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• Goldfish Tea Bags
• Saartjie Baartman: The Original Booty Queen
• Mind-Bending Optical Illusion Tattoo
• Kim Kardashian’s Butt in LEGO
• Misconceptions About Technology
• 5-Year Old Becomes the Youngest to Pass a Microsoft Exam
• How 'Mantiques' Make It Cool for Average Joes to Shop and Decorate
• Mom and Daughter Give Birth on the Same Day in the Same Hospital
• Vintage Photo Finds
• Back To The Time Machine - Two Docs, Two Deloreans? Great Scott!
• Japanese Fast Food Items Almost Too Crazy To Be True
• Little Girl Joins Santa Claus for Breakfast Because She Doesn't Want Him "Eating All by Himself."
• Running the Gammatar
• Cat Petting Simulator

Goldfish Tea Bags Posted: 16 Nov 2014 04:00 AM PST The Taiwanese design firm Charm Villa makes tea bags that look like goldfish. Each one is assembled by machine and hand in a 16-step process. Tug on the cotton string and the bag will appear to swim within your cup. (Photos: Charm Villa) -via Lustik

Saartjie Baartman: The Original Booty Queen Posted: 16 Nov 2014 02:00 AM PST With so much publicity for Kim Kardashian’s butt on the cover of Paper magazine and Nicki Minaj’s music video for “Anaconda,” Jezebel takes the opportunity for a look back at the original booty queen, a 19th-century woman billed as “The Hottentot Venus.” Saartjie Baartman grew up in what is now South Africa, a member of the Khoikhoi people, who the Dutch called Hottentots. Her remarkably generous backside gave her employer the idea of taking her to Europe and exhibiting her for the masses who’d never seen such a thing. Like Kim, Saartjie (pronounced Sar-key) was voluptuous but tiny. She stood four feet, seven inches to Kim's purported five-three. Unlike Kim, she didn't just have her sizable assets in the way of talent. (Whether 'balancing a champagne glass on your ass' is a talent remains up for discussion.) She had learned and practiced multiple instruments in her native land (in what is now South Africa). On the stages of London and Paris, she regaled packed audiences with singing, dancing, and instrumental routines. When it comes to her contemporary booty-sisters, she is less Kim Kardashian, more Nicki Minaj. "She had enormous skills," says Tamar Garb, professor of art history at University College London and a native of South Africa. "She spoke many languages—Dutch, English, some French, and her maternal tongue. She was very literate and sophisticated. The show she put on was very much a performance, even if the role she was required to play was that of a 'savage' femininity." Baartman became the toast of Europe, both as a curiosity and as a performer. And unlikes many people exhibited in the freak shows of the time, she was a willing participant in her show business career. Read Baartman’s life story, and the account of how she finally returned to South Africa, at Jezebel. The article contains nude illustrations.

Mind-Bending Optical Illusion Tattoo Posted: 16 Nov 2014 12:00 AM PST Paul O'Rourke of Allstar Ink in Limerick, Ireland made this amazing tat. If you ever meet the man who owns this ink, resist the temptation to try to reach through his arm in the hole that O'Rourke installed. Despite all appearances, it's not a radical new type of body piercing. -via io9

Kim Kardashian’s Butt in LEGO Posted: 15 Nov 2014 10:00 PM PST If you’ve surfed the internet at all in the last couple of days, you’ve seen references to Kim Kardashian’s photo spread in Paper magazine. The cover shows a rear view of her most prominent asset. It’s been discussed and passed around so much that LEGO artist Ochre Jelly (Iain Heath) couldn’t resist recreating it in LEGO. I get the impression that Heath didn’t have enough bricks to accurately recreate the magazine cover image. However, his completely plastic version looks more natural. -Thanks, Iain!

Misconceptions About Technology Posted: 15 Nov 2014 08:00 PM PST YouTube Link Mental Floss takes on some common misconceptions about technology here. Topics include video games and violence, Macs and viruses, cell phones and cancer and video games with regard to gender of the players.

5-Year Old Becomes the Youngest to Pass a Microsoft Exam Posted: 15 Nov 2014 06:00 PM PST Microsoft offers a wide array of tests that computer users can take in order to demonstrate their competency with Microsoft products. These users can then list those certifications on their resumes in order to impress perspective employers. One of the more demanding exams is the Microsoft Certified Professional. At 5 years old, Ayan Qureshi of Coventry, UK became the youngest person to ever successfully complete that exam. He's now 6. His father, an IT consultant, introduced Ayan to computers when he was 3. He found that Ayan could remember anything that he taught him on the subject. Gurvinder Gill writes for BBC News: "I found whatever I was telling him, the next day he'd remember everything I said, so I started to feed him more information," he explained. "Too much computing at this age can cause a negative effect, but in Ayan's case he has cached this opportunity." Ayan has his own computer lab at his home in Coventry, containing a computer network which he built. He spends around two hours a day learning about the operating system and how to install programmes. -via Marginal Revolution | Photo: BBC News

How 'Mantiques' Make It Cool for Average Joes to Shop and Decorate Posted: 15 Nov 2014 04:00 PM PST For some time, the common image of antique collectors was overwhelmingly feminine, the kind of person who collected old furniture, glassware, china, and jewelry. But that was just the popular image. There have always been men who appreciate the quality of things made long ago. However, men tend to collect more varied objects, such as gadgets, military memorabilia, tools, toys, and things that are hard to classify. A new word sprang up to describe these antiques: “Mantiques.” Collectors Weekly talked to Eric Bradley, author of Mantiques: A Manly Guide to Cool Stuff, about the new crop of male collectors.   Collectors Weekly: Do mantiques collectors skew younger than regular collectors? Bradley: I think so. An older generation took the approach that if you were going to start collecting, you itemized what you needed to acquire and then set about acquiring each piece to accumulate the whole set. Today’s mantiques collectors are a lot more laid back than that. They’re not so interested in being completists. Instead, they’re surrounding themselves with interesting things. Some of them are collecting strictly for décor and searching for objects that just look neat. Maybe you have a collection of three vintage typewriters, but you’re not going to necessarily fill your basement or try to obtain every typewriter that was ever made in Germany. But those typewriters look really cool on a shelf in your living room. Read the rest of the interview, learn about some of the cool things that people collect, and see a gallery of awesome pictures from Bradley’s book at Collectors Weekly.

Mom and Daughter Give Birth on the Same Day in the Same Hospital Posted: 15 Nov 2014 02:00 PM PST (Video Link) Nine months ago, Heather Penticoff, 40, and her daughter Destinee Martin, 20, of Lee County, Florida told each other that they were pregnant. The timing was coincidental and they kept it up. Both women had the same due dates. For different reasons, their 2 different doctors decided to induce labor for both women on Tuesday. Madeline, Destinee’s daughter, was then born. Two hours and 46 minutes later, Madeline’s nephew, Damien was born. That’s quite young to become an aunt! But the family is happy with this experience. Bryan Anderson of NBC 2 reports: "It's like having twins without carrying twins," said Heather. Their experience expecting together is unique, just like the ages of other relatives of this Lee County family. Destinee has two aunts and an uncle younger than her. "It's a blessing all around," Heather said, "I'm just proud of her, so proud of Destinee." "To have my mom going through it with me is probably the most special, amazing thing ever," added Destinee. -via AP

Vintage Photo Finds Posted: 15 Nov 2014 12:00 PM PST Ladies holding guns. Colorado. 1930s? Joel Snow found a stash of unlabeled negatives at a flea market. He photographed them, scanned them, and used Photoshop to convert them to positive images. All that work revealed a treasure trove of historical mysteries. Where and when were all these pictures taken? What’s the story behind them? Were they taken by the same person, or even the same family or company? Snow created a website to share the photographs called Vintage Photo Finds, where you’ll see plenty more. Wherever the site or the pictures are shared, people come forward who recognize the place, if not the people, and Snow updates the information as it comes in. Amazing shot of Nebraska potato farmers taking a break, or finishing up their day. No idea where this was taken. However, I would guess it’s sometime in the early ’20s based on the cars in the background. Possibly Texas, based on names. Hotel Regis, Mexico City. Destroyed in the ’85 earthquake. Proof that little kids have always been fascinated with cars. Why does this one have 2 steering wheels? Another one just processed. I couldn’t tell what city is was so I posted to ‘r/whereisthis’ on reddit and the detectives there did the rest. It’s Victoria, B.C! Looks lile the 1930s. There is an entire gallery of photos that have been identified as being from the Pershing Expedition, aka the Pancho Villa Expedition, aka the Punitive Expedition of 1916-1917. Soldier on a 1916 Harley-Davidson. Soldiers horsing around with guns, and puppies. Snow is trying to expand the project and make it self-sustaining, so that he may find and share more vintage photos. See many more of these photographs, where you can enlarge them, at Vintage Photo Finds. -via Metafilter

Back To The Time Machine - Two Docs, Two Deloreans? Great Scott! Posted: 15 Nov 2014 10:00 AM PST Back To The Time Machine by Bamboota The Doctor was heading back to the raddest decade ever and he wanted to totally blend in, so he did what any sane person would do and turned his time machine into a Delorean. That's what the movies said to do so naturally that's what he did, but when he arrived in Hill Valley he discovered the car was getting a little too much attention. He popped the gull wing door and stepped out, his 3D glasses on to keep his look authentically 80s, but when a kid in an orange vest named Marty walked up to him and asked him if he was from the future he knew things were about to get strange... Who is that hip dude in the 3D glasses and trench coat? It's The Doctor, starring in this Back To The Time Machine t-shirt by Bamboota, it'll add gigawatts of power to your geeky wardrobe! Visit Bamboota's Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more (Mc)Fly designs: Battle Of The Bands Retro Swanson Large Marge Trucking Co. Precious Companions View more designs by Bamboota | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

Japanese Fast Food Items Almost Too Crazy To Be True Posted: 15 Nov 2014 10:00 AM PST Whether they’re making a bold fashion statement, creating kooky themed restaurants or coming up with a new way to have a virtual girlfriend experience the Japanese don’t settle for slightly crazy- they do like Stallone and go over the top. The world of Japanese fast food is no different, and restaurant chains in Japan like Lotteria are constantly trying to come up with new food products that wow customers and outshine the competition.  Cracked put together this list of 7 Japanese Fast Food Items (Almost) Too Insane To Be Real, which includes the delicious Kit Kat Pizza, vegetable flavored ice cream and the Attack On Titan burgers, which come in five, seven or ten patty sizes and destroy the walls...of your stomach. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if some of these strange taste sensations make their way to the U.S. soon, but if they do the Titan burgers and fries should come with a Surgeon's General warning!

Little Girl Joins Santa Claus for Breakfast Because She Doesn't Want Him "Eating All by Himself." Posted: 15 Nov 2014 08:00 AM PST (Photo: Lindsey Wilson) Santa Claus planned to visit a mall in Evansville, Indiana to meet boys and girls who wanted to talk with him. But first, he needed breakfast. So he stopped at a Bob Evans restaurant. Gracie Lynn, 3, and her mother and grandmother were also there eating breakfast. Gracie was appalled that Santa had to eat with no one to keep him company. So she decided to have breakfast with him. Kimberly Yam writes for the Huffington Post: "They talked for about 20 minutes," Wilson, who is currently pregnant with a boy, told HuffPost, "and all she wanted to talk about was [her future baby brother]." […] Wilson told HuffPost that the pair chatted about the North Pole's weather conditions and the movie, "Frozen." Gracie even asked Santa if she could visit him and his toy shop.

Running the Gammatar Posted: 15 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST (YouTube link) Joe Kramer's short film Running the Gammatar is a lovely story about a young couple trying to negotiate a relationship while their city is being terrorized by a giant fire-breathing monster. It’s like rom-com meets Japanese monster movie, except this behemoth is uglier than any version of Godzilla, and his name is Gammatar. -via the Presurfer

Cat Petting Simulator Posted: 15 Nov 2014 06:00 AM PST Neongrey's Cat Petting Simulator is a text-based adventure game which permits you to experience the joy of petting a beautiful cat without getting cat hair on you or cat urine on your furniture. You get to name the cat, then interact with her. Decisions flow like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. Don't worry too much about making a bad decision. You can save your game and then return to that save point. Or, if you're in the middle of a good petting and your boss insists that you do some actual work, you can come back to it later. -via David Thompson, who recommends the game to people with cat allergies.

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