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• Creative Tip Jar Incentive Signs
• What Do You Want To Do Tonight? - A Mousy Mastermind
• Arcangelo's <i>Lord of the Rings</i> Pipes
• Hearing Impaired Girl Delighted That Santa Knows Sign Language
• 16 Very Strange Christmas Ornaments You Can Buy
• The Repentance of Ebenezer Scrooge
• How Adopting a Pig Changed One Couple's Lives
• 10 of the United States' Most Intriguing Archaeological Mysteries
• Venus Flytrap Wearing a Santa Costume
• Kangaroo Puts Quick End to Drone
• The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
• How One Little Addition Can Change The Entire Meaning Of A Photo
• Merry Cthulhumas! - Have You Been Naughty Or Nice?
• Best Films of 2014
• Husky and Puppies
• College Offers a Minor in Comedy

Creative Tip Jar Incentive Signs Posted: 22 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST Those who work for tips are at the mercy of their customers. Sometimes, particularly during slumps in the economy, it pays to do whatever you possibly can to put the public in the mood to part with their hard-earned money. The people who made these signs for their tip jars are attempting to use humor to inspire generosity; it's probably the best approach.  See an amusing collection of these tip jar signs here.

What Do You Want To Do Tonight? - A Mousy Mastermind Posted: 22 Dec 2014 03:00 AM PST What Do You Want To Do Tonight? by Wirdou Doctor Horrible Brain is cursed, which doesn't seem surprising considering he chose to become a supervillain rather than finding honest work as a lab rat or trash picker, but his curse doesn't stem from his career choice. No, Doc Brain is cursed because of his choice in friends, and now he's stuck with his henchman Pinky for the rest of his little rodent life. Every night that dimwitted Pinky slinks in to his operating chamber and asks him the same stupid question- "What do you want to do tonight, Doctor Horrible Brain sir?", to which the Doc inevitably answers "Try to take over the world, and find a new girlfriend, in that order!" Share your love of classic cartoons, and cult classic indie flicks, with this What Do You Want To Do Tonight? t-shirt by Wirdou, and you'll never have to worry about anyone accusing you of having horrible taste! Visit Wirdou's Facebook fan page and official website, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs: Krypton Man The Right To Remain Silence Of The Lambs The Ocarina Of Time Travel Burglary Services View more designs by Wirdou | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts 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!

Arcangelo's <i>Lord of the Rings</i> Pipes Posted: 22 Dec 2014 03:00 AM PST Arcangelo, a woodworker from Italy, does amazing fantasy-inspired work. We've previously featured his pipe that looks like that of Thorin Oakenshield, a character in The Hobbit movies. He's made more Lord of the Rings pipes, such as this one called Shire's Blossom. It's made of olive wood and finished with shellac wax. Continue reading to look at his other Lord of the Rings pipes. A dwarven design. Bilbo's pipe. Gandalf's pipe. Orc pipe.

Hearing Impaired Girl Delighted That Santa Knows Sign Language Posted: 22 Dec 2014 02:00 AM PST YouTube Link Six-year-old Sadie Adam has been hearing impaired since birth. In previous years, when Sadia visited Santa, any communication she had with him required a sign language interpreter. This year, however, Westminster, Massachusetts Police Chief Salvatore Albert, who has played Santa for 15 years, learned sign language just so he could communicate with Sadie. The fact that Santa knew how to speak with her was an early Christmas gift to the little girl, who was thrilled. What a sweet story.

16 Very Strange Christmas Ornaments You Can Buy Posted: 22 Dec 2014 01:00 AM PST What in the world is this? It’s a watermelon, terrified because he is falling, no doubt thinking about the big mess his splat will leave on the floor. It’s a glass Christmas tree ornament available at eBay, and just one of a collection of 16 inexplicable, obscure, or just plain bizarre Christmas ornaments you can still purchase over the internet. See the rest of them in a list at mental_floss.

The Repentance of Ebenezer Scrooge Posted: 22 Dec 2014 12:00 AM PST (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal/Zach Weinersmith) O Ghost of Christmas Future! I shall heed your kind counsel. Please continue to instruct me in the ways of generosity. May I suggest sending me a year's worth of issues of The Times from 1845? I could search for information therein about the needs of the poor in London.

How Adopting a Pig Changed One Couple's Lives Posted: 21 Dec 2014 10:00 PM PST Canadian couple Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter adopted what they thought was a pygmy piglet and brought her to live with them. They named their pet Esther. Within two years, Esther grew to be a whopping 667 pounds! It was obvious that Esther wasn't a pygmy, but by the time they realized their mistake, the couple had grown to love her as a member of their family. They found her to be highly intelligent and good natured. Steve and Derek's love for Esther changed their lives in more ways than one. It made them reconsider eating meat. They went from carnivores to vegans. The couple began to consider animals such a central part of their lives that they decided to start their own animal shelter. After raising over $400,000 on Indiegogo, they launched their operation. That Esther must be Some Pig!  Follow the adventures of Esther and her humans on their website, and via social media on Facebook and Twitter. -Via Bored Panda

10 of the United States' Most Intriguing Archaeological Mysteries Posted: 21 Dec 2014 08:00 PM PST There are quite a few places where early Americans left their marks, but did not leave us any explanations. European explorers had never seen anything like them, and local people said they’d always been there for reasons lost to time. Many of these mysteries are symbols or possibly language carved in rocks. One huge design in California wasn’t even discovered until a plane flew over in the 1930s! And then there’s the Miami Circle. A recent discovery, the Miami Circle was only unearthed in 1998 when a Florida developer knocked down a 1950s apartment complex, revealing a circular pattern of holes in the limestone bedrock. Further excavation turned up tools similar to those used by the once-local Tequesta people, and radio-carbon testing suggests the site is nearly 3,000 years old. The State of Florida now owns the plot, which still sits at the water's edge beside a series of high-rises, to protect it from developers. Archaeologists believe the holes are actually signs of a bit of prehistoric development: post-holes for some kind of permanent shelter. Read about nine more of these America mysteries at Atlas Obscura.  (Image credit: EduardoValle)

Venus Flytrap Wearing a Santa Costume Posted: 21 Dec 2014 06:00 PM PST This is Charlie, the star of a YouTube channel maintained by Kluna Tik. His owner feeds him and dresses him on camera. Charlie lives a wild, adventurous life. In this video, he dons a Santa Claus costume. In another video, Charlie smokes a cigarette. Perhaps in future videos, Charlie will get even more ambitious and do other human tasks, like landing a job or changing the oil in a car. -via Tastefully Offensive

Kangaroo Puts Quick End to Drone Posted: 21 Dec 2014 02:00 PM PST YouTube Link We've seen Rambro the angry ram smash a noisy quadcopter drone that got too close up in his biz. Here's new footage of what looks to be a mama kangaroo with her joey who wasn't going to take any chances with some annoying buzzy thing getting too close to her offspring. She picked the drone out of the air and smashed it. Why do I find footage of animals quickly destroying drones so satisfying? Should I seek therapy to work through my resentment of drone technology? Or should I simply make it a point to travel with Rambro and a 'roo whenever I'm in outdoor, open spaces? -Via Uproxx

The Year in Media Errors and Corrections Posted: 21 Dec 2014 12:00 PM PST In Poynter’s annual roundup of the funniest, weirdest, and most egregious errors and corrections, the top prize went to an incident in which a satirical website was quoted as real. That happens more often than you’d think. That’s just one type of error, and 2014 was full of them. One of the runners-up was from The Washington Post: An earlier version of this story erroneously said that Joaquín Guzmán was found in bed with his secretary. He was found with his wife. This version has been corrected. Oops. The tragedy is that corrections are tiny sentences in a box on an inner page, while the original article was probably front and center. Here's another, less tragic, correction: This post originally quoted photographer Tom Sanders as saying it takes him five years to get on the dance floor. It takes him five beers. There are also test pages that were published, stories that turned out to be completely untrue, and plenty of small but embarrassing errors that snuck into newspapers, news sites, and blogs. Oh yeah, and some serious journalism goofs, too. Read them all at Poynter. -via Metafilter

How One Little Addition Can Change The Entire Meaning Of A Photo Posted: 21 Dec 2014 10:00 AM PST Ever since Photoshop came to town photos have become much less believable overall, because anybody can now erase, shape, edit, airbrush, color correct, clone stamp, warp, filter, soften via blur and add to any and all photos whenever they want. Addition via Photoshop can be a powerful tool, and one little addition is all it takes to entirely change the meaning of a photograph.  1. Make 'Em Smile!- Sharks already have a pretty toothy grin, but whether they're happy or not their smile looks like the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully Photoshop can help soften their image: (Image Link) With one little addition great white sharks go from Jaws to jokesters, always ready to make 'em laugh with a one-liner about porpoises: (Image Link) That old tooth addition trick works well with amphibians too: (Image Link) 2. Add A Hand, Change The Movie- According to the movie, Rocky had no love for the trash talkin' Clubber Lang, but imagine how different that trilogy could have been if Rocky fought opponents in the ring, then had to fight for their hearts after the bout. All it takes is one hand to change Rocky III from a sports flick to a tender romance: (Image Link) 3. There Will Be Blood- When kids play in the mud it looks like a total disaster, but not the type of disaster where young lives are in danger. Enter your friendly neighborhood Photoshops and this messy, muddy playtime turns into a total bloodbath!: (Image Link) 4. Keep It Clean- Two guys goofing around, what could be dirty and depraved about that? Well, everything of course, but in this instance these two guys were just acting like goofballs for the camera. Then somebody had to crop the pic, add captions and turn the whole thing into a completely different, and much dirtier, story: (Image Link) 5. Epic Snow Cat- Snow Cat already looks pretty epic, strutting his stuff all proud and fluffy: (Image Link) But why is Snow Cat so proud? Add some Photoshop awesomeness and the answer is revealed- because 'splosions: (Image Link) 6. Ronald Demands A Recount!- You head to McDonalds and buy a box of McNuggets, expecting to receive ten pieces as advertised on the box: (Image Link) And then the power of maths and Photoshops combine to show you how they count McNuggets in McDonaldLand: (Image Link) 7. George W.'s Unhealthy Appetite- Whether ya loved him or hated him, there's one thing you can say without a doubt about former President George W. Bush- he had a healthy appetite and wasn't afraid to show it: (Image Link) However, there were times when his unearthly hunger couldn't be satisfied by mere ears of corn- George needed protein, the younger and leaner the better!: (Image Link) 8. The Sound Of Sports- Baskeball players are very physical athletes who take the sport very seriously, perhaps a little too seriously at times: (Image Link) Maybe it would be good for the guys in the NBA to embrace their jazzy side and perform for their adoring public a different way- by playing some bebopping jazz tunes for the crowd: (Image Link) 9. Thou Shalt Not Pass Sanrio...Without Popping In For A Sec- Gandalf went from grey to white thanks to a nifty new invention called a washing machine, but even his bleached makeover couldn't bring him true happiness: (Image Link) Just imagine how different his life could have been if there was a Sanrio store in Middle Earth, he would have been one happy little Hobbit loving camper!: (Image Link) Now that you have witnessed Photoshop's magical power to alter an image's meaning you'll never be able to look at a photograph without thinking of ways to "fix" it digitally, and thus a hilarious new generation of altered images will arise!

Merry Cthulhumas! - Have You Been Naughty Or Nice? Posted: 21 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST Merry Cthulhumas! by Captain RibMan That Great Old One with the squid for a face used to be a real sourpuss, hell bent on subjugating and eliminating mankind, but then he met a man named Santa who changed his entire outlook on human life. Now Cthulhu is the biggest Christmas fan of them all, and when he arises from his slumber he's not coming to eat you, or drive you insane, he just wants to sing you Christmas carols and give you a present. But be aware that Cthulhu is pretty new to the whole giving a gift without taking the mortal's soul thing, so his presents might be a tad on the gory side... Bring some wickedly fun style to your Christmas with this Merry Cthulhumas! t-shirt by Captain RibMan, and you'll end up on the Naughty list right where you belong! Visit Captain RibMan's Facebook fan page, official website and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more festively geeky designs: Teenage Mutant Modern Masters My Little C-3POny The Wookman Iron Skull View more designs by Captain RibMan | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts 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!

Best Films of 2014 Posted: 21 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST YouTube Link Flavorwire has assembled their end-of-year selections for the best films of 2014. They list 25 titles, one of which is the fascinating documentary Finding Vivian Meier, about a nanny who secretly was a prolific photographer. Her staggering body of work was found by a stranger, only by chance, after her death.  For those like me who love documentaries, this is certainly a compelling one that I recommend. See the other 24 titles selected as best films of 2014, with descriptions and trailers for each, in this article.

Husky and Puppies Posted: 21 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST (YouTube link) Parenting can be a lot of fun when you’re not stressed out about daycare and bills and what Timmy just ate. Here, a husky mom discovers that when herpuppies learn to get around, she suddenly has a whole slew of playmates! “Look, kids, I can jump on the couch and you can’t!” She’ll be surprised in a few more days when they do it themselves. -via reddit

College Offers a Minor in Comedy Posted: 21 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST (Photo: Matt) Are you funny? Your jokes on open mike night at the local comedy club may not make the audience laugh, but an official college degree in comedy probably will. Emerson College, a private college in Boston and Jay Leno's alma mater, now offers a minor program of study in the field of comedy. Specifically, it's called "Comedy: Writing and Performance." To complete the program, students take 5 classes in performance and writing. Two of the classes are called "Writing for Television" and "The Evolution of Comedy." Andrew Desiderio writes for The College Fix: “There are no guarantees that someone will be funny,” Martie Cook, associate chair of Emerson’s visual and media arts department, told The College Fix. “But that’s true of most programs in the arts.” Cook added that students can study film and television writing, but that does not mean they will go on to write Emmy- or Oscar-winning scripts. “What we can guarantee is that students who take the minor will come out better versed in the comedic arts,” Cook said. Emerson College argues that a versatility in comedy can help people in all career fields: “Whether on a stage, in a board room, a writers’ room, or simply talking one-on-one, being empowered with the grace and confidence to artfully apply humor in your daily life gives you an invaluable edge,” said Adam Greenfield, also a member of the committee that helped shape and develop the comedy minor. -via College Insurrection

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