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• Mural Shows Blood Pumping through the Heart
• Powerpuff Yourself!
• Men with Excavator Rescue Deer Trapped in Mudslide
• Uh Uhuhuhuhuh - It's Cornholio Time!
• J.K. Rowling Shares Her Rejection Letters To Inspire Young Authors
• The Raindrop Cake Looks Like a Blob of Water
• Horrible Jargon We Got Used To
• The Ghost of Mark Twain and His Copyrights
• 10 Incredible Tales of Real Life Castaways
• Guy Gets His Leg Blown Off While Shooting Stupid Stunt Video
• Electric Fork Zaps Your Tongue to Make Food Taste Salty
• <i>The Walking Dead</i> Death Poll is Cancelled
• Photo Series Of Fukushima Disaster Victims Returning Home
• Flying Chainsaw

Mural Shows Blood Pumping through the Heart Posted: 03 Apr 2016 04:00 AM PDT To mark last Valentine's Day, Lonac, a Croatian street artist, prepared this mural in Zagreb. He spray painted a human heart in several frames. When viewed in sequence through animation, they show blood flowing through a human heart. -via Lost at E Minor

Powerpuff Yourself! Posted: 03 Apr 2016 02:00 AM PDT If you’ve ever wanted to be a Powerpuff girl (and you don’t have to be a girl), here’s your chance. To welcome back The Powerpuff Girls to TV, here’s a generator that let’s you design a Powderpuff Girl to look like yourself -or someone you know. Powerpuff Yourself lets you customize the eyes, hair, clothing, everything! This one is me, except my hair is more white than gray. White is not an option. The finished product is available for download as an avatar, wallpaper, and animated .gif. The Powerpuff Girls return to Cartoon network Monday, April 4.  -via Geeks Are Sexy

Men with Excavator Rescue Deer Trapped in Mudslide Posted: 03 Apr 2016 12:00 AM PDT (Video Link) UPI reports that construction worker Bill Davis and a colleague near Tacoma, Washington discovered that two deer had become trapped in mud at a job site. They used an excavator to gently lift each one out of the soupy mess and place them on dry ground. Here's the first deer. (Video Link) And here's the second. You can hear, they were very worried that this deer may have been injured and unable to move. -via Nothing to Do with Aborath

Uh Uhuhuhuhuh - It's Cornholio Time! Posted: 02 Apr 2016 10:00 PM PDT Uh Uhuhuhuhuh by OPIPPI Finn the human went looking for information on what it meant to be a human teenage boy before the world turned to Ooo, and in his search for enlightenment he came across tapes of an old show about a butthead named Beavis. This Beavis fellow looked like Finn imagined an average teenage boy would, so he studied the tapes many times over, trying to absorb all the info he could from that old TV show. But Jake didn't like what those tapes were doing to his buddy Finn, because after a few days of watching Finn started acting dumber than a banana guard who has been out in the sun too long... Take the adventure back to the 90s with this Uh Uhuhuhuhuh t-shirt by OPIPPI, it's a colorful way to combine two cartoon universes into one super annoying form! Visit OPIPPI's Facebook fan page, official website and Instagram, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs: Wiiiiiiiiii Vader Lines Wavezilla The Vulcaning Hand View more designs by OPIPPI | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

J.K. Rowling Shares Her Rejection Letters To Inspire Young Authors Posted: 02 Apr 2016 10:00 PM PDT (Image Link) Receiving rejection letters is par for the course when you're trying to become a published author, but if everyone who ever received a rejection letter gave up the world would be devoid of print media. The trick is to try and try again until a publisher is willing to take a chance on you, either that or get an agent who won't take no for an answer. (Image Link) JK Rowling took to Twitter to share some of the rejection letters she received under her pen name Robert Galbraith received before the Detective Cormoran series made it into print. The letters are a little hard to read but the message is clear- don't give up on your novelist dreams until you've literally run out of publishers, then self publish the books and move on! -Via Cheezburger

The Raindrop Cake Looks Like a Blob of Water Posted: 02 Apr 2016 08:00 PM PDT (Photo: Tim Ireland) Darren Wong, a chef in New York City, invented the Raindrop Cake. It's a dessert inspired by mizu shingen mochi, a Japanese dish. It consists of mineral water and agar. You can eat the Raindrop Cake plain, but then it tastes a bit bland. For additional flavor, try adding soybean flower or brown syrup on top. Wong talked to BuzzFeed about how he developed this unusual dessert: Wong spent a lot of time on cooking forums to get an idea of what was likely to work and then experimented with a ton of different gelatins and agars. “The hardest was trying to figure out how to store and transport something so fragile,” Wong said. “That entails packaging each individual cake separately in its own protective cocoon until it’s ready to be served.” You can eat one at the Smorgasburg, a food fair in Brooklyn.

Horrible Jargon We Got Used To Posted: 02 Apr 2016 06:00 PM PDT We love to complain about language and they way other people mangle it. Like complaining about the younger generation, it has always been so. Linguist Arika Okrent tells us of some previous controversies about making nouns into verbs and making up new words. Those words are just normal to us now.    (YouTube link) English is a fluid language, and changes all the time. What is incorrect usage at one point becomes correct over time by that very usage. Otherwise, we’d all be speaking Old English. But then again, Old English was so fluid that it died out in favor of Middle English. The very idea cautions us to keep an open mind, or we’ll never be able to understand how our great-granddaughter turned out to be a well-regarded author. -via mental_floss

The Ghost of Mark Twain and His Copyrights Posted: 02 Apr 2016 04:00 PM PDT (Photo: Library of Congress) In 1910, Samuel Clemens, the author who went by the name Mark Twain, died. This was during the age of Spiritualism--the popular belief that it's possible to communicate with the spirits of the dead through mystical rituals, such as seances. 7 years after Twain died, Emily Grant Hutchings, a journalist, announced that the ghost of Twain had dictated a novel to her through a ouija board. It was titled Jap Herron. Hutchings published it. The estate of Mark Twain said it owned anything Twain wrote--even while dead--and therefore sued Hutchings for copyright violation. Thus began one of the strangest copyright lawsuits in American history. Parker Higgins writes at Fusion: Twain’s estate, while skeptical that the book was really authored by the deceased author, said that, if it were, the estate owned the rights to it and publisher Harper & Brothers had a contract to publish it. At the heart of the case were some novel legal questions: Can the law recognize a dead person as the author of a new work? And if so, could Twain’s ghost (or its human mouthpiece), wiggle out of Twain’s agreement with Harper & Brothers to publish all of his books? Finally, even if those copyright hurdles could be cleared, what about using Twain’s pen name, which the publisher held as a registered trademark? (Twain’s legal name was Samuel Clemens.) […] So the more firmly they insisted Twain himself was behind the work, the more they strengthened the Twain estate’s copyright argument that it, as the owner of all things written by Twain, owned this book, too. And Twain had a deal with Harper & Brothers that gave it the sole rights to publish books by Twain, so Hutchings and her publisher would have to produce credible evidence that he wanted to break that deal in his afterlife. Jap Herron, which was probably ghostwritten by Hutchings herself, is now indisputably in the public domain. You can read it here. -via Jonah Goldberg

10 Incredible Tales of Real Life Castaways Posted: 02 Apr 2016 02:00 PM PDT There have been many tales of people stranded by nautical problems, who end up floating at sea or stranded in an uninhabited wilderness. They are the victims of bad weather, mechanical problems, pirates, poor planning, or just plain getting lost. Surviving such calamities is pretty special. Take the story of Temaei Tontaake and Uein Buranibwe, which is not the longest or most tragic castaway story, but it does have a twist. In October of 2011, two men living in the South Pacific, Temaei Tontaake and Uein Buranibwe, were heading from their island, Marakei, to a nearby island called Abaiang. The trip was only 80 miles and wasn’t supposed to take long, but their GPS ran out of batteries and they got lost. Luckily, they had their fishing gear and were able to catch some sharks; they then used the shark meat as bait and caught some tuna. Their big problem was water. It didn’t rain much and at times they were forced to drink seawater. They were at sea for 33 days before they ended up on a coral atoll called Namdrik. On the atoll they met some locals and Tontaake learned that the locals were the offspring of his long lost uncle who everyone thought had died while out at sea 50 years ago. It turns out that his uncle ended up as a castaway on the very same atoll. When he couldn’t get off, he ended up settling down, had a family and died years later on the atoll. Tontaake and Buranibwe were able to get off the atoll from a passing cargo ship a few days after arriving and then they were flown home. Read nine other stories people who survived being stranded in places all over the world at Top Tenz.  -via the Presurfer (Unrelated image credit: Anil T Prabhakar)

Guy Gets His Leg Blown Off While Shooting Stupid Stunt Video Posted: 02 Apr 2016 12:00 PM PDT Stupid stunt videos are always cautionary tales, but those involved in the making of the video usually receive minor wounds at most. But every once in a while someone does something so extraordinarily stupid there's absolutely no way they're walking away from the stunt with all of their body parts in place. I'd say shooting a lawnmower full of explosives with an assault rifle qualifies as one of the stupidest stunts ever pulled, and 32-year-old Georgia resident David Pressley is lucky he only lost a leg during the shoot. (YouTube Link) Note to future tapers of stupid stunts- when you're shooting at a vehicle full of explosives take a tip from cartoons and don't move any closer when your shots fail to ignite the payload! -Via Controversial Times

Electric Fork Zaps Your Tongue to Make Food Taste Salty Posted: 02 Apr 2016 10:00 AM PDT (Photo: Nikkei Technology) Would you like to reduce the salt in your diet without losing that nice, salty flavor? The Rekimoto Laboratory at the University of Tokyo may have a solution. It's developed a prototype electric fork that deliverers a mild shock to the tongue of the user. To the brain, this simulates the experience of biting into salty food. Discover magazine explains how it works: The fork’s electrical jolt is activated with the touch of a button, completing a circuit between your fingers, the metal fork handle and your tongue. When charged sodium ions hit our tongue, their electrical potential activates ion gates that relay messages to our brains. The fork hijacks this system by targeting these ion gates with an electric charge, fooling them into sending a salty signal to our brains. -via Technabob

<i>The Walking Dead</i> Death Poll is Cancelled Posted: 02 Apr 2016 08:00 AM PDT We’ve been posting a poll maybe three times a year to get your predictions on who will die next on the TV show The Walking Dead. The season six finale is tomorrow night, and this would be the time to place your bets under normal circumstances. But this finale is different, and a poll just seems pointless. Continue reading for the reasons why, which will contain spoilers for those not current on the series, and comic book spoilers, too. In the beginning, The Walking Dead bucked TV series convention with its willingness to kill off major characters. In the last year and a half, that has gone out the window. Sure, there have been many deaths, but they’ve all been original residents of Alexandria and fairly new to viewers. The last few polls saw only minor characters killed off. The talk about the show this entire year has been about the arrival of Negan, the worst villain yet in the comic book series. It’s been more than a year since the announcement that Negan will be played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and we expected to see him in each episode, but we’ve been strung along for the entire year and he will only show up in the finale. Probably in the last few minutes of the 90-minute finale. In the comics, he kills Glenn with a barbwire-covered baseball bat he calls Lucille. We know that the TV show often switches characters around while keeping major plots, so that means little at this point. But someone is going to get the bat.     Fans take a surge in character development to be a sign of impending death. It happened in a hurry with Denise, so characters who’ve gotten more screen time lately seem to be in more danger.    It probably won’t be Michonne. Clues that it might be Daryl or Glenn. But probably not Glenn. More likely to be Daryl. TVOM has predictions without much in the way of reasoning behind them, but the graphics are sweet. Then there is the awful possibility that while Negan does kill a major character, we will be left all summer wondering which character it is. Over the past couple of weeks, a cliffhanger is looking more and more likely. When the moment comes, the production will switch to the point of view of the victim, and we will not know who it is that dies until October, inducing rage among fans followed by months of “Who shot JR?” speculation. That is the real reason why there is no poll for the finale, but there will certainly be one for the season seven premiere in October.

Photo Series Of Fukushima Disaster Victims Returning Home Posted: 02 Apr 2016 07:00 AM PDT The Fukushima disaster forced 80,000 residents to evacuate their homes and left the area surrounding the nuclear power plant devoid of human life, an entire town sitting there slowly rotting for the last five years. Former residents haven't stopped longing to go home since the disaster, so photographers Carlos Ayesta and Guillaume Bression gave them the chance while shooting the series “No go zone”. Carlos and Guillaume on "No go zone": In this new series, we wanted to highlight the terrible shock felt by locals who return. We asked former residents and landowners to return to their businesses and schools, to push open the doors to these once everyday settings. Facing the camera, they reacted as though, “nothing had happened,” and behaved normally. The strange and the commonplace come together in these almost supernatural and yet plausible photographs, the result of a historic nuclear disaster. See more from Victims Of Fukushima's Nuclear Disaster Return To Their Abandoned Homes here

Flying Chainsaw Posted: 02 Apr 2016 06:00 AM PDT Those crazy Finns! These farmers put a remote-control chainsaw on a heavy-duty drone to create the most terrifying weapon ever conceived. The kind of thing that chases you in your worst nightmares. What could possibly go wrong? (YouTube link) What can defeat the mighty remote-control flying chainsaw? The end illustrates our best defense against such a weapon. Sure, this is more cinema magic than real danger, but anyone clever enough to fake this is probably smart enough to make this (for real) if they were so inclined. -via Digg

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