Follow Me (Down the rabbit Hole) by kgullholmen

If Alice were alive today she wouldn't have had to take an actual trip down the rabbit hole because she could have experienced all the tea party madness, tripped out characters and crazy croquet matches from the safety of her living room via VR headset. Then Alice wouldn't have had to worry about losing her head when the Red Queen blew her top, nor would she have been so worried about getting lost in those weird woods where the Cheshire Cat hung with those strange talking plants. In fact, Alice would have enjoyed her trip knowing she had unlimited lives and continues!

Show the world what the future of imagination looks like by wearing this Follow Me (Down The Rabbit Hole) t-shirt by Kgullholmen, and your fellow Wonderland fans will come out of the woodwork wherever you go.

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Dolph C. Volker, the Cheeta Whisperer (previously at Neatorama), shows us the difference between big cats that are "ambush predators" and those that aren't. Cheetahs chase their prey; that's what they are built for. But leopards are very likely to sneak up on you.  

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The sequence between 2:30 and 3:30 reminds me of a house cat video we are all familiar with. The big difference is that you can virtually see the leopard dreaming of dinner when its eyes focus on Volker's back. But is it okay to turn your back on a cheetah? I'll never try it. How about you? Volker himself recommends against acting like he does. -via Digg

Before smartphones took over the world, you would often see a magazine rack in someone's bathroom. Magazine articles are short or long, and you selected what to read by how long you thought you'd be in there. That's exactly the idea that John Javna had while sitting on the toilet one day in 1987. The first Uncle John's Bathroom Reader was published in 1988, which makes the series 30 years old now.

“John created it … based on the tradition that the whole family read a lot in the bathroom, and so did the whole world,” Gordon Javna told an Oregon newspaper in 2016. “I cracked up when I heard the idea from him, but it made a lot of sense.”

The first edition of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, released in 1988, was a collection of short articles, like brief histories of various subjects and origins of words or phrases. Credited to the Bathroom Readers Institute, the books were a success. Sequels were released the following years until the brothers, along with a team of freelancers, were producing 10 titles a year.

How did the Bathroom Readers become so successful? We'd like to think that Neatorama helped, but a lot of it was the Bathroom Reader's Institute's work with price clubs. Read about the rise of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader at Tedium.

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Watching people paint in real time can literally feel like watching paint dry, but watching an artist work on an incredibly detailed and beautiful painting in time lapse can be quite thrilling and inspirational.

This is especially true if the subject is something near and dear to your heart, and seeing as how I was born in the year of the dragon and I'm a huge fantasy nerd watching artist Chris Scalf paint this awesome portrait of a dragon really blew me away!

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-Via io9

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the premiere of a radio series called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Written by Douglas Adams, it first aired on March 8, 1978 on BBC Radio 4. In an era when radio plays were long gone, it became an enduring hit. Adams soon wrote a best-selling novel based on the radio series, and it eventually became a TV series -plus comics, video games, and stage productions. In honor of the anniversary, LEGO artist Ochre Jelly (Iain Heath) built a LEGO tribute featuring Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and various memorable icons of the series.

This LEGO diorama was unveiled at Emerald City Comic Con last week, and will be presented at various LEGO conventions this year including Bricks Cascade in Portland and BrickCan in Vancouver.    

This diorama includes the briefly-existent whale, petunias, Deep Thought, and more. See all the images in a larger size in Ochre Jelly's Flickr album. -Thanks, Iain!

Ruth Bader Ginsberg is the longest-serving woman justice on the US Supreme Court, and only the second woman ever appoint to the Court. But she had quite a distinguished career even before that. She was already a wife and mother when she graduated, tied for first in her class, from Columbia Law School in 1959, and spent the next several decades having to prove she was as good as any male lawyer. Ginsberg worked for the ACLU and took on gender discrimination cases all over the country. She was appointed to the US Court of Appeals in 1976, and to the Supreme Court in 1993.     

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Ruth Bader Ginsberg is a real-life superhero. And now the notorious RBG has her own superhero movie, titled simply RBG, a documentary set for limited release on May 4. May the fourth be with her. -via Uproxx

These star-crossed lovers of the feline variety are not pussyfooting around! What will their families think? Cactussa took this picture in Chefchaouen, Morocco. Chefchaouen is renowned for its buildings washed in various shades of blue. Read more about Chefchaoen in a previous post. -via reddit

Orcs are fearsome and savage creatures in their own right, green-skinned killing machines from a primordial era when humans did not yet rule the Earth, but imagine how much scarier they'd be if they were on meth.

Now I'm pretty sure most meth dealers know better than to sell speed to a savage orc, but a foolish drug peddler hooked Treshtog up with some meth and now it's all he can think about.

And then the dung really hit the fan when Treshtog discovered some thieving scumbag stole his meth and smoked it... (NSFW language)

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METH ORCS is a stupid funny animated short created by SexualLobster, an animator who is clearly quite wise since he came up with this quote for the ages- "wizards of quality don't smoke meth".

We have skeletal evidence of human brain surgery going back 12,000 years, but since there was no written language to accompany those early cases, the reasons for trepanation in ancient cultures is a matter of conjecture. Later medical accounts say that skulls were drilled open to treat fractures, epilepsy, or paralysis, or for experiments. Some patients even survived the procedure. A tale arose that trepanation in ancient cultures was to "let the migraines out," but there is no evidence for this in either skulls or ancient literature. Where did that idea come from?

The real source of the myth seems to have come much later. In 1902, the Journal of Mental Science published a lecture by Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, a London physician well-known for his work on pharmacology and ideas about migraine pathology. The lecture mixed neurological theory and armchair anthropology, and ranged over subjects including premonitions, telepathy, hypnotism, hallucinations, and epileptic and migrainous aura. In one notable passage, Brunton proposed that visions of fairies and the sound of their jingling bells were “nothing more” than the zigzags of migraine aura, and the aural results of nerve centre stimulation.

Brunton proposed that openings bored into ancient Stone Age skulls during life had been made to cure migraine. His suggestion followed considerable excitement during the 1870s when the French physician and anthropologist Paul Broca claimed that ancient skulls discovered in Peru and France had not only been opened surgically during life in order to release evil spirits, but that the patients had survived. To Brunton, it seemed obvious that the holes would have been made at the request of migraine sufferers in order to “let the headache out”.

Read more about what we know and what we don't know about trepanation at Smithsonian.

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Seeing snow fall for the first time generally blows a child's mind, and adults who have never seen flakes of snow fall from the sky are often quite tripped out by the experience as well.

However, no human can ever know how mind blowing it must be for a puppy to see snow fall for the first time, nor will we ever experience the pleasure of leaping into the air and snapping at snowflakes with our maws.

But watching this video of a 4-month-old English Springer Spaniel from Wales leaping around catching snowflakes in mid-air will give you some idea of how amazing snowfall seems to a tiny puppy's brain!

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Movies, TV shows, and advertisements wouldn't reflect real life if they didn't include children and even babies. But children aren't experienced actors- at least most of them aren't. And there are strict labor laws covering how they are used in Hollywood productions. That's where the profession of "child wrangler" comes in. Jody is a child wrangler. Her duties include making sure the rules are followed, ensuring children are properly supervised on set, and doing whatever she can to get a performance out of them within the limitations of their inexperience, their parents, and the laws. She has a few horror stories about stage parents, bad luck, and the vagaries of acting. And a couple of really nice stories.   

Jody worked on a TV pilot about a giant friendly monster, but since the monster was all CGI, its stand-in on set was an eyeless green mess of padding. The horrified parents of the young actress complained to the wardrobe department (wardrobe wasn't responsible and had no power to fix it, but the parents just really wanted to vent, apparently). Jody told the girl, "This is a nice man pretending to be a big kitty, but we haven't put the rest of him on yet ... He doesn't feel good about himself for not looking like the others. Can you make him feel better when you see him?" The girl ran to the homunculus, hugged him, and said, "You're pretty to me." The show never got picked up, but that take was gold.

Read about the work of a Hollywood child wrangler at Cracked.

Murderers rarely confess to their crimes before being questioned by police or arrested, but killers who suddenly find they have a conscience, or feel like gloating about their crime, have started using social media like a confessional.

Derek Medina would become known as the Facebook Killer after he murdered his wife and uploaded pics of her corpse to Facebook back in 2013, using Facebook to confess what he'd done to his family and friends before turning himself in to the police:

“I had an argument with my wife and she was hitting me.  She always hits me all the time. I got tired of her hitting me so I shot her,” he said. When officers tried to get dispatchers to send fire rescue to the couple’s house, Medina then said – “oh she’s dead. I know she’s dead because I emptied my 380 in her. Five shots.”

Randy Janzen of British Columbia used Facebook as a confessional in a similar fashion after killing his wife, daughter and sister, but his confession didn't lead to an arrest- because Randy killed himself after setting his house ablaze.

Randy's reason for killing was just as bizarre as his emoji-filled Facebook confession- he didn't want his daughter to suffer with debilitating migraines so he shot her.

He then shot his wife so she wouldn't have to "hear the news her baby has died", and a few days later he killed his sister because "I did not want her to have to live with this shame I have caused all alone. Now my family is pain free (sic) and in heaven.”

There's no telling how long it would have taken police to show up at his house and discover the bodies had he not posted the confession above on Facebook, but when they showed up the house went up in flames, leaving them unable to enter for three days.

Read 6 Murderers Who Confessed To Their Crimes On Facebook here

The Cat in the Hutt by Kenny Durkin

The Cat in the Hat had always been an imaginative fellow, and he had always enjoyed letting his mind wander into whichever book he's reading or TV show he's watching, but when he was introduced to a series of sci-fi movies about a war in the stars he found himself quite lost and unable to escape his imagination. The worlds were so realistic and so vibrant that he could see it all as clear as if he were there, and then when the characters started speaking to him he realized he really was there, on some planet far, far away called Tatooine. This revelation thrilled him to the bone- until a blaster was thrust into his back and The Cat in the Hat was forced to face a giant hungry space slug named Jabba...

Add some deliciously silly humor to your geeky wardrobe with this The Cat In The Hutt t-shirt by Kenny Durkin, it's the perfect mashup for people who have an unusual sense of taste.

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This is just because you need to watch something totally goofy at least once a day. There was a fad for a while for making blankets without sewing: get two pieces of synthetic fabric -the kind that doesn't unravel, cut a fringe all around, and tie the two pieces together with the fringe. Now you can just buy them sewn together. They can keep you warm while watching TV, or you can use them as a great dance costume!

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The dancers at Merguez Studio rightfully give credit to the inspiration for this nonsense.

Me: “I’m going to bed early tonight”

Me at 3 am: pic.twitter.com/XVpbkGkkkO

— John Olmsted (@JohnnyOohhh) January 29, 2018

-via reddit

College degrees used to be seen as these amazing sheets of paper that unlock a world of potential in our lives, allowing us to become educated heroes and head down the career path we've always dreamed of.

But then you graduate from college with a degree and a large amount of debt and start looking for a job in your chosen field, which either doesn't exist or doesn't hire people who don't have years of experience.

Then, as this Hot Paper comics strip shows, you're left with nothing but an expensive piece of paper and unfulfilled dreams about our dream jobs, which makes it really hard to get out of bed in the morning and find a job...

-Via Geeks Are Sexy