For his 4-year-old son's birthday, Geoff M. of tag-a-lishus decided that he'd make an almost-life-size Yoda cake to go along with the Star Wars-themed party.
Here's the build gallery: Link - via cinematical
(Just be thankful that the birthday boy didn't ask for a life-size hulk cake!)
I. So. WANT. This! Behold Kota the Triceratop, a 3-foot-tall plush robot that your kid can ride. How awesome is that?
GeekAlerts blog has the video clip: Link
For those who didn't watch the presidential election debate or for those who simply couldn't get enough politics, here's something for you: The Debate ... between Batman and Penguin!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Paul Micarelli!
In their installation "Super Kingdom," Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson of London Fieldworks created a set of (functional) birdhouses modeled after houses and palaces of dictators.
This one to the left is modeled after Nicolae Ceausescu's Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/despot-the-birdie/ - via Fark
5Om3ON3 k4Ll 73h pol1C3! - Photo found via Must Read Blogs Blog, Thanks dw00d!
How far would you go to support your presidential candidate? Most people donate money or buy bumper stickers and such. There are some who are enthusiastic enough who volunteer in the campaign ... then there is Mark Ciptak.
Here's what he did:
“I decided to actually name her Sarah McCain Palin,” he said. “I’m totally McCain all the way.”
A blood bank employee for the American Red Cross, Ciptak said he chose the name to show his support and to encourage others to vote.
But Sarah McCain Palin is not the name Ciptak and his wife, Layla, originally agreed upon. “I sort of secretively went behind her back and changed the paperwork,” Ciptak said. Ava Grace was the name originally chosen by the couple.
Fueled by his new idea, Ciptak caused a distraction and some confusion at the hospital by using two separate birth certificate forms. “With the stress of everything going on, she, I guess, didn’t realize that a new form was printed with my handwriting because my handwriting is very noticeable, very unique,” he said of his wife.
Gary Small and colleagues at UCLA have found that surfing the web may actually be good for your brain:
Each volunteer underwent a brain scan while performing web searches and book-reading tasks.
Both types of task produced evidence of significant activity in regions of the brain controlling language, reading, memory and visual abilities.
However, the web search task produced significant additional activity in separate areas of the brain which control decision-making and complex reasoning - but only in those who were experienced web users.
Remember the video clip of LeBron James losing a game of HORSE to a warehouse worker before on Neatorama? Here's another one: NBA's Devin Harris of the New Jersey Nets getting his clock cleaned by a 28-year-old British man named Stuart Tanner.
Kudos for Harris' good-natured reaction though! Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]
A thief in Hull, England, has been given the moniker "Hull's Artful Dodger" after stealing more than £1,850 of cash and goods in just a couple of weeks. The police finally got their break when a CCTV caught the thief in action ... and here's the surprise: the "Artful Dodger" is just 8 years old!
A boy dubbed 'Hull's Artful Dodger' looks set to escape punishment because he is only eight years old.
Detectives believe they know the identity of the boy who has been involved in at least five distraction thefts at businesses and charity shops across the city.
But officers say they are unable to prosecute him when they catch up with the youngster, because he is under the age of criminal responsibility, which is 10.
Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko has a secret weapon in winning his WBC heavyweight title bout in Berlin last Saturday: his baby boy's wet diaper!
Klitschko said he wrapped them around his hands and it helped him recover.
"Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell," the 37-year old boxer said.
"I wrap nappies filled with my three-year-old son Max's wee around my fists," he said, adding he got the idea from his grandmother.
Did you know that starting February 2009, analog TV will be no more? That's right - all TV signal will go digital and if you still have a rabbit ear TV antenna, you'd need to convert the analog signal to digital.
Here's 99-year-old Mae LaBorde of the Talkshow with Spike Ferensten helping us prepare for the big switch: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/funny_pages_20/2008/10/digital-convers.html [embedded YouTube] - Thanks Marilyn!
Yes, it's an oldie but it's still a goodie. Here's a T-shirt that wryly notes that something, somewhere along the course of the evolution of man, went terribly wrong!
Available in black and dark grey in Neatorama's Online Store: http://shop.neatorama.com/product-info.php?something-somewhere-went-terribly-wrong-tshirt-pid107.html - just $9.95 + s/h
Church Tank Type 5A - via Book of Joe
We've featured artwork by Kris Kuksi before on Neatorama - here's one that I haven't seen before till today: Church Tank Type 5A.
More of Kris' artwork at his website: Link
San Francisco design studio office designed a series of excellent pirate-themed black, white and gold posters for Dave Egger's store/tutoring center 826 Valencia in San Francisco. I quite like this "Compensation for Missing Limbs" poster, though the beard-o-graphical "Beards are the New Black" is excellent too! (you'll see)
Link - via Design*Sponge
Another one of his store in Brooklyn has been covered before on Neatorama here
Street artist K-Guy put up this touching tribute for the economic good times, called "In Loving Memory of The Boom Economy." It's outside the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, Centeral London.
Photo via Wooster Collective | More at Flickr
