Everything I've learned, I've learned from Star Trek. If no one has written that book, perhaps someone should. And this should be one of the chapters: io9 blog described 7 types of bad bosses, according to Star Trek (and how to survive them without setting phasers to kill). Take, for instance, this guy:

The bully. He alternates between jolly and grouchy — but even his jolly side is a little scary sometimes. He enjoys "teasing" his subordinates, especially anyone who's different in some way, like having funny-shaped ears. "Notices" his female underlings a little too closely. He does give an inspiring speech about risk-taking, but that's usually just to drag you into some weird body-switching scheme that will leave you with a weird rash for a month. He's also the original "I want it done yesterday" boss, who's "sick of hearing the word 'can't.'"

How to handle him: If he yells, yell back. Say "Dammit" a lot. If he asks how long something will take, exaggerate by at least 200 percent. If he starts cracking jokes at you, just ignore it, and he'll probably go away. But never, ever make fun of him back. (I've totally had this boss, like twice, and thinking of him as Captain Kirk really helped.)

Link - via Miss Cellania

The world is filled with people with strange fetishes, but even considering the Intertubes' jaded standard, this particular fetish is really, really, really weird: behold the Woolies, people who like to esconce themselves in wool. Itchy, scratchy wool.

No actual nudity, though there are some - um, how shall I say it - knitted private parts: Link (original link in French at Doctissimo) - via Rue The Day! and Laughing Squid

In this little country ditty, Social Media Blues, Scott Rodgers described his futile attempt of getting the attention of a girl through web 2.0 shenanigans.

Twitterphobics: don't watch it, it'll just make you mad! Link [embedded YouTube clip]

What do the rich and famous do with all their dough? Some of them, it turns out, collect weird things - here is a neat post about a few weird collections of the rich over at mental_floss:

Imelda Marcos

When Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda hastily fled the Philippines and Malacañan Palace when Ferdinand’s regime was overthrown, they left behind nearly all of their possessions, which were quite numerous. Imelda was first thought to own more than 6,000 individual shoes, a number which was later downgraded to a mere 1,060 pairs. She also abandoned 65 parasols, 15 mink coats, 888 purses, 508 floor-length dresses and 71 pairs of sunglasses.

Link - via i met a possum

Previously on Neatorama: 25 Strangest Collections on the Web

There are furniture, and then there are artistic furniture. It's often difficult to combine form and function, and it's almost always impossible to do it in such an artistic form. Yet, Korean designer Chul An Kwak did just that with his tentacle-y table:

With serpentine legs that resemble nothing so much as octopus tentacles, the ‘r.n.i.’ series of tables by Chul An Kwak is actually inspired by images of running horses. Sculpted from wood, these designs offer the same sort of flat surface you’d see in a conventional table but with legs that seem kinetic and alive.

See more selections of amazing and artistic furniture designs at WebUrbanist: Link

Look closely at the image above - do you see anything unusual?

In his series "Don't Judge People According to Their Appearance," Peter Chmela creates photos that spell out each word of the sentence. Check out the entire gallery here: http://thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/sentence/typography/dont-judge-people-according-their-appearance - via Swiss Miss

I think this is as close to a nightmare scenario to computer companies and gadget makers everywhere: not that their new stuff aren't any good - it's that the old stuff are good enough so that except for hardcore enthusiasts, people just don't see any point in upgrading.

TechRadar UK explains:

The problem of 'good enough' is a huge headache for the tech industry. When your computer isn't good enough – when a slow processor, meagre memory and tiny hard disk struggle with even everyday tasks – you'll buy a better model as soon as it becomes available.

Now, though, the weakest link isn't your PC: it's you.

Will a 200-core processor make you type an email more quickly, make you work more productively or make your Facebook status updates any more amusing?

Link - via AQFL

I ran across this excellent tutorial while looking for things to do with unwanted phone books (for some inexplicable reason, they magically show up at my doorstep year after year).

Chica and Jo has the perfect solution if you're crafty: turn those phone books into office organizers! Link - via Make

While we're still in the subject of being crafty, here's a spiffy project if you have kids (or if you're simply young at heart): make your very own giraffe sock puppet.

Craft Jr. has the step by step guide: Link - via One Crafty Place

The Pew Research Center conducts a lot of surveys - but this one yielded a very surprising result: churchgoers, especially Evangelicals, are more likely to support torture than those unaffiliated with any religious organization.

The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.

More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54 percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is "often" or "sometimes" justified. Only 42 percent of people who "seldom or never" go to services agreed, according to the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified -- more than six in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.

Link

(Photo: sduffy [Flickr])

Comic Continued: Option A or Option B

I'm a sucker for science cartoons, so imagine my delight when someone told me about Steve Wolfhard (monstro-draw on LiveJournal - turns out he's been on Neatorama before, how about that!). See the two possible endings of the cartoon above.

Also, be sure to check out the shenanigans of Cat Rackham, Steve's wonderful new comic series.

Link: monstro-draw's LiveJournal blog - Thanks Daylight!

Because I'm not Facebook savvy, Neatoramanaut Becky took charge and created a Neatorama Fan page on the popular website: Link

Be sure to go there and do whatever you Facebookers do on such a page (what do you do on such a page anyways?) Now, maybe we can take care of that Twitter thingy (who owns that anyhow?) - Thanks Becky!

Neatorama regular SenorMysterioso started a thread on the Neatorama Forum that I hope you will participate in. It's about what makes you happy:

We do a lot of bitching(maybe I'll start a thread for that too) but lets have a little space dedicated to what's made us happy lately. At least if nothing that great happens in my day I can read about everyone else's little joys.

What makes you happy? Join the thread there (or if you don't want to register a username, you can comment below): http://www.neatorama.com/forum/topic/happy-thread

And with that, let me congratulate Johnny Cat on the good news and wish seefish3 a Happy Birthday!

So. John recently posted about Jeff Burk's novel Shatner Quake, in which William Shatner (William Shatner? William Shatner. WILLIAM SHATNER!) battled all characters he ever played, after a failed terrorist attack by the Campbellians (who worships Bruce Campbell).

Though I haven't read the novel, I immediately feel that this is an unwarranted attack on Bruce. First, take a look at the clip below, then tell me, is this the kind of man that can summon the Army of Darkness? Or cavort with The Evil Dead?

[YouTube Link]

Duran Duran has got nothin' on Bruce Campbell (plus, he probably smells good!)

Tired of speeding cars, residents of the village of Crosby-on-Eden in Cumbria, England, decided to take matters into their own hands: by creating a scarecrow policeman, complete with a radar gun made from a water bottle!

David Sowden, another resident, added: "Certainly from a distance it looks like a genuine police officer.

"One visitor said it would be a good idea to keep that up for a week and then replace him with a proper physical police officer with a gun for another week and see what happens.

"It has made them nose dive and they said they couldn't believe the reaction."

Link (Photo: North News)