You can "Like" someone's Facebook status update, comment, or picture. But the company has declined to add a much lobbied-for "Dislike" button. It is, perhaps, too harsh an expression for the refined manners of Facebook users. So Kevin Murphy offers this alternative: a 'Meh' button. It would express, Murphy argues "I tepidly accept this thing that you are writing about or showing me on Facebook."

What say you, Neatoramanauts? Does Facebook need a 'Meh' button?

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Pablo Picasso's largest work measures 34 by 38 feet. The painting, consisting of gouache on canvas, was created as a theatrical backdrop for the Russian ballet director Serge Diaghilev. It's been in storage since 1939 and has only now gone on public display at the Victoria and Albert Museum:

It took a tower of scaffolding, five riggers pulling it up and ten museum staff unrolling it down to hang the front cloth this morning.

A front cloth is a theatrical creation, designed to hang just behind the red velvet curtain and to be viewed by an audience while musicians play the overture.

This particular piece was designed for the Ballets Russes performance of Le Train Bleu, in Paris, in 1924.

You can view several large images at the link.

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Sophie Thomlinson weighed under 2 pounds when she was born in the back of an ambulance in the middle of a blizzard. There was no incubator in the vehicle, but it was necessary to keep her warm until they arrived at the hospital. So the attending paramedic improvised a solution:

But paramedic Rob Dalziel, 37, was able to keep her moist by wrapping her in a yellow plastic bag usually used for disposing of hazardous medical supplies.

He then used towels to cocoon the child and keep her body temperature at a safe level and forced air into her lungs to ensure she kept breathing as the ambulance continued on to Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.

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Interpreter Sam Farley is having a lot of fun presenting Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in American Sign Language. While driving.

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Previously:
15 Unique Bohemian Rhapsody Covers
The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody

Surfers in Australia found a 10-foot great white shark stranded on a beach. They carefully dragged it back into the ocean. Photographer Ruth Fahey reported:

“As it was threshing about, they tried first to dig the sand away beneath it to refloat it but ended up man-handling it back into the water. It was still very sluggish when they got to knee deep water so the surfer waded it out until he was waist deep.”

“The shark slowly swam away... much slower than the surfer exited the vicinity.”

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Edward Mike Davis, CEO of the defunct Tiger Oil Company, was known for his blunt and direct communications. He often sent out memos to his employees expressing his feelings in no uncertain terms. The blog Letters of Note has a selection of these missives.

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Japanese chef Shoichi Uchiyama has developed a line of sushi recipes that use insects, rather than fish, as the primary source of protein. He believes that carefully-selected insects are not only healthy and tasty, but can help feed a growing world population. From a 2008 article in The Daily Telegraph:

"In order to get 1 kg of beef, we have to raise cows on huge areas of land and give them many more kilos of fodder before they are ready to be slaughtered," he said. "Insects eat the things that humans don't and can be kept in much smaller spaces.

"Most importantly, insects are very nutritionally balanced, have little fat and are the perfect food source."

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We've previously featured T. Shamir's tiny cannon. Since that time, he's added a peep sight for precise aiming. Again, he's smashing household items, including vodka bottles and computer monitors. The Orff music in the background adds to the dramatic tension.

Question: how long will it take Hollywood to turn this into a feature-length film?

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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed what they call "Life Beans". These are fluorescent beads that are implanted inside the human body. They glow with varying intensity subject to the glucose level of the patient:

Researchers tested it in the ears of a mouse, and watched as the ear fluoresced at different intensities depending on the mouse's blood sugar.

The researchers think it would be possible to develop devices that manage diabetics' blood sugar without them noticing it.

One difficulty with the current design is that the patient's immune system attacks the beads and dims the lights.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-08/life-beans-could-be-made-implantable-glucose-monitor | Video | Image: DigInfo

Previously:
Contact Lenses That Change Color to Alert Diabetics of Glucose Levels
Diabetes-Monitoring Nanoparticle Tattoos

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Evan Sellers has a talent: he can sink basketball shots from enormous distances. In this video, Sellers is standing on top of the 134-foot platform in the statue of the Roman god Vulcan in Birmingham, Alabama. The goal is about 150-180 feet from the base of the sculpture, making this possibly the farthest basketball shot ever recorded.

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Graphic designer Ellie Koning made a large infographic filled with facts about eBay. Did you know that the first item to sell on eBay was a broken laser pointer? The final price was $14.83.

http://www.onlineuniversity.org/ebay-the-giant-marketplace via GearFuse

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This commercial for a British fruit juice brand shows a man rearranging the pieces of his head like they're parts of a Rubik's Cube puzzle. It was made by the ad agency CHI & Partners and directed by Ulf Johansson.

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Slovak artist Matej Krén once made a tower out of books. He's expanded that concept to a full-sized building, using mirrors to create the illusion of a large interior space. It's currently on display at the Museo d'Arte Moderna in Bologna, Italy.

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Google, which is engaging in extensive book digitization projects, recently set out to determine the number of distinct print books currently in existence:

After some intensive analysis, we've come up with a number. Standing on the shoulders of giants—libraries and cataloging organizations—and based on our computational resources and experience of organizing millions of books through our Books Library Project and Books Partner Program since 2004, we’ve determined that number.

As of today, we estimate that there are 129,864,880 different books in the world. That's a lot of knowledge captured in the written word! This calculation used an algorithm that combines books information from multiple sources including libraries, WorldCat, national union catalogs and commercial providers. And the actual number of books is always increasing.

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The Brazilian advertising agency Moma made a set of advertisements for websites as though they were designed in the 1950s-60s. At the link, you can view ads for YouTube and Skype.

Link via Urlesque | Company Website (in Portuguese)