Adrian Gonzalez, a first baseman for the Dodgers, leaned over the railing to catch a ball as it arced toward the stands. He almost got it. But spectator Keith Hartley snatched it barehanded right above Gonzalez’s glove. He did this while leaning over a railing and holding and bottle-feeding his 7-month old son.
The batter was ruled out due to fan interference and the Cubs went on to beat the Dodgers 1-0.
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El Capitan is a nearly vertical rock face in Yosemite National Park in California. Climbing it is a 3,000-foot journey that has been completed in as short a time as 19 days. That’s by elite climbers. You and I, though can go faster by using Google Street View.
That service, which provides photos to accompany Google Maps, which has explored the oceans, Loch Ness, the Grand Canyon, and the open sands of the Sahara, now takes you straight up El Capitan. It’s a tough, brutal climb, but keep clicking and eventually you’ll reach the summit. You can read more about the journey here.
-via Tech Crunch
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You’ve seen watermelons grown as cubes. The next step would obviously be to bake bread that looks like one of those watermelons, inside and out. Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku reports that this kind of bread is a popular trend in Taiwan. It started at a bakery called Jimmy’s Bakery, but has spread widely. You can even make your own at home. Slice it open and eat it plan, or wrap two slices around real watermelon for a watermelon sandwich.
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Muaz Nawaz, Daanyaal Ali, and Chirag Shah are 13, 14, and 14 years old, respectively. Though they’re young, they’ve already developed a sophisticated and helpful invention: an STD-detecting condom. The material is embedded with bacteria that turn green when they contact chlamydia, blue when encountering syphilis, and yellow when detecting herpes.
The three inventors are students at Isaac Newton Academy in Ilford, Essex, UK. The condom, which they cleverly call the S.T.EYE, earned them a £1,000 prize and a trip to Buckingham Palace in the TeenTech invention contest.
-via Geekologie
What are brothers for, but for antagonizing? This young lady found the perfect way to do it: she shot her straw wrapper off by blowing through the straw. The wrapper not only hit the little boy, but lodged firmly in his ear. She’s the Robin Hood of the diner!
-via Tastefully Offensive
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Jared of the skateboard company Braden Boards has a little boy who loves to ride as much as his daddy does. Jett, who is now 1 and 1/2, has been riding with his father since he was just 6 months old. This sidecar-like attachment helps him do it. As this video demonstrates, the sidecar keeps the boy secure while bending and flexing with the movement of Jared's longboard.
-via Laughing Squid
This flag had nothing to do with Nazi Germany or any other Nazi organization. The swastika long predates the Nazi use of that symbol and remains in use in India.
In this case, the swastika is part of the house flag of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company operating out of Bombay, India. That shipping company operated from 1919 until the 1980s. This flag was made in about 1951. It’s one of hundreds of maritime flags owned by the Royal Museums in Greenwich, UK. You can find other notable selections at Messy Nessy Chic.
-via Sarah Troop
Internet prankster Obvious Plant has a new sign that will give the store’s cashiers a little surprise. Except, of course, for the secret Illuminati handshake. Just complete that transaction quickly and discreetly.
NeatoShop pro tip: we accept Open Mouth Kisses as a form of payment from our valued customers, as well as for refunds.
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The excess water in the atrium isn’t an accident, but the result of intentional design. It's a preschool, so it could be only great fun to have puddles for water play right next to the classrooms.
Here is Dia-ichi Yochien, a new school in Kumamoto City, Japan. Architect Taku Hibino says that the open area can serve several purposes, including as a softball field during the summer and an ice skating rink during the winter. You can see more photos at Spoon & Tamago.
(Photo: Vivian Xiaowei Mao/Deep Springs College)
Deep Springs College is a liberal arts college deep in the California desert near Death Valley. It’s both a school and a working cattle ranch. Those very few students who are admitted to it study great books, especially within the fields of religion and philosophy, as well as do hard physical labor to earn their keep.
It’s an incredibly selective institution. Only 6 to 15 freshmen are granted offers of admission each year, of which 90% accept. After spending two years there, 80% of graduates go on to higher universities, including elite Ivy League schools. The all-male school offers an isolated, almost monastic lifestyle of study and work. Wallace Kalkin of Messy Nessy Chic describes this college that is unlike any other:
The course catalogue reflects both the view that every young man should immerse himself in the desert before rejoining society as well as the serious intellectual vibe of the school. The President of the College, David Neidorf, teaches a class, ironically, on feminism, despite the student body being all male.
Other courses at Deep Springs include; God and Evil: Theodicies (Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies), Sacred Texts of Wandering and Journeying: Zhuangzi & Dante (Religion Studies, Literature), and Catching Spies (Literature, Film Theory). […]
The school shows no qualms in advertising the reality of the intense commitment. After all, as they admit freely on their website, each student really does “labor at least twenty hours a week.”
Instagram member Shameck is a fashion illustrator. Lately, he’s been drawing images of beautiful women in dresses, then cutting the clothes out of the paper. He holds the results up to the skyline, letting buildings, trees, and clouds fill in vacant forms. They’re striking collaborations between paper and reality.
Petra Švajger is an artist in Ljubjana, Slovenia. She describes herself as a fashion design graduate who never felt like she was a fashion designer. So she’s explored photographic and digital artwork instead. In particular, Švajger has raised the animated .gif file to an art form. The above example is from her series called Weird Flu.
What would life be like if Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues hadn’t invented the World Wide Web in 1991? The short film “World Wide What?” narrated by Stephen Fry describes that scenario. The awesome thing about this video is that it’s packed with the founders of major web and internet applications, including Tim Berners-Lee, Michael Bloomberg, Arianna Huffington, and Jimmy Wales.
If this dystopian nightmare were real life, it would have an impact at Neatorama. We’d have to go back to delivering cat .gifs by telegram, as Alex Santoso’s great-great-grandfather did when he founded the company back in 1887. And the artificial intelligence program that we affectionately refer to as “Miss Cellania” would never even exist.
-via Marilyn Terrell
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A flamingo that lives in a zoo in São Paulo, Brazil lost one of his legs due to an infection. But now he's standing tall and proud on his new prosthetic one. The 7-inch leg is made of carbon fiber and silicone. The flamingo is already hobbling along on it well. He's taken to tucking it under his body and standing on his remaining natural leg. The International Business Times reports:
Veterinarians at the zoo say once the flamingo has mastered hobbling around on its new leg, it will be reintroduced to its group on the zoo grounds.
"[The flamingo] is slowly getting physically rehabilitated and the muscles in the legs getting stronger so it can join the group," zoo veterinarian Andre Costa, said.
-via The Soul Is Bone
Facehuggers from the Alien science fiction horror movie franchise are a symbol of love and affection. That is, after all, why they hug humans that they encounter. So it is appropriate that Timmy Hanno, a baker in Oak Lawn, Illinois, made this raspberry-filled fritter for his girlfriend, Brittany Ann Martin.
