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• 20-Sided Die Engagement Ring
• A List of Ten Things About Lists
• <i>Super Mario Bros.</i> Mushrooms in a Grocery Store
• Envelopes That Claim to be Important
• Prescription Nifty Note
• Clever References Snuck Into the Star Wars Suite for Orchestra
• Needle Felted <i>Harry Potter</i> Kindle Cover
• Giant Centipedes
• Donkey Kong Mash Up 8-Bit Art by Baznet
• <i>Star Wars</i> Fruits and Vegetables
• Kraken: the Early Years
• Wire Bonsai Trees
• Baby Duck Coat
• Oreo Separator
• Cylon Engagement Ring
• Yarn Bombed Pay Phone
• The Big Whobowski
• Mr. Chickpea and Friends
• Intricate Pencil Sculptures
• Man Commits a Crime to Get Healthcare
• Golden Skull Foam Prop
• Snow Goon
• Why Buy Jeans When You Can Lease Them?
• Hands-free Deer Rescue
• President Eisenhower Was a Painter
• What Is It? game 266
• Teenager's 10-Mile Walk in the Snow to a Job Interview Lands Him a Job
• Breakfast, Lunch, and Hugs

20-Sided Die Engagement Ring Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:00 AM PST At the end of a Dungeons & Dragons session, Babelglyph proposed to her girlfriend with a custom engagement ring that looks like a 20-sided die. Why? Besides being gamers, Babelglyph writes that "...I do feel like I rolled a natural 20 when I started dating her." At the link, you can see a +2 sweet video of the marriage proposal. Link

A List of Ten Things About Lists Posted: 01 Mar 2013 03:00 AM PST "Ten facts" is a phrase that begins an awful lot of internet articles, because people love to learn things, they want to learn things in bite-size pieces, and if it's a list, they want to see how many of these facts they already know. See, there's three facts already, and only one of them appears on this list of ten things about lists at the Guardian. How meta can you get? Link -via Digg

<i>Super Mario Bros.</i> Mushrooms in a Grocery Store Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:00 AM PST Is your life meter low? Forget the portabellas. You need mushrooms from the Mushroom Kingdom. Aidan Glynn, an artist in Toronto, shopdropped these mushrooms at a local grocery store. Link -via Foodbeast

Envelopes That Claim to be Important Posted: 01 Mar 2013 01:00 AM PST The trend in junk mail lately is to make the advertising look like something important that you really feel the need to open. There are quite a few tricks in the array of disguises an envelope can take, and Windell and Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have been collecting examples to share with you. How many different types of these "important" envelopes have you seen? By the way, "registered documents" is nothing like "registered mail." Link -via Boing Boing

Prescription Nifty Note Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PST Prescription Nifty Note  Do friends, family members, and coworkers seek you out for your superb emotional advice? Do you wish you had a way to streamline these often lengthy discussions? Now you can with the Prescription Nifty Note from the NeatoShop. This great pad of paper allows you to dish out empathetic advice in a concise manner.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Stationery.  Link

Clever References Snuck Into the Star Wars Suite for Orchestra Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PST via inky Ooh, that sneaky John Williams! The composer snuck in some playful references in the sheet music for Star Wars Suite for Orchestra.

Needle Felted <i>Harry Potter</i> Kindle Cover Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:00 PM PST Inspired by the book jacket on a print edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Almost Summer felted this Kindle cover for a friend. She folded it in half to form a pouch. Link -via Geek Crafts

Giant Centipedes Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:00 PM PST (YouTube link) The bite of this centipede can be very painful. It grows up to eight inches long. It is very fast. It eats mice, lizards, and the occasional bat. And it has a cousin in the United States. Sweet dreams, everyone! You can follow future episodes of the Three-Minute Species series at YouTube. Link  -Thanks, A.J. Fleming!

Donkey Kong Mash Up 8-Bit Art by Baznet Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:00 PM PST We are in love with video game artist Baznet who created these marvelous Donkey Kong mashed up with various video games, movies, and other pop culture references. See how many you can identify: Donkey Who Donkey Hoth Adventure Kong Donkey Jones Indiana Kong and the Raiders of the Lost Pixels Xeno Kong Jockey Kong Game of Kong Donkey Wars Donkey Rises Cookie Kong View more of Baznet's art over at deviantART, Tumblr, and RedBubble

<i>Star Wars</i> Fruits and Vegetables Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:00 PM PST It's up to Chewbanna, Peia, Leek Skywalker and Yotato to save the galaxy. Nela Krzewniak, a Polish artist living in the Netherlands, envisioned a highly edible version of Star Wars. Artist's Website -via Landa Calrissian

Kraken: the Early Years Posted: 28 Feb 2013 07:00 PM PST Israeli artist Barak Ashraf shows us the youthful Kraken practicing the mayhem for which he later became famous.  Link  -via reddit

Wire Bonsai Trees Posted: 28 Feb 2013 06:00 PM PST It's not as yummy as the Bonsai Cookies Miss Cellania posted a few days ago, but marvelous nonetheless! Check out these wire bonsai trees by artist Ken To (in pots by Jim Barrett) over at deviantART: Link - via Twisted Sifter

Baby Duck Coat Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:00 PM PST Baby Duck Coat  Spring is almost here. Are you looking for the perfect cold weather accessory for your beautiful little duckling. You need the Baby Duck Coat from the NeatoShop. This super soft coat features a hood that looks like a duck's face and a plush swan in the pocket.  The Baby Duck Coat makes a sweet Easter Treat.  Cottontail Rabbit Baby Coat also available.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Clothing & Accessories.  Link

Oreo Separator Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:00 PM PST (YouTube link) Physicist David Neevel channels Rube Goldberg by building a machine to separate Oreo cookies into their basic elements: cookies and cream filling. Yes, it's a video by Oreo; how did you guess? -via Geeks Are Sexy

Cylon Engagement Ring Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:00 PM PST Is your girlfriend a hot cylon sleeper agent but you want to marry her anyways? When Michael Moragne wanted to propose to his girlfriend Amy, the Battlestar Galactica fan wanted to mark it with something special: a cylon engagement ring. Michael started with some sketches: And she said yes: Frakkin' cool! Visit Michael's gallery to see more pics: Link - via Fashionably Geek

Yarn Bombed Pay Phone Posted: 28 Feb 2013 03:00 PM PST That old public pay phone isn't obsolete! It just needs a software update. Jill and Lorna added a bit of yarn to turn it into a smartphone. Now you can tweet, Instagram and play Angry Birds. At the link, you can see photos of Jill and Lorna installing it. Link -via Makin'ology

The Big Whobowski Posted: 28 Feb 2013 02:00 PM PST Grab a glass of White Russian, sit back, relax, and watch this: The Big Whobowski, a shot-by-shot mash up masterpiece by Bob Mitsch featuring your favorite Dude/Doctor. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Geek is Awesome Then watch the side-by-side comparison:

Mr. Chickpea and Friends Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:00 PM PST Turkish artist Sadi Tekin draws human faces on tiny chickpeas, and then puts them in humorous situations in the landscapes of New York to take their pictures. See more of them in his Behance gallery. Link  -via Laughing Squid

Intricate Pencil Sculptures Posted: 28 Feb 2013 12:00 PM PST How does he do it? How does cerkahegyzo manage to shape the lead so precisely without shattering it? I want to see a video of him at work. Gallery -via Twisted Sifter

Man Commits a Crime to Get Healthcare Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST Sometimes, logic dictates that the best course of action to treat a serious illness is to go to prison. Here's an amazing story of how one man committed a crime in order to get the medical care he desperately needed: A 41-year-old man who had been incarcerated came to see me recently. While in prison he got in a fight, which led to a CT scan. He hadn't broken anything, but the scan did surreptitiously show two aneurysms. Both were in his hepatic artery (the artery that feeds his liver). They were small, so the doctors kept an eye on the aneurysms without doing surgery. But the next time they checked, they had nearly doubled in size. He was referred to a surgeon at a different hospital than the one I work at, and underwent an angiogram, to see the aneurysms better. The surgeons there said that he was sure to die if they did not intervene, and that they should schedule a surgery within the coming weeks. Fortunately for him (or so he thought) he was released from prison one week later. When he returned for his pre-op visit, though, he was told that since he'd been released from prison, he no longer had insurance to cover the operation. [...] ... not knowing what else to to, it occurred to him that the easiest way to get the care he needed would be to get back in prison. The next week, he went to a department store and, making sure a security guard saw him, pocketed some moisturizing cream. He looked up at the guard, smiled, and walked out. After he was arrested, he wrote a note to the judge saying that he needed to get back into prison for a year, to get an operation. He told me the judge said "I'll give you 14 months, go get your surgery." Doctor Joshua Mezrich told the story over at The Atlantic: Link

Golden Skull Foam Prop Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:00 AM PST Golden Skull Foam Prop Are you looking to breathe a little life into your dark and dreary home decor? You need the drop dead gorgeous Golden Skull Foam Prop from the NeatoShop. This life-size skull is made from squeezable, soft foam. It is not a toy, but it does make a fantastic oversized stress ball.  The Golden Skull Foam Prop is handcrafted in the USA by local artisans. No two are exactly alike. Paint details may vary.  Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Skull items.  Link

Snow Goon Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:00 AM PST Well, that's what happens when you live near a nuclear reactor. Redditor IrishmanErrant works at MURR (the University of Missouri Research Reactor). He and a co-worker built this snowman. Or is it snowmen? Link

Why Buy Jeans When You Can Lease Them? Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:00 AM PST Is it ridiculous? Remember: some people will buy pre-ripped and faded jeans. Don't ask me why, but they do. So maybe the premise of Bert van Son's Lease Jeans has potential: Customers pay a one-off 20 euro fee ($27), covering shipment and admin, and then 5 euros a month for a year (80 euros in total). At the end of the contract, they have three options. They can send the jeans back. They can get a new pair, paying a reship cost and the lease fee. Or, they can choose to keep the jeans, paying another four months at 5 euro plus a further 20 euro deposit. That goes towards another pair, when they eventually need one. Since launching in January at a jazz club in Amsterdam, several hundred people have signed up. Next up: underwear rentals! News Story and Company Website -via Unconsumption

Hands-free Deer Rescue Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:00 AM PST (YouTube link) Ian Waugh spotted a deer and her fawn stranded on the ice over Antigonish Harbour in Nova Scotia. He called the Department of Natural Resources, which sent a crew who decided the ice was too thin to risk sending anyone out to get the deer. A few hours later, Waugh spotted a DNR helicopter near the deer. The fawn ran to shore and the chopper came down close to the mother. “The wash, because the ice was so smooth…the wash was so powerful that it actually started to push the deer,” says Waugh. He says the deer eventually stopped struggling and went with the flow, while a DNR officer and the pilot directed the animal to shore. With some human help over the last few feet, the deer was able to take off on her own at the shoreline. Link  -via Arbroath

President Eisenhower Was a Painter Posted: 28 Feb 2013 07:00 AM PST I had no idea! General and later President Dwight Eisenhower was, like his wartime colleague Winston Churchill, a painter. He took up the hobby at the age of 58. Sister Wendy Beckett, the famous art historian, writes: If we really look at this mountain path framed with evergreens, we begin to notice, as the artist did, many stray touches of color, yellows and pinks, that tie the whole picture together tonally. Who but the artist himself dare call this a "daub"? No great art, needless to say, but pleasing art, art that has a lyrical sweetness to it, however unassumingly expressed. Link -via Weird Universe | Images: Eisenhower Library

What Is It? game 266 Posted: 28 Feb 2013 06:30 AM PST It's time for the latest edition of our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what this thing is? Or if not, can you make up something funny? Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. Pease do not post URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop. Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts? See another picture of the mystery object at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Teenager's 10-Mile Walk in the Snow to a Job Interview Lands Him a Job Posted: 28 Feb 2013 06:00 AM PST Jhaqueil Reagan, 18, has grit. Last week, he was walking to a job interview in Indianapolis--ten miles, through the snow. A local restraurant owner met him on the journey, learned what he was doing, and saw the potential for a great employee. He promptly offered Reagan a job: Reagan was spotted by a local restaurant owner last Friday walking 10 miles to a job interview for a cashier position at a local thrift store.  When the restaurant owner, Art Bouvier, realized the trek Reagan was willing to make, he hired him on the spot for an entry-level position at his Papa Roux restaurant. “I have employees who can’t get here to work on time even though they have cars and very comfortable houses,” Bouvier said.  “Here’s a kid who planned his morning to walk three hours and 10 miles in the snow just for an interview.” “If you’ll do that, you’ll definitely show up for work on time so I thought, ‘Yeah, I want you,’” he said. One of Bouvier's customers heard Reagan's story and gave him thirteen one-month bus passes so that Reagan won't have to walk to work. Link (warning: auto-sound) -via Ace of Spades HQ | Photo: WISHTV

Breakfast, Lunch, and Hugs Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:00 AM PST (YouTube link) Tim Harris has Down Syndrome and a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tim's Place bills itself as "The world's friendliest restaurant." Seeing the joy Tim puts into his work, I can believe it! However, Tim didn't just luck into his position -he gained as much experience as he could by working at various restaurants and attended Eastern New Mexico University to earn certificates in Food Service and Office Skills. Link  -via reddit

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