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• Back In Time - Marty's Got Game!
• Clark and Addison are the Fluffiest Cubs in Chicago
• When Contacting This Department Store, Leave Your Correct Title
• 13 Judicious Facts About <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i>
• Animated Light Show on a Gothic Cathedral
• Some Of The Scariest And Most Influential Canadian Horror Films
• Backwards Backwards Race
• The Bombshell Life and Mysterious Death of Jean Harlow
• Man Gets Hair Washed While Riding a Scooter
• Canadian Town Creates Christmas in October for Boy with Brain Cancer
• Debate Between PC And Console Gaming Reaches A New Level Of Ridiculousness
• Punish - Let The Bodies Hit The Floor
• 600 Years Ago Today: The Battle of Agincourt
• A Sumo Wrestler Footrace
• 14 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Cruise Ship Workers
• Little Oakley Did the Monster Mash
• Bursting through the Roof

Back In Time - Marty's Got Game! Posted: 26 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT Back In Time by Stationjack When you've spent years traveling back and forth through time it becomes hard to tell whether you're heading back to the future or forward to the past. Marty is a smart kid, with a good head on his shoulders, and even he has lost track of whether he's coming or going! Good thing he has Doc Brown looking over his shoulder, making sure he gets back to his version of Hill Valley, because without Doc Mr. McFly might run outatime! Get geared up for a time traveling adventure, or for a time travel related movie night, with this Back In Time t-shirt by Stationjack, it's old school cool just like your favorite sci-fi movie franchise! Visit Stationjack's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-errific designs: Bionic Griff Y-800 Shaun And The Zombies Batter Up! View more designs by Stationjack | More Sci-Fi T-Shirts | New T-Shirts 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!

Clark and Addison are the Fluffiest Cubs in Chicago Posted: 26 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT YouTube Link The Lincoln Park Zoo's first-ever red panda cubs, male and female Clark and Addison, have matured enough to be let loose in their outdoor exhibit and meet their adoring public. Born on June 26, the cubs have spent the last several months bonding with their mother Leafa. They have made lots of developmental progress, and the zoo staff reports that they are healthy, active and curious.  Read more about the breed and see additional pictures of Addison and Clark at Zooborns.

When Contacting This Department Store, Leave Your Correct Title Posted: 26 Oct 2015 03:00 AM PDT Harrod's is an upscale department store in London. It lets all sorts of people inside, including riff raff like you and me. If you contact the staff online, they'd like to know how to address you. They wouldn't want to refer to a Wing Commander as a Princess or a Sheikh as Her Royal Highness. That's why the online contact form requires that you provide your title. -via Marilyn Terrell, who says, "I prefer Viscountess." How about you?

13 Judicious Facts About <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:00 AM PDT Harper Lee’s bestselling novel To Kill a Mockingbird was made into a movie released 55 years ago. It still holds up, and made us all wish Gregory Peck was our father (or husband, as the case may be). Maybe it’s time we learned some of the negotiations and personalities bend the film.    1. ROCK HUDSON ALMOST PLAYED ATTICUS FINCH. Universal Pictures offered the role to Rock Hudson when the project was first being developed, and the actor was prepared to take it. Things stalled, however, when the film's producer, Alan J. Pakula, wanted an even bigger star: Gregory Peck. Universal basically said, "Well, sure! If you can get Gregory Peck, we'll not only agree to it, we'll finance the movie!" And that's what happened. Sorry, Rock. 4. THEY COULDN'T SHOOT ON LOCATION BECAUSE THE REAL TOWN HAD BECOME MODERNIZED. Lee based the novel's fiction town of Maycomb, Alabama on her own experiences growing up in Monroeville, Alabama during the Depression, with a lawyer father who had (unsuccessfully) defended two black men against rape charges. Peck, Pakula, and a small crew visited Monroeville to do some research, and to see if they could make the movie there. They found the town as charming and welcoming as they'd hoped, but it no longer bore much physical resemblance to the way it had looked 30 years earlier. That was disappointing for the filmmakers, but probably a good sign for the locals. (Imagine how sad it would be for a town in 1961 to look like it was still in the midst of the Depression.) There’s lots more to learn about the making of To Kill a Mockingbird in a trivia list at mental_floss.

Animated Light Show on a Gothic Cathedral Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:00 AM PDT Last year, artist Alain Thomas conducted Illumi'Nantes (translation), an animated light show projected onto the face of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France. Visitors were treated to a kaleidoscope-like impression of colors and shapes. It is a presentation of the Nativity story that sweeps across the old Gothic cathedral. You can see large photos of it here. (Video Link) -via Khool

Some Of The Scariest And Most Influential Canadian Horror Films Posted: 26 Oct 2015 12:00 AM PDT Canadian filmmakers are often overshadowed by their American counterparts because Hollywood is the hub of the entertainment industry, and the press doesn't give our cousins to the north their dues. But Canadian creators have been changing the face of the industry for decades, sharing their unique view of the world through visual media, and their visions are often far more interesting than the played out ideas presented by mainstream Hollywood movies. The Canadian contribution to the horror genre is no less interesting or important, because Canada gave us David Cronenberg, genre influencing films like Cube and Ginger Snaps, and classics like Black Christmas and My Bloody Valentine. When you're looking for a fright flick to watch this Halloween you should consider going Canadian, and if you like your horror dark and disturbing yet cerebral you can't go wrong with a Cronenberg! See The Top 25 Canadian Horror Films here

Backwards Backwards Race Posted: 25 Oct 2015 10:00 PM PDT This video of a short footrace looks a little strange. They take strangely small steps, and they keep looking over their shoulders. It’s just weird. (YouTube link) See, this is a backwards foot race. Everyone is running backwards! But the video has been reversed, so that they start at the finish line and run to the starting line. Meanwhile, the audio is still run in the right direction. Got all that? -via Digg

The Bombshell Life and Mysterious Death of Jean Harlow Posted: 25 Oct 2015 08:00 PM PDT Jean Harlow | Image: Celebrities Stars You Must Remember This is a podcast that features stories about old Hollywood. Each episode is being excerpted on Slate. The following is a portion of their story on the legendary blond bombshell Jean Harlow, whose star burned bright until she died at the young age of 26. "'Jean Harlow' was Harlean Carpenter’s mother’s name. The first Jean Harlow had been a great beauty who dreamed of her own movie stardom. In September 1927, Harlean married Chuck McGrew, an orphan and heir to a small fortune, and shortly thereafter he turned 21 and received the first six-figure chunk of his trust fund. With no need to work, Harlean and her husband mostly just drank. They moved into a new house in Beverly Hills, where Harlean began hosting the luncheons and teas typical of her society set. A guest at one of these day parties was a would-be actress named Rosalie Roy. At the end of the afternoon, Rosalie announced she had to head out to an appointment on the Fox lot, and Harlean offered to give Rosalie a ride. While her friend was in the meeting, Harlean stood by her car waiting, so that she could give Rosalie a ride home when she was done. Three Fox executives walking across the lot spotted this gorgeous blonde and started talking to her. When Harlean told these men that she wasn’t an actress, and in fact had never really even thought about acting, they thought she was playing hard to get—what gorgeous, glamorous girl hanging out on Hollywood studio lot in 1928 didn’t want to be a movie star? Harlean perhaps was playing hard to get in one sense: She told the people at Fox her name was Jean Harlow. When the phone rang a few days later with an offer for work for a “Miss Harlow,” Harlean first told the caller they had the wrong number—she forgot that “Miss Harlow” was her. Harlean still had no real ambitions, but when her mother, the original Jean Harlow, got wind of what was going on, she stepped into action to manage “the Baby’s” career, transferring all of her own thwarted ambitions onto this new Jean. Fueled by her mother’s aggression, in just a couple of months Harlean signed a contract with producer Hal Roach, and soon she started appearing in Laurel and Hardy shorts. Within a few months, around her 18th birthday, Harlean asked to be released from her contract, because her husband didn’t want her to be an actress. But just two months later, Harlean left that husband, Chuck McGrew. Both of these things seem to have been done at the insistence of Mother Jean, who believed that you didn’t settle for the first opportunity, personal or professional, that came around. She believed her daughter needed to shake off what she already had in order to get more. Without a rich husband, Harlean needed movie work in order to support herself. She struggled for months, until she was cast in a small part in the Clara Bow film The Saturday Night Kid. Clara Bow was Paramount’s reigning sex symbol of the 1920s, but she was having trouble transitioning to talkies. She was also getting older, and heavier, and when Harlean arrived on set in a black crochet dress which made it very apparent that she did not believe in underwear, Bow was candid about her insecurities, reportedly saying, “Who’s gonna see me nexta her?” Continue reading the excerpt, see video clips and get a link to the podcast here.

Man Gets Hair Washed While Riding a Scooter Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:00 PM PDT Now I've got a great business idea: hair salon services for people who are really in a hurry. Rocket News 24 tells us that a viral video from Gaoshu, Pingtung County, Taiwan shows two men riding a scooter. The one in the back is shampooing the hair of the driver. Why? No one is sure. Perhaps it was a stunt or perhaps the driver was in a hurry to get to work. The result of the spread of the video is that the two men got into trouble with the police. No, it wasn't because of the hair washing. Riding a motorcycle without a helmet is illegal.

Canadian Town Creates Christmas in October for Boy with Brain Cancer Posted: 25 Oct 2015 04:00 PM PDT Seven-year-old Evan Leversage of St. George, Ontario has been courageously fighting brain cancer for the majority of his life. After five years of living with the disease, Evan's brain tumor has been recently determined to have increased in size. Medical professionals have told his parents that he could be gone by the year's end. Once they received that heartbreaking prognosis, Evan's parents decided to gather their family and celebrate Christmas on October 24th. But the extended family did not stop there. They circulated flyers, created a Facebook event page and started a crowdfunding campaign to allow the entire town to celebrate Christmas early with Evan and his family. Thus far they've raised $21,000. Evan's mother told the CBC,  "You look out our front window, the entire street is lit up. Everywhere you look it's Christmas. It's more than I could have imagined. When Evan looks out his window, the backyard is decorated and there's a sign saying 'Merry Christmas.'" See additional pictures and read more on this touching story at the National Post.    Via My Modern Met | Images: Peter Power

Debate Between PC And Console Gaming Reaches A New Level Of Ridiculousness Posted: 25 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT As a general rule you should refrain from using the term "master race" unless you're discussing things like racism, Nazi ideology or eugenics. But if you're trying to make a big impression, good or bad, using the term "master race" will definitely get you noticed! In this instance the term is used by comedy troupe The Warp Zone to highlight the fact that the battle between console and PC gaming is getting downright ridiculous, because it's all good! (YouTube Link) Gamers- can't we all just get along? -Via Laughing Squid

Punish - Let The Bodies Hit The Floor Posted: 25 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT Punish by Legendary Phoenix Frank doesn't wear a skull emblazoned across his chest to look cool or up his street cred, because he doesn't need any help in these departments. He wears the skull to strike fear into his enemies before he makes them pay for their crimes in blood, reminding them all that the Punisher is the angel of death to the underworld. Ordinary people marvel at how Frank manages to escape with his life after wasting whole buildings full of scumbags, but Frank knows it's all just a matter of luck, intense training and never running out of ammo... Show the world you've got some seriously good taste in superheroes with this Punish t-shirt by Legendary Phoenix, it'll knock your fellow Punisher fans dead! Visit Legendary Phoenix's Facebook fan page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty cool designs: The Offer Family Portrait The Path Of Righteous Man Booomb View more designs by Legendary Phoenix | More Comic T-shirts | New T-Shirts 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!

600 Years Ago Today: The Battle of Agincourt Posted: 25 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT (Morning of the Battle of Agincourt, a painting by Sir John Gilbert) And for 600 years to follow, gentlemen in England then abed thought themselves accursed they were not there that day. On October 25, 1415--the Feast of St. Crispin--a small army led by King Henry V smashed a much larger but antiquated French army at Agincourt in northern France. British novelist Bernard Cornwell explains at length in the Daily Telegraph how mud and the power of the Welsh longbow became the undoing of the heavily-armored French knights: Some eight thousand French men-at-arms were advancing on foot. No one knows how long it took them to cover the two hundred or more paces which separated them from Henry’s men-at-arms, but it was not a quick approach. They were wading through mud made treacherous by deeply ploughed furrows and churned to quagmire by horses’ hooves. And they were being struck by arrows so that they were forced to close their helmets’ visors. They can see very little through the tiny eye-slits, their breathing is stifled, and still the arrows come. The conventional verdict suggests that the French were cut down by those arrow-storms, but the chief effect of the arrows was to delay and, by forcing them to close their visors, half-blind the attackers. When the French knights finally closed in on the archers, they found that their unarmored opponents were still at advantage, even in close quarters combat: The bowmen wore little armour, and in the glutinous mud they were far more mobile than their plate-armoured opponents, and any man capable of hauling a war-bow’s string was hugely strong and a battle-axe in his hands would be a ghastly weapon. And so the archers joined the hand to hand fight and the tired French were killed in their hundreds. (Video Link) Agincourt has loomed large in British popular memory for the centuries that followed. It was well remembered by William Shakespeare, who made it the center of his play The Life of Henry the Fifth. His character of King Henry delivered the famous "Band of Brothers" speech, abbreviated in the 1989 Kenneth Branagh adaptation. -via VA Viper, who points out that today is also the 71st anniversary of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in world history, as well as the 161st anniversary of the charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.

A Sumo Wrestler Footrace Posted: 25 Oct 2015 10:00 AM PDT Sumo wrestlers must be strong enough to push another wrestler their size across the ring, sturdy enough to take some physical abuse when they bump bellies, and heavy enough to hold their ground. But the art of Sumo has little to nothing to do with distance running, so watching sumo wrestlers take to the track in a footrace is truly a sight to behold. (YouTube Link) The sumo wrestlers are surprisingly light on their feet, but this video feels incomplete without the Benny Hill song playing in the background. -Via Telegraph

14 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Cruise Ship Workers Posted: 25 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT Cruise ship docked in the Bahamas | Image: Captain-Tucker If you've ever taken a cruise with one of the larger cruise lines, you know the feeling of being on a massive, near-city on water. Many of the ships are so large and confusing that most passengers get lost at least once; often by the time they have the layout memorized, it's time to disembark.  So what goes on in the inner workings of such a large enterprise? Let this mental_floss listing of facts from current and former cruise workers inform you:  1. AMERICANS ARE THE WORST CRUISE WORKERS On most large cruise liners, the majority of staff and crew are not American. “On any given contract, you’re working with about 64 nationalities,” says Kat, who spent three years working for a major cruise line. There are a number of possible drivers behind this statistic, but one is that cruise ship employees work really long hours and almost never get a day off, which isn’t particularly appealing to Americans used to a 40-hour workweek and relaxing on weekends. “On my worst contract, I was working close to 300 hours a month,” Kat says. “Yeah, you might be in beautiful places, but you’re so tired sometimes you don’t even want to go out and explore. A lot of times they won’t even hire Americans because the rate of people quitting is so high.” Americans are also more expensive to employ, even if they do the same work as their counterparts from developing countries. Sam, who worked on Princess Cruises for two years, says her monthly salary of $1100 was higher than that of her Filipino boss. According to Sam, the official reason the ship gave was that the dollar is worth more to people from developing countries than it is to Americans, justifying the lower salary. 5. AND THEY’RE PROBABLY DRUNK When they’re not working, employees are probably drinking and partying. “We partied our asses off,” Gavin says. “We joked about how it makes a frat house look like a monastery.” The staff get their own designated watering holes on board, referred to as the crew bars, where the drinks are dirt cheap. “At the passenger bars they were charging like $15 for a drink and we’d go down into the crew bar and you could get a beer or mixed drinks for $1.25,” Sam says. And what happens when you give copious amounts of cheap alcohol to people who are cooped up together for months at a time? “It seems like a cliche, but everyone was hooking up with each other,” Sam says. “In a lot of the crew areas there were these huge posters about STD prevention.” The crew is regularly threatened with the possibility of random breathalyzer tests (and drug testing), but even this isn’t always enforced. “There was a strict limit on our ship of no more than .04 blood alcohol content at any time,” Gavin says, “but as long as you didn’t make a fool of yourself, you wouldn’t get randomly breathalyzed, so people would break that rule all the time.” Read more cruise ship "fun facts" about everything from the morgue to the "mafia" here.

Little Oakley Did the Monster Mash Posted: 25 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT (Video Link) When young animals are abandoned or rescued, many are often given stuffed animals as surrogate parents for warmth, comfort and companionship. Amazingly, the species that need this kind of comfort can range from bats to sloths to primates to even owls. Here's Oakley with his new cuddly friend that actually sings and dances to the Halloween classic, "The Monster Mash." Via The Huffington Post

Bursting through the Roof Posted: 25 Oct 2015 06:00 AM PDT (Photo: Satrughna) Throughout his work, Dutch artist Reinier Lagendijk often shows nature and humanity in conflict, bending toward each other's will or at least compromising. In this sculpture titled Villa Lisiduna, a magnolia tree has pushed its way through a brick building, which responds by bending rather than breaking under the pressure. It's located in a roundabout in Leusden, the Netherlands. -via Khool

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