Freaking News has a neat photoshop contests where the faces of celebrities are mashed up with those of national figures on money. Some look so dead-on they're freaky!

Link - via Blue's News

Previously on Neatorama: Money Portrait Origami

Photo: manicmaiden [Flickr]

Flickr user manicmaiden created this super-awesome Dig Dug pillow for her brother's birthday. No word whether she used inflatable pillow for the Pooka monster ...

Link - via Boing Boing Gadgets

That's what women with long fingernails are complaining about the iPhone. Because the iPhone multi-touch screen works by detecting electrical conductance of your finger, fingernails or stylus don't work:

She and other women who have long nails -- as well as people of all genders with chunky fingers -- have real trouble typing on the iPhone. The 39-year-old consultant and lecturer, who says her fingernails are typically between one-eighth and one-quarter of an inch long, wants the iPhone to include a stylus.

"Considering ergonomics and user studies indicating men and women use their fingers and nails differently, why does Apple persist in this misogyny?"

Link - via reddit

Remember the "lost" Amazon tribe that got everyone excited? Well, it turns out that the existence of this "undiscovered tribe" had been known for nearly a century, and that the mission to photograph them from the air was poltically motivated:

Survival International, the organisation that released the pictures along with Funai, conceded yesterday that Funai had known about this nomadic tribe for around two decades. It defended the disturbance of the tribe saying that, since the images had been released, it had forced neighbouring Peru to re-examine its logging policy in the border area where the tribe lives, as a result of the international media attention. Activist and former Funai president Sydney Possuelo agreed that – amid threats to their environment and doubt over the existence of such tribes – it was necessary to publish them.

But the revelation that the existence of the tribe was already established will provoke awkward questions over why a decision was made to try to photograph them – a form of contact in itself – in order to make a political point.

Link - Thanks geekazoid and Moshe!

I've been thinking of giving my old digital camera to my two-year-old daughter so she can learn how to take photos (and to see what things are interesting to toddlers) when Neatorama reader Daelan Wood sent me this: a link to a website showcasing his three-year-old son's photos!

I see a lot of feet and pets' butts, though some of the photos are actually very well done!

Link - Thanks Daelan!

(Biggify here)

Inspired by the soaring price of oil and the continued devaluation of the dollar, artist Brian Romero designed the bill for the increasingly-worthless dollar: the Zero Dollar Bill!

If you look at the bigger version, you'll pick out some nice little details, like the signatures... Link - via Drawn!

I know Kevin Cornell from The Superest, a fantastic illustrator's one-upmanship he ran with Matthew Sutter (covered here and here previously on Neatorama).

Kevin has recently written a very neat post on his Bearskinrug blog about the actual implements used by professional illustrators - pencils, and pen and ink drawing tools. In the age of photoshop, it's quite refreshing to find that some people still draw the good ol' fashioned way!

Here's what he wrote about quill pen:

Here is my Crow Quill pen — a sludge-slickened Speedball #102. Two hundred years ago this would have been just one giant feather with the end split to hold ink. Goose feathers were the most common, but if you wanted really fine lines, you used a crow feather. During the eighteenth century, when wearing wigs and signing Declarations and Constitutions was all in vogue, we killed off all the agreeable crows, the kind that didn't mind just handing over all their feathers. This left us with only the angry kinds of crows, who steal our corn and hang out in murders. So today we manufacture our own pens. That's the price of freedom.

Link

Yay! Today's Neatorama and Hobotopia Caption Monkey game brings us this Laugh-Out-Loud cat strip by our pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Thanks to Adam, funniest caption will win the original art (with the winning caption in it!).

Contest rules: One caption per comment, but you can submit as many as you can think of (so make 'em good!) That's it! Adam will pick one winner tomorrow.

Need an inspiration? Check out Adam's blog and Flickr photoset of the Laugh-Out-Loud cats (over 900 panels! Man, he's productive). Good luck!

Brayden Simms wrote for The Miami Herald's Heavy Thrifting, a column about saving money, when recently the newspaper decided to take a tip on saving money and laid him (and many other employees) off.

But what's a little ironic is how The Miami Herald is actually paying him to blog ... about how he's been laid off by The Miami Herald!

http://www.miamiherald.com/136/story/579002.html (love this comment by Brayden's mom!) | The No-Spend Zone blog - Thanks and good luck Brayden!

Here's a little cooking secret for ya: everything's better with bacon. Everything. Including chocolate chip cookies!

Ooh, You Tasty Little Things blog has the recipe on how to make your own bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze. How to de-clog your arteries guide not included.

Sure, that was a good salad, but it would have been so much better with bacon. That was a delicious baked potato.. I wish it had some bacon on it. You know what was missing from breakfast this morning?- bacon. I think we've come up with so many foods which bacon can enhance, that we really were wondering what foods it wouldn't. [...]

Then we started talking about what bacon has successfully been added to, and the thought of the maple bacon bar donut at Voodoo donut back home, and Vosages bacon chocolate bar made me wonder..

Could I make a cookie with bacon? How about a chocolate chip cookie?

My husband cringed. He asked me to make a small batch, just in case. He's a big fan of standard chocolate chip cookies, so to see a whole batch go to waste if the bacon addition didn't work, I think it might have made him cry.

But I had to do it. The bacon and chocolate chip cookie had to be made.

Link - Thanks Geekazoic!

Li Ching Yun had an advice for living a long life: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog" - and apparently, he followed his own advice, because Li died at a ripe old age of 256!

Environmental Graffiti has the story:

By his own admission he was born in 1736 and had lived 197 years. However, in 1930 a professor and dean at Minkuo University by the name of Wu Chung-chien, found records “proving” that Li was born in 1677. Records allegedly showed that the Imperial Chinese Government congratulated him on his 150th and 200th Birthdays.

Link - Thanks eLzo!

"Now Showing" is an art exhibit at the Cosh Gallery in London where artists were given the task of creating their own interpretations of cult or classic film posters from the past. More than 40 creatives are displayed: Flickr photoset by keepsmesane of some of the posters | Official Website - via Booooooom!

Neatorama reader Chet Gulland recommended this strange (and a little easy) little "Search Engine" spelling bee by Converse.

It's a little experiment/viral ad using Google Adwords, where to get to the next round, you have to spell the word right in Google ...

http://www.conversespellingbee.com/ - Thanks Chet!

Some people never learn! This thief, James Milsom, 21, was filmed breaking into an undercover police car for the third time in four months.

The police was familiar with his face, because before this latest heist, he was also caught on camera. Twice.

Turned out that both times he broke into undercover police cars! Link

Meet the CO2 gas-powered toaster, the highest popping toaster in the world and apparently some sort of art project by Freddie Yauner: http://www.freddieyauner.co.uk/index.php?/news/the-highest-popping-toaster-in-the-world/ - Thanks SenorMysterioso!

Also, don't miss: The Fastest Clock in the World (keeps time to a millionth of a second - for those who can't afford an atomic clock)