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- This Amazing Performer Can Swallow a Snake Whole
- Fun Entertainment Industry Job - Destruction Supervisor
- Fourth of July by Rosa G
- These World Cup Hot Dogs Will Fill You with National Pride and Heartburn
- Full-size Watermelon Jell-O Shots
- Scientist: Seeing Eye Dogs Don't Know That Their Humans Are Blind
- “Demon Cat” has Fabulous Ear Hair
- Nazi "Perfect Aryan" Poster Child Was Jewish
- Play Tetris on Your Chest with This Electronic Shirt
- The Solid Surface Area of our Solar System
- A River Runs Through It
- Funny Pictures of the Day - NeatoPicto July 2, 2014
- The Cycle of Fatherhood
- How Well Do You Know This Quiz?
- What A Lightning Storm Looks Like from Space
- 46 Facts About the First Ladies
- After a Thousand Years, The Bayeux Tapestry Is Finally Complete
- Hell Passport Pocket Notebook
- Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
- Photos of Adolf Hitler Practicing Hand Gestures for Use in Speeches
- What You Might Not Know About the Declaration of Independence
- Archery Tag Lets You Play Out Your Hunger Games Fantasy in Real Life (Without Killing Anyone)
- An Honest Trailer for Planet of the Apes
- The 50 Greatest Summer Blockbusters
- Colombia's Weirdest Invasive Species: Hippos
- You'd Never Guess the Technological Beast Hidden Inside This 19th Century Church
- Fun with Peter and Jane
- This Shelving System Is So Square
- The Cat Named Stache
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| This Amazing Performer Can Swallow a Snake Whole Posted: 03 Jul 2014 03:00 AM PDT And that's just his warm up! Liu Yuanfei, 52, has lived with snakes for 30 years. He can place snakes inside his body in truly surprising ways. For example, he can shove a snake up each nostril and out of his mouth all while the snakes, which are hopefully non-venomous, lunge at his face. Yuanfei can also a swallow a snake that is about 3 feet long while holding on to just the tip of its tail. Don't let go, Mr. Yuanfei! I'd like to experiment with these kinds of stunts, but Alex says that I'm no longer allowed to give orders to the intern. -via Dave Barry | ||||||||
| Fun Entertainment Industry Job - Destruction Supervisor Posted: 03 Jul 2014 02:00 AM PDT Visual effects artists have a wide variety of jobs to do, from simple Chroma Keying to making extreme weather look as real as possible, but there’s one viz fx job that looks like a whole lotta messy fun- the destruction supervisor. It’s their job to make sure the destruction we see on the big screen looks as realistic as possible without sacrificing visual appeal, plus they make sure the whole thing is understandable and doesn't become one big blurry mess to the audience. Industrial Light & Magic's Michael Balog is one of these lucky artists who gets to spend his days destroying stuff for feature films, and he has torn all sorts of virtual environments down for all four Transformers films and Pacific Rim, just to name a few. Michael shared all kinds of secrets with io9 about how he makes digital destruction look good for the big screen, and revealed some of the challenges he faced when plotting the destruction contained within each film. The conversation is accompanied by some fantastic concept art by Wesley Burt, Robert Simons and John J. Park, which shows not only the destructive side of these films but also the characters who cause the chaos. | ||||||||
| Posted: 03 Jul 2014 01:00 AM PDT Filmmaker and comedian Karla Solarte channels a rap artist for her ode to the most American of holidays. We have a new anthem for the Fourth of July! She may set a new fashion trend with those shorts, too. Excuse me, I have to go find some music to get this tune unstuck from my head. -via reddit | ||||||||
| These World Cup Hot Dogs Will Fill You with National Pride and Heartburn Posted: 03 Jul 2014 12:00 AM PDT Even if you can't attend World Cup matches in person, you can still enjoy good stadium food and the comfort of your own couch. Grill up some hot dogs and turn on the TV set. But if you can make it to Brazil, visit the WDOG food seller. It created these elaborate hot dogs inspired by the flags and traditional foods of competing countries. Pictured above is the American hot dog, which has mustard, mayonnaise, cheddar cheese, barbecue sauce, and cole slaw. The Mexican dog has tortilla chips, chili, guacamole, and a hot red pepper. The Brazilian dog has feijoada, which is a meat and bean stew, as well as bacon and cabbage. The Italian dog has mozzarella-stuffed polpettone, which is a type of meatloaf. It also has tomato sauce and a hit of basil. The German hot dog has pickles, mashed potatoes, mustard, onions, and sauerkraut. The Japanese hot dog has a sushi roll instead of a sausage and sukiyaki, which is a type of stew. The Argentinian dog has chimichurri, which is a type of green sauce, as well as garlic mayonnaise and vinaigrette. -via Foodiggity | ||||||||
| Full-size Watermelon Jell-O Shots Posted: 02 Jul 2014 11:00 PM PDT Here’s something really impressive to try for the Independence Day party you’re throwing: Fill an entire watermelon with Jell-o and vodka! You’ll most likely want to slice this into manageable portions before serving, or else grandpa will have half of it eaten before he realizes it has booze in it. Meanwhile, the watermelon you scooped out of the rind can be chilled and served to the kids. The recipe calls for four cups of vodka, so you should add a designated driver in the list of needed equipment. The complete instructions are at Buzzfeed. | ||||||||
| Scientist: Seeing Eye Dogs Don't Know That Their Humans Are Blind Posted: 02 Jul 2014 10:00 PM PDT
What do dogs think about? I look at my own dog and wonder that. I'm especially curious what he dreams about, which he does, loudly and often. What is inside a dog's mind? This is an especially important question for people who train guide dogs. A better understanding of dog perceptions can improve training. For example, can a guide dog who helps a blind person understand that the human cannot see? Anthropologist F. Gaunet studied the expressions of guide dogs and non-guide dogs when they want food from their humans. He determined that both kinds of dogs try to give visual cues to humans that they're hungry. Guide dogs, however, also learned to give auditory cues, such as smacking their lips loudly, to communicate with people. Here's a selection from an abstract of a journal article that Gaunet published on the subject:
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| “Demon Cat” has Fabulous Ear Hair Posted: 02 Jul 2014 09:00 PM PDT I don’t know where this cat is, but the fine feline’s face has been shared all over. Its distinctive Basement Cat look is accentuated by its ear hair that resembles devil horns. Wouldn’t you just love to have a cat that looks like this? -via Uproxx | ||||||||
| Nazi "Perfect Aryan" Poster Child Was Jewish Posted: 02 Jul 2014 08:00 PM PDT
Hessy Taft was born to Latvian Jewish parents who moved to Germany in 1928 to pursue musical careers. In 1935, her mother took her to a photographer to get pictures. A few months later, the mother was shocked to see Hessy's picture on the cover of a major Nazi magazine. Hessy's mother confronted the photographer and demanded an explanation. The photographer, Hans Ballin, explained that he had deliberately submitted a photo of a Jewish baby to a Nazi photography contest that searched for the most beautiful Aryan baby. The Telegraph explains:
The family fled Germany in 1938. They went to Latvia, then France, then Cuba, and then the United States, where they settled. Taft, now 80, is a professor of chemistry in New York City. -via I Own the World | ||||||||
| Play Tetris on Your Chest with This Electronic Shirt Posted: 02 Jul 2014 07:00 PM PDT Mark Kerger now has the perfect conversation starter. He's a walking arcade console, thanks to this shirt that he built with an Arduino controller, 128 LEDs, and 4 AA batteries. Hopefully this kind of platform can be developed into something even more capable, such as a shirt that can play Grand Theft Auto V. -via Kotaku | ||||||||
| The Solid Surface Area of our Solar System Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:00 PM PDT Randall Munroe, a webcomic artist, roboticist, and all-around genius, has a knack for explaining concepts or phenomena in original visual ways. We've previously seen his animated .gif showing the frequency of certain events, his world map of overlapping time zones, and his chart showing the largest land mammals in the world by gross weight. Today, he brings us a chart showing how much land surface exists across our solar system. To see something really neat, go to this large version and look closely at the border between Titan and Earth. He's got a section marked out for the surface area of all human skin. It appears that Munroe did not include on this chart 4942 Munroe, an asteroid named in his honor. That asteroid is roughly the same size as the one that killed the dinosaurs, a fact that greatly pleases Munroe. | ||||||||
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| Funny Pictures of the Day - NeatoPicto July 2, 2014 Posted: 02 Jul 2014 04:39 PM PDT
Love funny pictures? You're in luck! We've just updated our LOLpic blog NeatoPicto with lots of new funnies:
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| Posted: 02 Jul 2014 04:00 PM PDT When I was a little boy, I wanted to be Superman, too. Now I just want to be like my Dad. But that's pretty much the same thing, though it took me a long time to notice. | ||||||||
| How Well Do You Know This Quiz? Posted: 02 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT On the face of it, this quiz at Clickhole seems utterly stupid. And it is. But it’s also magnificently self-referential, which any experienced quiz-taker can see. But the folks at The Onion know a self-referential quiz can be intelligent and even useful, so they ignored the possibilities for making it a clever self-reverential quiz. According to the result I got, pictured above, I have no clue as to how well I answered the questions. Is it possible to get a different result? Let me know. As if it mattered, because it’s Clickhole, after all.
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| What A Lightning Storm Looks Like from Space Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT The International Space Station passed over Houston, Texas a few days ago. While there, astronaut Commander Reid Wiseman (USN) made this Vine video showing a thunderstorm over the city. He also tweeted out this picture of an aurora. Wiseman described it so poetically. You can see more photos from Wiseman here. He'll be up there, getting a scenic tour of Earth, until November. -via Buzzfeed | ||||||||
| 46 Facts About the First Ladies Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT In celebration of the Fourth of July, John Green takes a close look at the First Ladies in our history for this week’s mental_floss video. Can someone be a First lady without being married to the resident? There have been cases in which the president’s daughter, sister, or niece took over those duties if the president had no wife. All of these ladies were pretty busy, either playing hostess, promoting their own causes, or trying to survive the spotlight of the White House. | ||||||||
| After a Thousand Years, The Bayeux Tapestry Is Finally Complete Posted: 02 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT
On September 28, 1066, William the Bastard crossed the English Channel from Normandy to England. On October 14, his army met that of King Harold Godwinson at the coastal town of Hastings. As a result of that match, William the Bastard became William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson became dead. To commemorate that battle and the Norman conquest of England, William's brother Odo commissioned the creation of an enormous tapestry depicting the events. It is a marvel of early sequential art, beautifully detailed and measuring 230 feet in length. But it was probably longer. The extant tapestry ends with the death of King Harold. Scholars think that there was probably an 8-10 section now missing. It likely depicted the subsequent coronation of William as King of England. The English were not inclined to let that problem stand. So for a year, embroiderers on the island of Alderney (one of the Channel Islands) reconstructed that section of the tapestry using historic methods and materials. Pictured above are the results of their work. You can view larger images of these new panels at the BBC. -via Nag on the Lake | ||||||||
| Posted: 02 Jul 2014 11:27 AM PDT The Summer Travel season is here. We all know that getting from point A to point B, and back again, can be pure hell. That's why you need the Hell Passport Pocket Notebook from the NeatoShop to pass the time. This handy dandy notebook is designed to look and feel like a real passport. Now you can spend all those excruciatingly long airport delays doodling and jotting down your inner most feelings. The Hell Passport is sold individually. It features 64 pages for your writing ranting pleasure. Buy several, it could be a long trip. Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Office & Desk stuff. | ||||||||
| Posted: 02 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT The title may seem like a foreign language, but it’s just a new SyFy film. Sharktopus, the combination shark-octopus, finds a new nemesis in a pteradactyl-fish hybrid. As with most SyFy creature films, we can expect that all the expensive shots of the actual creatures are here in the half-minute trailer. If you want to make sure, the movie premieres August 2 on SyFy. See more at the Sharktopus Facebook page. -via Warming Glow | ||||||||
| Photos of Adolf Hitler Practicing Hand Gestures for Use in Speeches Posted: 02 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT These cartoonish yet creepy photos are just a few of the approximately two million images of Adolf Hitler captured by his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffman. The poses were intended for use in his future sturm und drang public speeches. Hitler actually went so far as to label some of his gestures by their intended effect, such as “gebieterisch” (domineering) or “kämpferisch” (pugnacious). Hitler ordered Hoffman to destroy the photographs, but Hoffman disobeyed the order, and the shots were found in the photographer's archives when they were seized by law enforcement. Read more at Dangerous Minds. | ||||||||
| What You Might Not Know About the Declaration of Independence Posted: 02 Jul 2014 09:30 AM PDT Even if you’ve memorized the Declaration of Independence, the more interesting story happened around the document. The real men of the Second Continental Congress dealt with the monumental task of rallying the American colonists, justifying treason, and setting the foundation for a brand-new nation in a simple document they could all agree on. | ||||||||
| Archery Tag Lets You Play Out Your Hunger Games Fantasy in Real Life (Without Killing Anyone) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT
Move over, paintball! There's a new game in town and it's straight out of the "Hunger Games." Well, except that nobody dies and it looks like a lot of fun. Behold, archery tag, which is like dodgeball but with bows and arrows. "The cool new weapon in media is a bow and arrow," said marketing consultant Peter Fermoselle to Stacey Anderson of The New York Times, "It's old fashioned. It brings a little more nobility to shooting someone." Archery tag was invented by John Jackson of Instinct Archery, and the new sports was helped by the popularity of archery in pop culture phenomenons The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead. The game is similar to dodgeball: two teams of players scramble to collect arrows at the center of the arena, then proceed to shoot at each other from across the field with the foam-tipped arrows. A player is disqualified when hit by an arrow). It certainly looks like fun! Check out the video clip below: | ||||||||
| An Honest Trailer for Planet of the Apes Posted: 02 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT Another film trailer of truth from Screen Junkies. This time, for Planet of the Apes. ("Wait... the Tim Burton Version? *sigh* Let's just get this over with...") Blah, blah blah time travel... blah, blah blah evil monkey society... and then Mark Wahlberg phones it in. I think I've joined him! | ||||||||
| The 50 Greatest Summer Blockbusters Posted: 02 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT In June 29, 1975, the way movies were presented changed forever. Before that, films were released in just a few theaters at a time, and toured the country for months if they were any good. Wide-release movies existed before that, but they were considered a quick cash grab for movies that weren’t very good. Then came Jaws, by 29-year-old Steven Spielberg, opening in 464 theaters because the hype that preceded it caused great demand among moviegoers. Since then, the summer blockbuster is expected, and studios plan around it, hoping to bring us another Raiders of the Lost Ark or Jurassic Park. | ||||||||
| Colombia's Weirdest Invasive Species: Hippos Posted: 02 Jul 2014 07:30 AM PDT
The hippopotamus is not native to the Americas. But there are wild hippopotamuses in Colombia. That's because the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, who died in 1993, brought them to his lavish estate in that country. They were part of his extensive personal zoo, which also included giraffes and elephants. Escobar owned four hippos--one male, three females. He kept them in a lake. After the Colombian government confiscated Escobar's estate, they broke up his zoo and sent most of the animals elsewhere. But they left the hippos alone. They continued to live--and breed--in the lake. Some of them broke out and wandered into the Magdalena River. No one knows precisely how many hippos now live in Colombia, but there are estimates of 50 to 60. They've bred so quickly because living conditions in Colombia are better than their African homelands. BBC News explains:
Hippos may look cute. But remember that they are fiercely territorial, aggressive animals that can swallow a human whole. Unfortunately, most Colombians do not have experience with hippos. Carlos Valderrama, a man who may be the only veterinarian to ever castrate a hippo in the wild*, explained that Colombians may be insufficiently cautious:
-via Althouse *How would you like to have that on your resume? | ||||||||
| You'd Never Guess the Technological Beast Hidden Inside This 19th Century Church Posted: 02 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT
Build in the 19th century, Chapel Torre Giona is a stunning neo-romantic building that used to serve the Roman Catholic Church as the place of worship of the Collegi de Monges de l'Ascenció school of monks, but no longer. Now, though the power within the former church is not ecclesiastical, it is no less fascinating: Chapel Torre Giona now houses one of the world's fastest supercomputers. Meet MareNostrum (Latin for "Our Sea"), one of seven supercomputers in the Spanish Supercomputing Network and arguably the most architecturally beautiful. Set inside the chapel, the raw power of modern technology stand side by side with ancient collonades, Romanesque arches and ornately carved wooden doors. MareNostrum features 2,560 JS21 blade computing nodes, capable of performing calculations at 62.63 teraflops (that's 62.63 trillion floating-point operations per second) with a peak performance of 94.21 teraflops*. (Just think about it: to match what a single teraflops computer can do in a single second, you'd have to perform one calculation per second for 31,688.77 years.) It is used to perform complex calculations for research in the fields of human genome, protein research, weather forecasting, and pharmaceutical drug designs. *That sounds super fast, but MareNostrum is only 456th in the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The fastest is Tianhe-2, which is a 33.86 petaflop supercomputer at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. It's about 540 times faster than the MareNostrum. More about the MareNostrum and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center at its official website and Atlas Obscura. All photos by courtesy of Barcelona Supercomputing Center. | ||||||||
| Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:30 AM PDT Peter and Jane are the principle characters in many early reading books, as the British equivalent of the American Dick and Jane. Artist Jon Bentley revisits those primers, but adds a surreal adult twist in the series of oil paintings entitles “Peter and Jane, the Lost Episodes.”
See all eleven of the paintings, which are for sale, at My Life in Art. -via Metafilter | ||||||||
| This Shelving System Is So Square Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT Well, square, rectagle, circular, etc. Really, it's just pretty geometric. The modular system comes with 25 pieces you can mix and match however you see fit and each piece is designed for a different purpose. Designers Erik Olovsson and Kyuhyung Cho based the shapes in each block so they could provide a home for specific objects -a triangle to house an open book, for example. The end result is a cool-looking shelving system that is totally customizable. See more pictures of the ROOM Collection at Homes and Hues: A Delightful Geometric Modular Shelving System | ||||||||
| Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:30 AM PDT A friend of redditor Iced_TeaFTW owns this cat. Naturally, he's named Stache. As you can see, he's a natural flirt. It's only July, but Stache is ready for Movember. He was born ready for Movember. You can follow Stache on Twitter here. -via Tastefully Offensive |
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