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• Buffalo vs. Bison
• Boy Catches Santa on Hidden Camera
• Bloodborne- Born In Blood - A Gaming Horrorshow
• How the Elevator Transformed America
• Solving Life's Simpler Problems With Hacks
• Russian Metro Stations Invite in Black and White
• Boy Scouts Rescue Pilot Who Crashed into River
• 8 Crazy Foreign Versions of American TV Shows
• Christmas and Hanukkah Rice Krispie Treats
• Astronomically Correct Twinkle Twinkle
• Are You a Dude, A Buddy, Or a Pal?
• Dessert Wine: Wine Ice Cream
• Dr. Seuss Does Horror
• Daryl Brixon - The Squarest Survivor
• Latte Motion
• Batman Cat Food Dish
• The Fluff
• Copenhagen's Bicycle Snake
• What Ever Happened To Good Old Fashioned Santa Claus?
• Jack Daniels Names His Baby Jim Beam
• Lucas Levitan's Photo Invasions
• Now, THAT’s a Christmas Gift!
• This Piano Keyboard Is Actually Candy
• 8 Things You May Not Know About <i>Batman</i>, the Comic Book

Buffalo vs. Bison Posted: 27 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST We’ve all known someone like this, right? And we’ve all had the urge to shoot them, but luckily did not have our pedantic jackass rifle around at the time. This comic is from Neil Kohney at the webcomic The Other End. -via Geeks Are Sexy

Boy Catches Santa on Hidden Camera Posted: 27 Dec 2014 02:00 AM PST YouTube Link Evan is a curious seven-year-old boy who thought the security cams in the house would be the perfect way to document Santa's existence beyond the shadow of a doubt. On Christmas morning, he gathered his family to show them the footage. It's a good thing that Evan's so practical. He knows the camera never lies. Enjoy the magic while you can, little guy. -Via Tastefully Offensive

Bloodborne- Born In Blood - A Gaming Horrorshow Posted: 27 Dec 2014 12:00 AM PST Bloodborne- Born In Blood by Mdk7 The Bloodborne is coming, storming in like the ides of March to cleanse the city of the impure and the fallen. He wasn't looking for a fight, or to become a hero, he was simply seeking a cure said to lie within the ruins of the city, but he wasn't going to back down either. This is no ordinary pilgrim, no mere traveler- he is a force of life born to destroy the darkness... Add a touch of horror to your geeky wardrobe with this Bloodborne- Born In Blood t-shirt by Mdk7, it's dark and spooky in all the right ways! Visit Mdk7's Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty cool designs: BANANA! Clicker Skull- The Last Of Us Hokusai Gojira Crystal Heisenberg View more designs by Mdk7 | 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!

How the Elevator Transformed America Posted: 27 Dec 2014 12:00 AM PST (Image: Paramount Pictures) Gentlemen, let's say that you enter an elevator and find that a lady is present. Should you remove your hat, as you would in a home, or keep it on, as you would if you encountered her on a train? That was one of many questions considered when elevators arrived in the United States during the 1860s. Leon Neyfakh recently published an article in the Boston Globe about the social history of elevators. He explains that as the car helped Americans expand horizontally, so did the elevator help the nation grow vertically. It also encouraged a new form of mingling between people of different social classes: Its uniqueness as an environment also has allowed social scientists to use it as a fruitful laboratory for experiments on behavior. One study tested the effect of smiling on people’s willingness to stand near strangers, for instance, while another looked at how men and women choose to situate themselves in relation to each other upon boarding. The distinctiveness of elevators as social spaces is also the reason we speak of an “elevator pitch”—so named after the one place the company CEO might spend 60 seconds as captive audience to an ambitious intern. For elevator fans like Bernard, Wilk, Gray, and Carrajat, this mixing of worlds is one of the main things that makes elevators so important. And the more opportunities modern life gives us to separate ourselves from others—by getting into our cars and escaping into our suburban homes, by hiding in our cubicles and burying our heads in our social networks—the more the elevator matters as a place that squeezes us together for a moment and forces us to grapple with one another’s existence. -via Marginal Revolution

Solving Life's Simpler Problems With Hacks Posted: 26 Dec 2014 11:00 PM PST The interwebs are teeming with life hacks, and yet it seems like the more of these little tips and tricks we read the less we remember them all, or any at all, when you're in need of a life hack solution to a problem. That’s usually because the hack in question was created to solve a virtually nonexistent problem, and remembering a hack you hardly ever use is a waste of good brain space! So where are all the hacks for everyday problems, problems people can relate to, in other words popsicle problem hacks? You can find 20 perfectly pedestrian life hacks in this article inexplicably called 15 Best Life Hacks Everyone Needs To Know, and solve those everyday dilemmas with a wink and a smile! Who's winning at life now? You are, you life hacker you!

Russian Metro Stations Invite in Black and White Posted: 26 Dec 2014 10:00 PM PST Russian photographer Andrey Kruglikov posts these spectacular images of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Metro stations to his Instagram account. Kruglikov's choice of black and white for the images perfectly accentuates the striking line and curve of such architectural treasures. These underground stations were largely built pre-Cold War-era, sparing no expense for materials like marble and crystal chandeliers.  See more of these shots in this i09 article, and follow Kruglikov's Instagram account subwayspecial to keep up with his posts.

Boy Scouts Rescue Pilot Who Crashed into River Posted: 26 Dec 2014 09:00 PM PST (Photo: Boy Scout Troop 597) Last Saturday, a single engine plane crashed into the Congaree River in Calhoun County, South Carolina. It promptly sank completely underwater. Boy Scouts in Troop #597 from Dacula, Georgia were paddling canoes in the area. They spotted the pilot swimming away from it. The scouts took him to a riverbank. It was quite cold and the pilot was in risk of dying of hypothermia, so the scouts lit a fire and wrapped him in a blanket. They then summoned rescue workers. Unfortunately, the ambulance was on the opposite side of the river, so the scouts put the pilot into a canoe and took him across. The pilot went to the hospital and is in good health. -via Jalopnik

8 Crazy Foreign Versions of American TV Shows Posted: 26 Dec 2014 08:00 PM PST When you have an entertainment concept that works, of course you want to take it on the road. We’ve read about the Middle Eastern version of The Simpsons and how Married… with Children took on the world, but there are plenty more international versions of American TV shows. Dorkly introduces us to eight of them, including a Dutch version of The Golden Girls that premiered in 2012! Pictured above is It’s Always Sunny in Moscow. And we get to see clips of the shows. They’ll look familiar, even if you don’t understand the language.

Christmas and Hanukkah Rice Krispie Treats Posted: 26 Dec 2014 07:00 PM PST I've previously featured the work of the baker and artist Jessica Siskin, AKA "Mister Krisp." But in the intervening months, my attention drifted away. That's a shame because I missed her reproduction of Kim Kardashian's internet-breaking posterior. But I have returned to the fold soon enough to see Siskin's fantastic Rice Krispie treat sculptures designed with Christmas and Hanukkah themes. Check out her Instagram feed for more. -via Make

Astronomically Correct Twinkle Twinkle Posted: 26 Dec 2014 06:00 PM PST (YouTube link) Making the song scientifically correct doesn’t take away its charm, not one bit. Why not learn a bit about the cosmos as you're singing? The song is from the children’s book Astronomically Correct Twinkle Twinkle, written by Henry Reich of Minute Physics and Zach Weinersmith of SMBC Comics with illustrations by Chris Jones. It’s sung by Henry Reich. -via Viral Viral Videos

Are You a Dude, A Buddy, Or a Pal? Posted: 26 Dec 2014 05:00 PM PST What term do you use for a generic person: bro, buddy, dude, fella, or pal? Jack Grieve, a forensic linguist, analyzed tweets to create heat maps showing the relative frequency of these words. You can view the other maps in the series at Quartz. Where are your bros? They're down in Texas and its neighboring states. If you prefer the company of dudes, then you may wish to move to the Southwest or the Midwest. -via TYWKIWDBI

Dessert Wine: Wine Ice Cream Posted: 26 Dec 2014 04:00 PM PST A family-owned dairy and creamery in Boonville, New York called Mercer's has developed a way for folks to get both their drink and dessert on simultaneously: wine ice cream. The dessert, which is 5% alcohol by volume, comes in eight flavors: red raspberry chardonnay, peach white zinfandel, riesling, cherry merlot, spice, strawberry sparkling, chocolate cabernet and port.  Visit the Mercer's website and Facebook page to learn more. Via: Distractify | Images: Mercer's Dairy

Dr. Seuss Does Horror Posted: 26 Dec 2014 03:00 PM PST DeviantART member DrFaustusAU does all sorts of inventive mashups, using different entertainment franchises and mimicking the styles of other artists. His impressions of Dr. Seuss are particularly good, which he demonstrates by showing Suess-style versions of The Silence of the Lambs, The Last of Us, and other horror movies and video games.

Daryl Brixon - The Squarest Survivor Posted: 26 Dec 2014 02:00 PM PST Daryl Brixon by Kgullholmen The bricks had officially hit the fan, and Daryl knew he was going to have to fight for his little square life if he wanted to see his brother again. He'd witnessed dead plastic people rising from their graves,and it had almost shaken his resolve. How could dead plastic come back to life like that, and why did it now have an appetite for the living? He didn't know the why, only the how to turn them back into a motionless pile of bricks- with a bolt to the head! Add some brick-tastic adventure to your geeky wardrobe with this Daryl Brixon t-shirt by Kgullholmen, and show the world you wouldn't be caught dead walking around in a boring t-shirt! Visit Kgullholmen's Facebook fan page, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty cool designs: Who Ya Gonna Call, Yo? Very Scary Pumpkin Soup The Brock Go Team Super Science View more designs by Kgullholmen | 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!

Latte Motion Posted: 26 Dec 2014 02:00 PM PST (YouTube link) Here’s a stop-motion animation created with over 1,000 cups of latte! The creamy cup tops are the medium for single pictures that are compiled to tell a short story -only about 90 seconds, then there’s a half-minute on how it was done. This is part of a Japanese ad campaign. -via the Presurfer

Batman Cat Food Dish Posted: 26 Dec 2014 01:00 PM PST The company Roxy's Dream produces excellent pet furniture with a geeky flair. We've previously featured its cat bed that looks like a landspeeder from Star Wars. It also produced this cat food and water station that looks like the Batman symbol. There are three bowls to serve everything that a Batcat needs: kibble, water, and justice.

The Fluff Posted: 26 Dec 2014 12:00 PM PST (vimeo link) How scary can a ball of cotton be? Patrick Rea’s short from 2007 proves that you can make a movie monster out of anything. I’d probably still go see the full feature -of there was one. Yeah, if you are of a certain age, you'll recognize this as a parody of The Blob. We had those same questions when that one came out, because really, how scary can a slow-moving ball of jelly really be? -via Blazenfluff

Copenhagen's Bicycle Snake Posted: 26 Dec 2014 11:00 AM PST (Photo: Dac) I've love to visit Denmark someday. I've heard that it's a beautiful country and that its capital, Copenhagen, is the crown jewel of Europe. Photos of architectural marvels like this one certainly encourage my ambition. This is the Cykelslagen--the Bicycle Snake. It's a 257 yard long bridge for bike riders that connects Islands Brygge and Vestbro, two neighborhoods in the city. The architecture firm Dissing+Weitling designed the Cykeslagen, which opened for traffic this year. (Photo: Architzer)

What Ever Happened To Good Old Fashioned Santa Claus? Posted: 26 Dec 2014 10:00 AM PST (Image Link) Hopefully Santa brought you everything on your list, but if he didn’t it may be due to the fact that he's currently undergoing an identity crisis. It seems even Santa is subject to massive image overhauls, and that jolly old fat man with the long white beard and fuzzy red and white suit image just isn’t hip enough for the young folk (Image Link) He was good enough for Coca-Cola, and they sell like a bajillion bottles of Coke every year, so why is he being forced to modernize his image? It could be because Justin Timberlake brought the sexy back, and the pop world went along with his sexifying plans, so now everything has to be sexified (Image Link) But Santa isn’t supposed to be sexy- when would he find the time to make presents when he’s always working on his abs? (Image Link) And if you’re gonna sexy him up at least give the guy an appropriately buff body! (Image Link) Santa may seem like a superhero, what with the super speed present delivery, shrinking powers and naughty/nice related telepathy, but he’s not a superhero and he won’t be saving the world anytime soon (Image Link) Santa was definitely cool before it was cool, but he’s way too stylin’ to be a hipster (Image Link) Swashbuckler Santa? Now that’s more like it! Santa can play pirate in his off time if he wants, and all that loot will help pay for toys to be made, so I guess Santa could be a pirate (Image Link) But there is just no way Santa is a vampire- or is he? That theory explains a lot about his various powers, and we don’t really know what goes on up there in the North Pole, now do we? (Image Link) Santa as a vampire is pretty terrifying, but nothing Santa related could ever be more frightening than this Second Life Santa moment (Image Link) See why sexy Santa just doesn’t work? He’s just too darn cute and cuddly to have sex appeal. Besides, he's beloved by kids, so you don't want to warp their young minds with adult situations. That's also why Santa could never be a drunk, unless he's drunk on the Nog (Image Link) He's supposed to be jolly and lighthearted, not drunk and angry and rioting in the streets! (Image Link) And Santa wouldn't be caught dead chewing on human flesh, so Zombie Claus is a no-go (Image Link) Especially when everyone knows presents are a Santa's favorite food (Image Link) Although he still expects to receive his customary cookies and milk payment come Christmas Eve (via FormalSweatpants) And you don't want to end up on his Naughty list, especially when he's not quite feeling like himself! (Image Link) I bet you're wishing this jolly old elf would make a comeback right about now, aren't ya?! (Image Link)

Jack Daniels Names His Baby Jim Beam Posted: 26 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST When Jack Daniels Leathers was born 31 years ago, his parents named him after the whiskey in order to annoy their parents. Jack has always been proud of his name, and when he and Lydia went on their first date, they agreed it could be a tradition worth continuing (the names, not the annoying). The Louisiana couple got married, and on November 14, Lydia gave birth to their first child. They named him Jim Beam Leathers, after the bourbon. But that’s not the only whiskey name connection for the Leathers. When they got married, Judge Johnny Walker of Houma officiated the ceremony. “When Judge Johnny Walker realized that he was marrying Lydia to Jack Daniels, he turned red. We wanted to get in touch with Judge Walker to notify him that Jack Daniels had a son named Jim Beam,” he said. Jack and Lydia have already picked out more names. If they have a second boy, he will be named Evan Williams, or Sherry if they ever have a daughter. -via Buzzfeed (Image source: Lydia Leathers/Facebook)

Lucas Levitan's Photo Invasions Posted: 26 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST Lucas Levitan, a Brazilian artist living in London, calls his project Photo Invasion. He takes other people's Instagram photos and edits them by adding new characters and challenges. They're delightfully subversive at times. (Content warning on both links above: occasional gore and nudity.) In an interview about his work, Levitan explained that his project expresses that no work of art is truly finished: By interfering with their images it makes them think about what they’ve created not as a finished project, but something that sparks off other peoples’ understanding. Create a new narrative and a new story line. -via 123 Inspiration

Now, THAT’s a Christmas Gift! Posted: 26 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST (YouTube link) Today is the day we get to see what people got for Christmas gifts. Some are hysterical, some are funny, and some are downright tragic. But the best gift I’ve seen so far is the one Joey Trombone got for his parents. You can see their reactions in this video, but to find out what he got them, you’ll have to see the picture of the envelope contents at his Facebook page. -via 22 Words

This Piano Keyboard Is Actually Candy Posted: 26 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST Get your sticky fingers off my treats! This novelty isn't a musical instrument, but a carefully crafted confection called the Jazz Yokan. Rocket News 24 reports that the Japanese online retailer Creeks offers this unusual candy that looks like a piano's keyboard. It's made with brown sugar and figs marinated in wine.

8 Things You May Not Know About <i>Batman</i>, the Comic Book Posted: 26 Dec 2014 05:00 AM PST Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook. In 1939, just one year after the creation of the first comic book superhero, Superman, Bob Kane brought us a new comic superhero (a bit of an anti-hero, actually) named Batman. Like almost every cartoon character ever created, “Batman" has changed and morphed over the past several decades. Nonetheless, Batman’s popularity among his legions of fans has never waned and continues strong, to this day. Batman has starred in a classic TV series, a movie serial series, and several big-budget Hollywood films, but let's take a look at Batman, the comic book. 1) Why was he called Bruce Wayne? Batman was, as we all know, the alter ego of millionaire Bruce Wayne. The “Bruce" was based on Robert the Bruce, the Scottish patriot. The “Wayne" came from Revolutionary War general “Mad Anthony" Wayne. 2) He originally used guns. This would not seem logical, as young Bruce Wayne's parents were killed by a gun. And although nowadays Batman does, indeed, hate guns, the original character actually packed a six-gun. The Caped Crusader would carry his gun during his "night patrol" of Gotham City. But creator Bob Kane said it "didn't feel right" and eventually the six-shooter was dispensed with- permanently. 3) He was accused of being gay. In 1954's highly influential (and controversial) book Seduction of the Innocent, American psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham postulated that comic books contributed to juvenile delinquency. Although Wertham's study was mostly about crime and horror comics, Batman was included. As a suspected gay character. Yes, that's right, Dr. Wertham put forth the theory that Bruce Wayne (Batman's alter ego) and his live-in youthful ward Dick Grayson (Robin) were more than just friends. Although this seems patently ridiculous to us now, in those years, Bruce Wayne was not the big-time ladies man he would later become, in not only the comic, but the later TV series and the Batman movies. In fact, Wertham's book is often credited with the change in the Batman/Bruce Wayne character. As all Batman fans well know, the talk about Batman and Bruce & Dick's "relationship" persisted right into the campy TV series, although there was never any proof whatsoever to back up the theory. 4) Introduction of the “Bat" ladies. Scholars have suggested that the female characters Batwoman (introduced in 1956) and (pre-Barbara Gordon) Bat-girl (introduced in 1961) were created to fend off suggestions that Batman was gay. 5) Hugh Hefner was a huge Batman fan. If there is one thing Hugh Hefner loves (besides, of course, beautiful women), it is comic books. Yes, “Hef" was, and still is, a huge fan of the Batman comic books. In fact, his great love of the Caped Crusader led to him hosting a Batman-themed costume party in 1965. All the guests came dressed as Batman, Robin, or a villain from the comic. Batman serials were screened and everyone had a great time. In fact, they had such a great time that an ABC executive named Yale Udoff actually ran to a pay phone and called ABC with an idea for a TV series, and this turned out to be the genesis of the Batman TV series with Adam West playing the Caped Crusader. 6) The Joker never had a name. The Batman comic was filled with many classic villains, and each one had his or her own real name. Catwoman was Selena Kyle, the Penguin was Oswald Cobblepot, the Riddler was E. Nigma (enigma- get it?). Another big-time Batman villain was Two-face, who was actually Harvey Dent. But, for some odd reason, The Joker, one of Batman's all-time most popular villains, never had an alter-ego name. Only recently did the Joker officially got his own real name: Jack Napier. The name “Napier" was chosen in honor of actor Alan Napier, who played Alfred the butler in the Batman TV series. 7) The first full-length screen adaptation was... Ask any casual movie fan about the first-ever full-length Batman movie and many will answer Tim Burton's 1989 Batman starring Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader, with a typically awesome performance by Jack Nicholson as the Joker. No, true Batman afficionados recall the 1966 Batman movie, based on the hugely popular TV series, starring Adam West in the lead role. But wait, both are wrong. In 1964, bizarre filmmaker Andy Warhol actually was at the helm for the first-ever full-length Batman movie. Done in collaboration with longtime Warhol collaborator Gregory Battcock in the lead role (the name is not a joke, i swear!). Batman Dracula came out in 1964, two years before the TV show-inspired Batman craze hit the country. The strange movie was completely unauthorized by DC Comics. Only a few people ever saw Batman Dracula (like many Andy Warhol films) and all prints of the esoteric film are thought to now be long-gone. Surviving footage appeared in the later Warhol movie Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006). 8) Where the heck is Gotham City? The Batman comic originally took place in New Jersey, but like many comic books, the writers wanted a fictional city with a fictional history, to give it its "own world.” One day, a Batman writer opened a phone book and saw “Gotham Jewelers" listed. The exact location of Gotham City is now forgotten; it was sometimes on the East Coast, and sometimes in the Midwest, near Metropolis, home of Superman. In a few cases, readers have spotted Gotham City, New Jersey, on license plates and once on a character's driver's license.

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