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- Cool Vintage Photos of People Reading
- Twelve Types of Cats
- Deep in Thought
- For Sale: Canned Parrot
- Bebop In The Stars - I See You Cowboys In Space!
- How <i>Back To The Future II</i> Should Have Started
- Little Girl Obsessed with CVS Gets CVS-Themed Birthday Party
- Never Give Up!
- 24 Electrifying <i>Back to the Future</i> Tattoos
- The Pope Who Buried His Pet Elephant Under the Vatican
- Have Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff Come Back From The Grave?!
- A Change of Plans
- Dan Rawlings's Saw Sculptures
- Ryer the Otter Wants to Hit the Snooze Button
- ALS Patient Writes 150,000-Word Autobiography by Blinking More Than a Million Times
- Welcome To Georgia - Where The Nightlife Is Totally Dead
- One Guy’s Reaction to the New <i>Star Wars</i> Trailer
- Dad Photobombs Daughter's Homecoming Photo
- Sexy Gandalf Costume
- The Ultimate Disguise For The Dog Who Loves Carrots
- 10 Facts About <i>It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown</i>
- Ten Infamous Houses Of Murder
- Beluga Whale Wows Navy Team With His Impression Of Human Chatter
- How to Use a Selfie Stick
- Canada’s New Prime Minister
- 16 Super Easy Kids Halloween Costumes You Can DIY
| Cool Vintage Photos of People Reading Posted: 21 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT There's nothing quite like a good book and that was especially true during the Great Depression where entertainment was short and disposable income was low. Seeing people read during those tough times provides both a look at their realities and their escapes from reality. These awesome photos, featured on Flavorwire, show just how important books, magazines and newspapers were to keeping up morale and just passing the time.  | ||||||||
| Posted: 21 Oct 2015 03:00 AM PDT
Here they have illustrated twelve types of cats. See all twelve feline varieties at this user-submitted post at Bored Panda (a couple are named with mildly NSFW language). | ||||||||
| Posted: 21 Oct 2015 02:00 AM PDT The problem with trying to look busy is that you end up putting more effort into the appearance than into what you were supposed to be doing anyway. I do my best thinking out in the garden, when it appears I’m taking a break to pick vegetables or something… because thinking at a desk in front of a computer can turn your brain to mush. Now, if I can only think of a way to remember those wonderful ideas by the time I get back to the computer! This is the latest from CommitStrip. | ||||||||
| Posted: 21 Oct 2015 01:00 AM PDT
You may call it "sky rat," but we aficionados prefer the term "sky poultry." Hoodline, a news blog in San Francisco, reports that a new business is offering 2 different kinds of canned parrot. At least, that's what the signs in the yet unopened Terrific Street store claim. The cans indicate that you can buy local and organic parrots that were caught in the wild. This may be the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill. Whether you prefer your parrots boiled or served with cherry syrup, Terrific Street has you covered. Not everyone who lives in the neighborhood find the display funny. I don't either. It makes me hungry! You can see more photos at Hoodline. | ||||||||
| Bebop In The Stars - I See You Cowboys In Space! Posted: 21 Oct 2015 12:00 AM PDT They're the stars of our favorite sci-fi anime series, but they're so much more than that. Together they form their own constellation of coolness, bringing in bounties to a bebop beat like a bunch of interstellar space cowboys. They shine bright on their own, brightest when working together to bring in some big time Woolong for a bust, and they prove that the real folk blues lies in the stars themselves! Add some anime astronomy to your geeky wardrobe with this Bebop In The Stars t-shirt by Pyier, it's the swankiest way to show love for your favorite series! Visit Pyier's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more superheroic 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! | ||||||||
| How <i>Back To The Future II</i> Should Have Started Posted: 21 Oct 2015 12:00 AM PDT The folks at How It Should Have Ended looked at the film Back to the Future Part II and decided it needed a new beginning instead of a new ending. Their thinking is explained at the YouTube page:
There’s one problem with that. Einstein is a dog. He didn’t have the time or the knowledge, let alone the dexterity, to program the Delorean to go back to the past. Marty and Doc know how to program the time machine, so they can go where they want to in time. But the video is still funny. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Little Girl Obsessed with CVS Gets CVS-Themed Birthday Party Posted: 20 Oct 2015 11:00 PM PDT It doesn't make sense to you or me, but to 4-year old Iris Gill, her local CVS convenience store and pharmacy is a "happy place" comparable with Disney World. For the past two years, she watched as the facility was built and then opened. She loves to visit. So her mother, Sarah Fortune, threw her a CVS-themed birthday party. Iris's cake was with decorated with the CVS colors and typographic style. Party favors included white mints dispensed in prescription medicine bottles. Grown-ups got to drink Cranberry Vodka Splash (CVS, get it?) punch and everyone got to shop at the little toy register that Sarah set up for Iris and her friends. You can see more photos at Sarah Fortune's blog. -via Huffington Post | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Oct 2015 10:00 PM PDT This kitten is clearly too small to jump the chasm between the chair and the table. But he keeps trying, and trying, and trying. Will he ever make it? A cat with a bigger brain might have tried to find another way up to the table. This little guy is just stubborn -not that stubborness is always a bad thing. Perseverance and practice will get you to your goal. Eventually. Even if you have to grow up a little to make it. -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| 24 Electrifying <i>Back to the Future</i> Tattoos Posted: 20 Oct 2015 09:00 PM PDT Back to the Future day is upon us. So we all need to be riding hoverboards, wearing steel planters on our heads, and watching Jaws 19 in theaters. You can also mark the occasion by getting inked with images of one of the greatest movie franches of the 20th Century. You will definitely impress 1985's Marty McFly if you are sporting this photorealistic tat by Josh Bodwell. It's 1 of 24 perfect tattoos that people added to their bodies to show how much they love going back to the future. | ||||||||
| The Pope Who Buried His Pet Elephant Under the Vatican Posted: 20 Oct 2015 08:00 PM PDT Pope Leo X was elevated to the papal throne in 1513. One of his claims to fame was that he had a pet elephant named Hanno, the first elephant in Italy since the fall of the Roman Empire. It was a gift, which was expected in those times. National leaders from all over presented gifts to each new Pope, hoping for political favors, and the more magnificent and unusual the gift, all the better.
From that moment on, Hanno was Leo’s treasured pet. Read the story of Hanno and the Pope at Atlas Obscura. | ||||||||
| Have Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff Come Back From The Grave?! Posted: 20 Oct 2015 07:00 PM PDT The creatures of the night are crawling out of their dank graves and dark tombs to get us all in the Halloween mood, but you're safe (for now) because these aren't the real monsters we fear. No, these are simply amazing sculptures by Mike Hill that look so realistic they make our skin crawl! These incredibly lifelike sculptures celebrate the early years of monster movies, as well as paying homage to moments that changed the horror game, like Rick Baker's groundbreaking special effects work on An American Werewolf In London. Mike Hill's sculptures really speak for themselves, but many of Mike's works deal with macabre subject matter so maybe "scream for themselves" is a more appropriate description! See more of Mike Hill's amazingly realistic sculptures at Dangerous Minds | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Oct 2015 06:00 PM PDT Why settle for tricks when you can have real magic? It’s science! The kids will be alright in the latest comic from Lunarbaboon. I looked up the experiment she’s about to do. It’s called the iodine clock reaction, and it’s pretty neat. Didn't I say it was neat? | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Oct 2015 05:00 PM PDT Dan Rawlings is an artist in the UK. He's fascinated by old things that are left behind, especially tools. For Rawlings, an old saw conjures images of rural life, old romances, and childhood play. He cuts silhouettes out of the blades to reveal these happy times. -via Lustik | ||||||||
| Ryer the Otter Wants to Hit the Snooze Button Posted: 20 Oct 2015 04:00 PM PDT Often animals do things that relate to human behavior so well that it feels like we're more alike than different. There could be no better example than an animal who is awakened before he feels he's had sufficient sleep. Who among us doesn't know the feeling? | ||||||||
| ALS Patient Writes 150,000-Word Autobiography by Blinking More Than a Million Times Posted: 20 Oct 2015 03:00 PM PDT
Gong Xunhui of Chengdu, China has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). But she's still led a full life since her diagnosis in 2003. She's written down those experiences in an autobiography fully 150,000 words long. How did Xunhui do it when she can't hold a pen or type? By blinking. She used her eyes to manipulate an interface that let her select Chinese characters. Fox News reports:
So far, 6,800 copies have been printed. -via Oddity Central | ||||||||
| Welcome To Georgia - Where The Nightlife Is Totally Dead Posted: 20 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT Welcome To Georgia by FlatTop Frankie If you're lookin' for a place to kick up your heels and sit a spell, somewhere you can take a break from all the walking corpses and carnage, then you could do a whole lot bettah than Georgia, let me tell you. You see, the outbreak hit Georgia's cities pretty hard, and there's enough biters in Atlanta alone to cause the whole South to collapse. But you knew that already, didn't you? Yeah, I figured, you're here for different reasons, running from a horror far greater than the living dead... Take your favorite zombie TV show with you wherever you go with this Welcome To Georgia t-shirt by FlatTop Frankie, it's a gruesome way to make your fellow fans grin with delight! Visit FlatTop Frankie's Facebook fan page and official website, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more frightfully good 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! | ||||||||
| One Guy’s Reaction to the New <i>Star Wars</i> Trailer Posted: 20 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT Fanboys are falling all over themselves over the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And this Instagram member is no exception. The caption to this video says it all.
Except for one thing- he’s not just any Star Wars fan. This is John Boyega, the 23-year-old British actor who stars as Finn in the movie. Put yourself in his place: he was only 13 when the last movie came out, and we thought we’d never get another. Now he’s the lead actor in what will be a record-breaking film that gives his generation their own Star Wars mythology. After all the work is done, he now gets to enjoy the anticipation we're all feeling. I’d be excited, too! -via Buzzfeed | ||||||||
| Dad Photobombs Daughter's Homecoming Photo Posted: 20 Oct 2015 01:00 PM PDT Dads are mighty protective of their daughters, especially in regard to who their teenage daughters are allowed to date, so boys should expect to be given a hard time when they meet daddy. This gentle, yet psychologically effective, ribbing usually involves jokes about papa's trusty shotgun and all the bad things that will happen if daddy's little girl is brought home late. But is this daddy wasn't content with idle threats, he prefers the "scar them for life" technique: Ricarra and her boyfriend thought their homecoming photo session would breeze by, since her pro photographer mother Sharee Schock was taking all the pics. But then daddy came down and turned the whole thing into yet another awkward moment in two teenage lives, a moment they'll never live down since the pics have been posted to the internet. Thanks dad! -Via Cheezburger | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT Yes! And this is only the beginning. We need a leggy Gimli, a smokin' hot Balrog, and a coyly seductive Ent. Tijtske Van Vark, 18, of Melbourne, Australia got to dress up for "Muck Up Day"--a traditional day for student pranks. She went as a different sort of Gandalf. Now I'd like to see Ian McKellen try it. -via BuzzFeed | ||||||||
| The Ultimate Disguise For The Dog Who Loves Carrots Posted: 20 Oct 2015 11:00 AM PDT Dogs will go to great lengths for a tasty treat to chew on, especially if it's human food instead of their boring old kibble, but dressing up to look like stuffed animals is a truly innovative technique. Leave it to Maymo and Penny to come up with such a clever plan in their quest for carrots, too bad they didn't add eyeholes to their costumes so they could see where they were going... -Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| 10 Facts About <i>It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown</i> Posted: 20 Oct 2015 10:00 AM PDT It’s an annual tradition to watch Charlie Brown receive rocks in his trick-or-treat bag and Linus mangle Halloween lore in the 1966 TV special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Now in it’s 50th year, you probably know the script by heart. But you might not know how much was riding on the success of the Halloween special, or other behind the scenes facts. Here’s your chance to find out.
There’s more where that came from, in a trivia list about It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown at mental_floss. The show will air on ABC tonight and again on October 29th. Check your local listings for time and channel. | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Oct 2015 09:00 AM PDT
Perhaps to convince the public that the house could still be a homey and viable property, Hollywood agent Rudy Altobelli, the owner of the house, moved in several weeks after the murders and lived there for 20 years. Altobelli eventually sold the house for $1.6 million. The last resident to inhabit 10050 Cielo Drive was Trent Reznor. He had a recording studio built there, which he named “Le Pig” after the Manson family's bloody scrawls. Reznor recorded The Downward Spiral there as well, which happens to have two tracks with the word "Pig" in their titles. Read about more infamous houses of murder here. | ||||||||
| Beluga Whale Wows Navy Team With His Impression Of Human Chatter Posted: 20 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT I'm not sure if Noc the beluga whale has been watching too much human TV, or if it's a simple case of humans thinking everything sounds human, but Noc really has the whole chattering human routine down pat! Noc was tamed by the United States Navy in the 1970s so he could help locate and retrieve sunken torpedos and mines, and he has not taken to working with humans like a fish out of water because he loves his human pals. He likes his human friends so much that Noc even likes to play tricks on them, making divers think they've heard radio chatter telling them to get out of the water, with playful Noc laughing all the while. If you'd like to read more about an amazing beluga named Noc check out this Smithsonian article from 2014, it's a whale of a tale and it's true! -Via GNN | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT In a mere 6 seconds, from unboxing to completion, Mario Culibrk shows us how to use a selfie stick. They’re really very simple devices once the instructions are broken down into steps as this Vine does. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Posted: 20 Oct 2015 06:00 AM PDT Canada held their general election yesterday, and the new Prime Minister will be Justin Trudeau of Canada’s Liberal Party. Geeks Are Sexy took the opportunity to pull out a photograph of Trudeau being arrested by forces of the Galactic Empire at the 2012 Montreal Comic Con. Despite looking 14 years old in the picture, Trudeau is 43 (40 in this picture). Any comparisons between the Rebel Alliance and the Liberal Party will have to come from someone more familiar with Canadian politics. | ||||||||
| 16 Super Easy Kids Halloween Costumes You Can DIY Posted: 20 Oct 2015 05:00 AM PDT Halloween is our favorite time of the year, but it can be stressful, particularly for parents who don't have enough time or money to make or buy their little one the perfect costume. But you can make a pretty awesome costume for surprisingly little money and here are a few ideas for those who prefer to DIY over buy, but still want something pretty simple. Russell from UpA yellow hat, an orange scarf, a brown sash covered in badges and some hefty hiking boots can transform any boy into everyone's favorite Wilderness Explorer. Windup Doll Dress up your little cutie in his or her fanciest clothes, then add a gold-painted cardboard cutout of a windup key and you have an adorable little windup doll. Wonder Woman Every little girl is wonderful, but with a blue tutu, some felt stars and a Wonder Woman tee, she can actually become Wonder Woman as well. Throw in a tiara and wrist cuffs on older girls and you've got a full, fashionable ensemble. Clark Kent Similarly, for a great Superman costume for your super little guy, just get a Superman tee with a cape and then hide it under a mostly unbuttoned tee, tie and black pants. Throw on some geeky glasses and you've got a hero in disguise in no time. Ace Ventura Got a tutu, a Hawaiian shirt and some hair gel? Then you have what you need to make an awesome Ace Ventura costume. Monopoly Costumes A white outfit and a simple white hat can easily be made into a prisoner costume with a little black electrical tape. Add a cardboard cutout resembling Monopoly's famous jail space and you have a perfect costume. As for Uncle Pennybags, any boys who have recently been a ring bearer can put their tuxedo to use again by adding a mustache, a cane, a red tie and a top hat for a perfect Uncle Pennybags costume. Bob Ross There are tons of Bob Ross costumes out there for kids, which makes sense because he's a great role model for them and the costume is incredibly simple -all you need is a curly wig and a fake beard or makeup to paint on a beard. This Bob Ross costume takes it to the next level with a trick or treat bag featuring a framed painting of a happy little tree. Miss Piggy A plastic pig nose, a headband with some basic pig ears and a fabulous fashion sense are all you need to create a delightful Miss Piggy costume that would leave certain pigs swooning. Strong Man This vintage-inspired costume is entirely too adorable and surprisingly simple. Just use two black balloons and a dowel to make the barbell and two plastic balls to create those bulging muscles. Popcorn Bag Glue some popcorn onto a beanie and some white felt and red felt stripes on a baby Bjorn and your cute little one can be some delicious, buttery popcorn. Lamb Is your little sweetie an absolute lamb? Then prove it with this simple costume courtesy of Real Simple. All it takes is white clothes, a black hat, black felt and cotton balls. Jedis A large white shirt, a ribbon belt and light leggings or sweat pants make a great base for a Jedi costume. If you're going for a Leia, you can either do her hair up in two buns or put on a hat with two pre-made buns, and for a Luke, add a karate jaket. Then grab some toy light sabers and you're ready to go. LEGO If you have paint, a cardboard box and some plastic cups, you have all you need to make a LEGO costume -and many children will be beyond thrilled to get such a simple costume as well. Ducky This Real Simple tutorial shows just how simple it is to make your little critter into a fluffy duckling -all you need is a feather boa, some yellow clothes, a yellow hat and matching rain boots. Shadows Get a black morph suit, add black accessories that look like things your kids normally wear and viola -you have your kid's shadow. Shark Everyone loves a scary shark, but who knew it was so incredibly easy to make a great costume for your little critter? All it takes is some hot glue, felt and a hoodie. If you're looking for more kid's Halloween costume ideas, don't miss this article on adorable cosplaying babies. And if you want an easy, last minute Halloween costume idea for yourself, here's a list that just might help with that. And of course if you have any ideas, photos from past Halloweens, etc., please feel free to share them in the comments. |
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