Simon, the 6-month-old dog, is happy to teach 8-week-old Daisy how to walk down stairs. That's a helpful dog! -via Tastefully Offensive
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Researchers from University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) Medical School observed how viruses infect cells and made this animation to illustrate the process. Here you see a T7 virus invading an E.coli bacterium. Oh yeah, it's flu season, so go wash your hands! Read more about the mechanics of viral infection at Texas Science. Link -via Geekosystem
Tracy Westwood often has trouble hearing people on the phone because her cat, Merlin, purse so loudly. While most cats purr at about 25 decibels, Merlin can break 100 decibels easily! -via Bits and Pieces
Cases are arising of banks who begin foreclosure proceedings and then later change their minds, usually because they won't get much money selling a home. The original homeowner eventually finds out that they are still responsible for the house when they receive overdue property tax bills or bills for municipal cleanup. The house may have been sitting empty for years, rotting and vandalized, before they learn this because banks are not obligated to notify the homeowners they evicted.
No regulations require that banks let homeowners know when they change their minds about a foreclosure. So they rarely do, according to housing court judges, homeowners' lawyers and academics who study foreclosure problems. "The banks do not answer inquiries, they do not answer phone calls, they do not answer letters," says Judge Patrick Carney of the Buffalo, New York, Housing Court. His zombie-title caseload has swollen in the past few years to well into the hundreds. "The whole situation is surreal," he says.
And guess what? When this happens, you may still owe the bank for the mortgage amount, even if they ordered you to move out and abandon the home. Link -via Metafilter
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What a treat -to be at your local doughnut shop and suddenly a group of talented elderly men break into song! Recorded in Oakville, Ontario, the group is believed to be The Entertainers. -via Daily Picks and Flicks
Behold the acrobatic basketball of Faceteam, a freestyle basketball troupe from Hungary, highlighted properly in a video from Devin Supertramp. Don't try this at home. -via Viral Viral Videos
It's a pity that these are at all necessary, but artist Ted Slampyak has filled a void with vintage-style propaganda posters for mobile phone use. There are six in all at The Art of Manliness. Someone pointed out that the people who need them are unlikely to heed them, but maybe such posters would let my kids know that I'm not the only one who is offended by their phone habits. Link -via Gizmodo
(Image credit: Ted Slampyak)
Check out an entire party's worth of cocktails that are not only named for your favorite video games, superheroes, and fantasy worlds, but they look like them, too! Shown here is the fruit and rum concoction the Metroid. There's also the Castlevania Vampire's Kiss Cocktail, the Tick, the Minecraft Dirt Block, and the Giggling Yoda, among others. The Frag Grenade will blow you away, and I'd stay away from the Portal Combustible Lemonade. Link
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.
The #1 song on the very first singles chart published by Billboard magazine was "I'll Never Smile Again" by the Tommy Dorsey Band. The record featured a skinny, young lead vocalist named Frank Sinatra. The date was June 20, 1940. Frank's final charting hit was his cover of "The Theme from New York, New York." The record peaked at #32 in 1980. It made its last appearance on the Hot 100 chart on July 19, 1980, giving Frank an unbelievable chart span of 40 years -to the day!
But now it was the middle of the '60s, and yes, while Frank Sinatra was definitely a show business power and legend, he had only one #1 hit during the rock era -that was "Strangers in the Night," which he'd recorded the previous year.
"Something Stupid" was a love song written by C. Carson Parks in 1966. In fact, Parks himself had recorded the original version with his wife, Gaile. But it was a cover version of a year later that was destined to become the classic.
The song was a collaboration of Frank Sinatra's producer, Jimmy Bowen, and his daughter Nancy's producer, Lee Hazelwood. Frank had originally brought the record to Hazelwood and played it for him, asking him if he liked it. Hazelwood replied that he loved it and "If you don't record it with Nancy, I will."
"Okay, let's record it," replied Frank. "Book a studio."
The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, with some surprising contenders. College Humor wasted no time in designing five posters with new titles for the nominees. Link
On a related note, congratulations to PES on the nomination of Fresh Guacamole for Best Short Film (Animated)!
I'll take those in an extra-long size, please. I'll need them to deal with the warped floor. There are actually several views of these pants at vendor Romwe, at least until the pictures go viral. From Photoshop Disasters. Link -via Boing Boing
The dress by fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht and engineer Daniel Schatzmar is creepy enough even without the ultra artful video presentation. From the YouTube description:
A prototype of a mechanic dress equipped with sensors indicators and controllers, created with the aim to give more power and 'psychological thrills' to the sugar sweet character that performative wearables often have. Sensoric, servo controlled, mechanic, microcontroller based and reacting//attacking upon approach, inspired by the game LIMBO.
It was unveiled during the EU Robotics Week in Prague. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Russian artist and photographer Stanislav Aristov combines smoke and embers to make something totally new. See his series of images of bees, butterflies, dragonflies, snails, and more at Environmental Graffiti. No matter what kind of insect it is, they are all "fire flies!" Link
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Commander Chris Hadfield (previously at Neatorama) has been posting some fascinating "big lens" photographs taken from the ISS to his Twitter and Google+ feeds. The places the space station passes over show not only the beauty of a far viewpoint, but also strikingly recognizable details. The photo shown here is a wildfire currently blazing in Australia. You can even see the flames! See a collection of his best at NBC's PhotoBlog. Link -via Digg
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