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- Rare Pygmy Hippo Baby Born
- Smooth Move: Boy Keeps a Foul Ball, Impresses a Girl Anyway
- Bicycle You Can Fit in a Backpack
- May The Fourth Be With You - What Did He Just Say?
- What If Posters
- A Short History Of Game Panics
- Time Machine
- A Light Switch for a Dog
- Hasbro's Russian Roulette Style Family Game - Pie Face
- LEGO Travellers
- The Begun Of Tigtone Is Dark Fantasy Fun
- Pockets and Women's Fashions
- Biggest Dinosaur Ever Discovered
- Tacookie Suit - Mario Has The Munchies
- Stretched Pikachu Hide
- When Will the Bass Drop?
- For Sale: Dracula's Castle
- 20 Fascinating Facts About The Legend Of Zelda
- <i>Law and Order: Game of Thrones</i>
- Do You Love Science?
- Full Moon Rise Over Golden Gate Bridge
- Heroic Cat Will Throw the First Pitch at a Baseball Game
- Paid Menstrual Leave?
- The 40 Year Old Virgin Is Actually A Horror Movie
- Mister Mouth - Only Dead Men Swim In Pools Full Of Venom
- Clown and Monkey Rob Bank
| Posted: 19 May 2014 04:00 AM PDT
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| Smooth Move: Boy Keeps a Foul Ball, Impresses a Girl Anyway Posted: 19 May 2014 03:00 AM PDT You have to watch very carefully, but it's there. This boy knows how to charm the ladies. This is a scene from a recent baseball game between the Texas Rangers and the Toronto Blue Jays. The boy catches a foul ball. It appears that he then gallantly offers the trophy to a pretty young lady behind him. But he actually palms that ball and hands the girl a non-game ball that he already had. Very good. The Padawan has become the Master. You can watch the full video here. | ||||||||
| Bicycle You Can Fit in a Backpack Posted: 19 May 2014 02:00 AM PDT From Italian designer Gianluca Sada comes The Sada Bike, a bicycle that can fold to the size of an umbrella. The wheels have a hubless design with no spokes, which allows for the deconstructed bike to be more compact than prior folding models of like size. Once completely folded, it is carried in a backpack as seen in the video, and the designer states that it can be carried on during air travel. Though commenters on the YouTube link mention the Lifetime Movie Channel-esque music on the video as well as the folding process not being shown, all seemed interested in the concept of this easily portable bike. Via Laughing Squid. | ||||||||
| May The Fourth Be With You - What Did He Just Say? Posted: 19 May 2014 01:00 AM PDT May The Fourth Be With You by fishbiscuit Holidays, both real and made up, tend to have short and easy to say names like Thanksgiving and Groundhog's Day, but one fan holiday has the longest name of all, because it's a line from a popular sci-fi movie- May The Fourth Be With You. The name is a hit with fans, but one tiny green guy in particular has a hard time saying it properly, and he keeps calling it With You May the Fourth Be, which people don't understand. Looks like there's one little pointy eared master who won't be celebrating on the fourth of May! Celebrate your new favorite holiday the right way- with this May The Fourth Be With You t-shirt by fishbiscuit, it's the perfect attire for the fourth of May, or any day you find yourself with stars in your eyes... Visit fishbiscuit's Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to her Neatoshop for more delicious designs:
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| Posted: 19 May 2014 01:00 AM PDT A couple of years ago, we told you about Photoshop artist Peter Stults and how he re-casts modern movies with classic movie stars of the past. Then he creates vintage posters for the movie in a series called What If Posters. Back then he only had one gallery of such posters. | ||||||||
| A Short History Of Game Panics Posted: 19 May 2014 12:00 AM PDT There's something about the simulated realities presented by video games that have made people who believe they’re the moral majority want to condemn video games from the very begining, and the controversy over kids being corrupted by games began well before Grand Theft Auto hit the store shelves. Video games aren’t the original source of the scare, they’re just the latest in a long line of things blamed for inciting violence in the masses, as shown by the unfounded fear and panic surrounding Dungeons & Dragons in the 1970s. Whatever the reason for the fear, game panic is here to stay, and this irrational fear is the focus of Jesse Walker’s piece appearing in the June 2014 issue of Reason entitled A Short History Of Game Panics. -Via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 May 2014 11:00 PM PDT The latest remix from Pogo (Nick Bertke) is a collaboration with musician Skye to remix Back to the Future using clips of dialogue from the film. The music is soothing, and the video is stunningly crisp. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 May 2014 10:00 PM PDT The lady in the picture with the pink shirt is Heleen. She has limited mobility. Her service dog manages many of her daily tasks. Heleen owns a lamp with a floor switch. Neither she nor the dog can operate it easily. So some of her friends built a solution: a huge light switch. You can find a basic description of it in English at Instructables or a lengthy description in German here. They used a laser cutter to make the wood components. There's a concrete block in the bottom to prevent it from tipping over. Now when Heleen needs to turn on or off the light, she says, "Veritas" and the dog will tap the on/off lever. | ||||||||
| Hasbro's Russian Roulette Style Family Game - Pie Face Posted: 18 May 2014 09:00 PM PDT Back in 1968 Hasbro debuted a game meant to bring families together, a game that revolved around a gag which had been used by clowns for decades- the old pie in the face. What sounded like a good idea to game designers ended up playing out like a clown version of Russian Roulette, so it should come as no surprise that Pie Face didn’t do very well with consumers. Apparently a family who takes “goo in the face” doesn’t spend more time together, and there’s something rather creepy about sitting around waiting for little Suzy or Papa to take a mini pie in the face, especially if they're sporting a maniacal grin like the family on the box! -Via Dangerous Minds (Previously on Neatorama - Pie Face Game) | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 May 2014 08:00 PM PDT When a friend or family member goes on vacation, you are bound to see way too many pictures of them standing in front of wonderful places you’ve never been. Dreaming that it’s you there instead is easier -and funnier- when those travelers are LEGO minifigs. The couple known as the LEGO Travellers are minifigs who take pictures in awesome places around the world and share them with us all. We don’t know if the people behind these pictures are just one person, a couple, or a group, but if it’s anything less than a large group, they sure get around! (The spelling of traveler with two Ls and the areas they’ve been to indicate they may be Australian.) Follow their adventures at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Or you can get an overview of their pictures at Buzzfeed. | ||||||||
| The Begun Of Tigtone Is Dark Fantasy Fun Posted: 18 May 2014 07:00 PM PDT The Begun of Tigtone may sound like a strange title for an animated short, but it’s an appropriately convoluted title that conveys a lot about what to expect from this comedic short directed by Andrew Koehler of Babyhemyth Productions. It’s a parody of the dark fantasy genre, with the cliché anti-hero main character, the video game style questing, and the wizards hard at work wizarding. The Begun of Tigtone is a really entertaining short if you like dark fantasy, and quite innovative in its own right since the animators used a form of 2D mocap animation technology that warped and deformed the character's faces based on motion capture data. (NSFW due to animated violence) -Via Cartoon Brew | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 May 2014 06:00 PM PDT I carry a lot in my pockets and on my utility belt. It would drive me nuts to have to deal with the pocket problems that modern fashion presents to women. My wife informs me that many items of women's clothing include not only tiny, inadequate pockets, but fake pockets. Fake! That would fill me with rage. I wouldn't mind having a marsupial pouch, as Chris Hallbeck of Minimumble suggests. That would let me carry even more gear! | ||||||||
| Biggest Dinosaur Ever Discovered Posted: 18 May 2014 05:00 PM PDT A farmer in La Flecha, Patagonia, Argentina, stumbled upon some ancient bones and paleontologists set to work unearthing them. The team from the Museum of Palaeontology Egidio Feruglio, led by Dr. Jose Luis Carballido and Dr. Diego Pol, have so far dug up around 150 bones, representing the remains of seven individual dinosaurs of a previously-unknown species. And they are bigger than any dinosaurs found before.
The dinosaur species does not yet have a name. One of the scientists said, "It will be named describing its magnificence and in honour to both the region and the farm owners who alerted us about the discovery.” Which rules out “Godzilla,” I suppose. Read more about the discovery at BBC News. -via reddit | ||||||||
| Tacookie Suit - Mario Has The Munchies Posted: 18 May 2014 04:00 PM PDT There was one suit which Mario found to be complete useless for squishing bad guys, one suit that did nothing but give him googly eyes and a wicked case of the munchies-the Tacookie Suit. It was made of blue monster fur and smelled like chocolate chip cookies, and even though it wasn't very good for combat it led to some really fun cookie parties at the castle! Want to power up your wardrobe with the power of cookie? Bring home this Tacookie Suit t-shirt by Baardei, it's the next best thing to wearing a skinned puppet! Visit Baardei's official website and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:
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| Posted: 18 May 2014 04:00 PM PDT A hunter may stretch an animal hide on a wooden rack to prepare it for further processing or for permanent display, such as this polar bear hide pictured below:
Instructables member mosspossum explains that, "as an adult I don't hunt alot but my kids are avid Pokemon hunters. So I figured why not?" Indeed, this is the right way to show your support for your children's hobby. He cut up Pikachu (hopefully getting some good meat), prepared the hide, and attached it to a ring of branches. You can find his instructions here, which are presumably applicable with other Pokémon. | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT A DJ teases a crowd all waiting for the bass to drop. And exactly what do you think will happen when the music gets “turned up to death”? A skit starring Andy Samberg spoofs DJs who have reached rock star status since clubs quit hiring live bands. This digital short from The Lonely Island was on Saturday Night Live last night. Warning: contains fictional carnage. -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT
Now's your chance to buy a stake in Dracula's castle! Bran Castle in Romania, which has existed in various forms since the Thirteenth Century, is for sale. Prince Vlad the Impaler (1431-c.1476), the source of the Dracula legend, was imprisoned there for two months. Much later, Bran Castle was the property of the Romanian royal family. In 1948, the royal family was stripped of its property and driven out of the country. After the collapse of the Ceausescu regime, Romania returned the castle to members of the royal family. Those three property holders are now elderly and would like to turn Bran Castle over to someone else. Mark Meyer, a representative of the sellers, described the possible future of the castle:
Would you like to live in Dracula's castle? -via Ace of Spades HQ | ||||||||
| 20 Fascinating Facts About The Legend Of Zelda Posted: 18 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT For most gamers the mere mention of the title The Legend of Zelda brings to mind the iconic soundtrack from the original NES game, a diminutive pointy eared hero in green, shrub stabbing, chicken tossing and old men in caves who arm kids with swords. The Legend of Zelda is such an iconic video game franchise that most gamers who have played through every one of Link's adventures feel like they know the game quite intimately, but as Gamma Squad has been rather fond of showing us lately there's a whole lot about The Legend of Zelda that has remained relatively unknown. It's not safe to go alone- read 20 Fascinating Facts You May Not Know About 'The Legend of Zelda' and arm yourself with knowledge! | ||||||||
| <i>Law and Order: Game of Thrones</i> Posted: 18 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT
George R.R. Martin's police procedural show is wowing audiences with crime stories ripped from the headlines and compelling characters such as Det. Jaime Lannister. Double Prizes Media made this mashup of Game of Thrones and Law & Order: SVU. Watch the opening credits and a gripping courtroom scene. Warning: you will encounter spoilers if you're not current on the Game of Thrones. -via io9 | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT In just the last few days, the last line of this comic from Cyanide & Happiness has already become internet shorthand for the entire concept. Science is likened to relationships -you can look at someone’s butt as they walk by and appreciate the view, or you can wake up next to the same person for years, even on days when he/she doesn’t look that attractive. | ||||||||
| Full Moon Rise Over Golden Gate Bridge Posted: 18 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT Still photographer and filmmaker Gary Yost beautifully captured a full red moon's rise over the Golden Gate Bridge on May 15, 2014. Set to the tune of "Fly Me to the Moon," covered by fabulous jazz singer and Mrs. Elvis Costello Diana Krall, the video runs at 10x increased speed. Yost shot the footage at Point Bonita Lighthouse, approximately one and a half miles away from the bridge. Via Laughing Squid. | ||||||||
| Heroic Cat Will Throw the First Pitch at a Baseball Game Posted: 18 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT A few days ago, a stray dog viciously attacked a four-year old boy in Bakersfield, California. The boy had to get stitches. But the attack could have ended much worse were not for the heroics of Tara, the family cat. Tara immediately leaped into action to defend her human, attacking and chasing the dog away.
The cat has been widely praised for her quick thinking and courage during the encounter. The Bakersfield Blaze, a minor league baseball team, will honor the cat at its next game by permitting Tara to throw the first pitch. The AP reports:
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| Posted: 18 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT
It’s not even a question in the United States, because we don’t do mandated paid leave at all. What do you think? Read about the policies in place at the Atlantic. (Image credit: Flickr user Lindsay Attaway, cropped) POLL: Is paid menstrual leave for women a good idea? You can check more than one answer.
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| The 40 Year Old Virgin Is Actually A Horror Movie Posted: 18 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT You may remember watching the director’s cut of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and sharing a few laughs with friends, because the final version of the film was released as a comedy, but T40YOV was originally headed in a much darker direction full of murderous subtext and sociopathy. When the filmmakers tested the film with audiences they discovered that audiences laughed at Steve Carrell’s performance no matter how psychotic his character became during the film. They decided to add some haha (LOL) bits and recut the whole thing as a comedy, and this dark secret ended up on the digital cutting room floor- until right this second. Watch The 40-Year-Old act as originally intended- like a psychopath. -Via 22 Words | ||||||||
| Mister Mouth - Only Dead Men Swim In Pools Full Of Venom Posted: 18 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT The merc with a mouth became even more of an annoyance the day he donned that symbiote suit from another world. The suit gave him super strength, venomous breath and a stench that could clear a room! Able to eat more tacos and chimichangas than ever before, Wade embraced his hulking new form, and even started posing for nudie calendars in-between jobs, although he still kept the mask on for good measure. When the merc with a mouth gains the power of venom you call him mister, when they slap his ugly mug on a t-shirt it's called (naturally) Mister Mouth by SilverBaX, wear it and let him do the talking for you! Visit SilverBax's Facebook and Tumblr, then check out his NeatoShop page for other winning designs:
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| Posted: 18 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT Wednesday morning, the Capon Valley Bank in Baker, West Virginia, was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money by a clown accompanied by a monkey. The man wearing the clown mask was also wearing a large nightgown.
The couple’s getaway car was found later, abandoned and on fire. It had been stolen from a car dealership. The robbery was captured on the bank’s video surveillance system. -via Arbroath |
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This is a surprise: some countries have a policy of giving women paid leave from their jobs for “that time of the month.” Is this a well-intentioned perk or sex discrimination? Men cannot take advantage of menstrual leave, but most women don’t need it, either. Japan instituted the policy after World War II; Korea, Taiwan, and Indonesia enacted the policy more recently. Russian feminists rejected the proposed policy. The amount of paid leave varies from two days a month in Indonesia to three days a year in Taiwan.
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