What purpose does that piece of furniture serve? Let's not pretend that you're going to sit in it. It's covered in clothes and other junk and, like your otherwise unused exercise bike, it's going to stay that way.
Birdie Picot and Matt Smith of Thing Industries have perfected a chair design for the purpose that it actually serves. They call it the Sacrificial Chair:
Like a lamb to the gods we give you this chair to sacrifice to your clothes. Designed to replace 'that chair' in your bedroom that is constantly covered in crap, this is specifically designed for that purpose. Feel good about your lazy habits.
How are you going to spend your time in your final resting place? In the future, technology will offer so many opportunities! With Wi-Fi access and a charging port, you can amuse yourself indefinitely.
But that's not why some funeral homes and cemeteries in Moscow, Russia plan to set up Wi-Fi access to the internet. The funeral homes want to make it easier for people to locate their loved ones while navigating cemeteries. UPI reports:
Artem Ekimov of Ritual funeral home in Moscow explained that Internet access can make certain needs, such as navigating the funeral grounds, easier.
"Online every person interested in the identity of the buried or the monument of his grave will be able to obtain the necessary information in the network," he said. "In addition, the internet will allow you to download a map of the cemetery."
Cemeteries in Novodevichy and Vagankovskoye had previously been equipped with terminals that allowed visitors to search for the GPS coordinates of certain graves.
Fan theories come in all shapes and sizes, from the minor flight of fancy about a favorite character to the major league franchise universe crossover, and while fun to read they rarely change the way we feel about our favorite movies.
However, when a theory is presented that truly makes sense, like the theory that the main character in The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie are all the same guy, we can't help but see those movies in a different light.
Screen Rant put together a visual list of 10 Movie Theories That Completely Change Popular Films, it's worth watching for the awesome theory about the James Bond films alone!
Those who work in the service industry are exposed to different kinds of situations depending on where they work, and nobody knows how awkward dating can be quite like those who work in restaurants.
Servers are constantly seeing and hearing things from customers that are sure to be a source of embarrassment for years to come, and thanks to the interwebs we all get to dine on their awkward misery for free!
Servers took to Reddit to write about the worst dates they'd ever witnessed while on the job (contains NSFW language), and while they're not all bad, and a few are movie scenes being passed off as true stories, they should all make you feel better about your dating experiences!
The Star Wars movies feature such an iconic cast that it's hard to imagine seeing anybody else playing Han Solo or voicing Darth Vader, or in the case of the prequels, playing Mace Windu.
It's a sure bet Samuel L. Jackson's face comes to mind when you hear the name Mace Windu, but imagine a galaxy far, far away where Tupac Shakur played Mace.
It's a parallel casting choice, and probably wouldn't have improved the prequels, but at least he would've had his own hologram before he died!
As for the original trilogy, Han is Harrison, Harrison is Han, but how funny would it have been to see Kurt Russell blasting Greedo and giving Chewie a hard time?
It definitely would have changed the dynamic of the film, but not as much as if Darth Vader had been voiced by Orson Welles!
Welles was Lucas' first choice, but he went with James Earl Jones because he felt Orson's voice would have been too recognizable. Sometimes it's good to be picked second!
Today is the final day of the international climate change conference in Paris, where experts and government representatives from all over the globe have convened to discuss the issue and decide what they are willing to do about it as a group.
Many experts predict parts of cities worldwide becoming submerged underwater, as a result of melting glaciers and ice caps. The linked Esquire article illustrates such a scenario, with striking images showing some of the world's most iconic structures half drowning or completely under. The option to see satellite images of the highlighted areas is also included.
Most of us, when thinking of our list of dream jobs, skip possibilities because we can't even conceive of the luck some people have in finding their chosen professions. For example, how would you like to work at tasting chocolate? As a career? Talk about a sweet job!
In the article linked below, Bon Appetit acts as a platform for professional chocolate taster Georg Bernardini to detail his delicious duties. Is the job every bit as wonderful as it sounds? Read the piece and see. Below is a rich and tasty teaser:
"Hand Georg Bernardini, a professional chocolate taster and tester, a bar of Hershey’s milk chocolate and he’ll unwrap it, smell it, examine the surface and texture, and then bring it to his ears to listen to it break. Finally, he takes a bite, letting the chocolate melt almost completely before he chews, deliberately. His review for the milk chocolate is unrestrained: “Extremely rancid—cheesy…Inedible.” Then on to the Cookies ‘n’ Creme: 'Oh dear, oh dear, the ingredients list reads like the list of protagonists of a chamber of horrors…I don’t like it.' The only explanation for why people in the U.S. must like it 'is that there were no alternatives,' he guesses.
Bernadini consumed 70 pounds of chocolate—4,200 chocolates from 70 different countries—a year this way. He evaluated everything from flavor, taste, appearance, melt, ingredients, and quality to determine which chocolates are really the best in the world. And he put it in his new, ultimate chocolate guide, Chocolate: The Reference Standard, now available in English. What’s it like to be Bernadini? Sometimes a total nightmare, and other times super sweet."
It's an often used (and often unrealistic) element of plot in movies: those with knowledge about computers and other electronics are able to do practically any underhanded thing possible to surveil, investigate and foil their chosen victims. One old example is The Cable Guy, in which Jim Carrey, as the title character, just by virtue of his knowlege of cable and phone systems is able to destroy practically everything good that protagonist Matthew Broderick has going for him in life.
It may be a frequently used plot convention, but that's only because it's mostly true, particularly in this age in which cameras, computers and other modes of surreptitious recording can be activated remotely.
Thus, when Gizmodo asked readers about some of their nightmare IT stories, the responses were all over the map. Examples follow:
"I had an office IT guy aid and assist a jerk in our civil department who was really creepily stalking me and when I took it to HR found out 3 other women in our firm had the same issue with the civil jerk, but none of them had been smart enough to know the IT guy did it. He was letting civil jerk look through my office emails, not that I’m stupid enough to ever send anything inappropriate through office email.
I figured it out because creepy guy referenced something I said in an email to my boss about taking the day off to look at new apartments, and I wasn’t sharing it because coworkers knew my then boyfriend and I didn’t want him to know I was moving out. When the civil guy emailed me and was like “I heard you were looking for a new apartment, maybe I can help” I got super creeped out and went to HR. We both knew the IT guy was the only one with the power to let people in to others emails. Unfortunately the IT dude was the brother of the firm founder... needless to say I found a new job asap." -Architect Queen Bi*ch
"In the early 90s when web-based porn primarily consisted of photos on listservs I worked for a state agency in a western state. The network was run by one guy and two assistants. The assistants were complete idiots. They would come around and try to fix things and usually the head guy would have to intervene. The network was unbelievably good though for those days. Later I found out the head guy ran a bunch of porn sites on the side and intentionally hired the idiots so they wouldn’t know what he was up to with his side business. That guy knew the value of having a system that didn’t go down. Best IT guy ever. And from the government’s perspective- worst IT guy ever." -TheBlightofGrey
In this uplifting video, a man named Jared talks about how he lost an amazing 300 pounds in fifteen months, in part due to his practice of DDP Yoga, a fitness regimen developed by Diamond Dallas Page. Jared's video is now inspiring others like overweight vlogger Boogie (featured previously on Neatorama) to follow his path of foregoing obesity and embracing health.
The persistence of people like Jared has the power not only to inspire others to lose weight, but to give hope to any person who needs to make a major change in their life that will be a significant challenge to their self discipline. Via Laughing Squid
Chef and television personality Alton Brown gives scathing reviews to dumb food gadgets (he calls them "unitaskers") available for online purhase in this amusing video. And as Internet veterans, I think we all know just how bad ripoff, 'net sale-based products can get. Why would anyone ever buy these hunks of junk? Do they simply want to be Wolverine? Let Alton set you straight. Via The Daily Dot
During your Christmas festivities, remember that our brave stormtroopers are far from home, defending you in the long war to crush the rebellion. Frank Wu, a science fiction artist, found a great way to do that. He built a Christmas tree that looks like a Super Star Destroyer from Star Wars.
The Vulgar Chef (content warning: foul language) once again leads us boldly into a new future.
We've seen that Rice Krispie treat batter can be used like an edible form of clay. It can be shaped into a beer cozy or an ice cream cone. I've personally used it as a pizza crust. Now the Vulgar Chef finds a new use for Nature's greatest building material. In a mere 15 minutes of work, he shaped the batter into a taco form, then added ice cream, Reese's Pieces, and chocolate syrup. It's the perfect breakfast food!
This isn't a pair of scissors, but a clamp and forceps. The Facebook page of the West Virginia Friends of Midwives says that the iconic stork scissors used in needlework began as a clamp. Midwives would use it to tie off the umbilical cord of a newborn baby. This particular example includes forceps. This decorative silver set dates back to 18th or 19th Century France. The snake is a reference to the Rod of Asclepius. The stork is, of course, a symbol of childbirth.
I have been unable to verify the identity of this object through outside sources.
The classical ethical dilemma goes something like this:
A train is about to crash into a bus full of people. If you do nothing, it will do so and kill them. If you switch the tracks, the train will instead hit and kill only one person. Do you switch the tracks?
Imagine you’re in a self-driving car, heading towards a collision with a group of pedestrians. The only other option is to drive off a cliff. What should the car do?
If you're the passenger, then you have a lot at stake in the decision that your robotic car makes. What should you do? I'm not sure, but psychological researchers led by Jean-François Bonnefon from the Toulouse School of Economics surveyed 900 people to ask them what they thought the car should do:
They found that 75% of people thought the car should always swerve and kill the passenger, even to save just one pedestrian.
That's very noble of them. But according to Helen Frowe, a psychology professor at Stockholm University, it can get more complicated:
For example, a self-driving car could contain four passengers, or perhaps two children in the backseat. How does the moral calculus change?
If the car’s passengers are all adults, Frowe believes that they should die to avoid hitting one pedestrian, because the adults have chosen to be in the car and so have more moral responsibility.
Although Frowe believes that children are not morally responsible, she still argues that it’s not morally permissible to kill one person in order to save the lives of two children.
