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- Heavy Metal Cutting Board
- Spaghetti Toes
- <i>Lord of the Rings</i> Characters, Jackson vs. Tolkien: A Personality Analysis
- FailArmy’s Best Fails of the Year 2014
- Relic - The Robot Who Was Put Out To Pasture
- Alarm Clock Assurance : Snoozing is Not an Option
- How Do You Use Your Alarm Clock?
- Criminal Masterminds
- Philadelphia Literally Burns Cash for Electricity
- He’s Packing Heat
- Woman Gives Birth on Train on Christmas Day
- Ten Of The Worst Pieces Of Movie Tie-In Merchandise
- A Most Interesting Fireworks Show
- French Bulldog Plus Ball Pit Equals Sheer Joy
| Posted: 28 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST A finely crafted wooden cutting board gives any home a traditionally elegant look. Instructables member redbadger123 made this one with a router, a jigsaw, and a planer. He made the logo of the thrash metal band Slayer out of hard maple, which he laid into walnut. It's a beautiful work for those times when you need to listen to "Raining Blood" while chopping meat.  | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Dec 2014 02:00 AM PST Children learn to speak in full sentences a long time before they have the vocabulary, logic, and real world experience we adults have, so what they say can be odd and charming, yet fully communicative. At the same time, parents find themselves saying things to a child that they never imagined possible. Martin Bruckner started illustrating some of those things for a blog called Spaghetti Toes. He explains the name in the introduction:
I believe Harper Grace is now three, and still contributing to the blog. You can check out Spaghetti Toes at Tumblr. -via Buzzfeed | ||||||||
| <i>Lord of the Rings</i> Characters, Jackson vs. Tolkien: A Personality Analysis Posted: 28 Dec 2014 12:00 AM PST IBM's artificially intelligent Watson computer has been used to do everything from playing Jeopardy to studying brain cancer. The computer's latest pop cultural study was initiated by IBM research staff member Vinish Misra, who employed the system's User Modeling feature to analyze the personality traits of Lord of the Rings characters. A data set including the dialogue used by characters in the Peter Jackson film versions and J.R.R. Tolkien's books. A portion of the findings is illustrated in the chart above. Personality characteristics highlighted in red indicate increased emphasis of those traits in the films; blue corresponds to those traits elevated in the books. | ||||||||
| FailArmy’s Best Fails of the Year 2014 Posted: 27 Dec 2014 10:00 PM PST There were some horrible failures recorded in the past year, as collected here by Fail Army. Get ready to see lots of property destruction, embarrassment, and pain, yet these folks chose to upload the videos to the internet anyway. There's almost a half-hour of clips, so you might want to bookmark it and watch it in pieces. Contains NSFW sweary language, as you can imagine. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Relic - The Robot Who Was Put Out To Pasture Posted: 27 Dec 2014 08:00 PM PST It was left to rust and rot in a field like a useless old relic, but unbeknownst to most of humanity that giant mechanical marvel made of iron is capable of destroying the entire planet. The giant mech came from another world, made by an alien race with tech knowledge far beyond our own, but when they lost their weapon they also lost all control over the mighty machine. It seems they'd made a huge mistake giving the mech a degree of free will, and when a little boy discovered the rusting relic in a field behind his house the giant discovered what it means to be human. Bring some animated adventure to your geeky wardrobe with this Relic t-shirt by Machmigo, and show the world that American cartoons have some pretty cool mechs too! Visit Machmigo's Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic 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! | ||||||||
| Alarm Clock Assurance : Snoozing is Not an Option Posted: 27 Dec 2014 08:00 PM PST
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| How Do You Use Your Alarm Clock? Posted: 27 Dec 2014 06:00 PM PST I'm a maximizer and have never used the snooze button. When it's time to get up, it's time to get up. When it's not time to get up, it's not time to get up. Using a snooze button seems like an exercise in intentional misery. | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Dec 2014 04:00 PM PST You’d think the last thing people would steal from each other would be Christmas lawn decorations, because the whole point is to show them off to your neighbors. But that seems to be the case in Colorado Springs as police arrested 42-year-old Carrie Carley and her 18-year-old husband Jeremy Lewallen. One of their neighbors retrieved his 9-foot inflatable Grinch from the couple’s yard and then called police.
Carley blamed the thefts on her young husband, and told the local news outlet that he was also arrested for stealing Halloween decorations. The two were lodged in the El Paso County jail on $1,000 bond. -via reddit | ||||||||
| Philadelphia Literally Burns Cash for Electricity Posted: 27 Dec 2014 02:00 PM PST
What's keeping the juice flowing to your Xbox? If you live in Philadelphia, then it may be paper money burned at power plants--literally. When the Federal Reserve office in that city takes banknotes out of circulation, it burns whatever it can't recycle. The Wall Street Journal has an article on the subject that is behind a paywall. Matt Novak of Gizmodo summarizes it:
The United States isn't the only nation to engage in this practice. The Bank of England and the People's Bank of China also burn money for electricity and heat. | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Dec 2014 12:00 PM PST Talk about armed and dangerous! This picture was posted at reddit and labeled “Only in Louisiana,” which doesn’t quite make sense because there’s no shortage of hot sauce at any eatery in Louisiana. However, the vest tells us he’s working outside and wants to be ready for any emergency, even lunch. POLL: Which hot sauce is best?
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| Woman Gives Birth on Train on Christmas Day Posted: 27 Dec 2014 10:00 AM PST Yanjin Li's water broke while she and her husband were riding a train in Philadelphia on Christmas. Sgt. Daniel Caban and Officer Darrell James of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority arrived to assist her. They coached her through the birthing process and unwrapped the umbilical cord from around the baby's neck. His father placed him in a shirt to keep him warm. Because he was born on Christmas, the couple named the boy Kris. He's the best Christmas present for everyone involved. The Associated Press reports:
Here's more security camera footage from the birth. | ||||||||
| Ten Of The Worst Pieces Of Movie Tie-In Merchandise Posted: 27 Dec 2014 08:41 AM PST Hollywood filmmakers love to release merchandise based on their films, mostly because it means more money in their pocket, but not every film is a good basis for tie-in merchandise. In fact, some films really shouldn’t be marketed in this way at all, and yet the stream of movie tie-in merch flows on, bringing a new batch of bad products to us with every new batch of films. Here are ten of the worst movie tie-in products ever made: 1. Rambo Black Flak Bubble Gum- Rambo does all of his talking with his weapons, and he apparently chews Black Flak gum while blasting the bad guys! Want to be just like Rambo, kiddies? Chew a pack of Black Flak all at once and feel the Sly Stallone energy coursing through your veins! 2. Watchmen Condom- There was once a pretty good movie made about an amazing graphic novel by Alan Moore called The Watchmen, and someone saw unlimited merchandise potential in the franchise. They made licensed costumes, toys, accessories and apparel galore, but then they took film merchandising one step too far and released a Dr. Manhattan blue The Watchmen condom. The condoms came complete with slogan “We're Society's Only Protection” printed on the paper sleeve, and anyone who has read the graphic novel and/or seen the film will know why this product is wrong in so many ways! 3. Letters To E.T. Book- The book Letters To E.T. is an utterly useless tie-in product, containing nothing but fan letters sent to Steven Spielberg after the release of E.T. in theaters. It pretty much has nothing to do with E.T., and something tells me the few people who bought a copy were the ones who wrote the letters contained in the book! It’s one of the most lowdown examples of fandom exploitation, and probably left a lot of kids feeling sad and confused when they received it as a gift only to find it had virtually nothing to do with their favorite extraterrestrial. 4. Jar-Jar Binks Mega Mouth Candy- Jar-Jar Binks is the most beloved character in the Star Wars universe, the universally loved and celebrated character that starred in Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones, and kids and grown-ups loved him so much that they totally wanted to make out with him! Enter the Jar-Jar Binks Mega Mouth candy, featuring a sucker center shaped like J-J’s tongue so you can relive that famous scene in the movie when that human totally makes out with him! Nothing says waking up from a night of drug and drink laced debauchery like an energy shot, they’re the go-to wakey wake products for tired people these days, and many feel the tinier the bottle the better. Enter The Hangover Recovery Shot, a tiny boost to get you going again as you try to put together the pieces of your broken life, and the etra shot of vitamins will help you remember where you left your car keys...and your car! 6. Pinocchio Boxers- Pinocchio fans aren’t all little wooden boys, some are full grown adult men made of flesh who grew up without strings, and these questionable boxers were made for those grown up men folk fans. I couldn't find these boxers for sale anywhere to verify they actually exist, but if Disney actually released such a potentially racy product they've developed quite a naughty sense of humor! 7. The Matrix Reloaded Samsung SPH-N270 Mobile Phone- The Samsung SPH-N270 was made to look exactly like the phone in The Matrix Reloaded, and the phone was released on the same day as the film. It featured a spring loaded earpiece that slid away to reveal the screen, which sported a snazzy green digital rain graphic. Despite all the flash the phone was a piece of junk that lacked features such as bluetooth and mp3 playback, and it sold for a whopping $500 to the two or three people who bought into the hype. 8. After Earth Camping Equipment- If you camped out to see After Earth in the theaters you’d be dead of embarrassment right now, and if you’re reading this then you definitely survived that atomic bomb of a movie. As a survivor of that Smith family joint you will appreciate how ridiculous it is to release a line of merchandise based on the film, but to the After Earth merchandising team's credit they did make something that ties in with the film! 9. Despicable Me 2 Minion Fart Blaster- The Despicable Me 2 Minion Fart Blaster is a cute idea on paper, but the reality is a stinky nightmare in the making. This is the kind of gift you give kids when you hate their parents, and anyone who has a kid running around with a Fart Blaster had better invest in a gas mask, because if kids think farting is fun they're going to gas you out of your house until they leave for college! 10. Monsters University Go Glow Light- Hey, Mike Wazowski isn't the one who says "Bite my shiny...", but apparently he has a light shining where the sun don't shine. Maybe we're reading too much into this, but the position of his legs and the latrine look of the base make this figure seem so wrong. Movie companies aren't going to stop making terrible movie tie-in merch anytime soon, so we thank them in advance for providing us with something to write about! | ||||||||
| A Most Interesting Fireworks Show Posted: 27 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST This is not a fireworks display gone wrong; in fact it worked exactly as intended. But it is also not what an American would expect when they see the term “fireworks display.” I really don’t want to describe it any further, so just watch. It’s not long. The launch was at the Thailand Rocket Festival. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
| French Bulldog Plus Ball Pit Equals Sheer Joy Posted: 27 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST All poise and calm is joyously abandoned when Eva the French Bulldog meets two ball pits in her designated doggie playroom. Later, in the video below, Eva protects her beloved bowls of balls against two other Frenchie intruders. Stay vigilant, Eva! -Via Laughing Squid
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