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Anita Renfroe, who brought us Total Momsense, is back with her newest song. I've seen a lot of parodies of Beyonce's song "Single Ladies", but this is one I can really relate to! Link to Renfroe's site. -via Buzzfeed

Neatorama is proud to be a co-sponsor of the latest How Did You Know? contest at mental_floss. You could win prizes from the Neato Shop, mental_floss, Motionbox, or Roku. It's a five-day trivia hunt, in which you'll be given a challenge each of the first four days. The answers will help you solve the big challenge for day five. However, you might win a prize just for playing, even if you never get any of them correct! Jump over to mental_floss for all the contest details, and start playing! Link

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This video shows how air traffic slowed to a halt over Europe as the volcanic ash wafted over from Iceland a couple of weeks ago.

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And this video shows how traffic returned to normal after the clouds dissipated to a safe degree. -via Jason Kottke

For those of you lamenting the death of Geocities, or at least the look and feel of those websites, we have a generator for you! Enter the URL of any website, and the Geocities-izer will add proper graphics, motion, and sound to bring back the Geocities feeling. The modern version of Neatorama is almost immune to the effects, but this site succumbed easily.

Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996

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Watch as Instructables member fungus amungus demonstrates surgical techniques n Gummi bears. Witness tumor excision, heart transplants (shown), brain transplants, and progressively sillier experimental operations. As one commenter pointed out, it couldn't be as traumatic as being chewed up and swallowed! Link -via Digg

The night vision goggles that the military uses are useful but bulky, and they require a lot of power. Now, scientists from the University of Florida have developed a thin, flexible film that uses LEDs for night-vision technology. This new film is lightweight and uses much less energy to convert infrared light into visible images, according to scientist Franky So.

So does this by using technology borrowed from flat screen TVs. Infrared light enters the film and is detected by the first of seven separate layers, which generates a slight electrical charge. Additional electrical energy -- about three to five volts -- amplifies that signal, which is then converted back into visible light.

Like most of today's night vision cameras, So's device emits an eerie green light. Unlike most night vision technology today, however, So's design would weigh less than 100 grams (less than a quarter of a pound). Part of that weight is the proof of concept small size -- about one square centimeter -- but So says that even a full scale device could weigh as little as 10 grams and be only a few microns thick.

This technology could be used for eyeglasses, cell phones, and even car windshields. Link -via Digg

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Engaged geeks Dale Larson and Laura La Gassa commissioned artist Yiying Lu to make their wedding invitations. Lu is best known as the creator of Fail Whale, once used extensively at Twitter. Since the wedding invitations are the opposite of fail, this design is called "Win Penguins." Link -via Laughing Squid

The computer generation has become nostalgic. The blog How I Met Your Motherboard collects photographs and stories from the days before computer nerds ran the world. Consider the memories Laura has of 1984.

Along with the ZX Spectrum, my parents had also presented us with a selection of computer games. Loading them was an undertaking in itself: each fed into a cassette player, its buttons held down with thumb-numbing force, while the tape whirred and spluttered and made a sound that may be roughly transposed as chkeeewschyrrrrrfffffllychkxduhuhftttt. My brother had three games: a vampire adventure named Transylvanian Tower, a treasure hunt called Espionage Island and a complicated programme that followed the process of evolution. For me, there was a solitary cassette, a numeracy aid named Count About. I cannot deny that I was at that age rather muddled by mathematics, but it only added to my sense of dismay that my computer time would involve assisting a badly graphicked monkey clamber up a tree to collect a specified number of coconuts.

You can contribute your own memories to the collection. http://howimetyourmotherboard.com/ -Thanks, Jason!

The headline reads:

Dog injures nose

The story is short. The comments are priceless.

Sounds harrowing. Keep us posted.

It's outrageous that something like this is allowed to happen in this country. I want this to be addressed in the next prime ministeral debates. Let's see Nick Clegg talk himself out of this one.

Shocked and disgusted. There's nothing but bad news now days. What sort of world are we leaving for our children?

This is brave and edgy reporting. It's a pity that the Pulitzer Prize is limited to the USA.

But how does he smell??

The comments at reddit are another level of win.

...I only live a few hours from Ringwood. Should I get down there and see if I can find out more?

Good luck! The roads are going to be packed as soon as this story gets out.

Probably best to stay indoors until it all blows over. And keep your windows closed.

This little item became the most viewed story ever at the Salisbury Journal's website. Link -via reddit

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Among the many actors who have appeared on The West Wing TV show are quite a few who became big names afterward. You'll recognize them in reruns, even if you didn't know who they were the first time around. There are also some who were TV stars way before President Bartlet took office. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your knowledge of the episodes these folks appeared on. Link

At three days old, a pinto stallion at Tiz Miniature Horse Farm in Barnstead, New Hampshire weighted only six pounds and was only 14 inches tall. His was named Einstein.

His tiny proportions may be more suitable for a human baby, but they are tiny for a horse, even a miniature breed like Einstein.

Dr Rachel Wagner, Einstein's co-owner, claims the Guinness Book of Records lists the smallest newborn horse as weighing just 9lbs.

Breeders say that unlike the current record holder, Thumbelina, Einstein shows no signs of dwarfism - he is just a tiny horse.

See more pictures at The Daily Mail. Link -via Fark

Ostrich eggshells with patterns engraved on them were found in Africa dating back 60,000 years. The eggshells were used to carry water.

The four different patterns and markings are repeated and believed to convey ownership or purpose and to differentiate the eggs from each other.

The researchers led by Pierre-Jean Texier, of the University of Bordeaux, said that before this discovery, the first signs of art, writing or 'culture' was thought to have been first shown in the late Stone Age between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago.

It included cave paintings dating back to 30,000 years BC, thought to be some of the earliest examples of decorative art or written communication.

But this latest discovery, which is much older, showed "collective identities and individual expressions" that were the beginning of modern civilised behaviour, they said.

In other words, writing. Or at least a form or communication that led to writing. The researchers examined 270 fragments of ostrich eggs found in South Africa. Link -via Scribal Terror

The 1975 song Bohemian Rhapsody is a long strange song that became such a lasting hit that you know there's a fascinating backstory. The BBC produced an hour long show about it in 2004, in which Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen discuss the song's genesis and other musical artists marvel at the juggernaut it became. TYWKIWDBI has all six segments of the show embedded in one post. Link

Watch as Boeing builds a 737-700 for Southwest airlines in only 2.5 minutes in this time-lapse video. This particular plane is named the Florida One, for its artwork featuring the state flag. The catchy music is a bonus! Link (embedded YouTube clip)

In the United Arab Emirates, adventurous chef Anissa Helou got a chance to taste roasted camel hump. The tender hump full of stored fat is the choicest part of the camel, and you have to buy an entire camel to get the hump. In this post, you'll also see how to cook a whole camel at once! Link -Thanks, Hanan!