It's simple, we kill the Bartman preferably while wearing this geeky chic T-shirt by Dann Matthews. Visit Dann at his official website and Facebook page, then check out his NeatoShop page for more neat shirt designs.
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Earthworm battling the evil undead? Groovy! Now, where's my boomstick? Harebrained Design mashes up our favorite 90's sidescrolling platformer game with our favorite 90's cult film hit into this fantastic tee.
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I'm fascinated with people who are far more organized that I am. Like data scientist Seth Brown, for example, who has systematically organized his gears and hardware into different levels of complexity, depending on his intended activity.
An average day may call for wallet, phones and car keys - those set of items comprise your "everyday carry" (or EDC). If you out for an extended weekend trip, you may carry additional stuff.
My EDC comprises of the stuff shown above: My smartphone (which has more computing power than all the computers from World War II-era combined - just think about that), my slim wallet (I hate carrying the fat trifolds - no George's Exploding Wallet for me), and my car fob and the NeatoHQ and my house keys (the only two keys in that keyring).
But back to Brown: He has organized his stuff into "layers" which work like a set of nesting Matryoshka dolls. Here's how he explained it:
I’ve found that most activities of the same duration and complexity share the same set of core hardware. For example, a 3 day ski adventure, scientific conference, or holiday weekend requires much of the same core hardware.
A byproduct of this division between activity-specific gear and core hardware is that core hardware naturally organizes into layers. Core hardware that I use for shorter duration activities serves as the foundation for core hardware that I carry for longer duration activities. A smaller set of core hardware integrates into the layer above it. Each layer subsumes the previous layer like a series of Matryoshka dolls.
The result is an amazingly logical step of nerdery: Need to go on a weekend trip? While the rest of us have to think and sort through our stuff to figure out what to carry, Brown only has to grab his "Extended Carry Items" and his Everyday Carry. For activities that require more hardware, he grabs his Bug-out Bag, Extended Carry Items, and Everyday Carry. Genius!
Twitter user @kapravel tweeted this photo showing a vastly different T-shirt size distribution at a computer science conference for the Linux operating system.
We see similar shift in the sales of various T-shirt sizes on the NeatoShop, and a friend of mine whose job is in retail distribution confirmed that some chain stores in the midwest had simply stopped ordering "Small" shirts (not even for children's shirts)
Ladies, looking for a mate to sire your offsprings? If yes, know this: size matters. But when it comes to caring for infants - think smaller, not larger. See, when it comes to nurture, it turns out that men with smaller balls are better dads.
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (or PNAS as it's lovingly called by the science types - go ahead and laugh, it's okay), researchers at Emory University showed that dads with smaller gonads are more likely to be nurturing to their infant children.
How did the researchers find out? They used MRI to measure the gonads of 70 biological fathers (age 21 to 43), studied the dads for activity in the brain area believed to be involved in parental motivation, and interviewed mothers about their involvement in childrearing.
The study results showed that both testosterone level and testes size are inversely correlated with paternal parenting involvement. Basically, the higher the testosterone - and since this hormone governs the size of the gonads - the larger the testes, the less likely the men would become involved fathers.
Emory anthropologists James Rilling noted that life history theory, which posits that organisms evolve strategies to produce the largest possible number of surviving offspring, suggest that fathers allocate resources toward either mating or parenting. "Our data suggest that the biology of human males reflects a trade-off between mating and parenting ... previous studies have shown that children with more involved fathers have better social, psychological and educational outcomes."
But which come first? Do smaller balls make men better parents, or does involved parenthood shrink men's balls? "We’re assuming that testes size drives how involved the fathers are," Rilling noted, "but it could also be that when men become more involved as caregivers, their testes shrink. Environmental influences can change biology. We know, for instance, that testosterone levels go down when men become involved fathers."
And if you want to drown your sorrow at your comparative lack of everything when compared to Hello Kitty, then this is the perfect drink: Hello Kitty Beer.
There are six Hello Kitty beers, which come in easy-drinking fruit flavors like peach, lemon-lime, passion fruit, and banana. They have about half the alcohol content of mainstream American beers - a Budweiser runs 5 percent alcohol-by-volume, where the Hello Kitty brews range from 2.3 percent to 2.8 percent.
“The beers were introduced in Taiwan, and are now also available in China, where flavored beer is a new trend in the market,” David Marchi, senior director of brand management and marketing for Sanrio, the company that created Hello Kitty, told TODAY.com. He confirmed that Sanrio licensed the beer, brewed by the Taiwan Tsing Beer Company.
The "Z" word - don't say it ... unless you're wearing this
awesome T-shirt by Alberto Arni. Visit Alberto's
official website and Facebook
page, then visit his
NeatoShop page for more neat shirts. Your purchase helps support indie
artists as well as this blog!
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Before we can boldly go where no one has gone before, we need a plan ... and blueprints! That's where illustrator Doug Pedersen come in. The Minneapolis, Minnesota, based artist has created a sci-fi inspired series of mashups of popular pop culture vehicles with real ones from NASA's space program.
I admit that I have never played Gears of War, but I have seen Danny DeVito in Throw Momma From The Train and think that after living with Momma Lift, battling the Locust Horde is probably a walk in the park. Or if you're a It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I'm sure you can appreciate Frank "The Trashman" Reynolds all ready for action.
It's hard enough to be a single parent, but when single mom SongBird130 decided to go back to college at night (while working during the day) she really needed to set the house rules straight with her HS senior and college junior kids. This is what she came up with:
To the humans of this house: This week we will all become busy students with jobs, homework and studying. There is no maid, butler, laundress, cook, valet, errand runner or other help employed here.
Do your dishes
Feed yourself
Pick up your mess
Sort & put away your laundry
Yes - you can buy a few groceries
BE A GROWN UP
I'll pay the utilities, insurance & mortgage
Apparently, Meg is in charge of working out and Wes gets to play with the power washer:
Now, if only I can assign my work out routine to one of my kids, that'll vastly improve my day!
Mom later updated the story to explain the whiteboard:
"We communicate via this whiteboard in the kitchen and have for years. It is amazingly helpful. We eat together when we can. I cook and leave leftover meals. Yes my classes are at night and work all day. I do the laundry. They just have to sort. Avoids mistakes on my part. Meg is very thin and beautiful. She wants to be stronger. Wes likes to power wash. They are Dean's list students and have jobs. We all have to break the cycle of leaving messes and things undone. I love them more than life itself. They give me my reason to get up each day."
Ah, the march of progress doesn't mean a thing to the Old Ones, as Alan Bao cleverly illustrates in his design above.
Check out Alan's Website and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop page for more great T-shirts: Link. Your purchase helps support indie artists like Alan, as well as this blog. Thank you in advance for your support!
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How many British icons do you recognize in Tom Trager's neat British
At Heart design? Let me welcome Tom Trager to the NeatoShop! Please visit
him over on Facebook,
Twitter and Tumblr
then check out his T-shirts over at his
NeatoShop page.
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How big is the MV Blue Marlin, a semi-submersible heavy lift ship? Why, it's big enough to transport drilling rigs and even other big ships on its deck.
In the 2000 photo above, the Blue Marlin was hired to move the destroyer USS Cole back to the United States after the warship was damaged by Al-Qaeda bomb in Yemen.
Well, carrying one ship is impressive - but what about carrying 18 ships? Here the Blue Marlin transported 18 riverboats and a few large pontoons from China to the Netherlands.
A ship that carries a ship (or ships)? Now that's a big ass ship, but the Blue Marlin is actually not the biggest heavy lift ship in the world. That title belongs to Dockwise Vanguard (the company also owns the Blue Marlin), which has 70% larger deck-size than the Blue Marlin.
Napa has wine tours, Scotland has single malt whiskies tours, but Jamaica? It has ganja tours. That's right - according to David McFadden of the AP's The Big Story, Jamaican "farmers" have added tourism to the pot trade:
The tours pass through places like Nine Mile, the tiny hometown of reggae legend, and famous pot-lover, Bob Marley. Here, in Jamaica's verdant central mountains, dreadlocked men escort curious visitors to a farm where deep-green marijuana plants grow out of the reddish soil. Similar tours are offered just outside the western resort town of Negril, where a marijuana mystique has drawn weed-smoking vacationers for decades.
"This one here is the original sinsemilla, Bob Marley's favorite. And this one here is the chocolate skunk. It's special for the ladies," a pot farmer nicknamed "Breezy" told a reporter as he showed off several varieties on his plot one recent morning.
A 25-year-old man who has been reported missing by his family surprised his mom when he showed up at home, 11 days later after walking some 870 miles home, as reported by Rocket News 24.
The man, who was attending a playing card convention in the city of Kitakyushu, Japan, claimed that he missed his return flight to his hometown of Sendai. When he was looking for an Internet cafe, he was robbed of his phone and wallet.
Luckily, the man had hidden 2,000 yen (US$20) in his shoe. Now, you and I would use this money to call home, but not this man! He decided to buy bread and water and set off to walk home instead.
Eleven days and 870 miles later, the deeply tanned man arrived at his home to find his distraught mother, who said, "I was shocked and thought I was seeing a ghost when he arrived. I'm just thrilled that he is back and I'm very sorry to everyone who was worried about him."
When asked why he didn't call the police, the man replied, "I never wanted to make a fuss. I'm sorry to everyone I inconvenienced."
Now, naturally, a lot of people are skeptical (you can't cover 870 miles completely on foot in 11 days - not even the world's top ultra-marathon runners could do that - so there's plenty of speculation that there's a lot more to the story), but don't let that get in the way of the important thing about this story: the man reported that the trip wasn't a complete disaster. He was able to find a rare card to add to his collection, which the muggers didn't steal.
Walking 870 miles for that rare card? Totally worth it for this hardcore fan!
