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- Delicate Floral Tattoos Look Like Watercolors
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- How to Make Kit Kat Nachos
- Indoor Snowstorm
- Deadpool Wins the Guinness World Record for the Largest Number of Characters on a Comic Book Cover
- Old Memories - Orange - The Color Of A Classic Console Crash
- Common Myths We Were Taught To Believe About Cars
- Kaizo Trap
- Men Play Bagpipes at McDonald's at 3:40 AM, Get into Fight
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Teenager Gives a Flower to All 894 Girls in His School
- The Trippiest Cat Video On The Internet
- Triceratops Causes Traffic Jam
- Son Tosses Eggs To Unsuspecting Mom Who Proves She's A Real Catch
- Pick the U.S. Presidents
- Into the Wild
- Darth VMO - The Dark Side Of Firmware Corruption
- 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads
- 22 Particularly Positive Celebrity Encounters
- Six Cheetah Cubs
- Travel at the Speed of Light through This Scale Model of the Solar System
- 9 Musicals Okay for Guys to Like
- Six Surprising Realities Of Being Homeless In Hawaii
| Posted: 16 Feb 2016 04:00 AM PST
For millennia, humanity has been plagued with the need to stand up. Standing up is one of the worst aspects of work. It would be much nicer if you could remain seated and your chair would move where you need it to move. Nissan is making progress toward this noble goal, but only accidentally. Its self-parking office chair project is designed to promote its self-parking cars. Wired reports that the chairs are tracked by cameras, which guide the chairs back into home position. Clapping activates the motors, which could make applause-filled presentations fun. Now offices and conference rooms can be tidier. Just clap your hands and the chairs that your slothful co-workers have left sprawled over the room will move back into their proper places. -via reddit  | ||||||||
| Rich Old Dude Surfer Gang Is Terrorizing A Los Angeles Beach Posted: 16 Feb 2016 03:00 AM PST As we get older some of us put our roughneck ways behind us and try to live a more peaceful life, while others seem to get more violent and aggressive in their later years. One particularly feisty gang of old dudes in Los Angeles are fighting to keep their beach local, giving Southern California surf culture a bad name. People who try to surf Lunada Bay in Palos Verdes Estates are encountering a gang of rich guys calling themselves the "Bay Boys" who pick fights with anyone they don't want surfing their beach. It may sound like the plot of a cheesy 80s movie, but this harassment has been going on since at least 1996, with assault charges filed against a few of the "Bay Boys" over the years. And last May this localism lunacy was caught on video by Rory Carroll and Noah Smith of The Guardian, who came out to find their car egged with "kooks" written in surf wax on the windows. Read more about A Rich Old Dude Surfer Gang Is Terrorizing A Los Angeles Beach here | ||||||||
| Delicate Floral Tattoos Look Like Watercolors Posted: 16 Feb 2016 02:00 AM PST The artist at Aro Tattoo in Itaewon, Korea appear to apply her work with not a needle, but a soft brush. You can almost feel the pedals of these flowers that blend so smoothly with the skin. You can see more photos at her Instagram feed. -via My Modern Met | ||||||||
| Posted: 16 Feb 2016 01:00 AM PST Would you notice if an “N” were upside down? You might if it had a serif, which is supposed to be on the upper left only in a capital N. It’s something that most of us wouldn’t even think about, and a lot of sign makers don’t realize it, either. But Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman did. He saw so many that he started the website Upside Down N – A Collection of Unruly ‘N’s.
Now that you’ve seen a few, you will start to notice them anywhere they appear. Take a snapshot, and send it in for archiving at the site. -via Improbable Research | ||||||||
| Posted: 16 Feb 2016 12:00 AM PST Amy of the food blog Oh, Bite It does provide an actual recipe. But you don't need one. You can just look at the photo, find the necessary ingredients, and get started:
Or too ashamed of yourself to continue. But if you're preparing this for dinner, you're past shame. Like the guy who was caught enjoying his In-N-Out in public way too much, you're ready to live your life to the fullest. You don't want to be that guy lying on his deathbed at 46 thinking, "Hey, I should have had those Kit Kat nachos, but I decided to be healthy instead." That kind of attitude gets you nowhere in life. | ||||||||
| Posted: 15 Feb 2016 11:00 PM PST Prankster Roman Atwood (previously at Neatorama) arranged to have snow in his own house for his kids to play in. And it’s not just snow, but also evergreen trees and a ramp for sledding, too! It looks like a lot of fun and Noah and Kane will never forget the day it snowed inside. According to the behind-the-scenes video, some of the snow is biodegradable “Hollywood snow” and some is real snow blown in from outside. The room was kept cold while they played, and the cleanup involved sweeping it outside and using a ShopVac before it melted, so there wasn’t a flood left behind. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Deadpool Wins the Guinness World Record for the Largest Number of Characters on a Comic Book Cover Posted: 15 Feb 2016 10:00 PM PST Everyone is showing up to Deadpool’s wedding on the cover of issue #27, which is coming out on Wednesday. Look, there’s Forbush Man on the left! And Squirrel Girl is one of the maids of honor! They’re among 232 Marvel characters on the cover, of which Guinness World Records considers 224 to be significant. So artist Scott Koblish wins a world record for the largest number of comic book characters on a single issue cover. It was a daunting task, but Koblish and his colleagues diligently completed it:
You can see a much larger version of the cover here. | ||||||||
| Old Memories - Orange - The Color Of A Classic Console Crash Posted: 15 Feb 2016 09:00 PM PST Old Memories - Orange by Firebeard Remember the good old days of gaming, when a player could control a bandicoot named Crash and help him jump, smash and run his way to freedom as he battled the evil forces commanded by Doctor Neo Cortex? Those days aren't gone, we're just older now and less inclined to play a game we've beaten fifty times. But it's nice to know that whenever we're feeling nostalgic we can pop in one of the masterpieces made by Naughty Dog studios and return to the Wumpa Islands with our old pal Crash the Bandicoot! Celebrate the glory days of console gaming with this Old Memories- Orange t-shirt by Firebeard, it's a surefire way to make any Crash fans grin like a bandicoot after he's eaten a wumpa fruit! Visit Firebeard's Facebook fan page, 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! | ||||||||
| Common Myths We Were Taught To Believe About Cars Posted: 15 Feb 2016 09:00 PM PST It's hard to believe that we've been driving automobiles for over a hundred years, and yet some people still don't know how to check their oil, replace an air filter or, worst of all, pump their own gas. However if you believe any of the 15 Common Myths You Were Taught To Believe About Cars then your misunderstanding is forgiven, because even savvy automobile enthusiasts believe some of these myths. Think a bigger engine block is safer in a front-end collision? That giant hunk of steel will shift back towards the driver just like a small block in an accident. Think convertibles are more dangerous than regular cars? While that used to be true, the convertibles of today have to adhere to strict safety standards, and many models feature roll bars that protect a passenger's head in case of a rollover. And speaking of pumping gas- did you know getting in and out of your car while at the pump can generate unsafe levels of static electricity? Don't risk your life, just wait until you're done pumping before you get back in your car! Read 15 Common Myths You Were Taught To Believe About Cars here | ||||||||
| Posted: 15 Feb 2016 08:00 PM PST She buys an NES for her guy because he loves video games. But he gets trapped inside one! She has to go rescue him. No matter how many lives she goes through, no matter how many times she must start over, she must power up and surmount multiple levels to find him. Then she must lead him back out before the digital world disintegrates. The video by Guy Collins is full of references that dedicated gamers will enjoy. There’s no dialogue at all, so if the music is not your taste, just down it down and enjoy the ride. -via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
| Men Play Bagpipes at McDonald's at 3:40 AM, Get into Fight Posted: 15 Feb 2016 07:00 PM PST
When is an appropriate time to play the bagpipes to strangers? What is the appropriate location? If you answered "McDonald's at 3:40 in the morning," then there are at least 2 men in Scotland who agree with you. Calum Graham and Allan Gilruth had just been to a wedding. They were hungry, and so went to a McDonald's in Perth, Scotland. Both were wearing full Scottish regalia, and one--Gilruth--had a set of bagpipes. He was in a celebratory mood, and so decided to play them. Another diner commented his disapproval with this decision. Naturally, Gilruth punched him. The Courier quotes prosecutor Jim Eodanable:
Graham and Gilruth were fined for their defense of public order. The lout who spoke ill of the bagpipes apparently escaped punishment. -via Nothing to Do with Aborath | ||||||||
| Where the Streets Have No Name Posted: 15 Feb 2016 06:00 PM PST No Name Road can be found in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Noname Avenue is in Hackensack, Minnesota, and No Name Boulevard is in Longmont, Colorado. In fact, there are streets named like that all over the country. How did these street names com about? There are several reasons, and each place has its own story, but they usually boil down to inertia.
Read the stories of other roads with no name at Atlas Obscura. | ||||||||
| Teenager Gives a Flower to All 894 Girls in His School Posted: 15 Feb 2016 05:00 PM PST
My first thought was that this might be a not-terrible dating strategy. If, let’s say, 25% of those girls are single and 1% are interested, that’s a chance of getting dates with 2.235% of them. That’s better odds than anything I managed in high school. But that’s not what Hayden Godfrey, 17, of Sky View High School in Smithfield, Utah had in mind. He already has a girlfriend. She’s in the above photo. Rather, he noticed that many girls at his school felt disappointed when they didn’t get any attention from boys on Valentine’s Day. His mother told ABC News:
So he decided to give each and every one of them a carnation. Hayden has been planning this project for 3 years. And for the past year and a half, he’s been saving money from his job as a cook at a restaurant and a bagger at a grocery store to be able to afford the $450 necessary:
-via Lost at E Minor | ||||||||
| The Trippiest Cat Video On The Internet Posted: 15 Feb 2016 04:00 PM PST The internet was built upon the backs of hard working cats who let themselves be filmed, photographed, dressed up and harassed for the sake of human amusement. And because of our fascination with cat videos we search, and sometimes actually stumble upon, a cat video that's like no other we've ever seen. Viaje al cielo de los gatos, which roughly translates to "a trip to cat heaven", is one of those videos...or is it? Turns out this isn't an ordinary cat video, it's a segment from the rarely seen 1964 film The Three Lives Of Thomasina, where Thomasina gets a taste of heaven before being sent back because she has eight more lives to go. It may predate the internet by three decades, but it's definitely the trippiest cat video I've ever seen online! (Terrible quality video with original English voice over here) -Via Dangerous Minds | ||||||||
| Triceratops Causes Traffic Jam Posted: 15 Feb 2016 03:00 PM PST A 20-foot-long triceratops blocked traffic on High Street in Godshill on the Isle of Wight Friday night. The beast, named Godshilla, was supposed to be home at Island Gems, but was taken on an unapproved outing.
Many believe alcohol may have been involved. The dinosaur has been returned to its home. -via Mashable (Image credit: Chris Hollingshead) | ||||||||
| Son Tosses Eggs To Unsuspecting Mom Who Proves She's A Real Catch Posted: 15 Feb 2016 02:00 PM PST Mothers and sons have a special kind of bond, one that can be a bit creepy but more often than not is just an endless source of brattiness for them both. Sons cruelly torture the woman who gave birth to them, and in turn moms have carte blanche when it comes to dishing out payback, which sometimes goes on until they both have egg on their faces. But the guy in this video isn't sadistic when it comes to pranking his mother, he's just trying to keep her on her toes by tossing a raw egg her way every once in a while...for over a year. Luckily, she's got mighty quick reflexes! (Barely NSFW due to language) Something tells me she's not a big fan of scrambled eggs... -Via Daily Mail | ||||||||
| Posted: 15 Feb 2016 01:00 PM PST What are you doing to celebrate Presidents Day? If nothing else, you should test your presidential knowledge. Can you recognize the names of the 43 (so far) U.S. presidents? It might not be as easy as you think, especially when you’re in a hurry. A quiz from mental_floss presents a whole slew of names, and all you need to do is click the ones who were actual presidents. The catch is that as soon as you click a wrong answer, the quiz is over! You can reload to try again, but the choices will be scrambled each time. You have two minutes. Good luck. | ||||||||
| Posted: 15 Feb 2016 12:00 PM PST
Yeah, everyday life seems safe enough. But that's only as long as you remain the apex predator. When you stray into human country, you need to be prepared. Your position at the top of the food chain is not assured. Remember what the PSAs taught you. | ||||||||
| Darth VMO - The Dark Side Of Firmware Corruption Posted: 15 Feb 2016 11:00 AM PST Ever since Finn came across those weird movies made well before the Big War he'd regretted bringing them home. It wasn't that they weren't fun to watch, because both he and Jake agreed that they were the best movies they'd ever seen, but watching movies meant loading a tape into BMO and that's where things started getting strange. Something about that creep Vader really appealed to the little entertainment module, and his happy laughter had turned to heavy breathing and threats of a force choke for both Finn and Jake. BMO now saw himself as the star of the show, and it was only a matter of time before the little bot figured out how to start cloning a stormtrooper army of his own.... Show the world what an unlikely mashup looks like, bring home this Darth VMO t-shirt by Pigboom and adventure will arrive on your doorstep along with your sweet new shirt! Visit Pigboom's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more fantastic 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! | ||||||||
| 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Posted: 15 Feb 2016 11:00 AM PST Howard Hankins has an unusual set of lawn ornaments on his farm in Virginia: 20-foot-tall busts of all 43 U.S. presidents. He salvaged them from a defunct theme park, as that was the only alternative to destroying them. Saving them cost Hankins around $50,000, since they weight between five ten tons each, but the process of moving them damaged the statues anyway.
Read the story of how this bizarre field of crumbling presidents came to be at Smithsonian. And see more pictures by David Ogden at the Instagram page @abandonedearth. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
| 22 Particularly Positive Celebrity Encounters Posted: 15 Feb 2016 10:00 AM PST John Krasinski with wife Emily Blunt | Image: Getty It can be quite a downer when we have celebrity encounters with people of whom we're big fans, only to have them act like jerks in response to respectful approaches on our end. The linked article highlights celebrity encounters that were exceptionally positive, and thus good news for everyone who appreciatively follows their work. An example involving John Krasinski follows: 1. “My mom had a big crush on John Krasinski. He was filming not too far away from our house, so I took my mom there in hopes of meeting him. His assistant came out to thank a fan for bringing him a gift, saw my mom, and left. Next thing we know, out comes John Krasinski himself. My mom was very obviously in the midst of chemo treatment … She died shortly after, but I am forever grateful to John Krasinski for making my mom so happy in the midst of her battle with cancer.” See this collection of 22 positive celebrity encounters in entirety here. | ||||||||
| Posted: 15 Feb 2016 09:00 AM PST You’ve read enough about cheetahs right here at Neatorama to know that more than two cubs in a litter is unusual. A cheetah named Addison at the San Diego Zoo gave birth in November to a litter of six cubs! She’s a prolific cheetah -her only other litter had four cubs. The zoo says the number was a surprise.
At twelve weeks of age, the cheetahs are beginning to show signs of growing up. -via Uproxx (Image credit: San Diego Zoo) | ||||||||
| Travel at the Speed of Light through This Scale Model of the Solar System Posted: 15 Feb 2016 08:00 AM PST
When I was in middle school, my classmates and I made a scale model of the solar system in a football field. This is a common science educational activity. But what's novel about this particular model in Anchorage, Alaska is the scale. If you walk leisurely from the sun to Pluto, you're traveling at the speed of light. Eli Menaker, a 17-year old high school student, made the Anchorage Light Speed Planet Walk in 2003. It takes about 8 minutes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth. Appropriately, it takes about 8 minutes to walk from the Sun station to the Earth station of the walk. Keep walking and in 5 and 1/2 hours, you'll reach the Pluto station. -via Marilyn Terrell | ||||||||
| 9 Musicals Okay for Guys to Like Posted: 15 Feb 2016 07:00 AM PST My husband found Grease on TV one day and mentioned it was the only musical he really liked. I had some other suggestions, which turned out to be movies he hasn’t seen or kids’ movies that were spoiled by the fact that his children watched them over and over too many times. You know that feeling. While it’s honestly okay for a guy to like any musical, we have a list to consult written by an actual guy, with video evidence for each. So guys, if you think all musicals are off limits to your masculine reputation, you might want to try some from the list of Nine Movies with Singing Throughout That are OK to Like if You’re a Guy from TVOM. | ||||||||
| Six Surprising Realities Of Being Homeless In Hawaii Posted: 15 Feb 2016 06:00 AM PST A homeless man sleeps on Waikiki Beach | Image: Getty 6. The Government Will Fly the Homeless out of Hawaii Read more facts regarding the homeless in Hawaii that may surprise you here. (Contains NSFW language.) |
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