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- Cards Against Humanity Hiring. The Only Catch? You Have to be Barack Obama
- Plucked from Obscurity: Killer Clothes
- The Myth of the Damsel on the Railroad Tracks
- This Raven Cares Nothing For Your Petty Human Parking Laws
- All This Random Stuff
- Very Cool Valentine's Day Cards Featuring New Wave Superstars
- 7 True Crimes Solved By Twists Too Ridiculous For Network TV
- Famous Works Of Art Get Their Selfie Game On For #MuseumSelfie Day
- Puppies Rescued from Buried Hotel
- MarioWorld - Down The Sewer Pipe We Go, Where We'll End Up Nobody Knows...
- Six Million Years Ago There Were Otters the Size of Wolves
- Illusion by AI
- Brussels Sprouts Must be Candy for Guinea Pigs
- Five Life Lessons the Show <i>Moonshiners</i> Has Taught Us
- This Woman is Allergic to Practically Everything -Including Her Husband
| Cards Against Humanity Hiring. The Only Catch? You Have to be Barack Obama Posted: 25 Jan 2017 03:59 AM PST Cards Against Humanity's business operations have been a little strange. They've increased prices on Black Friday, dug a giant hole for the middle of nowhere and even sold users actual cow poop. That's why they claim they now need a CEO that can offer "real adult leadership." The only problem is that the job listing has some pretty specific requirements, such as "experience hunting terrorist masterminds," minimum eight years experience President of the United States of America or equivilent nation," and "must currently hold a national approval rating of 57.% or higher." The company took out a full page ad in the Chicago Tribune just hoping to catch the eye of the right candidate. Unfortunately, despite their offer to pay for relocation costs, the only man qualified for the job happens to have already stated that he plans to stay in Washington D.C. until his youngest daughter graduates high school. I guess it's four more years of a company that has "no idea what we're doing." You can read the full ad on Craigslist. Via DCist  | ||||||||
| Plucked from Obscurity: Killer Clothes Posted: 25 Jan 2017 02:00 AM PST
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| The Myth of the Damsel on the Railroad Tracks Posted: 24 Jan 2017 11:59 PM PST Atlas Obscura is digging into historical and pop culture villains during their Villains Week. The first story is a look back at the damsel-in-distress trope of evil, mustachioed villains tying women to railroad tracks. We've all seen it in silent movies. Or did we? It never made sense that a murderer would go to that much trouble to cause a death delayed just enough for the hero to arrive. Fritzi Kramer, who runs the blog Movies Silently, tells us how that familiar scenario began.
In fact, the vision we have of the villain with the top hat and evil mustache tying a woman to a railroad track never actually happened in a serious drama! That trope was cemented in the parodies that made fun of it. Read about the standard plot and how it changed in our minds over the years at Atlas Obscura. | ||||||||
| This Raven Cares Nothing For Your Petty Human Parking Laws Posted: 24 Jan 2017 09:59 PM PST We all know that "my dog ate my homework" is a pretty lousy excuse, but what about "a raven ate my parking ticket?" It seems this bird has a strong opinion on Canadian bureaucracy. The driver still has to pay the ticket, but at least thanks to local Annemieke Mulders, at least he now has this entertaining footage to watch while he writes out his check. Via Atlas Obscura | ||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2017 07:59 PM PST Heart has the answer for Brain's dilemma, as always. They've hit upon the filing system for random stuff that I've been using for many years. All my stuff is labeled "Miss Cellania's." It's the best way to get everything put away in the proper place. Yeah, I'll sort it out. Someday. This gem of a comic is from The Awkward Yeti. -via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
| Very Cool Valentine's Day Cards Featuring New Wave Superstars Posted: 24 Jan 2017 05:59 PM PST If you're love is tainted except for on Friday, if your strangelove tears you apart and makes you feel like you have a heart of glass, or if you're part of a bizarre love triangle then you're a New Wave lover. That means you're not interested in celebrating conformist holidays like Valentine's Day, but you will be after you see these cool Valentine's cards by Matt Lineham. Matt's the guy who made those amazing New Wave Christmas ornaments, and now he's back to make Valentine's Day a little hipper with his friends Siouxsie Sioux, David Bowie and the B-52s! Matt's Valentine's cards come in five flavors- New Wave, Bowie, Stranger Things, Walking Dead and the ultra wicked 80's Horror series, which is clearly the most romantic series of the bunch. -Via Dangerous Minds | ||||||||
| 7 True Crimes Solved By Twists Too Ridiculous For Network TV Posted: 24 Jan 2017 03:59 PM PST Forensic science has a few tricks up its sleeve that we would never know about unless they are used to solve some crime we are following. Cracked collected stories of crimes that were pulled off by seemingly competent criminals with little conclusive evidence, until some genius hi-tech crimefighting capability was launched. Solving these crimes took both modern technology and the investigators' imagination to use them. Look deep enough, and they can find their way around even the most clever perpetrator.
So how did they convict Brothers? By bringing in entomologist Lynn Kimsey to examine the insects on the front of the rental car, which told the story of exactly where that car was driven, fortunately before it was washed. She could even tell what time of day he drove by the bugs! That's just one of seven such stories of great detective work, in a list at Cracked. | ||||||||
| Famous Works Of Art Get Their Selfie Game On For #MuseumSelfie Day Posted: 24 Jan 2017 01:59 PM PST People who take and post a ton of selfies are considered vain, and since vanity is a sin, or at very least a distasteful trait, people who excessively post selfies are mocked and shamed. But do you know who shouldn't be ashamed of being vain and posting selfies all day long? Famous works of art, that's who, because the inanimate what seems to become a who when they pose for a selfie like we do. #MuseumSelfieDay took place on January 18th this year, and it has become so popular among museumgoers and works of art that museums around the world are dying to get in on the fun! See Museum Displays Get Their Selfie Game Going On Twitter For #MuseumSelfieDay here | ||||||||
| Puppies Rescued from Buried Hotel Posted: 24 Jan 2017 11:59 AM PST
Hotel Rigopiano in central Italy was crushed Wednesday when an avalanche of snow fell on it. Nine people have been rescued, seven have died, and 23 others are still missing. Rescue crews continue to dig around the clock. Two Abruzzo sheepdogs lived at the hotel, and were found wandering the streets after the disaster. But Nuvola and Lupo had puppies in December, which were still missing five days after the avalanche. On Monday, firefighters found all three puppies alive in an air pocket in the hotel's boiler room. The puppies were reunited with their parents. The rescue operation gave firefighters and other emergency workers hope that they may still find other survivors in the wreckage of the hotel. | ||||||||
| MarioWorld - Down The Sewer Pipe We Go, Where We'll End Up Nobody Knows... Posted: 24 Jan 2017 09:59 AM PST In the quest to make video games more immersive and perfect the art of virtual reality a gamer's paradise was built called MarioWorld, where players could actually feel the bricks breaking under their fists and feel the Goombas squishing under their feet. This virtual world was unlike any built before it, because MarioWorld contained androids instead of 3D holograms, and people began shelling out their life savings in order to experience the future of gaming firsthand. But a glitch in the system nicknamed BW53R threatened to tear the whole place down, and soon the Goombas and the Koopas would be doing the squishing... Show the world what the future of VR gaming looks like with this MarioWorld t-shirt by NibiruHybrid, it's so cutting edge your fellow gamers will think you're a time traveler from the future! Visit NibiruHybrid's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his 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! | ||||||||
| Six Million Years Ago There Were Otters the Size of Wolves Posted: 24 Jan 2017 09:59 AM PST If you've ever seen a giant river otter in person, you might be surprised how big they seem when they're right in front of you. But that's nothing compared to the now extinct otters that lived six million years ago. Scientists working in China recently found the fossils of the previously unknown species that would have weighed in at around 110 pounds. The discovery of a complete skull and a few incomplete skeletons is a big jump forward in the knowledge about otter evolution as before that the only fossils scientists had to go by were a few shattered teeth. Like modern otters, they largely lived on shellfish. If you're really into the science, you can read all the details in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology. Otherwise, you might want to stick with the summary on Gizmodo | ||||||||
| Posted: 24 Jan 2017 08:59 AM PST You think you recognize this picture when you really have never seen it before. Redditor vic8760 created it by accident while working with artificial intelligence (or at least he says it was an accident). Sure, it looks like Napoleon Crossing the Alps, except made up of smaller images from other familiar artworks. But it's not. Look closer, and every figure you thought you saw is only a drape of color, somewhat resembling fabric. You can enlarge the image here to see the details. The more you look, the less sense it makes. The program may have been "inspired" by other artworks, but it didn't exactly use them in creating this image. | ||||||||
| Brussels Sprouts Must be Candy for Guinea Pigs Posted: 24 Jan 2017 07:59 AM PST People tend to be pretty torn about their feelings on brussels sprouts -they either love them or they think they're the grossest things in the world. Guinea pigs seem to have a drastically different opinion on the strange leafy veggies though. In fact, if this video is any indication, they seem to think brussels sprouts are the best treat in the world. I guess even if you think sprouts are revolting at least now they can bring you some joy. Via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Five Life Lessons the Show <i>Moonshiners</i> Has Taught Us Posted: 24 Jan 2017 06:59 AM PST Moonshiners is a reality TV series on the Discovery Channel that follows several guys who make moonshine. Its fans are divided into those who believe that it's a documentary and they are really manufacturing illegal whiskey, and those who know better but enjoy the drama between the characters. Either way, it's the drama that hooks the viewer. TVOM looks at some of the highlights from the show's stories, and the life lessons from friends and families in the forests of Appalachia. With video evidence for each. | ||||||||
| This Woman is Allergic to Practically Everything -Including Her Husband Posted: 24 Jan 2017 05:59 AM PST Joanna Watkins suffers from mast cell activation syndrome, which means she is allergic to practically everything, including foods, chemicals, UV light and the smell of other people. She's even developed an allergy to her own husband, Scott. He can shower multiple times, put on sterile clothes and a face mask, but she will still go into anaphylactic shock if he gets too near her. While most people with her condition find it treatable with medication, Joanna's isn't responding to any treatments, including chemotherapy. The only time she leaves her hermetically sealed room is to go to the hospital. She and her husband spend time together by watching tv in their respective rooms and texting to each other about what's going on. While their struggle is considerable, the two are remaining strong and trying to make it work. Read more about Scott and Joanna's troubles on People and Fox News. Via Huffington Post |
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