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Bento maestro Anna the Red has created another masterpiece. This time, she transmorgified Calvin and his tiger into food. Calvin’s face is made from ham and Hobbes’s stripes from seaweed.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious!
Personally, I couldn’t drink coffee with sweetened condensed milk -certainly not this much! But the video is interesting, and the music is mesmerizing. The song is “Ding Dong” by Waipod Phetsuphan. -via Boing Boing
Getting
parking in New York is pretty hard, so get ready to pay up if you want
your own personal parking spot. How much, you ask? How bout a cool million
bucks:
The private garage at 66 E. 11th St. costs six times more than the national-average price of a single-family home.
Buying it would be the same as paying a $115 ticket for illegal parking every day — for 24 years.
For moguls or celebrities, however, the rare commodity of a Manhattan parking space inside their building, with a curb cut at the street, is a huge status symbol and selling point. [...]
The hot space is about 12 feet wide, 23 feet long and more than 15 feet high.
The spot could be “duplexed” if the buyer decides to install an elevator lift so he or she can slide both the Maserati and the Lamborghini in at the same time.
Annie Karni of The NY Post has the story: Link
Remember way back to your school cafeteria lunches. Not terribly excited? Wish you could've had an outlet to express your opinion about the sad state of school lunches?
One enterprising 9-year-old grade school student named Martha Payne did just that. She launched NeverSeconds blog as her own Yelp, with a little help from her dad.
Today I had vegetable soup and sausages with roast potatoes and salad. The lady on the radio said I had a choice everyday of mini tomatoes and watercress, but I have never seen them. My soup tasted of mainly carrot but i am not sure. I had three wee roast potatoes which were a bit small and the sausages are very different to the ones I get at home. They are very crispy on the outside and the texture is like a baked potato.
Food-o-meter- 8/10
Mouthfuls- I must take a pad to keep tally!
Courses- starter/main
Health Rating- 6/10
Price- £2
Pieces of hair- 1 (under the cucumber)
Martha's hardwork is paying off: after some pressure from the media, her school is now allowing unlimited salad, fruit and bread.
We’ve posted before about species that have gone extinct in recent history. For some of these species, there was one last specimen that had a name and friends, although sadly, not friends of the same species. Read the stories of five who were the last of their lines at Buzzfeed. Shown here is Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died in Cincinnati in 1914. Link
This fire truck was spotted in Nobleton, Ontario, Canada. Videographer thespadeinator says at the YouTube page:
My friend says that it is a legit firetruck, but what could that thing honestly do to a fire? Make it laugh itself to death?
Jerald Reiter of Cascade, Iowa, was arrested Sunday night for drunk driving with a blood-alcohol level of .148. Police had stopped him to check on the welfare of the passengers in his truck: a zebra and a macaw.
Reiter, 55, told The Des Moines Register that the zebra and parrot are like friends to him and they often spend time indoors and ride in his vehicles. The animals visit neighbors, and the parrot has been on trips to the local feed store, Reiter said.
On Sunday, after doing chores and eating dinner, Reiter said he decided to take the animals to the Dog House, where he thought they’d be allowed.
“I said, ‘Let’s go for a ride. I ain’t been away from the farm for almost two months because I’ve been planting corn and everything else,’” he said. “So I opened the door, the zebra jumps in, the macaw loves to go for a ride, so we went for a ride.”
Reiter says at no time did he leave the animals in the truck alone. He said when police arrived, he was leaving the bar after being told the animals couldn’t come in. Link -via Arbroath
Lily Mitchell and Paul Harasiwka at The More I Arty came up with cocktail recipes inspired by the various characters in the movie The Avengers. Link to part one. Link to part two. -via The Daily What Geek
Today’s Google Doodle is an interactive Moog synthesizer. You can click to play it, but if you want to make real music, use the QWERTY row of your keyboard for the white keys, and numbers for the black keys. The buttons and knobs work as well, and you can record and play back your masterpieces on the tape recorder! The doodle is in honor of Robert Moog‘s 78th birthday. Link -via Fark
The average Brit knows as much about the NBA as the average American knows about Arsenal and FIFA, which is why it’s hilarious to hear one of the Queen’s own announce a game between “the Clappers” (sic) and the Spurs.
And, although the game isn’t real therefore the announcer isn’t currently employed by ESPN to add commentary to NBA games, it’s fun to hear someone adding some much needed color and dry wit to a pro basketball dribble fest.
Good show, old chap! (NSFW due to some off color humor)
–via Kotaku
Photographer Ian Spanier sometimes needs to do mobile work without an assistant. So he built a backpack that will carry all of his gear as well as hold a flash on an adjustable boom. His base is a pack used by birdwatchers for transport spotting scopes and tripods. All of Spanier’s gear fits neatly inside. View more pictures at the link.
Photo: Daniel Denis/2CV Magazine
When Emile Leray's Citroën 2CV car broke down in the middle of the Sahara Desert, he couldn't build an arc reactor to fit into his flying suit of armor, so he did the next best thing: he stripped down to his manthong and converted the car into a Mad Max-ian motorcycle!
While traveling through the desert somewhere in north west Africa in his Citroen 2CV , [Emile] is stopped, and told not to go any further due to some military conflicts in the area. Not wanting to actually listen to this advice, he decides to loop around, through the desert, to circumvent this roadblock.
After a while of treading off the beaten path, [Emile] manages to snap a swing arm on his vehicle, leaving him stranded. He decided that the best course of action was to disassemble his vehicle and construct a motorcycle from the parts. This feat would be impressive on its own, but remember, he’s still in the desert and un-prepared. If we’re reading this correctly, he managed to drill holes by bending metal and sawing at it, then un-bending it to be flat again.
Link - via Hack-a-Day and reddit
If I didn’t know the back story, I never would have suspected that this custom paint job was created with permanent marker!
Chris Dunlop took the customization of his Mustang into his own hands, spending 50 hours and burning through a bunch of Sharpie pens to create this automotive masterpiece.
The only drawback- if he leaves his car outside during a particularly acidic rain storm all that hard work will go swirling down the drain.
–via AnimalNY
Afraid
of spider? You're not alone - arachnophobia or fear of spiders is very
common (it's been estimated that more than half of women in the Western
world are afraid of spiders to some degree).
But for some, spider phobia can be very severe and debilitating - but now, there's hope: researchers have found that a two-hour "exposure" therapy can "cure" the irrational fear of spiders by fundamentally changing the brain's fear response.
The catch? You have to hold a tarantula in your hand (Eek!):
"Before treatment, some of these participants wouldn't walk on grass for fear of spiders or would stay out of their home or dorm room for days if they thought a spider was present," said lead study author Katherina Hauner, postdoctoral fellow in neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in a statement.
After a single therapy session lasting up to three hours, "they were able to walk right up and touch or hold a tarantula. And they could still touch it after six months," Hauner said.
Link (Illustration: W.W. Denslow for Little Miss Muffet/Wikipedia)
It's DEFCON 1 at the NeatoPlex whenever someone accesses my Chunky Monkey without prior written authorization, so this couldn't have come at a better time: the "Euphori-Lock" device that secures your pint of ice cream.
So there's no uncertainty, the ice cream lock says: I'm terribly sorry, but there is no "u" in "my pint".
Must be a translation problem. Always get a second opinion before you name your business in a language you don’t speak! This is one of a collection of strangely-named restaurants gathered from the picture site Stupidest and posted together for your convenience. Link
When her 12-year-old daughter wanted to post a photo of herself wishing she could drink vodka, author and mom ReShonda Tate Billingsley decided to teach her a lesson with what could be the most powerful parental disciplinary weapon ever devised by man: Facebook shaming.
At first, it might seem like your typical case of modern parental discipline: A Texas mom has prohibited her 12-year-old daughter from using the photo-sharing site Instagram after she caught the girl posting a photo of herself holding an unopened bottle of vodka with a caption that read “I sure wish I could drink this.”
But it’s what ReShonda Tate Billingsley did next that has people buzzing: Billinglsey, a prominent Houston-area author, had her daughter post a new picture of herself to Instagram earlier this month holding a sign reading, “Since I want to post photos of me holding liquor, I am obviously not ready for social media and will be taking a hiatus until I learn what I should (and) should not post. Bye-bye.” [...]
“I thought she knew better, but in her mind, she thought, ‘I’m not drinking, what’s the problem?’” Billingsley said. What the girl didn’t realize, she said, was that the photo might still send the wrong message to a future employer or prove attractive to a predator, who “can see it and think this is a little girl who likes to drink.”
“Because she had been warned,” she added, “I felt I needed to hit her where it hurt most.”
And hurt it did. After she explained the punishment to her daughter, the girl was “devastated” for a day, Billingsley said.
“She actually asked for a spanking instead; she begged for a spanking,” she said.
Previously on Neatorama: Dad Shot Laptop Over Daughter's Facebook Post
From KFC to chicken tikka masala, people everywhere eat chicken. It’s versatile, relatively inexpensive compared to other meats, and has no major religious restrictions. But chicken for dinner wasn’t always this popular.
How did the chicken achieve such cultural and culinary dominance? It is all the more surprising in light of the belief by many archaeologists that chickens were first domesticated not for eating but for cockfighting. Until the advent of large-scale industrial production in the 20th century, the economic and nutritional contribution of chickens was modest. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond listed chickens among the “small domestic mammals and domestic birds and insects” that have been useful to humanity but unlike the horse or the ox did little—outside of legends—to change the course of history. Nonetheless, the chicken has inspired contributions to culture, art, cuisine, science and religion over the millennia.
Smithsonian has more than you ever thought you needed to know about chickens: their origins, history, cultural significance, and rise as a popular food item. Link -via mental_floss
(Image credit: Tim O’Brien)
Sometimes a trip to the veterinarian is necessary, but this poor kitty doesn’t want it. At least that’s what he says! -via Arbroath
Jill Mills made a cake that has an ice cave on top, in which a Wampa is holding Luke Skywalker! Luckily, Han Solo is riding nearby. The cake was for her 6-year-old son’s Star Wars-themed birthday party. The cave was made with pretzel sticks and white chocolate constructed atop the cake. See more pictures and the story of how it was done at her website Kitchen Fun with My Three Sons. Link
The fossil remains of a 60-million-year-old turtle called Carbonemys cofrinii was found in 2005 in Colombia, and just now introduced to the public after years of study by the paleontologists from North Carolina State University who found it. The shell of this turtle is more than five and a half feet long! Carbonemys had jaws strong enough to eat almost anything, including crocodiles. Read more about this discovery at NC State. Link -via the Presurfer
(Image credit: Liz Bradford)
These carpets were made by Dutch art collective We Make Carpets, but they’re not the kind of carpets that make your home full a little cozier.
Nor should you ever walk on these carpets, unless you like the feel of bloody feet, for these are strictly decorative carpets, art panels made out of recycled materials like plastic cutlery, clothes pins and other bits of brightly colored plastic.
It’s a beautifully patterned comment on consumerism and form over function, and when you’re tired of hanging them in your home you can chuck them in the bin and recycle them once again!
Link –via Beautiful/Decay
previously on Neatorama- We Make Carpets –LINK
Since I’m a big fan of that travellin’ culinary man Anthony Bourdain, I was excited to hear that he’d soon be adding mythical beasts to his menu.
Then I found out that he was only joking around with a young lady, who asked him how he’d cook a unicorn at the Great GoogaMooga Festival in Brooklyn, New York.
Here’s his response:
He would roast the loin, grill the legs, braise the forequarter and use the horn to pick your teeth with after the meal. For the record, unicorn marrow is delicious, he says.
I wonder how the little girl reacted to his ideas on how to prepare a unicorn?
Carls Jr.’s newest creation sounds like a little bit of dessert heaven, and may prove to be the tastiest burger ever made.
Called the Brrrger, it’s an ice cream sandwich posing as a hamburger, complete with ketchup and mustard icing between two sugar cookie buns.
It’s currently being tested at Carls Jr. locations in Orange County, California but hopefully these burger shaped treats will be taking the nation by storm this summer when customers can’t get enough of this sweet imposter.
The dog featured in this video is named Norman, and he really gets around town on his custom, monogrammed bike!
He’s eager to show the neighbors that he’s more evolved than their mutts, and his sweet haircut should make him a hit with the local females.
And if Norman ever starts his own canine bike gang he will truly be the leader of the pack.
–via Laughing Squid
Photo: Zhang Huan
Move over, Lady Gaga! There's a new meat dress going 'round the Interweb called Bacon Armor (Thanks Geeks Are Sexy!)
Meat (heh!) Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Huan, who made this piece titled Homeland back in 2001. From The Guardian:
Previously on Neatorama: Giant Sculpture of Confucius (also by Zhang Huan)Still photographs from a performance entitled Homeland, these images are by turns disturbing in their physical intensity and politically confrontational. Zhang, a Chinese performance artist, covers his body in pieces of raw meat until he resembles a flayed superhero or mythical beast, often burrowing into the arid ground. The original performance took place in his native Shandong province, where farmers have abandoned the land to go to the cities in search of work. The self-portrait, then, is a kind of collective portrait, but work like this may test the viewer’s patience for self-indulgence as much as it tests the state’s tolerance for political art.
Photo: Robin Wishna
"Once you pop, you can't stop" is Pringles' motto and Brian Wansink of Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab (previously on Neatorama) is doing something about it: edible serving size markers can help act as subconscious sign to stop eating.
As part of an experiment carried out on two groups of college students (98 students total) while they were watching video clips in class, researchers from Cornell's Food and Brand Lab served tubes of Lays Stackables, some of which contained chips dyed red.
In the first study of the research, which is published online this month in Health Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association, the red chips were interspersed at intervals designating one suggested serving size (seven chips) or two serving sizes (14 chips); in the second study, this was changed to five and 10 chips.
Unaware of why some of the chips were red, the students who were served those tubes of chips nonetheless consumed about 50 percent less than their peers: 20 and 24 chips on average for the seven-chip and 14-chip segmented tubes, respectively, compared with 45 chips in the control group; 14 and 16 chips for the five-chip and 10-chip segmented tubes, compared with 35 chips in the control group.
Migrating elephants are just doing their thing, but cause damage to farms and fences, and run into trouble on highways. But an underpass beneath Nanyuki-Meru road in northern Kenya, built just for the elephants, allows herds to pass through the area with ease. It was completed in 2010, and hundreds of elephants have been seen using the corridor. The underpass is part of a long-term project to restore traditional migration routes. Read about it and see more pictures at National Geographic News. Link -Thanks, Marilyn Terrell!
(Image credit: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy)
All right, everybody be cool, this is a cakery. The Cookie Pop Fiction is so cool it's like a shot of adrenalie straight to the heart, except instead of adrenaline, think sugar and instead of heart, stomach.
Lou Lou P's Delights can shoot such cake pops (what else do you think I'm talking about? Quarter pounder with cheese in France?) straight into my stomach any time: Link - via Evil Cakes (Thanks Emma!)
This is wonderfully simple yet highly effective: Instructable user Brian Jewett used empty paint cans (You can re-use one after cleaning it off, or even buy an empty new one at the local hardware store) for coat hooks.
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