A tender mother-child moment, brought to you by the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. This picture was taken at Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesia. The contest is open for entries until June 28, or even later with an additional fee, but oy, look at the competition! Link -Thanks, Marilyn!

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This past week I got a lesson in what it means to have so many teenagers. The end of the school year meant we had two out-of-town school trips, a choir concert, a piano recital, two awards ceremonies, a picnic, a pizza party, an art show, final exams, and a yard sale. I attended, contributed to, or prepared the kids for each of these. Next week we have another out-of-town trip, a party, ...and graduation. Remember when your mom went through all that stuff for you? That's why she deserves special treatment on Mother's Day -and all year round. If you're catching your breath this weekend after a busy week, enjoy yourself by reading the exclusive features here that may have missed this week.

Jill Harness told us about how Dark Shadows Really Was Dark…Once.

Eddie Deezen wrote The Three Stooges Take on Hitler, complete with a video of the short You Natzy Spy!

Mental_floss magazine had the story of Democracy on the High Seas: How Pirates Rocked the Vote.

Troy’s Book of Bear (and Other Adventures) came from the Annals of Improbable Research.

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader brought us The Greatest Canadian, about how Tommy Douglas fought for and won universal health care.

Congratulations to the winners of Battleship Mystery Box giveaway! Shelly, orchdirector, and Gabriel won gifts from the NeatoShop, and jtaega, Kautzer, Stephen, hoopajob, and Mia won random items from the Mystery Box!

The post with most comments this week was Woman Fired For “Living in Sin.” Coming in second was The Greatest Canadian, followed by Mom Sent Bullied Kid to School with Stun Gun.

If you haven't checked out our Twitter feed or Facebook page or G+ site yet, this weekend would be a good time to do that! You'll find plenty of "extras" that don't get posted at the main site, plus active communities of Neatoramanauts with their contributions. Pinterest fans will find us there, too!

Now, if you really want to get your mother something neat from the NeatoShop, but can't get it shipped because the holiday is tomorrow, try this: order a gift, print off a picture, and slip it into your Mothers Day card, kind of like a gift certificate. You can blame the delay on the shipping company if you like. And if you're a mother, we hope you have the most wonderful Mother's Day ever!

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Gary Busey tells us how to pull of the perfect Mother's Day! He was happy to share his tips on the TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live. -via Buzzfeed

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ShanesDominoez and Dieckdomino put together 30,000 dominoes that fall and evoke classic Nintendo products. And they have some pretty elaborate structures to knock down! -via Geeks Are Sexy

Molly Wood of Charlottesville, Virginia turned 111 years old last month. Her family gathered for the occasion, including her daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, great-great-granddaughter, and even her great-great-great-granddaughter, who was only a few weeks old. It was a unique opportunity to see six generations of direct descendants together. Link

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A group of high school students in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, were decked out for the prom last Saturday night. They headed to Lac La Belle and posed for group pictures on the lake’s pier. Then the pier collapsed. The quick-thinking photographer kept shooting, resulting in an unforgettable sequence of pictures. The wet teenagers, attempting to save the occasion, ran so many hairdryers -plus a clothes dryer- in one home that they blew a breaker, but managed to make it to the prom. Link (with video) -via Arbroath

One of these days (I'm not holding my breath), Hollywood will produce a feature film about vice-presidential candidates in the 19th century, and the casting will be spot-on. That is, once the casting director gets hold of historical photos of politicians most of us haven't ever seen. Or, in some cases, paintings. Shown here are John Breckinridge of Kentucky, who served vice-president under James Buchanan, and actor Matthew Perry. See eleven of the men who ran for vice-president and the actors they resemble at mental_floss. Link

Mike Schropp at Total Geekdom took donated computer parts and built a garden! It's actually a working computer with a casemod that grows wheatgrass. The heat from the computer warms the soil and aids germination. The growing grass brings a bit of nature into a sterile, artificial workplace, and wheatgrass is edible. Shropp plans on experimenting with other plants, even flowers, as time goes by. Meanwhile, he posted every step of the project with pictures for you. Link

Hey, Pinterest fans! This Twaggie would make a fine t-shirt, as any Twaggie can be made into a t-shirt design. It was illustrated from a Tweet from @arnie. Have you caught up on all this week's Twaggies? Link

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People on the streets of New York thank their moms for the many things that moms give. Thanksfa commissioned this video by Michael Marantz and Barry Pousman for Mothers Day. -via Laughing Squid

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Noah is 18 years old. He put a lot of thought into his version of "I'm Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO, and it shows. He's quite a singer, too. -via The Daily What

Monkeon wondered what if record labels, instead of hiring artists and photographers and making expensive concept covers for record albums, had just entered the album title into the search field on a stock photo service. It would have saved time and money, and since he went ahead and tried it himself, the covers would have been just as eye-catching! Of course, when many of these albums were produced, such service wasn't available. But you can see a dozen examples of how it would have worked at his site. Link -via b3ta

See 24 scans of the images from the book Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe. The collection was first published in 1908, but the 1919 edition included illustrations by Harry Clarke, which made the stories much more gruesome. Link to story. Link to full-size scans. -via the Presurfer

Going to the movies should make you appreciate your mother even more, as monster mothers run rampant in fiction. Or even non-fiction. Of course, we consider things to be entertainment only if they are outside of your ordinary experience. If you fought with your mom over what to wear to the prom, consider Margaret White in the 1976 movie Carrie.

High school is tough enough, but Carrie’s strict, fundamentalist mother makes the experience a thousand times worse for the awkwardly shy teenager. The horrors of menstruation are taxing on poor Carrie, but her nutty mom adds to the teen’s anxiety by telling her stuff like, “Pimples are the Lord’s way of chastising you,” and, “I can see your dirty pillows.” Clearly Margaret White missed the memo that all little girls grow up. As if all this weren’t bad enough, Mrs. White haunts her daughter with just one sentence: “They’re all gonna laugh at you.” It’s every adolescent’s worst nightmare, and the words make Carrie go full-blown bonkers at the prom.

Flavorwire tells of ten movies in which mother isn't always right -although she is terrifying because she thinks she is. Link -via Buzzfeed

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Reef Coleman, Tony Jien, Mike Jackson, Jason Richardson, and Mike Wofford of Pasadena had some fun with a stack of 400 vinyl records. These guys are pretty good. However, it's like my philosophy on gardening: get rid of your failures, so all people see are your successes. Link