Formal manners don't stand up well to deadlines. Or, for that matter, online streaming video.

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P.S. If you know the name of the artist responsible for this work, please let me know in the comments.

This image of a fictional saloon was created by illustrator Harry Grant Dart and appeared in the magazine Puck in 1908. It was intended to show how awful life would be if women were granted the right to vote.

Alas, Mrs. P.J. Gilligan's never had a "real" existence outside the paranoid imagination of her hostile creator. Suffragists back then were routinely attacked as "unsexed" or "mannish" in a way that is very similar to how feminists are attacked today as "lesbian" or "manhating" (some things never change). Why, if you let the ladies have the franchise, before you know it, they'll be boozing and brawling just like the gents. And then who will bake the pies and mind the babies, hmm?

Regardless of the intention, this place looks like it would be a lot of fun. Link -via Metafilter

If Hollywood wanted more women in The Hobbit, maybe they should have just switched the gender of certain characters rather than add in female characters that never existed before. As DeviantArt user aishafee proves, Bilbo works quite well as a female.

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Turn Table Kitchen Timer

Are you looking for a kitchen gadget that really rocks? Tune in to the Turn Table Kitchen Timer from the NeatoShop. This great little timer is shaped like a turntable.  

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Kitchen Stuff. 

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Brooklyn artist Jonathan Lopes has filled his entire living room (400 square feet) with a LEGO recreation of …Brooklyn!

The obsession started with a Star Wars LEGO model purchased a decade ago, leading to the design of his own creations. By 2011, Lopes had used a half-million bricks to mimic the Apollo Theater, trolleys in Red Hook, Firehouse Engine 226 and a gardening shop on Hoyt Street.

See more pictures at Web Urbanist. Link -via Everlasting Blort

(Photos: Martin Argyroglo)

Here at Neatorama, we've long enjoyed the striking and original art of Leandro Erlich. He's a master of grand optical illusions. Pictured above is his installation entitled "Monte-Meubles. The Ultimate Moving."

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I admit, I never really wanted to see Sack Lunch -that is, until I found out that Tina Fey, Jason Bateman and Rico Rodriguez were cast in the film. 

If you were ever curious what the films of Seinfeld would be like in the real world, then don't miss NextMovie's posters from some of the great fictional titles from the show.

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Four-year-old Kyla Wolffe and a tiny gorilla mimic each other through the glass at the Atlanta Zoo. So, who is really on display and who is observing a strange and different creature? -via Viral Viral Videos  

Paul Michael, a jeweler, sketched up this design. I love it! It's the perfect engagement ring for the hutt who has captured (and frozen) your heart.

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deviantARTist Mikiko Ponczeck wanted to show us that sometimes, when you're having a bad day, all you need is a hug. But us men know that she's secretly trying to steal our coffee.

It's painfully easy to waste time online, such as by playing video games or reading Neatorama's competitors. MIT graduate students Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff had that problem, which is why they built the Pavlov Poke.

After spending too much time on Facebook, a keyboard-mounted device delivers a mild electrical shock to the computer user. Alternately, a program has a stranger call you on the phone to scream at you that you're wasting time.

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If you're a fan of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, then you know all about Day Man, the Champion of the Sun. This cross stitch can be purchased from Etsy seller Purple Hippo Stitches, but if you prefer to make your own, you can buy the pattern or kit from them instead.

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It was weird enough to see Darth Vader grotesque on the National Cathedral, and a spaceman carved on a 16th century cathedral. This gargoyle, projecting from a Scottish Abbey, looks a bit like a certain movie xenomorph we are familiar with, right? Paisley Abbey was founded in 1245, so is it possible that H.R. Geiger found inspiration in the figure? Or was it inspired itself by extraterrestrials? No.

However, following pictures of the Alien-gargoyle appearing on-line and in news reports, it has been revealed that the Abbey had some renovations in the 1990s, which included many of the original gargoyles being replaced.  

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You know what's the best thing about black holes, apart from them not being too close to us that they'd suck all of us up into oblivion? Two words: space slinky.

Eileen Meyer from the Space Telescope Science Institute and colleagues used images from the Hubble Space telescope to analyze the central black hole of nearby M87 galaxy and discovered that when it is busy feeding, the black hole can also fire jets of plasma into space, in the form of a giant helical slinky:

Meyer found evidence that suggests the jet's spiral motion is created by a helix-shaped magnetic field surrounding the black hole. In the outer part of the M87 jet, for example, one bright gas clump, called knot B, appears to zigzag, as if it were moving along a spiral path. Several other gas clumps along the jet also appear to loop around an invisible structure. [...]

"The jet structure is very clumpy. Is this a ballistic effect, like cannonballs fired sequentially from a cannon?" Meyer asked, "or, are there some particularly interesting physics going on, such as a shock that is magnetically driven?"

Meyer's team found evidence for both scenarios. "We found things that move quickly," Meyer said. "We found things that move slowly. And, we found things that are stationary. This study shows us that the clumps are very dynamic sources."

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Bean Bag Phone Rest (sold individually)

Is your electronic best friend exhausted from a hard day of work. Give her a proper place to rest and relax with the Bean Bag Phone Rest from the NeatoShop.

This comfy and cute phone holder is a great way to make sure your phone doesn't wander off. The Bean Bag Phone Rest is available in: Blue, Green, Magenta, and Orange. Buy all four and make sure your phone has a proper home in every room.  

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Mobile Phone & Tablet items. 

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Wrinkles and gray hair are the battle scars of parenting. Wear them proudly.

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In English, we often use the term "when pigs fly" to indicate something that will never happen. It's become so common that we've managed to make flying pigs a pop culture meme. It's not the only way to say it in English, and other languages have their own colorful phrases for "not gonna happen." For example:

Israel "When hair grows on the palm of my hand"

Hungary“When it’s snowing red snowflakes”

Portugal“In the afternoon of Saint Never’s day”

There's more of these at Nautilus, and even a world map showing where more idioms are used. Link -via Phenomena

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Oh Dude Foods, is there any form of junk food you can't make more delicious or fatty? This time the site has taken on S'mores Pop Tarts and used them to make actual S'mores the result looks utterly irresistible and decadent. 

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We've seen the Doctor on Doctor Whodie 10 times on the show. It's always a tense, dramatic moment. The Geek Twins rounded up the Doctor's last words on all of these occasions, including those of the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee):

Last words: "A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don't cry. While there's life, there's..."
The Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee)
Episode: ('Planet of the Spiders', 1974)
Cause of Death: Radiation Poisoning

You can find the rest at the link.

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An economist, an engineer, a computer scientist, a mathematician, and a physicist have lunch together. The fun begins when it's time to pay the bill. It's an involved conversation, but here's a snippet:

Engineer: Is everyone’s money in? It seems we’re a little short…

Physicist: How short?

Engineer: Well, the total was $104, not including tip… and so far we’ve got $31.07 and an old lottery ticket.

Physicist: Close enough, right? It’s a small error term.

Mathematician: Which of you idiots wasted your money on a lottery ticket?

You can try to guess where this goes, but it goes in several directions. Read the rest, with illustrations, at Math with Bad Drawings. Link -via Metafilter

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He may not be a flea-bitten mammal, but he still loves his scratches -complete with all the leg-twitching action of the best pooch. 

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Ted Riederer, a musician and artist, molds vinyl records of his favorite songs and poetry recordings around a plaster skull. It's his way of connecting to music at an intimate level. Riederer explains:

My work aims to explore the symbols of music, and music communities, for their redemptive power. When I was 16, my life fell apart, I joined a band and was saved. The vinyl skulls are based on a nonfiction essay by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke entitled ‘Primal Sound.’ In this essay he ponders what sound the coronal suture would make as it closely resembles a sound wave. He proposes that this process of combining what seems like disparate elements initially to create something that the world has never heard, is a model for making good art.

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Sometimes we are deceived. Our perception is not all it's quacked up to be! -via Arbroath

Seeing David Tennant's Doctor and Rose in 50's clothes on a Vespa was pretty fantastic, but by far the most memorable scene from The Idiot's Lantern was seeing Rose with her face sucked off from the monster in the television. LiveJournal user alcblueyes did an amazing job at recreating that moment in this fantastic cosplay.

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Chef David Burke has opened Burke's Bacon Bar, a carry-out restaurant in Chicago that puts pork into its dishes---with an emphasis on bacon. Denise I. O'Neal of the Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Varieties include five-spice duck (smoked Peking duck, Chinese bacon (pork belly), hoisin sauce, cucumber cilantro and scallions in a steamed bun; 50 cents extra); banh mi (chicken liver-bacon salad, bacon, pickled vegetables, herbs and lime on a baguette ) and the Big Kahuna Spamwich (barbecued spam, pineapple slaw, bacon crumbs, homemade pickles on a King’s Hawaiian roll). Soups, salads and sides are also available. Desserts include bacon chocolate chip cookies— “delish”— and bacon peanut brittle.

“Bacon could be the one legal drug, because once you taste it you’re hooked,” Gresh said.

Trending next at the bacon bar? Body products including lip balms and soaps, and there’s even talk of a bacon cake down the road.

Link -via Foodbeast

Image: One of the many fine products at Neatorama's own Bacon Store!