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The Wheel House

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a rolling house will definitely gather audience. The Wheel House by UK's Acrojou Circus Theater features a live performance of two acrobats as they live in a unique circular house - complete with bookcase, pots and pans, and other household accoutrements - rolling slowly on a straight path to nowhere.

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10 Brands That Will Disappear in 2014

Is your favorite brand amongst the ones shown above? Prepare to say goodbye to them, if 24/7 Wall St. editor Douglas A. McIntyre's prediction is correct.

Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 important brands sold in America that we predict will disappear before 2014. This year’s list reflects the brutally competitive nature of certain industries and the importance of not falling behind in efficiency, innovation or financing. [...]

We continue to use the same methodology in deciding which brands will disappear. The major criteria include:

  1. Declining sales and losses;
  2. Disclosures by the parent of the brand that it might go out of business;
  3. Rising costs that are unlikely to be recouped through higher prices;
  4. Companies that are sold;
  5. Companies that go into bankruptcy;
  6. Companies that have lost the great majority of their customers; and
  7. Operations with withering market share.

Each brand on the list suffers from one or more of these problems. Each of the 10 will be gone, based on our definitions, within 18 months.

Read the list and Douglas' analysis over at 24/7 Wall St: Link


If Game of Thrones Were Set in the 80s


Jon Snow and Joffrey Baratheon


Daenerys Targaryen and Jaime Lannister

What if the Game of Thrones were set in the late 80s and early 90s? What if the swords, bows, spears, and armors were replaced with NES guns, baseball bats and track suits? graphic designer Mike Wrobel (Moshi-Kun) asked himself. The results are these fantastic remakes of Game of Thrones characters: Link - via Laughing Squid


A Train Runs Through It

A lot of people want to live conveniently close to the train stations, but as you can see from the clip above, there's such a thing as too close for comfort. Case in point, this train track in Hanoi, Vietnam:

Every day, at 4pm and 7pm, a train makes its way down a street so narrow that it is just inches from the houses on either side.

It passes so close to their front doors that any objects which are kept on the street, such as bicycles, have to be moved to make sure that they do not get hit.

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The Dawn of Gaming


Dawn of Gaming by Naolito

It's On like Donkey Kong! T-shirt designer extraordinaire Naolito mashed up a bit of classic video game with Space Odyssey in this brilliant T-shirt. The Monolith has never looked so fun!

Check out Naolito's website, FB page, Tumblr and deviantArt for more geeky designs, then visit his NeatoShop page to get some! Link

View more T-shirts by Naolito | More Funny T-shirts

Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's talk! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop, earn generous royalties, and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!


World's Largest Pizza Delivery

There's no beach out of reach, no mountain too remote for the might of the US military, especially when pizza is involved.

Non-profit Pizza 4 Patriots has completed a pizza mission so big that it has made the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest pizza delivery ever. Along with shipping company DHL which donated its services, and Great Kitchens of Illinois which donated the pizzas, the organization delivered the 30,000 pizzas to military service members in Afghanistan. Some were even air dropped to troops in the field.

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Protip: Don't Butt Dial the Cops While Breaking Into a Car

Rule one of stealing a car is: never let your cell phone butt-dial the cops. Here's what happened when a pair of hapless criminals's butt-dialing helped the cops crack the case:

The two would be crooks were about to break into a car in Fresno, California when one of the men called 911 from his phone in his pocket.

Nathan Teklemariam and Carson Rinehart were about to break into a car when they dialed 911. The dispatcher answered and heard a conversation. Here's some of what he heard:

"I just want to smoke weed so bad right now" and "give me the bolt and give me the hammer just in case," all before hearing glass breaking in the background. [..]

as the officer searched the car, he found property lifted from the vehicle. That's when the officer finally let them in on their mistake.

"We really called 911?" one of the suspects said. "Damn."

Link - via HuffPo (Photo: DenisNata/Shutterstock)


San Francisco Through the Periscope of a Submarine

Battle stations! U.S.S. Catfish submarine, on maneuver from its post-World War II base in San Diego in 1951, has spotted Alcatraz off the coast of San Francisco and captured the prison island on photo through its periscope.

Peter Hartlaub of The Big Event blog over at SF Gate has more photos of San Francisco, as taken by the submarine, probably right before it commenced a Crazy Ivan maneuver: Link - via Holy Kaw


Cheese Bank


Photo: Consorzio del Formaggio Parmigiano-Reggiano

You'd expect to find gold bullions inside the vast vault of The Credito Emiliano bank in Italy, but instead, you'd find something else just as valuable: Parmesan cheese.

Oddity Central explains:

Cash-for-cheese sounds more like a joke that a serious financial agreement, but in some regions of Italy it’s a reality. The famous Parmesan is so precious that some banks are willing to keep the cheese as collateral against loans to local producers.

The Credito Emiliano bank has hundreds of branches and thousands of employees around central and northern Italy. Its central offices look like those of any other banking institution, with cameras watching every angle, security doors to lock down the place and even a big vault in the back. Only you’re not going to find too many diamonds or hard cash stored in there. Instead, there are hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese wheels, neatly placed on giant shelves. The bank takes the Parmesan from local producers in exchange for a cheap loan, and charges a 3% interest as well as a fee for looking after the cheese and making sure it matures properly in the air-conditioned, humidified vault. It might seem strange, but Credito Emiliano treats Parmigiano-Reggiano like other banks do gold. And for good reason, as the mountains of cheese locked away in its secured vault are worth around $200 million.

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Cheater's Hasty Getaway

A Brazilian Lothario decided to take advantage of his lover's quarrel with her husband to make a hasty getaway. The man, who wore only his boxer shorts, climbed down the third story window of a house in São Paulo using knotted bed sheets, then jumped onto fireman's emergency mattress ... straight onto YouTube infamy!

It's unclear whether the event was real or staged for for a reality TV show: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Telegraph


Mom Called the Cops on Son over Stolen Pop-Tarts

There's a limit to a mother's love. Like, for instance, when 37-year old Latasha Renee Love called the cops on her son for stealing her Pop-Tarts.

The child was busted on a larceny charge, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, whose officers were summoned Monday night to a Charlotte home by Latasha Renee Love, the accused juvenile’s 37-year-old mother.

A police report notes that “the known suspect stole Pop-tarts belonging to his mother at their home at 530 Goldstaff Ln. The suspect was juvenile arrested at the time of the offence.”

Cops described the stolen goods as “Foodstuffs” valued at $5.

The Smoking Gun was there: Link


Wedding Tank


M41A3 Walker Bulldog tank in Cantigny Park, Wheaton, Illinois. Photo: Paul Shambroom

Something old,
Something new,
Something armored,
something blue ...

What wedding wouldn't be improved with a battle tank? After all, all is fair in love and war.

Photographer Paul Shambroom was fascinated with weapons of war brought back from distant battlefields as memorials and public art, and decided to feature them in his latest photograph series titled Shrines.

Shambroom wrote in this fascinating article over at Visura Magazine:

What happens to weapons of war when they are no longer useful for their original purposes? Those that are not scrapped often are given second lives in the public sphere, mounted in places of honor in communities across the United States. Town squares, city parks, armories, VFW and American Legion posts display retired weapons from past American conflicts. Built for combat or other military functions, these objects now serve in a range of entirely different roles in their new settings: memorial, tourist attraction, retail signage, playground equipment, historic artifact. [...]

View more over at Visura Magazine and Paul's website


The Itch Molecule


Photo: Zombie Back Scratcher from the NeatoShop

Itchy? Blame the neurotransmitter Nppb!

Santosh Mishra and Mark Hoon of the National Institute of Health have answered the question you've been itching to ask:

To test whether Nppd played a role in the itching, they genetically engineered some mice so that they failed to produce the chemical. Initially, they checked to see if these engineered mice were impervious to other types of sensations also conveyed by these neurons (pain, movement and heat), but they seemed to behave just the same as the normal mice, indicating Nppb wasn’t involved in the transmission of those stimuli.

Then, they exposed them once again to the itch-inducing chemicals. The normal mice scratched away, but the genetically engineered mice were another story. “It was amazing to watch,” Mishra said in a press statement. “Nothing happened. The mice wouldn’t scratch.”

Joseph Stromberg of Smithsonian's Surprising Science blog explains: Link

All You Need in Life: Laughter, Funny Internet Videos, and Take-Outs. LOTS of Take-Outs.

Here's proof that all you need in life are laughter, funny Internet videos, and take-outs. All in large quantities! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Miss Cellania


Animated Albums

Like it says on the tin, Animated Albums is a Tumblr blog dedicated to applying the high art of animated GIF to music albums. The result is simply fantastic! See if your favorite album has been animated: Link


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