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G-Male is Google's New Boyfriend Feature


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Google is now offering its boyfriend feature to selected users. G-Male is the perfect boyfriend. He knows everything about you! Everything.

Don't worry about the screenshot displayed. This video from Comediva is completely safe.

Link -via Joe Carter

Star Wars Nintendo Case Mods



Etsy seller Kevin Glenn made these two outstanding Nintendo case mods that resemble Star Wars vessels. The TIE fighter is a Nintendo 64 and a 1995 Hasbro kit. The snowspeeder is a Mini Super NES with a 1995 Hasbro T-47 kit. Both are fully functional (as gaming consoles).

Link -via DVICE

Ride the Quadricorn


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You're still riding a unicorn? They're, like, so 2010. The new thing is the quadricorn. It's four times as unicorny as a unicorn. Don't you have one yet? Dude, get with the times. -via Uniblog

Reese's Cone of Shame



Jed Heuer, a Portland, Oregon-based photographer captured this shot. Presumably it was staged. Presumably. http://www.jheuer.com/#566265/Reese-s-Dog -via Colossal

Fermilab Physicist Develops More Efficient Airliner Boarding Procedure


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Jason Steffen is a particle physicist who works at Fermliab. He's used his knowledge of complex systems and motion to develop an airplane boarding procedure that is more efficient than those currently in use:

In his method, first, alternate rows on one side of the plane board, but just the window seats. Then the other side boards, in alternate rows with one row between each passenger. Again, window seats only. Then back to the other side, with the middle seats this time. And so on. The result is a beautiful choreography as rows of passengers simultaneously stow their luggage and take their seats in tandem.


Link -via Popular Science

Gollum Wedding Cake



The modern bride wants one thing out of her wedding: Gollum, Gollum, and more Gollum! Really, you can't overdo it. At a minimum, hire a guy to dress up like Gollum and serve as your ringbearer. For an upscale wedding, you need a Gollum cake, like this one by Crazy Cakes in Austin.

Link -via blastr | Crazy Cakes | Photo: Between the Pages

Surfing with Flares


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This viral video ad for Red Bull features pro surfers Bruce Irons, Kolohe Andino and Jamie O'Brien riding the waves with flares attached to the backs of their boards. The nighttime shots are really beautiful.

I want some of this action! Tomorrow, Alex and I will attach flares to the back of Miss C's desk chair and push her down the hallway. Maybe it'll have a similar visual effect.

-via Super Punch

My Little Cyberman



The Doctor's old foes, the Cybermen, have constructed new allies from ponies. Are they vulnerable to gold? There's only one way to find out!

Link -via Technabob

Man Eludes Police Surveillance by Taking off the Prosthetic Leg to Which Officers Had Attached an Electronic Monitoring Device

We often post stupid criminal stories here at Neatorama. This isn't one of them. No, this fellow was most cunning. Christopher Lowcock wrapped up his prosthetic leg in bandages. When private contractors hired by the police attached an electronic monitoring device to him, they wrapped it around the false leg. Then Lowcock took it off whenever he needed to move about town without being traced:

Lowcock could then simply remove his leg - and the tag - whenever he wanted to breach his court-imposed curfew for driving and drug offences, as well as possession of an offensive weapon.

A second G4S officer who went to check the monitoring equipment also failed to carry out the proper test.

Managers became suspicious last month, but when they returned to the address a third time Lowcock had already been arrested and was back in custody accused of driving while banned and without insurance.


Link -via Gizmodo | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user 85mm.ch used under Creative Commons license

The Expression "Sweating Like a Pig" Has Nothing to Do with Pigs

Pigs don't sweat much, so they wallow in the mud to cool off their bodies. So how did the English language expression "sweating like a pig" develop? It's actually a reference to pig iron, which is form of iron smelting:

When pig iron is originally created from iron ore, the smelter needs to heat the ore to extreme temperatures, and then move the liquid metal into the mold. Until the liquid cools, it can't be safely moved, as the extremely hot metal is liable to spill, burning whatever it comes in contact with.

How does the smelter know when the metal is cool enough to transport? When the "pigs" "sweat." As the metal cools, the air around it reaches the dew point, causing droplets to form on the metal's surface.


Link | Photo via Flickr user The Pug Father used under Creative Commons license

Magnetic Bubbles


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Kim Pimmel placed a magnet in the middle of a pile of soap bubbles and then poured ferrofluid along the outer edge. Watch magnetic forces pull the ferrofluid through the bubbles! It's an amazing demonstration of the use of macro lenses and time-lapse photography. -via Colossal

The Smithsonian Is Trying to Find the Origin of These Battlestar Galactica Glasses



Drew Robarge, a technician at the National Museum of American History in Washington, came upon a unique pair of eyeglasses. They were donated to the museum in 1982, but otherwise, he has learned nothing about them. Well, given the story expressed in the updated BSG, I think that it's likely that these are at least 150,000 years old and probably belonged to a crew member of the original Galactica.

Link -via blastr | Photo: Smithsonian

Patton Oswalt's "The Song of Ulvaak" Put to Music


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Patton Oswalt's book Zombie Spaceship Wasteland includes his reflections on the impact of role-playing games upon his life. This is followed by a lengthy poem entitled "The Song of Ulvaak," which is about one of Oswalt's own characters. Allie Goetz, who composed the Dungeons & Dragons song "Tonight," has put the poem into music. It's a lovely, haunting poem, especially as Ulvaak becomes aware of his true nature.

-via Uniblog

Russia Plans to Build Tunnel to Alaska

For a century, Russia and the United States have considered building a tunnel or a bridge across the 64-mile Bering Strait -- the body of water that separates Siberia and Alaska. Now the Russian government is making serious plans to build a transcontinental railway and tunnel system at the cost of $65 billion:

Russian officials insist that the tunnel is an economic idea whose time has now come and that it could be ready within ten years. They argue that it would repay construction costs by stimulating up to 100 million tons of freight traffic each year, as well as supplying oil, gas and electricity from Siberia to the US and Canada.[...]

The tunnel across the international date-line would be built in three sections through two islands in the Bering Strait and would link 6,000km (3,728 miles) of new railway lines. The tunnel alone would cost an estimated $10-12 billion to construct.


Link -via Gizmodo | Image: St. John Fisher College

Tire That Self-Inflates Whenever It Rolls


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Benjamin Krempel founded a company called PumpTire, which is marketing a rather unique bicycle tire. It has a partially open tube on the outer circumference. As the wheel turns, it opens and closes the tube, which draws air from the outside and pumps it into the interior of the tire. When the tire reaches maximum pressure, it shuts off. In a test ride featured in the video, the tire inflated from 22 to 52 psi after three and a half minutes of riding. Link -via DVICE

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