runnin' with the devil, dancing the night away with beautiful girls in Amsterdam. But don't delay or you can't get this stuff no more. Visit Retro Review's official Facebook page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more - excellent (what else?) designs:
View more designs by Retro Review | 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! | ||||||||
Silly Walk Road Sign Brings Monty Python to Norway Posted: 01 Apr 2014 07:00 PM PDT (Photo: The Local) It looks like the art collective Kreativiteket has blown its chance to acquire a government grant to develop its silly walk. Its members put up this sign at a pedestrian crossing in Ørje, Norway. It is inspired by a classic Monty Python sketch which is embedded below. Kreativiteket had the approval of the local government to install the sign. But anti-silly walk bigotry in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration has reared its narrow-minded head. That agency wants the sign removed and replaced with a standard sign that does not reflect the inclusion of people with silly walks in mainstream society. -via Marginal Revolution | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 06:00 PM PDT Some fantasies may portend more than you’re ready for. A little advice above the future may have saved King Arthur from a lot of grief. Did he get the proper information ahead of time? No. Sure, Merlin confided that being the King of England is an onerous job, but if he’d only told the boy to stay away from women until he found out who their relatives are, the tale may have ended entirely differently. | ||||||||
This Is Gold-Embossed Toilet Paper Posted: 01 Apr 2014 05:00 PM PDT (Photo: Reuters/Michael Dalder) According to a Metro article published a day before April Fools' Day, German designer Fitz Loibl has created toilet paper embossed with gold. He offers a wide variety of logos, including a pair of wedding rings and the words "Happy Birthday." He also offers custom rolls designs generated by his customers, such as initials or faces. Most of Loibl's customers, the Metro reports, are luxury product sellers or luxury hotels. I found this article through a Geekologie post which exclaims "damn rich people." Don't get angry at the ridiculous extravagance of rich people! Think of them as opportunities to exploit. | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 04:00 PM PDT Let's discuss “…chivalry and honor and that sort of thing.” George Lucas tells the story of how the light saber was invented for the Star Wars saga. It was a more civilized way of cutting your enemy in two. Or, as the Star Wars YouTube account said when posting this featurette, “the single coolest weapon in the history of the galaxy.” There’s the concept, and then there’s the nuts-and-bolts problem of bringing this fictional wonder to the screen in the mid-'70s. Lucas tells the story (along with Mark Hamill and Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt), but there are also plenty of movie and behind-the-scenes clips to enjoy. -via Boing Boing | ||||||||
This Man Built a Motorized Model Tank from Amazon.com Boxes Posted: 01 Apr 2014 03:00 PM PDT Upuaza Touryou, a user of the NicoNico video hosting site, ordered an electric motor and a remote controller from Amazon.com, then built a tank from those parts and the boxes that they came in! Check out the impressive video at Kotaku. The model is designed to resemble the Type 97 Chi-Ha, a medium tank operated by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Upuaza Touryou's replica of it took 2 months of work but a mere $14.50 in parts. | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research. by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research staff
Journal after journal refused to publish their paper, giving harsh comments of which this one is typical: “The study itself is too weird, trivial and frivolous to be interesting. Who cares what the result is to such a silly question.”
References Speech bubbles by Speechable. _____________________ This article is republished with permission from the January-February 2006 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. You can download or purchase back issues of the magazine, or subscribe to receive future issues. Or get a subscription for someone as a gift! Visit their website for more research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK. | ||||||||
Urged on by His Mom, Man Impulsively Buys Tank Posted: 01 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT (Photo: Jimmy Johansson) Back when I was in high school, after the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a lot of cheap Soviet military equipment available on international markets. I briefly schemed to somehow acquire a T-55 tank, which were pretty cheap. Alas, tank ownership--a dream of every man--escaped me. But Jimmy Johansson, a 23-year old man from Borlänge, Sweden, is now living that dream. He purchased a PBV 401, a Soviet-designed amphibious armored vehicle. It weighs 12 tons and can travel about 50 miles per hour on land. The purchase cost him a mere 76,000 kronor ($11,700 USD). His saintly mother understood the impulse and supports Johansson's decision. The Local quotes him:
-via Dave Barry | ||||||||
Introducing Samuel Adams HeliYUM Posted: 01 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT Samual Adams Beer is proud to introduce a new brew with an innovative feature: it’s infused with helium! The helium gives it amazing effervescence and a light flavor. It may leave you a little light-headed, too! Sounds like a party to me. -via reddit | ||||||||
That Day When a Professor Pranked the AP Posted: 01 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT After blogging for nearly 9 years, this is still my reaction every April Fools' Day. This day is a minefield for bloggers for obvious reason. But the pain can last even after the day of shenanigans is over, because content and images travel 'round the web for weeks or even months afterwards, detached from their original context. The best April Fools jokes, of course, are those that are feasible enough to be real - and those can be darn hard to spot. In any case, enough grousing. Let me tell you instead of an April Fool's prank that's very meta. In 1983, Boston University professor emeritus of history Joseph Boskin was asked by a young AP reporter about the origin of April Fools' Day. Boskin initially declined, saying that he didn't know much about it, but when the reporter kept on badgering him, he decided to play a little prank. Boskin said that April Fools' Day originated during the reign of Roman Emperor Constantine, when a group of court jesters said that a fellow jester named Kugel could run the empire more efficiently. Constantine was intrigued, so he named the jester king for a day. King Kugel declared that on that day going forward, April 1st would be a day for absurdity. Kugel, of course, is a traditional Jewish dish - that popped in Boskin's head because he has a friend that loved it. Boskin figured that the New York-based reporter would catch on immediately, but "instead, he asked how to spell kugel," Boskin said in a Boston University interview. The AP ran the story, and Boskin started to get calls from the Today Show and other news outlets asking him to get into more details about the origins of April Fools' Day. Boskin played along for a while. Back at Boston University, Boskin used that as an example to teach his class how media can pick up a joke or a rumor and run it as a real story. The lesson was that journalists should question everything instead of relying on experts. Unbeknownst to him, an editor of the university's student newspaper was in attendance, and published the story under the catchy headline of "Professor Fools AP." Naturally, the Associated Press was quite upset. "The AP had a huge conniption when they read this," Boskin told BU Today, "I got an immediate phone call from an editor there, who was furious, saying that I had ruined the career of a young reporter. He said I told a lie. 'A lie?' I asked, 'I was telling an April Fools' Day story.' "The AP always, always checks on stories and for some reason this one fell through the cracks," Boskin says. "It was their fault for not checking the story, and I embarrassed them. But I mean, really — kugel? What reporter from New York doesn't know what that is?" By the way, the young journalist whose career Boskin supposedly ruined? His name was Fred Bayles and he turned out to be all right: he's now an associate professor of journalism in the same Boston University. Want more? See The 14 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time (this little story is #8) | ||||||||
25 Things You Might Not Know About The Shining Posted: 01 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT You may have seen The Shining many times since it came out in 1980, but you still get a chill down your spine when you see it again. The Stanley Kubrick version of the Stephen King novel is a classic. However, there are many behind-the-scenes tidbits that are still surfacing about the production. For example:
You’ll find plenty of other information that may give you a better understanding of the total weirdness of The Shining in a list at mental_floss. | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 09:52 AM PDT Cowabunga, dudes - all that's missing is pizza! NeatoShop artist louisros took a break from building the Technodrome to bring us this nifty design of a ninja turtle. Or is it a turtle ninja? Visit louisros's official Facebook page (give 'im a Like, wontcha?) then head on over to his NeatoShop for more awesome designs:
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Photographer Makes Fun of Outrageous San Francisco Rent Prices Posted: 01 Apr 2014 09:30 AM PDT Can you afford to live in San Francisco? Unless you can live in a mailbox, you might have a hard time finding an affordable apartment. Scot Hampton, a photographer who lives in that fair city, created a series of images that satirizes the high rent prices that residents endure. He placed For Rent signs on dumpsters, mailboxes, and manholes along with captions designed to entice prospective tenants. For example, the above image came with this pitch:
All of which is technically accurate! -via 22 Words | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT RC racing enthusiast Nic Case built a radio-controlled car that can reach 188.87 miles per hour. It's called the Bullet--and it certainly moves like one! Watch the video to see it break a record. -via OhGizmo! | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 08:30 AM PDT This is just what we all wanted: a perfume with the scent of Cheetos! Cheeteau by Chester has a seductive ad that calls it “The scent of hunger.” It will make you smell like a basement dwelling video game geek, even if you aren’t! Popsugar scored an interview with Chester Cheetah about his new fragrance that boasts "buttery notes, accents of sharp cheddar, and a touch of lemon for balance." Just keep in mind that all promotional materials emphasize the availability date of April first. -via the Presurfer | ||||||||
15 Facts You May Not Know About Diablo Posted: 01 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT Diablo is the kind of video game that has tons of crossover appeal, attracting more than just fans of action role-playing games and dungeon crawlers, and the button mashing, monster smashing frenzied melee fighter has evolved quite a bit since the release of the first Diablo game back in 1996. But if the game designers had gone with some of their original plans for the game, like using claymation graphics for the characters or giving the whole thing a time limit, would Diablo have as many fans as it does today? To celebrate the release of Diablo III’s first major expansion Reaper of Souls the diehard gamers at Gamma Squad have put together a list of 15 Fascinating Facts You May Not Know About Diablo. | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT Families have singalongs on car trips to pass the time, and don’t you wish you could get something like that going on a bus or plane? Even if you could get people to sing along, they probably wouldn’t sound all that good. But sometimes you just get lucky. | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT Redditor 12345123451234 (which is probably a throwaway account) posted this picture of a baby elephant who fell down while being petted. Although he probably weighs several hundred pounds, it doesn’t look like he made direct contact on the woman with the bulk of his weight. But his face tells a story! “Derp! I've fallen and I can't get up!” -via Daily of the Day | ||||||||
Stunning 3D Tattoos Appear to Leap off the Skin Posted: 01 Apr 2014 06:30 AM PDT "Sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." If that's not true, you'll be able to convincingly fool people with this tattoo. Lippo, an artist in Fronisone, Italy, inked these amazing tattoos. They appear to pop right out of the skin. You can view more of them here. -via Visual News | ||||||||
Posted: 01 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT It’s about time they offered a Rosetta Stone set to learn Klingon! And who better to endorse the product than Michael Dorn? (In case you're just joining us, he played Worf in two series of the Star Trek universe.) This set, despite the $269 price tag, is sure to be a hit among geeks of all stripes.
Get yours today ("today" being an important word) from Think Geek. So far, the response is pretty much “Please, be real!” and “Shut up and take my money!” Think Geek may have gotten themselves into a worm hole of development that will suck up a lot of time the rest of the year. After all, when an idea is this good, they’ve moved heaven and earth to make it happen for real on severaloccasions. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
This Artificial Marble Makes for Real Beauty Posted: 01 Apr 2014 05:30 AM PDT If you're designing a new structure in an area that requires all new buildings have the appearance of a stone facade, but you want to build something different, what do you do? If you're Wiel Aerts Architects, you just make up your own building material that looks like marble but is made from glass. At least, that's what they did when they designed the Allianz Headquarters. The beautiful marble above is actually glass with multiple layers of white and black dots in it. As if that weren't cool enough, the unique "marble" ends up appearing to be different colors in different lights -as you can see in the images. Learn more about the innovative design at Homes and Hues: Simulated Marble Makes the Allainz Headquarters Something to Remember |
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