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- The Goofiest Shoes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Stayin' Derp - The Nonchalant Need Not Apply
- 14th Century Yoda
- The Horror of Washing Dishes
- A Contender for the Most Demanding First Birthday Invitation Ever
- Man Pulls Driver to Safety from the Edge of a Cliff
- The Day Charmander Took Over
- Weightlifting Skateboards
- Official Teaser Trailer for <i>Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice</i>
- Red Hot Ball Of Nickel vs. Jawbreaker
- A Gallery of Passports from around the World
- Goalkeeper Cat
- Hayao Stars - Dreams Of An Animated Evening
- Three Friends Challenge Each Other to Find Their Dopplegängers
- An Oral History of <i>Airplane!</i>
- Silverback Gorilla Smashes Glass at Omaha Zoo
- Man Shoots Armadillo; Hits Mother-In-Law Next Door
- Temporarily Banned Episodes of Popular TV Shows
- Top Ten Futuristic Products
- If Tim Burton Designed Furniture for Your House
- Help Your Geeky Wardrobe Grow With These 30 T-Shirts Inspired By Spring
- 45 Most Popular Crock Pot Recipes from Well Known Food Bloggers
- 10 Cool Upcycled Etsy Finds In Time For Earth Day
| The Goofiest Shoes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Posted: 18 Apr 2015 04:00 AM PDT I’ve mentioned before my earnest wish to visit New York City if for no other reason than to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which must be the greatest art museum in North America. Messy Nessy Chic has given me yet another reason to go: the Met has a collection of the weirdest shoes in the world, including this grassy sandal made by Beth Levine in the early 1990s. It's called “Barefoot in the Grass.” You can see a selection of other eccentric shoe designs owned by the Met at Messy Nessy Chic.  | ||||||||
| Stayin' Derp - The Nonchalant Need Not Apply Posted: 18 Apr 2015 02:00 AM PDT It's easy to stay angry, happy, dopey or sleepy, but stayin' derp- now that takes skills. You gotta be one cool cat to see life in a way that nobody else does, and be willingly give up your too cool feline image for one that's a little more silly. The worst thing about stayin' derp is keeping your kooky kitty cool when the fur starts flying around you, a skill that'll come in handy when your kitteh derpiness inevitably leads to internet fame and bitcoin fortune. And the best thing about living a derpy kitty lifestyle? All the social media upvotes and the fact that nobody will ever see you crying over spilled milk! Keep your stray cat style totally geeky with this Stayin' Derp t-shirt by Bohsky, it's the best way to spread the word about the adorable power of derpiness! Visit Bohsky's Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs:
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| Posted: 18 Apr 2015 02:00 AM PDT We’ve seen some pretty unusual things that pop up in medieval religious manuscripts. Now it appears that one features a certain Jedi master from long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. Julian Harrison of Medieval Manuscripts told NPR:
The monks who spent their lives hand-copying books can be forgiven for letting their creative juices flow, but none of them would have ever guessed that their art would be so entertaining to us in the 21st century. Read more about the 14th-century Yoda at NPR. -via Daily of the Day | ||||||||
| Posted: 18 Apr 2015 12:00 AM PDT You've had a long day. But the house is a mess, so it's time to get to work. Eventually, you promise yourself, the work will be done. There will be a last dish. Then you can pop a beer and watch Daredevil. But there's always one more dish. Oh, you think that you've found the last one? You're wrong. -via Huffington Post | ||||||||
| A Contender for the Most Demanding First Birthday Invitation Ever Posted: 17 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT
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| Man Pulls Driver to Safety from the Edge of a Cliff Posted: 17 Apr 2015 10:00 PM PDT
According to witnesses in Lewiston, Idaho, Matthew Sitko began driving erratically, then lost control of his SUV. He ran off the road and barely stopped before slipping over the edge of a cliff. He might have fallen down, were it not for a mysterious man who pulled him out of the window to safety. After securing Sitko from the truck, he disappeared. Local residents later identified him from the photo. The hero told police that he was trying to avoid attention. | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Apr 2015 09:00 PM PDT  If you went to reddit at all on Wednesday, you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting a post about Charmander. Now, Charmander is the name of a Pokemon, but this is a little different from what you’re used to. A guy got a tattoo of a Pokemon he called Charmander, but it was actually a poor imitation of the work of Vaughn Pinpin (Hat Boy), who did a series of Pokemon in the style of Tim Burton. See his Charmander, which was obviously the inspiration for the tattoo. Redditors laughed at the tat, and then started using the design for their own ends. Before the day was over, there were t-shirts, cups, animations, a packet of coffee, jewelry, and toys made in the design of what became known as “shitty Charmander.” See a roundup of them at Dorkly. I had considered doing a roundup myself, but other duties got in the way. See even more of them at Kotaku. | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Apr 2015 08:00 PM PDT Misha Petrick, an animator in Moscow, made these clever skateboard designs called Strongboards. They make effective use of the visual forms already present in overturned skateboards. -via Colossal | ||||||||
| Official Teaser Trailer for <i>Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice</i> Posted: 17 Apr 2015 07:00 PM PDT Here we have the official teaser trailer to Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, the release of which was moved up by three days after a blurry, pirated version was leaked yesterday. The trailer was posted by director Zack Snyder on Twitter. There is an IMAX trailer still to come, which Snyder says will be different. The film, starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams and others making up a star-studded, ensemble cast, is due to be released on March 25, 2016. | ||||||||
| Red Hot Ball Of Nickel vs. Jawbreaker Posted: 17 Apr 2015 06:00 PM PDT YouTube member carsandwater continues to drop his Red Hot Ball of Nickel on random things to see what happens, this time on a large jawbreaker. He's found a volatile combination here. What you get is a volcano, complete with tremors, smoke, steam, and a lava flow of hot, sticky sugar! That’s going to be a mess to clean up. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| A Gallery of Passports from around the World Posted: 17 Apr 2015 05:00 PM PDT The investment company Arton Capital created a world passport index. It shows the covers of what appears to be every legally recognized passport in the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. You can sort them by location, alphabetical order, or color. The site also includes a ranking of passports by “power.” This means the number of countries that a passport permits a bearer to travel to without special authorization. The United States and United Kingdom rest at the top with 147. The bottom tier is a tie between South Sudan, the Solomon Islands, the Palestinian territories, Sao Tome and Principe, and Myanmar at 28. -via David Thompson | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Apr 2015 04:00 PM PDT Eberti Inacio recorded his son Pedro Henrique playing soccer with their cat, Sid. Sid is a gifted goalkeeper! The original video is here. Then it was remixed with sports commentary about Brazilian goalkeeper Claudio Taffarel, because Sid is that good. -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| Hayao Stars - Dreams Of An Animated Evening Posted: 17 Apr 2015 03:00 PM PDT Miyazaki went through an impressionistic period that didn't appeal to fans of his animated features yet drove art critics around the world crazy with glee. Hayao has always enjoyed painting, and he holds the natural world in great esteem, but people know him best for his amazingly detailed character designs and incredibly magical storylines, so he decided to drop the painterly approach to animation for the sake of Studio Ghibli. And it's a good thing he did, too, because where would his fans be without their favorite wild princess, grinning Totoro neighbors and magical moving castles that spirit our imaginations away? Add some animated artistry to your geeky wardrobe with this Hayao Stars t-shirt by Wirdou, it'll change the way you look at the stars in the night sky! Visit Wirdou's Facebook fan page and official website, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more fantastic designs:
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| Three Friends Challenge Each Other to Find Their Dopplegängers Posted: 17 Apr 2015 03:00 PM PDT
Recently 26-year-old Niamh met look-alike 29-year-old Karen, video footage of which is shown above (a video description of their project is shown below). As ladies are wont to do, they experimented with hair and makeup to make themselves look even more alike. The result is pretty dead on target. The two women met by way of publicity on social media. If their looks aren't enough of a similarity, it turns out that they live just an hour apart from each other in Ireland. | ||||||||
| An Oral History of <i>Airplane!</i> Posted: 17 Apr 2015 02:00 PM PDT Has it really been 35 years since the movie Airplane! came out? Yes it has, and that means an entire generation of viewers needs to learn the history behind the groundbreaking film. It was full of actors who didn’t normally do comedy. It was a parody of several serious movies. And it made Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker names to remember in Hollywood. The A.V. Club talked to 14 different people involved in the making of Airplane! to compile the story of the film. They talk about the script, the casting (both Bruce Jenner and David Letterman auditioned), the shoot, the final product, and plenty of great stories about the stars.
Other stories include how they wrote the “jive talk,” why Kareen Abdul-Jabbar was paid that much, how the kid who visited the cockpit didn’t understand the jokes until he saw the final cut, and the story of those people who lined up to slap some sense into a panicking passenger. It’s all at the A.V. Club, and don’t call me Shirley. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
| Silverback Gorilla Smashes Glass at Omaha Zoo Posted: 17 Apr 2015 01:00 PM PDT Frightened onlookers at the Omaha Zoo scattered yesterday as one of the gorillas suddenly rushed the glass of the enclosed exhibit and smashed it. A Redditor captured this footage of the Silverback in question, who had been fighting with another male just prior to the incident. Photos of the bleeding, angry animal later surfaced after the fact. Having witnessed a similar incident at my local zoo in which a male gorilla suddenly raced up to the glass of his enclosure and punched it hard enough to shake the structure after a man pressed up against it from the other side, I can say how terrifying such a happening is. The glass didn't break in that case, though. Such accounts give me uneasy feelings about keeping these intelligent, powerful animals caged, frustrated and bored. -Via Reddit | ||||||||
| Man Shoots Armadillo; Hits Mother-In-Law Next Door Posted: 17 Apr 2015 12:00 PM PDT A bizarre shooting incident Sunday night in Lee County, Georgia, was determined to be an accident. Larry McElroy fired a 9mm pistol at an armadillo in his yard. He could not foresee what happened next.
The mother-in-law, 74-year-old Carol Johnson, was taken to a hospital, but her injureies were considered minor. Authorities in Lee County suggest that a shotgun be used instead of a pistol to “shoot at varmints and whatnot.” Tip: “whatnot” does not include your mother-in-law.-via Arbroath | ||||||||
| Temporarily Banned Episodes of Popular TV Shows Posted: 17 Apr 2015 11:00 AM PDT With over 170 episodes, it's understandable that some fans haven't seen all the episodes of Seinfeld no matter how many times they've been syndicated since their original air date. If you've never seen "The Puerto Rican Day" though, you might have missed it due to censorship. In fact, due to complaints about negative portrayals of Puerto Ricans and a burning Puerto Rican flag, the episode was banned completely between its original air date in 1999 and 2002. Even now though, some stations who syndicate the show won't touch it. And that Seinfeld episode is only one of 27 episodes from popular TV shows that were banned temporarily for one reason or another. Perhaps the strangest of all was the Peppa Pig episode that shows kids that spiders are our friends. It was banned in Australia because the deadly spiders there are most certainly not your friend. | ||||||||
| Posted: 17 Apr 2015 10:00 AM PDT The movies (and TV) give us wonderful things -in the future. They are awesome on film, because we get to skip the research and development part. It appears that one such product is in the works: Back to the Future power lace shoes. Mario and Fafa of Glove and Boots think they should have gone with something a little cooler. There are so many to choose from! Of course, some will be easier to tackle than others. Automatic shoe laces are a lot easier to invent than a sonic screwdriver. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| If Tim Burton Designed Furniture for Your House Posted: 17 Apr 2015 09:00 AM PDT Etsy seller David Mueller of Leipzig, Germany designs and builds furniture that looks like it belongs in Tim Burton's classic film The Nightmare before Christmas. The pieces, such as this bookshelf made to look like a bat cave, are built with birch plywood. They're perfect for an offbeat home. You can see more pieces here, including mirrors, cabinets, and coat racks. -via Nerd Approved | ||||||||
| Help Your Geeky Wardrobe Grow With These 30 T-Shirts Inspired By Spring Posted: 17 Apr 2015 08:00 AM PDT Spring is in the air, and April is the perfect month to get outside and do all those outdoorsy type activities you like to do, that is, when it's not raining. April brings Arbor Day, Earth Day and showers that will hopefully lead to some May flowers. Celebrate the season of thawing and green with these spring inspired t-shirts from the NeatoShop! When the winter frost begins to thaw nature comes back to life Those who have spent the winter hibernating come out to see the flowers bloom And creatures great and small who have been cooped up all winter start feeling frisky April Groot's Day by Boggs Nicolas There's a feeling of togetherness and friendship in the air Rights of Spring by Fishbiscuit And for some romance is in the air as well Bear Bouquet by Sophie Corrigan Springtime makes many creatures feel like having fun Between Trees by Michael Renouf Although sudden downpours can dampen the festivities a bit Getting Caught In The Rain by Adam Koford Some critters like to be outside when it's raining cats and dogs Just Singing In The Rain by Ddjvigo Seeing the storm as a perfect time to sow their wild oats Clockwork Orange Singin' In The Rain by Dutyfreak April is when Spring has truly sprung, and if your name is April it's a whole month dedicated to you! They say April showers bring May flowers And some flowers are prettier than others, which can also be said about some gardeners... Peacock Flower by Tobe Fonseca Spring is a gardener's favorite time of year And they can't wait to get back to growing green stuff in their garden again The flowers attract bees, who help pollinate the plants And the sun helps ensure those garden crops grow up big and strong We feel a sense of accomplishment when we finish weeding our gardens and start to see green growth Although we might need a little help to keep that garden in tip-top shape Space Nurseries by Amanda Flagg Farmers see raindrops as falling gold But those who don't care a lick about gardening just ride out the storms in search of summer More seasonable weather means the surf is up People start planning their vacations And those who are stuck at home prepare for the worst Gnome by Matt Sinor Because with spring comes a new wave of battles Battles against killer weeds Poisonous Landscaping by Amanda Flagg And the battle against boredom that drives some critters a bit batty You Are What You Eat by Mike Jacobsen But when all the hard work in the garden is done Green Zone Gardener by Pinteezy And we get to reap the rewards of having a green thumb THE LIVING TREE by Jason Parish We see the light at the end of the portal And start feeling like everything green is awesome again! GUARDIAN OF SPRING A by Boggs Nicolas These great t-shirts from the NeatoShop are guaranteed to put a spring in your step and make your geeky wardrobe feel fresh again! Every NeatoShop sale supports the colorful indie artists from around the world who create the t-shirt designs we totally dig, so grab yourself a NeatoShop t-shirt and watch your wardrobe grow! a Rafflecopter giveaway | ||||||||
| 45 Most Popular Crock Pot Recipes from Well Known Food Bloggers Posted: 17 Apr 2015 07:00 AM PDT
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| 10 Cool Upcycled Etsy Finds In Time For Earth Day Posted: 17 Apr 2015 06:00 AM PDT Earth Day is next Wednesday and to celebrate, Homes and Hues rounded up some of the coolest upcycled and recycled pieces available on Etsy. From lighting to vases and from benches to sinks, all of these items are earth-friendly in that they take advantage of materials that may otherwise have been headed for the scrapyard. Because the items are all made from old materials, you could even buy based on your interests whether that's skiing, skateboarding, reading, biking or enjoying a nice glass of wine. So don't miss the full list at Homes and Hues: 10 Recycled and Upcycled Etsy Finds Perfect for Earth Day |
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