Check this out, Bub! This awesome animated gif of Wolverine in his many attires is by Michael B. Myers Jr (Mike's also on the NeatoShop as Drawsgood)
This semi-trailer truck has a public service announcement for fellow drivers on the road, though if you were on the phone while driving you probably wouldn't see this on your rear view mirror. Via /u/Bigreddog19
Smartphones today are jam-packed with features that border on the silly (folding phones, anyone?) as tech companies race to outdo each other.
But one company decided to take a completely different path. Behold, the Light Phone:
The Light Phone was an object of extreme minimalism. “Going light,” founders Joe Hollier and Kai Tang stressed, was about a conscious uncoupling from our screens, rediscovering the world around us, and creating space for a slower and potentially more meaningful pace of communication. In practice, that meant a stripped-down phone that only made calls — no keyboard, T9 texting, or even a contact list. Adding a contact to speed dial meant firing up a desktop dashboard. Even then, you could only save 10 numbers at a time.
Read the rest over at The Verge
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A very small minority of college basketball stars go on to play professionally. Of those, some play in the NBA, some are on minor league teams, and some play overseas. Whoever they play for, they all get to win a game occasionally ...except for the Washington Generals. That's the team whose sole purpose is to lose every night to the Harlem Globetrotters. At age 21, Ryan Gunderson found himself flying to China to start as point guard for the Generals, and later became team captain. You might think that losing every night would be soul-sucking, but Gunderson has fond memories of the experience.
My first game in China, I started at point guard. I was stoked, it was huge crowd, and as PG, I was now the one who’d lead the team out of the tunnel to the crowd. When you run out to places like the Staples Center with 20,000 people, you’re thinking to yourself, How do I get to do this for a living? CRAZY!
But for my first game out of the tunnel, little did I know they always pull a prank on the rookies: Everyone else would stay back as you run out by yourself. So everyone laughs at you, and the rest of the team just runs to the bench. So there I was, alone on the court in front of 18,000 Chinese people, and I swear they couldn’t have laughed harder.
Another tradition for the rookies is a part of the game where you get your uniform ripped off and you have to run around and scream. First game in the books and those two things happen right off the bat.
Gunderson got to travel the world, and in some places, fans appreciated the Generals almost as much as the Globetrotters. Read Gunderson's story at Mel magazine. -via Digg
Q: How do you get a Canadian to apologize?
A: Step on their foot.
Canadians apologize so much that they had to pass a law called the Apology Act of 2009 that saying "sorry" (as "an expression of sympathy or regret") is not "an admission of fault or liability."
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Ra Paulette spent more than 25 years of his life in the high desert of New Mexico to carve out these majestic cave homes. The astonishing fact is that Ra Paulette was self-taught in carving!
Paulette first began turning sandstone hills into magnificent man-made caves of art when he was commissioned to make what he named as Windows in the Earth Shrine for a Santa Fe Resort in New Mexico.
It took him two years to finish, and it’s said that it can be used for wedding ceremonies, prayer, meditation, or anything for that matter. After finishing his sandstone masterpiece, he began making more.
No cave is identical, and each has its own beauty.
Speaking of his artistic approach, he shared: “It has a lot to do with the juxtaposition of opposites: the sense of being underground with the light streaming in; the intimacy of being in a cave, yet the columns end up very large, sometimes thirty to forty feet high.”
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Watch this video featuring Paulette and his work:
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This astounding discovery of more than 100 amulets, lucky charms, and precious gems in the Ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii was believed to have belonged to a sorceress who may have died more than two milennia ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Researchers believe that the hoard once belonged to a woman, and most likely had magical significance – for protection or adornment to invoke fertility, fortune and to defend the wearer from bad luck.
Pompeii’s general director Massimo Osanna said in a statement: ‘They are objects of everyday life in the female world and are extraordinary because they tell micro-stories and biographies of the inhabitants of the city who tried to escape the eruption.’
So whether a sorceress used to own these or not, they are still a glimpse of Pompeii’s past.
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Ever thought of sending children in the mail? Well, these people didn’t think of it - they DID it!
Back in 1913, Vernon O. Lytle used to receive and deliver mails, including children. He was the first man to accept and deliver some live babies, a practice that was eventually done by other mailmen.
The most famous case of a child getting posted (thanks to a 1997 children's book named Mailing May) was when 4-year-old Charlotte May Pierstorff was sent to her grandmother in Lewiston, Idaho, 73 miles away from her cheap-ass parents in Grangeville, who didn't want to fork out for an actual train ticket. Charlotte cost 53 cents to post, and traveled the entire journey in a train's mail compartment, which doesn't sound at all traumatizing!
Think that's bad? In 1914, a two-year-old boy (TWO!) was mailed over 200 miles by his grandmother in Stratford, Oklahoma, to his aunt in Wellington, Kansas. (Where, oh where, were this kid's parents?) He wore the 18 cent postage around his neck and was transported by a number of insanely patient mail carriers.
Do you think this was ethical?
Photo by: Smithsonian Institution
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Finnish adventurers Lauri and Anni Vuohensilta (previously at Neatorama) are obviously doing well with their YouTube videos, as their toys get more and more elaborate and expensive. So if they can afford this expensive camera setup, why is Anni wielding an acetylene torch duct-taped to a broom? It's the fame, not the fortune, that got them a Chronos ring of 72 cameras in order to make high-speed videos in a new series they call Bullet Time Show. They begin with blasting oxygen soap bubbles with an acetylene torch.
It was fifty years ago this month that the TV series The Brady Bunch premiered. It ran for five years, and has been in syndication ever since. HGTV is celebrating that milestone with a huge project: renovating the Brady Bunch house to look exactly as it did on your TV screen all those years ago. The six actors who played the Brady kids participated in the project with HGTV stars in A Very Brady Renovation, a four-part miniseries premiering tonight. Now, remember, the show was not filmed at the house, which was only used for establishing exterior shots. The house became way more familiar to the audience than to the actors, who worked in a studio miles away. Therefore, the "renovation" involves a complete gutting and redesign of the interior.
Shepherded by HGTV's favorite camera hogs, "The Property Brothers" (Jonathan and Drew Scott), and with help from the stars of "Restored by the Fords," "Hidden Potential," "Flea Market Flip" and "Good Bones," the project involves turning the one-story house into a two-story house, to add some 2,000 square feet of new living space without changing the essential street view.
"Just know that if any of this is wrong, we'll be put out to dry," Drew Scott warns his HGTV colleagues. "All of America will know exactly what this house is supposed to look like."
In fact, all of America pitched in: The hunt for vintage furnishings became an online group effort, with collectors proudly volunteering their wares - down to the decorative plastic grapes on a coffee table and a curio cabinet that stands between the dining room and kitchen. Other treasures were unearthed in deep storage at Paramount.
And what becomes of the house, once finished? Turning it into a museum won't work for the neighborhood, which has suffered enough Brady mania. HGTV is giving away a week's stay at the house as part of a promotional contest, but beyond that, the network's plans for the property are unknown.
Read more about how the reunion show came together. -via Metafilter
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Inside Bloomia's 42-acre warehouse facility, located in King George, Virginia, are millions of tulips grown in different times of the year which will be shipped to different retailers and stores like your local Wegmans, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe's. It is one of the largest indoor tulip production facilities in the country.
“This place used to be a tomato farm, if you can believe that,” says Jansen. “But it already had a greenhouse set up, and I knew as soon as I saw it that it would be perfect.” Apparently, he was right: Bloomia now ships more than 75 million tulips a year.
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Since there are places where smoking in public is illegal, designated areas have been set up so that anyone can light a cigarette and puff one out. However, not all smoking shelters are created equal.
Some shelters have smokers' interests in mind, giving them a comfortable space to relax and relieve some stress. While other areas are not properly maintained and look dilapidated. Here's a list of ten smoking shelters compiled by the Web Urbanist.
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Not a lot of dogs enjoy being groomed. Some do, but many don't like it. And they do whatever it takes just to escape the agony of getting bathed or having their nails clipped. In this case, a drama queen pit bull pretends to faint to avoid a nail trimming.
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Well, not exactly. We can get our hopes up that Walter White will make a comeback because of some leaked photos from the filming of 'El Camino' but it is generally thought that the character died at the final episode of Breaking Bad. However, there is a possibility that we can see Walter again, albeit in flashbacks.
Now with only a month before the Breaking Bad movie hits Netflix, behind-the-scenes photos from the set of El Camino have leaked and by the looks of them, it appears that Walter White will be returning.
El Camino will focus on Jesse Pinkman played by Emmy-winning actor Aaron Paul. The official synopsis from Netflix reads: “In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.”
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Was placed in charge of the group chat this week and I think I handled it pretty well pic.twitter.com/n67LUOaTBy
— Sir Michael (@Michael1979) September 4, 2019
Online communities, groups, and forums enable people to connect with others who have shared interests, but there will be cases when users post content that doesn't contribute much to the community.
So when user @Michael1979 had the chance to become admin for a day in the WhatsApp group to which he belonged, he set a condition for filtering the content based on his standards. After which he took appropriate action, namely removing people whose content isn't useful or helpful to the discussion. This is what happened.
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