The art story of the year can be yours forever! This 12cm Ecce Homo mini-munny is "lovingly hand-painted using acrylics and waterproof when dry." Artist Joanna Zhou sells them in her Etsy shop MemeGifts. Adorable! Link -via Dvice
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Hey, dragons are lizards, aren't they? Even little lizards need someone to look up to (and maybe a nice warm keyboard to lie on). Link
Larry Hagman, the actor who brought us two enduring TV characters among other roles, died yesterday of cancer at at Medical City in Dallas. He portrayed astronaut Major Anthony Nelson on the 1965-1970 TV series I Dream of Jeannie and then the notorious J.R. Ewing in the 1979-1991 series Dallas. Dallas was resurrected as a new series last summer.
The role of J.R. transformed Mr. Hagman’s life. He rocketed from being a merely well-known TV actor on I Dream of Jeannie and the son of Broadway legend Mary Martin, to the kind of international fame known only by the likes the Beatles and Muhammad Ali.
Mr. Hagman made his home in California with his wife of 59 years, the former Maj Axelsson. Despite obvious physical frailty, he gamely returned to Dallas to film season one and part of season two of TNT’s Dallas reboot.
Friends were in shock Friday, especially those who saw him only days ago. But those close to him say he knew the end was coming and he was glad to have his family in town for Thanksgiving.
Hagman was 81. Link -Thanks, Eddie Deezen!
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The Tsarina of Tsocks made a pair of "tshark tsocks" that appear as sharks eating her feet! One is gorging on her leg from bottom, the other has apparently eaten everything but her toes! What's more, she also made little detachable remoras, the fish that latch on to sharks for a ride. It's a one-time project, and not for sale. However, with the great response she is getting, you never know if a pattern may someday be available. Link -via Boing Boing
We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday (or as they say in Canada and the rest of the world, "Thursday")! And we hope you either avoided or survived the Black Friday crowds at the shopping centers. Today you should have some time to relax and unwind and catch up on what's been happening at your favorite website this week.
The NeatoShop is full of strange and wonderful items you won't find in the big box stores, for Christmas gifts or for Christmas decorating. And the NeatoShop has extended the Black Friday Special all the way until Monday, so you can still get a bonus mystery item by shopping this weekend!
Jill Harness made sure you had an informed traditional holiday feast with Giving Thanks For Thanksgiving Turkeys.
Eddie Deezen told us A Few Facts About Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and introduced us to Victor Mature, the First Hollywood Hunk.
Family Feud: Adidas vs. Puma from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader was the most popular feature article of the week.
The Annals of Improbable Research contributed The 6-Pack Ring Fishing Experiment.
Coney Island: America's Greatest Playground came from mental_floss magazine.
In the What Is It? game this week, we had a lot of people who knew the answer. Craig Clayton identified it as a spark plug, which is correct but not fully explanatory. Then JJUUSSTTIINN said these as "ninja rocks," which are broken ceramic spark plug parts used specifically to break windows. As it's a holiday weekend and Alex is feeling generous, both will win t-shirts! Learn more about ninja rocks at the What Is It? blog. The funniest answer came from Lori Cunningham, who told a Thanksgiving story:
The remnants of my grandmother's gravy boat, which I broke 20 years ago, but still hear about every-freakin-Thanksgiving when someone says, "Pass the gravy, please." At least that is what I think they are saying. I'm still at the kid's table.
So she wins a t-shirt, too! Thanks to everyone who played along, and thanks to the What Is It? blog.
You still have ways to win, as the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt is open for your entry!
The post with the most comments this week was The 6-Pack Ring Fishing Experiment, followed by
Killer Whale Hunts a Swimming Dog and Sandwich Trolling.
Hey, don't forget our new sub-blogs! Over at Lifestyles of the Cute and Cuddly we saw a hippo baby eating salad for Thanksgiving, a duck playing fetch, and a dressed-up Corgi. Neatolicious and Mad Skills need to be in your feeds and bookmarks as well. The Halloween blog is still diligently recording the best costumes of 2012, and NeatoBambino has babies and kids and everything about them.
Enjoy your weekend, whether it's a holiday for you or not. Next week, we'll have more information, distractions, and entertainment. It never stops at Neatorama!
DeviantART member datazoid, otherwise known as Russel Gawthorpe, created this collection of science action figures photographically. They are based on Star Trek action figures with details added digitally. Too bad they aren't available to buy! Datazoid admits there are many other scientists who deserve to be included. He limited them to 20th-century non-medical figures to keep the number manageable.
There are notes on the creation of some of the scientists at the DeviantART page, as well as a much-larger photo you can actually read. Link -via Daily of the Day
Redditor slamhead's wife is 34 weeks pregnant and undergoing chemotherapy for stage 2 breast cancer. After their Thanksgiving dinner, they ceremoniously shaved each other's heads, smiling all the time. He also joked that all their friends feel they can't complain about anything around them anymore. The entire process is posted in an imgur album -well worth a look through. Link -via reddit
Gumdrop the Robot wants to be an actress. She's quite charming! This video isn't nearly as long as it appears because there's a movie trailer after Gumdrop is finished. -via Geeks Are Sexy
According to Wired, the secret to success in the field of programming is facial hair. Notable exceptions include women, of course, and Mark Zuckerberg. Of course, it may also be because those who are the best at what they do can get away with wearing their hair any way they like in the workplace. IT workers fall into different facial hair categories, some of which are shown here. There are twenty types of beards and/or mustaches illustrated in all, so if your profession is not represented here, you can see the rest at Wired. Link
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There's always an expert who knows more than you do, and is very willing to sell you a book to let you know how wrong you are. For parents, this has gone on for hundreds of years, and produced some rather strange advice …at least strange to our ears. Playing with a baby will spoil him. Never hug or kiss your children. Don't feed a baby at night. You should start toilet training at two months. A short child is the mother's fault. And babies should start eating like adults as soon as possible.
After World War II, commercial baby food producers as well as pediatricians drastically lowered the age at which they recommended babies start solids. Between the 1930s and the 1950s, much to the delight of Gerber and Beech-Nut, the average age at which parents introduced solids plummeted from 7 months to four to 6 weeks, according to various surveys. Sackett, the same guy who feared insufficient strictness would lead to socialist babies, was at the leading edge of this trend, writing in 1962 that breast milk and formula were “deficient,” and therefore babies should be started on cereal at 2 days of age. At 10 days, they could have strained vegetables, and by 9 weeks old, the little one would be eating “bacon and eggs, just like Dad!” Sackett also recommended giving babies black coffee starting at 6 months of age, to get them used to “the normal eating habits of the family.”
Read a roundup of the most outlandish advice from "experts" at Slate. Link
Sloopy the chihuahua knew there was a tasty turkey sitting on the counter, waiting to be stripped before it could be stowed away in the refrigerator. He kept dancing until his owner was inspired to play some appropriate music with which to record his fancy footwork. -via Metafilter
A zoomorphic building is one shaped like an animal. The list of ten such buildings at Pets Lady has a dog, a sheep, a rabbit, two elephants, and five cats! That's understandable, because who could resist a building shaped like a cat? Those include a veterinary hospital, a train station, hotel cabins, and the Dee Katze Kindergarten in Germany, shown here. Link -via the Presurfer
Jello has rolled out limited edition holiday flavors for its instant pudding: candy cane and gingerbread. My first reaction: why not just eat candy canes and gingerbread? But then, I don't like instant pudding. However, I can see my kids clamoring to try these, especially the candy cane flavor. Laughing Squid shows you some recipes that come with the pudding. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user Rusty Blazenhoff)
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.
On August 4, 1999, Victor Mature died at age 86 in Rancho Santa Fe, California. He was the first male Hollywood star to be dubbed a "hunk." The term "hunk" was a direct response to the many years where actresses and starlets had been asked to display their charms. This was referred to as "showing some cheesecake." You can see this in many old films from the '30s and '40s, where the leading lady will be asked to lift up her skirts a little, so the reporters can see a "little cheesecake."
The term "cheesecake" referred to a woman (an actress or model) showing her legs off, much to the delight of male photographers and spectators present, who would whistle and make sly "guy comments." This practice is not used anymore, except in satire. Political correctness, of course, set in as well as the much more revealing clothing worn by countless women we see not only in movies and TV, but also in society at large.
After many years, it was realized that there was no male counterpart to "cheesecake." Hence, the "hunk" …of beefcake. In a much cruder comparison, the term "hunk" was also thought to counteract its feminine counterpart: a cute girl = a "piece." The term "hunk" probably is more a derivation of "piece" than anything else. Interestingly, the term "cheesecake" seems now to be dated and almost archaic, but both "hunk" and "piece" are still going strong in the vernacular for men and women, respectively.
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