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- For Sale on Craigslist: Working Guillotine
- Baby Wusu in the Circle of Life
- Blender with a Chainsaw Engine
- Moon Scoops with Buzz Aldrin
- La Petite Lilo - Stitch The Stars Together And They Spell "Ohana"
- World's Longest Insect Discovered
- "I Am His Hands. He Is My Eyes."
- This Soccer Stadium Sits Precisely on the Equator
- How Not to Use a Wristband Ticket
- Car of Singing, Dancing Lobsters and Fish
- Uplifting Comic Story Arcs That Will Restore Your Faith In Metahumanity
- Illustrated Proverbs from around the World
- Toddler vs. CEO
- Cat Malfunctions When Petted
- Young Han Solo Has Been Cast
- Woven Hendecagon Blue/Gold - Staring At It Too Long May Cause Madness
- Designer Brings Ridiculous Drawings Of Bicycles To Life
- How Much Does It Cost to Give Birth?
- Body Painted Models Merge with Nature
- Boaty McBoatface Gets a Name
- Kid Wakes Up From Anesthesia With Strange Accent And Even Stranger Story
- 10 Transformed Public Toilets of the World
- Mattress Hits Motorcyclist, Cushions His Fall
- Tug of War: The Story of <i>The Great Gatsby</i>
| For Sale on Craigslist: Working Guillotine Posted: 07 May 2016 04:00 AM PDT Mothers' Day is this Sunday. You didn't forget that, did you? If you do, your mother will certainly never forget it. Be prepared. Give your mom the best possible gift for the occasion: a guillotine. NBC 29 reports that Pat and Alex Pichl of Englewood, Florida are parting with their completely functional and stylish guillotine. They call it the "Best No [Trespassing] Sign." It sits in their yard as a warning to intruders. But now they're moving and don't have room for it anymore. The chopper is a mere $500, which, I can tell you, is quite affordable for the guillotine hobbyist. All it needs is a bit of floral decoration to give it a festive look. Then it's ready for presentation on Sunday. -via Dave Barry  | ||||||||
| Baby Wusu in the Circle of Life Posted: 07 May 2016 02:00 AM PDT Kaiori was born on April 27 (with a magnificent head of hair). Her birth announcement is a video featuring her parents, Timilehin and Maria Wusu, recreating the opening scene from The Lion King, right there in the hospital. The hospital staff reacted just as you’d expect, with much joy and celebration. This little girl is going to have a lot of fun with her parents. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Blender with a Chainsaw Engine Posted: 07 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT For the most extreme margaritas in town, you need a bit more than a blender. Instructables member Mike Warren has brought his A-game with this 37-horsepower blender. He controls it with the throttle and kill switch off a motorcycle mounted onto a pair of handlebars. It combines the great American traditions of alcohol and chainsaws. You can find detailed instructions and a demonstration video here. -via Technabob | ||||||||
| Posted: 06 May 2016 11:00 PM PDT Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon during the Apolo 11 mission almost 47 years ago. He’s waited until now to reveal certain tidbits about the experience. And he did it in a segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert called Moon Scoops. Aldrin is 86 years old and he’s still got the “right stuff,” and a sense of humor. -via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
| La Petite Lilo - Stitch The Stars Together And They Spell "Ohana" Posted: 06 May 2016 10:00 PM PDT La Petite Lilo by Velvetmusketeer Lilo had smuggled herself aboard a spaceship bound for who knows where and now found herself stranded on a strange little planet. She was just hoping to be reunited with her friend Stitch, but like many kids her age she didn't consider every little variable that could go wrong before hastily hopping on board. Afraid she would be stuck on this tiny planet forever, Lilo pulled out her ukulele and played a tune that Stitch used to enjoy, hoping he would somehow hear her song and come rescue her like she once rescued him... Add some far out cartoon fun to your geeky wardrobe with this La Petite Lilo t-shirt by Velvetmusketeer, it's one out of this world design! Visit Velvetmusketeer's Facebook fan page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs:
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| World's Longest Insect Discovered Posted: 06 May 2016 10:00 PM PDT
At over 2 feet, 4 inches long, this newly-discovered stick insect is the largest known one in the world. A researcher named Zhao Li found it by a mountain road in southern China. Xinhua quotes him:
Zhao took it back to his museum. There, it laid six eggs. The smallest of the hatchlings grew to over 10 inches long. -via Technabob | ||||||||
| "I Am His Hands. He Is My Eyes." Posted: 06 May 2016 09:00 PM PDT Two men in Yeli, Guizhou province, China, show us teamwork at its best. Jia Haixia went blind sixteen years ago. His friend Jia Wenqi lost both arms in a childhood accident. Together they have planted 10,000 trees around their village. In this video from Great Big Story, we learn of their commitment to each other and to the “green soldiers” that protect their village. In Chinese with English subtitles. -via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| This Soccer Stadium Sits Precisely on the Equator Posted: 06 May 2016 08:00 PM PDT
It's called the Zerão or zero stadium. This soccer stadium is on the equator, so the name is a reference to zero degrees of latitude. One goal is in the northern hemisphere and the other is in the southern hemisphere. Seven soccer clubs call this 10,000-seat facility home. -via Slate Star Codex | ||||||||
| How Not to Use a Wristband Ticket Posted: 06 May 2016 07:00 PM PDT The Governors Ball Music Festival is June 3-5 in New York City. Like many music festivals (as well as fairs, carnivals, and hospitals), the ticket is a wristband. These wristbands are made to be used once, and the only way to get them off is to destroy them. There is a certain subset of people who don’t realize this. Quite a few people got their wristbands in the mail and immediately put them on, not realizing that they would have to wear them for a month. So many that the festival organizers came up with a workaround.
See some of the Tweets that tell of the misery at the A.V. Club. | ||||||||
| Car of Singing, Dancing Lobsters and Fish Posted: 06 May 2016 06:00 PM PDT
This wondrous concert on wheels is the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir. In 2001, Richard Carter and John Schroeter built this art car that is covered with over 250 remote-controlled animatronic lobsters, bass, and other fish. On command, it plays music, which the sea creatures dance to. That's a lot to coordinate, so there's also a lobster conductor (with a baton) and a fish song leader. It rocks to the beat, although that requires a bit of manual input. -via Geekologie | ||||||||
| Uplifting Comic Story Arcs That Will Restore Your Faith In Metahumanity Posted: 06 May 2016 05:00 PM PDT Comic books used to tell uplifting stories written to teach a moral lesson, but the anti-hero trend came along in the 1970s and changed the world where superheroes live into a much darker place. The morals were replaced by vigilante justice and dark vengeance, and the upright heroes from the old school started looking a bit hokey compared to those brooding bad boys and girls. But morality, justice and hope will always have a place in comic books, and sometimes it's nice to see superstars like Deadpool, Harley Quinn and Spider-Man trading the sarcasm for some serious heartfelt expression. Deadpool teaches a kid named Evan, who is the mutant god Apocalypse reborn, to be okay with his dark heritage, Harley frees herself from the Joker's grasp once and for all, and Spider-Man says goodbye to a young fan with terminal cancer. These are the tales that amaze us with their emotional depth and astound us with their impact on our non-fictional lives, the story arcs that are nice to read in-between epic battle scenes. Read 5 Inspiring Superhero Comics To Restore Your Faith In Humanity here | ||||||||
| Illustrated Proverbs from around the World Posted: 06 May 2016 04:00 PM PDT Cartoonist James Chapman is composing a book illustrating over 100 proverbs from around the world. There's a lot of wisdom in them, although they can come across a bit oddly when translated into English. Now clean your mustache and read more of them here. | ||||||||
| Posted: 06 May 2016 03:00 PM PDT What’s the difference between a toddler and the Chief Executive Officer of your company? You have to go through the list; it’s pretty far down there. Both a toddler and CEO are convinced the world revolves around them, and they’re both right. This is the latest from Sarah Cooper at The Cooper Review. | ||||||||
| Posted: 06 May 2016 02:00 PM PDT YouTube user Ekram Cagala spotted this cat in his backyard. He greeted him with a backscratch. The cat's vocal outputs malfunctioned, emitting an odd warbly chirping sound. Like most things cats do, it's weird but adorable. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Posted: 06 May 2016 01:00 PM PDT Disney’s stand-alone Star Wars movie about Han Solo in the days before he met Luke Skywalker is not scheduled to hit theaters until 2018, but the role has been cast. The scruffy-looking nerf herder will be played by Alden Ehrenreich, who you may remember from the movie Hail, Caesar! | ||||||||
| Woven Hendecagon Blue/Gold - Staring At It Too Long May Cause Madness Posted: 06 May 2016 12:00 PM PDT Woven Hendecagon Blue/Gold by Scott Vorthmann There's something so eye pleasing and satisfying about staring at a geometric pattern created to delight, with every little detail accounted for and geometry so mathematically sound it makes math teachers tear up. The only thing wrong with wearing a tee featuring a mind boggling geometric design is the fact that people will be stopping you all day to stare at your radical new shirt! Look dazzling wherever you go in this Woven Hendacagon Blue/Gold t-shirt by Scott Vorthmann, it's a geometric masterpiece! Visit Scott Vorthmann's Facebook fan page, official website and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more amazing designs:
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| Designer Brings Ridiculous Drawings Of Bicycles To Life Posted: 06 May 2016 12:00 PM PDT There's a huge difference between sketching and design drawing, and the biggest difference between the two is the need for precision. Design drawings are created so something can be physically built from the illustrations, while sketches are supposed to be kept loose and quick, a reaction rather than a precise rendering. Designer Gianluca Gimini thought it might be fun to turn a scratchy sketch of a bicycle into a realistic design, and after five years of gestation he was ready to bring this concept to life. Gianluca asked hundreds of people to sketch a bicycle from memory on a sheet of paper, then he turned their ridiculous designs into 3D renderings of real (but hardly ever functional) bicycles for his series "Velocipedia". Even though many of them wouldn't function for long before falling apart, it would be interesting to ride them all and see how the little errors in the sketch affect how each bike feels to ride. See Designer Turns Ridiculous Sketches Of Bicycles Into Realistic Designs here | ||||||||
| How Much Does It Cost to Give Birth? Posted: 06 May 2016 11:00 AM PDT When you go to a hospital to have a baby, you probably don’t have a clue how much it will cost. For one thing, most people don’t have a choice of hospitals. You go to the one your insurance will cover, and where your doctor has privileges. Or the only hospital in town. They charge what they want, and knowing won't change that. Johnny Harris and his wife Isabel wanted to get an idea of what the bill might be beforehand, but ran into problems -no one wanted to quote any numbers. It’s a secret! Luckily, they had insurance, and the insurance company haggled the bill down after the birth. A person without insurance would be stuck with the entire bill, and hospitals rarely negotiate prices with individuals. The “good” news is that if they think you won’t be able to pay the bill, you’ll be sent home within 24 hours. As expected, the comments under this video are full of Europeans shocked that Americans have to pay to have a baby. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Body Painted Models Merge with Nature Posted: 06 May 2016 10:00 AM PDT "Metamorphosis" is a stunningly beautiful new series by body painters Leonie Gené and Jörg Düesterwald and photographers Uwe Schmida and Laila Pregizer. In it, the elements of nature appear to awaken from slumber and rise into human form. It is an animistic presentation of the natural world in all its beauty. Content warning: artistic nudity. -via Visual News | ||||||||
| Posted: 06 May 2016 09:00 AM PDT If you’ve been following along, you know that an online poll to name a UK polar research ship went viral, with the name Boaty McBoatface receiving by far the largest number of votes. However, the Science Minister declined to actually name the ship Boaty McBoatface. Today it was announced that the ship will be named the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Although not quite as funny, few would argue that the soft-spoken BBC broadcaster who taught us about nature doesn’t deserve the honor. | ||||||||
| Kid Wakes Up From Anesthesia With Strange Accent And Even Stranger Story Posted: 06 May 2016 08:00 AM PDT Everyone handles the effects of anesthesia differently, and for some people coming down is the hardest part of the process. The kid in this video is named Brandon, and he woke up in a hospital bed speaking in a vaguely Jersey Shore inspired accent and talking loud about how his boy Rocco knocked somebody out. Is there actually a Rocco? Brandon's mom certainly doesn't seem to think so, but apparently Brandon was dreaming about hanging with Rocco in Dubai, and a camel in a Camaro...cah-ray-zee talk! -Via FAILBlog | ||||||||
| 10 Transformed Public Toilets of the World Posted: 06 May 2016 07:00 AM PDT There used to be a lot more public toilets in the UK. Oh, many of them are still there, they just don’t serve the same function as they once did. With the price of urban real estate at a sky-high level, these spacious former conveniences have been put to other uses. Such is the case with the Edwardian Cloakroom in Bristol.
Such conversions are happening in other countries, too. Read about public toilets that have been turned into bars, restaurants, hotels, shops, theaters, museums, and even homes, at Urban Ghosts. | ||||||||
| Mattress Hits Motorcyclist, Cushions His Fall Posted: 06 May 2016 06:00 AM PDT
It was his unlucky and lucky day. The bad news is that an unsecured mattress fell out of a truck and hit a motorcyclist. The good news is that of all things to be hit by, he was hit by a mattress. It cushioned his fall. According to internet rumors that I cannot verify, the motorcyclist escaped injury. -via Nothing to Do with Aborath | ||||||||
| Tug of War: The Story of <i>The Great Gatsby</i> Posted: 06 May 2016 05:00 AM PDT
F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel was a flop—until it was deployed overseas. One day in 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald stepped into a Los Angeles bookstore hoping to grab a copy of The Great Gatsby. Scouring the shelves, he couldn’t find anything with his name on it. He stopped by another bookstore, and another. At each one, he ran into the same problem. His books weren’t in stock. In fact, they hadn’t been for years. When The Great Gatsby was printed in 1925, critics roasted it resoundingly. “One finishes Great Gatsby with a feeling of regret, not for the fate of the people in the book but for Mr. Fitzgerald,” wrote Harvey Eagleton of the Dallas Morning News. “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Latest a Dud,” chimed the New York World. A critic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle was more pointed. “Why [Fitzgerald] should be called an author, or why any of us should behave as if he were, has never been explained satisfactorily to me.” Readers agreed. The Great Gatsby sold a modest 20,870 copies—nothing like Fitzgerald’s previous best sellers, This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned. The literary lemon put the brakes on the author’s extravagant lifestyle. As the decade wore on, his wife’s mental health deteriorated, his marriage collapsed, and his drinking became a disease. Three years after that disappointing visit to the bookstore, he died of a heart attack at 44. “The promise of his brilliant career was never fulfilled,” his New York Times obituary said. His funeral was rainy and poorly attended—just like Jay Gatsby’s. History forgot Fitzgerald while he was still alive, so why do we think of The Great Gatsby as the enduring classic of the Jazz Age? That story begins, and ends, with a world war. Fitzgerald started writing in 1917 because he thought his days were numbered. World War I was raging, and the Princeton dropout—now an Army infantry second lieutenant stationed at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas—was training to join it. “I had only three months to live,” he recalled thinking, “and I had left no mark in the world.” So every Saturday, promptly at 1:00 p.m., he headed to the fort’s officer’s club, a noisy room clouded with cigarette smoke. There he sat alone at a table in the corner and wrote feverishly. In just three months, he had finished the draft of a 120,000-word novel called The Romantic Egoist.
He couldn’t get the book published, and soon he was transferred to a new base in Alabama, where he met and fell for another rich girl: Zelda Sayre. They courted and got engaged. As soon as the war ended, Fitzgerald left for New York City. There, he settled for a job writing advertising copy for $90 a month while trying to write more ambitiously in his spare time. “I wrote movies. I wrote song lyrics. I wrote complicated advertisement schemes, I wrote poems, I wrote sketches. I wrote jokes,” he recalled in his essay “Who’s Who—And Why.” But all he had to show for it were the 122 rejection slips pinned to his wall. When Zelda learned how broke he was, she ended their engagement.
Three years later, in the summer of 1923, Fitzgerald started planning his third book. He’d just written The Beautiful and the Damned, a story largely inspired by his relationship with Zelda, and it had been an instant hit. Now, he wanted to write a story set in the 19th-century Midwest. It would have heavy Catholic themes; the characters would include a young boy and a priest. But Fitzgerald needed money. He dismantled that draft, sold bits and pieces to magazines, and started mining life for new ideas. He carried a notebook everywhere, recording things he observed and overheard. Everyone he met became a potential character, every place a potential setting. He drove friends mad by stopping them mid-sentence and asking them to repeat what they’d said. He saved letters and used them for ideas—especially old letters from Ginevra, which he kept in a folder labeled “Strictly Private and Personal Letters: Property of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Not Manuscript.)” That stack of papers included a seven-page short story Ginevra had penned. It was about a wealthy woman who ditched an inattentive husband to rejoin an old flame, a self-made tycoon. If that sounds familiar, a similar plot became the central yarn of The Great Gatsby. That wasn’t Ginevra’s only influence on his work. Fitzgerald modeled practically every unobtainable upper-class female character after her, including Daisy Buchanan. Daisy, like Ginevra, was a coy heartbreaker who turned down love to marry someone rich. When Gatsby reinvents himself as a rich man, she remains impossible to have—just as Ginevra was to Fitzgerald. But she wasn’t his only muse; life with Zelda was just as inspiring. One of the most memorable lines in Gatsby came straight from her mouth: The day their daughter, Scottie, was born, Zelda, in a stupor, looked at her newborn and said, “I hope it’s beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool.” In the book, Daisy says nearly the same thing. Despite all the material, writing wa In a way, though, he was always working. Fitzgerald’s notes on New York’s decadent party scene would become one of Gatsby’s pillars. Fitzgerald apologized to his editor, Max Perkins, for the shenanigans. But he blamed the delay in his manuscript firmly on literary ambition. “I cannot let it go out unless it has the very best I’m capable of in it,” Fitzgerald told him. “The book will be a consciously artistic achievement.” Fitzgerald had a hunch that to write the Great American Novel, he’d have to leave America. So that summer, he packed up his family, along with a complete set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and sailed for the French Riviera. The trip afforded him the peace and quiet to finally commit Gatsby to paper. By September, the first draft was finished, and he was confident. “I think my novel is the best American novel ever written,” he wrote to Perkins. Critics and fans weren’t so sure. Nearly everybody praised Fitzgerald’s lyrical style, but many, like Edith Wharton, didn’t appreciate that Jay Gatsby’s past was a mystery. Others complained that the characters were unlikeable. Isabel Paterson wrote in the New York Herald Tribune, “This is a book for the season only.” For two decades, it seemed like Paterson was right. The book vanished into obscurity, taking Fitzgerald and his once-decadent life with it. Then, five years after he died, something unexpected helped launch Gatsby to the top of America’s literary canon—another war. The United States had been at war for a year when a group of book lovers—authors, librarians, and publishers—had a brilliant idea. Wanting to promote titles that would maintain the country’s morale, they founded the Council on Books in Wartime. Books, they argued, were “weapons in the war of ideas.” In February 1943, they embarked on an ambitious effort: shipping titles to soldiers overseas. The concept was as simple as it was idealistic. While the Nazis were busy burning books, American soldiers would be reading them. The program was perfectly timed. The latest innovation in publishing—paperbacks—had drastically reduced the cost of printing, and the first batch of Armed Services Edition (ASE) books were shipped to U.S. Army and Navy troops that July. Printed by magazine presses, the books were small enough to fit into fatigue pockets so they could be carried from the mess hall to the deck of a battleship to the trenches. A copy cost only six cents to make. “Some of the publishers think that their business is going to be ruined,” broadcaster H. V. Kaltenborn said of the program in 1944. “But I make this prediction. America’s publishers have cooperated in an experiment that will for the first time make us a nation of book readers.” He was right. Bored and homesick, servicemen and women devoured the novels. One GI stationed in New Guinea said the books were “as popular as pin-up girls” and read until they fell apart. Sometimes, GIs tore out chapters so their friends could enjoy them at the same time. Before D-Day, commanders ensured that every soldier had a book before setting sail for Normandy. “You can find boys reading as they’ve never read before,” wrote one Army officer to the council. “Some toughies in my company have admitted without shame that they were reading their first book since they were in grammar school.” There were a lot of books to read: Altogether, the council distributed 123 million copies of 1,227 titles— The Great Gatsby among them. In 1944, only 120 copies of Gatsby sold. But the ASE would print 155,000. Free to soldiers, the books dwarfed two decades of sales. Gatsby entered the war effort after Germany and Japan surrendered, but the timing was fortuitous: While waiting to go home, troops were more bored than ever. (Two years after the war ended, there were still 1.5 million people stationed overseas.) With that kind of audience, Gatsby reached readers beyond Fitzgerald’s dreams. In fact, because soldiers passed the books around, each ASE copy was read about seven times. More than one million soldiers read Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel. “There is no way to determine how many converts to literature—or less elegantly, to reading—were made by the ASE. The fix was free,” Matthew Bruccoli writes in Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions. “Moreover, it seems highly probable that some postwar reputations were stimulated by the introduction of authors in the ASE to readers who had never read them before.” For Fitzgerald, it was a great reawakening. The author’s death in 1940 had rejuvenated academic interest in his work, and many of his literary friends were already trying to revive his name. But the military program sparked interest among a wider, more general readership. By 1961, The Great Gatsby was being printed expressly for high school classrooms. Today, nearly half a million copies sell each year. These new converts—and the generations that would follow—saw in Gatsby something that Fitzgerald’s contemporaries had dismissed as short-sighted. Now that the Roaring Twenties were nothing but an echo, the value of Fitzgerald’s work became obvious. He had captured an era that was long gone, but still loomed large in the American psyche. Few people had written about the Jazz Age so colorfully, and few people had captured that feeling of longing for something you couldn’t have. Fitzgerald did it all so well because he had lived it. Perhaps that feeling of longing resonated with soldiers. Far from home, surrounded by the remnants of war, a book like Gatsby was a means to escape. It had the power to transport a reader back to a prosperous, hopeful world where the champagne flowed freely. Even now, nearly a century later, it still does. __________________________
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The story was largely based on his own heartbreak. For two years, Fitzgerald, who’d grown up in the Midwest and was the son of a failed furniture salesman, had traded love letters with a rich Chicago debutante named Ginevra King. But on a fateful visit to King’s estate, he reportedly heard her father say, “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls.” Soon after, the two broke up and King married a wealthier man. The experience scarred Fitzgerald, who became fixated on the social barriers—wealth and class—that had undermined what he thought was love.
So Fitzgerald did what any rational twentysomething would do: He moved back in with his parents and tried writing a best-selling novel to win her back. Channeling both heartbreaks, he rewrote The Romantic Egoist. The finished product was This Side of Paradise. When Scribner’s accepted the book, he begged for a quick release. “I have so many things dependent on its success,” he wrote, “including of course a girl.” When it debuted in March 1920, This Side of Paradise sold out in three days. A week later, Zelda married him. At 23, Fitzgerald was suddenly a celebrity. And he’d learned an important lesson: Art imitates life. 
s slow. Fitzgerald sat in an office above his garage, working on the book while also cranking out short stories to pay the bills. The Fitzgeralds were rich, but their spending habits were out of control. The American economy, after all, was soaring. When the U.S. left World War I, it became Europe’s biggest creditor. People had more money than ever to spend on new amusements like dance halls and movie palaces. Lavish Long Island bashes and the lure of Manhattan speakeasies kept the Fitzgeralds distracted. The parties were wild. At one point, Fitzgerald even punched a plainclothes police officer. "Fitzgerald knocks officer this side of paradise," screamed a newspaper headline.
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