Geek credentials? Check. Gaming prowess? Check. Chic style? Check, check, check! Matt Parsons designed these excellent Christmas sweater-inspired T-shirts, perfect for your favorite geek. Available at the NeatoShop: Link
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No need to get mad, puny humans, get this SMASHING! T-shirt by Scott Neilson, instead!
Check out Scott Neilson's website, Facebook page, and Tumblr for more neat-o designs, then visit his NeatoShop page to get some: Link. Your purchase helps support indie artists like Scott, as well as this blog, so buy something, mmkay?
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From 8-bit to 3D, one thing's for sure: video and computer games continues to evolve. But as Mike Jacobsen cleverly illustrates in this T-shirt, we're not too sure about gamers themselves! (Joking! No hate mails, please!)
Visit Mike's official website and Facebook (give 'im a Like, wontcha), then visit his NeatoShop page to get the neat-o shirts: Link
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Here's a T-shirt that'll make people do a double take! Anthony Moreno cleverly combined some hybrid animals for his Mixed Up Animal T-shirts, available at the NeatoShop: Link
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Heeeere's Pac-y! Famous T-shirt artist Wirdou re-invisioned your favorite 8-bit video game as a horror movie.
Check out Wirdou's official website and Facebook page, then go to his NeatoShop page for more neat T-shirts: Link. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog.
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It's a muttation eat muttation in the world of social media, so indie Greek artist ntesign wish that may the odds be ever in your favor. Visit out ntesign's Facebook page, then head on over to his NeatoShop page for more neat designs: Link
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Like many of us, Diego Stocco (previously on Neatorama) makes himself a cup of coffee every morning. But this time, the musician and self-professed coffee lover decided to do it a bit differently. Here's the best coffee you'll ever hear (Diego even made a custom-built water-proof microphone to capture some of the sounds).
Forget hypnosis or the nicotine patch! A 42-year old Turkish man named Ibrahim Yücel has devised a unique way to stop himself from smoking: wearing a helmet-like wire cage on his head.
İbrahim Yücel, who is trying to kick a 26-year habit of smoking two packets of cigarettes per day, gives the keys of his head cage to his wife and daughter when he leaves home every day. In this way, he is unable to open the cage to smoke during the day, even if he craves a smoke.
He says he was inspired to create the helmet-like head cage by observing motorcycle helmets, after trying without success to quit smoking several times in the past.
Here's a neat way to exercise your brain: the Ball of Whacks and the Star Ball by Roger Von Oech. Assemble these magnetic toys into hundreds of shapes to spur your creativity.
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Susan Morgan with Lord Greystone, a miniature llama, at her farm in Hastings, Minn.
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Forget dogs! Here comes the new hip pet: llama.
As Jennifer A. Kingson wrote in this entertaining article over at The New York Times, llamas are like the "potato chips" of pets. You can't have just one:
People who keep llamas as pets will readily offer you any number of reasons: llamas are quiet, they’re gentle and affectionate, they don’t take a lot of work to maintain and, for outdoor animals, they don’t smell bad.
But it’s more than that. Look at a llama and it’ll gaze back sympathetically with those huge, beguiling eyes, ears perked up, looking for all the world like it understands you and really cares about your problems.
Most people start with two or three, since llamas are sociable and don’t like to live alone. But as Katrina Capasso, a llama owner in Ballston Spa, N.Y., discovered, “They’re like potato chips.” It’s hard to stop at just a few. Ms. Capasso, 49, received her first llama as a wedding gift from her husband, Gary, in 1990. Now she has 55.
Oh, and they hum. Yes, they hum:
Llamas are generally quiet, but that doesn’t mean they don’t make any noise. When a male is interested in a female, or mating, he makes a noise that sounds a bit like gargling. (Llama people call this an orgle.) Female llamas make clicking sounds. And all llamas hum; in particular, mothers hum to their babies, which hum back.
It’s part of the bonding process, said Susan Morgan, 54, a home-care nurse in Hastings, Minn., who breeds miniature llamas with her husband, George, 56, an engineer. “They recognize each other by the hum,” she said. Two months after one of her females gave birth, Ms. Morgan said, they were still humming at each other.
Her husband said he gets a lot of questions about it. “People come up to me and ask, ‘Why are the llamas humming?’ ” he said. “And I’ll say, ‘Because they don’t know the words.’ ”
Warton, Lancashire, England, may be celebrating the Fourth of July with the former colonies, but not this Spitfire Coffee shop in New Orleans, Louisiana, as snapped by redditor BoxcarBartlet. It is sympathizing with Britain for the loss of its American colonies.
On another note, it seems that Mayor McCheese is in the lead over Prince in tips garnered. Which goes to show that you can't beat burgers in America. Not even Prince.
Last year, Leslie James Pickering, a bookstore owner and activist in Buffalo, New York, noticed something unusual in his mail, a confidential note reminding postal employees to copy all of his mail before delivering them.
The note was accidentally slipped into his mail deliveries and Pickering has just stumbled upon a little known postal spying program:
As the world focuses on the high-tech spying of the National Security Agency, the misplaced card offers a rare glimpse inside the seemingly low-tech but prevalent snooping of the United States Postal Service.
Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.
Vulcan was also deemed potentially difficult because it was the name of a planet thought to exist in an orbit closer to our Sun than Mercury's. Such a world never existed, but the IAU still reckoned it was too confusing.
“Although this planet was found not to exist, the term ‘vulcanoid’ remains attached to any asteroid existing inside the orbit of Mercury, and the name Vulcan could not be accepted for one of Pluto’s satellites,” it said.
So, what did they choose as the names of the two moons? Kerberos and Styx. Kerberos (or Cerberus) is the three-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld in Roman mythology. Styx is the mythological river that separates the Earth and the Underworld.
After NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gets the first up-close views of Pluto in 2015, craters, mountains and other features spotted on the dwarf planet's surface could bear the names of famous "Star Trek" characters, researchers said.
"We might have craters called Sulu and Spock and Kirk and McCoy and so on," Mark Showalter of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif., said during a Google+ Hangout today (July 2).
“What? That’s impossible! I’m going to lead a revolt,” Shatner said, when Wired told him of the outcome. “Pluto is so big and cold that it deserved to have a hot little rock running around it, named Vulcan — for fire.”
... and tweeted:
We can only imagined that Shatner cried out "Khaaaaaaann you believe it? They didn't name Pluto's new moons after Vulcan."
Just in time for the Fourth of July, punster-in-chief Hanksy (Instagram) set up four panels in the streets of New York City featuring America's most iconic "bald beauties." Thanks Benjamin!
Yes, Sir Patrick Stewart technically isn't American, but Hanksy said that since he's Captain Picard, he gets a free pass.
