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- The Top 10 Most Badass Soldiers of All Time
- Dancing at the Movies
- Twilight Actor Declines to Settle Lawsuit with Push-Up Contest
- Chewbacca Talking Doll
- Sink Made from Recycled Tires
- Black Tie Beach
- Star Wars Pie
- Taiwan's Last Professional Swordsmith
- Revenge Products
- Football Player Gets Hair Insured for $1 Million
- Obscure Spices
- Progress Bar Coffee Cup Cozy
- Kitten Plays Duck Hunt
- Chaos Cookies
- 20 Experiences to Try Before you Die
The Top 10 Most Badass Soldiers of All Time Posted: 31 Aug 2010 07:40 PM PDT The bravest among the brave, some soldiers stand head and shoulders above the rest for war exploits that will make your jaw drop. For example, Audie Murphy’s actions in World War II that won him a Medal of Honor:
And he is just one of ten soldiers from all over the world listed as the most badass. Link -via Unique Daily |
Posted: 31 Aug 2010 07:38 PM PDT I think I’ve seen every movie represented here -and there are about 40 of them. How about you? -via Metafilter |
Twilight Actor Declines to Settle Lawsuit with Push-Up Contest Posted: 31 Aug 2010 05:21 PM PDT Taylor Lautner, the actor who plays the werewolf Jacob in the Twilight movies, has sued a RV dealership that failed to deliver a rented RV to Lautner. The dealer responded by challenging the buff actor to a push-up contest:
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Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:32 AM PDT Chewbacca 9″ Talking Plush – $25.95 Isn’t he cute? And he talks, too! Of course, anyone who ever watched a Star Wars movie knows what Chewbacca says, and you won’t understand it -unless you have the imagination of a child! Available now at the NeatoShop. Link |
Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:25 AM PDT The architecture firm Minarc designed and built a kitchen sink that’s made from old rubber tires. It’s called RUBBiSH and is made in the following manner:
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Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:22 AM PDT Improv Everywhere took a group of several hundred people to the beach at Coney Island in formal wear, just to see how people would react. If I saw this, I would have assumed it was a wedding reception where they served a bit too much champagne. Read about it at the site. Link -via The Daily What |
Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:20 AM PDT Cathy of Olds Nighty-Eight made a Star Wars-themed blueberry pie for her young son using cookie cutters as molds:
I don’t know what a doodleberry is but I’m afraid to Google it and find out. |
Taiwan's Last Professional Swordsmith Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:13 AM PDT
Nerdcore has a roundup of three signs of changing times in East Asia: an interview with the last traditional swordmaker in Taiwan, the decline of the geisha tradition, and the diminished demand in Japan for actors skilled in the martial arts of the samurai. The last swordsmith in Taiwan is 65 years old and makes his blades using human bones with the permission of the deceased’s relatives. He says that according to tradition, the bones infuse a spirit into the completed sword. |
Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:09 AM PDT Shomer-Tec has a page of merchandise for sale called “Revenge Products.” There are gadgets that disable electronics or just annoy people, and bottles of nasty things like Liquid Roadkill.
I wouldn’t use this on my worst enemy. Link -via J-Walk Blog |
Football Player Gets Hair Insured for $1 Million Posted: 31 Aug 2010 10:01 AM PDT Troy Polamalu plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He wears long hair to honor his Samoan heritage. It’s gotten Polamalu in trouble before — he was once tackled from behind by his someone who grabbed his locks, as you can see from the video at the link. To make sure that nothing unfortunate happens to his hair, Polamalu has insured it for a million dollars:
Link via Geekosystem | Photo: Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press |
Posted: 31 Aug 2010 09:45 AM PDT What’s in your spice rack? If it’s larger than the spice collections of anyone else you know (and you know how to use them), you might do well answering questions about obscure spices in today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. I scored 45% because most of my answers were wild guesses. Link |
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Posted: 31 Aug 2010 09:23 AM PDT (Video Link) YouTube user errrick recorded his kitten, Claire, playing the classic Nintendo game Duck Hunt. She’s a poor shot. via Nerd Bastards Previously: |
Posted: 31 Aug 2010 08:40 AM PDT Emmylou Cakehead and the band The Futureheads collaborated on a tasty art installation unveiled at the charity exhibit Cake Britain (“The world’s first entirely edible art exhibition“) last weekend in London. The piece consists of the lyrics to The Futureheads song “The Chaos” spelled out in vanilla cookies! Cakehead, the cookie bakers, and the band spent a total of 200 hours on the artwork, which was consumed by patrons in a quite a bit less time. Their efforts raised thousands of dollars for St. Oswald’s house, a hospice in the band’s hometown of Newcastle. See more pictures of the cookies and the consumption at Cakehead Loves Evil. Link |
20 Experiences to Try Before you Die Posted: 31 Aug 2010 06:38 AM PDT Everyone should have a personal bucket list. Once in a lifetime events like skydiving or attending the olympics or even visting the Titanic first-hand are all things all of us CAN do… if we so desired. I haven’t done many of the ones on this list (except for Comic-Con, awesome, by the way) but that certainly doesn’t mean I won’t get to them in the future. Check out this great list of 20 Experiences to Have Before you Die and see which ones you can already cross off your own bucket list. Have you tried skydiving?
Of course, this list is highly subjective. What would you add to it? Link From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by divinediva. |
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