I wrote a post on pregnancy cravings on mental_floss today – I’m not preggo, but one of my good friends is – and a commenter said that one of his friends runs a cupcake blog and recently announced her pregnancy via the blog. How? With a recipe and taste test of pickle and ice cream cupcakes, of course! I don’t know if they are any good (she says they’re not bad), but they’re adorable, and I think the concept of the announcement is pretty cute.
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Hello, everyone! I’d like to let you know that we have a few new ambigram T-shirts on the Neatorama Online Store. Usually ambigrams are rotationally symmetric – but these ones are reflectionally special – they spell a different message when seen on the mirror! These ambigrams were designed by ambigram artists extraordinaire Naguib and Fadilah of Nagfa blog.
This one above, modeled by the lovely Barbara, is the Clever/Stupid Ambigram – an updated take on the classic "I’m with Stupid" T-shirt.
Take a look at the rest of the designs: Link
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Just one more from the Neatorama Online Store for today, I promise! Here’s an ice tray for your next cocktail party: the Gin & Titonic ice tray (get it?), which makes ice shaped like ocean liners and icebergs.
The clever ice tray is designed by Jason Amendolara of Amendolara Design for Fred & Friends.
If you like that, you’ll love the Frozen Smiles Ice Tray, Fossiliced Dinosaur Ice Tray, and the Crime Scene Scarf
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In the Netherlands, there are not many natural places to practice the sport of rock-climbing. But oddly enough, the University of Enschede in the east of the Netherlands has a very active mountaineering club.
So the architects of the new university dormitory chose to make one side of the building into a huge climbing wall, 30 meters (about 9 stories) tall, with 2,500 grips.
photo by Jeroen Musch, via Arons & Gelauff Architects
“As a climber in the Netherlands, one anyway has to resort to artificially created training spots, so why not combine architecture and climbing wall?”
–Arons & Gelauff Architects
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For independent farmers in Poland in the 1960s, it was nearly impossible to acquire a tractor. Any agricultural machines made in Poland during this period went to state-owned farms, and were too expensive for a private farmer to purchase. Plus, they weren’t tough enough for mountain farms.
So enterprising farmers built their own tractors, using decommissioned army vehicles, pre-WWII German machines, and anything else they could find.
Photographer Lukasz Skapski traveled throughout the Polish countryside to document these homemade tractors, and found vehicles that could climb very steep roads, go faster than allowed, and were still trucking after 40 years.
Photo by Lukasz Skapski, courtesy Zak Gallery
Link – via darkroastedblend
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Many years ago, monsters walked among us. Don’t believe us? Here are the some photographic proofs from Flickr user Relleno De Mono.
These are absolutely gorgeous renderings …
Link – via woostercollective
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Dan Meth ranked some popular trilogy based movies based on enjoyment. His rankings seem fairly accurate. Do you agree?
I know other movie geeks are going to have disagreements and that’s fine. And yes, I know some of these movies went more than 3 sequels, but none were ever meant to.
These are rated purely on my enjoyment level on each film and nothing else. Frankly I’m surprised by how many sequels were better than the original. And I’m not surprised that the 3rd movie is never the best.
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KK Projects re-imagines buildings in New Orleans that were ravaged by Katrina and turns them into site-specific works of art.
"This video tours several of the sites and checks in with founder Kirsha Kaechele to learn about her experiences integrating art into one of the toughest ghettos of the city and what it’s like to actually live in a gallery."
– via coolhunting
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I posted this resume in my blog almost 2 years ago and suddenly is getting a lot of hits. I guess that with unemployment raising people are looking for good examples of resumes… and once you read this one, you can’t help but pass it on!
This is definitely a great example of how to do the best with the worst. The guy making the job search spent his last 10 years in jail for trafficking marijuana but he didn’t let that small detail stop him and he managed to make you see his past under a new light.
Some highlights of the resume are:
"… I co-owned and participate in the executive level management of 120 people worldwide in a successfull pot smuggling venture with revenues in excess of 100 million annualy..."; "I am well-traveled and I speak English, French and Spanish"; "References available from friends, family, US District Attorney, etc".
Seriously, his resume (published as an ad under "employment wanted" in Canada) is priceless and a great example of how you can come clean and even make something of it!
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It's
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- but the wait's worth it, because Tokyoflash
has just released a number of really cool watches.
For those of you who haven't played before, the game is an online treasure hunt where you can win a free Tokyoflash watch of your choice.
The rules are simple: we'll give you 3 questions, for example:
1. What color is the "O" pebble in the Neatorama logo?
2. How many posts are on Neatorama’s homepage? (in numbers)
3. What’s the first insulting word in Neatorama’s article 10 Insulting Words You Should Know?
The answers (black, 30, frenchify) separated with dashes make a URL on Neatorama: http://www.neatorama.com/black-30-frenchify (go ahead, copy and paste this URL in your browser's address bar)
Got that? Easy, right? So let's get started! Here are the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #8 questions:
Visit Tokyoflash, and Neatorama's Online Shop and Upcoming Queue to find the answers, then string 'em together to make the URL (all words are lower case, separated by dash). Follow the instruction you'll find there.
Hurry (this contest will end tomorrow - remember to check back to find if you've won) and good luck!
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No doubt about it -these are horror stories. There’s the 13-inch metal tool left in a patient’s body, the women who underwent heart surgery scheduled for a different patient, and several cases of surgery on the wrong side of the body. Pictured is Jésica Santillán, who died after a heart transplant from a donor with an incompatible blood type.
The error sent the patient into a comalike state, and she died shortly after an attempt to switch the organs back out for compatible ones failed. The hospital blamed human error for the death, along with a lack of safeguards to ensure a compatible transplant.
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Baron Karl Christian Ludwig von Drais de Sauerbrun of Germany patented a two-wheeled foot-driven vehicle on February 17th, 1818. It had no pedals, gears, or brakes. His invention was inspired by the shortage of horses, but didn’t catch on for public transportation during his lifetime.
The two-wheelers really needed paved or at least smooth surfaces, of which there weren’t many. It was also way too easy to fall off the contraption, and people’s leather shoes were nowhere near as durable as a horse’s iron shoes. What’s more, the Laufmaschine also faced competition from another new invention: the railroads.
So, the utilitarian-inspired mechanical horse instead became a fancy toy for aristocrats and the rising bourgeoisie. The French called it a draisine, the English a hobby horse. The devices were often graced with equine figureheads, or even carved dragons and elephants.
Later innovators built on Von Drais’ “running machine” over time to make the bicycle what it is today. Read the whole story at Wired. Link
(image credit: Flickr user Mark Stosberg)
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“Designed for the Hudson Yard area of Manhattan, Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm aims to provide New York with a sustainable food source while creating a dynamic social space that integrates producers with consumers. Based upon the ‘material logic of plant mechanics’, the biomorphic skyscraper is modeled after the plant cells of ferns and provides space for farms, residential areas, and markets. These organic structures will harness systems such as airoponic watering, nutrient technology and controlled lighting and CO2 levels to meet the food demands of future populations.”
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