Lassie the dog famously saved her owner in almost every episode. Little Timmy was forever falling into wells or getting stuck in old refrigerators or whatnot. The fates wanted him dead and only Lassie kept Timmy alive. Certainly Cat Lassie wouldn't have done what this dog in Germantown, Wisconsin did (warning: auto-start video).
For unknown reasons, Crystal Lauer fell unconscious on her front porch. It was only 3°F outside. She was dressed in pajamas and a housecoat. So she was in great danger of freezing to death.
Johnny, her black Labrador Retriever, ran into the street, agitated. Officer Jeff Gonzalez spotted him from his patrol car. Johnny led the officer back to Lauer's porch, where he found the unconscious woman. She had been on that porch for about an hour. Thanks to timely medical intervention, she's now recovering in a local hospital.
And India's Hinduja family of billionaires could afford it! Sanjay Hinduja, 50, married Anu Mahtani during a extraordinary 3-day wedding over the weekend that capped a full week of celebrations. They held their wedding at the Jagmandir Island Palace, a luxurious resort and hotel on an island in the city of Udaipur. 16,000 guests attended, many of whom flew in on 208 private jets.
American pop star Jennifer Lopez gave a private performance. She usually charges about $1 million for such events. Lopez was only one of many stars who performed, most of them top celebrities from the Bollywood music and film scene.
Bonnie Northsea, 32, of Gainesville, Florida is 40 weeks pregnant. It's time to induce labor. A friend suggested dancing. She decided to try the dance routine from Michael Jackson's famous music video "Thriller." So she put on the music and turned on a camera. It's been a few years since Northsea has done these particular moves. But as you can see, she's lost none of her dexterity.
You can print hummus? You can print hummus! It's true and Instructables member 3DigitalCooks proves it. The team used a Pinya2, which is a type of printer that extrudes liquids. This makes it suitable for printing hummus, providing that it's the right viscosity. Add a bit of icing color for flair.
I've printed with only polylactic acid filament, which tastes terrible. So I must acquire a Pinya2 for my library and start printing out some hummus. For as Remy Munasifi reminds us, "It's all about that paste."
By that I mean this clever cosplayer is both Belle and the Beast from Disney's Beauty and the Beast. David Ngo, a professional cosplay photographer (yes, this awesome job exists) snapped this shot at Katsucon, an annual fan convention in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Ngo describes this as a Rule 63 costume. I think that means switching the gender of a cosplayed character. I am hesitant to argue with a man who does cosplay photography for a living, but I think this is actually a combination of both characters.
Here at Neatorama, we love the French street artist OakOak. He has a gift for placement. He can intuitively find images in ordinary life that most of us would never see without his help. For example, the shadow of a parking meter in Saint-Etienne, France forms Snoopy's doghouse. All OakOak had to do was add the famous dog himself.
3. In 1922, 38 years before the movie Cinderella was released, Walt Disney produced this silent, animated short telling the story. In this version, Cinderella doesn't wear a ballgown, but a flapper dress.
Peaches is a Moluccan cockatoo. Her first owners were a couple who eventually divorced. It must have been an acrimonious separation because ever since, she's been having outbursts that sound like a couple angrily arguing.
It's been 23 years since Peaches left that home, but she still remembers. Her current owners, Elaine and Don Sigmon of Maiden, North Carolina, report that she's an otherwise happy parrot:
"A few days after coming into our home, she began her show and we all laughed hysterically. We cannot make out what she is saying when doing this arguing," Sigmon said.
"Hearing her is one thing, but to watch her movements with her head as if pointing aggressively at my husband is hilarious," she added.
However, Peaches is known to have a softer side; her repertoire also includes friendly phrases such as "I love you," "What you doing" and "Hello."
"Even during her episodes, I can go to her and she will get on my hand or arm and begin to cuddle. Many people have asked us if she was in a happy environment and yes, she is," Sigmon said.
Archaeologists in southern Greece uncovered the well-preserved skeletal remains of two people. DNA testing confirms that one is a man and the other a woman. According to Anastassia Papathanassiou, a member of the excavation team, they probably died in each other's arms. If so, it's a touching display of tragic love from a lost era, now frozen in time.
Iceland, a land abounding in natural wonders, is a favorite for nature photographers. The glaciers in particular are places where they can find the full magnitude of what natural forces can create. Nicolas Brousse, a photographer from Malmö, Sweden, journeyed there to witness ice melting off Breiðamerkurjökull, a glacier on that island. He explored an ice cave that formed beneath the glacier and snapped incredible shots of it. You can see more photos in the series here.
Tired of people ignoring you while fooling around on their phones? Comedians Tripp and Tyler offer you their great invention: Present Spray. This handy gadget subtly draws their attention back into the conversation. Present Spray is ideal at home, the office, restaurants, and public restrooms.
I'm sympathetic to people who want to buy Present Spray. But sometimes there's a reason why people pay attention to their phones instead of you. That's why I occasionally think about carrying and distributing these cards at certain times:
Furbacca looks cute. But he hates to lose and has been known to rip people's arms out of their sockets when he does. So play nice, pet him, and let him win.
He's Hasbro's latest Furby electronic toy. He turns, responds to you (in a friendly way), and displays Star Wars-related images on his eyeballs. Mashable describes him:
There are sensors on his head, under his stomach, mouth and tail, so if you give him a little scratch between the ears, he'll love you even more. If you pull his tail, he gets cranky — you can see the anger building in his LCD eyes. Depending on his mood, Furbacca's eyes can populate with pictures of X-Wing Fighters and Imperial Star Destroyers.
Stephen Marche, a columnist with The Guardian, advocates what he calls "centireading"--the practice of reading one book 100 times. He has done this with two texts: William Shakespeare's Hamlet and P.G. Wodehouse's The Inimitable Jeeves. The former he did for his doctorate and the latter just for fun. The practice has had an effect on him:
The main effect of reading Hamlet a 100 times was, counter-intuitively, that it lost its sense of cliche. “To be or not to be” is the Stairway to Heaven of theatre; it settles over the crowd like a slightly funky blanket knitted by a favorite aunt. Eventually, if you read Hamlet often enough, every soliloquy takes on that same familiarity. And so “To be or not to be” resumes its natural place in the play, as just another speech. Which renders its power and its beauty of a piece with the rest of the work. […]
The psychology of my love for The Inimitable Jeeves isn’t exactly hard to understand. As we rolled through that strange country, laughing at the English with the English, the family was both inside and outside. My associations with The Inimitable Jeeves are as powerful as they could possibly be, a fused sense of family unity and childhood adventure. The book is so much more than just a happy childhood memory. In such ways, books pick us, rather than the other way around.
I have never read one book a hundred times, but I've read Richard Adams's Shardik about a dozen times. It is not truly great literature like Hamlet, but with each re-reading, I saw elements of the text that I had not noticed before. Reading the author's biography contributed to this deeper understanding. And absorbing the text has added phrases, expressions, and symbols (e.g. fire, water, the bear) to my own internal language. The story has become part of me.
Preventative maintenance is one of the keys to a healthy marriage. Bill Bresnan of Toms River, New Jersey understands this. He loves his wife, Kirsten, dearly. That's not just an involuntary emotion, but a deliberate decision. Bill loves her and shows his love by writing a romantic note to her every day.
He's done this for more than 30 years.
Kirsten keeps her husband's romantic notes. She's organized them so that they can always go through them and reflect on their past times together. He describes the practice in the Asbury Park Press (warning: auto-start video):
We read my compliments to Kris on something special she may have cooked one night, see what the weather may have been that day, etc.
One thing that holds true throughout every sentiment — every single card is an expression of my deep love for Kris by being signed, "I love you madly++, my Darling," followed by the infinity sign.
This is only one of the practices they consciously maintain in order to nurture their relationship:
We eat by candlelight every night with romantic music playing in the background; every good night kiss is followed by I love you, the morning ones, too.
There is no TV in our bedroom and never has been.
I fully agree with a sentiment that Bresnan explains in this video: love is act that you can consciously practice and a relationship is something that you can grow and build intentionally.
Literally Balling is Victor Solomon's novel interpretation of the traditional basketball hoop, net, and backboard. He made 3 sets that faithfully imitate the style of Louis Comfort Tiffany, a famous glass artist of the early Twentieth Century. Each of the 3 sets required over 100 hours of work to cut and assemble using only the finest materials, including gold plating on the rims.
