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• This Is A Gaming PC
• How to Become an Art Expert
• Harry Cat, the Lazy, Husky Hero of Remsen Street
• Age of Empires III Composers Perform The Credits Track of The Game
• A Guide To Collecting Radioactive Rocks By Alysson Rowan
• Whip Spiders Are Appearing In Various Places
• Possibly the Biggest Error in Baseball History
• Having A Cat is Good, But Having Two Is Much Better
• What Are You Doing With Your Life?

This Is A Gaming PC Posted: 28 May 2021 02:30 PM PDT They say that we should not judge a book by its cover. From the outside, this piece of technology looks like a regular Nintendo GameCube to an unsuspecting person, and I wouldn't blame him if he made that remark; it does look like a regular Nintendo GameCube. But, as the title says, this is, in reality, a gaming PC made by modder Cityle. Cityle shared pictures of his one-of-a-kind gaming rig on Reddit..., which is outfitted with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, a Ryzen 5 4500u processor, a 2TB Samsung 860 QVO solid-state drive, and 16GB of HyperX DDR4 RAM. Cityle published his build log here, and it seems it was no easy feat fitting so many intricate parts into something the size of a GameCube. Though clunky by today's standards, the console measures just 5.9 × 6.3 × 4.3 inches (150 x 161 x 100 mm). Since it'd be nothing short of impossible to fit a top-tier gaming motherboard inside a case this tiny, they transferred one from a disassembled Asus PN50 Mini PC. Who would have thought that a powerful computer could fit inside a GameCube? I sure didn't. (Image Credit: Cityle/ Reddit/ Gizmodo)

How to Become an Art Expert Posted: 28 May 2021 02:30 PM PDT "If It's Got Ugly Babies, It's Medieval" Melbourne art historian Mary McGillivray found the perfect way to fill her time during lockdown, and went viral with it. She started making TikTok videos about famous artworks and how to easily identify them. "If It's Got Cute Babies, It's Baroque" Bored Panda interviewed McGillivray about her viral videos, and gives us a rundown of how to identify art. The list does not require you watch videos, but if you want to they are here. As for the madonna images, the baby at the top isn't nearly as ugly as his mother, and the second baby isn't nearly as cute as his mother.

Harry Cat, the Lazy, Husky Hero of Remsen Street Posted: 28 May 2021 11:17 AM PDT In 1899, Mrs. Lester ran a boarding house in Brooklyn. She had three cats, named Tom, Dick, and Harry. Nobody ever suspected that it would be Harry who turned out to be the hero of the family. Until that fateful day, Harry was never the favorite of the three brother cats. In fact, he was reportedly "so big and fat that its owners never thought it would rise to the occasion of becoming a hero." Instead of playing with his brothers, Harry preferred to coil up on the bearskin rug in front of the dining room fireplace. But on the morning of December 10, while  he was lounging in the smoking room of his home, one of the male boarders carelessly threw a lit match. Instead of falling into the cuspidor, it landed on the bottom folds of a lace curtain. In just seconds, the entire curtain was on fire. Read how Harry saved the day, and how the house on Remson street underwent another disaster only a couple of months later at The Hatching Cat. -via Strange Company

Age of Empires III Composers Perform The Credits Track of The Game Posted: 28 May 2021 11:16 AM PDT Like the previous entries in the franchise, Age of Empires III did not disappoint in its music when it was released way back in 2005. But of all the tracks in this game, the track that almost made me cry was the credits track, titled "There Is Weather/ Decisions Are Made". It just sounds so… beautiful. And apparently, this piece also is a particular favorite of Stephen Rippy and Kevin Mcmullan, the composers of the game's music. Try to give this track a listen. If you want to hear the original version, click here. (Image Credit: Kevin Mcmullan/ YouTube)

A Guide To Collecting Radioactive Rocks By Alysson Rowan Posted: 28 May 2021 11:16 AM PDT Over a decade ago on an internet forum for mineral collectors, Alysson Rowan stumbled upon a post from another user. The man said in his post that he's terrified because some of the mineral specimens that he bought were apparently radioactive. Fortunately, Rowan is a radiation safety professional, and, in response to the man's post, she wrote an article about nuclear safety and the reality of radioactivity. Naturally, Rowan's article became popular for many radioaction enthusiasts, but with more readers came more follow-up questions. Rowan could have answered these questions one by one, but she followed someone's advice. 'Look, forget about these bits and pieces: Just compile this all into a book," Rowan says. "And so that's what I did." And so, Rowan wrote a book titled Here Be Dragons: The Care and Feeding of Radioactive Mineral Species. The better news? The book is free! Just like her article which introduced people to nuclear safety, Rowan's book also became popular and is now the "go-to resource for the radioactive rockhound community." Learn more about the book, as well as stories from various collectors, over at Atlas Obscura. (Image Credit: Andrey Stoev/ Atlas Obscura)

Whip Spiders Are Appearing In Various Places Posted: 28 May 2021 11:16 AM PDT About 18 years ago, entomologist Andrea Colla received a strange request to survey the secret tunnels under the Italian city of Trieste. The said secret tunnels were a Nazi-raid shelter during the Second World War, and it eventually became a museum managed by cave enthusiasts of the Trieste Alpine Club. But what was inside the now not-so-secret tunnels aside from the usual tourists and school groups? That's what Colla went to find out. Colla did not expect much from his investigation. And he was right. What he found out inside the bunker were "standard basement crickets and spiders." So he was taken aback in 2019 when one of the air-raid tunnel guides sent him a snapshot of a cartoonishly evil-looking creature — like a cross between a tarantula and a crab, with skin-crawlingly long legs, barbed pincers, and a brownish coat of armor. To Colla, it was unmistakable. This was a harmless arachnid called an amblypygid, sometimes known as a whip spider or tailless whip scorpion, which was neither spider nor scorpion. And it was not supposed to be in Italy at all. Amblypygids were popping up elsewhere, too. In 2018, an undergraduate in suburban Athens found a few scuttling through his bathroom and kitchen — now he's credited with uncovering the species' presence in continental Europe. In 2019, there was the first confirmed record of amblypygids in Jordan, also in a bathroom. In both cases, the person who helped identify the critters was Brazilian arachnologist Gustavo de Miranda. And he's just outdone himself: Last year he submitted a paper, the publication of which is forthcoming, describing 33 new amblypygid species, one of which has only ever been seen in the pipes and storage sheds of a Rio de Janeiro museum. The question is, where are these whip spiders coming from? Learn more about this story over at Undark. (Image Credit: Graham Wise/ Wikimedia Commons)

Possibly the Biggest Error in Baseball History Posted: 28 May 2021 11:16 AM PDT Javier Báez. El Mago. The Magician. pic.twitter.com/yZX7HgUFCU — Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) May 27, 2021 The Pirates infielders were not on their game Thursday. There were two outs in the third inning when Javier Báez of the Cubs got a hit. First baseman Will Craig only had to tag the base, but he did not. The rest of the play needs a Yakety Sax soundtrack! See it from different angles here. If you don't know how baseball works, here's a layman's explanation.  The Cubs ended up beating the Pirates 5-3. This video induced Mefites to reminisce about the dumbest play they remember from their Little League games.

Having A Cat is Good, But Having Two Is Much Better Posted: 28 May 2021 11:14 AM PDT Having a cat in your home is good, but having two cats is infinitely much better. Of course, this would mean that your stress, cat food, and your expenses, will be doubled, so don't keep a second cat if you're not ready for the commitment. But if you can, then go. Bored Panda provides us with 50 photos which prove to us why keeping two cats is much better than just keeping one. See them all over at the site. (Image Credit: Bored Panda)

What Are You Doing With Your Life? Posted: 28 May 2021 07:27 AM PDT A lot of us spend out whole lives trying to figure out what to do with our lives. Meanwhile, we are growing up, working to make a living, and looking forward to retirement. Sometimes you need to step back and look at your life from another perspective. Kurzgesagt isn't going to tell you what you should do with your life, but they have some statistics to help you understand how important your time really is. -via Kottke

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