A large mule deer became stuck on the ice over a frozen lake near the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado. The deer, which had been seen in the neighborhood before, couldn't get enough traction with his hooves to move. After weighing a few options, park ranger Todd Taylor, a certified ice rescuer, was called in. Taylor was able to lasso the deer and pull it in, with the help from brewery employees. See more video at KRQE. Link -via Arbroath
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Some people have altogether too much time on their hands. The cat is definitely cute, though! -via Buzzfeed
You have to wonder what goes through a cat's mind when they see soap bubbles, They fly through the air just asking to be caught, but when you catch one, it disappears! -Thanks, Tommy and Gracie!
Have you had your flu shot? What I thought was a spate of post-Christmas colds turned out to be the worst flu season in recent history. The most common advice you hear for avoiding the flu is to get a shot and wash your hands often. I've found that working at home alone and not having children in elementary school is even more effective, but that's not something you can arrange at the last minute. So if you find yourself unable to get out of bed, keep your laptop or mobile device handy. Our constant updates here at Neatorama will help you pass the time until you're able to get back to your everyday activities. Here's what you need to catch up on from this past week.
Actor and pop culture historian Eddie Deezen marked Elvis Presley's birthday on Tuesday with Love Me Tender: Elvis Presley's First Film.
The on Friday, he gave us The Only #1 Song Recorded by a Father and Daughter.
The most-viewed post of the week was On Yawning; or, The Hidden Sexuality of the Human Yawn, from the Annals of Improbable Research. It was picked up by the British tabloid The Daily Mail, although I never could find what they said about it.
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader contributed Satchmo, the story of Louis Armstrong.
And mental_floss magazine gave us the story of Waropoly: How History’s Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend The Free World.
Over at Neatorama's subblogs, we had plenty of treats that did not appear here on the main page. At Lifestyles of the Cute and Cuddly, we saw a wolverine pull a man out of an avalanche and a cat with a 100-decibel purr, among over cute videos.
At Mad Skills, we watched some amazing archery and basketball stunts as well as a goofy human beatboxing video.
And believe it or not, the Halloween blog continues to have the most new stuff you won't find on the main page. That's where you'll see the best (and worst) cosplayers, horror videos, and silly stuff that might in some way fit in with Halloween.
This week's What Is It? game featured a mystery item that turned out to be a harness cutting machine that was made by The International Harness Manufacturing Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The first with the correct answer was ladybugs, who wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The funniest answer was from MEM, who said. "It's a heavy-metal harpsichord; very heavy-metal." That's good for a t-shirt, too! See the answers to all this week's mystery items at the What Is It? blog.
The post with the most comments this week was Gold Shirt. No other posts generated much back-and-forth, but we had one real gem worth passing along as "comment of the week." In reply to a score posted on the cheese quiz, Alan...yes THAT Alan said, "That score isn't very gouda. Surely it's nacho best attempt."
Now if you've got your new 2013 calendar on your wall or desk already, notice that Valentine's Day is only a month away. Every day, the NeatoShop is getting in more new and different Valentine gift items to give to someone you love, even if that someone is yourself!
Since the White House has been taking online petitions to the government, there have been many that are just plain weird. One of the most popular was the petition for the government to begin construction of a Death Star. It garnered 34,435 online signatures, and the official White House response has been posted, by Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
There's more, which you can read at the White House website. Link -via reddit
One of publishing's best-kept secrets is out.
All rejection letters are written by badgers.
This industry protects this sordid secret for countless reasons — not the least of which is the terrible conditions in the industrial rejection factories. Long hours, no pay, unsanitary and and even dangerous conditions.
Beth at Shimmer spills the beans, including her website's unending crusade to improve conditions for the badgers. Link -via Metafilter
Musician Coffey Anderson was upstaged big time when his 17-month-old son Ethan joined him on stage at a New Year's Eve show in Irvine, Texas. -via Daily of the Day
"Motivation protocol" is apparently an alien euphemism for "torture." Kaleb Lechowski spent seven months creating a sci-fi short that already has Hollywood talking about expanding it into a feature film.
Created by amateur filmmaker Kaleb Lechowski, 22, the new CGI short R'ha is centered on the classic tale of a civilization almost annihilated by its own weapons, as the machines turn on their creators. Yeah, you've seen that story everywhere from Terminator to Battlestar Galactica, so what makes this one unique? Lechowski has focused his story on a four-armed alien soldier, captured by the machines and used in an elaborate ploy. That's right—no human characters at all.
You might want to see it in full screen mode. Link -via Metafilter
The anonymous blogger and vintage lingerie collector at A Slip of a Girl tells us all about the history and the allure of the comfortable, cool, sexy nylon slip.
I’ve always had a strong interest in lingerie from the feminist point of view, when it comes to reconciling the desire to feel pretty with the concern that fashion is a way of controlling women. And lingerie, which is slightly different from just underwear, is some of the most sensual fashion out there. The pieces enhance your figure, and they delicately hide and tease your playful bits. If you look at nightgowns from the ’40s, or even as early as the ’20s, you see they’re sheer in places and pintucked, pleated, or embroidered. They were not meant simply to clothe our bodies at nighttime; they were meant to be seen.
They just don't make 'em like that anymore, but if you look in the right places, you can find beautiful authentic vintage slips that were treated well by their owners. See plenty of them at Collector's Weekly. Link
I'm not telling what happens before it happens. The surprise is the reason for watching this 26 second video. -via The Daily What
Long before Amazon, there was Sears and Roebuck. If you lived anywhere the postal service delivered to, you could order everything from farm tools to lingerie to opium. The opium has since been dropped from the catalog. Mental_floss has a look at some of the more bizarre items you could have ordered in 1902. Shown here are the magical Arsenic Complexion Wafers that would improve “even the coarsest and most repulsive skin and complexion." I first thought it was a bar of soap, but its likely that these were sold to be ingested. Link
This young boy was looking for monsters under the bed and found one! I bet he won't so that again -he'll just cringe in fear all night long. Link
Jeff Wysaski at Pleated-Jeans must have taken a look at my daughter's art class assignments. In all, 18 classical paintings are interpreted by a modern teenager. These are not quite the interpretations the painter had in mind when creating these works. Link
The Tuskegee Institute began to keep statistics on repotted lynchings in the United States under the direction of Booker T. Washington (between 1881 and 1915), and continued through 1961.
In 1959, Tuskegee defined its parameters for pronouncing a murder a “lynching”: “There must be legal evidence that a person was killed. That person must have met death illegally. A group of three or more persons must have participated in the killing. The group must have acted under the pretext of service to justice, race or tradition.”
In 1900-1931, Georgia led the lynching tally, with Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and Arkansas rounding out the top seven worst offenders.
See a bigger image at The Vault. Link -via Nag on the Lake
(Image source: The Amistad Research Center, Tulane University)
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