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- Job Hunt (NES My Life) - Settle For A Low Pay Score!
- Revisiting Restoration of Chateau de Gudanes: A Hole is Discovered in the Ground Beneath the Chateau
- <i>The Notebook</i> Proposal
- Confessions of a College Athlete “Fixer”
- Kitchen Cabbage Plant
- This Woman Uses Raw Meat to Fish for Piranhas
- Cool Flame
- The Modern Country Song
- Fan Theory: Obi-Wan Kenobi Was Using Luke Skywalker as Bait to Lure Darth Vader to Tatooine
- The Interrogation Room & Pen Pal Love - Twaggies
- Elvis at 80?
- No Strings Attached - The Battle Of Imagination
- <i>Antiques Roadshow</i> Tells Woman Her Baseball Cards Are Worth $1 Million
- 6 Goofy-Looking Chicken Coops
- Cthulhu + Cupid = Cthupid!
- Crazy People Are Paying Money to Be Stalked by Hungry Lions and Tigers
- LEGO Lost At Sea
- 10 Post-Credits Plot Twists That Completely Change the Face of Movies
- Skull Out of Your Board
- Oh This? Just a Woman and Her Mini Me Marionette Feeding a Squirrel
- The Relic-Hunting Vandals Who Saved American History
- Whittier, Alaska: A Small Town Inside This Building
- Super 80s Kart - Retro Racing Raditude
- Frolic with a Fox
- "Fashion Dads" of Instagram: The Forefront of Paternal Couture
- Cold Weather Fun in Minnesota
- Compression Suits for Camels
- Movie Milestones
| Job Hunt (NES My Life) - Settle For A Low Pay Score! Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:00 AM PST Job Hunt (NES My Life) by Amorphia Apparel It's a new year, time to stop playing games with your future and hunt for a job. Lucky you! Good thing you've prepared for this eventuality by racing across level after level of the unemployment offices, jumping across subway platforms and dodging shell headed enemies who want nothing more than to prevent you from getting a high score in careering. Will you have what it takes to get the job, or will some other Luigi jump in and take away your base pay? Play the game of life in style with this Job Hunt (NES My Life) t-shirt by Amorphia Apparel, and keep on bustin' those blocks until you get the career you've always dreamed of! Visit Amorphia Apparel's Facebook fan page, official website, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to their NeatoShop for more ridiculously cool designs:
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| Revisiting Restoration of Chateau de Gudanes: A Hole is Discovered in the Ground Beneath the Chateau Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:00 AM PST
In the glory days of Chateau de Gudanes, it was in the possession of Marquis Louis Gaspard de Sales, who used it to entertain nobility and high-profile guests such as French philosopher Voltaire. The original architect was Ange-Jacque Gabriel, who famously designed the Petit Trianon at Versailles. | ||||||||
| Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:00 AM PST Angelo Piccini arranged an elaborate boat ride based on a scene from the movie The Notebook in order to propose to Chiara Grimaldi. They are both as cute as can be, and the fact that it’s in Italian only makes it more unbearably romantic. | ||||||||
| Confessions of a College Athlete “Fixer” Posted: 09 Jan 2015 02:00 AM PST
To be a college athlete, you have to be a college student. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has basic academic requirements that student athletes must meet if they want to compete in the college sports that it governs. Not all college athletes have what it takes to succeed academically. When they can’t—when they have problems with their grades—they call Mr. White. He fixes their problems. Brad Wolverton has a lengthy article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the shadowy underworld in which, until recently, Mr. White worked. He wanted to be a basketball coach, but couldn’t make the cut. However, Mr. White found related employment available:
Soon, Mr. White was doing more than just adding student-supplied answers to online courses. He was completing them entirely by himself. More students discreetly sought him out. Coaches did, too:
It was a good way to make money. But even more than that, Mr. White was in the empire business:
Eventually, he was caught. Mr. White lost his job. Now potential clients are shying away from him, fearful of being caught in the scrutiny that NCAA investigators are paying to Mr. White. But the damage is already done. He helped hundreds of student athletes cheat, three of whom eventually played professional basketball and baseball. -via Glenn Reynolds | ||||||||
| Posted: 09 Jan 2015 01:00 AM PST The headline at reddit said, “Here's what happens when you leave half a cabbage in the fridge too long.” I clicked, thinking it would be a gross pile of mold, and was surprised to see this pretty plant. The photographer H0B0Byter99 said the cabbage was in the crisper for several months, and had sprouted about three inches of new growth. Then he set it in a bowl of water out in the kitchen, and watched it grow. I've done this with carrots and celery. Now, if anyone can figure out what’s in the bottles in the background, you’re smarter than I am. | ||||||||
| This Woman Uses Raw Meat to Fish for Piranhas Posted: 09 Jan 2015 12:00 AM PST
Humanity’s position at the top of the food chain in Brazil is tenuous. When fishing for piranhas, you don’t use a net or a rod and reel. Just stand precipitously over the water and use your hand to dip raw meat into the water. When the piranhas swarm over the bait, shake them into a bucket. -via Gizmodo | ||||||||
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| Posted: 08 Jan 2015 10:00 PM PST I spent the last ten years of my radio career playing country music, and I have to say that this is a pretty good song. The problem is that it’s supposed to be six different songs, all released by different artists in 2012, 2013, and 2014. But once you start mashing them up, you see they are completely interchangeable. The songs are:
I swore off country music when I retired from the business, so I’m not familiar with any of them. But if I were, I’d be tempted to do exactly this. The mashup is from Gregory Todd, an aspiring songwriter in Nashville. I think he’s found the tune that will make him a success. -via Digg | ||||||||
| Fan Theory: Obi-Wan Kenobi Was Using Luke Skywalker as Bait to Lure Darth Vader to Tatooine Posted: 08 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST
Luke Skywalker grows up on a humble moisture farm on Tatooine. His father, Anakin Skywalker, has adopted the name Darth Vader and become a villanous tyrant. He never bothers to check up on a kid with his own unusual last name. Why? Redditor scc10n8 has concocted a brilliant explanation. The entire plot of Star Wars Episode IV was a long con set up by Obi-Wan Kenobi:
Obi-Wan's plan doesn't work, though. Vader never shows up. So when he stumbles across Luke in the desert, he takes a different, even more insidious approach:
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| The Interrogation Room & Pen Pal Love - Twaggies Posted: 08 Jan 2015 08:00 PM PST
We've teamed up with Dailymotion and will be bringing you animated Twaggies cartoons each month. Today we've got two brand new episodes features the hilarity of @ibid78 and @shariv67. And don't forget to follow us @Twaggies! | ||||||||
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| No Strings Attached - The Battle Of Imagination Posted: 08 Jan 2015 06:00 PM PST No Strings Attached by Warbucks Design Calvin was obsessed with the latest line of superhero movies, and he would marvel at the posters in hopes of seeing one some day. Unfortunately, they were always rated PG-13, so he could only imagine all the awesomeness that awaited him when he was actually old enough to watch the movies. Until then he and Hobbes had to pretend to know what was going on, and how an ultra android 'tron would battle against Earth's mightiest heroes... Bring some superheroic style to your geeky wardrobe with this No Strings Attached t-shirt by Warbucks Design, it's the perfect thing to wear for a trip out to the movies or when you're staying home to play with your best friend. Visit Warbucks Design's Facebook fan page and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more fantastically geeky designs:
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| <i>Antiques Roadshow</i> Tells Woman Her Baseball Cards Are Worth $1 Million Posted: 08 Jan 2015 06:00 PM PST Don’t throw out that old card collection! It might be worth a fortune. In 1871, this woman’s great-great-grandmother owned a boarding house in Boston. She hosted the Cincinnati Red Stockings. That team produced some of the first photographic baseball cards and gave her a set. She passed them on within her family. Now the current owner would like to know what they’re worth. Appraiser Leila Dunbar of Antiques Roadshow drops some fantastic news: the entire collection is worth at least $1 million. The lady’s reaction at the 2:14 mark is priceless! -via Twisted Sifter | ||||||||
| Posted: 08 Jan 2015 05:00 PM PST Some chickens are traditionalists and prefer a simple wooden frame coop. But more refined, sophisticated chickens want to express a cosmopolitan style. For those chickens, there’s the Cocorico—a modern design by Maxime Evrard. It has an open floor plan ideal for entertaining and panoramic views well-suited for pastoral settings. The egg-shaped feeder hearkens back to more primitive days when chickens engaged in food production for a living. This is one of 6 strange, modern chicken coop designs rounded up by Modern Farmer. You can view the rest here. | ||||||||
| Posted: 08 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST Artists Amy Rawson and Brian East send us their annual Santa Cthulhu project almost every year, but didn’t get the 2014 edition finished in time. We’ll see that completed this coming December. Meanwhile, as holiday decorators prepare for Valentines Day, Rawson and East have added a new design to their lineup: presenting Cthupid! Who would’ve ever thought to meld the dreaded elder god to the Roman god of erotic desire? These Valentines Day ornaments are for sale at Rawson’s Etsy shop. -Thanks, Amy! | ||||||||
| Crazy People Are Paying Money to Be Stalked by Hungry Lions and Tigers Posted: 08 Jan 2015 03:00 PM PST
Go to a zoo and look at animals. It’s kind of boring. But not at the Lehe Ledu Wildlife Zoo in Chongquing, China. The managers there have figured out a way to make visiting their animals more exciting. For a fee, people can get inside a cage on the back of a truck which drives into the enclosures of lions and tigers. To get the lions and tigers into the right mood, the zookeepers also tie hunks of raw meat to the cages. Chris Perez writes for the New York Post:
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| Posted: 08 Jan 2015 02:00 PM PST
In 1997, a huge rogue wave hit the container ship Tokio Express, knocking 62 containers overboard just 20 miles off Britain's southwest coast. One of those containers contained 4,756,940 pieces of LEGO (ironically, many of those pieces are for toy kits with nautical theme, including LEGO Pirates, 418,000 swimming flippers, 97,500 scuba tanks, 26,600 life preservers, 13,000 spear guns, and 4,200 octopuses.) Shortly after, some of those pieces of LEGO toys started washing up on the beaches of Cornwall - and today, eighteen years later, they still kept on coming. Discovering these LEGO pieces have become a hobby for British writer and beachcomber Tracey Williams, and she has created the Lego Lost At Sea Facebook page to chronicle the all the wonderful things that people have found:
View more over at Lego Lost At Sea. If you wanted to go hunting for washed up LEGO pieces, we've featured a map by the BBC to guide you on where to go. | ||||||||
| 10 Post-Credits Plot Twists That Completely Change the Face of Movies Posted: 08 Jan 2015 01:00 PM PST Putting an extra bit of information in a movie after the credits roll has always been a trick to get people to stay in their seats long enough to see who worked on the film. Bloopers and outtakes are great for kids movies and comedies. Sometimes there's more in or after the credits because test audiences didn’t like the movie's ending, so something more palatable got tacked on, as we saw in Elvis Presley’s first movieLove Me Tender. It’s also a way to set up a possible sequel if ticket sales warrant one. Marvel movies have become famous for doing this, starting with Iron Man in 2008.
There’s never any doubt that a Marvel superhero movie will have a sequel- they are already planned. However, some twists after the credits roll take away the entire sense of satisfaction of the film’s conclusion. You find examples of all these devices in a list of ten movies with post-credit surprises at Scribol. | ||||||||
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| Oh This? Just a Woman and Her Mini Me Marionette Feeding a Squirrel Posted: 08 Jan 2015 11:28 AM PST
You may have seen this photo of 85-year-old civic activist Doris Diether of West Village, New York City, feeding a squirrel with a marionette that looks like herself. The story behind the old lady and her "mini me" marionette is actually an interesting one. It all started one day at the park, where puppeteer Ricky Syers was performing with his handmade marionette, according to Nina Golgowski of NY Daily News:
Syers proceeded to build Diether her own marionette, made to look just like her "featuring Diether's short, white hair and rosy cheeks ... complete with handbag, cane and floral blouse and skirt." "She's ... known as the woman who feeds the squirrels," Syers said to NY Daily News, "Now, her little marionette feeds the squirrels." | ||||||||
| The Relic-Hunting Vandals Who Saved American History Posted: 08 Jan 2015 11:00 AM PST Before we had postcards, refrigerator magnets, and keychains made specifically as souvenirs for tourists, people still wanted something to remember a particular place or event. Not everyone understood the concept of historic preservation; they just took items or pieces of items in what we would call vandalism now. Some of those souvenirs would be inscribed with identifying information, but often they only had a story, and sometimes not even that much. The National Museum of American History accepted such mementos, and last year presented them in an exhibition. Curator William L. Bird talked to Collectors Weekly about these historic souvenirs and the stories behind them.
In this interview, we also get a fascinating rundown of how the Smithsonian Institution’s mission has changed over time. The picture above is a fragment of the Washington Monument's 1848 cornerstone, broken during construction. Read the whole article on these souvenirs at Collectors Weekly. (Image credit: The National Museum of American History) | ||||||||
| Whittier, Alaska: A Small Town Inside This Building Posted: 08 Jan 2015 10:00 AM PST
In 1956, the US Army built this building as a barracks. The Army is gone now, but the town that grew up around the small base still lives there. Almost all of the residents of Whittier, Alaska live in it, which they call Begich Towers. Inside, you can find a school, a church, shops, a police station, and a laundromat.
Winters are brutal. Whittier usually gets about 250 inches of snow. Winds can reach speeds of 60 MPH. So people often stay indoors for most of the winter. Erin Sheehy and Reed Young of California Sunday Magazine visited this fascinating little community and photographed how the people of it have adapted to the harsh environment. -via Nag on the Lake | ||||||||
| Super 80s Kart - Retro Racing Raditude Posted: 08 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST Super 80s Kart by Nathan Davis The 80s made karting kool, and the pop culture heroes of that radical decade were all masters of go karting. From the McFly to those ghost busting guys, they all knew their way around a kart kourse, and every one of 'em looked totally awesome driving that tiny car! A guy named Knight tried to cheat by driving a talking kart named Kitt, but T had his fancy machine all figured out and when he brough his A game he proved he didn't need a team to kick some tail on the kart course! And what about that alien life form in the sky? He just liked to watch it all go down from his comedy cloud... Retro heroes and video games collide on this Super 80s Kart t-shirt by Nathan Davis, it's a fun way to take a pop culture trip back in time! Visit Nathan Davis's Facebook fan page, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:
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| Posted: 08 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST While out on a snowy walk, a man with a camera is approached by a playful fox. The fox is probably looking for a handout, which he gets in the form of something resembling a Slim Jim. A good time was had by all. But wait a minute, where is this? This delightful little walk happened in Pripyat, Ukraine, which you might recall is the town where the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown a few years back. Now we have to wonder what this fox would do to a Geiger counter. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| "Fashion Dads" of Instagram: The Forefront of Paternal Couture Posted: 08 Jan 2015 08:00 AM PST
Ready for the cutting edge? Brace yourself and visit their Instagram account. | ||||||||
| Posted: 08 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST When you live in cold weather country, you learn to take pleasure from ice and snow in creative ways. Breaking a layer of ice on a trampoline takes some effort in preparation -a lot of preparation, actually, which we thank this guy for as we watch this video in the heated comfort of the indoors. It’s two degrees below zero (-17°C) where he is. But Minnesotans expect it, unlike here in Kentucky where putting a hose outlet inside the house seems strange. Everything is relative, as Canadian commenters at the YouTube page laugh at two degrees below zero. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Posted: 08 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST
Compression suits are designed to help muscles align properly for rigorous activity. Athletes wear these form-fitting costumes to get the most out of every movement. Animal racing can be big, money-generating businesses. So high-end racing dogs and horses often wear customized compression suits. And now, thanks to the United Arab Emirates company Al Shibla, so do camels. In the wealthy UAE, camel racing is a big business. There’s plenty of money to spend on the best equipment available. Al Shibla offers a range of camel compression suits to fit different camels, who are sized by the distance from the neck to the hump, the hump to the tail, and the shoulder to hip. -via Oddity Central | ||||||||
| Posted: 08 Jan 2015 05:00 AM PST The following is a list from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader History's Lists. The first movie camera was patented in the late 1800s, and motion pictures have been dazzling us ever since. Here are 14 firsts in filmmaking.
2. First Striptease Caught on Film:Le Coucher de la Mariée (Bedtime for the Bride) (1896) 3. First Censored Movie:Fatima’s Coochie Coochie Dance (1896) 4. First Science-Fiction Film:Le Voyage Dans le Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902) 5. First Feature-Length Film:The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) 6. First Movie Reviewed by the New York Times:Pippa Passes (also called The Song of Conscience) (1909) 7. First Film by an African American Director:The Homesteader (1919) 8. First 3-D Movie:The Power of Love (1922) 9. First Movie to include a Swear Word:The Big Parade (1925) 10. First Feature-Length Talkie:The Jazz Singer (1927) 11. First Commercially Successful Feature-Length Animated Film:Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 12. First (and Only) X-rated Movie to Win the Best Picture Oscar:Midnight Cowboy (1969) 13. First Movie to Show an Actor on the Toilet:Catch 22 (1970) 14. First Movie Directed by a Woman to Win the Best Picture Oscar:The Hurt Locker (2008) ___________________
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