Forget boring cat trees and condos, this adorable kitty complex by CatastrophiCreations is stylish and allows you to watch your kitty dive in and out of the piranha tunnels.

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Pinky, a flamingo at Busch Gardens, shows off her fancy footwork. She was not trained to do this, but unlike other flamingos, does not mind doing the natural flamingo dance for visitors. See flamingoes perform in a group in this video.  -via Tastefully Offensive

Do transformers buy car or life insurance?

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Check out this picture of 28 men with no hair. One, two-year-old Patrick in the front, lost his because of chemotherapy for cancer. The rest, his father, his father's co-workers in the Secret Service, and former president George H.W. Bush (front and center) all shaved their heads in support of the little guy. Bush and his wife Barbara lost their four-year-old daughter to leukemia 60 years ago. Link

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Earlier this month, a truck crash in Salem, Oregon, killed hundreds of chicken. To commemorate the sad event, PETA wanted to build a statue:

PETA wanted to build a statue standing more than five feet tall and weighing 250 pounds at the intersection of Commercial and Division streets. It was designed by “The New Yorker” cartoonist Harry Bliss.

The statue “would serve as a reminder not only to livestock haulers to take extra precautions with their live cargo but also to city residents that chickens are among the most abused animals on the planet and the best way to try to prevent crashes like this is to go vegan so that chickens don't have to make the trip to the slaughterhouse in the first place,” PETA spokeswoman Shakira Croce said in a news release.

The city, however, declined the organization's generosity: Link - Thanks Tiffany!

He's a worn down cowpoke who has lost everything after Buzz turned out to have betrayed him. I don't know about you guys, but I would totally play this game If only DeviantArt user lily-fox could make this a reality without violating about 20 copyright laws.

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High Flyer Pencil Case

The summer is flying by and it's almost time to take off for school. Make your school year soar to new heights with the High Flyer Pencil Case from the NeatoShop. This soft vinyl pencil case is deigned and shaped like a paper airplane.

Ship Shape Pencil Case also available. Buy both and make it fantastic set. 

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Back to School items. 

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No actual children were killed in the making of this comic from lunar baboon. Link -via Daily of the Day

To celebrate the National Ice Cream Month, ice cream purveyor Baskin-Robbins commissioned smell and taste expert (apparently, there is such a guy) Dr. Alan Hirsch to conduct a study on the relationship between ice cream flavors and personality.

"We uncovered quite a few surprising findings when investigating what a person’s favorite ice cream flavor says about their personality," said Dr. Hirsch. "For instance, we found that people who prefer Rainbow Sherbet are more pessimistic than you would think, in spite of the flavor’s bright taste profile, and that those who prefer Rocky Road are actually very good listeners.”

The results:

• If your favorite flavor is Vanilla, you’re more likely to be impulsive, easily suggestible and an idealist.
• If your favorite flavor is Chocolate, you’re more likely to be dramatic, lively, charming, flirtatious, seductive and gullible.
• If your favorite flavor is, Very Berry Strawberry, you’re more likely to be a tolerant, devoted and an introvert.
• If your favorite flavor is Mint Chocolate Chip, you’re more likely to be argumentative, frugal and cautious.
• If your favorite flavor is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, you’re more likely to be ambitious, competitive and a visionary.
• If your favorite flavor is Pralines ‘n Cream, you’re more likely to be loving, supportive and prefer to avoid the spotlight.
• If your favorite flavor is Jamoca (i.e. coffee), you’re more likely to be scrupulous, conscientious and a moral perfectionist.
• If your favorite flavor is Chocolate Chip, you’re more likely to be generous, competent and a go getter.
• If your favorite flavor is Rainbow Sherbet, you’re more likely to be analytic, decisive and a pessimistic.
• If your favorite flavor is Rocky Road, you’re more likely to be aggressive, engaging and a good listener.

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Napier jewelry was quite fashionable in the mid-20th century. Celebrities from Marilyn Monroe to Mamie Eisenhower wore the avant-garde Napier designs. Now a jewelry collector and a former Napier salesman have collaborated to publish a definitive history of the company. A lot of the jewelry company's popularity can be traced to Frederick W. Rettenmeyer, head designer for the firm from 1907 to 1964.

At work, Rettenmeyer had the space and materials to let his imagination run wild—which is how he came with some of Napier’s most popular pieces such as the company’s first 1950s charm bracelet.

“One of the things a jewelry company does, particularly Napier, is accumulate thousands of pieces like stampings, beads, and stones,” Meoni says. “Because Mr. Rettenmeyer was such a fool of a guy, none of that stuff ever got thrown away. If we had to buy 10 gross of beads, which would be 1,200 to 1,400 beads, and we only used 200 because it was a limited production, the remaining would go into a box and be put up in the attic storage.

“Rettenmeyer’s genius was that he would wander through this storage area every once in a while and grab one of these beads, one of these stampings, and one of these findings. He’d take them to his office and monkey with them until he’d created an interesting piece of jewelry.”

Read about the company that drove fashion more than it followed fashion at Collectors Weekly. Link

Taylor Mali is an accomplished teacher and slam poet. He once went to a dinner party where a rude guest expressed deep skepticism about the value and skills of teachers.

"I mean, you're a teacher, Taylor. Come on. Be honest. What do you make?"

And I wish he hadn't done that: asked me to be honest. Because, you see, I have this little policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is: if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it. 

And so he did. Gavin Aung Than illustrated the tale in comic form. You can read the full text at the link below.

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Or, to watch the video of Mr. Mali's glorious retelling of the incident, click on Continue reading.

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No, that's not a silly joke, it's just the tale of a beautiful friendship starting up between two totally different species. It's great how patient and gentle the pup is with the little critter -not all dogs would be so sweet.

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How will you stand out to prospective employers? A carefully-composed résumé will carry you only so far. What you've got to do is demonstrate the quality of your practical work product in an eye-catching manner. That's what Alexander J. Velicky did:

Velicky spent 2,000 hours crafting something that’s part resume, part love letter to the company he wants to work for more than any other, Bethesda. He created a mod called “Falskaar” that adds 25 hours of gameplay to their hit title Skyrim, and created a land mass a third as big as the original massive map. He employed 29 voice actors to record new dialog for his NPCs, and recruited over a 100 total people to help him with Falskaar. Now, he waits.

“The best way to show Bethesda Game Studios that I want a job there and should be hired is to create content that meets the standards of their incredible development team,” he says, very clear about his intentions.

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Click on Continue reading to watch a trailer for Velickey's mod.

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We don't know what it is about the sugary slice of heaven known as donuts that inspire generosity in humans, but inspire it did. A drive-thru customer at Heav'nly Donuts in Amesbury, Massachusetts, started a "pay it forward" chain that lasted 55 people in a row:

“After that it was like, oh we’re three cars deep, four cars deep, and after about the 15th car I started letting the customers know, ‘Hey, we’re 17 cars in, you can either keep it going or you can take your coffee and go. Either way it’s your choice,’” the clerk said.

According to the clerk, 55 customers rolled through the drive-thru back-to-back, each one paying for the next order.

The chain only broke when they ran out of customers: Link

This brooch wasn't even designed to be a Dalek, but when Etsy seller Leah Riley found it, she immediately thought of the classic Whovian villian. Personally, I think this is proof that the Daleks are real and did travel through time.

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Back in the 1960s, when adults were still under the delusion that children loved clowns, Post advertised their Sugar Rice Krinkles with a clown apparently named Ka-rinkle. The stuff that fueled our nightmares. For another dose of surreal advertising, see the first Ronald McDonald ad.

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When the woman sitting next to Steve Cullum on the airplane decided to use his arm as a pillow, he decided to turn lemon into lemonade by making the drooly experience into a little YouTube gold:

Minding my own business on a flight home, when I ended up in an extremely awkward situation. This lady was totally out of it. As soon as she sat down, she started falling asleep, and it only got worse as the flight continued. I tried lifting her up, shaking her, and startling her, but it seemed like nothing was going to work. So, I thought it would be fun to get some of it on video to share with family and friends. Then she finally moved... Only to find someone else for the last part of the flight. Ha!

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Kid's Travel Journal

The summer travel season is here. Keep your pint-sized world traveler entertained and engaged with the Kid's Travel Journal from the NeatoShop. This great book features sections for describing:

• Facts About My Destinations
• What I Did
• My New Friends
• Getting Around Town
• The Best Ever
• and much, much more

Also included are ruled pages for free writing and blank pages for drawing. The book was awarded Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Toy Award.  

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Books and fun Travel Acessories. 

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It looks like Juliet Starling's love affair with the severed head of her boyfriend didn't last. Here she is the San Diego Comic-Con facing an engagement ring. This is one of many marriage proposals that took place at the con last week. You can see a roundup of more at the link.

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In her series Cinematography, Tokyo-born artist Maiko Takeda uses something unusual as fashion adornment: shadows.

Maiko wrote:

Cinematography collection questions whether shadows can be transformed into material that adorns the body. When the light shines through each piece, a photograph-like image appears and follows the silhouette of the skin. Shadow is ephemeral yet remains the main part of the work.

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Take a look at more over at Maiko's website: Link (Photos: Schrab Vahdat and Patrick Lindblom)

Rachel Wolf wanted to dance with her father at her wedding. But she wasn't engaged and her father was dying of pancreatic cancer. So she staged a wedding in order to have that precious moment:

She sent her father an invitation requesting his presence at a father daughter dance. But her father told ABC News he had no idea what exactly was going to happen. His daughter simply told him to make sure he brought nice pants and a shirt.

With the help of donations from stores, she put on a white wedding dress, met her father at a park and had the traditional dance –  to “Cinderella” by Steven Curtis Chapman — this past Saturday.

ABC Affiliate KXTV recorded the event, but she is not planning to watch the video until her actual wedding. 
“It was a fairytale come true for Rachel,” said her mother Jeanine Wolf.

“It just grew into this magnificent event,” the mom said, adding, “She just really loves her dad and he loves her and she just wanted this moment.”

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A new species of hero shrew was found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012 and given the awesome name Thor's hero shrew (Scutisorex thori). How does such a tiny animal deserve such a heroic name? Hero shrews have a superpower -the strongest backbone of any mammal on earth!

Between our rib cage and pelvis, we have five specialised vertebrae called lumbar vertebrae. Allen found that the African hero shrew can have up to 11 lumbar vertebrae, and each is fortified by a unique interlocking arrangement that makes the entire backbone super-strong. This was no news to the locals that lived alongside the species – the Mangbetu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) named it “hero shrew” long before it was given its scientific name.

In fact, the Mangbetu would show off a parlor trick in which a grown man would stand on a hero shrew and then watch it walk away uninjured. The newly-found hero shrew is the second species of hero shrew, and is even smaller than its cousin. Scientists aren't sure, but think the strong backbone may help the shrew pull tree parts apart to find grubs to eat. Link -via the Presurfer

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Michael Carbonaro has been gone from home for 6 months. Watch Charlie, his cat, respond ecstatically upon seeing Michael return.

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For those of you who don't know, we here at Neatorama are huge churro fans, especially when those cinnamon sugary treats can be incorporated in with our other favorite foods -like, say, ice cream and caramel. Learn to make your own at Food Family Finds.

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Conlett White of Hove, East Sussex, UK, planned to play a prank on his housemate, Richard Hammond. White made a special tuna salad meal for Hammond and left it on the counter. It was "special" because all the food was laced with lots of pepper. Since he couldn't be there to see Hammond's reaction, White rigged a camera to catch the scene. Instead, the camera caught a seagull who came in through the window for a free meal. Now, pepper doesn't bother birds, but after the seagull ate an entire plate of food, he got his payback while trying to escape the kitchen. Link -via Arbroath

Brazilian artist Raul Souza made this adorably winsome double ring for a vegan chef. It's great, but it really should be shifted over a finger to serve as a proper wedding ring.

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A new meme compares the awful things that happen in the Star Wars saga and the HBO series Games of Thrones. Continue reading to see a lot more, but be warned they contain spoilers, if you're not current on both series. However, if you don't know what happens in Star Wars, you are too young to confront these issues anyway.   

You'll find a lot more of these in a growing subreddit called Wars vs. Throne. Link -via Geeks Are Sexy

Rene24601 participated in the Craftster Doctor Who crafts exchange. Imagine her surprise when she pulled this adorable Dalek sewing caddy out, complete with adorable Doctor Who pins.

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Kissing Polar Bears Salt & Pepper Shakers

Summer is here. Add something cool to your kitchen with the Kissing Polar Bears Salt & Pepper Shakers from the NeatoShop. This sweet set is made of ceramic. The bears are held together by magnets. 

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Salt & Pepper Shakers. 

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Hey look! It's time for our collaboration with the wonderful What Is It? Blog! Do you know what the object in this picture is? It doesn't really matter if you do, because we are looking for the funniest guesses. You can win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! But first, read the rules:

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners who submit funny and/or clever (albeit ultimately wrong) answers will each win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

If you guess the correct answer, you'll get a big pat on the back.

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?

There is another picture of the whatisit item at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!