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Once you start petting Noodles the cat you're not allowed to stop petting him until he's had his fill, so don't start unless you have lots of free time on your hands!
--via Tastefully Offensive
Planckendael Animal Park in Belgium is home to this adorable new baby Koala. Dad and Mom are Goonawarra and Guwara, respectively. The gender of the baby is still unknown. Once the gender is determined, the baby will be given an Aboriginal name that begins with "N," as all newborns at the animal park this year will have a name beginning with that letter.
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(Photo credit: Jonas Verhulst)
Custom made costume accessories don't come much cooler than this modded Steampunk Batman Nerf blaster pistol, which was created by Nerfenstein.
This sweet Steampunk styled blaster would be the perfect accessory for an alternate universe Dark Knight costume, from Gotham by Gaslight Batman to fan art inspired Rockabilly Batman.
It even has a gauge installed on the side so you know just how much steam is coursing through your pistol before you pull the trigger.
Link --via Obvious Winner
The crow does what it must to get this woman to put the pan down. And it has no intention of giving up! -via Daily Picks and Flicks
Freelance illustrator and designer Charlie Layton began using the refrigerator/freezer in his Philadelphia apartment as a dry-erase board several months ago. He drew on the surface of the appliance while having his morning coffee. Layton started photographing the drawings and posting them to his Facebook page each Friday, calling the feature "Freezer Fridays." Then Charlie's friend, Redditor unsavory77, uploaded his work to Reddit. The photos instantly became so popular that Layton's website crashed from being overwhelmed with traffic. Layton said of his newfound popularity:
"It's pretty crazy. It's hard to grasp that thousands of people have seen something so quickly."
See more of Layton's work at his website. Link -via Twisted Sifter
(Image credit: Charlie Layton)
The following is an article from the book Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Music.
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong is best remembered for his gravelly voice, for his intrepid trumpet, and for introducing the world to jazz. Get to know the man Wynton Marsalis calls "the embodiment of jazz music."
THE FOUNDING FATHER OF JAZZ
Louis Armstrong is called one of, if not the, most influential artist in the history of jazz music. He basically invented the now-ubiquitous feature of jazz, the improvised solo; was one of the first 'scat' singers; is one of the most recognized cornet and trumpet players -and singers; and his recordings of songs like "April in Paris," "Pennies From Heaven," and "Mack the Knife" remain hugely popular today. As jazz trumpeter Max Kaminsky wrote, Louis Armstrong was "the heir of all that had gone before -and the father of all that was to come."
BORN IN THE BATTLEFIELD
Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in a rough section of New Orleans known as the Battlefield, where the toe-tapping sounds of dance halls, brothels, honky-tonks, and even funerals surrounded and inspired him. When he was just six years old, Louis joined three other boys who were singing on street corners for tips, and a few years later, he bought himself an old cornet from a pawnshop. He also started hanging around with local musicians like Joe "King" Oliver and Bunk Johnson.
In 1913 Louis' life changed dramatically when, on New Year's Eve, he fired a gun into the air in celebration. He was arrested and sent to reform school. There he met Peter Davis, the man in charge of the school's music program. Davis gave him a bugle and his first formal music training. He also put Louis in the school's band and eventually made him the group's leader. When 13-year-old Louis emerged from the reform school, he was a polished musician.
A NEW KIND OF MUSIC
Mike of Atomic Shrimp is always trying to invent, alter, modify or improve things. He sometimes runs out of ideas, so he made these dice to help inspire him. The six six-sided address different aspects of an invention: materials, motive power, scale, device, consumer and action. Mike writes:
Rolling the dice generates one of 46,656 different unique combinations - which the inventor can then use as inspiration for a brainstorming session.
Some of the combinations are nonsensical, but this itself can be provocative - and the ideas that flow from your imagination in this process don't necessarily have to fit all or any of the original criteria - it's just meant to spark the imagination.
They're like a Dungeons & Dragons random encounter generator, only with fewer orcs and more solder.
Romeo and Kieran found a keyboard they can really get down on! -via Daily PIcks and Flicks
The best thing about this amazing picture series is the fact that the cat is smiling throughout the set -obviously because he has always dreamed of being a superhero.
Dogs are driving all kinds of vehicles nowadays, and having a doggone good time doing it!
Here's a happy pup taking a spin around the yard in his very own Power Wheel car while his proud owner captures the whole thing on video.
It's further proof that dogs are tired of being driven around, they want a chance to get their own driver's license!
--via Tastefully Offensive
At the Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, four teenage girls came up with a rather remarkable invention: urine-powered generator (well, supposedly - but don't let skept-pee-cism* ruin our fun here).
Possibly one of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a urine powered generator, created by four girls. The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15).
1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.
The system works like this:
- Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.
- The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
- The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
- This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.Along the whole way there are one-way valves for security, but let’s be honest that this is something of an explosive device…
*Electrolysis is an energy-intensive process in itself, and that looks like a gasoline generator. Somebody's trollin'
**This reminds me, Neatorama's servers need more juice. John, "urine" charge: your turn to pee!
This dance sequence was filmed by the slit-scan method by French artists Adrien M / Claire B. The camera is doing more work than the dancers! The effect is weird, but oddly mesmerizing. -via Laughing Squid
How Eddie Bernays got you to buy books, wear hairnets, and eat bacon for breakfast.
One could argue that the birth of modern public relations is really the story of bacon and eggs. Prior to the 1920s, breakfast was toast and a cup of coffee. When a company called Beech-Nut Packing wanted to boost its bacon sales, they called PR man Edwards Bernays.
Bernays didn't place ads in magazines or post billboards with catchy slogans. Instead, he commissioned a research study on the eating habits of Americans. A doctor concluded that, because the body loses energy during the night, a robust breakfast is healthier than a light one. Bernays saw to it that thousands of physicians got the report, along with a publicity packet touting bacon and eggs as a hearty way to start the day. Pretty soon, doctors were recommending it to their patients, and the all-American breakfast was born.
Syphilis and Propaganda
Edwards Bernays was born in Vienna to Jewish parents and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was an infant. The elder Bernays had been a wealthy farmer, and he hoped his son would follow in his footsteps. So, he enrolled young Eddie in Cornell's esteemed College of Agriculture. Eddie complied, albeit unwillingly. A child of the Manhattan brownstone, he'd grown accustomed to the bustling pace of the big city. Upon receiving his degree in 1912, the only thing Eddie seemed certain of was that farm life was not for him. And that's when fate intervened.
One day while boarding the Ninth Avenue trolley on Manhattan, Eddie crossed paths with an old friend named Fred Robinson. Robinson offered Bernays a job managing two monthly journals, the Medical Review of Reviews and the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. Eddie accepted, although he knew little about publishing or medicine. Fortunately, none of that mattered a few months later, when he used the journals to publish a review of the play Damaged Goods. That may not sound like a big deal, but Damaged Goods was about a man who had syphilis. Sex was such a taboo subject at the time that New York censors had previously shut down George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession because it dealt with prostitution. Regardless, Eddie published a rave review and even offered to help produce the show. But the real trick was convincing censors to look the other way.
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