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A great way to kill yourself while dining, these early eighteenth-century pistols are built into eating utensils, with the barrel facing the user.
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My Documents is a hilarious comedy sketch by Major: Undecided of Tufts University. Sort of like "Who’s on First?" meets The Office. Starring Prescott Gadd and Dan Clionsky, written by Prestcott Gadd and Brett Weiner.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks John!
That’s an art installation, titled Dispersed Arguments, by Matt Pych. He used birdseeds to spell out common arguments. I guess it’s sort of a public intervention on an arguing couple, saying that arguments are for the birds anyhow!
This was part of the Dumbo Arts Center’s Art Under the Bridge Festival: Link to the pic above | Gallery – via scoboco
That’s The Swastikas, a Canadian girls’ hockey team from Edmonton circa 1916. Before it became associated with the Nazis, swastikas had been used for hundreds of years as a symbol of good luck and prosperity:
For many millenia, before it was appropriated by the Nazis, the swastika was a symbol of good luck and prosperity. Almost every race, religion and continent honored the swastika — a perfect example of the universal spread of a symbol thru the collective unconscious used by American Indians, Hindus, Buddhists, Vikings, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Mayans, Aztecs, Persians, Christians, and neolithic tribes. There are even Jewish swastikas found in ancient synagogues side-by-side with the star of David!
The swastika was associated with the hammer of Thor which returned to him like a boomerang, the footprints of Buddha, the emblem of Shiva, Apollo, Jupiter, and even Jesus Christ! The swastika was the first Christian symbol and is found in the catacombs in Rome. Hindus and Buddhists to this day still revere the swastika as their sacred sign. Jains make the sign of the swastika similar to the Christian sign of the cross.
In the early part of the twentieth century Rudyard Kipling used the swastika as his coat-of-arms, Coca Cola made a swastika-shaped lucky watch fob,American pilots used it on their planes when they fought for the French in World War One, it was the symbol for the Ladies Home Journal sponsored Girls’ Club and the Boy Scouts. A town in Ontario was named Swastika in 1911 because of a lucky gold strike.
Gentle Swastika at ManWoman.net has a large collection of such swastikas: Link
Previously on Neatorama: "I am Not a Nazi" Swastika | Swastika Town Refused to Change Name
Is that Einstein or Harry Potter? It depends on how far you’re standing from the image! Jeremiah Owyang of Web Strategy blog saw this hybrid image optical illusion at the MIT museum in Cambridge:
… at first I didn’t understand how it worked. Later as I walked to the end of the room, I saw that someone had switched the drawings!
As I walked closer, they magically reverted back to Albert Einstein.
Link (See for yourself: small version of the pic, large version) – via Blog Hogwarts, Thanks Alejandro Martinez!
See also: Dr. Angry and Mr. Smiles
Wally Wallington is a retired carpenter who has discovered a way to lift Stongehenge-sized pillars weighing 22,000 lbs by himself using nothing more than wooden contraptions and gravity.
Link [embedded YouTube] | Wally’s website
Neatorama reader Eugene Chekanov sent us this amazing photo of an "ice cave," basically the inside of an ice pressure ridge:
Pressure ridge is basically a zone where ice either collides or retreats. In my case, it was collision of two ice masses – one is being pushed from the river and the other being pushed in the opposite direction from the lake. When these two ice masses collided they pushed each other up, therefore, creating a dome, about 1.5 m high. The most striking thing is that – being close to the shore, still in the beginning of solidifying – the ice froze between the rocks. Once it started to lift it took all the rocks with it creating the ice cave with the walls that have the rocks embedded in them!
This particular ice cave is big enough to fit people!
British designer Jake Phipps turned top and bowler hats into lamps!
Pendant lights suitable for any aspiring gentleman or conscientious manservant where class and sophistication are the essential components to illumination. Jeeves’s bowler hat is lined with a refined gold interior, whilst Wooster’s top hat has a more distinguished silver lining. Both exude that quintessential British combination of regimented style and eccentricity.
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These are fruit bowls, as envisioned by Belgian artist Helena Schepens – I suppose you’ll have fun rolling ‘em around after you’re done eating the bananas and apples!
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