Seth MacFarlane made quite a splash as the host of the Academy Awards Show.  You'll soon know more about him, as Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.

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Seth MacFarlane is the highest-paid talent in the history of the animation industry. He started his professional animation career writing for the Cartoon Network's various shows, including Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, and Dexter's Laboratory. But he really put his name ion the animation map with the creation of his series Family Guy, which made its debut in 1999. Cancelled twice, Family Guy survived both times, and is now rightly acknowledged as one of (if not "the") funniest cartoon shows in the history of television. Seth voices several characters on the show, switching back-and-forsth from one character to another, as if possessed.

He also created the shows American Dad (2005) and The Cleveland Show (2009). Seth made his feature film debut ion 2011 with the smash hit Ted, voicing the title role of a smart ass, wise-cracking teddy bear. Okay, let's take a look at a few things you may not have known about the multi-talented Seth MacFarlane.

* His full name is Seth Woodbury MacFarlane. The Woodbury comes from a beloved town drunk in Gardiner, Maine, where his mother's family was raised.

* He started his animation career at the ripe old age of two, drawing his first cartoon characters.

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IN this mashupo of the movies Argo and Home Alone, the Iranian revolutionaries are very, very concerned about Kevin. They are way ahead of both him and his parents!  -via Slate

FabCafe in Japan will be holding a two-part seminar at their Shibuya location in which men can put themselves to the mercies of a 3D scanner and make a replica of themselves -in gelatin! It's like making yourself a Gummi bear, only more personal. The cafe was successful with a project for women to make a replica of their faces in chocolate to present to their sweethearts on Valentines Day, and now the men are expected to reciprocate by giving a romantic gift to the ladies on White Day (March 14th). The gummy men will not be full-size, but they wiil be full-body. The seminar only has nine slots, however. Maybe next year they will expand it, or they might even begin offering the service year-round! Link -via Gizmodo

A car in Belgium crashed and flipped over right in front of a billboard featuring an image of a car in the exact same position. The billboard says (in French), "850 killed each year. And you? Not concerned?" No one was seriously injured in the crash. Leaving the car there to draw attention to the billboard seems like it might be a good idea. Link

R³botsis the name of a series of robot sculptures made by Marco Fernandes. They are constructed of electronic parts from computers, TVs, and other devices. The sculpture shown here is called #R³bot zeropointtwo -its eyes light up! See more of them at Fernandes' Behance gallery. Link -via Laughing Squid

On February 26, 1993, a truck full of explosives detonated in the garage of the World Trade Center's North Tower garage. The explosion ripped through several floors of the building and killed six people, one of them ready to go on maternity leave. A thousand people were injured. Eventually, six terrorists were convicted of the attack, which was supposed to bring the towers down. Link

ABC News spoke to some of the people who were affected by the bombing. Link

The Denver Post has a collection of photographs from the aftermath of the bombing. Link  -via Metafilter

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Thirteen-year-old Timmy Muldoon shows us his movie, starring himself as a cop who is haunted by his partner's unsolved murder. Take my word for it, it gets better as it goes along. After you watch it, here are some thoughts on the film's inspiration. Link  -via reddit

St Peter’s Seminary near Cardross, Scotland, was used as a college only from 1966 to 1980. It was repurposed as a drug rehab clinic, which closed in 1987. Since then, it's been left empty and abandoned.

Designed by Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, St Peter’s Seminary is an important example of modernist and brutalist architecture. Although buildings like this are often negatively associated with urban decay, the seminary’s geometric, functional concrete and polished wood design was probably intended to reflect the modernisation of the Catholic Church during the 1960s.

See plenty of pictures of the facility at Urban Ghosts. Link

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Pedro Martin Ureta was crushed by the death of his wife. She loved guitar music, so he constructed a kilometer-long memorial to her on his farmland in Argentina in the shape of a guitar. Cypress trees make up the outline, and eucalyptus provides the blue strings. This is just one entry in a list of eight examples of land art; see all of them at The World Geography. Link  -Thanks, Bosko!  

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When we posted Movie: The Movie, it seemed we would never need another movie, because it had it all. But wait, there's more! Now Jimmy Kimmel has a sequel to that masterpiece. Because every successful movie needs a sequel for more profit. This one, with super heroes, zombies, sexy vampires, pop singers, and inspirational teachers, is targeted a bit more toward the lucrative teen audience. -via Viral Viral Videos

Physicians and chemists who formulated drugs began writing of their wonders and publishing them in medical texts and newspapers in the late 1700s. From there, drug advertising took off as both doctors and the public were eager to try anything to alleviate pain and health problems. Over time, the drugs changed and so did the style of advertising, so now we can look back in horror at ads that urged giving babies morphine for teething, popping heroin tablets to quiet a cough, inhaling Benzedrine to get through the workday, and new and improved drugs for morning sickness so the pregnant housewife could get back to her duty of making the family's breakfast. Link  -via the Presurfer

The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.

by Eric J. Weissberger, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Members of the family Chiaceae, popularly known as Chia pets (Figures 1 and 2), are common organisms, frequently found in the same habitat as humans. Although widespread, very little is known about the biology of Chias. The field of Chia research is wide open, and provides many opportunities for fascinating research.

Figures 1 and 2. Chia sheep (Figure 1) and chia frog (Figure 2) are two common members of the family Chiaceae. Each species is shown here in its both its animal phase (1a, 2a) and its plant phase (1b, 2b).

First, Chias are a missing link between plants and animals. Until this time, the only known motile, photosynthetic organisms were certain types of algae and protists. Chias are the first truly photosynthetic animals to be discovered.

Figure 3. Generalized Chia life cycle.     

Second, the Chia life cycle (Figure 3) is complex. The Chia's mating call is usually heard in early November, a melodic ch-ch-ch-chia (whence this group gets its name). This call is usually broadcast over television airwaves. How Chias have adapted so quickly to use human produced electromagnetic radiation remains a mystery. After being born, juvenile Chias begin life in a purely animal phase, inside a plain cardboard cocoon. These cocoons are usually found in large aggregations in stores such as K-Mart and Target around late November. The cardboard cocoon is then transported via a human host to a location underneath a coniferous tree. The cocoon at this point usually becomes decorated with bright papers and ribbons, not unlike a decorator crab's shell. In an amazing display of synchrony, all Chias hatch on the morning of December 25, and migrate to windowsills, where the plant phase begins to grow. How the Chias return to K-Mart to complete the life cycle is open to debate.

What kind of dogs did Ivan Pavlov use in his classical conditioning experiments? The dogs that learned to salivate to the sound of a bell weren't all purebreds -it turns out that Pavlov wasn't all that picky about his subjects. Smithsonian has a pictures of 35 of the dogs Pavlov used to develop his theories about conditioned reflexes in 1901. Link -via Everlasting Blort

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"Most people probably wouldn't think of butter as a flammable substance." This sentence could only be said by someone who hasn't done much cooking outside of a microwave. Believe me, melted butter spilled on a hot stove is quite flammable! But that is really beside the point, as this project explains how to make an emergency candle out of a stick of butter and a tiny piece of toilet paper. And if you are without electricity in the dark long enough for all your battery-powered lights to run down, knowing how to improvise another candle is well worth your time. Or maybe you just want your home to smell like delicious butter. Link  -via Daily of the Day

The building that would house the New York Times and give Times Square its name was under construction when this photograph was taken in 1903. Before the Times building went up, the area was known as Longacre Square. You can enlarge this photo at Shorpy and see the amazing details from 110 years ago. Link -via reddit