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- Old Spice Goes to Brazil
- Great iPhone Landscapes from Sam Alive
- Surprising Behind-The-Scenes Facts About <i>The Dark Knight</i>
- 15 Pieces of Funny and Sarcastic Street Art by Mobstr
- The Scientific Way to Cut a Cake
- Ten "Sci Fi" Medical Technologies that Lengthen Human Life and Its Quality
- Animal Dance Party
- Ten Tips To Beat The Odds At A Casino
- Why Did It Have To Be Snake? - Puzzling Indiana
- The Story of Sealand
- BooBoo the Guinea Pig and Friends: The Photo Series
- One Last Trip to the Forest
- Life Inside Russia's Secret "Closed" City
- Firefighters Rescue Cat and Cat Rescuer
- Now THIS is a Doctor's Office
- Rap Battle: Newton vs. Nye and Tyson
- Prom Dresses And Tuxedos Made Out Of Duct Tape - 2014 Finalists
- The Birthday Paradox at the World Cup
- Baby Rhino Steals the Show at Zoo Miami
- Ms Galactus - She's On A Strict Asteroid Diet
- Epic Underwater Photo Shoot
- The Treehouse In The Lake
- How to Quantify Failure
| Posted: 18 Jun 2014 04:00 AM PDT Everyone wants to go to Brazil to watch the World Cup. Even Terry Crews of the famous Old Spice commercial (we're glad that he's back - that Mom Song one is *creepy*). So, how would someone as spectaculawesofantastic as Crews go to Brazil? You wouldn't expect him to hop on an airplane and fly there, would you? Nope. This is how he travels: I'd high five my fellow Neatoramanauts, but sadly there'd be no pineapple produced.  | ||||||||
| Great iPhone Landscapes from Sam Alive Posted: 18 Jun 2014 02:00 AM PDT New York City-based freelance photographer Sam Alive's project “Through the Phone” features landscapes and urban cityscapes captured with an iPhone. Adding interest to Alive's photographs is the juxtaposition between the crisp, clear image within the frame of the iPhone camera and the blurred bokeh effect of the real background behind it. “Life is like an adventure, because you never know what is going to happen next; you only have one life, all we can do until we die is live everyday to the best of our ability. As long as I am still alive, I will continue to take pictures everyday of my life.” Visit Sam Alive's Tumblr site as well as his Instagram,Flickr and Facebook accounts to see more of his beautiful photographs. Via Beautiful Decay. | ||||||||
| Surprising Behind-The-Scenes Facts About <i>The Dark Knight</i> Posted: 18 Jun 2014 12:00 AM PDT Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight changed the way the world thought about Batman, giving him a new depth of emotion and melancholia that had been present in the comics for years but had yet to be translated properly to the big screen. The Dark Knight also did a great job of bringing Bat-Mania back in full swing, and now the Caped Crusader is more popular than ever before, with a whole new batch of fans who might not have ever picked up an issue of the comic if they hadn't enjoyed the movies so much. With all this Bat-Mania in the air people tend to think they know all there is to know about the first Dark Knight film, and what it took to bring Batman to the big screen in such an epic way, but as this informative video by Cinefix shows there's a whole lotta stuff going on behind-the-scenes that you might have missed... -Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| 15 Pieces of Funny and Sarcastic Street Art by Mobstr Posted: 17 Jun 2014 10:00 PM PDT We've posted about the witty street art of UK urban artist Mobstr a while ago on Neatorama, but the punny gent has got a few new pieces, so it's worth revisiting. Here are 10 of the most sarcastically funny artwork he's done to date:
After conquering the streets, Mobstr has taken his artwork indoors in a (gasp) art exhibition in London back in May 2014: Take a look at more over at Mobstr's official website | Interview with Arrested Motion | ||||||||
| The Scientific Way to Cut a Cake Posted: 17 Jun 2014 09:00 PM PDT In 1906, Sir Francis Galton proposed a way to cut a round cake so that the exposed inside does not go stale. For some reason, his method of cutting a cake did not catch on. Numberphile explains it to us, which is interesting in a geometric way, but only truly useful for people who have a round cake and find themselves eating it over several days all by themselves. Which is sad. Galton must have been a lonely man. When I bake a cake, there isn’t any at all left by the next day. And if you do eat cake by yourself, here’s a tip: you don’t have to put it in the refrigerator. -via Digg | ||||||||
| Ten "Sci Fi" Medical Technologies that Lengthen Human Life and Its Quality Posted: 17 Jun 2014 08:00 PM PDT
"The average life expectancy is constantly rising as we improve our knowledge of medicine and the human body. We have eradicated diseases, discovered powerful treatments, and figured out how to fix ailments which would have once killed us. Now we’re accelerating even more rapidly in the practice of keeping humans alive, jolting toward something close to immortality with technologies that sound like they’ve been ripped straight from the realm of science fiction." From growing new body parts to printing a human heart, read their list of medical marvels here. Via Unique Daily. | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Jun 2014 07:00 PM PDT Time to get down! The animal kingdom is dancing to “Push It” by Salt-n-Pepa, in this compilation by Robert Jones of Tastefully Offensive. Dogs, cats, birds, insects, seals, turtles, and elephants all get in on the act. Some clips you’ve seen before, but you’ve not seen them like this! -Thanks, Robert! | ||||||||
| Ten Tips To Beat The Odds At A Casino Posted: 17 Jun 2014 06:00 PM PDT Hit any casino floor and you'll find hundreds, if not thousands, of people placing their hope for a better life down on the table, alongside their gaming tokens, hoping to strike it rich but typically leaving with less money than when they arrived. However, if you enjoy gambling at casinos despite the monetary risk there's hope for you yet, as these Ten Tips To Beat The Odds At A Casino from gambling insider Bill Zender (via Mental Floss magazine) will reveal. Tricks like singling out the clumsiest dealer, finding an older roulette wheel and betting on the biased numbers, and always knowing when to say when will keep you from losing your shirt when the house is trying to pick your pockets clean before you leave. | ||||||||
| Why Did It Have To Be Snake? - Puzzling Indiana Posted: 17 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT Why Did It Have To Be Snake? by Doodle Dojo Dr. Jones had always been too busy to bother with video games, because he preferred to spend his retirement reading old tomes and polishing statues, but when he was called back into duty forty years after his last adventure he came face-to-face with the technological age in the temple of Ahtahree. To make matters worse, the game that stopped his comeback square in its tracks was named after his greatest fear-snakes! You don't have to be a famous adventurer, or a retro game enthusiast, to appreciate this clever Why Did It Have To Be Snake? t-shirt by Doodle Dojo, but having a silly sense of humor doesn't hurt! Visit Doodle Dojo's official website, Facebook fan page, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more adventurous 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! | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT You’ve heard of the Sealand, the abandoned World War II sea tower in international waters that was declared a sovereign nation. Still, you’ll enjoy this animated history of Sealand, and the story of the 1978 coup attempt. Sealand is for sale -again- at the price of $906 million. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| BooBoo the Guinea Pig and Friends: The Photo Series Posted: 17 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT
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| Posted: 17 Jun 2014 03:00 PM PDT After a long illness, Ed was diagnosed as terminal, and was referred to Evergreen Hospice of Kirkland, Washington. He confided to their chaplain that he longed to see the outdoors again, because he’d been inside for several years. See, Ed had been a forest ranger, a job he dearly loved. Chaplain Curt Huber contacted the Snohomish County Fire District in Edmonds, to see if they could help.
-via Buzzfeed | ||||||||
| Life Inside Russia's Secret "Closed" City Posted: 17 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT Secrets have been pouring out of Russia like water through a sieve ever since the Iron Curtain collapsed, making it easy to disregard any newly discovered "secrets" as just another batch of sensationalized snack-sized news bites, but in the case of Russia's secret "closed" city Zarechny it's far too surreal of a story to ignore. Zarechny is one of 44 cities which didn't officially "exist" under Communism- they weren't on any map, they were home to over a million people yet the rest of Russia's citizens had no idea about these cities until knowledge of their existence was revealed to the public in 1986, and now they're slowly but surely being opened up to the outside world. Photographer Ksenia Yurkova traveled into the forbidden zone known as Zarechny to snap some amazing pics for The Calvert Journal, and her first indication that Zarechny wasn't like other cities came upon entering the city, which is surrounded by a chainlink fence topped with barbed wire and requires a pass to enter. Once home to "secret government strategic facilities", today Zarechny is home to Rosatom, a "state-owned corporation that manufactures parts for nuclear weapons". Sounds totally legit to me! -Via AnimalNY | ||||||||
| Firefighters Rescue Cat and Cat Rescuer Posted: 17 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT
The report does not specify who owns the cat. -via Arbroath | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT Imgur user Bootlady went to the doctor's office the other day, and snapped this picture of the patient room. 'Twas probably her tenth or eleventh doctor (who? Yes!), and she was amused not only by the "Keep Calm I'm The Doctor" poster, but also this clever little sign below that says "You will obey and wash your hands!" (After all, how else would you EXTERMINATE all those germs?) Funny, the room looks bigger on the inside. And I wonder what they keep in that little TARDIS lunch box? | ||||||||
| Rap Battle: Newton vs. Nye and Tyson Posted: 17 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT This is what you may call old school vs. new school in the Epic Rap Battles of History series when Sir Isaac Newton raps against Bill Nye the Science Guy with help from Neil deGrasse Tyson. No matter how much you like Nye and Tyson, they are operating under a handicap here because Newton is played by Weird Al Yankovic, whose musical talent and experience give him quite the edge in a rap battle. Or something like that. -via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
| Prom Dresses And Tuxedos Made Out Of Duct Tape - 2014 Finalists Posted: 17 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT People were making all kinds of stuff out of duct tape well before Duck brand duct tape started their “Stuck at Prom” contest, which comes with a large cash prize and crafty bragging rights, but every year since their contest began entrants have been stepping up the quality of their wearable tape creations by leaps and bounds. This year’s contest finalists all look pretty darn slick, in outfits ranging from Roaring 20's pinstripe and flapper to frilly brown disco town to fantasy fringe chic by the roll, and they're all made out of 100% duct tape so you know they won't suddenly spring a leak or crack under the pressure of prom night! -Via 22 Words | ||||||||
| The Birthday Paradox at the World Cup Posted: 17 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT
The fact that soccer players were born in the same year is not at all surprising, considering the narrow age range for world-class athletes, but finding the exact results predicted by the Birthday Paradox is rather neat. BBC magazine has more details. -via the Presurfer | ||||||||
| Baby Rhino Steals the Show at Zoo Miami Posted: 17 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT A female black rhinoceros was born at Zoo Miami on May 25th, 2014. A newborn of this highly endangered species is joyous news for all involved, including her parents, Eddie and Circe. Fourteen-year-old Circe carried the baby for approximately 15 months before its birth. The alarmingly low numbers of black rhinoceros are due to continued poaching in Eastern and Southern Africa. The number of rhinos in the wild has been reduced from approximately 100,000 to 5,000 in the last century. They are slain for their horns, which are in demand in some eastern cultures for use as ingredients in traditional medicine and as status symbols. | ||||||||
| Ms Galactus - She's On A Strict Asteroid Diet Posted: 17 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT They say behind every great man stands an even greater woman, and in the case of that purple clad, planet eating gargantuan the apple of his eye also happened to be massive and dressed all in shades of violet. She was the Ms to his universe terrorizing Mr, and when the two met it was like a heart shaped meteoric collision. Celebrate an intergalactic love affair of superheroic proportions with this Ms Galactus t-shirt by Steevin Love, it's the fashionable way to show off your love of comic books! Visit Steevin Love's Facebook fan page and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic 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! | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT Photographer Benjamin Von Wong did what some would call a “fashion shoot” at a sunken ship off the coast of Bali. It’s really less “fashion” and more just plain “art,” as the models are divers, the clothes are not being advertised for sale, and the finished product is just plain awesome. This took a lot of work to pull off. Read how the project came about at Von Wong’s blog. -via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT Treehouses are usually in trees, but this house in the lake is pretty darned amazing even if the only trees are hidden away in the bridge. The Treehouse Solling of Germany sits about 14 feet above the water's surface, offering a great view of the fish, critters and flowers of the forest. Inside, a number of beds and benches make the site cozy, while ample storage makes it a practical place to stay and an impressive skylight makes for incredible stargazing even on chilly nights. Check out more pics of this great vacation spot over at Homes and Hues: A Treehouse That Springs From A Pond | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research. By Martin J. Murphy
This principle allows a single unit- the ‘murphy' -to describe both the magnitude and the probability of a failure.
The murphy is valuable in evaluating statistically the results of experiments. In common usage it is expressed as an inverse unit of confidence, the murphy-1, the so-called "minus murphy." The minus murphy is the probability that the result is correct. Also useful is the murphy-2, the so-called "double minus murphy." The double-minus murphy is the probability that your result is both correct and useful.
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Firefighters in Erie, Pennsylvania, rarely respond to calls about a cat stuck in a tree these days. They normally tell the caller to let the cat comes down by itself. But on Sunday, they responded to such a call, because a woman was also in the tree. Tara Dennis estimates she had gone 40 feet up the tree to rescue a cat that had been crying for a couple of days, but then found she couldn’t get back down. Dennis had entered the tree by climbing up on a roof first.
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The Birthday Paradox states that in a group of just 23 people, the odds that two of those people will have the same birthday is 50%. If the size of the group goes up to 70 people, there is more than a 99% chance that two or more of them will share a birthday -and it is likely that more than one pair will have shared birthdays. 
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The Basic Unit of Failure
Now that we have a unit of measurement, it is possible to develop a mathematical expression of Murphy's Law. I model it on a quantum mechanical formulation, in which the degree to which something goes wrong is the expectation value of the wrongness operator, which is known as a Wrongskian. This defines a failure wave function whose integral over time is identically one, since according to Murphy's Law the probability of something going wrong sometime is unity everywhere.
Interactions of the murphion with normal matter are described by Murphy-Kojak statistics. In this picture, the murphion preferentially fills states of excess arrogance (beginning with the states of Texas and New York) until the Murphy surface-the level of maximum ineptitude-is reached. At this point, the particle begins to fill states of reduced arrogance, such as North Carolina and Iceland, until ultimately every state, province, and principality in the world is saturated with murphion. At the moment of saturation, nothing works and all the physicists get jobs pricing bond derivatives. (The consequences of that will be analyzed in another article as soon as the stock market stops bouncing like a wad of flubber.)
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