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French Bulldog Puppy Argues About Going to Bed

Alex

But I'm not sleepy, momma! Watch this cute French bulldog puppy argue with its owner about going to bed. So cute! It reminds me of my (actual human) kids' protest every night.


Ghost Riding the Garbage Truck

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Stopping your truck is SO overrated! This garbage truck driver in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, created his own version of ghost-riding the whip to jump out of the moving truck, pick up the garbage and toss it to the back ... all while the garbage truck continues to coast down the road!

Perhaps its their version of labor efficiency - why hire a driver and a picker, when one guy can do both? (The job of the guy in the back of the truck seems to be to organize the garbage so they can maximize the amount to be transported).


Oh, the Irony! Movie Theater's Showing of Noah is Cancelled due to Flooding

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Where's the Ark when you need it? The film Noah just got a tad too real for moviegoers at the Vue Cinema in Exeter, England.

According to Exeter's Express & Echo, the theater was supposed to show the latest Hollywood blockbuster Noah, starring Russel Crowe as the biblical patriarch, when staff arriving in the morning discovered that the building flooded because of a broken ice machine. They had to cancel the first screening of the movie.

It was unclear whether this was divine intervention or a simple mechanical failure -Heaven works in mysterious ways - but the irony wasn't lost on moviegoers, one of whom tweeted "#Irony The day Noah was released, Exeter Vue was flooded overnight because of a burst pipe!"


Emoji-nation: Classic Artwork Meets Modern Social Media Icons

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In her artwork series emoji-nation, Natasya Ptichek mashed up classical works of art with modern elements we are familiar with. The Ukrainian artist overlaid Windows-style dialog boxes and social media notifications and icons over paintings to create ironic commentaries.

Ptichek's first emoji-nation series paired emoticons with iconic artwork, whereas her third one reimagined famous artwork as movie posters. Below are selected work from Ptichek's second, fourth, and fifth installments of emoji-nation:

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This is What Happens When Engineers Play Paper Airplane

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The engineers at Neopost, a company that manufactures postal meter and mailroom equipment, put their expertise to good use by creating a machine that automates the folding of paper airplanes.

It takes about three seconds for the automatic paper airplane folder (for lack of a better term) to convert a plain sheet of paper into a fully functional, flying paper airplane. The machine-precision extends even to the flying: every airplane flies along the same flight path into a cardboard box a few feet away.

Paperless office would have to wait for a few more years thanks to this bit of office fun!


VHS Tape Pac-Man Coffee Table

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Being a movie fanatic, Etsy seller MRQ19 has quite a bit of old VHS tapes - one day, he noticed that white plastic spools at the bottom fo the VHS cassettes look just like the dots in the arcade game Pac-Man. And thus the Pac-Man VHS Tape Coffee Table was born!

It looks like a fun weekend project, if you have enough VHS tapes lying around - or you can save those precious artefacts of the 80's and buy one from the seller for a mere $995!


Forget Cows! Vandals in San Francisco are Smart Car Tipping

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You've probably heard of the urban (well, technically, rural) myth of cow-tipping, where someone sneaks up on an unsuspecting cow and push to tip it over. Well, cows aren't exactly common in San Francisco, so vandals there decided to flip over Smart cars instead.

NBC Bay Area reports [self-starting video] that three Smart cars were found flipped on the rough streets of San Francisco. Witness Brandon Michael said that he witnessed six to eight suspects wearing hoodies huddled around a Smart car. "They looked like they were up to no good," Michael said," And sure enough, they huddled around it and lifted it up." The tipped 1,500-pound cars "look[ed] like they are dachshunds sitting on their hund legs," he added.

Smart car-tipping isn't exactly a new phenomenon and while the flipped cars may look amusing to bystanders, the damage could be in the thousands of dollars.


Cheap Beer Map of the United States

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LiveScience posted an analysis of Twitter data of tweets sent between June 2012 and May 2013 to find out the beer preference of various states. This one above shows what cheap beer is popular in different regions of the United States. Surprisingly, hipster favorite PBR wasn't listed.

Related: Stories Behind 7 Famouse Beer Logos

View more beer tweet infographics over at LiveScience


When Animals Argue ...

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You've probably seen it before, but when animals argue, hilarity ensues. I always chuckle no matter how many times I see this going 'round the web (that's probably what the spider said).

Because you know ...

Okay, I'll stop because ...


16 Differences Between Successful and Unsuccessful People

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A few weeks ago, Dave Kerpen of Likeable Local received a postcard about successful vs unsuccessful people from a fellow entrepreneur Andy Bailey, chief executive of Petra Coach. Though the two man have never met in person, Kerpen said in his blog post that the postcard had a "profound effect" on his viewpoints on what sets successful people apart from others.

Kerpen wrote in his blog post that Bailey's postcard sixteen differences between successful and unsuccessful people "[reinforced] values I believe in and [reminded] me on a daily basis of the attitudes and habits that I know I need to embrace in order to become successful."

These 16 differences are:

Successful People Unsuccessful People
1. Embrace change Fear change
2. Want others to succeed Secretly hope others fail
3. Exude joy Exude anger
4. Accept responsibility for their failures Blame others for their failures
5. Talk about ideas Talk about people
6. Share data & info Hoard data & info
7. Give people all the credit for their victories Take all the credits from others
8. Set goals and life plans Do not set goals
9. Keep a journal Say they keep a journal but don't
10. Read every day Watch TV every day
11. Operate from a transformational perspective Operate from a transactional perspective
12. Continuously learn Fly by the seat of their pants
13. Compliment others Criticize others
14. Forgive others Hold a grudge
15. Keep a "To Be" list Don't know what they want to be
16. Have gratitude Don't appreciate others and the world around them

Kerpen explained each of these differences in his blog post, but number 15 "Keep a 'To Be' list" struck me as brilliant.


Cuddles and Rage

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Group Hug

Liz and Jimmy Reed are the husband and wife team behind the "disturbingly cute" comic Cuddles and Rage (who is cuddles and who is rage? Perhaps they switch roles every now and then to keep things interesting). The two started drawing food-related things during a bar trivia in 2010 and decided to turn that into a webcomic and neat side business - plus, the couple said, they like to talk about food A LOT.

There's a lot of webcomics out there, but what sets Cuddles and Rage apart is their weekly diorama, where they spend 3 to 8 hours creating detailed scenes featuring the comic's various characters in polymer clay with dollhouse furniture as props.

Here are some of our favorites Cuddles and Rage dioramas - (their cartoons ain't bad either, be sure to check out their website) Enjoy!


Glass Ceiling


The Perfect Seat


Jam Session

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Old People Dancing to Pharrell's "Happy" Should Make YOU Happy

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YouTube Clip - via Hello Giggles

I dare you to watch this video and not smile.

YouTuber Picsel and Zootropio collaborated to bring us another (in a long line*) video clip of people dancing to Pharrell William's insanely happy** song "Happy." This time, however, instead of young people dancin', we get something better: old people dancin'.

I can't help but smile seeing (such well dressed) grandmas and grandpas dancing. They truly look happy!

*Note 1: Allowing people to remix your video clip to make it viral is an incredibly smart strategy. I don't understand the music and movie industries' insistence that their woes are due to piracy. Their main enemy is not piracy, it's obscurity.

**Note 2: I don't know which is insanely happier, Pharrell's Happy or Darwin Deez' Radar Detector.


Would You Sleep Inside This Blood and Guts Tent?

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If Andrea Hasler (previously on Neatorama) invites you to go camping, beware! She may want to sleep inside this gruesome flesh and blood tent.

The art piece above, titled "Matriarch" and a smaller accompanying piece called "Next of Kin" are made from sculpted fiberglass covered with wax, leather and blood details that look like human intestines, tissues and skin.

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Last Chance to Win a Captain America Mystery Box and Other Goodies

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Hi guys - just a friendly reminder that this is your last chance to enter our Win A Captain America Mystery Box & $100 Amazon Gift Card contest (in collaboration with our friend Today I Found Out)

The Captain America Mystery Box, courtesy of our pals at Hasbro, is filled with goodies from the upcoming movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier (which opens today! Can't wait to see it!). In addition to that (and the $100 Amazon gift card), you can also win t-shirts and hoodies from the NeatoShop and the Today I Found Out Shop.

What are you waiting for? The contest ends tonight at 11:59 PM PST, so don't miss out!

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Baby on Board

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What do you think of first when you see those "Baby on Board" sign on the car in front of you? Mother-in-Law in Trunk? Or the Baby On Board song from The Simpsons?

Well, perhaps this image will be the basis of your new thought. Technically, it's correct (yes, it uses a baby doll - because planking a real child would be illegal, not to mention cruel).


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