Look at this photograph. Now get ready to laugh. This delectable treat has a Facebook page that is trying to get more fans than the band Nickelback. Currently the group has 1,392,481 fans, and the dill has 400,000, but steadily rising. The creator of the page says:
Yes, this page was inspired by “Can this onion ring get more fans than Justin Bieber?” before anyone tells me that I copied the guy who made that. I know I have but I thought his idea was so hilarious that I just had to do something in its likeness. So I was inspired, more or less!
And there’s already another pickle trying to out-fan The Jonas Brothers. Sounds kosher to me.
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Remember the I Love xkcd animated music video (inspired by the Discovery Channel promo I Love the World, drawn by animator Noam Raby and sung by Olga Nunes) posted previously on Neatorama?
Well, Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle have teamed up to create the real life version of the song, titled We Love xkcd featuring the who’s who of the web, including Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, Phil Plait … and perhaps the most famous, our very own Miss Cellania!
Boomdeyada indeed! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Boing Boing
Previously on Neatorama: I Love the World – Video Game Edition
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I love these kinds of interactive generators, and this one’s pretty cool. For the above panel, fill in what you’d like each word balloon to say. Link via Buzzfeed (where there’s a bunch of funny examples).
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Eugene Hsu, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT, is looking for a job. So to impress prospective employers, he made his curriculum vitae with Microsoft Paint. Hsu also talks about his friend’s overly-affectionate dog, his love for all drinks that are orange (except for carrot juice) and that he is a robot from the 2478 sent back in time to kill you. It’s a trippy and fanciful work of job-hunting throughout.
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This week’s developments in technological advances, like General Motors and NASA’s Robonaut2 (cleverly and deviously nicknamed R2), and Google’s decision to team up with the NSA got GeekDad’s Curtis Silver wondering about truth mirroring the best of science fiction- and its predictions of an eventual machine takeover that will plunge humanity into mass enslavement.
While I was writing this I read an article about how Google has teamed with the NSA in order to help tighten up Google’s infrastructure when it comes to cyber-security. The layman would view that partnership as a natural evolutionary response to fight off the ever increasing cyber-attacks on companies such as Google. The slightly paranoid individual might view that as a sure sign big brother is looking over your shoulder. The slightly paranoid geeky individual simply views that as Skynet in the making.
Curtis cites the sci-fi classics Hyperion by Dan Simmons, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, and The Ship Who Sang by Anne McAffrey as prime examples “to uncover what other possible technological threats we might face in the future.” Read the article, and tell us what other stories might become reality soon.
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Forget the Neatorama redesign – that was nothing compared to this beauty.
Yes, you’ve found it at last … Behold, the world’s most beautiful website. No, it’s not a joke – it’s the website of an actual store called Yvette’s in Panama City, Florida.
Link (For the full effect, you should turn up your computer’s speaker.)
Now wasn’t that awesome? Why, you’re welcome.
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SuperSeventies has a nice index of the top ten songs of each year in the decade I discovered music. That was mostly via radio, and that decade saw quite a shift in popular styles, as you can see at the link. Each song is linked to an informative bio, with links to other information.
I was surprised to learn that John Denver’s hit “Sunshine on My Shoulders” was conceived for a made-for-TV movie.
The feature was called Sunshine, and was a character study based on a real-life journal excerpted in the Los Angeles Times. It told the story of a terminal cancer case: a nonestablishment couple and the doctor who tried to save the young woman. CBS drew high ratings when they aired the film on November 9, 1973.
The soundtrack version was re-recorded in time for Denver’s greatest hits album, and became his first number one hit. For my money, his best song will always be “Rocky Mountain High.”
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Three years ago, Neatoramanaut Chris Garvey drew a punny doodle on a piece of sticky note and posted it on a co-worker’s desk to cheer her up. He continued to draw one note a day and today has a collection of over 1,000 drawings.
Take a look at the cartoons – some are cute, some are crude, but even the groaners are quite funny – over at Chris’ blog Sticky Moments.
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Each post in this blog pairs a screenshot from a TV show with a literary quote. The pairings are astonishingly apt, at least for the shows I recognize, and there are a lot of them to go through. Link -via Metafilter
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Take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. We can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However, their age, educational background and level of income may influence how much time they spend online. Pictured is a small part of the much larger infographic.
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The 2009 Ricky Gervais movie The Invention of Lying imagined a world in which everyone always told the truth and lying (for good or ill) had never existed. Jon Wolf of College Humor has created a series of graphics illustrating an Internet in which everyone always told the truth, including the hot girl on Facebook who you’ve never seen before, but wants to be your friend.
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I collect links to bizarre niche blogs. This one takes the cake for sheer randomness. Selleck Waterfall Sandwich delivers exactly what it says -a collection of images all combining actor Tom Selleck and a sandwich on a background featuring a waterfall. The site even has a theme song, if you can call it a song. The picture here stars a Spam sandwich. Link -via mental_floss
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This is just one of 5 Science Fair Projects for the Internet, brought to you by College Humor. Other subjects are Facebook, Google search, comment thread eruptions, and how to build a great website. Link -via Digg
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Photo: Sam Javanrouh
Sam Javanrouh’s blog, Daily Dose of Imagery, features his photography, one image per day. Today he posted many great photos he’s taken which all fall under one tricky umbrella of shooting – people on the street. People can be unpredictable when it comes to being photographed; Sam tells of friends who have had gear broken and suffered injuries at the hands of their subjects. But on the flip side, being a great photographer is often about seizing the moment and forgoing polite introductions. Sam on the photo above:
When I took this I was almost certain that I didn’t even have a sharp photo. But when i saw it later I liked it. So no way to ask her now. I won’t be selling this image for stock use. And if she ever contacts me and tells me she’s unhappy about it I’ll take it off the site. Street photography is all about the fractions of a second. You have to take the shot when you think you have it (to be precise, you take the shot just before the moment. Good photographers can see the future.
And on this one, he remarks, “I still have a hard time sleeping at night, thinking what will happen to me if I’ve seriously pissed off the dark knight.”
Photo: Sam Javanrouh
Link, and… as Sam says, Happy Shooting!
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While it isn’t exactly new, security experts issued a warning over the rise of "ransomware" – a type of computer malware that hijacks your computer and and won’t let you use it unless you cough up the dough:
Turning hijacked computers into cash is still hard work for most computer criminals. They’ve got to trick the infected PC into sending spam, then trick a recipient into buying a useless product — or they have to steal online banking passwords, log onto a victim’s account, bypass the bank’s money transfer fraud controls, and so on.
It’s much easier to just demand cash directly from infected users — a crime that’s the Internet’s equivalent of kidnapping.
"Give me all your money or your computer gets it-" is the basic proposition. [...]
Luis Corrons Granel, a researcher at Panda Security, said use of ransomware by criminals is exploding — 25 percent of all rogueware in the past quarter involved a family of intimidating products named "TotalAntivirus.” It demands that users pay $50 for two years, $79 for a lifetime license. [...]
To an average user, most rogueware would be indistinguishable from other standard antivirus products. They look like fully functional software, showing Windows-like screens for firewall settings, file scanning, and every other tab you’d expect from standard antivirus products. “Total Security” even lets users choose their language — English, Spanish, and German are offered.
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Ten Word Wiki describes itself as “an encyclopedia for the ADD generation.” The site is like Wikipedia, but all entries are limited to ten words. Since there aren’t that many entries yet, you may want to browse the “recent changes” tab. Here is the entry for “pie”.
A savoury or sweet gloop, usually lumpy, encased in pastry.
And for “Lance Armstrong”.
Inspirational unibollocked cycling legend. Singlehandedly invented the rubber wristband industry.
Humor is encouraged, so browse at your own risk. Link -via b3ta
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Cartoonist Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal describes nine people that are unfortunately on Facebook. He’s been on a roll lately, adding new content to his archive of cartoons about every four days.
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The Dolphin Research Center in Marathon, Florida is where people can swim with the well cared-for marine mammals, but it’s much more than that. It’s a rescue operation for not only dolphins, but sea turtles, manatees and other Florida Keys species. When the dolphins aren’t busy with that, or doing their research, they maintain an informative blog, where they post videos of themselves like this one. Amazingly smart creatures.
Seriously though, the DRC is top tier when it comes to places like this. Here’s a snip from Hannah’s five star review on Yelp:
After an afternoon at this terrific research center, I learned more about dolphins than I ever thought I’d know. We came here as a group, with the BF and his parents. For $20 a person, you get admission, which allows you to walk through the center and watch the public shows. The place is very low key – it’s obvious that all their money goes towards taking care of the dolphins,and not on frills.
Link (Photo: DRC)
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Our pals Jason Menayan of HubPages and Kevin Lee have created what is probably the perfect antithesis to Twitter. Their new website, Dyalogues, aims to facilitate meaningful back-and-forth discussions between two (and only two) people.
Jason explains:
Dyalogues are online conversations between exactly two people. It’s like blogging and tweeting back and forth with another person, about a topic that you want to discuss with each other and share with the world. Dyaloguers can debate politics, review a movie together, or even interview each other. The best part is that you have total control over the pace and whom you dyalogue with.
It’s an interesting concept that’s actually a lot easier to show than to explain (Dyalogues’ "about us" page illustrates the concept perfectly). So far, there have been almost 300 "dyalogues" completed during their beta period, with topics ranging from Does Rush Limbaugh deserve the flack he gets? to Jersey Shore: Inspirational or Trash?
To kick start the website, Jason and Kevin have created a contest, called Dyalogues Around The World, with the Grand Prize of $500 and 5 Runner Up Prizes of $100 each. All you have to do is have a dyalogue with someone in the month of February 
(Disclosure: Yes, Neatorama is listed as a sponsor but there’s no financial compensation involved here, folks – we agreed to spread the word about Dyalogues in exchange with them putting our logo on the contest webpage.)
Now, who wants to have a dyalogue with me?
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A couple of weeks ago, PostRank revealed their Top Blogs of 2009.
The ranks are based on what the company called "engagements" – basically how people interact with a particular blog post. Posting a comment, making a tweet, or voting one digg count as an engagement event. PostRank aims to analyze these engagements throughout social media – kind of like what Technorati has been doing in the blogosphere.
I’m tickled to find out that Neatorama won in the field of Oddities! But that aside, the entire list provides quite a good starting point in discovering blogs in many different niches: Link – via Lijit
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The Geekologie writer suggests that this mysterious object in the sky of a Google Street View image is the hole from which the “Four Unicornmen of the Apocalypse” will emerge. It’s from outside of Porto, a city in northern Portugal town in western Spain.
What do you think that it is?
Link via Geekologie
UPDATE: There is a city in northern Portugal called Porto and a town in western Spain called Porto. Which one is it? A ferocious debate rages in the comments.
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Stonehenge and other historic monuments in the UK are now available on Google Street View as a result of a joint venture between Google and the National Trust:
The pictures were taken late last summer using the ‘Google trike’ – a three wheeled bike with a Street View camera mounted on it, suited to collecting images in places not easily accessible by car.
Other locations include Stonehenge in Wiltshire, Lindisfarne Castle in Northumberland, Lyme Park in Cheshire and Ham House just outside Richmond-upon-Thames near London.
Link via J-Walk Blog
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I can’t get enough of the video series at Big Think featuring Dr. Spencer Wells and his Genographic Project. Here’s a guy who I’d pick to be my professor of anthropology, molecular science, ancient history, and other topics that could use clear yet exciting delivery.
Wells’s own journey of discovery began as a child whose zeal for history and biology led him to the University of Texas, where he enrolled at age 16, majored in biology, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa three years later. He then pursued his Ph.D. at Harvard University under the tutelage of distinguished evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin. His landmark research findings led to advances in the understanding of the male Y chromosome and its ability to trace ancestral human migration.
All of the topics are intriguing and made more accessible through Wells’ evident passion for the subject matters. Here he talks about how the human population went from the brink of extinction (world poulation: 2,000, all in Africa) to migration and adaptation with development of better tools, art, and language.
Link to video. Link to bio and video directory.
Photo: Wikipedia
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Man Eggs is a subversive humor type comic along the same lines as The Perry Bible Fellowship. Pop culture skewed for your daily humor serving.
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Nothing can escape the prying eyes of Google Street View, including Waldo from the Where’s Waldo? book series. He was seen at 76 Putney High St, Wandsworth, UK by a Google Street View camera car.
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Cracked has composed a list of eleven argument defenses you might encounter on all kinds of forums. I believe I’ve seen every one of these in action. Link -via Digg
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Everything Is Terrible! specializes in videos from the wayback, where cats get massaged, and strange hippies teach kids yoga. EIT prides itself on putting out these rare finds, and they are never culled from other video sites, but many are submitted via snail mail from people that just happen to have them in their old video racks.
Now, for reasons only known to the EIT team, they are asking for your old VHS copies of the movie, Jerry Maguire.
There is one tape (or the One Tape) that we want every copy of and that magical tape is Jerry Maguire. Here at EIT, we have a special history with Jerry Maguire. For over a year, we’ve been chronicling wild packs of Maguires in their native thrift store habitat with our patented Maguirewatches, and during that time, we decided to start aJerry Maguire sanctuary to preserve these great artifacts. Our goal is to have the largest private collection of Jerry Maguire VHS tapes in the history of mankind and we need your help. If you or somebody you know has a VHS copy of Jerry Maguire that needs a loving home, please donate it to us at:
Everything is Terrible!
P.O. Box 47924
Chicago, IL 60647 USA
I haven’t a clue as to where they’re going with this, but I like it.
Link (Photo: Flickr user ifish99’s Everything Is Terrible set)
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YouTube user jeremiahjw has some compelling slow motion videos of stuff blowing up. Not buildings or robots, although he does compare himself to Michael Bay. The focus of his spendid ’splosions is small stuff like the toy cars above, a variety of outdated gadgets, and most eloquently, Mr. Potato Head. All set to wonderful, happy music.
About the embedded video:
The cars I used were “off brand” cars and Matchbox. The yellow truck was a Hotwheels, the only one to survive un-damaged. Filmed on the Casio EX-F1 at 600fps. One shot is at 1,200fps near the end.
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You might have noticed that Neatorama went away for a while today and came back minus a few posts. The site suffered a system crash, at the worst possible time -when Alex is out of town and has no computer access. Luckily, our talented staff of tech wizards were able to restore the site using a slightly older saved version, which did not include most of today’s posts. We will try to get those reposted as soon as possible. Let your friends and neighbors know that Neatorama is back online!
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Artist Rob Vargas created this graphic using data from a study by the University of California at San Diego. Americans consume 3.6 zettabytes a day. A zettabyte is one billion trillion bytes. That’s a lot of LOLcats!
Link via Fast Company | Artist’s Website
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