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- Be Careful or Suffer an Embarrassing Death
- SHORT GUYS NEED LOVE TOO! - One Ridiculous Romance
- Landscapes of Finland by Mikko Lagerstedt
- Fried Rattlesnake and 9 Other Strange American Foods
- Happy Birthday, Akua!
- How Is This Bicyclist Still Alive?
- 13 Secrets of Amazon Warehouse Employees
- When Ice Was Hot
- Workplace with a Transparent Floor: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Incredible Breakdancing Routine Performed With Fireworks Strapped To Their Feet
- A Map of Every Goat in the United States
- Top Ten Grammar Myths
- French Kissers - Forget Detroit, Paris Is The New Rock City
- Genius Invents Peanut Butter and Jelly Oreos
- Cold Glass Sculpture
- Extreme Luxury Stadium Skybox Has a Built-in Sauna
- Snickers Super Bowl Commercial Adds Buscemi, Trejo to the Brady Bunch
- This Racy Domino's Pizza Ad Campaign Is Fifty Shades Of Wrong
- Rare Megamouth Shark Washes Ashore in the Philippines
- Weatherman Smoothly Plays off Horrible Glitches in Temperature Map
- World Population Cartogram 2015
- Pit Bull - Dachshund Mix Is A Thing Of Bizarre Beauty
- The "Piano of the Future" Looks Like It Comes with Warp Drive
- Krustywise - His Act Will Knock You Dead!
- Where Are The Unicorns?
- Ten Lesser Known Tools Used By Ninjas
- A Truly Humiliating Oscar Moment
| Be Careful or Suffer an Embarrassing Death Posted: 30 Jan 2015 04:00 AM PST Your family deserves better than the chuckles and whispers that will follow from an icicle death on a warm day. Find a better way, such as a fatal blogging accident or being crushed to death under your collection of My Little Pony toys.  | ||||||||
| SHORT GUYS NEED LOVE TOO! - One Ridiculous Romance Posted: 30 Jan 2015 03:00 AM PST SHORT GUYS NEED LOVE TOO! by OhHeyDJ Mac is the littlest guy in the World Video Boxing Association but he has the biggest heart, and in his colorful virtual world that counts for more than mere muscles. He doesn't have the flashiest outfit, or a ridiculously cool looking finishing move, but Little Mac has the power of the controller wielding Console Overlords behind him and a smile that drives the girls wild! When he met his main squeeze Samus it was love at first sight, that is after she took off the helmet, but Mac doesn't like being the weak link in the relationship, especially when he once had to punch out Tyson... Share your love of classic console gaming with this SHORT GUYS NEED LOVE TOO! t-shirt by OhHeyDJ, wear it and watch yourself transform into a total knockout! Visit OhHeyDJ's Facebook fan page, official website and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more gamer-iffic 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! | ||||||||
| Landscapes of Finland by Mikko Lagerstedt Posted: 30 Jan 2015 03:00 AM PST
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| Fried Rattlesnake and 9 Other Strange American Foods Posted: 30 Jan 2015 02:00 AM PST
If you're preparing to visit the United States for the first time, you might want to read up on traditional American cuisine. You can probably find some burger joints scattered throughout the country to keep you fed. But to experience true American food, you should get away from the tourist areas and eat like the natives. When on Earth has a helpful guide to 10 American foods. They are commonplace in American restaurants and supermarkets, but foreigners often think of them as strange. Try them! You'll enjoy fried rattlesnake, bull testicles, pickled pigs' feet, and akutaq, which is a Native Alaskan dessert consisting of polar bear fat, seal oil, snow, and berries. Dig in! | ||||||||
| Posted: 30 Jan 2015 01:00 AM PST This adorable little girl is Akua. She lives in Ghana and is celebrating her birthday. The guy in the picture said, “What do you want for your Birthday, Akua?”
There are more, as well as greetings from all over the world. The OP, who used the name HBD_Akua, said,
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| How Is This Bicyclist Still Alive? Posted: 30 Jan 2015 12:00 AM PST
Raphael Orlove of Jalopnik proposes that this woman is the reincarnation of escape artist Harry Houdini. This dashcam footage from Taiwan shows a bicyclist crossing a street. A car hits the front of her bike. She's within a few inches of getting hit herself. But she neatly steps off the bicycle with perfect poise. | ||||||||
| 13 Secrets of Amazon Warehouse Employees Posted: 29 Jan 2015 11:00 PM PST Mental Floss put together this interesting list of facts about life as an employee in the warehouses of Amazon. One aspect addressed is the metal detectors by which warehouse workers must be scanned prior to leaving the premises for lunch or at the end of the work day. “If you’re way over on one side of the warehouse and lunch is called, you have 30 minutes from that point to clock out, eat, and come back. You’re spending half your time waiting to be scanned out so you can be sure you’re not stealing anything. It leaves you with about 10 minutes for food.” When it's time to clock out, there is the same hurry to get in line for the metal detectors. The minutes spent in line is time for which the employees aren't paid, according to a Supreme Court decision on the matter issued in late 2014. | ||||||||
| Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:00 PM PST Roy Blakey spent 15 years as a professional ice skater with various shows, including Holiday on Ice, during its heyday in the mid-20th century. Along the way, he began to collect souvenirs, and now is an avid collector of vintage ice show ephemera. Blakey tells us about the history of ice shows, which took off in the U.S. and spread all over the world.
There’s more to the story, plus we’ll get a look at Blakey’s collection of ice show and skating memorabilia in an article at Collectors Weekly. | ||||||||
| Workplace with a Transparent Floor: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST The Norwegian design firm Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter recently renovated and occupied a Nineteeth Century villa in Oslo as its new studio. Much of the second floor consists of large sheets of glass supported by study timbers. It's similar to the vertically glass house in Shanghai in that you can easily look up and down at your co-workers. -via Fubiz | ||||||||
| Incredible Breakdancing Routine Performed With Fireworks Strapped To Their Feet Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:00 PM PST Breakdancing is a pretty flashy form of dance in its own right, but what happens when you pump up the flash factor by adding some fireworks into the mix? You get one dangerous looking dance routine that lights up the night, a routine that only the bravest breakers would ever dare to attempt. Two brave breakers from Germany named LIL AMOK and BBoy Snoop proved they're down to undertake dangerous dance missions by performing with fireworks strapped to their feet. Their mad moves look even more incredible with those colorful sparks flying off their sneakers and into the air, and the whole thing culminates in an unreal headspin finale sure to leave you all fired up! -Via DesignTAXI | ||||||||
| A Map of Every Goat in the United States Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:00 PM PST Now you know. Consider yourself warned. According to a 2012 census by the US Department of Agriculture, there are 2,621,514 goats in the United States. Christopher Ingram of the Washington Post notes that that's more goats than the combined human populations of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, and Washington, D.C. In Sutton County, Texas,goats outnumber humans 14 to 1. And most of those goats are raised for meat. What will happen when the goats realize this? -via The Presurfer | ||||||||
| Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:00 PM PST
“Irregardless” is a bad word and a word you shouldn't use, but it is a word. “Floogetyflop” isn't a word—I just made it up and you have no idea what it means. “Irregardless,” on the other hand, is in almost every dictionary labeled as nonstandard. You shouldn't use it if you want to be taken seriously, but it has gained wide enough use to qualify as a word. Read the rest of Fogarty's top ten grammar myths here. | ||||||||
| French Kissers - Forget Detroit, Paris Is The New Rock City Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:00 PM PST For centuries they'd yelled "Vive la France!" before heading into battle, but when they heard the sounds made by The Demon and those face painted fret freaks from a little band called Kiss they swapped the France out for Rock 'n' Roll. Those savage rock rhythms really spoke to their fine French hearts, and they soon discovered that rock music makes the perfect soundtrack for everything from a violent revolution to a bloodless coup d'etat! Show the world you've been a fan since way back when, wear this French Kissers t-shirt by tomburns and rock the world like a fine face painted French fop! Visit tomburns's Facebook fan page, official website, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more rockin' good designs:
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| Genius Invents Peanut Butter and Jelly Oreos Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:00 PM PST Redditor dfreshv is brilliant! Take a peanut butter Oreo, a strawberry/raspberry Oreo, remove a cookie end from each, combine what's left, and you've got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Make a bunch of them and that's a full and reasonably healthy meal. -via That's Nerdalicious! | ||||||||
| Posted: 29 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST Jack Storms is a glass artist who doesn’t melt glass. Instead, he cuts and polishes and assembles solid glass into beautiful works of shininess. He says it can take 18 weeks to complete a project, so of course we would wonder what they sell for. You can see some of Storms’ completed works at his website, but you have to make a serious inquiry to get a price quote. That should tell you something. Meanwhile, we can learn about the process of making these cold glass sculptures. -via Digg | ||||||||
| Extreme Luxury Stadium Skybox Has a Built-in Sauna Posted: 29 Jan 2015 03:00 PM PST
Saunas are a big deal in Finland. In fact, the word sauna is of Finnish origin. So for Finns, luxury accommodations must include a hot steambath. Skybox 408 at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki offers guests a bar, gourmet food, and a 20-person sauna. Guests can strip down and watch hockey from the privacy of one-way glass windows. Renting it costs €2,500 per night, which is about $2,822 USD. | ||||||||
| Snickers Super Bowl Commercial Adds Buscemi, Trejo to the Brady Bunch Posted: 29 Jan 2015 02:00 PM PST This funny commercial for Snickers set to air during the Super Bowl adds Steve Buscemi and Danny Trejo to the classic Brady Bunch episode in which Marcia gets smacked in the nose with a football thrown by Peter. "Making of" footage is featured in the video below. I don't know about you, but I think Buscemi makes a lovely Jan! | ||||||||
| This Racy Domino's Pizza Ad Campaign Is Fifty Shades Of Wrong Posted: 29 Jan 2015 01:00 PM PST Domino’s Pizza has always taken a rather lighthearted approach to advertising (remember the Noid?) but when it comes to creating national ad campaigns it can be really easy to take humor too far. Take this Sriracha Pizza spot Domino's wisely decided not to include in their Superbowl ad campaign: The ad was created by advertising agency McCann Israel, and even though the pitch was never approved the image inevitably made its way online and is now causing quite a stir. Domino's reps are ardently denying they authorized use of their logo, and claim "the people responsible are being dealt with", but it sure looks like a legit pitch to me. It’s obviously meant to cash in on the Fifty Shades Of Grey hype and add some edginess to their ads, but deciding the S&M theme was a little too NC-17 for a national ad campaign was clearly a smart choice. -Via The Daily What | ||||||||
| Rare Megamouth Shark Washes Ashore in the Philippines Posted: 29 Jan 2015 12:00 PM PST According to the Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines, an exceedingly rare megamouth shark washed ashore in Marigondon, Pioduran, Albay yesterday morning. The specimen, which was no longer alive, was thought to be only the 60th sighting of the species ever (though experts are still debating the number). Cause of death of the 15-foot long shark is still unknown. The specimen has been stored on ice until specialists arrive to examine it.
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| Weatherman Smoothly Plays off Horrible Glitches in Temperature Map Posted: 29 Jan 2015 11:00 AM PST If you were in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday, then you died. I hope it was quick and relatively painless. Temperatures spiked at selected areas around the city. Whereas Chandler was a pleasant 63°F, Cave Creek and other suburbs faced temperatures as high at 2,960ºF (1,627ºC). So everyone in those areas is thoroughly dead and baked. Despite the magnitude of this tragedy, Cory McClosky, a meteorologist with Fox 10 News, was calm, cool, and collected. This guy has nerves of steel. -via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| World Population Cartogram 2015 Posted: 29 Jan 2015 10:00 AM PST This cartogram plots the size of each nation as a factor of its population. It was created by redditor TeaDranks. Each tiny square represents half a million people. You can click the original at imgur to greatly enlarge the map. | ||||||||
| Pit Bull - Dachshund Mix Is A Thing Of Bizarre Beauty Posted: 29 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST When a breed becomes the latest doggy hotness they star in more mutt combos, like the semi-recent wave of Chihuahua and Corgi combos making the dog world a shorter and stockier place. These mixes of popular breeds are sure to get noticed at the dog park, but what about those less popular or unfairly stigmatized breeds? Apparently they look even more spectacular when they come together, and when the bully and the weenie combine the offspring is a thing of bizarre beauty. Meet Rami, the Pit Bull Terrier-Dachshund combo, and one of the cutest/creepiest looking canines I’ve ever seen! Rami has a head that's probably caused more than a few faceplants, and with his interesting body shape and fascinating face it's not surprising that his story has gone viral. Rami is available for adoption through Georgia's Moultrie Colquitt County Humane Society, and his unique appearance has made him a big hit on their Facebook page, where you can see videos of Rami running around and pics of Rami getting a bath- just like a normal dog! -Via BuzzFeed | ||||||||
| The "Piano of the Future" Looks Like It Comes with Warp Drive Posted: 29 Jan 2015 08:00 AM PST Gergely Bogányi, a Hungarian pianist, spent 10 years developing what Kelcee Griffis of My Modern Met calls "the piano of the future." It's a beautiful form, but the Bogányi piano is more than just a thing of beauty. Internally, it's a rethinking of the machine that produces sounds different from modern pianos. Marton Dunai writes for Reuters:
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| Krustywise - His Act Will Knock You Dead! Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST Krusty lost his daytime television gig and was now looking for a new way to vent his clowny frustration and paint the town red, so he decided to change his act into one guaranteed to scare the kiddies. He changed his look to better embody that IT factor, and took the fact that he found his own appearance terrifying to be a horrific success, but when he started filing his teeth down into sharp points he knew he'd taken his terrifying new persona a bit too far! Bring a splash of frightfully fun color to your geeky wardrobe with this Krustywise t-shirt by Brinkerhoff, it's sure to slay your fellow Krusty fans and make horror fans howl with delight! Visit Brinkerhoff's Facebook fan page and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more frightfully fun designs:
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| Posted: 29 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST This ad for the French cable channel Canal+ from the ad agency BETC Paris gives a little twist to the old story of why there are no unicorns in existence today. Yeah, the setting is still Noah’s Ark. Read more about this minute-long epic film at AdFreak. About one second of the video may be NSFW, but fine by barnyard standards. I hope that doesn’t give away too much. -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| Ten Lesser Known Tools Used By Ninjas Posted: 29 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST The ninja has become such an archetypal figure in the world of pop culture that ninjafans assume they know all there is to know about the shadowy assassins in black because they've seen all the movies and read all the books. However, most of those books and movies leave out all the real cool ways ninjas used elements in their surroundings to their advantage, and the nifty little gadgets that aided them in their stealthy pursuits. Need to cross a moat or pond in a hurry? Historians believe ninjas strapped pontoon like devices to their feet called Mizu Gumo (Water Spider), which folded up nicely and helped aid in their escape. Shuriken are cool and katanas slice real nice, but there’s nothing like silently delivering a dose of poison via hairpin, or scratching your way to victory with the Neko-Te (cat’s paw) weapon used primarily by the kunoichi (female ninja). Want to learn more about the tools found in a real ninja’s arsenal? Check out 10 Stealthy And Dangerous Ninja Tools You Didn’t Know Existed and you'll gain a better appreciation of the ninja's crafty nature. | ||||||||
| A Truly Humiliating Oscar Moment Posted: 29 Jan 2015 05:00 AM PST Yesterday, we posted an Oscar story from Eddie Deezen titled The Cruelest Oscar Award Presentation of All-Time. While rounding up photos for the article, I came across another moment from that very same awards ceremony that could be in the running for the cruelest. However, we don’t know that it was intentional, so let’s go with the “most embarrassing.” The ceremony was held during a banquet at the Fiesta Room at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Director Frank Capra, whose film Lady for a Day was nominated for four Oscars, reserved tables for 16 people, although three of them bowed out before the ceremony.
Frank Capra jumped up from his seat and headed toward the stage to accept the award. However, the spotlight went around the room and landed on Frank Lloyd, who was the actual winner.
By some accounts, Will Rogers tried to cover his gaffe and Capra’s embarrassment by calling George Cukor to join the other two directors onstage. Others say that Capra returned to his seat, humiliated, as soon as he realized that Lloyd was the winner. In his autobiography, Capra said,
Lady for a Day ended up winning none of the four Oscars it was nominated for. Capra vowed that if he ever won an Academy Award, he wouldn’t show up to claim it.
Frank Lloyd won his second and final Oscar that night, although he was nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty in 1935. George Cukor was nominated for Best Director a total of five times, finally winning the Oscar in 1965 for My Fair Lady (1964). |
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