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- Bike Stand Furniture
- Horrifying Killer Snail Makeup Tutorial
- The Circle of Vespas
- Due to Their Intelligence, These Octopuses are Kept "Challenged"
- Should You Get a Cat or a Baby?
- The Real Skeletons of Disneyland
- Pikachu Shadow - Let's Call It Foreshadowing
- Politicians Wearing Man Buns
- A Far Out Collection Of Alien Themed Web Comics
- Boaterhome Launches Spectacularly
- A Killer Collection Of Homemade Weapons
- Vietnam’s “Napalm Girl” Comes to America for Laser Treatments
- New York’s Halloween Dog Parade
- Kittify Transforms Your Text into Cat Puns
- What Will Humans Be Like In 1000 Years?
- Miss Navajo Beauty Pageant Contestants Must Butcher Sheep, Speak Navajo
- Cat Burglar Caught Red Pawed
- Grumpy The Hutt - Don't Pet Her Unless You Want To Lose An Arm...
- The "Steal Her Look" Meme Is All The Halloween Inspiration You'll Ever Need
- Every Year, This Group of Friends Dresses in the Roles of One Famous Actor
- Mark Werewahlfberg
- Underappreciated Background Characters You See In Every Movie
- Whodunit: Murder Works Overtime
- Rock that Avocado Body
- Josh Sundquist’s 2015 Halloween Costume
- Ten Of The Scariest Ways To Die
- The World's First Kinetic Steampunk Bar Opens in Romania
- Vampires on Bikini Beach
| Posted: 27 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT If you live in a small home, it can be a challenge to find a place to park your bicycle inside. The design studio Chol1 responded to this need by designing a wide array of household furniture that has build-in bike stands. The options include bookcases, desks, couches, and cabinets. They're all notched to hold your favorite ride. -via Toxel  | ||||||||
| Horrifying Killer Snail Makeup Tutorial Posted: 27 Oct 2015 03:00 AM PDT These killer snails are no masks, but they are certainly more than makeup. The Swedish duo called ellimacs sfx, which is makeup artist Ellinor Rosander and photographer Macs Moser, go through all the steps of making a pretty model look disgusting for Halloween. The results are truly disturbing. But the process of making it can be disturbing, too, because this is not something you’d just throw together at the last minute. These guys have some skills! -via The Daily Dot, where you’ll also find some simpler Halloween makeup tutorials. | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Oct 2015 02:00 AM PDT Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr calls his installation Vacanze Romane, which translates into English as Roman Holidays. He displayed it in the Italian city of Pisa. One Piaggio Vespa joins another in an endless ride through an eternal city. -via Messy Nessy Chic | ||||||||
| Due to Their Intelligence, These Octopuses are Kept "Challenged" Posted: 27 Oct 2015 01:00 AM PDT At San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences, the biologists at Steinhart Aquarium say that the octopuses there are at a level of intelligence that requires their brains to get a workout in order for them to be happy and fulfilled. This footage shows the ways trainers keep the animals challenged, using food-based toys, puzzles and other stimuli. Via Gizmodo | ||||||||
| Should You Get a Cat or a Baby? Posted: 27 Oct 2015 12:00 AM PDT Which is a better household companion: a cat or a baby? Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal runs through the arguments, clearly favoring cats. What he doesn’t mention is that babies don’t stay that way forever, as cats do. Eventually, babies become teenagers. That’s when the fun begins, right? Nota bene: you can also get a dog. Content warning: potty humor. | ||||||||
| The Real Skeletons of Disneyland Posted: 26 Oct 2015 11:00 PM PDT Walt Disney himself supervised the design of the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland, and deliberately set out to make it the most spectacular ride ever. It was a major accomplishment that set the standard for experience-based theme park rides ever since. When it opened in 1967, the final cost was $15 million, as much as the rest of the park combined. But no other park ever recreated one of Disneyland’s details: the real skeletons.
Or did they? The replacements were done gradually, and rumors still exist about the few skeletons or skulls that remain of the human type. Some people have even identified which ones they are. Read about them at Atlas Obscura. | ||||||||
| Pikachu Shadow - Let's Call It Foreshadowing Posted: 26 Oct 2015 10:00 PM PDT Pikachu Shadow by PsychoDelicia Pika is so cute and tiny that it's easy to forget he has the potential to evolve into a larger, and much more powerful, pocket monster. But shadows never lie, and the bigger the shadow the bigger the potential trapped inside, waiting to bust out and grow large along with the eyes of those watching the evolution. So while you're crushing and squee-ing on Pikachu for being so cute remember there's a Raichu lurking around inside that little guy too! Bring the power of geeky imagination to your wardrobe with this Pikachu Shadow t-shirt by PsychoDelicia, it's big time fun! Visit PsychoDelicia's 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: 26 Oct 2015 10:00 PM PDT Inspired by a Photoshopped image of Donald Trump wearing a man bun circulating the internet, the graphic design website Design Crowd invited people to Photoshop other politicians wearing man buns. Here's Vladimir Putin, the apparently perpetual president of Russia, by forum member lionx. You can find many others here, including Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Kim Jong-un. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| A Far Out Collection Of Alien Themed Web Comics Posted: 26 Oct 2015 09:00 PM PDT (Comic Via jakelikesonions) For every person who believes aliens actually exist there are ten thousand skeptics ready to tell the believer they're dead wrong because of things like atmospheric conditions, FTL technology and the Bible. But extraterrestrials don't care whether we believe in them or not, and when they eventually appear on Earth things are bound to take a turn towards the totally far out, man. (Comic Via Optipess) While you're waiting for the xenomorphs to invade you should read some alien themed web comics, so your brain will stay nice and squishy for our alien overlords. Read many more awesome alien themed web comics here | ||||||||
| Boaterhome Launches Spectacularly Posted: 26 Oct 2015 08:00 PM PDT
They're called boaterhomes. I use the plural form because, surprisingly, this isn't a one-on-a-kind vehicle. There are many of them. Like the saucer separation procedure in Star Trek: The Next Generation, a boaterhome drives to the shore, then detaches a fully functional cruising boat. This particular model, the AutoBlog tells us, is a 1987 Watercraft Sports King that rides a 1986 Ford E-class van. All it needs is helicopter wings to offer a full menu of transportation options. -via Geekologie | ||||||||
| A Killer Collection Of Homemade Weapons Posted: 26 Oct 2015 07:00 PM PDT Thanks to pop culture weapons are the first thing on everyone's mind when they think about survival during the end times, and that goes double for a zombie-related apocalyptic scenario. But even though a biblical armageddon will never happen, and corpses will never rise from their graves to devour the living, people are preparing for an unknown future by making sure they're well armed. If you're wondering what the weapons of that dark future might look like you should check out this gallery of Homemade Weapons with the tagline- when you can't buy a gun you can build one. The only thing this gallery is missing is a link to info about each weapon, because some of those guns look too ridiculous to actually fire bullets! | ||||||||
| Vietnam’s “Napalm Girl” Comes to America for Laser Treatments Posted: 26 Oct 2015 06:00 PM PDT On June 8, 1972, Nick Ut of the Associated Press photographed the napalm bombing of a Vietnamese village. 9-year old Kim Phuc, hit by the caustic gel, stripped her clothes off and fled in terror. Her expression of pain and horror became an iconic image of the Vietnam War. Phuc grew up and traveled to Cuba. While her plane stopped for refueling in Canada, she defected. She later became a Canadian citizen and served as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Peace. Now 52, Phuc has never fully recovered from the horrendous damage that napalm did to her body more than four decades ago. She recently traveled to Miami to visit a high-end dermatology clinic that can heal many of the scars that cover her body. The AP reports:
For this story, the AP assigned a photographer that Phuc already knew: Nick Ut, the man who first photographed her in 1972 and rescued her:
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| New York’s Halloween Dog Parade Posted: 26 Oct 2015 05:00 PM PDT There were around 275 dogs entered into the 2015 Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade on Saturday. Many of them were accompanied by owners who dressed up to match their dog’s Halloween costumes. And there were winners.
See a gallery of 90 photos from the event at Gothamist. -via Fark | ||||||||
| Kittify Transforms Your Text into Cat Puns Posted: 26 Oct 2015 04:00 PM PDT Don’t send that résumé off yet! First, run it through Kittify. This online application by Daniel Landry turns your words into a series of cat-themed puns and references. Here, for example, is the Gettysburg Address. You could also use the application to tweak a seductive love letter, an especially menacing death threat, or a simple shopping list. Please leave comments—but first, run them through Kittify. -via Incredible Things | ||||||||
| What Will Humans Be Like In 1000 Years? Posted: 26 Oct 2015 03:00 PM PDT Humans are evolving, as they always have, it’s just too slow for one, two, or several generations to notice. But the things we do now affect how humans will change in the future. What will humans be like a thousand years from now? We might not follow the natural selection path by reproduction and survival the way it’s been done for millions of years, but there will be changes nevertheless. The environment will have something to do with how we change. And what we do with technology will also affects what we become. Here’s an overview from AsapSCIENCE. -via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
| Miss Navajo Beauty Pageant Contestants Must Butcher Sheep, Speak Navajo Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT
There she is, Miss Navajo. In 2012, Leandra Thomas, who is pictured above, won that coveted title. There's no swimsuit competition at this beauty pageant conducted by the Navajo Nation. Contestants wear traditional garb and have to demonstrate a facility with the language and essential skills. For example, Miss Navajo knows how to butcher a sheep properly. Laurel Morales wrote in 2012 for NPR:
-via Messy Nessy Chic | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:00 PM PDT This sneaky Russian kitty was caught by his human on camera repeatedly attempting (and then finally succeeding in) stealing a stuffed animal tiger. Who can blame him? As it turned out, all he wanted was another cat friend with whom to wrestle. Awww! Via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Grumpy The Hutt - Don't Pet Her Unless You Want To Lose An Arm... Posted: 26 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT Grumpy The Hutt by Chet Phillips They say fame and fortune have changed that grumpy internet feline sensation, and that fame is a double edged saber. Unfortunately what they say is true, and even though that cat has more money than a Black Sun bookie and a legion of loyal followers she's blown up as big as a Hutt thanks to her all-you-can-eat goldfish habit. Her new Hutt physique has given her even more of an attitude, and now she deals with internet trolls by sending one of her star cat minions after them with orders to shoot to kill! Light up geeky lives wherever you go with this Grumpy The Hutt t-shirt by Chet Phillips, it's the best tee to wear while you're waging war in the stars or simply watching cat videos online. Visit Chet Phillips's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky 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! | ||||||||
| The "Steal Her Look" Meme Is All The Halloween Inspiration You'll Ever Need Posted: 26 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT Some people (and quite a few pets) have a superb sense of style, seemingly born with an innate flair for fashion and a body made to wear clothes. These fashion forward individuals are both real and imaginary, sometimes both at the same time, but unlike real people sporting real clothes the fictionally fashionable are hard to copy come Halloween. It's like they got their clothes at some store nobody's ever heard of, in a city that doesn't really exist, so how's a Halloweenie supposed to cop their style? By checking out a bunch of Steal Her Look memes to see a piece-by-piece breakdown, that's how! Say you want to dress up like that sexy pumpkin-headed dancer from the news, a guy with a timeless sense of style and all the right moves- you simply break it down like this: Now you're ready for a night of jack-o-lantern hijinks and freakdancin'! See why Tumblr's "Steal Her Look" Meme Is All The Halloween Inspiration at BuzzFeed | ||||||||
| Every Year, This Group of Friends Dresses in the Roles of One Famous Actor Posted: 26 Oct 2015 11:00 AM PDT This year, redditor aubra_cadabra and her friends chose Robin Williams. From left to right, you can find Williams's roles in Mrs. Doubtfire, Mork & Mindy, Jumanji, Popeye, Hook, Aladdin, and The Birdcage. This assembly won them Best Group Costume in a costume contest for the fourth year in a row. In previous years, the group went as Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, and Will Ferrell: Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Cry Baby, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins, Dumb and Dumber, The Cable Guy, The Mask, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Ace Ventura, and Batman Forever. Will Ferrell in Elf, Blades of Glory, Zoolander, Anchorman, Night at the Roxbury, Semi Pro, and Talladega Nights. Which actor should they do next year? | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Oct 2015 10:00 AM PDT Marky Mark was a shark in the last ADHD cartoon featuring the movie star. Now he’s a werewolf for Halloween! Mark Werewahlfberg introduces us to all the iconic characters of the season, with plenty of almost-puns that you’ll have to supply the punchline for yourself. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Underappreciated Background Characters You See In Every Movie Posted: 26 Oct 2015 09:30 AM PDT Aside from repeating tropes, themes and plots, filmmakers also like to recycle background characters to ensure the human clutter behind the stars in every scene looks comfortably familiar to viewers. This recycling and reuse of filler characters means your favorite background friends will be in every movie, like the steadfast shopper or the trucker who keeps on truckin' no matter what's happening on top of his truck. Dorkly's JHALL brought six background characters into the spotlight with his illustrations, and once you've seen them all in cartoon form you'll be seeing them in every movie you watch! See The 6 Underappreciated Characters In The Background Of Every Movie at Dorkly | ||||||||
| Whodunit: Murder Works Overtime Posted: 26 Oct 2015 09:00 AM PDT The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad. These mysteries are from The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits by Hy Conrad and Matt LaFleur. Can you solve the mystery before you read the solution?
Roger Vail was having a bad day. First off, the advertising executive spilled coffee over the back of the roller chair in his redecorated office, resulting in a permanent stain. Then his computer went haywire. With his hard drive gone, Roger had to stay late to complete a report. And to top it off, while he was working late, he was shot three times in the back and killed. When the cleaning woman entered Roger's office that night, she thought it was empty. The chair back faced her, a virtual wall of beige. Her expert eye quickly noticed the three tiny blemishes on the fabric, three little round holes. She came closer, rolling the chair away from the broken computer and toward the light. Roger Vail's corpse slumped forward, the holes in his back matching the bullet holes pumped into the chair. Roger's death shocked his colleagues. "Everyone liked him," Joan Jackson sighed the next morning as she watered her flowers. "If there was a murder here, I would have expected . . ." She left it unfinished, piquing the curiosity of the interrogating officer. Blakemore Advertising, it turned out, was a hotbed of seething emotions. Joan, for example, was having a feud with her creative partner, Elsa Gripper. Just the day before, the two of them had come to blows, resulting in Joan's dramatic black eye. And then there was Sammy Frick. On the very day of the murder, Sammy had loudly threatened to kill Orrie Kindale, the man who Sammy felt had cheated him out of a much-deserved promotion. Orrie occupied the office right next to the victim's. He tried to make light of the company squabbles, but he was definitely nervous. "Tempers flare in the advertising world, but no one really means it." The executive rested his arm over the top of his chair, as if trying to hide the brown stain that poured down the tall chair back. "Orrie knows more than he's saying," the homicide captain muttered. "I think I know what happened." What does the captain think happened? Who killed Roger Vail?
In addition to his work in mystery and crime puzzles, Hy was also one of the original writers for the groundbreaking TV series Monk. Currently, Hy is working on mystery novel series "Abel Adventures" as well as the Monk series of novels, starting with Mr. Monk Helps Himself (published by Penguin, order from Amazon here Check out Hy's official website and Facebook page - and stay tuned for more whodunits puzzlers on Neatorama from the master of whodunit mysteries himself! | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Oct 2015 08:30 AM PDT That belly is just what you need to impress everyone at the Halloween party. Just wrap the cardboard cutout around you and you'll attract a lot of eyes. And don't let anyone tell you that you're out of shape. Avocados are very healthy. -via reddit | Photo: unknown | ||||||||
| Josh Sundquist’s 2015 Halloween Costume Posted: 26 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT Josh Sundquist is not only a Paralympic athlete, author, dancer, rapper, math nerd, and motivational speaker, he’s also quite well known for his distinctive Halloween costumes, which (almost) always incorporate the fact that he only has one leg. Now Sundquist, who recently got married, has unveiled his 2015 Halloween costume. He is IHOP. -via reddit | ||||||||
| Ten Of The Scariest Ways To Die Posted: 26 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT Death by fear is one of the most effective tropes in visual media, and despite the fact that dying from fear related shock is extremely rare people can't help but be mystified by the prospect of a heart stopping scare. But it's far more common for a person to die while scared rather than dying from fear itself, and just thinking about a scenario where your worst fears come true and seal your fate is enough to make your pulse quicken. Cheryl Eddy began a Superlist on io9 with descriptions of The 10 Scariest Ways To Die, which became a much more super list thanks to input from readers. Here's my favorite entry from Cheryl's list:
Read The 10 Scariest Ways To Die here | ||||||||
| The World's First Kinetic Steampunk Bar Opens in Romania Posted: 26 Oct 2015 06:00 AM PDT Romania's Enigma Café, with its impressive kinetic scuptures, is the design of The 6th Sense Interiors. Romanian designers Alexandru Tohotan and Zoltan Zelenyak, who also created The Submarine and Joben Bistro have, with this design, put forth something that's been creating worldwide buzz since pictures of it were first posted on Facebook. The café features a giant moving clock, rotating wheels, metallic flowers opening up on the ceiling, a moving bird and a robot reminiscent of Giger. Via Bored Panda | Images: The 6th Sense Interiors  | ||||||||
| Posted: 26 Oct 2015 05:00 AM PDT The following is an article from Uncle John’s All-Purpose Extra Strength Bathroom Reader. With the single possible exception of Sherlock Holmes, film historian David Skal writes, “Dracula has been depicted in film more times than almost any fictional being.” Here’s a look at some of the more unusual vampire movies that have been made. Haunted Cop Shop (1984) The full movie is available at YouTube, in Chinese with no subtitles. Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. the Monsters (1960) The full movie is available at YouTube. Planet of the Vampires (1965) The full movie is available at YouTube. The Devil Bat (1940) The full movie is available at YouTube. Dracula Blows His Cool (1982) The full movie is available at YouTube, in German with no subtitles. Age restricted; contains nudity and sex. Samson vs. the Vampire Women (1961) Vampires on Bikini Beach (1988) Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1965) The full movie is available at YouTube, in 6 parts starting here. The Return of the Vampire (1943) Atom Age Vampire (1960) The full movie is available at YouTube. Haunted Cop Shop II (1986) The full movie is available at YouTube, in six parts all in one playlist. This one has subtitles, in Chinese and English. Blacula (1972) Dracula: “I Vant to be a Star” _______________________________
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