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- 10 Brilliant Inventions That Can Change Poor People's Lives
- LSD: Line, Square, Dot
- The "Scorpion Queen" of Thailand Covers Herself in Scorpions to Amuse Tourists
- Murphy’s Take on Moore’s Law
- 8 Photos of Frying Pans and 1 of a Moon of Jupiter
- Terrifying Werewolf Dog Muzzle
- 80s Hero - All The Fury Of Kung Without The Stink!
- Forget Microbrews--Have a Nanobrew!
- 10 Fascinating Facts About <i>Blade Runner</i>
- Overprotective Raccoon "Rescues" His Brother
- Silly Season in the UK
- The Perfect Breakfast Cocktail Is Cereal, Milk, and Bourbon
- 17 Actors Impersonating Other Actors
- The San Andreas Table
- Grumpy Cat Tolerates Madame Tussauds’ Figure Sculptors
- Stock Photos Of Real New Yorkers Doing Things
- Removing Bees from a House
- Goron's Ruby Rock Candy - The Taste Will Knock You Out!
- The Marmot’s Roar
- Marilyn Monroe's 1961 Letter Detailing a Harrowing Psych Ward Stay Against Her Will
- Film From The 1940s Showing Women Use Strange Exercise Contraptions
- Female Spies and Gender-Bending Soldiers Who Changed the Course of the Civil War
- History of Cockney Rhyming Slang and How to Correctly Speak It
| 10 Brilliant Inventions That Can Change Poor People's Lives Posted: 29 Aug 2015 04:00 AM PDT Some of the best inventions aren't high tech, but technology adapted to the needs and resources of poor people in developing nations. When on Earth has a list of 10 of them, including these self-adjusting glasses. The system is called Child ViSion. A pair will fit a child between the ages of 12 and 18 and withstand a lot of punishment. More importantly, they don't require an optometrist. The user can adjust them by twisting the rods on the side, which move the lenses. Once the user can see well, s/he removes the adjusters until it's time to tweak them again. Read about 9 other great inventions to help the world's poorest at When on Earth.  | ||||||||
| Posted: 29 Aug 2015 02:00 AM PDT LSD is a very minimalist physics game. There’s a box. You can draw lines. And a dot falls. Your goal is to get the dot in the box. Simple, huh? All you have to do is draw lines in the right place to bounce the ball into the box. It’s doable, but maddening at times. Inertia is not your friend here- if you get your lines placed just right, that ball will bounce forever. As soon as you think you’re pretty good at it, you’ll be put in your place. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
| The "Scorpion Queen" of Thailand Covers Herself in Scorpions to Amuse Tourists Posted: 29 Aug 2015 12:00 AM PDT But that's just for now. If you have the title "Scorpion Queen," then you're morally obligated to become a vicious tyrant. At the moment, our queen parades in front of visitors to the Tiger Zoo in Pattaya, Thailand. She amazes them by wearing live scorpions on her dress and playing with them as though they were loyal henchmen who will obey her psychic commands. This is a demonstration of her power. She has no fear of something that terrifies everyone else. It is Step 1 to building a base of supporters. -via The Soul Is Bone | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Aug 2015 11:00 PM PDT Instead of Moore’s law, the latest comic from CommitStrip appears to be an example of Wirth’s law, named for Niklaus Wirth, who recognized the phenomena back in 1995. It tells us that as hardware becomes faster, software even more rapidly becomes slower. I’m no technical genius, but even I can tell that what we use computers for becomes more complicated all the time, which means we will never have the speed we want. Twenty years ago, I couldn’t load a video. Ten years ago, I had to buy a new computer just to start a blog. Now we stream full-length movies and live events. What's next? And how much frustrating will it be? | ||||||||
| 8 Photos of Frying Pans and 1 of a Moon of Jupiter Posted: 28 Aug 2015 10:00 PM PDT NASA recently released this composite image of 9 round objects. 8 of them are the bottoms of frying pans. 1 of them is Europa, a moon of Jupiter. It was taken by NASA's New Horizons space probe in 2007. Can you guess which is Europa? Attempt no landing there, but make a guess. Then check it against the answer in the Daily Telegraph. Did you guess correctly? -via David Thompson | ||||||||
| Terrifying Werewolf Dog Muzzle Posted: 28 Aug 2015 09:00 PM PDT Want to dress your dog up as a werewolf and possibly draw the attention of authorities? Check out this muzzle you can order from Russian retailer Zveryatam. It comes in five sizes and costs 2 10000 р, whatever that means -plus shipping. Russian guitarist Alexey Kurulyov shared a picture of his dog wearing one. I’m sure he’s a bundle of love most of the time, but wearing this muzzle, he’s a hellhound straight out of your nightmares. -via Geeks Are Sexy (Image credit: Alexey Kurulyov) | ||||||||
| 80s Hero - All The Fury Of Kung Without The Stink! Posted: 28 Aug 2015 08:00 PM PDT Dkjaskldfjds didn't start out as a hero, he was just an ordinary martial art cop in Miami, but when he was pushed too far he found himself transformed into the kickass kop Kung Fury. The power had transformed him into a real hero, the kind of badass you see in movies and TV shows who says cool stuff right before obliterating a bad guy, but would this power be enough to stop Hitler? With a little help from his computer whiz buddy Hackerman, the god of thunder Thor and an angry Tyrannosaurus Rex it's a sure bet this grand 80s hero can't lose! It's time to upgrade your geeky wardrobe with the awesomeness that is this 80s Hero t-shirt by Ddjvigo, it'll turn you in to a total knockout! Visit Ddjvigo's Facebook fan page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty geeky designs:
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| Forget Microbrews--Have a Nanobrew! Posted: 28 Aug 2015 08:00 PM PDT "Microbrewers can focus on making each bottle taste good. But we can focus on making each sip taste great." The comedy troupe Above Average takes the microbrewing craze to the next level by imagining a brewery that scales down its product to less than a thimble-full per bottle. You will never, ever feel the effects of alcohol, but you will experience microbrew prices. -via The Presurfer | ||||||||
| 10 Fascinating Facts About <i>Blade Runner</i> Posted: 28 Aug 2015 07:00 PM PDT Harrison Ford stars in a Ridley Scott film based on a novel by Philip K. Dick. You can’t beat a pedigree like that. The 1982 film Blade Runner couldn’t help but become a classic of the sci-fi genre. Surely you’ll want to know some of the important facts behind the movie. For example:
Other bits of trivia address the question of whether Rick Deckard is a replicant himself or not. And there’s more about Blade Runner you’ll want to know at mental_floss. | ||||||||
| Overprotective Raccoon "Rescues" His Brother Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:00 PM PDT Willie and Waylon are raccoons. They're also brothers. Willie is a "hold my beer and watch this" type of raccoon. It's Waylon who has to get him out of his messes. In this case, the insane Willie decides to swim in the pool. Waylon drags him out when he manages to get to the edge. Willie is alive--for now. Eventually, Waylon won't be there to save him. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Aug 2015 05:00 PM PDT There have been a few news stories out of the UK that have Americans scratching their heads. This is news? We are used to British newspaper websites being full of stories that would never make the papers here, but lately stories are published that are silly even by British standards. It’s the Silly Season, in which Parliament is on vacation, so there are fewer government news stories to fill space. The above story made the BBC. A rogue lawn chair attacked a cow at a farm near Boughton, Northamptonshire. You can clearly see the chair has the cow subdued in a headlock. By the time the Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service arrived, the cow had freed itself from the chair. Thank goodness! -via Metafilter
The story has a happy ending, as Langler picked up the wheelbarrows and replanted them. Whew, that was a close one. -via Arbroath | ||||||||
| The Perfect Breakfast Cocktail Is Cereal, Milk, and Bourbon Posted: 28 Aug 2015 04:00 PM PDT What should you drink for breakfast? You can guzzle down coffee. But that gets old after a while and stimulants are not necessarily a good idea in the morning. A better alternative is an invigorating cocktail. Kim Patton-Bragg, a professional mixologist in New Orleans, has a great solution that she calls the Cereal Killer. She describes her recipe in Garden & Gun magazine:
The preparation takes a while because the cereal needs to marinate in the milk for at least an hour. I recommend starting that process the night before. Patton-Bragg says that if it's prepared correctly, the Cereal Killer is "an eye-opener." -via Robb Allen | Photo: Margaret Houston | ||||||||
| 17 Actors Impersonating Other Actors Posted: 28 Aug 2015 03:00 PM PDT One amusing side effect of actors spending long hours together while waiting on sets in their down time is that they occasionally become familiar with each other's voice inflection and mannerisms. Being actors, with (hopefully) an existing flair for imitating fellow humans, many become adept at impersonating each other. | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Aug 2015 02:00 PM PDT Ricardo Garza Marcos, a Mexican furniture designer, developed this oak coffee table. It's named for the San Andreas fault in California--the site of so many earthquakes in that region. The surface of the table splits in two to reveal storage space inside. | ||||||||
| Grumpy Cat Tolerates Madame Tussauds’ Figure Sculptors Posted: 28 Aug 2015 01:00 PM PDT Grumpy Cat is slated to be enshrined in Madame Tussauds wax museum in San Francisco. That means she had to travel to their studio to be studied, measured, molded, and photographed by the artists who will create her wax doppelgänger. Did Grumpy Cat enjoy the session? Duh. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Stock Photos Of Real New Yorkers Doing Things Posted: 28 Aug 2015 12:00 PM PDT As a rule New Yorkers do things on a daily basis, just like pretty much everyone else in the world, but it's often assumed the things New Yorkers do are strange things, urbane things, utterly New Yorkerly things. The thing I said about the New Yorkerly things they do is actually true, but that's because New Yorkers have access to things many others don't, like one dollar pizza slices that actually taste good. On the flip side they also have to deal with everyday things others don't, like mysterious fluids falling from the sky. New York Public Radio WNYC cast real New Yorkers for a series of 35 stock photos depicting everyday encounters and activities- NYC style, which are free to share and use for non-commercial purposes. So the next time you need a pic of a guy making people uncomfortable on the subway with his “manspreading” you've got it! Thanks WNYC, we'll put them to good use. -Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Aug 2015 11:00 AM PDT Photographer Larry Chen noticed that honeybees were living in a wall of his house. They weren’t coming inside, but who wants bees living in the wall? Instead of calling an exterminator, he contacted a beekeeper named Mike. Mike managed to remove an established hive and contain almost all the bees without harm. There was some wall repair to do, but it was a nice squared-off hole, so it shouldn’t have been too difficult. Highlights of the 5-hour process were recorded for your edification and amusement. In other words, this is fascinating. -via reddit | ||||||||
| Goron's Ruby Rock Candy - The Taste Will Knock You Out! Posted: 28 Aug 2015 10:00 AM PDT Goron's Ruby Rock Candy by Cory Freeman Design When the Gorons started making candy everyone was pretty skeptical about how it would taste, but his Ruby Rock candy is actually pretty good! Too bad the pieces only come in large and legendary sizes, so nobody can actually fit those delicious boulders in their mouths. Zelda suggested Link tell the Gorons their candy pieces are too big for Hylians to eat, but Link knew better than to insult those rocky Death Mountain dwellers with a criticism of their candy. Instead, he slipped on his Goron mask and pretended to be one of them... Add some tasty video game fun to your geeky wardrobe with this Goron's Ruby Rock Candy t-shirt by Cory Freeman Design, it'll rock your fellow fans like a sweet ocarina solo! Visit Cory Freeman Design's Facebook fan page, official website and Twitter, 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! | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Aug 2015 10:00 AM PDT I always imagined a marmot would sound something like this. So I was as surprised as you will be to hear one actually vocalizing. This was recorded on Blackcomb Mountain in British Columbia by the folks at Lone Goat Soap Co. Naturally, YouTubers had to edit this video to “improve” the roar, and to insert the marmot into an opera and a Taylor Swift concert. You can see those at Tastefully Offensive. -via Arbroath | ||||||||
| Marilyn Monroe's 1961 Letter Detailing a Harrowing Psych Ward Stay Against Her Will Posted: 28 Aug 2015 09:00 AM PDT
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| Film From The 1940s Showing Women Use Strange Exercise Contraptions Posted: 28 Aug 2015 08:00 AM PDT It's not uncommon to see people hitting treadmills and ellipticals to get in shape, but back in the 1940s an exercise machine called the Streamliner was introduced, and it was supposed to fight the "battle of the bulge" for you Something tells me there were more than a few “unfortunate accidents” attributed to the machines in this video, because they look like they were invented by sadists. -Via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Female Spies and Gender-Bending Soldiers Who Changed the Course of the Civil War Posted: 28 Aug 2015 07:00 AM PDT
Karen Abbott grew up in Philadelphia and then moved to Atlanta. She experienced culture shock when suddenly confronted with people who seem to still be fighting the Civil War. It piqued her interest in the conflict, and she wondered how women were involved. There are always women involved in war, even if they don’t make it into textbooks. Abbot became intrigued with the stories of Elizabeth Van Lew, Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmondson, and Maria Isabella “Belle” Boyd. The stories of these spies and soldiers intersected with each other, and involved plenty of other women who left fewer accounts behind. They used the misogyny of the time to their own advantage.
Abbot’s research resulted in a book titled Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War. The book will be available next week, but you can read an overview of those stories at Collectors Weekly. | ||||||||
| History of Cockney Rhyming Slang and How to Correctly Speak It Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:00 AM PDT In this, the thirty-sixth episode of Anglophenia, host Kate Arnell presents some fascinating facts about Cockney rhyming slang. How did it come into existence?
Tricky indeed! But very interesting in that it began as sort of a secret language or code, particularly given that some non-Brit English speakers claim to this day to have trouble deciphering it at times. Via Laughing Squid |
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