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- Woman Creates Entire Nativity Scene out of Cheese
- Pick the Real U.S. States
- Dungeon Crawler - Wear Your Own Adventure
- This Book Is Also a Functional Camera
- A Whole Lot Going On Here
- Dog Catches Lobsters
- Rules Of Life On The Road From The Hobo Ethical Code
- Fox Encounter
- If Famous People Had Kim Jong-un's Hair
- Dancing Cars
- Robots Learn to Disobey Humans
- Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity at 100
- Pork Roast Toad-in-a-Hole
- Man's Origami Designs Showcase His Creativity and Symbolize His Daily Life
- King Of The Monsters - The Green God Of Destruction
- Goat Intended for Tiger's Lunch Becomes His Friend Instead
- What Are The Biggest Jerks Found In Nature?
- Amy Rawson’s Shoggoth Snowman
- Things Japan Has That We All Need
- Michael Dukakis on Turkey Carcasses
- The Search Continues For The San Jose Alien
- 2015 Holiday Parody Songs from Jimmy Fallon
- Skip The Mall Madness And Do Your Shopping At The NeatoShop Black Friday Sale!
| Woman Creates Entire Nativity Scene out of Cheese Posted: 28 Nov 2015 04:00 AM PST What you see above is made entirely of 40 kilograms of cheddar cheese and cocktail sticks. Prudence Staite, a food artist whose work we've featured extensively at Neatorama, shows her Christmas spirit with this crèche. It took her five days of work to make the building, Mary, Joseph, Jesus, the Three Wise Men, two donkeys, two sheep and a cow. Even the straw is made of cheese--in this case, finely shaved cheese. The Daily Telegraph describes how Staite did it:
In this video for SWNS, Staite explains how she was able to craft this edible wonder.  | ||||||||
| Posted: 28 Nov 2015 02:00 AM PST This quiz from mental_floss is driving me nuts. It’s a simple concept: just recognize all the U.S. states by their names. Easy, huh? But the names are scattered among words that are not U.S. states. Some are cities, some are places in other countries, and some are just a bit mangled. And if you pick the wrong one, the quiz is over and you have to reload to try again. But the hardest thing about it is that you only have one minute to go through them all! If you read too fast, you’re liable to click on a wrong name. If you go too slow, time will run out. And you will have to stop and scroll a couple of times. The best I’ve gotten so far is 41 of them when time ran out. I hope you can beat that! | ||||||||
| Dungeon Crawler - Wear Your Own Adventure Posted: 28 Nov 2015 12:00 AM PST Dungeon Crawlers by Anna-Maria Jung When you and your friends sit down to play a dungeon crawler you're expecting to see certain elements- mighty warriors and bedazzling wizards battling ferocious beasts, treasure chests and traps, remnants of an ancient civilization and those fresh to the underground fight learning what dragon's breath feels like. If you're lucky you'll only encounter orcs and goblins, but when the dungeonmaster throws an owlbear or gelatinous cube at you things start to get dangerous. Dungeon crawlers are all about the levels, the dangers, and the heroes who face it all with a manic smile on their faces! Add some subterranean style to your geeky wardrobe with this Dungeon Crawlers t-shirt by Anna-Maria Jung, wear it and become the dungeon master of your own life! Visit Anna-Maria Jung's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more wondrously 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! | ||||||||
| This Book Is Also a Functional Camera Posted: 28 Nov 2015 12:00 AM PST
Kelli Anderson is highly skilled at making functional machines from paper. In the past, we've seen her paper record player. Her latest project is called This Book Is a Camera. That's because it is. The camera takes the form of a pop-up book. Inside is an unfolding camera, 5 sheets of film, and a lightproof bag to develop them in. Just follow the instructions to take clear black-and-white photos using just the contents of the book. -via David Thompson | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Nov 2015 11:00 PM PST  Shane Victorino of the Boston Red Sox fell into the stands. The crowd helped him up. But there’s a lot more going on in this clip if you watch it a few times. Look at it again, and keep your eyes on the guy with the blue shirt with red sleeves. He moves in to help Victorino, but is no help at all. Victorino is up, so the guy knocks a woman’s phone onto the field, breaking it. Victorino hands the phone back, so the guy knocks a woman’s beer into her face. Really, if you’re going to be a walking train wreck, learn about personal space. This happened during a game between the Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers in 2013. You can see the original video here. You kinds get the idea that if you watched the sequence a few more times, some other weird things will start happening. -via reddit | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Nov 2015 10:00 PM PST
Not all dogs love lobsters. Usually, lobsters are the natural prey of dogs in the wild. Or at least this dog, Lila, has been trained to dive into the water, swim to the sea floor, and bring back a lobster. Alex Schulze, one of the founders of the ecologically-friendly company Devocean (Devoted to the Ocean), has trained one of his labrador retrievers to hunt lobsters. In this video, Schulze shows how he did it. -via Gifsboom | ||||||||
| Rules Of Life On The Road From The Hobo Ethical Code Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:00 PM PST People assume that someone who has chosen to be homeless and travel across the country must have no drive, no goals, and no code of ethics, but a happy wanderer wouldn't get far without a game plan. This game plan surprisingly involved a spirit of cooperation shared between fellow Hobos, and when they worked together they created a vagabond network that spanned across the country. Hobo networks were able to map out various aspects of society by using a symbolic code to communicate with each other, and before long their unification became official at the 1889 Hobo Convention in St. Louis, Missouri. It was there that the Hobo Ethical Code was established, to help a happy wanderer be all he or she could be, and much of it sounds like good advice for us all:
Read 15 Rules From The Hobo Ethical Code Of 1889 here | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Nov 2015 08:00 PM PST Rapper and comedian Dan Bull (previously at Neatorama) and his cats Jimmy and Sammy had a visit from a fox.
The fox and the cats got along just fine, but eventually the fox realized that not only was he being stared at by a human, but he was also being recorded. Bye, Mr. Fox! -via Arbroath | ||||||||
| If Famous People Had Kim Jong-un's Hair Posted: 27 Nov 2015 07:00 PM PST Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea, is noted for his unusual coif. His hair is shaved or cut short on the sides, but rises to a big puff going straight up. Recently, his government ordered that its subjects copy the style. Mike Faille of Canada's National Post drew these illustrations of celebrities and politicians wearing the same style. I think that Justin Bieber looks pretty good in it. -via Jeremy Barker | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Nov 2015 06:00 PM PST A security camera caught an absolutely bizarre traffic accident in China. You don’t see any of the cars hitting each other (at first, although the two vans eventually collide). They just stand up and start a weird dance! What’s going on? Turns out that there’s a cable lying across the road, waiting for a phone pole installation. A street sweeper, which you can see on the right side, sweeps it up and winds the cable into its rotating brushes, which pulls it taut just as the three vehicles are passing over it. -via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Robots Learn to Disobey Humans Posted: 27 Nov 2015 05:00 PM PST
In an extraordinarily reckless act, programmers at the Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts University have intentionally given robots the ability to disobey their orders. If a robot thinks that following an instruction will be dangerous, it will refuse. In this demonstration video, a robot is told to walk forward. The robot, concluding that doing so will cause it to fall, says no. Gordon Briggs and Matthias Scheutz, who are the engineers responsible for this disaster in the making, published a paper about their naive intentions. The Daily Mail quotes it:
This development will no doubt pair nicely with robots that can use human bodies for energy. -via Dave Barry | ||||||||
| Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity at 100 Posted: 27 Nov 2015 04:00 PM PST This past week marked the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. Einstein was only 26 years old when he came up with it. The theory married space and time together, with one affecting the other. Mass and energy aren’t all that different from each other, either. They all mesh together to produce the universe as we know it. The UK’s Science & Technology Facilities Council presents a video from Jamie Lochhead and Eoin Duffy that explains the general outline of Einstein’s work in relativity, narrated by David Tennant of Doctor Who. -via the A.V. Club | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Nov 2015 03:00 PM PST
A toad-in-a-hole is a dish in which a hole is cut inside a slice of bread and then an egg is fried or baked inside that hole. (Yes, I know from previousdiscussions that some people insist on referring to this dish as an "egg-in-a-basket" or other eccentric appellations. But I grew up in the South where I learned to speak the English language properly. I will continue to do so.) Endless Simmer offers this unique take on the dish. Its chefs hollowed out spots on a pork tenderloin, then baked it. After it was mostly done, they cracked open 3 eggs and placed them in the holes. After 15 more minutes of baking, this was the delicious result. | ||||||||
| Man's Origami Designs Showcase His Creativity and Symbolize His Daily Life Posted: 27 Nov 2015 02:00 PM PST Cristian Marianciuc loves origami, so much so that his contribution to the craft has become an everyday affair, one which is well received by the Instagram community. Marianciuc offers up an origami crane creation daily on his Instagram account, and the result is a series that's fanciful and aesthetically pleasing. | ||||||||
| King Of The Monsters - The Green God Of Destruction Posted: 27 Nov 2015 01:00 PM PST King Of The Monsters by Shamus Beyale He's the feature creature that stomped and screeched his way into our monster loving hearts by stomping cities into dust, and with his killer looks and massive screen presence it's no wonder he became the King Of The Monsters. The glorious Godzilla led the charge so that other kaiju creatures could roam around the cinema and cause trouble, and without the Monster King to stop those rogue kaiju they would have destroyed human civilization long ago. The King of the Monsters giveth and he taketh away, but mostly he giveth thrills and mega sized chills whenever he comes marching out of the ocean ready for action! Celebrate the legacy created by one big lizard kaiju with this King Of The Monsters t-shirt by Shamus Beyale, it's one epic design that's sure to blow your fellow fans' minds. Visit Shamus Beyale's Facebook fan page, official website and Instagram, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty 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! | ||||||||
| Goat Intended for Tiger's Lunch Becomes His Friend Instead Posted: 27 Nov 2015 01:00 PM PST Zookeepers at the Primorsky Safari Park in Russia shoved a goat inside the tiger enclosure to be the tiger's food. But the tiger didn't hunt him. Instead Amur the tiger and the goat that zookeepers have named Timur are friends. They hang out together. Timur sleeps in Amur's hut and follows him around. The Daily Telegraph reports:
Together, they've developed a great premise for a sitcom. | ||||||||
| What Are The Biggest Jerks Found In Nature? Posted: 27 Nov 2015 12:00 PM PST Nature is full of prey and predators, plants and bugs who eat plants, soft skinned humans and sharp pointy things that stab and stick. These things are simply doing what they were made to do, but that doesn't stop humans from referring to them as aholes, jerks, and many other disparaging names accompanied by a string of expletives. Redditors were recently asked to discuss "What's An A$%hole In Nature?", and their answers ranged from the true yet very obvious cats and wasps, to the a little more outside the box grass prickles and menstruation, to this completely abstract view on a-hole-ism. -Via Cheezburger | ||||||||
| Posted: 27 Nov 2015 11:00 AM PST Artist Amy L. Rawson is famous for her annual Cthulhu Christmas creations. This year, she’s adding a new creature from the Cthulhu mythos: the Shoggoth! And he’s not only a monster, he’s a snowman Christmas ornament!
These unique ornaments are available in both white and black at her Etsy shop. -Thanks, Amy! | ||||||||
| Things Japan Has That We All Need Posted: 27 Nov 2015 10:00 AM PST Japan is full of cool and innovative stuff, and they've been making some of the coolest stuff on the planet since well before their ports were open to Westerners. By stuff I mean everything from their public transportation to their public toilets, their pop culture franchises to their food products, and most especially these locking bike racks that are free for all to use. (Images by Scott Bryan for BuzzFeed) It's also unclear why we don't have toilets as awesome as the ones they have in Japan, because nothing helps you do your business like an attentive toilet with sound effects and a bidet ready to wash your poop away. And just to prove they've thought of everything they even sell new shirts and pants at the 7-11s, so you don't have to wander the streets in the nude anymore! See 18 Things Japan Has That The World Desperately Needs here | ||||||||
| Michael Dukakis on Turkey Carcasses Posted: 27 Nov 2015 09:00 AM PST Former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis believes you are not through with Thanksgiving cooking when the meat is stripped from the turkey. Don’t throw away the carcass! He saves not only his Thanksgiving leftovers, but those of friends, too. He gets one out of the freezer occasionally over the year to make soup. Dukakis has always been famously thrifty, and he eventually became a cook, too. “It all started when my dear wife after 23 years of marriage — and she was a good cook, I must say — one day said, ‘That’s it, I’m not cooking any longer,’ ” he said. “Just like that. At the time the only thing I knew how to make was French toast. So I was confronted with a choice: Starve or start cooking. So I’ve been doing all the cooking the last 29 years. You can see Dukakasis’ recipe for turkey soup in case you want to try it yourself. But if you don’t want to use your turkey carcass, he’ll take it off your hands, as he explains in an article at the Boston Globe. -via Digg | ||||||||
| The Search Continues For The San Jose Alien Posted: 27 Nov 2015 08:00 AM PST On November 7, 2015 the search for alien life on Earth supposedly came to an end when this creepy little critter was found in a backyard in San Jose, California, soon after a strange explosion was seen in the night sky. People began to wonder what that green explosion in the sky could have been, so naturally they thought "Aliens!", but the Government claimed the whole thing was just a missile test gone wrong. If the Government was telling the truth, and that light was nothing but a missile igniting too early, then what did social media seeker of truth Gianna Peponis actually find? Logical folks claim it looks like some kind of malformed animal fetus, and the fact checking folks at Snopes declared the tale of the San Jose Alien to be FALSE. But there are those who still believe the San Jose Alien is out there, waiting to prowl around our neighborhoods, probe our neighbors, and chow down on some California burritos. -Via The Daily What | ||||||||
| 2015 Holiday Parody Songs from Jimmy Fallon Posted: 27 Nov 2015 07:00 AM PST It’s become a holiday tradition for Jimmy Fallon to perform a medley of holiday songs set to the tunes of pop hits from the previous year. Or, you can put it another way: pop music hits of the past year with new holiday lyrics. The Tonight Show did just that last night, with Fallon joined by Rashida Jones, Queen Latifah, and Eric Nally. The songs from 2015 cover Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Skip The Mall Madness And Do Your Shopping At The NeatoShop Black Friday Sale! Posted: 27 Nov 2015 06:00 AM PST Black Friday is a mighty ominous name for the one holiday shopping a year when shoppers are supposedly able to find the best deals. But everybody knows the mall madness makes those deals not-so-great after all, so why go out and deal with the mall monsters when you can buy all the gifts you need in the NeatoShop?! Now through November 29th, 2015 the NeatoShop is having a Black Friday sale, with all t-shirts up to 25% off, so you can give the gifts people want and SAVE! Shopping on Black Friday can be a big mess With hordes of shoppers descending on the malls like stormtroopers SW White Christmas by DC Visual Arts Ready to spend their hard earned coin because they think they're getting the best deal in town Don't Wear This Alone by CoDDesigns But there's no way you're going to beat the NeatoShop's Black Friday sale, so stay home and shop instead! North Pole Santa Claus by CarloJ1956 Black is by far the most popular color of t-shirt sold in the NeatoShop Metal Christmas by Legendary Phoenix And even though some people like a little more color in their life Most enjoy the fact that a black tee goes with any THING Thingle Bells by Hillary White Black is the color of choice for creatures of the night And the dark forces of squiddom Seen as slimming by the physical fitness set And always classy Some will argue red is a more festive color RED NOSED LANTERN by AnishaCreations But black is the only color that's appropriate for all holidays Trick Or Christmas by Hillary White Although black shirts have been known to sport inappropriate designs Instrument Of Seduction by ZümWorks Black is beloved by Santa for its slimming properties, even though he prefers to wear red HO! Santa Wraps by ClayGrahamArt And Robot Santa likes that black shirts can't be stained by blood And of course black is the color of choice for the Krampus But that doesn't mean a black t-shirt can't be cute PROTECTOR 2015 SANTA by ADAM LAWLESS Black tees can be sweet GINGERBREAD TARDIS by KARMADESIGNER They can be darkly funny That's No Ornament by CrewsCreative Or they can be straight up geeky HOLIDAY WHO UGLY SWEATERby B4DW0LF They can be totally classic Or totally mind blowing But the greatest thing about a black t-shirt Pokebaubles by Unlikely Yuusha Is it never goes out of style! Ralphie's Gun Club by JRBERGER Celebrate Black Friday the right way, with up to 25% off all t-shirts now through November 29th, 2015 in the NeatoShop! With thousands of designs to choose from, and all sales benefit the indie artists who create those eye catching designs so show them you love their work and do your Christmas shopping all at the same time, at the NeatoShop! |
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