Kentucky for Kentucky presents a limited-edition print featuring the artwork of illustrator Robert Bridges. It’s called The ABCs of Kentucky, featuring 26 points of Kentucky pride, one for each letter of the alphabet, from Muhammad Ali to Zombies. They could have come up with something better for O than opossum, in my opinion. Even “opinion” would have been better. I see I got bumped for Mammoth Cave, which is understandable. They are for sale here. -va Laughing Squid
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Is it possible that the "fancy jacket wearing monkey lost inside an Ikea" story was actually a publicity stunt for the Swedish company's latest product?
Probably not, but it's fun to imagine little fur coat wearing Ikea monkeys running around greeting shoppers as they choose the perfect Ugelkloper for their new home.
I don't know the original source of this image, but when you see something so adorable as Lizard Claus and his nine tiny lizard deer, you just can't resist posting it.
That eternal question: Doctor...Hoot? We're closer to an answer, thanks to Kelsey Wailes. She sculpted a little ceramic owl for each incarnation of the Doctor (that we know about). They're made of sculpey and have fully rotating heads.
Link -via Nerd Approved
There's no denying that chameleons are fascinating creatures if only for their awesome color-changing abilities and amazing eyes, but Twisted Sifter has a list 10 facts about these amazing creatures and you might be surprised what you don't already know about them. For example:
Almost half of the world’s chameleon species live on the island of Madagascar, with 59 different species existing nowhere outside of the island. There are approximately 160 species of chameleon. They range from Africa to southern Europe, and across south Asia to Sri Lanka.
Chameleons feed by ballistically projecting their long tongue from their mouth to capture prey located some distance away. While the chameleon’s tongue is typically thought to be 1.5 to 2 times the length of their body (their length excluding the tail), it has been recently discovered that smaller chameleons have proportionately larger tongue apparatuses than their larger counterparts.
The list also has some great chameleon pictures, but not the cute one I posted above, that was on another article on their site.
Link Via Twisted Sifter
A litte food coloring, waffles, some fruit and bacon...who knew that's all it takes to make a great Christmas breakfast. I particularly love the use of pinneapple to make a star.
There's no indication of who made this flow chart, but it sure is a handy guide to hang in a shared bathroom. That is, if any of your roommates will actually read it! Link
The Empire State Building has a new LED light system. They inaugurated it Monday night with a light show set to "Girl on Fire" and "Empire State of Mind" by Alicia Keys, who also got to throw the switch. The music was broadcast on several radio stations. This video was shot from Hoboken. Link -via The Daily What
With quite a few states offering petitions to secede from the union, the question arises as to how strong the states would be as individual nations. What if they all seceded and then declared war on each other? This hypothetical question generated some very involved scenarios at Quora. Here's just a short snippet:
First came a period of massive migration back to the homelands. Facing the newly invented discrimination that will be created many felt the need to go back to their own people. While the individual states retained all military assets they couldn't control the individuals who fight. A Texas Marine stationed in California, would not fight for California. A soldier in New York would not fight against their home in Virginia and a sailor in Houston would not fight against their home state of Florida. The warriors returned to their home states and the states had to re-consider that when they measured troop strength of their new nations. Ultimately, they measured troop strength by how much of the population would return home.
The story has the war playing out, with various states joining forces and defending their borders. If you're a Quora member, you can read the input of others as well. Link -via Jason Kottke
Mathematician Victoria Hart wishes you an operative and efficient Thanksgiving. To aid this endeavor, she offers this tutorial on how to maximize the gravy carrying capacity of a pile of mashed potatoes.
-via The Mary Sue
Chalkboard paint allows you to put a handy chalkboard anywhere you want -the only problem is that it only seems to come in black. How booooring. If you want to have the convenience of chalkboard paint but don’t want it in black why not try mixing your own? With only a few simple steps you can have chalkboards in every color of the rainbow! A tutorial at A Beautiful Mess explains how to do it.
It is said that when a girl begins dating, she anticipates what to expect from a boy by the example set by her father. Therefore my daughters will grow up assuming that men are knowledgeable about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
I will, of course, do my best to encourage this notion.
When my eldest daughter brings home a boy for the first time, I will, as you would expect, be cleaning my rifle. This is Texas; doing otherwise would be considered rude.
But I will at the same time interrogate the lad on MLP minutia, hopefully causing him embarrassment as he is unable to answer simple questions (e.g. "Why are muffins linked to Derpy?") in front of my daughter. Thus I will intimidate him from doing anything ungentlemanly to her.
Photo: LilMoon
After seeing a man suited up as a gorilla and playing the drums, Armstrong Baillie also decided to dress up. He chose giraffe and performed random acts of kindness across Scotland:
During the past six months Armstrong has handed out free bananas and water to runners at the Edinburgh Half Marathon, cleaned up litter on Portobello Beach and given away £10 vouchers to mothers in hospitals.
He has also been seen handing out free coffee to cold passers-by and cleaning cages at cat and dog homes.
Unemployed, Mr Baillie, said he busks using his kazoo and djembe drum then uses the donations to pay for the kind deeds.
He hitch-hikes to reach his destinations - but is only being able to be picked up by convertibles due to his long-necked suit.
Angie Brown of BBC Scotland has more: Link (Photo: Kenneth Gray)
I didn't even know they had chocolate Pop Rocks, which makes sense since they are limited edition apparently. If you do come across them though, you can always use this recipe to make your own tasty chocolate Pop Rocks potato chips.
If we may commit the sin of pride for a moment: Pee-wee Herman, who has more than 1.3 million followers on Twitter and only follows 275 people back, follows neatorama. Don't you think YOU should be, too? So go do it, now. Otherwise, when we tweet something bad about you, how will you know it? (That was so funny I almost forgot to laugh!)
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