We don't know which we love more, Meekakitty or her song about bacon. Oh, and if this song gets you in the mood for more, there's always the neatobaconshop :-)
April is almost over and May is coming at us at the speed of time. Soon, we'll be busy with Mother's Day, graduation, Memorial Day, and school vacation. Just remember, when you get really busy that it's always a good idea to take a break and recharge with the fun and interesting stuff on Neatorama! Here's what you need to catch up on from the past week.
Jill Harness has two feature article his week. Cool Non-Literary Uses for Books has recycling projects that are "bound" to impress.
And her post The 11 Coolest and Weirdest Tumblr Blogs should keep you quite busy.
We learned about The Great Moon Hoax (of 1835) from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
The Annals of Improbable Research gave is a lesson in Horse Calculus.
Wales, the Almost Nation came to us from mental_floss magazine.
Alex received a promotional goodie box concerning the new movie Thor and decided to share the contents in a game called What's Inside The Box. We had lots of winners, who were named in the followup post.
The What Is It? game was not all that easy this week. It took a while, but Edward K had the right answer. This is a pet ID holder. You can slip paper inside it and attach it to a dog’s collar. The funniest answer came from Randall, who called it “A hummelfubertapfer. Scandenavian beer drinker would use this timy hammer to break of the ice that formed on their beer as they drank it. This led to the colloquial joke of ‘Is that your wife’s nose or a Hummelfubertapfer?’ after which the the joke’s subject would either fly into a rage or laugh uproarously, depending on their level of inebriation.” Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!
And we have a contest that is still open as this post is published! The Frowning Royal Wedding Flower Girl: What Was She Thinking About? is a caption contest of sorts in which you can win a funny t-shirt from the NeatoShop!
Once you've read what we have to offer for this week, you can delve into the archives for our past exclusive articles at The Best of Neatorama, or check out other links around the web with the NeatoHub. And thanks for spending some of your time with us!
Jill Harness has two feature article his week. Cool Non-Literary Uses for Books has recycling projects that are "bound" to impress.
And her post The 11 Coolest and Weirdest Tumblr Blogs should keep you quite busy.
We learned about The Great Moon Hoax (of 1835) from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
The Annals of Improbable Research gave is a lesson in Horse Calculus.
Wales, the Almost Nation came to us from mental_floss magazine.
Alex received a promotional goodie box concerning the new movie Thor and decided to share the contents in a game called What's Inside The Box. We had lots of winners, who were named in the followup post.
The What Is It? game was not all that easy this week. It took a while, but Edward K had the right answer. This is a pet ID holder. You can slip paper inside it and attach it to a dog’s collar. The funniest answer came from Randall, who called it “A hummelfubertapfer. Scandenavian beer drinker would use this timy hammer to break of the ice that formed on their beer as they drank it. This led to the colloquial joke of ‘Is that your wife’s nose or a Hummelfubertapfer?’ after which the the joke’s subject would either fly into a rage or laugh uproarously, depending on their level of inebriation.” Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!
And we have a contest that is still open as this post is published! The Frowning Royal Wedding Flower Girl: What Was She Thinking About? is a caption contest of sorts in which you can win a funny t-shirt from the NeatoShop!
Once you've read what we have to offer for this week, you can delve into the archives for our past exclusive articles at The Best of Neatorama, or check out other links around the web with the NeatoHub. And thanks for spending some of your time with us!
Miss Cellania noted the odd hats that Princess Beatrice of York and other ladies wore to the British royal wedding. What isn't widely known is that Beatrice actually modified her hat to make it a bit less ostentatious. There's a whole Tumblr blog devoted just to the odd headgear that she's worn in public.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've just blogged about the hat that a woman wore at a wedding, so I have to go surrender my man card now.
Link via Super Punch
Computer scientist Haym Hirsh wrote this puzzle. See if you can figure it out:
Now: What is Hirsh's local time?
You can view eight other good puzzles by Hirsh at the link.
Link | Hirsh's Website | Photo by Flickr user pobre.ch used under Creative Commons license
I am in one of the great capitals of Europe. I just learned that Bob, Carl, and I are in countries that share physical borders with each other. The official language of Bob’s country is Dutch, and Carl’s is Portuguese. It is 9:00am local time for both Bob and Carl.
Now: What is Hirsh's local time?
You can view eight other good puzzles by Hirsh at the link.
Link | Hirsh's Website | Photo by Flickr user pobre.ch used under Creative Commons license
Moose Hat - $16.95
Wedding bells have rung for Will and Kate, but that doesn't mean the hat craze has to end. Head on over to the NeatoShop and get yourself a fantastic Moose Hat. The Moose Hat is no where near as fabulous as Princess Beatrice's hat, but it is still pretty darn cool!Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fit for royalty Headwear!
Aah, the Royal Wedding. A grand occassion where joy was had by all. Well, almost all.
Grace van Cutsem, age 3, was the daughter of Lady Rose Astor and Hugh van Cutsem, a close friend of William and Harry. She was the cute flower girl that stole the show by tellin' it like it was in this photo that went viral 'round the Web (apparently, she hates loud noises!)
Boing Boing has the large pic: Link (Photo: Darren Staples/Reuters)
What do you think she was thinking about? Enter your caption in the comment below along with your selection of Funny T-shirt (don't forget the size and color) from the NeatoShop. Funniest 3 will win the T-shirts. One caption per comment, though you can enter as many as you'd like. If you don't enter the T-shirt selection, you forfeit the prize, mmkay?
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Until today, I'd never heard of the comedian and songwriter Allan Sherman (1924-1973). He was the Weird Al Yankovic of the 50s and 60s, composing and performing parody songs to millions of television viewers.
This song, "Good Advice", is a real hoot. It turns out that Sherman was responsible for the great inventions and discoveries of the modern age. Who knew?
More Information via TigerHawk
Questions of logic don't apply to Hollywood movies, but science fiction fans like their stories to make some kind of sense. So the discussion turned to the logic of using a Death Star to blow up a planet.
What follows is a cost-benefit analysis from various members of the Think Tank. Read the rest at (where else?) Overthinking It. Link -via Metafilter
What’s the economic calculus behind the Empire’s tactic of A) building a Death Star, B) intimidating planets into submission with the threat of destruction, and C) actually carrying through with said destruction if the planet doesn’t comply?
Doesn’t the Empire take a huge economic loss from the lost productivity of an entire planet? They were presumably paying taxes and providing resources to the rest of the Empire. Presumably the loss of that planet’s output would have to be made up by increased output from other planets that were either slacking in productivity due to rebellion or threatening to rebel and withdraw from the Empire altogether. It doesn’t seem to make good economic sense.
What follows is a cost-benefit analysis from various members of the Think Tank. Read the rest at (where else?) Overthinking It. Link -via Metafilter
We've previously featured some of Vincent Bousserez's photographs before, but this one in particular made me laugh.
In my home, we joke about pacifier gnomes stealing and hiding pacifiers, but maybe -- just maybe -- they're actually real. You can view a slideshow of Bousserez's work at the link and make up your own mind.
Link | Artist's Website
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Barrier1 Systems is a defense contractor that has developed a number of amazing retractable road blocking systems. The above video shows several of them, starting with a net that can be kept below the surface of the road, then deployed in an emergency. Hitting one of them is like slamming into a brick wall.
Company Website via Geekologie
Don't you recognize the scene? It's the Battle of San Juan Hill -- July 1, 1898. Criminy, they don't teach kids anything in school these days! It was this battle, among others in Cuba, that led to the development of the 1903 Springfield rifle, as the Krag-Jørgensen proved (as you can see in the picture) to have an inadequate rate of fire compared to the Spaniards' Mausers.
This excellent true to life image from history has been attributed to deviantART user Matthew McKeown.
Gallery Link via Geekosystem
The iconic "Mudflap Girl", long seen on America's highways, finally has an identity. Ed Allen of Washington, D.C. says that it's his mother. Allen's father, a trucker, kept a photo of his wife wearing a swimsuit in his rig:
Dad kept the photo in the cab of his truck, which always bore his wife’s name on the hood. When a new corporate owner forbade Stewart from decorating a company-owned vehicle, Stewart put his wife’s silhouette on his trailer’s mudflaps so his boss couldn’t see her when the truck was backed up to a loading dock.
In 1967, Ed Allen said that a local truck-accessories manufacturer named Bill Zinda saw the design. He liked it and, with dad’s permission, started selling it. No one ever trademarked the image, and Mudflap Girl got around a lot during the freewheeling ’70s.
Link via Jalopnik | Photo by Flickr user Brandon Doran used under Creative Commons license
Previously:
Dating Mudflap Girl
Wyoming Library's Mudflap Girl
Hello Neatoramanauts! Earlier this week we asked you to guess What's Inside The Thor Box and to take a look at the NeatoShop's wide selection of Funny T-shirts.
We've opened the box and found cool Thor swag inside. Here are the winners:
- cameron got the Thor Hammer
- Klyde got one of the Thor action figure
- sanderson81 got another Thor action figure
- TheBurke got the last Thor action figure
- tubacca123 got the Thor Helmet
Funny T-shirts winners, picked at random:
- Sasquatch got the Big Wiener
- Blitzanger got the ROFLCOPTER Pilot
Congrats, guys!
Rick Hill of Lunenburg, Massachusetts went on vacation to Hawaii and took an unplanned visit to Waikiki Beach. There he met resident Joe Parker, who went on an unplanned errand to the beach as part of his job. Parker recognized Hill's accent and made an offhand remark that led them to a discussion about how they both grew up in the same area of Massachusetts.
The two men spent a week becoming acquainted. Link -via reddit
And then the name game began. Parker threw out several, including Dickie Halligan. Hill responded, “That’s my father!’’
Standing in the glistening white sand, Parker lowered his sunglasses, squinted at Hill, and declared, “That’s my dad, too!’’
A flood of emotion hit everyone like the high-arching waves crashing nearby, they said. Tears flowed down Howe’s cheeks as the two men studied each other’s face and hugged.
“I can’t really put it into words,’’ Parker said yesterday in a telephone interview from Hawaii, describing the feeling of meeting his half brother for the first time, some 6,000 miles from where they grew up. “If I had to, I would say it was chilling, paralyzing, and an out-of-body experience all at once.’’
The two men spent a week becoming acquainted. Link -via reddit
