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Trinity Church is a beautiful little Russian Orthodox Church in Antarctica. It was built in the 1990s and is manned year-round. Atlas Obscura reports:

The priests manning the church take care of the spiritual needs of the staff of nearby Russian, Chilean, Polish, and Korean research stations. Their obligations include praying for the souls of 64 Russians who lost their lives in various expeditions, and the very occasional, very chilly, baptism.

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P.S. This isn't the only church in Antarctica. McMurdo Station is serviced by the Chapel of the Snows.

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Arrr! The Unipiper is at it again! Excuse me, make that the Unipirate! I don't know if Brian Kidd talks like a pirate, but he's celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day by playing the pipes on his unicycle dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow. -Thanks, Brian!

Eyeball Spreaders

Are you hoping to throw a truly eye-popping Halloween bash? You need the Eyeball Spreaders from the NeatoShop. This eye-catching set features hand painted details and comes with 4 devilishly fun spreaders. Your guests won't be able to take their eyes off them. 

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Halloween Entertaining items. 

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J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's recipe combines two perfect dorm foods. Though to get the full experience, the ramen pizza should be baked, then left in a box in a closet for a day before consumption. You can find his full recipe at the link.

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Visual Anatomy Limited offers medical illustrations and chocolate. While those two businesses don't appear to really mesh, the chocolates come in the shapes of bodily organs. You can get chocolates brains, hearts, livers, colons, ears, eyes, skulls, pelvis bones, pancreas, kidneys, or other organs, in small or large sizes, or in assorted gift boxes. Some are even available on a stick! Link -via Laughing Squid

I agree with Dan Hopper's placement of dragons on this chart. They're the greatest possible pets, but the upkeep demands are terrible.

Yes, babies require an enormous amount of effort. You change their diapers. But remember: in 50 years, they'll change yours.

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Watch the otter on the left put on a show with his personal pebble. The little guy has talent! Spotted at Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany. -via Tastefully Offensive

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Showing remarkable dedication to her job, Diane Krish-Veeramany, a primary school teacher in Chigwell, UK, gave birth to her son in her own classroom with the assistance of her colleagues:

"I said 'I'll just go home.' I just didn't think it would be a contraction as it didn't feel like one."

But it soon became clear she was going into labour, and three teaching assistants, Dita Gojnovci, Chris Sword and Sam Mustafa, stepped in to help.

The three delivered the baby while taking instructions from paramedics over the phone, as towels and other equipment were gathered from around the school.

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Looking for a toilet brush holder that will class up your restroom? Then look no further than Japan's wine bottle toilet brush. Just remember that when people ask why you have a bottle of wine in the bathroom, it's probably going to sound a lot less weird to tell them the truth than to lie to them in any way.

This is only one of ten bizarre toilet brushes and holders featured on this funny Inventor Spot list.

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One of the most popular articles of the day is a guide to using commas from Business Insider. The rules are pretty down-to-earth, and the mood is lightened by the duck in most of the examples. But there are always people who will disagree, or at least make a joke out of them. Some of the responses from Fark:

Thirteen rules for using commas without looking, like an idiot.

I'd like to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God.

So, when you see a duck you are to use commas?

No, one should treat rule #9 as an absolute.

The actual rules are not quite as funny, but read them and you'll be thinking of duck all night. Link

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It's all fun and games until someone loses an arm.

Fine. Use your lightsaber to cut the cake. Just know when to stop slicing and keep it away from anyone who has had too much champagne.

You can find instructions on how to make your own lightsaber cake knife at the link.

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Did you go see the Baz Luhrman movie The Great Gatsby? You probably didn't think a thing was wrtong with the curvy women of the film, but Lisa Hix noticed. The real flappers of the 1920s didn't have what modern actresses have, meaning prominent breasts. In fact, the style of the time was anything but curvaceous.

Jonathan Walford, co-founder of the Fashion History Museum, says the Roaring Twenties party scene viewed the release of women’s bodies from constraining undergarments as wildly sexy.

“Dresses featured legs, arms, hips and faces, not cleavage,” Walford writes in an email. “It meant a woman was no longer bound by convention—she was liberated from the confines of traditional femininity because she could think for herself, dance and drink and smoke and swear, and that is sex appeal.”

So Hix called Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby's producer, production designer, and costume designer.

For the body-hugging fit of the film’s clothes, Martin, who is also married to “Great Gatsby” director Baz Luhrmann, says she took inspiration from a recent exhibition of the clothes designed by 1920s innovator Jeanne Lanvin at the Museé des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.

“It was interesting to see clothes in person, styled on a mannequin, and then see a model of the period in the same clothing, in a black-and-white photo,” she says. “I noticed how ethereal and extraordinary the clothes seemed on these very neutral dummies and how incredibly frumpy the clothes looked on the person wearing them in the photograph.

“I think that what we understand as a ’20s silhouette is very much from the snapshot or from the social pages,” she continues. “But when you see the sketch of the creator, there is a big disconnect. What we chose to do, because we wanted to really capture the spirit of the ’20s, is really look at a lot of illustrations that people drew of the clothes.”

In other words, Martin’s movie is more about the fantasy world of the 1920s in the minds of forward-thinking designers, and not how it looked in real life. And she believes the ’20s ideas about sex appeal were much closer to 2013’s. But to Walford, it’s more like Martin imposed modern reality-TV standards of beauty onto “Gatsby,” which was set during a time when people admired an entirely different aesthetic.

Read about the fashion goals of the 1920s, and how they differ from our modern standards, at Collectors Weekly, plus a gorgeous gallery of flapper fashions. Link

No, the slime-tini isn't really poison. In fact, with tripel sec, vodka, sour apple Pucker and grenadine, it's probably pretty tasty. But a few too many of these bad boys will certainly leave you feeling like you drank poison when you wake up the next morning.

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Captain America Kawaii Costume

Halloween is right around the corner. Give your favorite American superhero a little Japanese anime twist with the Captain America Kawaii Costume from the NeatoShop. This super adorable outfit is designed to be a Kawaii take on the traditional Captain America Costume. The costume features a jumpsuit and soft cap. It is sure to add an extra layer of cuteness to your already charming and heroic baby. 

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

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The main characters from Deep Space Nineonce went back to the old Enterprise, but this would be even better! Redditor deadfraggle photoshopped Next Generation characters into the original series. Engage and steady as she goes.

More Pictures and Discussion Thread -via Nerd Approved

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Many more movies get started than ever get finished. Some of those abandoned projects have good reasons they were never completed, but some would have been wonderful to see! Will someone bring the good ones to the theater for us, please? -via mental_floss

I Like-Like U by Amanda Flagg

Do you like-like this T-shirt? The shield-eaters have never looked so cute as in this neat T-shirt design by Amanda Flagg. Don't forget to visit Amanda's website and Twitter page, then visit her NeatoShop page for more cool designs. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog!

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Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop, earn generous royalties, and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

A waffle cone maker, some cream cheese and fruit is all you need to make delicious, fresh waffle sushi at home. If you're wondering what you would dip these sweet treats in, well, that would be warm maple syrup, of course.

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One lesson I try to get across to my driving student is to pay attention to clues that you'll need to slow down and eventually stop, like brake lights, red lights, and stop signs a block ahead. I need to send her this picture. The Chevy pickup was photographed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The unnamed teenage driver realized too late that the car in front of him was stopped at a red light. According to an officer in a video report at the scene, the truck

"…swerved off the roadway to the right, went into a sideways slide, it struck the wood fence that just got put up two days ago, and then it hit the brick wall. After it hit the brick wall, it rotated around rode up the guy wire, and then snapped suspended where it is …uh, as you see it."

Ta da! The good news is that no one was injured in the accident. Link -via Arbroath

This looks like a fine, detailed oil painting showing a battle from the Age of the Fighting Sail. But look closer...

Ponies! 

John Eastley composed this beautiful painting entitled "Equestria at War." BUCK 2013, a brony convention held this past summer in Manchester, UK, commissioned and displayed the work. It measures 3x4 feet and is mounted in a gilt frame.

My thanks and a double brohoof to BUCK 2013 organizer Jake Biddulph for providing me with high resolution photos for this post. BUCK 2013 has placed the painting up for sale. You can read more information at the link.

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Use some common sense. Young or impressionable kids should not watch Samuel L. Jackson movies, mainly because they are all rated R. Then there's the Star Wars prequels, which kids should not watch because they just aren't very good. -via Geeks Are Sexy 

The Joker

Wolverine

Turanga Leela

Lion-O

Harvey Birdman

Brazilian designer Andre Levy adds a flew splashes of paint to turn politicians and heroes from around the world into pop culture characters.

I would love to read a Declaration of Independence written by the Joker.

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Don't shoot the messenger! Roger Buchko is a professional wood and metal fabricator. That's made completely clear when you see his homemade mailbox, which is an oversized Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum handgun! It weighs 350 pounds and took four months to build. See more pictures at Laughing Squid. Link

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Is your pup difficult to wake up in the morning? Well, Ben Lucier has a solution -just play some raccoon noises on the computer and watch him come running. 

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Bad Ass Socks

Are you a tough, formidable individual looking for an excellent pair of socks? You need the Bad Ass Socks from the NeatoShop. This comfy pair of socks is sure to make you feel rugged, strong, and powerful all while keeping your feet toasty, warm, and protected from the elements. These are some bad ass socks! 

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Footwear. 

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In many wars of the past, the fighting went on even after the war was over. Most of these can be attributed to slow communication. Before telegraphs and telephones, it could take weeks to get a message anywhere, and the difficulties were only greater during wartime. But that wasn't the only reason the fighting didn't stop. Sometime it was hard to define when a war "ended."

The Battle of New Orleans is often remembered as one of the most decisive American victories in the War of 1812. It’s also often remembered as an infamous battle-fought-after-the-war-ended, though the moniker is only half true. It’s true that the battle, which was fought on January 8, 1815, took place after the Treaty of Ghent was signed in Belgium on December 24, 1814, and even after the treaty had been ratified by the Prince Regent (the future King George IV). But President James Madison and the American Senate did not ratify the treaty until February 16, allowing the battle to assume an arguable level of tactical importance.

The Battle of New Orleans is only one of eight such battles explained at mental_floss. Link

Twenty minutes ago, we passed over a Corvette leaving a car wash, but you said that you didn't need to go! Dan Piraro understands that traveling with kids is a pain.

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They put a lot of thought into this. Which wasn't needed at all. And grandpa kept his hat on! -via Metafilter

Artist Chrissy M. is quite gifted when it comes to making needle felted sculptures. All you need to understand her talents is a quick look at this amazing light-up needle felted angler fish complete with color-speckled accents.

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Karen Suffern is the mother of 8-year old twins, Ryan and Amber. To plan her budget, she asked her kids to write letters to Santa Claus, describing what they want. Ryan had the right priorities:

Her son, Ryan's, letter to Santa started off normally:

"Dear Santa ... I wanted a (remote control) car and helicopter, but I don't want that anymor. Kid at school are still picking on Amber and its not fair," he wrote. "I prayed that they will stop but god is bisy and needs your help."

Suffern felt tears fill her eyes as she read her son's letter asking Santa to help stop the bullying his overweight sister was experiencing at school.

Reading the letter was tough for Suffern. "I try to build up my daughter's self-esteem and tell her she is beautiful, but people say hurtful things to me, because I also have a weight problem, and that hurts me," she said. "I can't imagine what she goes through."

She had a vague idea that Amber was teased on the bus, but she didn't know the extent of the bullying. Amber, who has attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder and other mental and mood disorders, never mentioned the teasing.

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