Dramatic Lamb
While the creator of this video says the lamb is making that face because it’s shocked, the whole thing just seems way too much like Dramatic Chipmunk minus the audio. If someone was so inclined to remix this one, it would work great with the music as well.
Excuse Me Sir, But Your Trash Can Just Doesn’t Fit In
Yes, this is the most epic Mario-themed bathroom ever created. No, I still don’t recommend trying to crawl through any of the pipes in this house to go looking for extra lives and gold coins. All you will find is a terrible smell and tons of bacteria.
Oh, and just joking about the trash can, it just happens to be sitting in a bad part of the room for the theme to work. As it turns out, the rest of the room is decorated with Donkey Kong and Pac Man, you can see more pictures over at the link.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
You Should Certainly Let These 13 Sleeping Dogs Lie
Now that is a pooch that understands how dangerous high stress levels can be. Seriously, I only wish I could fall asleep so easily, but I guess that talent is for the dogs…or at least these 13 adorable sleeping dogs.
11 Cool Gadgets to Help Geeks Lose Weight
Let’s be honest, many of us are interested in losing weight, but it just seems so tedious. The trick is to find something that works with your lifestyle so you can maintain your interest. That’s why Weighthacker’s list of gadgets to help geeks lose weight is so useful for those of us with an interest in technology. From smartphone tools to laptop desks, there are some great ideas on there.
Of course, like any good list of gadgets, many of them are pretty darn expensive, so be prepared to shell out a lot of cash if you actually want to own everything listed there. Personally, if they could just find a way to get David Tennant in his role as The Doctor to travel through space and time with you while you worked out, I’d have 0% body fat by now.
Taste The Dark Side In Blk Bottled Spring Water
I don’t consider thick black liquid to be a tantalizing beverage option, unless it comes in a shot glass and contains about forty percent alcohol, but Blk Beverages Black Spring Water claims to be more refreshing than drinking a bottle of ink.
It doesn’t get you drunk, it gets you vitaminized, so here’s the scoop straight from the source of the darkness:
Blk Beverages Black Spring Water’s proprietary blend of Fulvic Minerals (a derivative of plant matter) are mined from a 70 million year old source deep within the earth. Naturally black in color, Blk Beverages Spring Water’s formula binds to the molecules of Blk Beverages pure Canadian Spring Water turning it naturally black, with no artificial dyes, coloring, or additives. Fulvic Minerals are critical in growth of plant life, helping the transportation and absorption of nutrients. Fulvic Mineral’s small molecular structure allows for the fast absorption of over 77 different trace minerals and elements, powerful electrolytes, antioxidants, and free radical scavengers.
Nothing like some free radical scavengers to quench your thirst. Mmmmmmmm!
Link –via Super Punch
Great Pictures From the Boston Comic Con
I know we post cosplay photos from the San Diego Comic Con every year, but while it may be the biggest comic book convention, it’s far from the only one. A few weeks ago, Boston held their yearly convention and the costumes are utterly delightful as you can see in this great gallery over on Geeks Are Sexy.
Wisdom Tooth Ring
Crafter, writer and Neatoramanaut Shannon Larratt made this ring for his fiancé’s birthday. It’s wrapped around a wisdom tooth that she had extracted 12 years ago. What a wonderful way to mark the advance of age and the insight it brings! Excellent work, Shannon.
How Toy Story 2 Was Almost Lost Forever
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While Toy Story 2 was in production, someone at Pixar accidentally typed in a command that erased the drives on which the animation files were stored. Most of the film vanished in 20 seconds.
A whole year of work. Just…gone.
This is the story of how Pixar employees rescued the movie.
-via io9
A Beached Whale in the Forest
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
In the woods outside of Ushuaia, Argentina, you can find an enormous whale. It’s Adrián Villar Rojas’s mysterious sculpture entitled My Dead Grandfather.
Engraved Science Fiction Ring
Harpuahound, a member of the Engraver’s Cafe forum, made this wonderful ring with the TARDIS in the middle, the Starfleet logo on one side and (not shown) the space shuttle on the opposite side. Is the shuttle an Armageddon reference?
Link -via The Mary Sue
Neon Pegasus
Feeling down today, Bronies? This one is for you: Neon Pegasus by Parry Gripp (previously on Neatorama), who said "No matter how insane or ridiculous, you must follow your dreams ..."
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] to hear something about "genetically modified salamander with a face just like George Clooney"Spread your wings Neon Pegasus
And go flying through the night
They can take your glitter
But they can't take away your sparkleAnd the thousand arm robot octopus
Will try to grab your golden reins
But your wings are strong from the battle
Over Cupcake Mountain[...]
(Yeah!
When I first saw you defeating the Gummy King's
Gluten powered armada in the darkness of space,
I knew you were no ordinary pegasus!)
Terrifying Video of the Day: Mountain Biking Down 1,000 Steps
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The Red Bull Downhill race is simple enough: get to the bottom of the steps on Monserrate in Bogotá, Colombia faster than anyone else. Also: not die. Here’s a scary video of Marcelo Gutierrez’s descent, made all the more frightening by the fact that he didn’t win because he didn’t go fast enough.
-via Gizmodo
Watt Is Love
If you hate puns, you're definitely not Jung at heart. Via Know Your Meme.
Hello Kitty Zoobies Blanket Pet
Hello Kitty Zoobies Blanket Pet – $49.95
Attention Hello Kitty fans! Behold the adorable Hello Kitty Zoobies Blanket Pet from the NeatoShop. This fantastic plush pillow unzips to reveal a super-soft Hello Kitty blanket. The Hello Kitty Zoobies Blanket Pet is purr-fect for cuddling up on chilly spring nights.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Hello Kitty & Sanrio items.
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How to Make a Pizza Zoetrope
Andrew Salmone made this .gif after building a pizza zoetrope. He shaped pepper slices to look like individual frames a dolphin in motion, baked them into the pizza, then took pictures as it spun on a turntable. So the next time that you order a pizza, ask for one with leaping dolphins.
Censorship, Medieval Style
Before the era of Big Brother, censorship was alive and well. LiveScience explained how two censors took about their work in making sure that work critical of the church by Dutch Renaissance humanist Erasmus never saw the light of day:
In contrast to the newly discovered glued-up book, another example of Erasmus' writing, held at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto, reveals a censor who took to his task with an artistic flourish.
Published in Basel, Switzerland, in 1538 this book contains essays by Erasmus introducing the writing of St. Ambrose, a fourth-century saint who was the bishop of Milan.
"It is one of the most exquisitely beautiful examples of censorship, with the offending passages obliterated using vibrant watercolors framed in baroque scroll frames with attending putti (an image of a male child)," Carefoote writes in his 2007 book. While the censor blanked out the prefaces by Erasmus he left the saint’s work alone. It's not known what Erasmus said that got him censored.It's also not known why the censor, probably a librarian, approached his job with such artistry.
Space Age Style Handgun
It was 1955 and the Space Age was about to launch. It would impact popular culture, art, architecture and design. And yes, even guns. That year, Robert Hillberg designed the Whitney Wolverine, a nickel-plated aluminum semi-automatic pistol that sported the flowing lines and curves of that era. It looks like a raygun, but instead fires .22 LR rounds.
Video Link -via Weer’d World
If Star Wars Had Cell Phones
Sending a secret holographic message with an astromech droid? That's so outdated!
Brian Gordon illustrates how Star Wars would've looked like had they employed today's mobile technology in this cute Chuck and Beans webcomic: Link - via Nerd Approved
Waking A Kid Up with Nirvana
Now this is the way to wake up a sleeping kid! Photographer Esteban Reyes and his sister woke up their 3-year-old brother with a little Nirvana:
The last time we woke him up in the car, he got so grumpy and cranky. And since he loves this kind of music we just had to try a new method. I think there are parents that can recognize this scene.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Laughing Squid
Type City
In Type City, artist Hong Seon Jang created a cityscape using metal type sorts of letterpress printing. Check out his work at David B. Smith gallery: Link - via Colossal
Previously on Neatorama: more fantastic Cityscape art
The Other Moore’s Laws
Surely you've heard of Moore's Law, the rule of thumb by David House who stated that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.
But what about laws by the other Moores? Ross "Rosscott" Nover of System Comics obliges: Link - via I Love Charts
Meet the New Hip Car: The Crown Vic
Photo: davidsonscott15/Flickr
Ah, the Crown Vic. It's synonymous with the police car, grandpa's car .. and now, just as Ford has stopped production, the Crown Victoria is becoming a very hip car. Gale Holland of the Los Angeles Times explains:
Like a cockroach, however, the Crown Vic is resilient. It's already begun quietly colonizing civilian car culture, notably in Los Angeles County, where the number now in private hands — 38,000 — is second only to that in metropolitan New York, according to auto information company Edmunds.com.
This is confounding on multiple counts. The Crown Vic, the last of the roomy, rear-drive American sedans, is the ultimate grandma and grandpa car. Like the trucker cap before it, is irony its appeal?
The Crown Vic is dead. Long live the Crown Vic.
Perhaps the mystique of the Crown Vic can be summed up in this comment by a car forum commenter: "It just ... tickles me that there's a group about an ex-police vehicle modified for almost the exact opposite type of drivers and purposes."
The Graduation Marriage Proposal
Most graduates go up to the podium to get their diplomas, but Sarah Cooper got something a bit more exciting: a surprise marriage proposal!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Campus Overload and Mashable
The Story of Send
The beauty of email is that seconds after you hit "Send," it magically appears on the recipient's inbox. But what happens in between?
Google has created The Story of Send, which illustrates the journey made by the bits of Gmail data as it zips across "the pipes" of the Internet: Link - via The Verge
You’ve Never Heard A Music Box Like This
The Music Box is a project in New Orleans that consists of nine shacks made of reclaimed building materials. But they’re constructed to create sounds, which the group of artists, musicians, and engineers who made them call “musical architecture.”
The new instruments inside are Rube Goldberg contraptions that bring to mind the ingenuity of Southern jug bands. There’s a twisting staircase that pumps out tones from organ parts retrieved from a church flooded during Hurricane Katrina; a giant stand-up bass with a weed-whacker line for a string and a bathtub for a resonator; a tall, weather-vane–like structure hooked up to an analog synthesizer. “It reacts to rain, sunlight and wind velocity and uses those variables to modulate an ever-present, droning E major chord,” explains its inventor, Quintron, a New Orleans musician who conducts Music Box performances. The concerts attract hundreds who wait in line for a chance to sit in a small set of bleachers.
Read more about The Music Box at Smithsonian. Link -Thanks, Perrin!
Union Jack Bulldog Screen Wipe
Union Jack Bulldog Screen Wipe – $9.95
Are you counting down the days to the summer Olympics? Make sure your screen is ready for viewing every magical moment with the festive Union Jack Bulldog Screen Wipe from the NeatoShop. This adorable screen cleaner has a soft chamois tummy and is perfect for cleaning and reducing static on monitors, laptops, and LCD screens.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Office & Desk items.
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The Beatles have been walking across that street for forty years now, and they still haven’t reached the other side! -via Arbroath
Who Said It: Jose Canseco or Gertrude Stein?
You might think you could easily distinguish the pithy wisdom of a baseball player from that of a feminist literary figure. Or can you? You’ll be given a quote, and you decide whether it came from Jose Canseco or Gertrude Stein. That’s the challenge of today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. What’s really confusing is how nonsensical the quotes are! In the end, I only scored 56%, which is what you’d expect from not knowing any of the answers. I hope you do better! Link
Cool Post
Isn’t this a cool post? Redditor RalphiesBoogers showed his coolest post ever. Then joekewle responded with a confused post. This post is so cool, it’s chillin’! Link
Meanwhile, in Russia
In Russia, even the dogs stop and and gather to sing when they hear the national anthem! However, as a commenter said elsewhere, their accents are so thick I can’t make out the lyrics. -via I Am Bored
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