Thanksgiving is next week, and if you're looking for ideas to make your own easy last-minute Fall-inspired Thanksgiving centerpieces, you're in luck.

We posted the 10 Easy Last-Minute Thanksgiving Centerpiece Ideas over at our home design blog Homes & Hues, including these ones:

Fall-inspired glass cloche centerpiece by Better Homes and Gardens.

DIY tea candles in a log by Jenna Burger of SAS Interiors.

Maple leaf roses by Kate Hust of Solarpowered Kate.

Check out the full list over at Homes & Hues: 10 Easy Last-Minute Thanksgiving Centerpiece Ideas

Burt Reynolds once asked in his 1977 classic Smokey and the Bandit, "What do you think they do for excitement in this town?"

The answer, my friends, is the Burt Reynolds Eclair.

That artful chocolate-glazed and creme-filled piece of heaven is created by UK's Lou Lou P's Delight for the month-long Movember celebration (and what better icon than the moustachio'd Reynolds?) And yes, ladies, you may remember the pose from Reynold's 1972 Cosmopolitan nude centerfold (on a bear skin rug, no less):

So, why is the day after Thanksgiving called "Black Friday" anyhow? Our friends over at Today I Found Out explains in this neat YouTube clip:

“Black Friday” as a name for the day after Thanksgiving was coined by police officers in New England. One of the earliest documented references of this was in December of 1961, where Denny Griswold of Public Relations News stated: “in Philadelphia, it became customary for officers to refer to the post-Thanksgiving days as Black Friday and Black Saturday. Hardly a stimulus for good business, the problem was discussed by… merchants with their Deputy City Representative… He recommended adoption of a positive approach which would convert Black Friday and Black Saturday to Big Friday and Big Saturday.” (Referring to the traffic and number of accidents.)

“Big Friday” never caught on, but over the next decade, more and more references can be found in various newspaper archives of this particular Friday being called “Black Friday” for this reason.

In the 1980s as the name’s popularity spread throughout the United States, a new origin theory popped up, often touted by the media, that most retailers operated at a financial loss for the majority of the year and Black Friday was named such because it was the day of the year when the retailers would finally see a profit, moving out of the red and into the black.

This simply isn’t true. While there are some retailers that depend on the Christmas season’s revenue to make a profit for the year, most see profits every quarter based on the quarterly SEC filings of major retailers in the United States. There are also no documented references to this potential origin predating November of 1981.

View the rest of the explanation over at Today I Found Out.

Photo: William Patino

New Zealand sculptor David McCracken created this "Stairway to Heaven"-inspired piece for the 2013 Sculpture by the Sea exhibit in Bondi, Australia. The welded aluminum piece, titled Diminish and Ascend, looks like an infinite stairway to the clouds - the effect, as you can clearly see, is fantastic!

Can you hear it now? Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know / Your stairway lies on the whispering wind? *guitar solo*

Photo: Paul Davis

Via Colossal

See also: 10 Staircases That Really Take It To The Next Level over at Homes & Hues

"Run, you clever boy ... and remember."

Artist Javi de Castro of Lapiz Inestable took Clara Oswald's famous last words from Doctor Who and ran with it: He created this fantastic animated GIF of the eleven Doctor, from 1963's William Hartnell to 2010's Matt Smith, scampering about.

Take a look at the original page over at Crucigramas y Cafe - via io9

A fan of Doctor Who would get the running joke, for example:

Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away - and if you're still in limbo about what to wear (Pilgrim outfit is so 1620!), may we suggest these Thanksgiving T-shirts from the NeatoShop?

Family Shmamily - I'm Here for the Turkey

I Heart Thanksgiving

I Heart Vegetarian Thanksgiving

... and lastly, since this year's Thanksgiving coincides with Hanukkah:

Happy Thanksgiving and Hanukkah 2013

Don't forget to check out NeatoShop's large (and growing) selection of Funny T-shirts - perfect for any occasion!

Movember ain't the only thing happenin' this November, folks. There's also Dinovember - a month-long project by Refe (@RefeUp) and Susan Tuma to convince their little children that plastic dinosaurs come to life when they sleep.

The project got started when after a long stretch of staying up all night with their one-year-old son who had trouble sleeping, Refe and Susan felt guilty that they weren't doing enough fun things with their two older children. So, Susan decided to play a little prank by setting up their plastic dinosaur toys in the bathroom.

"When my daughter, who was 4 at the time, came running into our bedroom, she said 'The dinosaurs came to life in the middle of the night and they were brushing our teeth!'" said Refe to TODAY.com "We looked at each other, and we knew we had to run with it."

"Kids, your father and I have something to tell you."

Those are the 10 most dreaded words that often precede whatever bad news - like, for example, an impending divorce - that your parents would tell you. But, as psychologists say, there are the right way and the wrong way to break the sad news to impressionable young children.

Cyanide & Happiness tells us one way parents tell their kids that they're going to divorce. Whether it's the right way or the wrong way, we'll leave it up to you.

Watch: YouTube clip

"Warcraft wedding" are two words that don't come to mind when we think about nuptials, but that's because for most of us, World of Warcraft is just a game. But for some, it's a bit more than that.

Kotaku reader Craig and his wife Zoe from Taiwan belong firmly in the second camp. For their engagement photo session, the duo dressed up as characters from Warcraft (Craig is King Varien Wrynn while Zoe cosplays as Tyrande Whisperwind).

How do you stop a 400-lb running back rushing at you? The answer is simple: you don't.

Meet Tony Picard, a White Swan High School senior from Yakima, Washington, who may just be the biggest running back in the history of football. Picard, who at 6'4" and 400-lb is even bigger than famous football player William "Refrigerator" Perry of the Chicago Bears, started out as a lineman, but he was faster than one expected.

White Swan coach Andrew Bush once saw Picard play basketball and realized that the teen was agile in spite of his size. Bush switched him to running back and gave him a simple instruction: don't fumble.

"It's so much fun to have him go out [on the field] as a captain and see him shaking hands before the game," said Bush to Jack McNeel of Indian Country, "They're just kind of staring, like 'Oh my gosh, you've got to be kidding me!'" Bush added that most teams will sacrifice five guys to stop Picard, which left the rest of the White Swan team open to make plays.

Read the rest over at Indian Country - via Bleacher Report

Photo: Tony Picard

Update 11/17/13 - The video clip:

Black Dad by Don Calamari

Rectify the situation forthwith with this mash-up T-shirt design. Let us welcome NeatoShop's newest artist Don Calamari. Visit his Facebook page then check out the rest of his NeatoShop catalog for more neat shirts.

Dark Side Knuckle	Sonith Youth	Clones Brigade	Adventure Fiction

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

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Retaining walls are usually ugly stacks of cement blocks, but they don't have to be an eyesore - for example, take a look at the Living Wall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

My family and I went there one weekend and we were pleasantly surprised to see the North Campus' asphalt parking lot has been replaced with a three-and-a-half acre of green garden, right smack in the middle of the urban sprawl of Los Angeles.

Next to the meandering walkway where we took a stroll was this marvelous living wall made from large shards of colorful Pritchard flagstone. The stones are arranged at haphazard angles, which allows for succulents and plants to be planted in the cracks. Soon, wildlife will start making the Living Wall their home.

Plenty of pictures over at Homes & Hues: The Living Wall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

11th Quotes by Tom Trager

We could probably come up with some interesting quotes about this, but Tom Trager has got us beat. So let me just point out to you his Quotes Tee series over at the NeatoShop.

Please visit Tom over on his official Facebook page, Twitter and Tumblr then check out his T-shirts over at his NeatoShop page.

More Quotes Tee series by Tom Trager:

Sherlock Quotes	The Making of a Heisenberg	Time-y Wimey	Moriarty Quotes
10th Quotes	Quotes of a Physicist	Quotes of a Mischief God	The One Who Knocks

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The month is only halfway through, but Nick Offerman has already won* Movember.

The clip, created by Made Man for its Movember celebration, features Offerman who plays Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. Well, technically, it features his moustache. His dancing moustache. Just sit back, relax, and watch the Nick Offerman's epic stachedance.

You may remember the song "What a Feeling," a 1983 classic by Irene Cara that's made popular by the movie Flashdance. Somehow it's the perfect song for the stachedance. Take your passion/ And make it happen ...

*You, on the other hand, can still win in Neatorama's Movember Madness contest.

Can't grow a 'stache? Check out NeatoShop's Mustache items that will still let you celebrate Movember.

Sure you know your birthday, but do you know what the hour and minute you were born? Remembering those details won't be a problem for Nicollette Brynn Anders. She was born on 11/12/13 at 14:15 military time (2:15 pm).

"That just when she happened to come," said father Mark Anders of Missoula, western Montana, to the Missoulian, "It wasn't planned. She just ... did it."

Kim Briggeman of The Missoulian has the full story. (Photo: Michael Gallacher/Missoulian).

Note: Believe it or not, according to the Missoulian, Nicollette wasn't the first baby to be born on 11/12/13, 14:15 - there are at least two others in the United States: David Cole Salvagnini in Grande Prairie, Texas, and an unidentified baby in Omaha, Nebraska.