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- If Ayn Rand Had Written <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>
- Add Your Dot
- Bending The Fourth Wall - The Future Of Mercenary Technology
- One Woman, Seventeen Different British Accents
- This is a Tower of 18,180 Pieces of Confetti in a Straight Line
- Southwest Flight Attendant Speech
- Cubicles & Careers - The Fantasy Creature's Answer To D&D
- Garfield in Real Life
- Cosplayers Who Look Exactly Like Disney Princesses
- A Good Man
- Help Wanted: Socially Outgoing Hermit
- A Four-Camera 360° Panoramic Time Lapse of the Night Sky
- How Russia's Shared Kitchens Helped Shape Soviet Politics
- Rubbish Bin Lads: Doctor Spew - Who Fed Him The Little Fat Guy?
- Keep Your Soul Warm With The Mercury Retrograde Body Mitten
- Sea Slugs: Don't Hate Them Because They're Beautiful
- Cat Welcomes Soldier Home
- Isaac Hou's Incredible Ring Acrobatics
- An Eclectic Collection Of Rare Historical Photos
- Art Made with Smoke in a Bottle
- Vegetarian Water
- Fanny And Stella - Two Victorian Gentlemen Who Shocked England
- <i>Nosferatu</i> Condensed Into Four Minutes
- Archaeologists Discovered Remains of "End of World" Plague
- Mr. Bane - A Dark, Demented Comedy Of Errors
- The 7 Types of Annoying Internet Commenters
- A Shot, a Bite and a Sight: Cool Restaurant and Bar Interiors
- Science Dips into Water's Mysterious "No Man's Land"
- 9 Houses That Have Slides Inside Them
| If Ayn Rand Had Written <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> Posted: 21 Jun 2014 04:00 AM PDT Three weeks ago, Molly Ortberg of The Toast amused us by retelling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as though it had been written by the philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand. She's working her way through all seven of J.K. Rowling's famous fantasy series in this manner. So far, she has also composed Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Collectivism. Ortberg took a break from that project to reveal the Objectivist wisdom in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Here's a selection from Alice's confrontation with the Duchess:
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| Posted: 21 Jun 2014 02:00 AM PDT Redditor SipTime is staying at a hostel, presumably in Japan. They keep track of how many people visit from different countries with this graph, in which you can clearly see the differences in cultures. That’s assuming that visitors put their own dots on the graph, but I can’t figure out how it happened any other way. See it full-size here. | ||||||||
| Bending The Fourth Wall - The Future Of Mercenary Technology Posted: 21 Jun 2014 12:00 AM PDT Bending the Fourth Wall by Doodle-Heads They've gone and done it now- the merc with a mouth has been combined with the drunken robot who loves to run his vocal unit and now we have one mighty mischievous madman on our hands! He jumps through universes like he's leaping over a wall after robbing a house, and those chimichangas he's always chomping down on have given him a seriously fiery case of gas! Bring an exciting new dimension of geekiness to your wardrobe with this Bending the Fourth Wall t-shirt by Doodle-Heads, it's the colorful way to tell the world to bite your shiny metal taco! Visit Doodle-Heads's Facebook fan page, official website and Twitter, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more hilariously heroic 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! | ||||||||
| One Woman, Seventeen Different British Accents Posted: 21 Jun 2014 12:00 AM PDT The United Kingdom has a very diverse populace, home to a wealth of very distinct regional accents, and a well seasoned ear can tell a lot about from whence you hail simply by hearing you speak. Siobhan Thompson of Anglophenia is a gal who is quite familiar with the diversity of accents available for your listening pleasure in the U.K., and she’s mastered seventeen different British accents so she'll fit right in no matter where in the Kingdom she may roam. Listen as she takes you on a tour of her beloved Brittania, you might just learn how to make your bad imitation of a British accent into a smashing success! -Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| This is a Tower of 18,180 Pieces of Confetti in a Straight Line Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:00 PM PDT Confetti is usually a mess. That's why (except for the cleanup) it's so much fun! But Lenka Clayton, a conceptual artist from the UK, neatly arranged thousands of pieces of confetti measuring 1.5 cm across in a tower that is 1.9 m tall.
Clayton calls it, appropriately, Confetti Stack. It's on display at the CEEAC art show in Strasbourg, France. | ||||||||
| Southwest Flight Attendant Speech Posted: 20 Jun 2014 10:00 PM PDT David London lucked out Tuesday and got a pre-flight safety talk from a Southwest Airlines attendant who spiced up the monologue way more than usual to get people’s attention. We’ve seen various attendants do this in various ways, but I’ve never been lucky enough to encounter one in real life. That’s another reason to be thankful for the internet and other people’s video-recording phones. Honestly, don’t disable the smoke alarm in the toilet, because it’s a $2,200 fine. And if you have $2,200, you’d be in first class on United Airlines. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Cubicles & Careers - The Fantasy Creature's Answer To D&D Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:00 PM PDT We all know what roleplaying game players do when they’re bored- they let their minds go on a grand adventure, where perilous journeys await and the laws of fate are governed by the roll of polyhedral dice. So what are fantasy creatures like elves and orcs doing on the other side of the looking glass while we imagine slaying them for the sake of xp? They’re sitting around roleplaying as boring humans, of course! When your world is full of dangerous adventures and magical treasures mundane things, like asset allocation reports and water cooler small talk, can seem like a strange adventure, and the new webseries Cubicles & Careers captures the excitement of boring human roleplaying perfectly. The series was created by Murray Triplett and Greg Johnson of FantasyCon, and so far it looks like a fun way to keep your eyeballs entertained in-between random encounters and combat rounds. -Via GeekTyrant | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Jun 2014 08:00 PM PDT Jon Arbuckle has a cat that talks to him and eats lasagna. In this funny clip from The Pete Holmes Show, Dr. Liz Watson, Garfield's veterinarian and Jon's long-term love interest, voices her objections to this lifestyle. Jon is single for a reason. -via 22 Words | ||||||||
| Cosplayers Who Look Exactly Like Disney Princesses Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:00 PM PDT (Image Via Adella) (Image Via Traci Hines) (Image Via Ryan Astamendi Photography) Disney princesses have undergone all sorts of remixes and treatments, they’ve even been gender swapped and imagined as animals, but actually bringing these animated characters to life is another matter entirely. However, thanks to the concerted efforts of Disney loving cosplayers who happen to look exactly like the characters they’re portraying, we now have a really good idea of what these beloved animated characters would look like in real life. Check out this amazing collection of spot on cosplayers portraying Disney's leading ladies and see what these characters would look like in real life. | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Jun 2014 06:00 PM PDT When you hear that StoryCorps music start, you know you’re gonna tear up inside a little. Or maybe a lot. Their latest animation is the story of Bryan Wilmouth and his brother Mike who reconnected after Bryan was thrown out of the family home for being gay. And it wasn’t just the two of them who were separated -Bryan was the oldest of eight siblings. | ||||||||
| Help Wanted: Socially Outgoing Hermit Posted: 20 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT Pictured above is the Hermitage of St. Verena in Solothurn, Switzerland. A hermitage is the residence of a hermit, which is a religious vocation in the Catholic tradition. This one is a small house built into the face of a rocky gorge. It was built to honor St. Verena, a Fourth Century saint. For several hundred years, hermits have lived there. Like other monks, they take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They're supposed to live solitary lives of devotion and labor. But the hermitage has become a popular tourist destination. So many people visit that the most recent hermit quit in frustration. The city is now looking for a new hermit. Specifically, its wants one who is a bit more extroverted. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Modern hermits are often publicly accessible. In fact, some use social media. Rachel Denton, a hermit in the UK, uses Facebook and Twitter as part of her work:
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| A Four-Camera 360° Panoramic Time Lapse of the Night Sky Posted: 20 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT The night sky is a glorious sight that can be a challenge to capture with a camera, but it's photographer Vincent Brady's specialty. He shoots using various techniques, closeups, long exposures, time lapse and infrared included. Yet according to Brady, he's best known for the beautiful shots he acquires using the following method:
Brady spent over a year shooting footage for and editing the video. Visit his website to read more. Via Colossal. | ||||||||
| How Russia's Shared Kitchens Helped Shape Soviet Politics Posted: 20 Jun 2014 03:00 PM PDT After the Soviet revolution, large single-family homes of the formerly wealthy were subdivided into apartments, or even shared rooms, for many families -and they had to share the kitchen, too. No one chose their housemates, which led to conflict, setting up rules, and systems worked out to get everyone fed.
The communal kitchens were discouraged under Stalin because it was a place people could gather to talk politics. And as the regime grew more totalitarian, the unity of the proletariat that founded the Soviet Union was seen as dangerous to those in power. The story of the communal kitchen follows the history of the USSR, and you can get a good overview of that kitchen and its history at NPR. -via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Rubbish Bin Lads: Doctor Spew - Who Fed Him The Little Fat Guy? Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT Rubbish Bin Lads: Doctor Spew by Gimetzco! Time travel can be really hard on your gutty wuts, and even the lord of time they call the doctor has a hard time hanging on to his lunch after a bumpy ride in his blue police box. You'd better have a rubbish bin ready for the good doctor when he arrives, because you know who is gonna lose his lunch! Show the world you're sick with doctor fever with this delightfully gross Rubbish Bin Lads: Doctor Spew t-shirt by Gimetzco!, it's retro in all the right ways! Visit Gimetzco!'s Facebook fan page, official website, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more barf-tastic designs:
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| Keep Your Soul Warm With The Mercury Retrograde Body Mitten Posted: 20 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT When sitting at home alone isn’t enough, and you need an even deeper sense of isolation yet don’t want to sacrifice comfort for loneliness, then you need the Mercury Retrograde Body Mitten. It’s the warm and wooly full body covering sweater that will swallow you up in knit comfort, separating you from the world of the cold and uncozy. The Mercury Retrograde Body Mitten was made to “contain and counteract the powerful negative mental and energetic effects of Mercury retrograde”, according to writer/astrologer Alan Annand, who goes on to state that each garment is “hand-knitted by celibate Virgos using hypo-allergenic squirrel wool inter-woven with strands of unicorn hair that were marinated in lavender oil infused with emerald powder.” The Mercury Retrograde Body Mitten, it’s not just a sweater- it’s a lifestyle. | ||||||||
| Sea Slugs: Don't Hate Them Because They're Beautiful Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT
These brightly colored, beautiful creatures look as if someone carefully designed their markings. There are thousands of sea slug species known in the world, and many likely remain undiscovered. Each sea slug has both male and female reproductive organs and releases eggs into the water in clusters, which can contain thousands of eggs. See more photos at i09
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| Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT Who says cats don’t express happiness when their owners have been gone awhile? Finn the rag doll cat is excited that Nick is coming home from a military drill that took him away for some time. This scenario was delayed a bit to see how the cat reacts, so be patient. The door will open eventually. -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| Isaac Hou's Incredible Ring Acrobatics Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT Isaac Hou is a street performer, acrobat, and juggler in Taiwan. His signature work uses a Cyr wheel--a steel and PVC ring that weighs 15 kg. Hou is also a master of contact and torch juggling. Here's a video showing him busking in Taipei. It's all amazing, but I'm especially impressed with his performance beginning at the 2:30 mark. Hou is contantly in motion and mesmerizes the crowd. But Hou isn't limited to work on the street. He's increasingly in demand to perform before live audiences across the globe. It's been a long journey that began in New Jersey, where his parents raised him. They wanted him to be an engineer or work in some other conventionally professional career. But Hou wasn't satisfied with that lifestyle. A 2010 article in the Taipei Times reports:
Eventually, Hou worked as a juggler's assistant in London. He figured that he could do that work well, so he studied at circus schools in Denmark and Russia and learned his trade. You can watch more videos of Hou in action at Kotaku. | ||||||||
| An Eclectic Collection Of Rare Historical Photos Posted: 20 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT Historical photo collections are a dime a dozen, and often contain about twenty five percent new material and seventy five percent which has been reposted ad nauseam. This collection definitely contains previously posted historical photos, but the ratio is much closer to fifty-fifty in this set, and the rarely seen photos included in this set are rather special. So you may be asking yourself "What rare photos do I get to see in this particular historical photo collection?" You get to see a shirtless Che Guevara sucking down a tasty beverage, Patton’s dog mourning his master’s death, and a bunch of dusty British SAS blokes just back from patrol in North Africa during World War II. Basically you get an extremely eclectic collection of photos that's not only fun to peruse, it’s guaranteed to contain at least a few photos you’ve never seen before! Check out this fun collection of rare historical photos | ||||||||
| Art Made with Smoke in a Bottle Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:30 AM PDT
Dingilian’s work overall focuses on subtractive images created on found objects. The artist explains his thought process, which strikes me as being remarkably similar to film director David Lynch:
To explore sites with more artwork by Dingilian, visit McKenzie Fine Art and the Packer Schopf Gallery. Via Twisted Sifter. | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT Prestige offers “Pure and Vegetarian” water. Really. The idea proffered is that when you drink regular water, you are ingesting bacteria and viruses, which are “animals.” When you drink chemically purified water, you are ingesting dead-but-formerly-living animals, which is not vegetarian. So you should buy water in which all the dead critters, no matter how small, are filtered out. | ||||||||
| Fanny And Stella - Two Victorian Gentlemen Who Shocked England Posted: 20 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton didn’t quite look like average ladies in Victorian era England, there was something a bit different about their appearance and their attitudes, and even though it’s hard to immediately tell from an old photo Fanny and Stella are actually men dressed in drag, Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park, arguably the first example of those we now refer to as drag queens. In an era characterized by sexual oppression, puritanical beliefs and delicate social standards Fanny and Stella shocked the norms with their flirtatious manner when dressed in drag, and men responded quite favorably to their advances, but their flamboyant behavior ultimately got the pair arrested and sparked one of the most sensationalized episodes of the era. They attended a performance at the Strand Theater dressed as men, then changed into their frilly frocks while at the theater, unaware that they were being watched by a police man. He arrested the duo just as they were about to leave in a carriage, on the charge of "conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence", most likely because they were keeping some rather auspicious men company. The subsequent trial became quite the scandalous media spectacle, and even though the two were eventually found not guilty and released their public shaming and mistreatment would foreshadow the long, dark road ahead of openly homosexual men and women who simply want to be free to live their lives however they see fit. And now we have a show called RuPaul's Drag Race on cable TV...we've come a long way! Read more about the strange case of Fanny and Stella over at Dangerous Minds | ||||||||
| <i>Nosferatu</i> Condensed Into Four Minutes Posted: 20 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT The 1922 German expressionist movie Nosferatu is a classic horror film, but it’s an hour and a half long. Of course, everyone should see it all the way through at least once, but if you’ve seen it before, you can relive the experience by watching this four-minute version. And, sadly, if your busy schedule and/or attention span is too short to ever get around to watching the original, this may be the closest you’ll ever get. | ||||||||
| Archaeologists Discovered Remains of "End of World" Plague Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:30 AM PDT
It's like a plot straight out of the movies: archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the remains of an epidemic so terrifying that it was called the "end of the world" plague. Between 250 to 271 AD, the Roman empire was afflicted by the Plague of Cyprian - named after the bishop of Carthage St. Cyprian, an early Christian writer who described the horror of the disease, which at its height killed 5,000 people a day in Rome:
Fast forward to today, when a team of archaeologists working at the Funerary Complex of Harwa and Akhimenru in modern-day Luxor (then Thebes), have uncovered bodies covered with a thick layer of lime (which the Romans used as disinfectant), kilsn where the lime was produced, as well as a giant bonfire where plague victims were incinerated.
Francesco Tiradritti, director of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Luxor, told LiveScience that his team found evidence of corpses burned or buried inside the lime without receiving any religious rites. "They had to dispose of them without losing any time." Usually, these kinds of stories ended up with scientists attempting to extract plague DNA from the corpses (what could possibly go wrong with that?), but Tiradritti noted, "In a climate like Egypt, the DNA is completely destroyed." Read more about the archeological findings over at LiveScience. | ||||||||
| Mr. Bane - A Dark, Demented Comedy Of Errors Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT That strange old boy they call Bean appears to have lost his mind, perhaps because he fell on his head one too many times, and now poor Teddy is along for one strange ride! Bean has become the bane of existence in the big city, where's a giant bat when you need one?! Celebrate British comedy so good it's criminal with the Mr. Bane t-shirt by triagus, it's a different kind of mashup and may make your friends do a spit-take when they see you sporting it about town. Visit triagus's Facebook fan page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more villainously vibrant 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! | ||||||||
| The 7 Types of Annoying Internet Commenters Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT Julia Lepetit and Andrew Bridgman give us seven kinds of internet commenters to watch out for, lest you be drawn into an unfruitful and frustrating exchange that will raise your blood pressure. See all seven kinds at Dorkly. They left out The Lurker, which is only outnumbered by those who don’t ever read comments. Then again, I guess The Lurker is not really a commenter, much less an annoying commenter -just someone who learned their lesson about fruitless engagement. | ||||||||
| A Shot, a Bite and a Sight: Cool Restaurant and Bar Interiors Posted: 20 Jun 2014 06:30 AM PDT
The reviewer revealed the same drawback to this venue as I experienced with the popular spots on my recent trip to San Francisco:
See this article for pictures of 20 restaurant and bar designs that are crowd pleasers, from the Blue Frog Lounge to the Truth Coffee Shop in Cape Town, South Africa (pictured below), a steampunk-themed coffee shop inspired by designer Haldane Martin's thought that the form of espresso machines and coffee roasters shared similarities with the Victorian futuristic fantasy style of the steampunk aesthetic.
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| Science Dips into Water's Mysterious "No Man's Land" Posted: 20 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT
Quick, how many phases of water are there? If you answer three - liquid, solid, and gas - you'd be wrong. There are at least 5 distinct phases of liquid water and 15 distinct phases of ice that scientists know about, as we've told you before in our post 5 Really Weird Things About Water. Now, thanks to some fancy X-ray technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have probed the structure of liquid water in a certain region of temperature and pressure where things really get weird. According to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory:
Read more about it over at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. | ||||||||
| 9 Houses That Have Slides Inside Them Posted: 20 Jun 2014 05:30 AM PDT If you have a two-story home, you typically need stairs, a ladder, a ramp or an elevator to get up to the next floor, but going down can be a lot more of an adventure -especially if you revert to the old playground favorite, the slide. Over on Homes and Hues this week, we rounded up 9 Houses With Slides Inside so you can recall your childhood dream of having just such a home. The slides are all fun-looking, but many of them are suprisingly sophisticated, showing that adding a little creative flair to your home doesn't mean it has to look like a playground. In fact, some of these places are downright chic. Chic or not, I'd love to live in pretty much any of these awesome homes. How about you guys? |
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