Weird German-Language 1958 Science Fiction Musical

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Mir Ist so Langweilig, which Google Translate renders as I’m so Bored, has potential, unless you prefer your science fiction hard boiled. Battlestar Galactica it is not. What do you think is happening in the story?

-via blastr

Pizza Box with Built-in Paper Plates

Yu Kyung Ha, Won Min Jung and Kwon Young Hee won a Red Dot design award for this simple and clever pizza box insert. It breaks into single-slice pizza plates with overhanging sides to make it easier to grip the crust.

Link -via Gizmodo

LED Snowboarding

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After a busy day, there’s something very soothing and calming about Jacob Sutton’s video. The snowboarder, covered with lights, glides through the darkness. The frost parts before him without resistance, as though he was born for this movement.

Link (warning: auto-sound) -via Colossal | Sutton’s Website

The Coffee Cycle

Here at Neatorama we promote scientific literacy, not only because we need it to make informed decisions, but also because it opens our minds to the wonders of the natural world. This is the Coffee Cycle, one of the great driving forces of life on Earth. Follow this substance as it moves through the Earth, the air and you.

Link -via That’s Nerdalicious! | Image: Grant Snider

Picture of a Google Street View Car Taking a Picture of a Man Taking a Picture of a Google Street View Car

redditor kerbyderwood was bicycling near Moss Landing, California when he saw a Google Street View car. He took a picture of it just as it took a picture of him. Then the universe collapsed in on itself.

Link -via Blame It on the Voices

Dr. Zaius Performing Mark Twain

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Actor/comedian/statesman John Hodgman searched the Internet to find a video of Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes impersonating Mark Twain. He was rightfully appalled to find that no such video yet existed.

Hodgman held us, the people of the Internet, responsible for this grievous omission. But in his mercy, he has forgiven us and brought the video into being. Let us be thankful for Hodgman’s work, and that of Dana Gould who girded the armor of Zaius in this video.

-via Nerd Bastards

Rainbow Sunglasses

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What’s more awesome than a seeing a double rainbow? Seeing a double rainbow while wearing a pair of Rainbow Sunglasses from the NeatoShop! Don’t be surprised if people actually weep at the beauty of seeing you and a double rainbow. It could be intense. OMG! OMG! OMG!

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Man Buys Old Safe for $122.93 on eBay, Finds $26,000 Inside

James Labrecque of California had an old safe, but no combination for it. He thought that it was empty, so he decided to sell it on eBay for scrap. A man in Bartlett, Tennessee bought it and took it to a welder. Inside the safe was $26,000 in cash:

The buyer did, however, give Labrecque a positive review on eBay.

Link -via The Agitator | Image: WMCTV

Brand Reversions by Graham Smith

Wait. There's something fishy goin' on with these brands, as visualized by logo designer Graham Smith in his series "Brand Reversions" but I just can't put my finger on it ... Link - via Inspiration Feed

Why Don’t Americans Elect Scientists?

John Allen Paulos of The New York Times' opinion column Campaign Stops ponders noted that amongst the 435 members of the House of Representatives, there are only one physicist, one chemist, one microbiologists, six engineers.

Why, he wonders, aren't there more scientists in the world of politics:

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I have a different opinion: Perhaps scientists are too smart to engage in politics. What do you think?

Simphabet: The Simpsons Alphabet

Love The Simpsons? Check out the Simphabets, created by Fabian Gonzalez (who we have featured previously on Neatorama a number of times): Link

Now can someone list the entire characters featured? I'm bewildered about that "T" and "X"

Switzerland to Build Janitor Satellites to Clean Up Space Junk

Space junk is everywhere, and it's high time that someone takes charge to clean it up. And Switzerland is that someone: the country is building CleanSpace One, the first in a family of "janitor" satellites to clean up space.

Think of it as the WALL-E of satellites (why it kind of looks like it, too): Link

Eight Giant Movie Plot Holes in Eight Images

Plot holes in otherwise enjoyable movies don’t bother most people -until they are confronted with them in large print, on an image macro. Unreality magazine points out more flaws in your favorite films that you’ll remember every time you think about those movies in the future. Link

The Matrix Chicken Farm

Love chicken (after all, they're quite yummy) but are disturbed by the cruelty in the way the farm-industrial complex raises hundreds of millions of broiler chickens every year?

Architecture student André Ford has got the solution. All you have to do is convince the chicken to take the red pill:

Olivia Solon of Wired UK has the story: Link

ABCinema

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We know you love movie quizzes, so here’s a challenging one. This animation from Evan Seitz shows you clues to 26 films, one for each letter of the alphabet, in order. They go pretty fast, so you might have to back up or watch the whole thing more than once. If you get completely stumped, the answers have been compiled at Buzzfeed. Link

The Best Science Visualizations of the Year

The International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge from Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation award honors to the best images, illustrations, videos, games, and graphs of the past year that clearly communicate scientific information. Smithsonian magazine is proud to present a gallery of the winners, with an explanation of what each represents. This illustration looks like a rendering of Cthulhu, but is actually something scarier: a breast cancer cell, as it is being attacked by the green antibodies. Link

(Image credit: Emiko Paul, Echo Medical Media)

The Most Expensive Drink at Starbucks

Talk about supersizing! Logan Warren set out to see how many add-ons he could order at Starbucks and how far he could run the bill up for one drink.

But if you order this yourself, don’t drink it all at once. It has a total of 1400 milligrams of caffeine! Link -via the Presurfer

I’ll Call You Back

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They say that a lot in movies, but they never seem to actually call back! The list of clips used in this supercut is at Slackstory. Link -via The Daily What

What Is It? game 214

Once again, it’s time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what the object in this picture is?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will each win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don’t include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

Check for more clues at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Head: The Monkees’ Strange Movie

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.

The Monkees were a Beatles-inspired TV pop group consisting of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Mike Nesmith. For two seasons (1966-1968) the band starred in a very entertaining, creative, and ground-breaking TV series, based mainly on the Beatles’ hit movie A Hard Day’s Night, and featuring the band’s zany comedy and some excellent songs.

The genesis of Head, which was to be the one and only film made by The Monkees, was a weekend in early 1968, spent in Ojai, California, in which the four Monkees, plus Bob Rafelson and then B-movie actor Jack Nicholson, turned on a tape recorder and randomly took turns verbally tossing ideas into it. These “ideas” were to become the basis and script for Head.

The ill-fated movie got off on the wrong foot from the first day of filming on February 11, 1968. A rock-bottom budget of $750,000 was scraped together to finance Head (during production, the film had the working title Changes).

The four Monkees wanted a writing credit for the ideas they’d contributed to the script, but producers Rafelson and Bert Schneider denied them their request. This caused an upset resulting in three of the four group members not showing up on the set for the first day of shooting. Only Peter Tork was present, as Davy, Micky, and Mike staged their revolt and stayed home. The three did show up the next day, but the damage was done. The “three Monkee revolt” severely damaged the working relationship (and friendship) between the group and the producers.

The semi-hostile relationship was characterized by Rafelson and Schneider playing cutting edge albums loudly on the set and saying things like “Now that’s really rock and roll!,” in order to bait the Monkees about their pop, bubblegum-style music and image.

The cast of Head was quite eclectic and included Annette Funicello (just two years from her last “beach party” film), boxer Sonny Liston, singer Frank Zappa, a young Terri Garr, Green Bay Packer linebacker Ray Nitschke, and the Radio City Rockettes, plus Mike Nesmith’s wife and Davy Jones’ wife (both in uncredited cameos). Veteran actor Victor Mature signed on, too, after reading the script, which he admittedly did not understand at all: “All I know is, it made me laugh.” Mature’s character in Head was “the Big Victor.” This was reportedly a jab at RCA Victor, the company that released the Monkees’ records and who owned and aired the TV show The Monkees. Even Jack Nicholson and friend Dennis Hopper made brief cameos. But even this mixed group of talented people could not save Head.
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Hu’s on First?

PeteyHendrix wrote an updated version of the classic comedy routine called “Who’s On First?” with a twist -now the scene contains the names of real Major League baseball players. You can look them up! Anyone familiar with the original Abbot & Costello version will find themselves reading this in their voices. Link -via Metafilter

The Real Life Lady and the Tramp

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Disney released this great real life version of the classic moment from Lady and the Tramp to celebrate the upcoming release of the film on Blu-ray. While Tramp doesn’t look quite right and the spaghetti slurping isn’t exactly the same, it’s still pretty true to the original, which is pretty impressive when it comes to directing real dogs to act like animations.

Via Laughing Squid

Jar Jar Stepped In It Big Time

Artist Binksy completely captured the entire problem with The Phantom Menace in one perfect creation.

Link Via The Daily What

This Might Be The Cutest Baby Seal On Earth

Don’t miss the chance to head over to Cute Overload where you can check out an incredible close up, showing his precious heart-shaped nose.

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How to Make Your Own Astronaut Ice Cream

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To be fair, they don’t actually eat this stuff these days, but it’s still a fun science experiment to try at home.

Via CraftZine

How to Troll Someone Else’s Computer

Maybe it’s just me, but this seems like a great prank if you’re moving offices at your job or if you’re leaving…it’s not doing any real damage, but it’s certainly leaving a mark. Of course, if they aren’t too computer savvy and don’t have an IT department, this might affect your future reference when they claim you trashed a computer before you left.

Link Via Geeks Are Sexy

A Water Bottle That Kills Bacteria On The Go

Want to make sure that you have clean drinking water at all times, without having to carry around a bunch of brand name water? Then you’ll want to get your hands on one of these ‘All Clear’ water bottles by Camelbak. Here’s how it works:

The LCD screen on the cap pretty much walks you through it. It counts down the 60 seconds it takes to purify the water and includes information about your battery life. The only thing you have to do is swish the water around while the bulb zaps your water to ensure all the water is treated and you are good to go. The UV bulb is supposed to kill the bulk of all bacteria, viruses and protozoa — in fact all but .01 percent of each type of intestinal nightmare per 25 ounces of water, according to stats released by the company.

The UV bulb is projected to last for 10,000 cycles that should clean approximately 101 ounces of water a day for seven years. Plus, the battery is rechargeable.

This bottle is a must have for the adventurer who doesn’t want to get caught with their pants down, or anyone who wants to make sure their water isn’t full of nasty little critters.

–via Geekologie

Torn Photograph Collages Show Life In New York

Several photos torn into strips then put back together-that’s the basic concept behind this photography series by John Clang, but the end result is so much more than just a bunch of torn pictures.

These are snapshots of life in New York taken at all the prime spots, like the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Times Square and Wall Street, and they reveal how the lives of people from all walks of life intersect in the same place on a daily basis.

Here’s what John has to say about this series-

Working on this series, I explore how time moves in this seemingly static urban space. The people become the moving energy flowing through this space, marking the changes, forming the time.

These images also explore my fascination that there are probably many time dimensions in this universe. We may have a ‘life’ that exists similarly on a different path, one minute before or after the one we’re living now. We merely just exist in this current dimension, and sometimes when time paths collide, we have déjà vu experience.

This series brings new meaning to the phrase “a slice of life”, except there’s nothing mundane about the way John Clang has chosen to present the lives of these New Yorkers.

Link  –via AnimalNY

Oh, Internet-A Love Song

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You may recognize the star of this video from her other web series My Drunk Kitchen, but this time around Hannah Hart has put down the bottle and picked up a microphone to tell the world just how much she loves the internet.

Oh, Internet-A love song began as a song against SOPA but became so much more, and now Hannah has a new career option to fall back on, since becoming a chef clearly isn’t an option.

–via Geeks Are Sexy

 

 

Pizza with a Hot Dog Crust

It’s a time and labor-intensive recipe — which almost belies the purpose of both hot dogs and pizzas — but it’ll be worth it. Great deeds require great efforts.

Link -via That’s Nerdalicious!

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