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- Comic Strips with Superheroes
- Tiny Homes for the Homeless
- Dad Puts on Pants While Holding a Baby
- Designer Chairs
- Yip Yip Into The Moonlight - Sometimes The Trip Home Is Easy
- Not Your Everyday Pullups
- Cantaloupe + Ice Cream = Happiness
- I Jiggle, Therefore I Am
- The Original Plan Was for Captain Picard to Speak in a French Accent
- Award-Winning Wedding Photos of 2014
- X-Ray Shows How a Hamster Can Store So Much Food in Its Cheeks
- Aaron Johnson's Sock Paintings
- Hungry, Hungry Hippo Chases Boat
- You the Seal
- The Trippy History of Flip Books
- The Virus - That's One Catchy Album!
- 15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German
- Signs of the Zodiac Reimagined as Monsters
- 100 Japanese Maids and a Pancake
- Hyper-Realistic Sculptures by Kazuhiro Tsuji
- Garbage Man—A Superhero for Real Life
- 18 People Who Turned Their Casts Into Art
- Nevermind the Blocks, Here's Punk Peach!
- 10 Living Things Thriving in Death Valley
| Posted: 17 Jan 2015 04:00 AM PST The Line It Is Drawn is a regular feature at Comic Book Resources. It invites professional comic book artists to draw eccentric and funny takes on pop culture. This week, artists redrew popular comic strips with superheroes. The results are hilarious. Garfield is Wolverine, Batman is Snoopy, and Deadpool is Little Orphan Annie. Wally from Scott Adams's Dilbert is, of course, Aquaman. He could be no one else. -via io9  | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Jan 2015 02:00 AM PST The recession of 2008 caused a steep rise in the number of homeless people, and the recovering real estate market has made it difficult for those with few resources to get back into a home of their own. One response is the homeless village, spontaneous communities of displaced people who band together. We reported on one, Dignity Village, several years ago. Since then, the village has grown into a “tiny home” community, along with many other such settlements that have arisen in the Western U.S.
Read an interesting article about the rise of the tiny home movement for the homeless, and see different examples of how they look and work, at Buzzfeed. | ||||||||
| Dad Puts on Pants While Holding a Baby Posted: 17 Jan 2015 12:00 AM PST There comes a time in every man’s life when he must wear pants. It is not a good time, but it is inevitable. Slide them on. We’ve previously seen a man put on pants without using his hands. But he was rather acrobatic in the process. Let’s face it, he was just showing off. YouTube user ThePurplePanzy is foregoing his hands for a good reason: they’re full of baby. This is Level 2 Dad Skill. At Level 3, you tie a necktie while holding a baby. -via Huffington Post | ||||||||
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| Yip Yip Into The Moonlight - Sometimes The Trip Home Is Easy Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:00 PM PST Yip Yip Into The Moonlight by Cattoc_C Despite all the adventures they'd gone through as a group, and all the crazy things they'd seen in their young lives, there was still something so magical about riding a sky bison home by the silvery light of the moon. Airbending was hard work, fighting to save the world even harder, but when Aang discovered he didn't have to do anything but relax and enjoy the ride when he sat atop Appa he fell in love with sky bison flight! Bring some animated adventure to your geeky wardrobe with this Yip Yip Into The Moonlight t-shirt by Cattoc_C, it's the perfect attire whether you're training to achieve avatar state or you're simply watching your favorite animated TV show. Visit Cattoc_C's Facebook fan page and official website, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more fantastically geeky designs:
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| Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:00 PM PST Marisa Inda is pretty fit. She also has a style that seems to defy gravity, and this video was not recorded in outer space. It’s not magic, it’s muscles. Pullups are just about the most difficult thing for even a strong, fit woman to do in the gym, but for Inda, it’s an opportunity to dance. -via Uproxx | ||||||||
| Cantaloupe + Ice Cream = Happiness Posted: 16 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST People in Japan love cantaloupe, where last year one lovely pair of melons sold for $17,500. Hokkaido, the northernmost of the large islands of the Japanese archipelago, is particularly well known for its cantaloupe. When Casey Baseel of Rocket News 24 visited, he saw this simple and delicious dessert on sale. It consists of nothing more than soft serve ice cream and sliced cantaloupe served in its rind. I can almost taste it though the computer screen! | ||||||||
| Posted: 16 Jan 2015 08:00 PM PST The U.K. government agency Sport England has a new campaign called This Girl Can to encourage women to become active in sports and recreational activities.
The video I Jiggle, Therefore I Am shows women of all sizes, ages, ethnicities, fitness levels, and abilities having fun in a wide range of sports. Watching it makes me want to dance, although I will leave the boxing to others. Find out more about the campaign, and the women who appear in it, as well as a behind-the-scenes video, at the This Girl Can website. -via Time | ||||||||
| The Original Plan Was for Captain Picard to Speak in a French Accent Posted: 16 Jan 2015 07:00 PM PST
Patrick Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was an early pick for casting directors, but they took some time to develop the character. Although the character is a Frenchman, the English actor played the role with a more neutral accent. While a guest on the CBS talk show The Talk, Stewart says that at the beginning of the show's development, the directors wanted him to speak with a French accent. Skip to the 0:58 mark to hear Stewart present the opening narration of the show with a delightfully overwrought French accent. Then continue watching to learn about Stewart's experiences getting a urinary catheter. -via Blastr | ||||||||
| Award-Winning Wedding Photos of 2014 Posted: 16 Jan 2015 06:00 PM PST
Wedding photography is a competitive business model. The market is flooded with photographers, from young start-ups to established businesses that are exceedingly expensive and hard to book. One organization that indirectly sets standards is The International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers, which has a quarterly competition to select the best wedding photos from all over the world. Entrants can submit photos in 20 categories. Some of the first place winners of several categories are shown here, and as you can see, the quality of each is exceptional.
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| X-Ray Shows How a Hamster Can Store So Much Food in Its Cheeks Posted: 16 Jan 2015 05:00 PM PST Hamsters appear to be able to stuff vast amounts of food inside their cheeks—even more than you can! How? This clip from the British television series Wild at Heart explains. The hamster’s cheek pouches are huge. They extend all the way to its hips. You can see them fill up through x-ray images. And since the hamster doesn’t secrete saliva, the food remains undigested. Did you recognize the voice of the narrator? It’s David Tennant, the actor who played the Tenth Doctor on Doctor Who. -via Daily of the Day | ||||||||
| Aaron Johnson's Sock Paintings Posted: 16 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST
One of your socks gone missing? Maybe it ran away from home to join the art world. Specifically, to be in one of Aaron Johnson's sock paintings. "As I stare at this painting, it stares back at me, and as I stand here in my two socks, so does the painting hang there in its many socks," Johnson said to Huffington Post Arts. "That seemed absolutely absurd, and therein somehow startlingly profound." Here are a few more of Aaron Johnson's fascinating Sock Paintings:
View more Sock Paintings over at Johnson's website - via Hi-Fructose | ||||||||
| Hungry, Hungry Hippo Chases Boat Posted: 16 Jan 2015 03:00 PM PST
Hippopotami are adorable creatures that can swallow you whole and kill 3,000 people a year. When they play Hungry, Hungry Hippos, they’re craving your flesh, not marbles. David Jackson and his son Craig learned that while on a tourist boat in the Chobe River in Botswana. Despite its bulk, the hippopotamus could dash across the river underwater during its charge. -via Nothing to Do with Aborath | ||||||||
| Posted: 16 Jan 2015 02:00 PM PST A friendly young seal has become quite popular with surfers and other beachgoers on the shore near Cap Ferret, France. They’ve named him “You.” Here, you see You trying to hitch a ride on a surfboard, possibly because he sees so many humans have fun with those things. See a couple more videos of You, playing with surfers and adorable snuggling up with a Labrador retriever, at Daily Picks and Flicks. Incidentally, You the seal in French is "le phoque You." | ||||||||
| The Trippy History of Flip Books Posted: 16 Jan 2015 01:00 PM PST
Long before there were smartphones or even animated .gif files (like the one below) on desktop computers, there were flip books. It's an old art form that Ben Zurawski continues today. He's an artist who specializes in the field. Pay him $400 and he'll make you a custom 15-second scene that you animate by flipping between your fingers.
Zurawski is also a collector of flip books from ages past and all around the world. He owns about 1,000 of them. Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly examined his collection and wrote a history of the medium. It emerged in the 1860s in Britain. During the Twentieth Century, companies often gave them away as promotional items, such as this chewing gum ad that shows two boxers in a match. One of Zurawski's favorite pieces is this custom flip book made for a family. Biofix produced it and others like it showing individual families. It was like a home movie before video cameras became available:
You can view more impressive and rare flip books at Collectors Weekly. | ||||||||
| The Virus - That's One Catchy Album! Posted: 16 Jan 2015 12:00 PM PST Mario had no idea how far his career would go when he decided to go back to school and get his doctorate, but who could have guessed curing viruses with pills would lead to releasing a hit album? The Virus spoke to fans of his games and his doctoring skills, and when he told the youth to take the blue and red pills and not the red and yellow ones they listened. Soon he was touring with Sonic Hogg and Ice Link, and rappin' about his former life in the down and dirty sewers. Share some geek love with your fellow Mario fans, bring home this super fun The Virus t-shirt and you'll be feeling better in no time! Visit Jango Snow's Facebook fan page, official website and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more gamer-iffic designs:
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| 15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German Posted: 16 Jan 2015 12:00 PM PST
Can you imagine coming down with several at once? “I had to call in sick with Kreislaufzusammenbruch, because I have to clean the house so it will be the way it was in the East before the wall came down.” There are plenty more uniquely German illnesses in a list at mental_floss. No, German measles is not on this list. | ||||||||
| Signs of the Zodiac Reimagined as Monsters Posted: 16 Jan 2015 11:00 AM PST
Artist Damon Hellandbrand has put a monstrous new spin on the signs of the zodiac. Instead of images evoking a sense of dreamy, new-agey magic, the artist has created symbols with a decidedly menacing vibe. Hellandbrand cites artists Ralph McQuarrie, Boris Vallejo and Frank Frazetta as influences. | ||||||||
| 100 Japanese Maids and a Pancake Posted: 16 Jan 2015 10:00 AM PST This is an ad for non-stick cookware. At least, I think it is, because what else would it be? The reaction of the man of the house evokes some kind of weird fantasy, especially when we see how happy he is with the final result. It only gets more nonsensical as it continues. Therefore, it will be remembered, which is all that matters in advertising. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
| Hyper-Realistic Sculptures by Kazuhiro Tsuji Posted: 16 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST
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| Garbage Man—A Superhero for Real Life Posted: 16 Jan 2015 08:00 AM PST He cannot fly, shatter walls with his fists, or shoot lasers out of his eyes. But Garbage Man is just the hero that this little boy needs. If what we have seen at Neatorama over the past few years is representative of a trend, then there is a Thai tradition of producing sweet and endearing commercials that emphasize kindness, mercy, and generosity. We’ve previously seen a mobile phone ad about giving to those in need. Thai Life, an insurance company, has produced several commercials in the genre, including ones about the power of music and continuous acts of kindness. This one from that company tells the story of a boy and the hero he wants to become. -via American Digest | ||||||||
| 18 People Who Turned Their Casts Into Art Posted: 16 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST My mother broke her wrist just before Christmas, which was a genius plan for getting out of cooking the holiday feast. I offered to decorate her cast, but she said no, it’s got a nice knit sock over it. Those socks can be painted almost as easily as a plaster cast, as these 18 unfortunately injured people show us at Buzzfeed. The title is just a bit misleading, as they enlisted artist friends for the work -I can't picture them painting the casts themselves. You'll see reproductions of famous works, superhero limbs, holiday decorations, and clever illusions to lessen the sting of immobility. | ||||||||
| Nevermind the Blocks, Here's Punk Peach! Posted: 16 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST There are a lot of twists on Mario cosplay characters, but I totally love this great punk take on Princess Peach. She was one of a whole group of punk Super Mario characters cosplaying at Ichibancon. This lovely cosplayer is Amanda Finley and the photo is by Double Stomp Productions. If this look seems a little familiar to you, it's probably not because you've seen a similar cosplay before, but because Nevermind the Blocks is a popular NeatoShop tee that we've featured on the main blog before. Via Fashionably Geek | ||||||||
| 10 Living Things Thriving in Death Valley Posted: 16 Jan 2015 05:00 AM PST There’s a reason it’s called Death Valley. This vast expanse of the Mojave Desert gets less than 2 inches of rain per year, the daytime temperatures can reach upwards of 120 degrees, and the landscape is so salt-laden and windswept that it’s nearly impossible for anything to take root. But there’s more life in Death Valley than you’d imagine. Here are 10 stubborn plants and animals that refuse to retire to greener pastures. 1. The Rat with a Drinking ProblemLike many Death Valley residents, the kangaroo rat lives for the nightlife. It spends most of its day napping underground, only venturing out after sunset. Of course, taking advantage of the cool nighttime temps is a common trick among desert mammals. What’s not common is how the kangaroo rat has adapted to deal with the scarcity of water: It never drinks the stuff! Special organs inside its nose allow it to absorb moisture directly from the air, and highly efficient kidneys keep its body hydrated. In fact, the kangaroo rat is so well adapted to the dry climate that even after living in captivity for years, it will still refuse water. 2. The Fish That Got Lucky in Las Vegas
Despite its bone-dry landscape, Death Valley is home to thousands of pupfish. The colorful, sardine-like fish live in isolated waterholes only a few feet wide. But how did all those aquatic animals get lured into the desert? The pupfish are actually stragglers from the ice age 10,000 years ago, back when the valley was a large glacial lake. As the glaciers melted, schools of pupfish became trapped in the waterholes and evolved into several distinct species. Today, the water in the small ponds can be as warm as a bath (around 90 degrees F), and the salt concentrations can exceed twice that of seawater. The conditions aren’t ideal, but the pupfish survive by drinking copious amounts of water and efficiently excreting the salt through their digestive tracts. Life for the pupfish has become even more difficult in recent years. Beginning in the 1960s, farmers near Death Valley started pumping the desert’s groundwater for irrigation, which depleted the waterholes and caused serious declines in pupfish populations. One particular species, the Devils Hole pupfish, came close to extinction in 2006 when its numbers dipped below 40. But then an unlikely savior emerged: the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The casino relocated several pupfish to its swank aquariums, successfully reviving the species before its luck dried out. 3. The Plant That Outshines the Sun
It’s no secret that Death Valley is a tricky place for plants to take root. The earth there is so salty that it would kill most vegetation. But the Desert Holly has developed a clever technique for dealing with the unfriendly soil. The low-growing shrub soaks up the salt in the ground along with any moisture, and then, during blooming season from January to April, it excretes the sodium deposits onto its leaves. As a result, the plant turns from green to silver—a color change that helps it reflect the scalding sunlight instead of absorbing it. 4. The Bird You Don’t Want Your Children to SeeDeath Valley is home to the most iconic of desert birds—the roadrunner. Thanks to its Looney Tunes fame, the bird has become quite a tourist attraction. At the Death Valley National Park Visitor Center, sightseers can view roadrunners from large glass windows, and park officials often shout “meep, meep!” as they approach. However, the roadrunners don’t frequent the visitor’s center for the attention; they’re looking for fresh meat. Unlike their cartoon counterpart, real-life roadrunners are skilled hunters that use their lightning-quick speed to catch mice, insects, and snakes. They’re also pretty sly. Some of these clever creatures have figured out that if they wait by the visitor’s center, sooner or later a tasty bird will accidentally fly into the glass windows. The roadrunners then pounce on the stunned animal, ripping it apart and eating it in front of the horrified onlookers, Tasmanian Devil-style. 5. The Tortoise You Can Scare to DeathThe desert tortoise has a simple solution for coping with Death Valley’s extreme heat: it avoids it. The slow-moving creature hibernates during the winter and stays in its burrow for much of the summer, meaning that it spends more than 90 percent of its life immobile. In fact, the tortoise usually only surfaces after a good rain. Then, it gets to work. The tortoise stocks up on water by eating plants and digging trenches to collect rain. But to stay hydrated through its extended hibernation, the reptile relies on something else—its highly sophisticated bladder. Unlike most animals, the tortoise’s bladder acts as a holding tank, allowing it to reabsorb water back into its body. Incredibly, a desert tortoise can go a full year without taking in any fresh water at all. And because its bladder is so important to a tortoise’s survival, park rangers often remind visitors not to stop and help the slow-movers across the road. Tortoises become so terrified when people pick them up that they void their bladders, losing their precious water reserves. 6. The Bird with Legs You Never Want to Eat
The turkey vulture primarily feasts on decomposing animals, but that’s not the most disgusting thing about it. To stay cool, the vulture makes use of a process known asurohydrosis, a fancy way of saying that it pees on its legs to keep from overheating. This serves two purposes: the evaporating urine cools the blood circulating through the vulture’s legs, and also acts as a disinfectant, killing any germs the scavenger may have picked up from its last meal. You know you’re a dirty animal when peeing on your own legs actually makes you cleaner. 7. Seeds of Greatness
Every so often, Death Valley reveals a rare and beautiful display of life—a sea of colorful wildflowers, blossoming by the millions. The flowers seem to emerge out of nowhere, but in truth, the seeds of these blooms are always hidden on the desert floor, just waiting for the right amount of sunlight and rainfall before sprouting. The seeds are protected by a thick, waxy coating that guards them against the extreme heat. But when the desert gets enough rain to wash away the coating (which isn’t often), the seeds sprout and the flowers bloom, temporarily transforming the barren landscape. 8. The Flower That HauntsThe Gravel Ghost wildflower lives its life with the utmost discretion. It starts off as a patch of grayish leaves that blends in with the surrounding landscape. Then it sprouts a wiry stalk about 3 ft. high, which is also camouflaged against the barren scenery. But when the bulb atop the stalk blooms, it produces a vibrant white flower that insects flock to pollinate. Still, the stalk is so difficult to see that it creates the eerie appearance of a floating flower—hovering, ghost-like, above the desert floor. 9. Winning, by a Hare
The black-tailed jackrabbit may get teased for its oversize ears, but those trademark appendages help it beat the heat in Death Valley. The rabbit’s 7-inch-long ears contain a wealth of blood vessels that dissipate heat and help the animal regulate its body temperature. But the jackrabbit’s voracious appetite also plays into its success against the harsh climate. Like many desert creatures, the jackrabbit gets its water from the plants it eats. The clever hare switches its grazing seasonally, waiting until the hot summer months to consume the more water-filled cacti and grasses, often eating several times its body weight every day just to remain hydrated. 10. The Lizard That Was Born to RunLike a water bug racing across a pond, the fringe-toed lizard glides with gravity-defying grace over the loose sand of the desert. Specially shaped scales on its toes allow the small reptile to scamper across the dunes and outrun most predators. But speed isn’t the lizard’s only superpower; the lightning-fast reptile can also vanish in an instant by diving headfirst beneath the surface of the sand. Thanks to special scales that fold over its eyes, ears, and nostrils, the fringe-toed lizard can keep sand out of its delicate parts while steering clear of predators underground. _______________________
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