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- Resume + Beer = Resum-Ale
- Posters From The World Cup - 1930 to 2014
- Peeling Potatoes by the Bucket
- Magnificent Armoire Is Shaped Like a Beetle
- Meet Kodomoroid - The Android Newscaster Of The Future
- Better than Hollywood Celebs: Father Photoshopped Toddler Into Epic Movie Roles
- Watch This Strongman Pull a Boeing 777
- Kill Bean - Don't Slip And Fall On Your Own Katana!
- Funny Pics of the Day - NeatoPicto June 26, 2014
- Beetles
- Zoo Saves Pudú Fawn Whose Mother Dies After Giving Birth
- Things Only Antisocial People Understand
- Schrödinger's Cat Furniture
- 14 Highly Intellectual Jokes You Probably Won't Understand
- Ben Young's Amazing Glass Sculptures
- Paying the Hit Man
- The Seven Deadliest Fashion Trends
- Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
- Zombie Bottle Opener
- 10 Beautiful, Completely Made-Up Words That Describe Obscure Sorrows
- Nick Offerman Narrates THE GUNFIGHTER
- What Is It? game 333
- Funny Scented Candles with a Dark Sense of Humor
- This Woman Really Captures The Personality Of All Twelve Zodiac Signs
| Posted: 27 Jun 2014 04:00 AM PDT
For a lot of things in life, you never will be ready. The conditions will never be perfect. Other people may have already started. You may be comfortable where you are, but there may be something better elsewhere. So jump! -via Ka-ching!  | ||||||||
| The Greatest Act Of Deception in WWII Posted: 27 Jun 2014 03:00 AM PDT Operation Mincemeat was a elaborately engineered plan to deceive the Axis about the Allied invasion from the Mediterranean Sea. You won’t believe the lengths the British went to in order to bring a fictional soldier to life, despite the possibility that it might not work. Warning: contains one picture of a dead body. -via Buzzfeed | ||||||||
| Sherlock Phrenology - The Lost Art Of Head Mapping Posted: 27 Jun 2014 02:00 AM PDT Sherlock Phrenology by Wharton Upon examination of the great detective's cranial topography it was discovered that his nearly inhuman capacity for solving crimes came from the fact that an unusually large amount of his mental energy is being devoted to deduction, with neighboring regions concerned with detection and sociopathy fueling his drive to solve crimes. That being said, it's alarming how much of this great man's mind is devoted to thoughts about tea and nicotine, and charming that his good friend Watson is also always on his mind! Celebrate the great detectives even greater mind with this Sherlock Phrenology t-shirt by Wharton and maybe you'll discover a thing or two about how your own mind works... Be sure to visit Wharton's official website, Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his Neatoshop for more bold 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! | ||||||||
| 5 Crazy Subcultures Not From Japan Posted: 27 Jun 2014 02:00 AM PDT Ever since photos started circulating through the internet revealing the crazy street subcultures of Japan’s youth people have assumed they’ve cornered the market on strange fashion, but Japan is no longer the king of kooky clothes. Fashion subcultures are springing up all over the world that make most Japanese street fashions look tame in comparison, and the underlying theme seems to be that members of these subcultures stick out like sore thumbs in their chosen "territories". For instance, the rockabilly Raggare of Sweden, who fly confederate flags, sport greaser hairstyles and love hot rods, now that's not something you'd expect to see in Stockholm! The cowboy metalheads of Botswana look equally out-of-place in their native country, but that doesn't stop them from banging their heads to a beat all their own... Read more about 5 Real Subcultures Way Crazier Than Anything From Japan (NSFW due to language) | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Jun 2014 01:00 AM PDT Bearbrick is a toy line by the Japanese company MediCom. The toys in it take the form of anthropomorphic bears decorated to look like popular characters, such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Captain Kirk. Artists have found them to be a great creative outlet. MediCom has released a new line of Bearbricks that not only look like classic Transformers, but actually transform. They’d be perfect for the next Transformers movie! -via Technabob P.S. Be sure to participate in our Transformers: Age of Extinction contest! | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Jun 2014 12:00 AM PDT Tommy Toe Hold brings us a video in which guys doing impressions of Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan provide commentary on MMA video game glitches. Game glitches are always fun, how they break the laws of physics, but seeing two people fighting without even touching and limbs bending the wrong way is just glorious. -via The Chive | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:00 PM PDT When Brennan Gleason got an idea, he sure "hopped" to it. The web and graphic designer and home brewer decided to combine his love of brewing his own blonde ale and his search for gainful employment by making and sending his resumes in the form of a four-pack of beer. Gleason described it as "Resume + Beer = Gleason's Resum-Ale." The designer printed his resume on a specially printed box, while each of the four beer botle labels feature a piece of his work. To add a finishing touch, the bottle cap sports his custom logo. This is so cool we can "barley" stand it! You got a resume mashed up with alcohol? "Ale" take two! Via Design Taxi | ||||||||
| Posters From The World Cup - 1930 to 2014 Posted: 26 Jun 2014 10:00 PM PDT The World Cup is in full swing, and 2014 marks 84 years of the games that FIFA built, the games which are by far the most popular and widely viewed sporting event in the world. Each year talented artists create colorful designs to help promote the competition that truly needs no promotion, their poster art setting a tone for the games, and looking through posters for twenty different competitions spanning eight decades is like taking a trip through the history of modern art. This collection of official FIFA World Cup posters may not accurately reflect the turmoil, controversy and fervor created by the competition, but they're simply delightful to peruse if you're a fan of vintage posters and graphic design. | ||||||||
| Peeling Potatoes by the Bucket Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:00 PM PDT Leo Morten Lund shows us the fast way to peel a lot of potatoes. A Google translation of the original Danish explains.
I’m not all that sure how accurate the entire translation is, but you get the idea. The concept is quite close to how industrial potato peelers work. -via Digg | ||||||||
| Magnificent Armoire Is Shaped Like a Beetle Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:00 PM PDT This woodworking masterpiece is called "BUG." It's a work by True Latvia, a furniture and furnishings studio in Latvia. Janis Straupe built this cabinet shaped like the carapace of a beetle. It unfolds elegantly to reveal drawers and shelves for storage. In an interview, Straupe explained that he wants functional objects to also be playful. He's definitely succeeded. -via Dornob | ||||||||
| Meet Kodomoroid - The Android Newscaster Of The Future Posted: 26 Jun 2014 07:00 PM PDT (Image Via Yoshikazu Tsuno, Agence France-Presse) Newscasters beware- a Japanese news-reading android is coming for your job! Newscasters used to be serious journalists, but nowadays they’re typically little more than a talking head reading from a teleprompter, so it’s only natural that robots would be considered the next step in newscaster evolution. This is the Kodomoroid- an android built by Japanese professor of robotics Hiroshi Ishiguro and arguably the world's first news-reading android. The Kodomoroid is currently gathering data in Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, where it hopefully will not discover artificial intelligence and gain sentience, or we're screwed! Here's the robotics rebel posing next to his creation, which is pleasant looking enough not to scare away viewers, yet creepy enough to remind us that it's capable of singlehandedly becoming our robotic overlord: (Image Via Dailymail UK) It's hard to tell whether he is immensely proud of his newscasting creation, or if he feels like he should apologize to all the human newscasters in the world for bringing about their end-of-days. -Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| Better than Hollywood Celebs: Father Photoshopped Toddler Into Epic Movie Roles Posted: 26 Jun 2014 06:00 PM PDT
Grant Davis (baronvongrant) was impressed at the pose that his 15 month-old toddler Winter struck for a picture and decided that she needed a better backdrop. "I was amused with the pose in this photo so I decided to see how many ways I could work it into various films and make her pose have different contextual meanings: defensively warding off Godzilla, reaching out for a Snitch, blasting a repulsor ray from her Iron Man glove," said Davis to TODAY. The results are absolutely fantastic. Take a look:
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| Watch This Strongman Pull a Boeing 777 Posted: 26 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT Franz Müllner calls himself the “Austrian Rock.” He’s a mountain of muscle that can pull and lift incredible weights. In his latest stunt, Müllner went to the Vienna-Schwechat airport and tied himself to a 142-ton Boeing 777 owned by Austrian Airlines. Then he pulled it 47.5 feet, which is a considerably longer distance than that between you and the TV remote control. Here’s another impressive video showing Müllner holding a Lamborghini against its own thrust. -via Jalopnik | ||||||||
| Kill Bean - Don't Slip And Fall On Your Own Katana! Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:02 PM PDT He had no idea how he'd ended up in this strange and violent movie, but Bean wasn't one to back down, and before long he'd gotten into the swing of things with his trusty katana. He wasn't sure what had happened to Teddy and he didn't much care, because this violent new experience had put the Mr. in his name with a capital M! Mashups don't come much stranger than this Kill Bean t-shirt by Delinquent, throw it on and show the world you're both hilarious and not to be effed with! Be sure to visit Delinquent's official website and Facebook fan page, then head on over to his Neatoshop for more sharply humorous 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! | ||||||||
| Funny Pics of the Day - NeatoPicto June 26, 2014 Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:02 PM PDT If you love funny pics, check out our LOLpic NeatoPicto today for fun stuff like these:
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT Trying to impress the other guys with your hard work and creativity? How’s that working out for you? This scenario is brought to you by John McNamee at Pie Comic. Bonus: In case you didn't like how the story turned out, this comic comes with an alternate ending. | ||||||||
| Zoo Saves Pudú Fawn Whose Mother Dies After Giving Birth Posted: 26 Jun 2014 03:00 PM PDT
Pudús are the smallest deer in the world. Southern pudú are native to southwestern Argentina and Chile. When pudús reach adulthood, they are only about 15 inches high and 20-35 pounds. These animals are classified as a vulnerable species, as their numbers are diminished due to the rainforests of their habitat being cleared for cattle ranches and other land development. See a video of Scarlet at Zooborns. Images Credit: Edinburgh Zoo | ||||||||
| Things Only Antisocial People Understand Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT Working from home can make you feel like a hermit, and totally antisocial, which makes you want to stay home even more, the antisocial cycle beginning anew. Normally socialized folks don’t understand why their antisocial friends never go to clubs or parties, they don’t see the fun in socializing exclusively via the interwebs, and they don't know why antisocial people bother having a phone if they're never going to respond to text messages. If you relate to these antisocial attitudes then your friends don’t understand you, the antisocial you, and they definitely won’t understand the many “things” on this hilariously relatable list of 30 Things Only Antisocial People Understand. | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT Study this cartoon carefully for several seconds and you'll spot the problem. Physicist Erwin Schrödinger was constantly plagued by cats in his office sitting on available furniture and papers. That’s probably why he fantasized about poisoning them with prussic acid. P.S. Be sure to read our interview with Chris Hallbeck, the artist who drew this cartoon. | ||||||||
| 14 Highly Intellectual Jokes You Probably Won't Understand Posted: 26 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT    Despite the title, I believe most of our readers would get the majority of these jokes, culled from reddit and illustrated by Max Knoblauch. See the rest of the 14 at Mashable. -via mental_floss | ||||||||
| Ben Young's Amazing Glass Sculptures Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT Ben Young is an artist from the North Island of New Zealand. He lives in Sydney, Australia. From his studio there he hand cuts sheets of glass and layers them together to form three-dimensional sculptures. When properly illuminated, they become vivid images of waves and the human body. Young's creative work is labor-intensive. But as you can see, the results are breathtakingly beautiful. -via Fubiz | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT A man hires a professional killer to get rid of a business associate in this sketch from Fancy Boy, a comedy TV show in Australia. As the terms are negotiated, each tries to outwit the other. Or, to be exact, they aren’t trying all that hard. Someone didn’t think their plan through well enough ahead of time. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| The Seven Deadliest Fashion Trends Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:30 AM PDT People have been sacrificing comfort, physical appearance and unbroken bones in the name of fashion for centuries, and even though it seems like we should know better by now people still stuff, cram, wedge, tuck, crush and squish themselves into ill-fitting clothes in order to stay fashionably current. However, people don’t generally die trying to cram themselves into a pair of skinny jeans, but there have been fashion trends throughout history that were quite deadly, and unlike the Deadly Fashion Trends Miss C posted a while back this particular group killed fashionistas with chemicals and toxins. A shade of dye created with arsenic called Paris Green, nitrobenzine shoe polish that soaked into the wearer's feet and made them lose consciousness, and glowing hair created by brushing in radium laced paint are just a few of the ways people once died to look good and stay trendy. Read more about the 7 Deadliest Fashion Trends Of All Time at io9 | ||||||||
| Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT This SciShow video presents some interesting facts about Chernobyl and the area surrounding it, including a discussion of the plant life, large wildlife population and chemical makeup. In spite of the 28 years that have passed, the danger to all forms of life has not diminished. In some ways it continues to rise. An example would be when risk projections of human cancer cases due to the accident are factored in (an estimated 16,000 cases of thyroid cancer and 25,000 cases of non-specific type cancer by 2065, according to a peer-reviewed report in the International Journal of Cancer). | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT Zombies make wonderful summer house guests because:
Invite a Zombie into your home today. You won't live to regret it! The Zombie Bottle Opener from the NeatoShop is shaped like a friendly zombie. Each Zombie Bottle Opener is sold individually. This item is handcrafted in the USA by local artisans. No two are exactly alike. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Zombie stuff. | ||||||||
| 10 Beautiful, Completely Made-Up Words That Describe Obscure Sorrows Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT Words can't describe* the joy I feel when I ran across John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows website, which is dedicated to coining new words that define specific types of sadness. Like the pain of realizing that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore (nodus tollens), the frustration of knowing how easily you fit into a sterotype even if you never intended to (mimeomia), or an imaginary conversation with an old photo of yourself (daguerreologue). *At least until Koenig starts another website, dedicated to coining new words describing specific types of joys. The first question people would ask when they run across one of Koenig's words is whether they are made up. The answer is simple: Yes, these are made up words - but they're carefully made up words. Koenig (who "enjoys piano jazz, deep image poetry, wines of indeterminate types, canyons and nostalgia - just the sorts of stuff you'd expect from an expert wordsmith) crafts each words carefully with proper etymology - things like word roots, prefixes, suffixes and so on. Koenig stated that each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language, to give a name to an emotion we all feel but dont' have a word for. The second question is implicit in the first one: whether they should use Koenig's made up words in real life. The answer is equally simple: Yes, because aren't all words made up in the beginning? Koenig quoted lexicographer Erin McKean, founder of Wordnik and previous editor in chief of US Dictionaries for Oxford University Press and principal editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd ed.): "People say to me, 'How do I know if a word is real?' You know, anybody who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it—that makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an arbitrary distinction; it doesn't make a word any more real than any other way. If you love a word, it becomes real." So, without further ado, here are 10 of the most beautiful completely made-up words that describe specific, obscure sorrows: 1. Sondern. The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. 2. Vemödalenn. The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself. 3. Vellichorn. The strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured. 4. Ketan. An image that inexplicably leaps back into your mind from the distant past. 5. Mal de coucoun. A phenomenon in which you have an active social life but very few close friends—people who you can trust, who you can be yourself with, who can help flush out the weird psychological toxins that tend to accumulate over time—which is a form of acute social malnutrition in which even if you devour an entire buffet of chitchat, you'll still feel pangs of hunger. Koenig explains mal de coucou further when a fan asked the origin of this curious word. 6. Catoptric tristessen. The sadness that you’ll never really know what other people think of you, whether good, bad or if at all—that although we reflect on each other with the sharpness of a mirror, the true picture of how we’re coming off somehow reaches us softened and distorted, as if each mirror was preoccupied with twisting around, desperately trying to look itself in the eye. 7. Kenopsian. The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet—a school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds—an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs. 8. Anchoragen. the desire to hold on to time as it passes, like trying to keep your grip on a rock in the middle of a river, feeling the weight of the current against your chest while your elders float on downstream, calling over the roar of the rapids, “Just let go—it’s okay—let go.” 9. Kairosclerosisn. The moment you realize that you're currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it's little more than an aftertaste. Koenig explains further: "Kairosclerosis is from the Greek: kairos, “the opportune moment” + sclerosis, “hardening.” The Ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. Chronos is quantitative and linear—the ticking of the Western clock. Kairos is more qualitative, referring to moments that are indeterminate and sublime, when something special happens, when god speaks or the wind shifts, when a door is left open between one minute and the next. " 10. Heartwormn. a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire. View more over at John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. | ||||||||
| Nick Offerman Narrates THE GUNFIGHTER Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT Moustachioed macho man Nick Offerman has one of those faces, and personalities, that totally belongs in a Western flick. Couldn’t you just see him playing an old prospector/curmudgeon, or the newly elected sheriff of a small town, or perhaps the leader of a bandit gang full of ornery varmints? Well, you're just gonna have to wait for another Western to come out with Nick in it if you wanna see him on camera, because in The Gunfighter he plays the role of The Narrator- a narrator heard by both the audience and the characters. This hilarious short was written by Kevin Tenglin and directed by Eric Kissack, and the only thing this bawdy Western short is missing is a cameo appearance by Nick's moustache! (NSFW due to language) -Via GeekTyrant | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2014 07:30 AM PDT Now it's time for our collaboration with the amazing What Is It? Blog! What is this object in the picture? You don't have to know to win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! | ||||||||
| Funny Scented Candles with a Dark Sense of Humor Posted: 26 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT There are pleasant-smelling scented candles for festive, restful, and romantic moods. But who actually lives a life that has moments like that? Flick Candles is a company that produces scented candles for the rest of us. The company suggests that giving one as a gift can be a way to acknowledge the pain of a friend who's struggling:
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| This Woman Really Captures The Personality Of All Twelve Zodiac Signs Posted: 26 Jun 2014 06:30 AM PDT The pick-up line “what’s your sign?” may have gone out of style in the 70s, along with the Pet Rock and macramé wall art, but people still groove on the zodiac as a happenin' way to get some guidance about which long, strange trip to go on, and where that wavy gravy road will lead. Debra Silverman is an astrological professional who offers zodiac related advice, like when you should dig everything and everyone or when to stay inside because your bad moon is rising. Debra also happens to be a psychotherapist, so she's able to provide even more insight into the minds of the twelve different personality types. Apparently she's also an actress, and as you'll see in these videos she can bust out a zodiac personality type like nobody's business! Personally, I'm a Gemini, and her performance of my Zodiac Personality In Action is spot on: However, I've known plenty of Scorpios, many of my best friends are Scorpios, so I can safely say there's something about this Scorpio Personality In Action that seems a bit off: What do you totally right on readers think? Was Debra's analysis of your sign mind blowing and like wow, man, or does her astrological chakra need a bit of fine tuning? Check out all of Debra's totally uncanny personality performances here and see if she captures the zodiac side of you! |
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