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- Former Disney Animator Is Back With Beautiful Short Film - DUET
- Softball Camp Teams Amputee Kids with Amputee Veterans
- What Drowning Really Looks Like
- Rice Krispie Treat Hamburger with Bacon and Peanut Butter
- Bites of Fright by Christine McConnell
- How to Sleep on an Airplane
- These Superhero Pets Have One Super Power: To Make You Squee with Glee!
- Road Raging Motorcyclist Gets Instant Karma
- Shane, Please Stop
- Magic Red Cards
- A Children’s Zoo Hand-Raises a Baby Wallaby
- Solar Flare Eruptions Photo from NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
- ABC Meats: All Best Cutz
- NeatoPicto Funny Pictures of the Day
- Rolo Cheesecake Bars
- Mechanical Objects With One and Only One Purpose: To Hold Themselves Up
- Excavator Mulcher Eats Trees
- Authors Dressed Up As Their Favorite Characters
- Ten Saintly Sweets
- Swing on Your Lawn with the Field Hammock
- Putting on Pants Using No Hands
- FINALLY! A Stylish Hat Helmet (or is it Helmet Hat?) for Bicyclists
- Life in the Abyss
- The Dark, Sexy Polaroids Of H.R. Giger
- Whodunit: High-Rise Homicide
- This Spinning Chair/Sculpture Lets You Rotate Your Views
- Bizarro: Diagnosis
- Panovator's Geeky Stained Glass
- Half Breeds: An Overview of Crossbreeding Species
| Former Disney Animator Is Back With Beautiful Short Film - DUET Posted: 01 Jul 2014 04:00 AM PDT Former Disney artist Gil Keane has contributed his incredible skills as an animator to classic features like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, and it appears that he hasn’t lost a beat since he left the studio that Mickey Mouse built. He recently released a hand drawn short film called Duet as part of Google's Advanced Technology and Projects Group, one of three short films "designed to explore the possibilities of interactive animation on mobile devices", meaning you'll be able to explore content in three dimensional space. Gil's ethereal short celebrates the power of imagination, and the joys of sharing life experiences with someone you love. -Via Cartoon Brew  |
| Softball Camp Teams Amputee Kids with Amputee Veterans Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:00 AM PDT The Wounded Warrior Softball Team is an organization of American veterans who have lost limbs in the line of duty, but are still up for athletic challenges. Many of them make use of advanced prostheses. All of them are dedicated to improving the lot of American veterans returning home. But they do more than just helping veterans. They're also helping kids with missing limbs play sports. That's why they recently held a softball camp in Louisville, Kentucky for 20 kids with absent arms or legs. It's making a difference for a lot of kids. NBC News reports:
The kids have been an inspiration to the veterans who operate the camp. The Courier Journal reports:
-via Huffington Post |
| What Drowning Really Looks Like Posted: 01 Jul 2014 02:00 AM PDT It’s summertime, so people are going to be stripping down and hanging out in bodies of water way more than usual, and with the act of swimming, or in some cases floating, comes the inevitable conclusion that some people are going to drown. Drowning people tend to look an awful lot like swimming people, so how are you supposed to tell when someone is a drowning person and not a swimming person? Consult this handy infographic, brought to you by The Art of Manliness, so you’ll never wonder again whether that person flopping around in the water is a swimming person or a drowning person, and you’ll know which facial expression is the appropriate response to their predicament! All kidding aside- the point of this infographic is to illustrate that drowning people don't always look like they're in distress, so keep your eyes open for signs of danger and swim safe this summer. -Via Lifehacker |
| Rice Krispie Treat Hamburger with Bacon and Peanut Butter Posted: 01 Jul 2014 01:00 AM PDT Nash Ruin, the internet's Vulgar Chef, knows how to make a robust sandwich. This hamburger (NSFW language) is composed of all good things present in a manly kitchen. And it looks like he used pre-made Rice Krispie treats, thus reducing the prep time. Excellent! Why don't fast food chains sell burgers like this? |
| Bites of Fright by Christine McConnell Posted: 01 Jul 2014 12:00 AM PDT This is artist and photographer Christine McConnell, a/k/a my role model. She does everything, and does it well. She bakes (Miss Cellania featured the cake she baked of her parents' house last month), and some of her creations are delightfully dark. <!-- more --> |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 11:00 PM PDT Comedian Demetri Martin travels across the county for gigs, so he's spent a lot of time in the sky. As a master of midair sleeping, he's provided this handy guide to sleeping positions that may work for you. I have no idea how The Pierre got its name. But I know that I don't want to know. None of these people seem to be taking advantage of the stretching-out room that the aisle provides. -via Daily of the Day |
| These Superhero Pets Have One Super Power: To Make You Squee with Glee! Posted: 30 Jun 2014 10:00 PM PDT
Bad day today? Superhero hamster, guinea pig and chinchilla to the rescue! We dare you not to squee with joy after seeing these wonderful pets dressed up as superheroes, thanks to the fantastic felt costumes by Chez Marmota. Take a look at more dressed up pets:
View more over at Chez Marmota's Etsy Store - via Obvious Winner |
| Road Raging Motorcyclist Gets Instant Karma Posted: 30 Jun 2014 09:00 PM PDT A car drifted into the lane occupied by a motorcylist on a road in São Paulo, Brazil. The motorcyclist responded by chasing after the driver, then kicking the car with his foot. This was a mistake. The motorcyclist learned this fact immediately. -via 22 Words |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 08:00 PM PDT Anyone who works in a group knows the routine: keep your eye on the bulletin board for updates, reminders, and tips. A little levity goes a long way in getting people to actually pay attention.
Every workplace has a Shane, though, even if they go by different names, and they probably change every few months, as your workplace Shane may tend to be fired often. This collection of pictures has even inspired a new subreddit, where you’ll find a lot more. |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 07:00 PM PDT Psychologist, author, and magician Richard Wiseman (previously on Neatorama) was just playing around with some red cards ... when THIS happened! Could you explain how a toy car automagically (heh) appeared in the clip above (before Wiseman revealed the secret?) |
| A Children’s Zoo Hand-Raises a Baby Wallaby Posted: 30 Jun 2014 06:00 PM PDT Liv is a tammar wallaby--a marsupial species found in Australia and New Zealand. One day, she fell out of her mama’s pouch. Zookeepers at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska rescued her. Now they’re raising her themselves, feeding her 8 times a day and moving her from a liquid diet to solids. Most humans don’t have marsupial pouches (sorry, Chris Hallbeck), but the zookeepers have found an acceptable substitute. Liv is one of six wallabies at this zoo. Four of them are tamar wallabies and two are bennet wallabies. She hasn’t joined them yet, but zookeepers hope that she’ll be ready to meet them and human visitors by July. Photos: Lincoln Children’s Zoo |
| Solar Flare Eruptions Photo from NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Posted: 30 Jun 2014 05:00 PM PDT This is a composite image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory that shows a series of significant solar eruptions occurring over a three-day period in January, 2013. The photo has light wavelengths that are colored in red, green and blue to better outline the eruption dynamics. It would make a beautiful painting. Image Credit: NASA SDO |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT When was the last time you saw an ad for a butcher shop? The last butcher shop in my town closed down about twenty years ago. This song by The Hip Hop Herd feat. MC Meaty about ABC Quality Meats in England is quite rare -and well done, too! However, I imagine that they have to wear pants when they are at work. May be NSFW due to brief glimpses of backsides. (via Arbroath) |
| NeatoPicto Funny Pictures of the Day Posted: 30 Jun 2014 03:00 PM PDT
Love funny pics? You're in luck: we've just updated our LOLpic blog NeatoPicto with over a dozen neat new funny pictures. Check it out:
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| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT Yes, you're looking at a computer screen. But I'll bet that if you take a good slurp, you'l be able to detect a bit of chocolate from Danielle's Rolo cheesecake bars. They're made with Rolo candies, which are gobs of caramel encased in chocolate. Danielle made them by first putting down a layer of graham cracker crumbs, then adding a mixture of cream cheese and mini Rolos. She topped it with chocolate and Rolo halves. Yummy! I'd try to make it, but I'm afraid that I'd eat the ingredients before finishing the recipe. -via Endless Simmer |
| Mechanical Objects With One and Only One Purpose: To Hold Themselves Up Posted: 30 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT
San Francisco-based artist Dan Grayber specializes in creating mechanical objects that are intricately designed for one thing and one thing only: "to compensate for the complications created by its own existence," which in this case is to hold themselves up. And hold themselves up gracefully is exactly what they did. Take a look:
Grayber described the pieces as "counterweight driven mechanism that wedges itself into the side of a cavity (the glass dome in this case), suspending itself.
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| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT We had a couple of big pine trees cut down about four years ago and still have a few logs laying around the yard -they’re too hard to chop and too heavy to haul. Pine doesn’t make good firewood, either. Knowing all that make this forest mulcher all the more impressive. This thing shreds heavy wood like office paper, from the top down. What took nature decades to grow is reduced to sawdust in a matter of minutes. Don’t get anywhere near it -it could shred you even faster! -via the Presurfer |
| Authors Dressed Up As Their Favorite Characters Posted: 30 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT Philip Pullman as Long John Silver from Treasure Island Neil Gaiman as Badger from Wind In The Willows Terry Pratchett as Just William The Story Museum in Oxford, England approached photographer Cambridge Jones about contributing to an exhibition called 26 Characters, and Cambridge immediately came up with an extremely novel idea for a photo series- famous authors dressed up as their favorite characters. The 26 portraits in the series show authors such as Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and Malorie Blackman having a great time all dressed up and playing a role, and for many the simple act of putting on a costume seems to have brought out the kid in them. Cambridge borrowed the costumes from the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theater, which explains why they all look so fabulous, and each portrait is accompanied by "audio of the authors reading extracts from their books and interviewed about their chosen character." |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT The actual title of the article at Atlas Obscura starts with “sinless sweets,” which sounds like something to eat with no fat, no sugar, and no pleasure. That’s a bit misleading, because these sweets have plenty of what makes food worth eating -but they were developed specifically to celebrate the feast days of certain saints. That in itself should make you feel virtuous as you stuff your face! For example, in Italy they enjoy bigne for the feast of San Giuseppe, or St. Joseph.
After all, it’s pretty difficult to eat tables and chairs to celebrate a carpenter! This list has ten different saints, feast days, and decadent traditional desserts you can try at Atlas Obscura. |
| Swing on Your Lawn with the Field Hammock Posted: 30 Jun 2014 09:30 AM PDT Castor Bours and Wouter Widdershoven run Toer, a design studio in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Together, they developed the Field Hammock. It’s an expression of the Hank Hillian notion of:
The hammock is covered with a synthetic grass. It hangs from two adjustable poles. Hopefully, the next edition will have living turf. -via Lustik |
| Putting on Pants Using No Hands Posted: 30 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT The guy who goes by the name Now Studio https://www.facebook.com/tabletbrain demonstrates how to put your pants on without using your hands. How useful is this skill in real life? Not very. If you have no hands or arms, you already know the simplest way to get dressed, and it probably does not involve dancing. But it’s kinda cool to see it done. -via Daily Picks and Flicks |
| FINALLY! A Stylish Hat Helmet (or is it Helmet Hat?) for Bicyclists Posted: 30 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT
Unless you're a five-year-old like my youngest daughter who loves her oh-so-stylish Raskullz Unicorn Helmet, or you're a guy with ample sense of humor and love wearing the Bald Head Helmet, there's just not that many fashionable choices between keeping safe and looking stylish. Thankfully, Dr. Cheryl Allen-Munley may have the solution. Allen-Munley is a bicycle enthusiast and former Director of Transportation in Jersey City who wrote a dissertation on bike safety. She's turned her knowledge into Bandbox, a stylish line of bike helmet that looks like fashionable hats.
Bandbox helmets aren't only fashionable, they're comfy and super-safe, too. "I designed it to actually mimic the shape of the human head - basically my head," Allen-Munley said to Coolhunting, "Styrofoam—which most helmets are made out of—is not as impact-resistant as elastomeric foam, which is what we use." After the thermoplastic shells are molded and the foam is molded, Allen-Munley assembles that hat part herself. Her skill as a milliner truly shows when women inquire about the hats at outdoor fairs, not realizing that they are actually bike helmets. |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT
The teenage whale gradually realized that it would always be so, even as an adult. But he cared less, as an adult should. The introvertebrate turned away too many opportunities and lost the ability to relate to other crabs. And the blind squid accidentally rammed his head into a shipwreck. |
| The Dark, Sexy Polaroids Of H.R. Giger Posted: 30 Jun 2014 07:30 AM PDT H.R. Giger is generally known for his paintings, his concept art work for the Alien film franchise, and more recently for his amazing biomechanical sculptures, but when Giger wasn't working he was snapping Polaroids that reveal the man behind the ghastly machines: Antennae Books recently released "Polaroids: H.R. Giger", featuring dozens of Polaroids from Giger's private collection, portraits which have somehow become more poignant, and insightful, since his passing: Giger's photographs are just as sexy and experimental as his paintings, which can be seen in the background in many of these candid photos, and they share a side of Giger known well by his friends but relatively unseen by his fans. (Some images may be considered NSFW) -Via Boing Boing |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad. These mysteries are from The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits by Hy Conrad and Matt LaFleur. Can you solve the mystery before you read the solution?
Helen Blain said good afternoon to Morty the doorman as she walked into the lobby and took the elevator up to her fifth-floor apartment. The time was 3:55. At 4 p.m. sharp Morty's telephone rang. "Help," a man's voice gurgled. "Stabbed. 503." Then the weak voice fell silent. Apartment 503. That was Xavier Kuralt, the Lithuanian businessman. Morty dialed 911, then hung up and waited. Seconds later, the tenant from 505 entered the building. "What's the matter?" Alex Torful asked the visibly shaken doorman. Before Morty could answer, a siren's wail announced the approach of a squad car. The police found the body of Xavier Kuralt on his white living-room rug, the handle of a knife protruding from his chest. 'A stab wound," the senior officer said as he stepped around the single, isolated pool of blood, the only stain to mar the pristine carpet. "It must have cut an artery. I'll bet some blood got on the killer, too." The junior officer moved in for a closer look and nearly tripped over a long telephone cord. The receiver was still in the dead man's hand while the phone itself sat on a desk 15 feet away. The doorman was the first name listed on the telephone's speed dial. "After the assailant left, the dying man must have staggered to the phone and pressed #1," the junior officer said. "The building has a fire exit," Morty volunteered. "The killer could've left that way—without me seeing him." But the police didn't have to look outside the building to find suspects. Helen Blain was Xavier's next-door neighbor and his girlfriend. When the police knocked on her door, she was just coming out of the shower. "I got home a few minutes before four," she testified. "I knocked on Xavier's door, just for a chat. He didn't seem to be in." Axel Torful was the victim's other neighbor and his business partner. As far as the police could determine, these were the foreigner's only friends and the only two with possible motives. On whom do the police focus their investigation? And why?
In addition to his work in mystery and crime puzzles, Hy was also one of the original writers for the groundbreaking TV series Monk. Currently, Hy is working on mystery novel series "Abel Adventures" as well as the Monk series of novels, starting with Mr. Monk Helps Himself (published by Penguin, order from Amazon here Check out Hy's official website and Facebook page - and stay tuned for more whodunits puzzlers on Neatorama from the master of whodunit mysteries himself! |
| This Spinning Chair/Sculpture Lets You Rotate Your Views Posted: 30 Jun 2014 06:30 AM PDT Kate Brown, an interior designer in Arizona, developed the Etazin. It's a sculpture that you can find at Taliesen West, a house in Scottsdale that Frank Lloyd Wright designed and lived in. Etazin is inspired by moon gates, which are circular garden wall entrances found in Chinese architecture. The sculpture consists of a series of steel rings, the largest of which is eight and a half feet wide. There's a padded bench in the interior which visitors and students can use for lounging or contemplative purposes.
-via Dornob |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT Dan Piraro is a Spinal Tap fan. Of course he is. This Bizarro comic stars the band’s guitarist Nigel Tufnel, whose amp is special because it goes to eleven. He’s even special in his physical problems! Still, as far as musician maladies go, elevendinitis beats cello scrotum. See more comics at Piraro’s blog. |
| Panovator's Geeky Stained Glass Posted: 30 Jun 2014 05:30 AM PDT Tumblr blogger Panovator is an artist in ceramics, stained glass, knit work, and chainmail. Lately, she has gotten a lot of attention for stained glass work. Pictured above is a panel showing the Marvel Comics character Hawkeye violating conventional etiquette standards. It's on display at Fantastic Comics in Berkeley, California. And here is Carol Danvers, AKA Ms. Marvel. Panovator says that it reflects an image by "Jamie McKelvie that truly captured the strength and determination of one of my favorite heroes." Panovator describes stained glass as "a somewhat mystical and highly skilled art" that captured his attention by accident. But now it's clear that he's become a master of the craft. -via Crafting the Marvel Universe |
| Half Breeds: An Overview of Crossbreeding Species Posted: 30 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Universe.
What do you get when you cross a goat with a spider? You’re about to find out.
THE END OF THE LINE EVOLUTION-WISE
Humans, who are either ignorant of the complexities of the genetic process of speciation or -as is so frequently the case- not willing to let a simple thing like evolution get in the way of their fun, have tried over the millennia to mix and match their animal species to see what they can get out of it. (Usually, two agitated animals that want nothing to do with each other.)
The one reason to do this is to take advantage of a concept called “hybrid vigor” -the idea that the interaction of genes from two different animals will make the resulting animal hardier than either parent. This has been proven to work between different breeds of a single species. Humans have been breeding dogs this way for hundreds of years to accentuate desired traits, giving us a species of animal whose sizes range from a Chihuahua to Great Danes (theoretically, you could breed a Chihuahua with a Great Dane, although, depending on which is the male and which is the female, the process could be either painful or humiliating).
Another famous crossbreed is a “liger,” which is what you get when you breed a male lion and a female tiger (female lions and male tigers -you get a “tigon”). Ligers and tigons are exclusively created through human meddling, since lions and tigers in the wild don’t share much in common in terms of habitat or behavior (lions live in groups, tigers work alone). Like mules, ligers and tigons are almost always sterile, although there have been cases of females who are able to breed.
In the case of mules and hinnies, and ligers and tigons, the crossbreeding takes place within species families. Horses and donkeys belong to the same genetic family of species called Equidae (which also includes zebras, which are sometimes bred with horses to create -wait for it- “zorses”), while lions and tigers are in the family Felidae, which also includes cheetahs, pumas, leopards, jaguars, and your own domestic housecat (attempting to breed your cat with a lion or tiger is a fine way to get your cat eaten, so don’t do it). There’s been no successful attempt at crossbreeding species outside genetic families. No crossing horses and tigers, or bears and dolphins, or whatever.
For example, in an attempt to generate massive amounts of spider silk that could eventually be used to create superstrong fabrics, scientists have taken genes from orb weaver spiders and placed them into goats, which then produce spider web proteins in their milk, which can in turn then (theoretically) be processed out. The goats look and act like normal goats -no eight-legged goats spinning webs or cocooning the scientists in silk to eat them later (at least not yet)- but they’ve go just a little bit of spider in them. Scientists have high hopes for the “transgenic” animals. Plans are underway to creat cows or goats that are genetically engineered to produce medicines in their milk. Other transgenic animals are of somewhat more dubious utility, unless you can think of a good reason for putting jellyfish DNA into mice, as a bunch of Caltech researchers did, which made the mice glow green under fluorescent lighting.
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