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Lil' Drac, the Cutest Baby Bat You'll See Today

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Meet Lil' Drac.

The orphaned short-tailed fruit bat was abandoned by his stressed-out mother (not an uncommon behavior, apparently) and was rescued and hand-raised by volunteers from Bat World Sanctuary.

Thanks to bad portrayal in movies, we are so used to thinking of bats as evil creatures, but according to Bat World's website, that's a bad rap:

Bats  are clean, gentle and intelligent, they are vital to the ecosystem, and they enhance our lives in many ways. Fruit and nectar bats bring us approximately 450 commercial products and over 80 different medicines through seed dispersal and pollination. Up to 98% of all rainforest regrowth comes from seeds that have been spread by fruit bats. Insect-eating bats are literal vacuum cleaners of the night skies, eating millions upon millions of harmful bugs. They protect us by eating insect-pests that destroy crops as well as insects that cause human disease.

Watch the cute little baby bat rock his body while hanging upside down to comfort himself after he's been fed (with milk soaked onto a tiny foam tip).


How Cold is It? It's So Cold Even This Snowman is Hitchhiking to Florida!

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How cold has it been in the midwest and northeastern United States? So cold that even this snowman is hitchhiking to Florida! (Does anyone know the story behind this photo?)

Update 2/18/14: The snowman is from Andover, New Hampshire - Thanks Jennifer!


Tetris Nails

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Playing Tetris with only your fingers? NAILED IT! Kayleigh O'Connor (featured previously on Neatorama) created this 8-bit work of nail art.


Meet The German Prince That Skis for Mexico in a Mariachi Suit for the Sochi Winter Olympics

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Photo: Mexican Olympic Committee

How to explain Prince Hulbertus von Hohenlohe.

Let's see. Prince Hubertus, also known by his nickname Royal Disaster, is an actual prince. He's descended from the reigning dynasty of a former principality in what is now Germany. He was born in Mexico as a son to Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe and Princess Ira Fürstenberg. So he's a Mexican citizen and a German prince, all in one.


Photo: Hubertus von Hohenlohe

Oh, and he's also the lone member of Mexico's Alpine Skiing Team in the Sochi Winter Olympics. And even better: he's got a one-of-a-kind Mariachi-themed suit:


Mariachi Suit via NBC Olympics

Whatever happens at the sporting event, we know that he's already won gold medal with that suit!


Boy vs The Buggers

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Boy vs The Buggers by Stephanie Jayne Design

He's not a killer. He just wins ... thoroughly, like this fantastic Boy vs The Buggers pop culture mash up design by Stephanie Jayne Design.

Take a look at Stephanie's website and official Facebook page (give her a like, please!) then visit her NeatoShop for more neat shirt designs.

There's A Walking Carpet on My Spaceship Siamese Cat Master Sword in the Stone The Pegasus Model

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It's Gr-r-ray! by Pinteezy

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It's Grrray! by Pinteezy

Funny and geeky T-shirts? NeatoShop artist Pinteezy has the power! Check out his official Facebook page then head on over to Pinteezy's NeatoShop for more fabulous T-shirt designs. Your purchase helps support india artist and the blog, so buy something, mmkay?

Hokutos Cosmo Canyon Reds Vintage Mouser Delivered
       
Master of His Universe Thundermice Hooooo Super Mondrian Hedgehog Saiyajin

View more designs by Pinteezy | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts

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Flower Lungs

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All I could find out about the wonderful flower lungs above is that it was used as an undated advertisement for a wellness club. Does anyone know the artist?

In the meanwhile, enjoy the wonderful imagery brought up by the bouganvillea lungs!


A Mountain of Railroad Ties

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How do you climb a mountain of stacked railway ties? This 1937 photograph by Fox for the Daily Herald was taken in the Great Western Railway sleeper creosoting works in Hayes, Middlesex, England ("railway sleeper" is what railroad ties are called in the rest of the world; creosote is a chemical used to preserve the wood).

As explained by the Daily Herald Archive from the National Media Museum, the steps are created from the individual ties themselves so workers can reach the top without using ladders.


Attack on Freeze by David Bear

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Attack on Freeze by David Bear

Don't worry, humanity. No one's going to eat you. The giant by the wall is only there because he wants to marry a princess - why, he even brought a baby and a puppy. This awesome (or should we say mathematical?) mash up T-shirt design is brought to you by David Bear.

Visit David Bear's official Facebook page (give 'im a like, wontcha?), then check out his NeatoShop for more geeky designs.

Geeky T-Shirt Sale - tons of geeky T-shirts by David Bear and other artists are currently on sale over at the NeatoShop. These shirts make great Valentine's Day gift for your favorite geek! Hurry! It's for a limited time only.

Pocket Titan Monster Friends The Beatnions A Song of Ice and Fire
       
TechnoDraco Ice Age King Lost Sisters Legendary Monster Y

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Geeky T-Shirt Sale: 50 T-Shirts Perfect for Your Favorite Geek

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Got a geeky Valentine? Don't buy your significant other flowers - those will wilt and die in a week. Instead, get him or her a gift that'll remind them of your love day after day: Funny and Geeky T-shirts from the web's greatest artists over the NeatoShop.

Best of all, hundreds of them are on sale - save up to 25% with our Geeky T-Shirt Sale. This is a limited time offer, so get yours today!


Love by Warbucks Design


The Ribbit by Kenny Durkin


Sharktopus Tamer by Chibi T-Shirts


It's Dangerous To Go Alone Take Your Glasses by Retro Review


Darth Smoke by Donnie

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How to Parallel Park Like a Ninja

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You're driving along looking for parking when you see the perfect spot. But you're a few lanes too far away and the jerks driving alongside you won't let you pull over.

Do you:

a) Say goodbye to that perfect parking spot and drive away

b) Stop the car mid-traffic, put on the blinkers and pray no one grab the parking spot while you wait till it's safe to pull over

or 

c) Park like a ninja, just like this viral video clip shows?

According to this YouTube clip, a Moscow driver chose option C. The whole thing was captured by a dashboard cam.


Dead Man Fights One Last Boxing Match

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Photo: Ricardo Arduengo/AP

Christopher Rivera Amaro entered the ring for one last time and even in death, the boxer looked formidable.

After his death, his family wanted to show Amaro as a boxer, so Elsie Rodriguez of Marin Funeral Home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, posed him in a makeshift boxing ring. As reported by MSN, Amaro was posed standing up wearing a yellow training hoodie and sunglasses, with hands in boxing gloves.


Dreaming Alice by Edwoody

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Dreaming Alice by Edwoody

"We're all mad here," said the Cheshire Cat. "I'm mad. You're mad ..." We're all mad for this wonderful Dreaming Alice T-shirt by NeatoShop artist Edwoody.

Visit Edwoody's official Facebook page, then begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end of all of the artist's wonderful designs over at the NeatoShop, then stop.

Alice Tea Time Bat Pop Stewie is Snow The Mad Hatter
       
Take Geek Ticket Sailor Art Nouveau To King's Landing The Powerhipster Team

View more designs by Edwoody | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts

Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!


Peecycling

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Photo: Abe Noe-Hays/Rich Earth Institute

You care about the environment, you say. You compost your organic wastes and recycle the rest. But what about your pee? Do you peecycle? No? What kind of a treehugger are you?

Everybody pees. In fact, Americans produce about 30 billion gallons of urine every year. That, according to Kim Nace of Rich Earth Institute, represents a valuable resource that most of us just flush away. Instead, Nace proposed that we recycle our urine and use it as fertilizer as it is a "local, accessible, free, sanitary source of nitrogen and phosphorus."

In other words, if you need a natural fertilizer, urine luck!

But how good is urine as fertilizer anyways? Last year, the Institute carried out an experiment to test it.


Photo: Betty Jenewin/Rich Earth Institute

As reported by National Geographic, that thanks to sixty enthusiastic community members, the Institute collected 600 gallons of urine to fertilize a field of hay in a Brattleboro, Vermont, farm. A 50/50 mix of urine and water was applied to a test strip of land. The result was impressive:


Photo: Abe Noe-Hays/Rich Earth Institute

Rich Earth Institute co-founder and Research Director Abe Noe-Hays said in an interview in the Bennington Banner, "the amount of nutrients in a year's worth of urine from one person is almost all the fertilizer needed to grow food for that person in that span."


Magic Eye Music Video

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Remember the Magic Eye books from the 90s? If you've been waiting for someone to make it in video form, your wait is over.

The Young Rival has released the music video to its song Black is Good completely in autostereogram. The random dot autostereogram music video is best viewed in HD (this one is meant for the "parallel-eye" method - if you have trouble seeing it, you can view it in the cross-eyed version).

Jared Raab and Tomasz Dysinski who created the video explained how it's made:

BUT WAIT, THIS IS A VIDEO. HOW DID YOU MAKE IT?

This is where it gets technical. To make your own autostereogram, one must first create a thing called a "depth map" which is a 2D representation of 3D depth information. We collected real-time depth data of Young Rival performing the song using an X-Box Kinect hooked up to a computer. The computer was running software called RGBD toolkit, designed for capturing the depth information from the Kinect using its built-in infrared system. Once we had our depth information, we unpacked it into image sequences and edited these sequences as if they were regular video. The only difference in the editing process was that depth was represented by luminosity. For fun, you can view the black and white depth-map version HERE (password required - hint: what type of animal appears at 2:30?). With much trial and error, we then ran the data through an algorithm which took each frame of depth information, converted it into a random dot stereogram image, and repacked it into the final video. Lastly, there was one more colour pass at the end, and voila.


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