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“Logan, you’re lucky it didn’t cut your eye! Those claws have been known to kill people!” Draw 2D2 invited artists to submit their mashups of Marvel Comics and the classic movie A Christmas Story. Check out the rest at the link.
Link -via io9 | Image: Justin LaRocca Hansen
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Office workers critique a construction crew trying to corral a runaway concrete buffing machine. This really, really needs some Yakety Sax. -via Buzzfeed
Google has installed another Easter egg, except this one’s more appropriate at Christmas than Easter. Go to Google search and type in Let It Snow, and watch your wish come true! I’ve even made a shortcut for you. Link -via mental_floss
Bowtie Bag Clip – $7.95
Are you hosting a fancy schmancy New Year’s Eve party? Leave no detail left undone. Dress up your favorite bag of chips with the Bowtie Bag Clip from the NeatoShop. This chic Bowtie Bag Clip set comes with 4 bow tie shaped clips.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more sophisticated Party Supplies!
off There’s nothing old fashioned about this pinball game! CT Light Concept projected a pinball game called “Urban Flipper” on the front of the Théâtre des Célestins in Lyon, France. The bumpers, kickers, and targets make use of the features on the theater’s facade.
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This is what champagne looks like through a microscope. About twenty-five years ago, Michael Davidson, a scientist at Florida State University, started putting alcoholic beverages under his microscope and taking beautiful pictures of what he saw. The results are lovely, especially after a few shots.
Link -via Nag on the Lake
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Personally, I love clam chowder and I like to try new things, so although I don’t have much faith in the flavor of Clam Chowder Doritos, I would still give them a shot. Surprisingly though, they actually are described as being pretty tasty and actually tasting like clam chowder.
So, I ask again, would you try them?
Illustrator Olaf Cuadras Ferré has some skills when it comes to redesigning movie posters. While they all look pretty cute, I think this one is my personal favorite, if only for the hole in the head on the last person.
Link Via Laughing Squid
We don’t tend to think of Santa as being much of a risk taker, but really, it’s pretty brave to trust flying reindeer to tow you through the sky before you jump down a chimney. So really this Huffington Post slide show featuring Santa bungee jumping, swimming with sharks and doing other outrageous activities really shouldn’t be that shocking.
This guy is just waiting to EXTERMINATE any scrooges out there who haven’t gotten into the holiday spirit yet. If I actually lived somewhere with snow, I’d be out there making one of these right now.
Link Via The Mary Sue
The main problem with moving a giant Gundam robot statue across Japan is having to put it back together again, but maybe this life-size behemoth should have been left in pieces, because he looks like he could do some serious damage to the surrounding city. Head to the link to see some time lapse videos of this bad boy being re-built.
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Remember when we all thought Beanie Babies would be worth a fortune someday, or when Pogs ruled the schoolyard? Then check out this gallery of Christmas list toppers from the 90s, some of which are still around while others have fallen by the wayside, and see if you still have some of these treasures lying around in a box somewhere. Ebay here we come!
I know some of you are going to say “this video is old”, because we all know that interwebs enthusiasts think anything posted a week ago is old, much less something from 2008.
But really guys, does it ever get old watching a penguin start the pet revolution against dogs? The only thing that would make this video better is if a dog were to come in and jealously compete for most newspapers fetched in one day. Let the competition for best pet begin!
–via BuzzFeed
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Boy, The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man sure is cute when he’s not stomping around terrorizing a city with his sugary goodness! For those of you with snow, you’re lucky because you can make your own geeky snowman, unlike we Southern Californians whose only knowledge of snow comes from the movies and tv shows. We’ll just have to settle for sculpting our mashed potatoes into something cool…
off Leave it to Sasha Baron Cohen, the guy behind Borat and Ali G, to make light of an uncomfortable situation with broad humor which will allow those being lampooned to laugh at themselves, although ruthless dictators are some of the toughest nuts to crack. Watch this trailer for The Dictator and bask in the glory of global unrest-themed ridiculousness.
–via Ology
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deviantART user amanda04 did a fine job recreating Charles Schulz’s characters on her own fingernails. Lucy doesn’t look happy. In amanda04′s gallery, you can find other fingernail images from Peanuts.
There’ll be no shortage of players at your next tabletop role-playing game campaign! New rule: if you roll the highest value, you get to eat the die. Ariel Segall built a custom mold to bake chocolate dice. At the link, you can find her step-by-step instructions for the project.
Link -via Geek Dad | Photo: Ariel Segall
Glowing Menorah – $31.95
I spell it Hanukkah. You spell it Chanukah. However you spell it the festival of lights is almost here. Do you have your fabulous Glowing Menorah from the NeatoShop? This fantastic menorah includes 46 glow sticks for all 8 days of Hanukkah.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Menorah fun.
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Hanukkah (or Chanukah) the Jewish Festival of Lights begins Tuesday evening at sundown, and runs through December 28th. We wish you a wonderful holiday if you celebrate Hanukkah. If you don’t, this would be a great opportunity to learn more about it. Then Thursday is the winter solstice. And Christmas Eve is one week away. OK, I know you’re busy this weekend, unless you’re one of those folks who get all their holiday preparation done way ahead of time. But take some time to catch up on the great features we’ve shared this week at Neatorama.
Jill Harness gave us some Christmas goodies in 15 Great Geeky Gingerbread People & Homes.
A Few More Facts About The Simpsons by Eddie Deezen was posted in honor of the series’ 23rd anniversary today.
From Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader came Tastes Like TV, with some awful recipes from your favorite sitcoms.
The Inventive Inventions of Dotts was brought to us by the Annals of Improbable Research.
Mental_floss magazine gave us 10 of the Greatest Guerrilla Marketing Campaigns of All-Time.
We have a different kind of contest running right now, and you have just a few more days to get your entry in, in the Extreme Neatorama Reading competition. There are four prizes from the NeatoShop up for grabs (your choice, of course) so get the contest details and send your pictures in ASAP!
In the What Is It? game this week, the item is a barbed wire salesman’s cane, made of barbed wire from patent number 184,486. No doubt he was selling barbed wire. The answer must have been too simple, because no one guessed it. We did have a lot of strange and amusing answers, though. The prize for the funniest one goes to ladybuggs, who said this is a dipstick for the Munstermobile! That clever thought wins him a t-shirt from the NeatoShop. See the answers to all this weeks mystery items revealed at the What Is It? blog.
If you live in the U.S. there’s still time to do your Christmas shopping at the NeatoShop, thanks to UPS express shipping, but time is running short. Check the left sidebar at the shop for shipping deadlines. However, if you wait until the very last minute, the items you want may run out.
When you’ve caught up on everything here, be sure to check our Google+ page and our Facebook page every day for extra content, contests, discussions, videos, and links you won’t find on our main page. Also, our Twitter feed will keep you updated on what’s going around the web in real time. And remember, we always welcome your comments, feedback, and suggestions for making Neatorama ever better!
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Periscopes may be best known now for their use on submarines, but clever inventors have found other uses for them as well through history. Here’s one that creates an illusion. The uninformed viewer thinks that he’s looking through a rock! Check out eight other clever or silly uses for periscopes at the link.
Link -via Gizmodo | Image via Kenyon College
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Okay, it’s time to give your presentation to the hiring committee. Just load up the PowerPoint show. Now what was the combination again?
Tarator, a Russian steampunk modder, does computer security the old fashioned way.
Link (Google Translate) -via Make
These delightfully awful Christmas card photos put the hohoho! back in the holidays. If you don’t like the way you look in your photo this year, take a gander at this wacky gallery and feel better about yourself.
If you’ve had it with the holidays and you’re looking for a new way to celebrate, then this list of fictional holidays, invented by TV shows, might show you a new way to celebrate. From lesser known Yak Shaving Day, to the wildly popular celebration known as Festivus, these holidays are a far cry from boring, and they’re all a good enough excuse to par-tay!
Show off both your mad video game skills and your muscular body with this modified Nintendo Entertainment System controller. Brian Kaminski’s interface lets you control Mario’s movements by flexing your biceps and forearms. His instructions at the link show you how to build one that just plugs into a USB port.
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Banksy has literally defaced a statue in his latest work, replacing the face of a replica statue with pixels as a political statement:
Banksy titled the statue “Cardinal Sin”, and designed it as a comment on recent crimes perpetrated by the Catholic church—a response to the child abuse scandal that was covered-up.
In a statement, Banksy said: “I’m never sure who deserves to be put on a pedestal or crushed under one.”
It’s a statement, no doubt, but is it worthy of sitting alongside the works of Van Dyck and Rubens?
Shopping in The Place Mall in Beijing, China is like taking a strange journey through a hallucinatory wonderland, or maybe it’s just the giant LED screens that play animated videos all day. They don’t look like very much fun for people who suffer from motion sickness, or for those who already think the sky is falling.
–via SuperPunch
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In 1995, Kevin Costner released Waterworld, a grand post-apocalyptic movie which he produced, directed, and even starred in. It was, at that point, the most expensive movie ever made. And it was a considered an utter flop. The movie made back less than half of its cost domestically. Overseas revenues ultimately made up the cost of the movie, but Waterworld still has a reputation as a failure.
Yet for Costner, it wasn’t. The movie inspired him to learn more about separating oil from water and he decided to invest in emerging oil spill cleanup technologies:
He purchased a company — including some intellectual property — from the U.S. government for $20 million. The technology? A machine which uses centrifugal force to separate oil from water. Costner’s partner, the company’s CEO John Houghtaling, called the machine a “kind of like a big vacuum cleaner.”
For 15 years, he and his business partners refined the technology, waiting for the next great oil spill disaster. When the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, Costner and team were ready to spring into action. They offered their technology, which allegedly can separate 97 to 99% of the oil out of water at the rate of 200 gallons a minute, to BP. BP ended up buying 32 of the machines as part of the on-going cleanup at an unreported price.
Link | Image: Universal Pictures
Sure, you may not realize it when they’re in battle, but AT-AT’s are actually the ultimate party mobile. That’s why having one as your liquor cabinet makes so much sense.
A bacon helmet might not help you protect yourself from dragons, but on the upside, it’s probably a great way to fight off hunger while questing for hours on end.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
By now you’ve probably already seen a few pictures of pups from Occupy Wall Street, but if you want to see all the adorable critters, then check out the Awwccupy Wall Street blog, featuring cuties from protests around the globe.
Link Via Laughing Squid
