Hey boys and ghouls, if you love Neatorama and zombies, great news, you can now show your adoration for both by supporting Neatorama through your purchase of awesome zombie merch. That’s right, the store has just released their first ever zombie line and you can enjoy your own at home for hardly any money.

If you’re interested in participating in a contest for one of the cool zombie accessories, just leave a comment here and I’ll get one started if I have enough interest.

Stock images are useful for writers and editors who need an illustration to illustrate their article. That’s why photographers for stock image websites often try to create pictures that will suit every imaginable situation. The thing is, sometimes it’s impossible to guess just what the image was supposed to illustrate in the first place. BuzzFeed has a collection of 60 great stock images that seem entirely useless, so let’s make a game of it.

You have until May 19th to come up with any type of situation that this image could help illustrate. Winner will receive a can of homemade jam, one of my well-maintained, pre-owned books or $5, your choice.

He won the Valentine’s Day Kissing Animals contest and will be receiving a free tee shirt courtesy of 604Republic. Zeon entered before we loosened up the entry requirements and even included an adorable photo of kissing marmots found on Sylvain Dudoit’s Flickr stream.

No one has entered on 604′s Flickr account still, so the first person to add their site and then tag any post with #kissingcritters will win a free shirt.

Since we weren’t getting enough entries to the 604Republic contest, we’ve changed the rules. If you want to win a sweet shirt like this or any of the company’s other designs, just start following 604Republic on Twitter or like their Facebook page, then leave a message on their Facebook page or compose any tweet with the hashtag #kissingcritters. One person from each service will be chosen at random on Saturday the 19^th to win a free tee shirt of his or her choice.

UPDATE: Because we weren’t getting enough entries, we’ve changed the rules of the contest. To enter, just start following 604Republic on Twitter or like their Facebook page, then leave a message on their Facebook page or compose any tweet with the hashtag #kissingcritters. That’s it and good luck.

One person from each service will be chosen at random on Saturday the 19^th to win a free tee-shirt of his or her choice from 604Republic –a great gift for your special someone, or a nice way to treat yourself. Winners (and their picture submissions) will be posted here after the contest is over.

Now on with our cute animal pictures:

Image via Spicuzza [Flickr]

Image via Muzina Shanghai [Flickr]

Image via BekiPe [Flickr]

Image via Foxtongue [Flickr]

Image via Lovehate [Flickr]

Image via Muzina Shanghai [Flickr]

Image via Wolfy! [Flickr]

Image via Athene8 [Flickr]

Image via Piez [Flickr]

Image via CornholioLU [Flickr]

Image via zund [Flickr]

Image via Vectorlyme [Flickr]

Image via Magnusvk [Flickr]

Image via Tambako The Jaguar [Flickr]

There were 5 total links submitted, ranging from seriously just bizzare to exceptionally disturbing. Personally, I liked them all. Since there can be only winner though, I have chosen the one that not only has some of the most pointless and strange, yet wannabe political, content I have ever seen, it also has the distinction of having one of the most stupid and just bizzare URLs ever. Honestly, it was a close call and having that domain address helped it pull into the lead. So without further ado, I give you the winner, “Arnold Sailormoongger” submitted by Naskar. You now are the proud owner of a copy of Choke.

The random winner who signed up to the feed and gets a random cd of my choosing is PhineusQButterfat. His wonderful link involves a naked dancing llama. The three other links that were suggested are the time cube -utterly confusing, MyBlackBook -a website for total whores to keep track of their orgies and who to contact when they contract an STD, and the douchiest phone message ever -which is pretty self-explanatory.

Thanks for everyone who played, and remember to keep sending in your weird links even after the contest to enhance the website’s habit of wonderful, weird goodness.

Be sure to include your REAL email address so I can contact you if you win.

All links I like will get featured on RTD and the winner will be chosen exclusively by me mwahahahaha. If things go well, we’ll do this again.

So I have this weird scald-safe invention I have no use for at all. But I hate just throwing things away. Who wants one? First commenter gets one -be sure to use your real email so I can contact you for your info and what not. Oh, and US addresses only please. I can’t afford international shipping right now.

I’ll be clearing my house of more things soon, so stay tuned for some books and more.

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