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The 50 Best Foods in Every Major American City

Posted: 09 Jul 2016 04:00 AM PDT

Whether you eat out all the time or your only go out on special occassions, life is too short for bad food. That's why we're loving this great Thrillist list that features most of the major cities in the US, each with their own link to the 50 best things to eat in that city. I can't vouch for all of their recommendations, but the ones listed for San Diego are pretty dead on. So Neatorama readers, how do their recommendations line up with your favorite places in your city?

Six Degrees of Music Separation

Posted: 09 Jul 2016 02:00 AM PDT

You’ve probably played the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which you find that any actor can be connected to Bacon through other people they’ve worked with. Six Degrees of Music Separation is a online generator that will do that for musicians. Just enter two musicians and find out how they are connected. And they are all connected. I tried Wayne Newton and Anthrax, and it immediately laid out the closest steps that connected them. See if you can stump the machine! -via the Presurfer

We're In Love With This Mustachioed Kitty Who Witnessed A Murder

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 11:59 PM PDT

Kyle is just your every day adorable, grumpy-looking mustchioed kitty with a few minor distinctions -for example, he witnessed a domestic violence murder and was even held in evidence by the police before being handed over to the local animal shelter.

Of course, like many other famous internet kitties, he has a few health issues that seem to make him even more adorable -he has only three teeth, a permanently crooked ear that is dirty all the time and causes his foot to get dirty from scratching it. He also has absurdly scraggly whiskers that seem to go in all directions all at once. 

And did I mention he looks fantastic in a hat?

Bananas

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 10:59 PM PDT

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This animation is just bananas, meaning, um, crazy, but it’s also about bananas. That is, it stars bananas. Not real bananas, but crazy bananas.

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Future Deluxe gives us an insight into the secret life of bananas. In their imagination. -via Laughing Squid

Shark Tea Bags

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 10:00 PM PDT

(Photo: Makuake)

Lurking beneath the surface of the tea in your cup is a deadly predator. It's steeping in the water, waiting for the right moment to leap out and devour the label.

Tokyo Weekender reports that the Daisho Fisery Company in Japan has designed these novel tea bags. The Great White Shark is filled with a rosehip and hibiscus tea that gives the water a blood red tint. The comparatively harmless whale shark is filled with green tea. Choose appropriately.

-via Foodiggity

Dance Dance Dance - Just A Hunch, But I'd Say She Has Studied Dance

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 09:00 PM PDT


Dance Dance Dance by Liron Peer

Hunchbacks may not appreciate fashion, food or all those leering faces in the town square, but they love to watch people get down on the dance floor and shake their money makers. It turns out that hump on their back actually helps them balance, so despite their misshapen appearance they're surprisingly light on their feet, which really helps them appeal to the opposite sex. Because ladies like Esmerelda won't judge you by your appearance or standing in the community, but if you can't cut a rug they'll leave you waltzing by yourself on the dance floor while they go off and find a partner worthy of their affections.

Show the world how much you like to move it move it with this Dance Dance Dance t-shirt by Liron Peer, it's the perfect shirt to wear while you're watching Quasimodo get animated or while you're out on the town shaking your rump!

Visit Liron Peer's official website and Facebook fan page, then head over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:

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Disney Princesses Just Wanted Breakfast

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 09:00 PM PDT

Zahara and Zamiyah Beary, ages five and seven, got up early on Thursday morning, put on their Disney Princess costumes and shower caps, and set out from their home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to get breakfast. The girls’ parents were still asleep. The princesses first went to McDonald’s, then a bagel shop, but had no money to pay for their food. A bystander paid for their bagels. The girls then boarded a train and went to Manhattan! By that time, the police were alerted by the parents. Police found the girls at around 9:15, and took them to get hash browns at McDonald’s. The children were reunited with their parents at the 78th Street precinct. -via Fark

The Last Prince of Italy Runs a Food Truck in Los Angeles

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 08:00 PM PDT

(Photo: The Prince of Venice)

His Royal Highness Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, is the grandson of King Umberto II, the last King of Italy. That nation abolished its monarchy in 1946 and exiled the royal family. So Prince Emanuele has lived most of his life abroad.

Lately, he's been in Los Angeles. He learned that the food truck business was booming there and saw an investment opportunity. So he created an Italian cuisine food truck called The Prince of Venice, which is one of his formal titles, and painted it with the colors of the House of Savoy. The Telegraph reports:

“I came to Los Angeles six months ago for an event and I realized there were various Mexican and Asian food trucks around, “ the prince told Italian magazine, Chi, in an interview.

“I thought ‘why don’t I try it?’ With a food truck with fresh Italian pasta that is loved around the world.” […]

The would-be heir, who was born in Geneva and is married with two children, says his new business is flourishing and he’s relishing the role.

He has hired a chef, Mirko Paderno, and sells dishes like fettucine with shrimp and clams or linguine with truffles for as little as $15.

Dubiously Defined History

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:00 PM PDT

Language is weird. If you didn’t know what a phrase means already, you’d have several possible directions to go to figure it out on your own. Here are some historical events renamed by someone who has no idea of history, as imagined by John Atkinson of Wrong Hands.

This College Building Looks Like a Toilet

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 06:00 PM PDT

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Choose your major wisely because you don't want to just flush your money away. The new building for the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in Heinan, China is, appropriately, shaped like a massive toilet. The Chinese central government is circulating photos of it to describe its recent move to ban "weird buildings."

Proper architecture, the government argues, does not try to imitate other objects, such as cell phones or human genitals. You can see photos of other weird Chinese buildings at Shanghaiist.

-via Technabob

Why You Don’t See Great White Sharks in Aquariums

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:00 PM PDT

When the movie Jaws sparked a fascination with the great white shark, aquariums all over tried to get one to display. That didn’t work, for a variety of reasons. The only institution that had any luck at all was the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, and they expended a huge amount of resources for rather weak successes.

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It eventually dawned on all aquarium officials that the most prudent thing was to give up. Vox explains why keeping a Great White in captivity is a losing game. It’s a completely different kind of fish. -via reddit

Tinkerbell Shoes

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 03:59 PM PDT

With fairy wings, a glittery green color, and poofy white tops, these Tinkerbell high heels by Etsy seller Laura Ireland are perfect! Offbeat Bride suggests them as bridal wear and I agree. They're also available in a lower heel height, which is good news if your walk down the aisle is a long one.

The Fox Burglar

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 03:00 PM PDT

An unnamed family in Lewisham, UK, has been the victim of an unusual intruder. They had been finding objects out of place over time, but it wasn’t until they had their security cameras serviced that they found it was fox! In reviewing the footage, the family found that the fox would wander the halls of the home “like he owns the place,” while the family was in the next room. A month ago, they came home to find their son’s game controller out in the back garden. The culprit was the fox, which came into his bedroom, picked up the PlayStation controller, and jumped out the back window. You have to wonder why people who use security cameras to guard their homes don’t also use window and door screens. Or locks. -via Arbroath  

100 Years Of Men's Underwear In Under 3 Minutes

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 02:00 PM PDT

Men rarely spare much thought on their underwear, and some gross guys can't even be bothered to change their chonies on a regular basis.

So it's safe to assume most guys don't have a clue about how far their underwear has come over the last 100 years, or how fabulous those form fitting boxer briefs actually are.

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Mode continues to show us how fashion has evolved one hundred years at a time by exploring the evolution of men's underwear, starting with the bulky long johns men wore circa 1916.

-Via A Plus

12 Secrets of Film Editors

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 01:00 PM PDT

 

Producers, directors, and stars of Hollywood films get all the press, but it's the editors behind the scenes that get the job done. They must take hundreds of hours of footage and craft it into a coherent story, a process that takes skill, objectivity, creativity, and lots of time. Let’s learn a little bit more about that task.

10. DETAILS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO THEM.

Although a film’s big picture storyline is important, film editors also need to focus sharply on the details. Editors can manipulate the tone, pace, and comedic beats of a film to create better performances, craft a more compelling story, or distract audiences from a continuity error. Slight differences—such as a small variation in dialogue or waiting an extra beat before a joke—can make a huge difference in the overall quality of the film. Film editor Walter Murch, who has worked on The Godfather series, Ghost (1990), and Apocalypse Now (1979), tells NPR that he thinks of his job as “sort of a cross between a short-order cook and a brain surgeon … Sometimes you're doing incredibly delicate things. Two frames different will mean whether the film is a success or not.”

11. IF THEIR WORK IS GOOD, IT’S INVISIBLE.

When audiences watch a well-edited movie, transitions between scenes flow smoothly and naturally. A poorly edited film, though, will be obvious. As Murch tells Variety, citing a line from The Wizard of Oz director Victor Fleming: “Good editing makes the director look good, great editing makes the film look like it wasn’t directed at all."

But well-made movies with flashy editing sequences can call attention to a great editor’s work. Thelma Schoonmaker, who edited Goodfellas (1990) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), tells Film Comment that she probably won an Oscar for editing The Aviator because of the film’s dramatic plane crash scene. “There’s a great deal of mystery in film editing, and that’s because you’re not supposed to see a lot of it … And because there is so little understanding of what really great editing is, a film that’s flashy, has a lot of quick cuts and explosions, gets particular attention,” said Schoonmaker.

Read more about the nuts and bolts of the career of film editing at mental_floss.

Prisoners Break out of Jail Cell to Save Jailer's Life

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 11:59 AM PDT


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8 men sat in a holding cell in the basement of the courthouse of Parker County, Texas. The only guard watching over them suddenly collapsed, losing consciousness.

Worried about him, the prisoners broke through the metal gate, then began screaming and pounding on doors, trying to get help from outside. Sheriff's deputies upstairs in court heard them and rushed down, then herded the prisoners back into the cell.

The officers found that the guard on the floor had no pulse. They performed CPR. Paramedics soon arrived and took over until the guard's heart re-started. Thanks to the prisoners' warning, he's still alive. WFAA 8 (auto-start) reports:

Parker County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ryan Speegle says he didn’t know what to expect when he got downstairs.

“He had keys," Speegle said. "Had a gun. It could have been an extremely bad situation." […]

Capt. Mark Arnett believes prisoners certainly helped the guard, and likely saved him.

“He could have been there 15 minutes before any other staff walked in and found him,” Arnett said.

-via Huffington Post

Donkey Pong - Paddle Faster, Mario!

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 11:00 AM PDT


Donkey Pong by Tomburns

Video games have come a long way from the days of Mario jumping over barrels and little yellow heads gobbling up glowing dots in a maze, but where are all the hybrid games we were promised? They said we'd get to see how Mario handles the baddies in Double Dragon, or how Shinobi would slay a giant Centipede, but instead we're stuck with all those great looking console games and hours of intense fun. We need to take it back to the old school and make Galaga Gaiden happen, or Dig Dug - Gauntlet edition, or Final Paperboy Fight, but it's probably best if we leave Pong lying in a hole along with all those Atari E.T. cartridges...

Retro gamers will go ape for this Donkey Pong t-shirt by Tomburns, slip it on and feel the arcade power coursing through your veins! (Warning- pixelated blood may result in clogged arteries and torn veins, player discretion advised)

Visit Tomburns's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more superheroic designs:

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The Rise and Fall of Chloroform

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 10:59 AM PDT

James Young Simpson didn’t invent chloroform, but he championed its use as a surgical anesthetic. He opened a container of it during a meeting of physicians in 1847 and laughed at the giggling, snoring results. Chloroform was better than the ether then in use, as ether was very flammable and often left the patient thrashing about in their sleep. But any anesthetic was suspicious, because people were afraid of not waking up afterward. And no one really understood how it worked.    

More questions about chloroform arose, mostly because the substance was ill-understood: some, for example, believed it could be strictly a respiratory depressant. But such concerns were set aside for the demand created by the Civil War, which required a fast-acting anesthetic on the battlefield. Of the 80,000 operations surveyed by Union physicians, all but 254 used anesthetic of some kind — usually chloroform, and sometimes a mixture of ether and chloroform to help mitigate the risks of either.

Any fears about induced sleep were quickly mitigated by the searing pain of a shrapnel-fed leg. The patient would inhale and the vapor would first numb the senses. Relaxation would set in, followed by a feeling of impairment. The patient would cease to move, to feel and to have any awareness of the scalpels digging into their flesh. In short, it was just what they needed.

Occasional cardiac death aside, chloroform was a wonder drug. And any lingering doubts the general public had about its administration ended in 1853, when Queen Victoria gave birth without feeling a thing.

As chloroform grew in popularity for surgery, it was also used for entertainment at parties and for private highs. But all it took was for one person to accuse a doctor of impropriety while a victim was unconscious from chloroform, and the substance gained a reputation as a crime tool. Read about chloroform during its heyday at Van Winkle’s. -via Digg

Comic Strips With Surprise Endings You Won't See Coming

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 09:59 AM PDT

Comic strips have a very short amount of time in which to tell a tale or deliver a setup and a punchline, so they're usually pretty straightforward in terms of pacing.

But good comic artists have lots of tricks in their pencil bags which they can pull out at any time in order to poke the reader in the eye, just to make sure they're still paying attention.

And when you've read as many predictable, formulaic and just plain boring comics as I have you learn to appreciate a surprise ending, whether it's happy, sad or WTF inducing.

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See 10 Comics With Ending You Did NOT See Coming here (NSFW due to language)

This Robot is Both Animal and Machine

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 08:59 AM PDT

Kevin Kit Parker, Sung-Jin Park, and their team of scientists have built a real-life cyborg, a robot consisting of both artificial and biological components. While not yet Terminator level, it’s both fascinating and scary. The medusoid has a body made of silicone, with a gold skeleton, covered with genetically-engineered rat heart cells that provide its movement.  

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The process is explained further at Science.

Infected with a virus that delivers the gene encoding the optogenetic molecular switch, the modified cardiac cells twitch  when blue light shines on them. But translating that effect into coherent motion took months of tweaking; simply getting a robot ray to move forward when light stimulated the front of its fin took Park 200 tries. Ultimately, he built 100 more robots and showed they could navigate underwater obstacle courses. To negotiate turns, Park guides a ray with two light sources, one pointed at each fin. Changing the frequency of the light slows or speeds up the contraction rate; by making one side beat faster than the other, he steers the robot left or right.

See another video at Popular Mechanics. -via Metafilter

Modern Life Is Strange, And So Are These Hilariously Timely T-Shirts

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:59 AM PDT

I Bought This Shirt on the Internet! by joerocks1981

It's 2016 and the world is becoming stranger by the minute, seemingly stuck in a yin-yang state of destructive upheaval and constructive progress, all of it shared by the second on the internet.

But just because the world is in disarray doesn't mean your wardrobe has to be, and the NeatoShop is the best place to buy a shirt that makes a thoroughly modern statement.

And if you shop now through July 10th all t-shirts are up to 20% off, so you can get the now look for less!

Even though it doesn't look like it did in all those movies the future is now

Psychedelic Cyber Punk Venus Rebirth by Andrei Verner

And it's time to prepare for all the weird and wondrous things the future has to offer

take this by haplo

By working to undo the wrongs of the past and create a better world for us all

Ctrl + Zeta IN BLACK by Raffiti

We've brought all the things we love from the past with us into the 21st century

Space Sharks! by Hillary White

Such as our favorite pop culture franchises

Walker Mechanics by Ed Harrington

Our favorite cartoons and toy lines from when we were kids

Voltron Head by Samoht-Lion

And, inexplicably, the simplified eating habits of our ancestors from ancient history

Paleo Caveman BBQ Club by Mudge

Unfortunately, we also brought xenophobia, racism and classist elitism with us too

Trumpty Dumpty with White Text by linesXofXfury

Now why couldn't we have brought the good old days with us without all the ignorance!

Make Shrimp Great Again! by DeepFriedArt

Speaking of ignorance, we are supposedly living in the Information Age

Robot Detector by IdeasConPatatas

An age where even the deepest, darkest secrets have been exposed to the light

The Queen Is A Lizard by Immortalized

The internet is also supposed to make us feel closer to our fellow Earthlings via social media

Extinct Friends by Alberto Arni

And smarten us up thanks to the hard work of trolls and grammar nazis who constantly correct us

Grammar by haplo

But in truth the internet has made us feel even more isolated

LOL Butts by Mykel AD

And internet fame has given some folks a bit of an ego problem

Chi AF by Hillary White

Making them feel like upper crustaceans when they're really just another shrimp in the sea

COOL LOBSTER by ADAM LAWLESS

But don't get me wrong, there are some great things happening in the world today

Casualties of Weed 47 by SayWhatJAY

And for every really bad idea somebody comes up with

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There are many wondrous new creations released which will forever change our lives!

!#@*'n Thing Sucks! by Nicholas Ginty

Get dressed up for the strange world we live in with a geeky, and thoroughly cutting edge, t-shirt from the NeatoShop, home of the newest and best t-shirt designs on the 'Net.

The NeatoShop is home to thousands of cool designs created by the coolest indie artists on the planet, and now through July 10th all shirts are up to 20% off.

So head to the NeatoShop and grab a new and now t-shirt today!

A Calm Place

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:32 AM PDT


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Borrow a child's stuff animal and try it. You'll feel better. And then, as Mister Rogers advised, look for the helpers.

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Jeff Bezos

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:00 AM PDT

Here’s a guy you do business with all the time, but you probably know little to nothing about him. While tech CEOs like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg became almost as famous as their companies, Jeff Bezos never let his own persona get in the way of Amazon. While Bezos doesn’t court publicity for himself, he isn’t a recluse, either. He’s constantly busy trying out new ideas and encouraging others to do so, too. And his past is full of interesting stories.  

2. As a child, Bezos was insatiably curious — he was always trying to figure out how things worked and why they did what they did. He also created his own inventions for fun and also for functionality, especially ones with a scientific and technological bent. As an example, he once created an alarm that was designed to keep his younger siblings from entering his room. He also created a science laboratory in his parents’ garage so he could conduct his experiments in a safer space. This inclination toward tinkering and experimenting would serve him very well, first as the founder of an internet startup company and then as the CEO of the retail giant that startup grew to become.

7. Some startup CEOs require lots of time and space to come up with a plan for their new business, but not Bezos. He wrote the entire business plan for Amazon.com while on a car trip from New York to Seattle. It wasn’t the best of conditions to write a business plan, but it was an idea that he had to get out. Initially, Bezos wanted to call the new company “Cadabra,” as in “abra cadabra,” but upon hearing it, his lawyer thought it sounded too much like “cadaver,” an association that Bezos absolutely did not want. He then changed the name to his second choice — Amazon, after the longest river in the world, since he wanted to make the new online shop into the biggest retailer in the world. Talk about auspicious beginnings.

Learn lots more about Jeff Bezos at Money Inc.

(Image credit: Flickr user ali asaria)

The Most Canadian Superheroes Of All Time

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 06:00 AM PDT

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Wolverine may be the most well-known Canadian superhero of all time, but quite a few memorable characters have come from the Great White North including the team Alpha Flight and Deadpool.

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But more importantly Canada is the real world home of fictional characters who represent important firsts in the world of comic books, starting with Nelvana Of The Northern Lights.

She's Canada's first superhero and one of the first female superheroes to appear in the comics, predating Wonder Woman by a few months, and she's the first (and one of the only) Inuit superhero.

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As someone who loved reading Canada's answer to The Avengers as a kid I must say superhero squads don't come much more colorful or charming than Alpha Flight.

They're one of the motliest crews who ever assembled to fight villainy, with a hairy hulk named Sasquatch, a dwarf acrobat named Puck and the first openly gay Marvel superhero Northstar, Alpha Flight kept Canada strange.

See The 7 Most Canadian Superheroes Ever here
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