Men's Bacon Socks

Are you looking to add a little personality to your otherwise buttoned-up workday attire? Encase your feet in ultra comfy bacon with the Men's Bacon Socks from the NeatoShop. This deliciously fun pair of socks will make your style really sizzle.

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

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In the most memorable scenes from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, chilled monkey brains are served as dessert at an elaborate feast. Now you can relive that classic movie moment with your own chilled monkey brains cake courtesy of Instructable user BubbleandSweet. It even comes with the fluffy white mane the monkeys in the movie had, though they have been pulled away to reveal the inner layers in this picture.

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Otto Dieffenbach says,

I was asked to build a Man on a Broom for a British TV show so I started cutting Depron. He is a great flyer but a difficult build. I will be posting a build log in rcgroups.com.

A link to the tutorial is coming soon. -via Tastefully Offensive

Strangely, this clever invention by Benjamin Oppenheimer never became popular. It looks like an excellent way to escape a burning building. The system consists of a parachute strapped to the head and padded shoes to ease the impact with the ground. What could possibly go wrong?

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What's the difference between a regular taco salad and a spooky one? Where the tomatoes, sour cream and olives go, of course. Other than that, it's just as tasty!

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Dawn of the Meth by SOULTHROW

A classic! T-shirt artist SOULTHROW mashes up classic poster sytle of one of the best horror films of the 70s with one of the best shows on TV right now. Visit SOULTHROW over at his official Facebook page (give 'im a like, wontcha?) then check out his NeatoShop page for more designs.

My Dream Neighbor	I Chainsaw Zombies	Zombies on Abbey Road	Time Traveling Lessons

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The Indian comedy collective India Bakchod produced this black humor PSA to highlight the attitudes of many involved in rape cases.

Every sexual assault case in India inspires a string of stupid and hateful remarks against women. This is our response to those remarks.

The video features Bollywood stars Gursimran Khamba, Rohan Joshi, Tanmay Bhat, and Ashish Shakya. -via Metafilter

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San Basilio is a 1981 Filipino movie. The hero has one bullet in his revolver, but two enemies. So he holds his knife in front of the gun barrel and fires, splitting the bullet and cutting down both foes.

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Aiden Glynn's newest street art project shows him writing messages to other street artists in speech bubbles. 

The results, as you can see are a pretty hilarious take on things you might not otherwise take a second glance at.

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If you have limited use of your hands, an e-book reader can be frustrating if not impossible to use. Instructables member XenonJohn has a great solution. He used a 3D printer to build a case that slips around a Kindle. Pressing on the arrows pushes the page-turning buttons.

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A dalek mis-recreates Schroedinger's famous experiment in its own way, ignoring the fact that it was always a thought experiment. Found at The Daily Dalek from Tone Cartoons. Link -via Geeks Are Sexy

Monster Eyes Sunglasses

Halloween is coming and it is time to unleash your inner holiday beast.  Accessorize with the Monster Eyes Sunglasses from the NeatoShop. This spooktacular pair of glasses will make your friends green with envy.     

The Monster Eyes Sunglasses are available in Black and Green. Both them both and make it a frightfully fun set. 

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

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John Pedersen's single engine plane suffered damage while he flew it this morning. He couldn't make it the O'Hare or Midway Airports. So he landed in downtown Chicago on Lake Shore Drive. Pedersen did his best to avoid hitting cars:

Pedersen. who said he had been flying for five years, had decided the drive was his best landing spot. If timed correctly, he figured, he could bring down the plane while traffic was stopped at a red light.

"You pick a landing spot that's not going to jeopardize anybody else," he said.

When the light on East Balbo Avenue turned red, he brought the plane down in the northbound lanes, its nose facing north.

It was a tricky landing, but he stuck it, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said admiringly.

Two cars actually hit the airplane after it landed – and then, mysteriously, sped off, Pedersen said. One can only imagine what their drivers were thinking.

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Most cats are terrified of vacuum cleaners, although a few enjoy having their fur fluffed by a vacuum hose. Then there's this strange cat. We saw him do this once before, but this video confirms he's enslaved to this magical device. In other words, it's his favorite toy! -via Tastefully Offensive

BBDO West designed this simple but eye-catching ad for the San Francisco Zoo. The sign says, "Meet a giraffe." Be aware that giraffes in stock at the zoo may look a bit different.

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We've all seen plenty of Doctor Who confectionaries by now, but these cupcakes by The Regali Kitchen are simply delightful in the number of icons they work in. Aside from the obligatory TARDIS and Daleks, they also made Weeping Angels, Oods, 3D glasses, adipose and more!

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Hiding in the Dark by Dooomcat

Where's Wa .... wait, are you sure you want to find him? Maybe we should run away instead. This Hiding in the Dark T-shirt by Dooomcat puts a quite unexpected twist to the popular children's book.

Visit Dooomcat Studio's official website and Facebook page, then visit their NeatoShop page for more spiffy shirts.

Cyberpunk Beatdown	Dreaming of a Quiet Winter	Super Exclusive Club	Zombie Girl

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An incident at the Bridgeport Village Regal Cinema in Portland, Oregon, involving multiple law enforcement agencies, turned out to be a comedy of errors. During the movie Prisoners, an elderly man stood up and urinated. It is believed he may have been drinking. The urine fell on a teenager sitting in the row in front of him. This upset a nearby woman who started yelling "Gun!" over and over. Theater patrons began running for the exits, and someone called 911, which led to "a massive response from multiple agencies."

Investigators tell FOX 12 they quickly figured out what happened after talking to the 14-year-old boy and his family.

According to police, it was a woman who suffers from PTSD that saw the confrontation, and for some reason screamed the word "gun" multiple times in the middle of the theater, triggering a mass evacuation.

"Obviously with the recent shootings going on, just the mention of the word gun, I find it strange how on edge people seem, and how easily it can turn into a situation when the SWAT team comes out," said Bartlett.

The elderly man was not arrested, and the family chose not to press charges. Police say the man is no longer allowed back into the Regal Cinemas at Bridgeport Village.

No surprise there. The police said the situation served as a good practice for a real emergency, and noted that the response went smoothly. Link -via Arbroath

Short-beaked echidna. Photo: Jeroen Visser/Shutterstock

Quick: what mammal is covered with spikes, lays eggs, has a four-headed penis, and no nipples?

The answer is the echidna, one of the strangest animals that exist on Earth today. And to celebrate this bit of mammalian weirdness, here are Neatorama's Five Fascinating Facts about Echidnas:

1. Echidnas Can Control Their Spines

Photo: Vmenkov/Wikipedia

Echidnas are covered with fur and spiky spines. These spines are modified hairs, similar to that of the porcupines. There are tiny muscle bundles connected to the base of each spine so the echidna can control the spine's movement and direction.

Short-beaked echidna curled up into a ball of spikes. Photo: Nachoman-au/Wikipedia

An echidna erects its spines for protection (like the picture above), to anchor itself against a log, to help it climb, and to help upright itself after it has fallen or placed on its back. It cannot, however, throw or eject its spines as the legend said.

2. Baby Echidnas is Called a Puggle and It's Incredibly Cute!

Photo: Anthony De Zoete-Baker/Australia Zoo - via ZooBorns

A mom echidna lays a single leathery egg in her pouch, then carries it for about ten days before it hatches. The baby echidna, called a puggle, is born hairless and spineless - but with formidable claws.

As the puggle grows, it develops its covering of fur and spines. After two months, its mom would evict it out of the pouch, because, you know, it's not fun carrying something with spiky spines in your pouch.

The cute puggle above is a 30-day-old echidna born in captivity at the Australia Zoo, to proud parents Tippy and Pickle. You can view more pics of the yet-to-be-named puggle over at ZooBorns.

More puggle cuteness: this one named Beau the orphaned echidna is from the Taronga Zoo:

Photo: Ben Gibson/Taronga Zoo - via ZooBorns

3. Echidnas Don't Have Nipples

Female echidnas produce milk, but they have no nipples. Instead, they secrete milk in two small, hairy areas known as aerola patches, which are connected to the milk glands. A baby echidna suckles milk straight out of its mom's skin.

4. Male Echidna has a Four-Headed Penis

Show me the picture of the four-headed echidna penis!

Photo: Prof. Gordon Grigg

You read that right. Male echidna has a four headed penis. During mating, two of the heads shut down and the other two are used to ejaculate sperms. A male echidna would swap which heads are shut down and which are used to inseminate the female each time the animal copulates. The echidna penis is somewhat prehensile - it can move about when erect (see the video clip below)

Oh, and male echidnas do not use the penis to urinate. It is solely used for mating. Instead both males and females have cloacas.

5. Super Sperm, Assemble!

As if a four-headed penis isn't bizarre enough, there's more to the echidna mating habit. You know you're seeing echidnas mate when you see a train of male echidnas "queueing" to copulate with a single female. In fact, when in heat, a female echidna could mate with up to 11 males one after another. (There's a bit more to this mating prowess - for example, echidnas can also mate underground.)

See also: 30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits

Mating with multiple males present a tremendous competitive pressure on the sperms to fertilize the egg. So echidna sperms do something very unusual: hundreds of individual sperms team up to form giant super-sperm bundles. These sperm bundles can swim much faster than individual sperms, and therefore present an evolutionary advantage.

Bonus Fact: Echidna is Named After the Greek "Mother of Monsters"

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Echidnas are weird - they have a mish-mash of reptilian and mammalian features, which was recognized early on by biologists. In 1802, British anatomist Everard Home named the curious animal after the Greek goddess Ekhidna (meaning "she viper") who was half-snake and half-woman. She's the goddes "Mother of Monsters" because most of the monsters in Greek mythology were her offspring.

Bonus Fact: How Does Echidna Taste Like?

In 1792, the ship HMS Bounty*, captained by William Bligh, arrived in Tasmania on its way to Tahiti. Its crew discovered a strange creature with a "beak like a duck." Naturally, they shot one and ate it. The crew noted that "the animal was roasted and found of a delicate flavour." (Source: Echidna: Extraordinary Egg-Laying Mammal by Michael Augee, Brett Gooden, Anne Musser).

*Yes, this is the same ship that's famous for Mutiny on the Bounty in 1789.

In 2007, scientists had feared that a species of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna (named after the famous naturalist Sir David Attenborough) had become extinct in New Guinea. But they were told by hunters that the echidna species was still around. These hunters knew because they had just eaten some and said "the meat was very greasy and extremely tasty."

I'm supposed to wait until I'm 46? Why didn't anyone tell me? The Daily Mail reports:

Men lose interest in fashion trends and being 'cool' at the age of 46, a new survey has revealed. 

But women put the effort in for a full 13 years longer - focusing on their appearance and general fitness until at least age 59. [...]

A spokesman for Benenden Health, who commissioned the research, said: 'Our survey suggests that maintaining our physical wellbeing into our later years simply becomes a lesser priority - influenced by wanting to relax in comfort and not have to keep up with trends.

'And men appear to "give up" far sooner than women.'

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(Image: Accept the Fact That You're Aging Breath Spray now on sale at the NeatoShop!)

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One of the most memorable songs in the movies is the duet between Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters in The Jerk. In this video, Ben and his four-year-old daughter recreate that duet when she couldn't sleep because of fireworks outside. She even does the harmony part! -via Daily Picks and Flicks

Sir Stuffington is an adorable kitten who was attacked by a racoon when he was just a baby. While he lost an eye in the process, he hasn't lost his fighting spirit. In fact, now that he and his brothers have been adopted, Sir Stuffington enjoys dressing up as a pirate with his new daddy. You can keep up on the kitten's adventures over on his Facebook -at the link.

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Ursula & Eels Salt & Pepper Shakers

Poor unfortunate kitchen tables. In pain, in need. This one longing for more character. That one wants to look its best. Do you help them? Yes, indeed.

Go ahead! We know you have made your choice!

Beluga sevruga. Comes the winds of the Caspian Sea. Ask the NeatoShop to bring the Ursula & Eels Salt & Pepper Shakers to thee!  

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Salt & Pepper Shakers and fantastic Disney items. 

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Becky McKay has a great idea for a dessert with a vaguely Tex-Mex theme. You can find her full recipe at the link. She uses cake frosting for the filling, but I'd be tempted to try a very light cream cheese filling.

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Tinker Bell is certainly a lot better off in the light on the TARDIS than she is in the lantern in Captain Hook's quarters, but then, she'd still be best off inside the box rather than on the top. You certainly don't want to get bonked with a random piece of time energy. Either way, cute artwork Karen Hallion.

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These jello shots look like pieces of candy corn, but they taste like orange creamsicles. One layer is orange jello and vodka, and the other is gelatin with coconut milk, all set in an orange peel. Just substitute water for vodka to make a non-alcoholic version. Link -via Buzzfeed