On sale over at the NeatoShop: Cat Cabin and Cat Teepee. Two great cardboard playhouses that let your cat (or small dog) play cowboys and indians.

View more Sale and Clearance items over at the Neatoshop: Link - Hurry, quantities are limited

Meet baby Jasleen, all 16 lb 5 oz of her. She's a big baby, all right, but that's not the only thing remarkable about her. Get this: she was born naturally, not by C-section: Link

Cronut, the hand-crafted hybrid of donut and croissant, is no longer so artisanal. It took Dunkin' Donuts just two months since it was created by Dominique Ansel bakery in downtown Manhattan to mass produce the confectionery:

A Dunkin Donuts spokesman told Quartz that the chain introduced the “New York Pie Donut” this past weekend. Dunkin Donuts also launched a “Donut Croissant” in Manila a few weeks ago but has no plans to introduce them in the US right now.

Lily Kuo and Herman Wong of QZ has the post: Link

After you marry that millionaire (whom you got from "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" TV Show), it's entirely logical to start your family with yet another quiz show. Enter this TV game show from Pakistan, where you can ... that's right, win a baby:

TV host Aamir Liaquat Hussain presented baby girls to two unsuspecting couples during his show, which is broadcast live for seven hours a day during the month of Ramadan. "I was really shocked at first. I couldn't believe we were being given this baby girl," said Suriya Bilqees, now a mother of a two-week old. "I was extremely happy."

Another baby, a boy, is due to be given to another couple at some point in the coming days. [...]

"At Christmas there's Santa Claus to give everyone gifts, it's important for Christians. For us Ramadan is a really special time so it's really important to make people happy and reward them," said Hussain.

His show -- Aman Ramazan -- has been dubbed Pakistan's version of The Price Is Right, with members of the 500-strong audience receiving prizes in exchange for answering questions on the Quran.

The giveaway bonanza includes motorbikes, microwave ovens, washing machines and fridges. He also cooks while men sing Islamic hymns and discusses religion with children in a garden full of rabbits, snakes and goats.

The baby, if you must know, has been abandoned by its birth parents and the "winners" have been fully vetted in an adoption process. They just didn't know that they were going to "win" the baby in a game show.

Read the full story and video clip over at this post by Saima Mohsin and Katie Hunt at CNN: Link - Thanks Tiffany!

Best Western. Forrest City, Arkansas, USA (2008)

Comedian David Bussell has stayed in a lot of hotels over the years, and decided that he should leave a bit of something ... in form of a hidden message behind mirrors, paintings, and other obscure places in the room. Next time you stay in a hotel, try to see if a fellow traveler has left you something. Behold, Hotel Graffiti - via Metafilter

Peuto San Jose. Costa Verde, Guatemala (2010)

Royal Bath Hotel. Bournemouth, England, UK (2009)

Photo: @grantimahara - via Pleated Jeans

The force of nature known to man as Sharknado continues to swirl through the Interweb. Behold, the Sharknado hair (sharkna 'do?) as seen at Comic Con 2013.

"Hold me closer, Tony Danza"

Wait, that's not how Elton John's Tiny Dancer goes? If you often "mishear" song lyrics, you're in good company. Music streaming service Spotify has compiled a list of the Top 10 Misquoted Song Lyrics:

1. Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Blinded By the Light (52%)
WRONG: "Blinded by the light ... wrapped up like a (pejorative word) when you're rollin' in the night"
RIGHT: "Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"

2. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze (19%)
WRONG: "Scuse me, while I kiss this guy"
RIGHT: "Scuse me, while I kiss the sky"

3. The Clash, Rock the Casbah (14%)
WRONG: "Rock the cat box"
RIGHT: "Rock the Casbah"

4. Elton John, Tiny Dancer (13%)
WRONG: "Hold me closer Tony Danza"
RIGHT: "Hold me closer tiny dancer"

5. Credence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon Rising (12%)
WRONG: "There's a bathroom on the right"
RIGHT: "There's a bad moon on the rise"

6. Guns N' Roses, Paradise City (10%)
WRONG: "Take me down to a very nice city"
RIGHT: "Take me down to the paradise city"

7. Van Halen, Panama (9%)
WRONG: "Animal!"
RIGHT: "Panama!"

8. Far East Movement, Like a G6 (8%)
WRONG: "Like a cheese stick"
RIGHT: "Like a G6"

9. TLC, Waterfalls (7%)
WRONG: "Don't go Jason waterfalls"
RIGHT: "Don't go chasing waterfalls"

10. Macy Gray, I Try (4%)
WRONG: "I blow bubbles when you are not here"
RIGHT: "My world crumbles when you are not near"

Link (Image: Tony Danza in Who's the Boss - via IMDB).

Like that? Mashable has extended that list to 34 songs, for example:

• The Rolling Stones, "Beast of Burden:" "I'll never leave your pizza burning" instead of"I'll never be your beast of burden"

• John Mayer, "Your Body Is a Wonderland:" "And if you want love, we'll make it / Swim in a deep sea of bacon" instead of "... Swim in a deep sea of blankets"

• Taylor Swift, "22:" "You look like Batman" instead of "You look like bad news"

• Wilson Phillips, "Reckless:" "Talking 'bout the washer and breakfast" instead of "Wanna be impulsive, reckless"

• The Beatles, "Something:" "Something's in the way, she moves" instead of "Something in the way she moves" (A subtle but silly change.)

• Ke$ha, "Your Love Is My Drug:" "Get out, get out, get out, it's my truck" instead of"Your love, your love, your love is my drug"

... or just sing along:

Just think of these as "deterrents" / Photo: Uluc Ceylani/Shutterstock

Some men buy expensive car as a "hey, I'm rich" signal to potential mates, but how about women? A new study from the University of Minnesota show that women also use expensive designer goods like Louis Vuitton handbags, Jimmy Choo shoes and Prada sunglasses for mating purposes. Just not what you'd expect:

“Whereas men use conspicuous products to attract mates, women use conspicuous products to deter female rivals,” conclude the study’s co-authors, Valadas Griskevicius, an associate professor of marketing at the Carlson School of Management, and PhD student Yajin Wang.

Of course, previous studies have found other reasons women purchase luxury products: to boost their self-esteem, for example, or to express their identity. But, as the findings of this new study suggest, such products may also play an important “signaling” role in relationships.

“In past research we have found that when men are showing off these luxury products, the audience is often other women,” said Griskevicius in a phone interview with MinnPost. “When men have a flashy car, they want women to see this flashy car and to realize how expensive it is. But for women, they’re showing off these expensive products to other women.”

Susan Perry of MinnPost has the story: Link

You knew it was coming. When we told you about cronut, the donut and croissant hybrid, two months ago (before it became hip, mind you) - I was counting the days till someone came up with the logical next step: cronut holes.

Well, it took some time for the craze to sweep the country, but cronuts and their sidekick cronut holes are now here on the West Coast. I snapped this photo at a local bakery in Southern California.

"A book can change the story of your life," is the premise of this series of cleverly illustrated ads for Penguin Books by Y&R ad agency in Beijing, China. The print ads show events in a person's life and how reading a book could make a difference between that person becoming a criminal or a sports hero, a successful chef and, uh, a degenerate and so on.

Screw shawarma! The best Avengers dish you'll ever eat is this Captain America's Breakfast S.H.I.E.L.D., from Kitchen Overlord:

Ingredients:

One tortilla
One egg
Four drops of blue food coloring
2 tbsp refried beans
4 tbsp salsa
1 slice mozzarella or other white sandwich cheese
2-3 tbsp mozzarella or other shredded white cheese

... and a healthy dose of awesomeness: Link

Photo: UCLA Special Collection/LA Times Photographs Collection - via KPCC

Long before Beijing became the poster child for air pollution, Los Angeles was synonymous with "smog." The photo above, taken in downtown Los Angeles in 1948, showed the city's Civic Center blanketed under the noxious fumes of air pollutants.

But they don't call California the Land of (obscured) Sunshine and Opportunity for nothing! Some clever entrepreneurs turned smog into coins: in 1954, a man sold "Fresh Clean Desert Air" in balloons for 50 cents*.

Photo: Herald-Examiner Collection photo/The Los Angeles Public Library (Oct 22, 1954)
- via KCET

(*The idea has legs: Last year, Chinese billionaire Chen Guangbiao launched a line of canned fresh air to the residents of China's most polluted megacities.)

One day in 1957, actor Carleton Young was choking on eye-stinging smog when he thought, "If only we could pack this stuff and ship it someplace." And thus the Los Angeles Smog Corp. was born!

Young's concept was simple: stand outside with some empty cans on a smoggy day, wave them around to capture some of LA smog, seal the cans and sell 'em to tourists.

Photo via KCET's Departures

The result? Genuine Los Angeles Smog-in-a-can, which label touted:

"Genuine Los Angeles Smog. This is the smog used by famous Hollywood stars. Contains hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, sulfer dioxide, organic oxides, aldehydes, formaldehydes.

"Made in Los Angeles by Angels. To insure freshness and purity keep container tightly sealed. Beware of imitations! Accept none but the pure Los Angeles Smog.

"No pollutants or irritants removed. Packed for Los Angeles Smog Corp,, Los Angeles 28, California."

Now that's turning lemon into lemonades, and smog into semolians!

Quick: which neighboorhoods above feel safe to you? How about iffy?

Paul Salesses, Katja Schechtner, and César A. Hidalgo built an online survey using images from Google Street View and ask study participants to select which neighborhood feels safe just by looking at the picture. They found that little things like trash on the street could act as subconscious cue that people use to gauge the perceived safety of a place:

Have enough people compare paired images of streets in New York or Boston, for instance, for the scenes that look more "safe" or "upper-class," and eventually some patterns start to emerge.

"We found images with trash in it, and took the trash out, and we noticed a 30 percent increase in perception of safety," Salesses says. "It's surprising that something that easy had that large an effect."

This also means some fairly cost-effective government interventions – collecting trash – could have a significant impact on how safe people feel in a neighborhood."It’s like bringing a data source to something that’s always been subjective," Salesses says.

When Salesses compare the neighborhoods that people perceived as safe against crime data, it turns out that these places are actually safer compared to the rest of the city. Emily Badger of The Atlantic Cities has the post: Link | The paper over at PLOS ONE

Japanese artist Aki Inomata once asked "Why not hand over a shelter to hermit crabs?" and answered her own question with this: a series of plastic shells modeled after the New York City skyline, a Parisian apartment, as well as typical architectures of other countries.

Aki's said:

In this piece I gave hermit crabs shelters that I had made for them, and if they liked my shelters, I got them to use them as their shell. I overheard that the land of the former French Embassy in Japan had been French until October 2009; that it was to become Japanese for the following fifty years, and then be returned to France. This concept made me think of hermit crabs, which change their shells. The same piece of land is peacefully transferred from one country to the other. These kinds of things take place without our being aware of it. On the other hand, similar events are not unrelated to us as individuals. For example acquiring nationality, moving, and migration. The hermit crabs wearing the shelters I built for them, which imitate the architecture of various countries, appeared to be crossing various national borders.

Aki's website | Designboom has more pics

Hate working on weekends? That's because you *can* work on weekends.

Not so in France, where tough labor laws prohibit stores from being open on Sunday. That's why some people are striking ... for the right to work more:

... with France weighed down with economic trouble, a new group of employees from two large hardware store chains is demanding to work more, and it’s pulled its slogan straight from the Obama campaign.

The protestors at a recent protest in Paris chanted, “Yes, Week-End,” in their effort to convince French officials to allow them to work on Sundays.

The French government restricts most stores from opening on Sundays -- a day traditionally reserved for family time in France.

Christopher Werth of American Public Media's Marketplace World has the story: Link