Can you see it? It’s right there in the still image of the video. This ninja of the sea is almost upon you, but it remains hidden. And it’s not limited to water, I’ll bet. Right now, it could be sneaking up on you, even in the alleged safety of your home. It’s right there next to you!
-via Geekologie
(Photo: Barb Ignatius)
In rather blunt terms, the police of North Adams, Massachusetts ask that you not get drunk, then chase bears through the woods while waving a dull hatchet:
**Chasing bears through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet is strongly not advised**
The North Adams Police Department is urging everyone to NOT chase bears through the woods with a dull hatchet, drunk. Yes that really did happen tonight. We understand there are bears in the area. If you see a bear, LEAVE IT ALONE and call us. We certainly don’t need anyone going all Davy Crockett chasing it through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet. It is just a bad idea and not going to end well. It will however, certainly end you up in jail…which it did. The hatchet man was taken into protective custody due to his incapacitation from the consumption of alcoholic beverage. We are still trying to figure out what his end game was. Any thoughts on what he was going to do if he did locate it? We would certainly like to hear because we have no idea.
In recent weeks, residents have spotted bears in the vicinity of town. Most people heeded police warnings to leave them alone. One chemically enhanced gentleman decided on another course of action. He apparently survived the encounter.
-via @Lachlan Markay
On rare occasions, while cooking with chicken eggs, you may encounter twins—two yolks in one egg. But Twitter user @Umeboshi had a far more astounding encounter: she claims that of the dozen eggs in a carton, every single one had two yolks. Casey Baseel of Rocket News 24 suggests how this could have happened:
Egg farmers can tell whether or not a hen has laid a double-yolk egg without cracking it open. The shells of double-yolk eggs tend to be longer and more pointed than those of single-yolks, and the two yolks can also be seen when using a light to inspect the contents of the egg without cracking it.
Double-yolk eggs taste just the same as single-yolks ones, and some people actually feel lucky to discover one. Not everyone is left with such a positive impression, though. Some shoppers find them kind of gross, and so to avoid shocking their more sensitive customers, egg farmers generally remove them from any batches before they’re shipped to market, as pointed out by Mitsuko.
Photographer Alice Smeets explores the intersections of the occult and the mundane. In the past, we’ve seen her pictures of modern practitioners of witchcraft. More recently, she’s been recreating the iconic images on tarot cards using ordinary people on the streets of Haiti. She calls the project Ghetto Tarot. You can see more photos in the series at Design Boom.
YouTuber boogie2988 is a man struggling with his obesity. In this video, he addresses the movement of fat acceptance and how, in his opinion, it has created an internet backlash of fat hatred more pervasive than ever. Agree or disagree, like him or otherwise, he seems sincere and thoughtful in his approach. -Via Digg
In this footage, Brody the dog demonstrates that he knows the difference between his indoor and outdoor voice, and also what tone is best to use when he's telling secrets. Being the classy and discreet canine that he is, Brody limits all secret exchanges to whispers. Good dog. -Via Uproxx
Russia has always had a wild side, but the Putin era is puttin’ the “R U serious?!” in the former Russian Empire, and LOL worthy content keeps rolling out by the truckload.
The latest raucous laughter-inducing Russian video footage comes to us courtesy of the Baikal Seal Aquarium, who shared this squee worthy seal performance in honor of the 70th anniversary of VE Day.
These well trained seal soldiers don't want to go to war, but now that they've been trained to kill with cuteness their human handlers at the Baikal Aquarium had better keep their bellies full of fish...
-Via The Daily What
Employees who are forced to spend their days trapped in cubicles, staring at screens and hitting their heads with phones, generally don't want to stick around for a party after work, but those who do are nothing but trouble! They're so comfortable spending time at the office that they have no need for house parties and kegstands, because they'd rather kick it with their fellow wage slaves and suck down some ice cold water- coolerstand style!
Have fun with your geeky life, bring home this Office Party t-shirt and celebrate the work week or, more importantly, the quality time spent with friends outside the workplace.
Visit tomburns's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs:
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Red Panda, Standing By by Nathan Davis
There's no better pilot, or bigger rebel, than the red panda Jedi known as Skywalker. He's the furriest master of the Force this side of Endor, and when he pilots his X-Wing into the fray you know the "awwws!" are always in his favor. Rebel leaders tend to underestimate young Skywalker, but he doesn't let it get him down, because as long as they keep thinking he's cute and cuddly they'll keep giving him his pre-flight belly rubs!
Bring some fantastic sci-fi style to your geeky wardrobe with this Red Panda, Standing By t-shirt by Nathan Davis, it's the fun way to fantasize about what your favorite sci-fi movies would look like in an alternate animal universe.
Visit Nathan Davis's Facebook fan page, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:
| The Pirate Princess | Jurassic Hoth | Cat-At Loves Lasers | Moon! |
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German seems like a difficult language to learn, but when you discover how easy it is to create names for things in German by simply stringing words together it doesn't seem so hard to learn after all.
For instance, which two words would you put together to describe a sloth?
If your answer was "lazy animal" you nailed it!
Now a hippopotamus may seem harder to describe in two words, but if you combine their favorite river with a similar animal type you've got a rather apt description of a hippo (although I would have added "pig" in there somewhere)
And then there's the virtually inexplicable platypus- a strange hybrid creature that could be described as an otter duck or a duck billed beaver or simply a plate full of platy, but the German language streamlines the description quite a bit
See more of these amazingly accurate English translations of German names for animals here
-Via Pleated Jeans
Have you ever stopped to look at your running shoes and wondered what those extra shoelace holes are for? Well, the folks at Illumiseen, a company that sells LED safety accessories for active people, made this video to explain the purpose of those shoelace holes.
If your laces are tightened properly using these holes, you can prevent blisters on the heels of your feet.
To do this, you'll need to create a "heel lock" or "lace lock" with your shoelaces, which will keep your foot tight in your sneaker.
The video will show you how:
I learned something new today. Thank you, Internet.
via reddit
As I've previously stated, we at Neatorama are big fan of bats and their adorable little fox faces. It's hard not to fall in love when you see them munching down snacks with those big emotional eyes and puffed out cheeks. While I've always known that we're not alone in our love of flying foxes, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that one of our favorite actors is also a big fan of bats.
So which celebrity am I talking about? Well, would it help if I told you this little baby's name is Jackie Sparrow? That's right -Johnny Depp sponsored this orphaned little babe after she was rescued by the Australian Bat Clinic & Wildlife Trauma Center in the same area where Depp was filming his newest movie and one of Depp's vocal coaches also works at the sanctuary. It didn't take much to convince him to symbolically adopt the cute little one.
Video via Pets Lady
Ichiro Sudai, Takayama, Japan
“I was in a kamikaze squadron, but the war finished before I was deployed. Kamikaze pilots would have farewell parties to drink sake. By the end of the war, we didn’t even have sake, only water. They didn’t return the bones of the kamikaze pilots to their families. So we cut our hair and nails and put them in an envelope with a message for our families. I wasn’t afraid to die. If I did, it would be my destiny as a pilot. Everyone was brainwashed then. After the war, I lived for my hobbies. I wrote poetry, grew flowers and ran a lot. I still have a very strong body."
Ukrainian photographer Sasha Maslov's series Veterans consists of portraits of people who took part in the second world war. Maslov says via the project description on his website,
"WWII is the one event in human history that could not - and still cannot - be compared with any other event on the scale of catastrophe, human tragedy, and the degree of impact on the future of our civilization. Every single person who participated in the war, whether they were a soldier or a general, prisoner or a guard, medical worker or an engineer, took part in shaping the image of the world as it is seen and perceived today."
See the rest of Maslov's series here; click on the subject's name to read the captions containing their stories. The amazing stories alone are worth attention — they are full of horrors, tragedies and hardships that, thankfully, we have been spared.
Via Design You Trust | Captions and Images: Sasha Maslov
Ken Smith, Portsmouth, England
“I got a bullet in the arm in 1944 when I was a sniper. It’s still there now. We had climbed a mountain on the island of Lusin to blow the place up, but the Germans were waiting and opened fire. I knew I’d been hit; my hand was all sticky. Later, we discovered a German in the bushes. I slung him on my shoulder. Then I heard a bang in my ear – he’d shot himself. I heard his gun drop and thought, “I’m going to have a souvenir”. We paddled back to our ship, and I was bleeding a lot. But then I saw all these badly wounded chaps. I wasn’t a serious case.”
Anna Nho, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“In 1937, lots of Korean families were deported from the USSR. Mine was moved from Vladivostok to Kazakhstan. We lived in tents; it was so cold someone died every day. My uncle couldn’t take it, so he walked to Moscow to see Stalin. They’d met before. We all thought he died, but he made it. He dressed as a homeless man to get into the Kremlin. Finally, he got in – and Stalin remembered him. Stalin sent him to help people grow rice in Caucasus. Later, we saw in the paper that he was looking for us, so we went to join him.”
This video made by the American Chemical Society illustrates the best method to peel an avocado in order to maximize its health benefits. The method is explained with a tutorial on the chemistry of avocados. Also featured in the video are methods to minimize browning in guacamole. -Via Design Taxi
The Queen's plot didn't get very far. Before the Huntsman could even explain that he wasn't going to hurt her, Snow White had slammed her knife straight into his chest. Then she went hunting herself. She picked up skills that kept her alive when the kingdom fell apart. Now she wanders across the wasteland in improvised armor. Professional cosplay photographer David Ngo spotted her at the recent Calgary Expo.
