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- Otterly Adorable
- New <i>Jurassic World</i> Trailer
- The Crookie: Half Croissant, Half Cookie
- Scary Spirit - They're Not So Cute And Cuddly After All
- Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman vs. the Rum Runners
- Coming up on NeatoMail: A NeatoShop Hoodie Giveaway!
- Diver Flies Through the Swift Currents of Tahiti
- BrunchCity: Miniature Cities Atop Foods That Represent Them
- Veronika Richterova's Plastic Bottle Art
- Chinese People Try Panda Express For The First Time
- Goats in an Ambulance
- Bad Weather in Plymouth
- Unboxing Video: A Family
- 54 Years Later, Civil Rights Protesters Cleared of Convictions for Their Protests
- Infinity Glove - The Gauntlet Of Useless Technology
- The Freakish Fantasy Art of Mexican Pulp Paperbacks
- Ten Stupid Funny Ads From Super Bowls Past
- Garlic Flavored Cola
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| New <i>Jurassic World</i> Trailer Posted: 02 Feb 2015 03:00 AM PST In case you were busy watching the Shrek marathon of The Walking Dead and missed the Super Bowl, you also missed a new trailer for Jurassic World. In it, we find that Chris Pratt is training velociraptors! Sure, that’s probably for some show for the tourists, but when it all hits the fan, he has a loyal army of “good” dinosaurs to help him fight the “bad” dinosaurs, which are led by the genetically-modified Indominus rex. You could say that scenario is a little far-fetched, but we’re already talking about a theme park of cloned dinosaurs. -via Uproxx | ||||||||
| The Crookie: Half Croissant, Half Cookie Posted: 02 Feb 2015 02:00 AM PST We've seen a previous execution of this idea that involved baking a whole Oreo inside a croissant. Nick Chipman of Dude Foods offers a version that is even simpler and more promising. He took premade chocolate chip cookie dough and cut it into triangles matching the size of canned croissant dough triangles. He wrapped one around the other, then baked them together. He says that it was both flaky and chocolatey, which is exactly what we're looking for. | ||||||||
| Scary Spirit - They're Not So Cute And Cuddly After All Posted: 02 Feb 2015 01:00 AM PST Scary Spirit by Crumblin' Cookie If you think you know all about those cuddly puffballs called Totoros you don't know the half of it, because the Ghibli film only showed the bright side of our woodland neighbors. They can be cute, happy, and total party animals, but if you do something to upset them you're going to wish you were floating along in a castle in the sky instead of standing all alone in a dark and creepy forest... Warn your fellow fans about Totoro's dark side with this Scary Spirit t-shirt by Crumblin' Cookie, and pray you never come face to face with an angry catbus! Visit Crumblin' Cookie's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more dark and geeky designs:
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| Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman vs. the Rum Runners Posted: 02 Feb 2015 01:00 AM PST In 1931, federal agents raided a New Orleans stash of liquor illegally imported from Vancouver. There were 104 people indicted in an elaborate scheme that was cracked when coded messages were intercepted. To convict all those people, special prosecutor Colonel Amos W. Woodcock had to lead the jury through the process of decrypting the coded messages the smuggling ring used.
Working for the Coast Guard, between 1928 and 1930, Friedman and her assistant deciphered 12,000 encryptions that used 50 different codes. The work had to be handled with utmost care due to the general unpopularity of Prohibition as well as the government’s strained diplomatic relations with Canada. Read how Elizebeth Friedman, an Indiana farm girl, rose to the occasion and then established a permanent cryptanalytic unit for the Coast Guard, at Smithsonian. | ||||||||
| Coming up on NeatoMail: A NeatoShop Hoodie Giveaway! Posted: 02 Feb 2015 12:00 AM PST
Forget roses and chocolate! Well, maybe just roses because chocolates are darned yummy. Anyways, I've gotten a bit off track. What I wanted to say is that we've got the perfect Valentine's Day gift for your loved ones: NeatoShop's awesome T-shirts and hoodies that'll remind them of your undying love every time they wear one. Check out our neat selection of Valentine-themed T-shirts, and some good ol' Funny T-shirts, Science T-shirts, Sci-fi T-shirts, and more. Better yet, you can win a NeatoShop hoodie by entering a giveaway exclusively for NeatoMail subscribers. The contest will run tomorrow, so if you haven't done so yet, please sign up for our newsletter to enter: Don't worry - we won't share your email address with anyone, and you can always cancel NeatoMail subscription at any time. | ||||||||
| Diver Flies Through the Swift Currents of Tahiti Posted: 01 Feb 2015 10:00 PM PST
Guillaume Néry is a freediver, which means that he holds his breath while underwater instead of using a air tank. Julie Gautier shot this impressive footage of him being swept along at high speed through the waters of the Rangiroa atoll north of Tahiti. Néry seems incredibly serene and calm even though it looks like he's in constant danger of being smashed against the rocky ocean floor. -via Colossal | ||||||||
| BrunchCity: Miniature Cities Atop Foods That Represent Them Posted: 01 Feb 2015 08:00 PM PST
Illustrator Bea Crespo and photographer Andrea G. Portoles' artistic project BrunchCity pairs miniatures grouped to represent cities placed on top of foods for which the city is known. Some are more obvious choices than others, such as the placement of Brussels on a Belgian waffle; others are a tad more obscure. All are a fun bite.
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| Veronika Richterova's Plastic Bottle Art Posted: 01 Feb 2015 06:00 PM PST Veronika Richterová, an artist from the Czech Republic, makes sculptures by heating and reshaping plastic bottles. She commonly features plants and animals, depicting them in a highly realistic manner. Richterová has worked with this medium in hundreds of pieces for 11 years, becoming highly proficient at finding new purpose for what we might casually through away. -via Lustik | ||||||||
| Chinese People Try Panda Express For The First Time Posted: 01 Feb 2015 04:00 PM PST Panda Express is a chain that’s sort of like a fast food version of American Chinese recipes. Buzzfeed assembled some Chinese folks of different generations to sample some dishes from Panda Express, and, to no one's surprise, their opinions varied. There's no mention of how long the taste-testers have lived in America (and we can assume they’re in America from their accents). What struck me is how the older generation is altogether less judgmental about the food. After all, whether something is “authentic” matters less than whether you like it. And at any restaurant, there will be offerings you like and some you don’t like. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:00 PM PST
A barn in Klokkarstua, Norway caught on fire. Firefighters evacuated the goats and chickens inside and put out the fire. In the cold winter night, the animals needed a place to stay. So while waiting for a more permanent home, the goats sat in an ambulance and received oxygen treatment. -via Nothing to Do with Aborath | ||||||||
| Posted: 01 Feb 2015 12:00 PM PST In the case of a very slow news day, or possibly the UK jumping on the “terrible weather news” bandwagon in its own way, the Plymouth Herald published a news story about a trash can being blown over.
This scene is recreated on my street every week after the garbage is picked up. However, since they are round, I often have to run down the street chasing my trash cans. Still, the newspaper can’t hold a candle to the weather hype in the satirical Galway Daily News. -via Arbroath (Image credit: Dave Arthur) Post by Plymouth Herald. | ||||||||
| Posted: 01 Feb 2015 10:00 AM PST Unboxing is a genre of amateur video in which people take products that they have purchased out of their packaging and examine their features. It's particularly popular with electronic devices, such as smartphones. But you can unbox anything that you can buy, such as a family. This video from Clickhole, a parody of BuzzFeed produced by The Onion, shows a man unpacking his recently acquired family, which consists of a wife and 2 children. If you're thinking about buying a family, you should watch this video to get a sense of what you're likely to get delivered to your door. -via American Digest | ||||||||
| 54 Years Later, Civil Rights Protesters Cleared of Convictions for Their Protests Posted: 01 Feb 2015 09:33 AM PST
On January 31, 1954, black civil rights protesters occupied a whites-only lunch counter at a McCrory's five-and-dime store in Rock Hill, South Carolina. These men, who came to be known as the "Friendship Nine," were arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 30 days of labor on the county prison farm.
James Wells, David Williamson, Willie McCleod, Willie Thomas "Dub" Massey, Clarence Graham, John Gaines, Thomas Gaither, Robert McCullough, and Mack Workman endured a terrible injustice. York County, South Carolina, the scene of this abuse, is attempting to rectify that wrong. On Wednesday, Judge John C. Hayes III, the nephew of the judge who presided over their trials, vacated their convictions. Reuters reports:
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| Infinity Glove - The Gauntlet Of Useless Technology Posted: 01 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST The mad titan had been searching the galaxy for the glove of infinity, which housed the colorful soul gems that would power his quest for intergalactic conquest, but instead he fell for a sales pitch and brought home the PowerGlove. It was really cool looking, with lots of buttons and futuristic details, but when he tried to play his favorite platformer he found that the glove wasn't as easy to use as his good old fashioned controller. This made the titan extremely angry, fueling his anger towards humanity and increasing his desire to watch the Earth burn... Comic book supervillains and 80s gamer tech collide on this Infinity Glove t-shirt by Adam Works, it's the totally radical way to show the world you've got mad geeky game! Visit Adam Works's Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty geeky designs:
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| The Freakish Fantasy Art of Mexican Pulp Paperbacks Posted: 01 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST An art exhibit in New York displays the original paintings for the covers of Mexican pulp fiction books of the 1960s and ‘70s. In paperback form, these were tiny -sometimes as small as 2x3 inches. But what really makes them stand out is the sublimely weird subject matter they illustrate. If you can’t make it to New York for the full exhibit, you can see a baker’s dozen of the covers at Collectors Weekly. | ||||||||
| Ten Stupid Funny Ads From Super Bowls Past Posted: 01 Feb 2015 07:00 AM PST You may refer to the type of humor found in these Super Bowl ads as irreverent, juvenile, surreal, abstract, strange, ridiculous or super silly, but I prefer to think of this particular brand of humor as Stupid Funny. They're the kind of ads that make you say "that's so stupid!" while you're LOLing, ROFLing and trying not to choke on your chips, and no matter what your mood the ridiculousness of it all is sure to put a smile on your face! 1. E*Trade- We Just Wasted 2 Million Dollars (2000)- E*Trade decided to tickle our funny bones with a chimpanzee and tickle our brains with commentary on the ridiculously high prices paid for Super Bowl advertising with this stupid funny ad. This ad also introduces the E*Trade Monkey, who subsequently cashed in his stock in the company and bought a cute little cabin on Bora Bora. 2. EDS (an HP Company)- Cat Herders (2000)- I'm pretty sure the old cowboy tune goes "git along lil dogies", but since the ad company was clearly trying to appeal to an ever growing internet culture they canned the canines and brought in a herd of wild kitties. Does that mean these guys are a posse of catboys? 3. Doritos- Snack Attack Samurai (2010)- If you think Doritos are murder on the roof of your mouth imagine how dangerous they can be in the hands of a martial arts master! 4. FedEx- Stick (2006)- When cavemen absolutely, positively need a stick delivered on time they tend to go with a pterodactyl delivery service, which normally ends in disaster. If only those crafty cavefolks had put their minds to something besides clubbing and rubbing sticks together they could have been millionaires! 5. Taco Bell- Live Mas (2013)- The food they serve at Taco Bell may not help you live a long and healthy life, but if you've lived long enough to reach your golden years you might as well cut loose and eat like a kid again! 6. Audi- Doberhuahua (2014)- The world of canine crossbreeding is about to get a whole lot stranger thanks to the creation of the Doberhuahua! It's the only purse dog that will actually protect you from muggers, and their massive heads make great doorstops. 7. Wonderful Pistachioes- Stephen Colbert (2014)- If you're looking to add some stupid funny factor to your commercial spot then you gotta bring Stephen Colbert on board, and an eagle with an incredible sense of comedic timing. 8. Miller- Evil Beaver (1998)- Think beavers aren't the most badass critters found in the woods? Think again, because when it's Miller TIme the beavers won't let anything stop them from getting their paws on a frosty brew! 9. Doritos- Goat 4 Sale (2013)- Owning a goat may seem like a dream come true, but if you're a Doritoholic and don't want anyone tearing into your stash you're better off sticking with a cat or a goldfish. Beware the goat's scream, for it signifies your doom! 10. Bridgestone- Scream (2008)- When a squirrel sees its life flashing before its tiny eyes what does it see? Nuts? Trees? Apparently they see distracted drivers who are too busy spacing out to hear the cacophony of screams all around them. No squirrels were harmed in the making of this ad, but one gopher had to be hospitalized due to food poisoning from the slop served up at the craft services table. Here's hoping a new batch of stupid funny Super Bowl ads come out each year to keep us chuckling until seven layer dip comes squirting out of our noses! Happy Superbowling! | ||||||||
| Posted: 01 Feb 2015 06:00 AM PST It's a bit more unconventional than Cherry Coke in the US. But in Takko, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, garlic flavored soda is not a surprising product. That's the garlic capital of Japan, which produces garlic beer and garlic ice cream in addition to regular bulbs of garlic. Audrey Akcasu of Rocket News 24 reports that the new drink is called Takkola, a combination of the name of the town and the word "cola." The soda is a simple combination of ground garlic and cola. It's supposed to be good for your heart, but, presumably, not for your breath. Image: Takko |
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