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Safety Graphic Fun
I am so obsessed with safety graphics–those little pictographs showing, quite graphically, what will happen to you and your body part if you get too close, operate machinery incorrectly or stand in the wrong place at the wrong time–that I had to start a blog to share them all.
Safety Graphics appear where you might expect them to: on a wood chipper or a cement truck. They also appear where you least expect them: on coffee makers and washing machines.
Look for the warning signs! Crushing, burns, serious injury, electrocution and death are right around the corner at all times.
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Wi-Fi Icon Fan
Sometimes the cleverest ideas are the simplest. The creative geniuses at the French design company Atypyk came up with this fan that looks like the Wi-Fi icon.
It won’t identify Wi-Fi Hotspots for you, but it’ll help you sweaty geeks cool off during the hot summer days: Link
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Virtual Etch-a-Sketch
I was never any good at the real Etch-a-Sketch, and I’m certainly not any better at the virtual version. This picture to the left was done on a real Etch-a-Sketch (you can see more on the Ohio Art site), but maybe you’ll do just as well online. Let us know how you fare!
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Mapping your emails
Christopher Baker analyzed some 60,000 emails that he has sent and received since 1998 to reveal his social network, as represented in an interesting visual map:
Like many people, I have archived all of my email with the hope of someday revisiting my past. I am interested in revealing the innumerable relationships between me, my schoolmates, work-mates, friends and family. This could not readily be accomplished by reading each of my 60,000 emails one-by-one. Instead, I created My Map, a relational map and alternative self portrait. My Map is a piece of custom designed software capable of rendering the relationships between myself and individuals in my address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in my email archive. The intensity of the relationship is determined by the intensity of the line. My Map allows me to explore different relational groupings and periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs and flows in various relationships. In this way, My Map is a veritable self-portrait, a reflection of my associations and a way to locate myself.
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Invisibilia - When Photographs and Drawings Collide
This is a really simple idea, but the effect is really interesting. The artist has just taken pictures - some are his personal pictures and some have been found on the Internet - and replaced a real person with a drawing. He also gives a tutorial on how to create your own, if you’re interested.
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Keeping Tabs On The President
Whether you love Obama or hate him, you’ll be happy to know there is now a tool to track how he has lived up to his campaign promises.
The Obameter has a compiled list of about 500 promises he made during the election run and it records if he: kept the promise, compromised, broke the promise, stalled the promise, is in the works on the issue or has not taken action on the promise. So far he’s stalled one, compromised on one and kept five, but it will be nice to see how he does in the long run.
I wish we had these for every president. I’d love to know how Kennedy, Lincoln or Andrew Jackson did on their promises.
Link Via Good Magazine
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When Jungles Attack
Any Lost fans out there? (Maybe we should start a Lost thread in the forums.) This picture reminds me of Eko’s brother’s plane. Anyway, this gallery is full of cool pictures of Mother Nature taking (back) over. Most are jungle pictures, but there are a couple of others as well - the one of kudzu completely devouring a house in Georgia is interesting.
See all 20 of them at Environmental Graffiti.
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How iPhone App Icons Are Designed
Designing those little icons is tougher than you might think. Check out how designer Felix Sockwell went through the creative process (and the review process, of course) to come up with the icons for the New York Times app.
Link via Boing Boing
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Public Domain Images and Vintage Art at Grandma’s Graphics
Grandma’s Graphics has a neat collection of vintage art and public domain images perfect for that children’s book you’ve always wanted to write.
From Harry Clarke to 1890’s storybooks, if you’re looking for unique images or clipart for use on your web pages or in other design or craft projects you’ve come to the right place. There’s a treasury here at Grandma’s Graphics that you probably won’t find anywhere else online. Some of these graphics are quite large and take time to load, but be patient, they’re worth the wait.
Link - via boingboing
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Famous Works of Art, Simpsons-Style
What would Edvard Munch’s "The Scream" look like if Matt Groening painted it? Or how about Van Gogh’s self-portrait? Or Vermeer’s "Girl With a Pearl Earring"?
See what happens to great masterpieces when Simpsonized via the Phoenix image editor, a design tool made by Aviary.
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Stories Told in One Sentence
It’s amazing what you can do with one little sentence. Just a few little words can make you wonder what the heck happened, like this one:
“When I opened the door I noticed 2 things: one, someone had made cookies, and two, all the furniture was missing, in that order.”
Some are very poignant, some are hysterical, and some are just plain weird. If you submit your own, be sure to let us know!
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World Domination, Mad Libs-Style
So you’re ready to take over the world, but you’re missing a few details. Never fear, help has arrived! Just answer simple questions, such as motive (options: money, love, power, revenge, madness, sadistic pleasure, to show them all, hatred for all mankind, so another race can take over, evil - it’s my nature, and mom never loved me). A couple of clicks later, and you’ve got yourself a detailed, three-stage plan. Good luck with that, and remember that I, for one, welcome our new, Neatoramanaut Overlords.
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Dogs in Outfits
Like its name said, DogsInOutfits.com is a website about dogs wearing things nature didn’t intend them to wear. This one looks like a greyhound wearing some sort of a psychedelic pajama. One look at its face should tell you that it’s planning on how to kill its owner in her sleep for such a public humiliation. 
Somebody call PETA, stat! Link - via Rue the Day
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Movie-A-Minute
Wanna know what happens in a movie, but don’t want to take the time to watch it? Movie-A-Minute can help you. Sort of. OK, it’s really more for people who have seen the movie and want to be entertained by a brief synopsis that astutely points out its weak spots. For example, You’ve Got Mail:
(Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in LOVE, and it is HEARTWARMING.)
America Online:
Please note how our program was used in this movie.
THE END
Their list of movies isn’t extensive, but the ones they’ve skewered are pretty dead on. I recommend The Lion King, Titanic and Grease.
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Are You a Facebook Hermit?
Is Facebook isolating its users socially? Or does the popular social networking website actually enhance social interaction?
Those are the questions that Lisa Selin Davis of TIME magazine is asking:
Jenny has not returned my calls in roughly a year. She has, however, sent me a poinsettia, poked me, and placed a gift beneath my Christmas tree. She’s done all this virtually, courtesy of Facebook.com, the online social networking site where users create profiles, gather "friends," and join common interest groups, not to mention send digital gifts.
Though Jenny has three children, ages 4 to 14, and rarely finds time for visits, phone calls or even e-mail, the full-time mom in upstate New York regularly updates her status on Facebook ("Jenny is fixing a birthday dinner," "Jenny took the kids sledding") and uploads photos (her son in the school play).
After 24 years, our friendship is now filtered through Facebook, relegated to the online world. Call it Facebook Recluse Syndrome, and Jenny is far from the site’s only social hermit.
I don’t use facebook so I have to maintain my social hermitude the old fashioned way! Link
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The Prado Museum Masterpieces in Google Earth
It may not be exactly the same as standing in front of masterpiece paintings by the Old Masters, but if you can’t make the plane trip to Madrid, Spain, it’s still pretty darn neat.
Google just launched a Google Earth feature that lets you view select paintings from The Prado Museum in astonishing details:
The Prado Museum has become the first art gallery in the world to provide access to and navigation of its collection in Google Earth. Using Google Earth, art historians, students and tourists everywhere can zoom in on and explore the finer details of the artist’s brushwork that can be easily missed at first glance.
The paintings have been photographed in very high resolution and contain as many as 14,000 million pixels (14 gigapixels). With this high level resolution you are able to see fine details such as the tiny bee on a flower in The Three Graces (Las Tres Gracias), delicate tears on the faces of the figures in The Descent from the Cross (El Descendimiento) and complex figures in The Garden of Earthly Delights (El Jardin de las Delicias)
Link (with a pretty nifty embedded YouTube clip for those of us who don’t have Google Earth installed) - via The Lede Blog
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How to Get Permanent Marker Off of the Dog?
So, I’m scrolling through a message board that I often frequent when I see a thread titled, “How to get permanent marker off of the dog?” How can you not be intrigued by that question? So I clicked, and this is what I found:
Apparently, when this mom wasn’t looking, her two-year-old decided the dog was a suitable canvas. Note to self: when you have kids, keep the permanent markers hidden away. Or perhaps locked in a safe deposit box. Heh.
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The History Bluff
The History Bluff has a clue in the title of the site: it’s all made up! The tagline is “Making a mess of history.” Here’s a sample story:
Few heroes are as legendary as crossbowman William Tell of Switzerland who is said to have shot an apple off of his son’s head. The History Bluff tells the forgotten tale of William Tell and his other son on that fateful day.
In 1307 William Tell disrespected Hermann Gessler, the ruler of Tell’s province, by refusing to bow to him. As punishment Gessler arrested Tell and his two boys, Walter and Adam, and placed an apple on each of the boys’ heads; Gessler then told William Tell to shoot the apples.
Tell first took aim at the apple on Walter’s head, released, and breathed a sigh of relief when the bolt from his crossbow sliced the apple right through the middle. Confidently, the crossbowman took aim and shot at the apple on Adam’s head, but watched in horror as the bolt fatally struck his son in the larynx, which as a tribute, is now known as Adam’s Apple.
Adam was fatally struck in the larynx, ending all hope of a music career and/or life.
William Tell and his son Walter were later released from custody, but William could not get over the death of Adam. Many years later in 1354 a villager saw Tell jump into a lake with two large stones tied to his left ankle. Tell’s body was found two days later.
Read more preposterous stories you can easily pass along to unwitting friends. Link -Thanks, Dave Newell!
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Six Degrees of Puppets
Worth 1000 contests always fascinate me, so Worth 1000 + Muppets (most of them are Muppets, anyway, but you’ll also find Wallace, Chucky and Alf) = pretty sweet. This particular contest asked Photoshoppers to stick puppets in unlikely situations. The one above is by taltieri is probably my favorite, but Animal in 300 and Bert and Ernie in 3:10 to Yuma are pretty awesome too. The Kermit and Miss Piggy entry is just… disturbing.
Link to the whole gallery
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When Olan Mills Goes Bad
This blog full of Olan Mills, Sears, and other similar portrait studio shots is just too funny. I’ve definitely seen some doozies in my parents’ album, and I have no doubt my kids will someday look back at our pictures and ruthlessly make fun of us. Until then, we can still mock these people.
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Goodbye, GeekAlerts!
Robert Birming, the author of GeekAlerts, has decided to close down his gadget blog (because it simply takes too much time, a luxury he doesn’t have at the moment).
Robert, who is also an author on Neatorama and a rock star (he’s the drummer of the Swedish rock band Eskobar) will continue to post on smidigt.se. It’s a good thing that pictures are a big part of his blog, because it’s in Swedish (well, there’s an automatic translation to English here, but you know how that goes!)
Rob is now blogging on Neatorama as Smidigt, so say goodbye to GeekAlerts and hello (or "hej" in Swedish) to Smidigt.se!
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Mail Order Husbands
Guys have been able to erhm, order, a mail order bride from Russia and Asia for quite some time now. But what about the ladies? Fulfilling an obviously under-served niche is this fantastic website, Mail Order Husbands.
This one to the left is "Steven"
I’m definitely a classic romantic. I like a candlelight dinner, some quiet background music, and a couple hits of ether. I prefer a woman that has insurance and a car would be great as I need to make the occassional trip to Mexico to pick up "souvenirs".
I’m sure this is the foremost questions your mind:
Q: What does it cost the parties involved?
Art: It all depends on the demand. We have an excellent variety of quality bachelors, and the highest demand is for men around 30 years old with lots of hair. For example if you want to order a 52 year old bald man who has bad psioriasis, well then maybe $600.. but say we had a candidate that looked like a young Erik Estrada, well that kind of product doesn’t last long, we typically charge around $9,000.
Don’t forget to take the compatibility test! Link - via Rue the Day
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Pam Anderson Totally Looks Like Bride of Chucky
I could waste a lot of time at TotallyLooksLike.com. No, wait, I already have. Some of the comparisons are astute (Billy Mays really does look like Al from Home Improvement!), some of them are funny, and some of them are just plain mean. You can make your own by using their archive of pictures, or upload your own finds. A couple that I thought were funny: Suge Knight totally looks like Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Rod Blagojevich totally looks like Lego Man, and Axl Rose totally looks like Pickles.
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Google’s Carbon Footprint
How much CO2 does a google search produce if a google search produces CO2? Well, Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross did the math:
… a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of power,” said Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist whose research on the environmental impact of computing is due out soon. “A Google search has a definite environmental impact.”
Google is secretive about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. It also refuses to divulge the locations of its data centres. However, with more than 200m internet searches estimated globally daily, the electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by computers and the internet is provoking concern. A recent report by Gartner, the industry analysts, said the global IT industry generated as much greenhouse gas as the world’s airlines - about 2% of global CO2 emissions. “Data centres are among the most energy-intensive facilities imaginable,” said Evan Mills, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Banks of servers storing billions of web pages require power.
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Bacolicio.us
Just what the internet needs: more bacon! You can add a strip of bacon to any website at Bacolicio.us. Just add a URL to the end of theirs, Neatorama for example, and make any page more delicious. Link -Thanks, Nestor!
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Dogs in Outfits
If you’re a fan of Upside Down Dogs, Muttskis or any of the other cute dog blogs that have been featured on Neatorama, you are bound to love Dogs In Outfits. As the name says, it’s all dogs in outfits, that’s it. And it’s very cute as a result.
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Chairman Mao’s Grandson is a Blogger
Meet Mao Xinyu, a 38-year-old senior colonel in China’s People’s Liberation Army and blogger. He’s not just any blogger - his blog, which is all about Chairman Mao, was voted most popular by the readers of People’s Daily last year.
Oh, and one more thing: Xinyu is the grandson of Chairman Mao.
Mao’s blog is largely dedicated to an appreciation of his grandfather, who died when he was six years old. The founder of communist China is still admired by many people here -despite the fact that millions died because of famine and conflict during his rule (an official Communist Party verdict delivered after his death ruled - with precision - that Chairman Mao was 70% right and 30% wrong).
"The greatest happiness of my life and satisfaction come from a real understanding of a great man. And he is my grandfather," grandson Mao writes.
Link | Mao Xinyu’s blog (in Chinese) - via TYWKIWDBI
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When You Love Whoppers More Than Your Friends
Are you dying for a Whopper right now, but don’t have a dime to your name? Do you have Facebook? Well, problem solved - download the Whopper Sacrifice application. If you have 10 friends you’re willing to dump on Facebook, Burger King will send you a coupon for a free burger. Plus, the people you ditched get e-mails saying that the King means more to you than they do. I think that’s weird, and pretty crappy. But I guess if you get 10 friends in on it and warn them that you’re going to dump them but not to be offended, you can have yourself a pretty painless, free Whopper. Or you could just dig around in your couch cushions and check the dryer for coins. You can probably come up with a couple of bucks for a Whopper.
Previously on Neatorama: Whopper Perfume. I have to say, their marketing gets my attention. It doesn’t send me to Burger King, but it does get my attention.
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Word Association Game
OK, it’s not exactly a game, but it is kind of entertaining in a mindless way. It’s pretty simple: the site gives you a word and you type in the first word that comes to mind. Then it gives you another word based on the word you just gave - the site is essentially learning word connections from the people who use the site. You can get stats on each word to see if you think the same way other people do or not. It’s also kind of fun to come up with a word no one has entered yet - you end up stumping the computer, and it adds your word to its list.
It’s a good time-waster.
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For People Who Like to Make Lists
I’m a compulsive list-maker. If you look in my purse at any given time, you can usually find three different mini notebooks filled with random scribblings, lists and ideas. You don’t even know how delighted I was to come across Listography. It’s a place to keep online lists of anything your little heart desires. And you can look at random people’s lists too, which is sort of like crack for me. I see a fun list that someone has made and think that I need to make one too. It’s endless. There are very practical lists such as groceries, to-do and how to pay down debt. But it’s the very silly lists that I’m hooked on - Fictional Characters I’d Like to Date, Embarrassing Songs That I Really Love, Food I Have to Have for My Last Meal. There are even some very sweet ones - Things I Will Do With My Kids got to me a little bit.
Anyway. Have fun.
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