18 Winning Facts About Bend It Like Beckham

The 2002 movie Bend It Like Beckham introduced us to Kiera Knightley (before Pirates of the Caribbean) and Parminder Nagra (before ER). Written, produced, and directed by Gurinder Chadha, it was a particularly British film that addressed both minority assimilation and women’s sports. The rare rare chick-flick sports film wasn’t expected to be a hit, but it made back over $76 million on a $6 million budget. It had a killer soundtrack, too. There are a lot of interesting things that went on behind the scenes of Bend It Like Beckham.

1. IN AMERICA, IT WAS ALMOST KNOWN AS MOVE IT LIKE MIA.  

In 2002, studio executives at Fox Searchlight were concerned that Americans wouldn’t know who David Beckham was, and wouldn’t understand what it meant to “bend” a soccer ball. Fortunately they changed their minds before the film was released after writer-director Gurinder Chadha objected.

4. BOTH PARMINDER NAGRA AND KEIRA KNIGHTLEY DID ALL OF THEIR OWN SOCCER PLAYING.

“I put them into three months solid football training and they had a coach and everyday they would in and train," Chadha told blackfilm.com. "They worked really hard at it. Keira, who plays Jules, got concussions a few times. Parminder really damaged her toes and was too scared to [kick] the ball in case she broke one. They really had to go through the pain barrier like other athletes in order to excel. It’s only when I said ‘We could always use doubles, don’t worry about it,' when the two of them said, ‘No way! We’re definitely going to go for it.’ And they did.”

Read the rest of the 18 facts about Bend It Like Beckham at mental_floss.


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How a Geologist Designed the Perfect App for the Window Seat


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You can look out the window on the airplane and see beautiful mountains, seas, islands, rivers, and more. What are you looking at? There's an app for that.

Shane Loeffler, a geologist, developed Flyover Country, an app that shows air travelers what geological formations they're flying over. He tells Fast Co Design that he came up with the idea while flying on a plane:

"I realized that most people don’t have my geology background, and that they might be missing out on some of the wonder of that view because there was no good way to know where exactly your plane was, let alone what stories the landforms below could tell," he tells Co.Design over email. "I tested the GPS in my phone while flying, found that it worked, and realized that there was a great scientific outreach tool waiting to be made." When you open the app, you draw your flight path (it can be very rough) to access the relevant data points, which are then downloaded to the app so you can access them offline.

Loeffler wants to develop the app further with augmented reality so that you can simply hold up your phone and Flyover Country will automatically display the geology of the area.

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Coming to America Through Beringia

The following article is from the book Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Nature Calls.

Twelve thousand years ago, if humans or animals felt like walking from Asia to North America, all they had to do was head over the Bering Land Bridge. (It’s a little harder now.)

A MYSTERIOUS, DISAPPEARING BRIDGE

From the edge of Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, Siberia is just 53 miles away. And at a point just south of the Arctic Circle, the two continents are separated only by a narrow channel of water that links the Arctic Ocean to the Bering Sea. That channel is called the Bering Strait, and scientists long wondered if primitive people used it to cross from Asia to North America.

But frequent, severe storms and massive ice floes would have made it difficult for primitive people to make their way across the Bering Strait by boat. And so, for centuries, archaeologists speculated that perhaps there had once been a piece of land that stretched across the strait. If so, people could have walked from one continent to the other in less than three days.

The idea first appeared back in 1590, when a Jesuit priest named Jose de Acosta noticed a resemblance between the native people of South America and those of Asia. He was the first to propose that the first people in the Americas had traveled there from Asia— he just didn’t know how. In the 1800s, archaeologists expanded that hypothesis, saying that at least some of the indigenous people of North and South America had migrated from Asia to America over the Bering Strait, walking on a bridge of land that was above sea level. They called the theoretical region the Bering Strait Land Bridge, or “Beringia.” And unlike many early theories of how the world worked, the land bridge idea has held up against modern scientific examination.

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Meet the "Micro-Engraver" Who Works Between Heartbeats to Keep His Hand Steady

That is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II made on a speck of gold inside the eye of a needle. It's only 1 millimeter across.

Graham Short is perhaps the world's greatest micro-engraver. He inscribes detailed images that are so small that they're impossible to see with the naked eye. And he does it by hand.

The task requires being incredibly motionless. Short must have absolute control over his hand. To do this, he works only at night to reduce the vibration effect of passing cars. He also works with a stethoscope to monitor his own heartbeat, making a mark only between beats. Quartz reports:

He may wait like this, motionless, for 20 minutes or more before making an incision. Finally, listening through the stethoscope, he carves when he is at his stillest—in between heartbeats.

At 55, Short is a master athlete in the sense that he has perfected his physical conditioning to remain completely still:

He is lucky that he has always been fit and slim and healthy, something he puts down to his lifelong love of swimming. Fourteen years ago, when he was 55, he became the European butterfly champion in his age group. To keep his heart rate down, he now swims for three hours each day—5,000m (3.1 miles) each morning and a further 5,000 each afternoon. He stopped drinking coffee on work days years ago.

But although the swimming helps slow his heart significantly, it is no longer enough. Several years ago a pharmacist friend began prescribing him pills—potassium, magnesium and beta-blockers. “I eat them like sweets,” he admits. When he works, his heart rate drops to as low as 20 beats per minute.

Short has even taken botox injections near his eyes to reduce his blinking.

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Internet Mapping Glitch Wreaks Havoc on Kansas Farm

MaxMind, a digital mapping company, has an algorithm that can pinpoint many IP addresses, in case someone needs to find out geographically where a certain computer (or computer user) is, usually in cases of hacking, scams, or abuse. It doesn’t always pinpoint, so in cases where the closest you can narrow an address down is a state or country, the mapping app will point to the geographic center of that state or country. The geographical center of the United States is in northern Kansas, specifically at the digital latitude of 39.8333333,-98.585522. In 2002, MaxMind simplified that to 38.0000,-97.0000. The problem is that people actually live at that location. And six million hard-to-locate IP addresses will show up at the default location, the front yard of a 360-acre farm owned by Joyce Taylor.

For the last decade, Taylor and her renters have been visited by all kinds of mysterious trouble. They’ve been accused of being identity thieves, spammers, scammers and fraudsters. They’ve gotten visited by FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances searching for suicidal veterans, and police officers searching for runaway children. They’ve found people scrounging around in their barn. The renters have been doxxed, their names and addresses posted on the internet by vigilantes. Once, someone left a broken toilet in the driveway as a strange, indefinite threat.

All in all, the residents of the Taylor property have been treated like criminals for a decade. And until I called them this week, they had no idea why.

Tech writer Kashmir Hill had encountered several stories about houses where stolen phones always seem to be located (but aren’t) and decided to look at default IP address locations, which is how she found Taylor’s farm. The 14 years of harassment is no longer a mystery, but it’s been a tough road for Taylor and the other people who’ve lived there. Read about the saga of the U.S. default IP address at Fusion. 


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Pull Me to Life

This is Pull Me to Life by Juno Jeon, a designer based in Eindoven, the Netherlands. This uniquely designed cabinet flips over little wooden paddles as the drawer opens and closes. The outside changes color from plain wood to white.

Design Boom explains that the piece represents changing identities:

when it is pulled, its outer layer gradually changes the color from back to front. this creates the sensation that the drawer is reaction to the human stimulus, as if it was an animal. when the drawer is pushed back, its skin changes color again.


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English Diver Asks For Help With Twitter Cover Photo, Trolls Naturally Oblige

We must assume that anyone who asks the internet for "help” with their photo is looking to be roasted by Photoshop trolls, but is that actually what English diver Tom Daley had in mind when he posted this pic?

He claimed to be running a contest designated #COVERDALEY, but could he possibly have been so naive he thought posting such a request online wouldn't end in image manipulation mayhem?

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While #COVERDALEY drew lots of Photoshop pranksters to the party it also attracted the attention of some pretty important people, and suddenly Tom was taking a ride through the countryside with Putin.

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Tom couldn't have known the contest would make his wildest dreams come true, nor could he have foreseen about all the fun new places he would go thanks to #COVERDALEY.

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And even though he settled on a boring cover photo after all was said and done, Tom's contest got him in touch with the most important person of all- Tom Daley.

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English Diver Tom Daley Asked The Internet For Photoshop Help And It Went Predictably Wrong


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Plant A Tree - We Cannot Guarantee That A Dancing Groot Will Sprout


Plant A Tree by Theduc

This Arbor day we should all take a note from the Guardians and save the galaxy by planting a tree, because you never know when that little sapling is going to grow up to be a big, strong Groot! Imagine going out to your yard to find a little tree dancing its pulpy heart out, those branchy arms swinging in the breeze and a cute little voice saying "I am Groot" over and over again like it means something to those who don't speak Groot. You guys, planting a tree could literally make your life more magical, so whip out those shovels and spades and get to digging!

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Firefighters Give Oxygen to Guinea Pig

(Photos: Polk County Fire Rescue)

A house in Mulberry, Florida caught on fire. Firefighters put it out, rescuing the man and guinea pig who lived there. Once they got the guinea pig out, the firefighters administered oxygen to it. The guinea pig was reported in adorable condition.

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History Repeating

Remember in the movie The Empire Strikes Back how Luke Skywalker took his Jedi training under Master Yoda and had to carry his teacher on his back? Luke got off easy in that one, as Yoda didn’t weight more than a Muppet. Things are not so easy for Rey! What do you wanna bet that he has her waxing his car, too? This was posted today in honor of Daisy Ridley’s 24th birthday. She’s glad he lost all that weight for the last movie. -via reddit

I wonder just where they may have gotten this idea.


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Why Did the Seal Cross the Road? To Get to the Seafood Restaurant.

This is Sammy the Seal. He lives in the harbor of Howth, Ireland. Every day, he climbs out of the water to beg for fish at The Lighthouse Seafood Restaurant.


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In this video, Sammy rises from the water, patiently waits for a car to drive past, then crawls toward the restaurant. A worker there comes out with a chair to dissuade him. But Sammy is determined. It pays off, as the man eventually gives him fish to eat.

-via Jonah Goldberg

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Sometimes Social Media Workers Are Real Jerks

Most companies with social media channels try to be professional and courteous, even when customers are rude and horrible. But then, some companies just don't care and this hilarious Buzzfeed article shows just how extreme they can get when they decide not to play nice. 

Be warned, a lot of the language is not safe for work, but if you don't mind the bad words, you'll still get a good laugh from these tweets.


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Bullet Found in the Desert Verifies a Tale of Lawrence of Arabia


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During World War I, British Army officer T.E. Lawrence helped lead an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. After the war, he wrote about his extraordinary exploits in his memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom. That and the accounts of others inspired the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia, starring Peter O'Toole in the titular role.

Among Lawrence's most famous battles was a successful ambush on a Turkish train at Hallat Ammar. It was retold in the movie scene embedded above.

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Did it really happen? Some historians think that Lawrence exaggerated his wartime heroics. But now there's evidence to support Lawrence's recollection of the train ambush. Archaeologists studying the sites of his battles found a bullet at the location of the train ambush. That bullet was of a caliber that only Lawrence was known to carry. Phys.org quotes archaeologist Neil Faulkner:

Professor Nicholas Saunders said: "The bullet we found came from a Colt automatic pistol, the type of gun known to be carried by Lawrence and almost certainly not used by any of the ambush's other participants." [...]

Dr Neil Faulkner said: "Lawrence has something of a reputation as a teller of tall tales, but this bullet – and the other archaeological evidence we unearthed during ten years of fieldwork – indicates how reliable his account of the Arab Revolt in Seven Pillars of Wisdom is."

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Giant Devils Flower Praying Mantis

This is Mad Madam Mim, a giant devil's flower mantis (Idolomantis diabolica). They are native to a few countries in Africa and can grow up to five inches long. Raising one in captivity requires a special environment and lots of attention, as Madam Mim’s owner, redditor ImSweeches, will tell you. They will only eat flying insects, and require a controlled temperature and humidity. They live about a year with proper care. These mantids are not for beginners.

They are a HIGHLY sought after species and are generally sold out unfortunately. It took me over a year of frequent checking to find them in stock.

EDIT!!!*** PLEASE PLEASE KNOW THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY SENSITIVE SPECIES! Even experienced hobbyists have difficulties raising this variety. The attention this is getting has my gut sinking thinking about people who have never cared for a mantis buying these up and killing them because they're not ready

There are several great beginner mantids: Giant African mantis (sphoromantis viridis) ghost mantis (phylocrania paradoxa) and giant Asian mantis (hierodula patellifera) are just a few great species to start with.

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Pig Thinks That She's a Sheep


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This little pet pig in Twynholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland escaped from her home. But she didn't wander far. Instead, she became a member of the flock of sheep at the adjoining farm. They've taken her in as one of their own--or at least tolerate her.

So far, the local humans have been unable to trap her. She may become a sheep for life.

-via Tastefully Offensive

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Kid's Art Turned Into Jewelry

Looking for the perfect gift for Mother's Day? Then consider heading over to Etsy where you can get artist CaitlynMinimalist to make you a cool piece of custom jewelry based completely on your submitted artwork. You can send in your artwork from childhood or some of your kid's artwork to share with their grandma -either way, it's something your mom is sure to never forget.

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Led Zeppelin-Beethoven Mashup

2CELLOS are back with a little number that blends Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with “Whole Lotta Love” from Led Zeppelin. By the time they are finished, it’s four cellos.

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Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser were once rivals for the title of hottest best cello player in Croatia, and then teamed up to form 2CELLOS. Which was a great move. Hear more of their music in previous posts at Neatorama.

-via Buzzfeed

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Proposal: Canada Should Annex Several Caribbean Islands

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The Turks and Caicos Islands consist of two clusters of small islands with a total land area of 366 square miles. They were a part of British Jamaica until 1962, when that nation gained independence. Since then, they have remained a British overseas territory.

Since 1917, land-hungry Canada has gazed covetously upon the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Washington Post explains:

"Canada really needs a Hawaii," said Conservative politician Peter Goldring in 2014. "The United States has a Hawaii. Why can’t Canada have a Hawaii?"

Will this effort succeed? Some Canadians think that the plan is too ambitious:

But talk of a Canadian Hawaii cooled after the archipelago's premier, Rufus Ewing, visited Ottawa in 2014.

"I won’t be too hasty to jump from one mother’s nest to another mother’s nest — one master to another," he told Canadian reporters at the time. "That is something that the people of the Turks and Caicos have to demonstrate to me that they want and then take it from there."

Leading Canadian officials batted down the possibility, as well.

"The premier who’s here isn’t asking to become the 11th province and we’re not in the business of annexing islands in the Caribbean to be part of Canada," said then Canadian foreign minister John Baird. "So that’s not something that we’re exploring. We’re not looking at any sort of formal association with the islands."

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Zombie Rock - For Those About To Rot We Salute You


Zombie Rock by D13Design

Everybody likes to rock out with their socks out, but only zombies get to keep on rockin' for the rest of eternity! That's why so many famous rock stars have tried to become zombies over the years, but alas the only one who has succeeded so far is Keith from the Stones, who may be more of a vampire than a zombie but only time will tell...

Show the world you'll keep on rockin' and rollin' well after death with this Zombie Rock t-shirt by D13Design, it's the deadly cool way to declare your allegiance to rock!

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Star Wars Mega Trailer

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Tom Fisher put together a trailer for the Star Wars saga, all seven movies in barely over two minutes. If you haven’t seen them, this will make you want to. And it contains very little in the way of spoilers. Just a taste of the overarching story of three generations of a Force-sensitive family. -via Tastefully Offensive  


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If Game of Thrones Characters Had the Internet

There's no internet in the universe of Game of Thrones. Or running water or antibiotics. But if someone did set up WiFi hotspots on Westeros and provide smartphones, we'd get to see what major characters would do on the internet.

Jamie Jones and Becky Barnicoat of BuzzFeed illustrate what 13 characters from Game of Thrones would do with internet access. Tyrion would rule Twitter with his witty one-liners, Arya Stark would use Pinterest in horrifying ways, and the Mother of Dragons would overshare on Facebook about being a new mom.


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Welcome To Goose Creek Tower

You’ve seen the "Doctor Seuss House" in Talkeetna, Alaska, here at Neatorama before. Now we get to meet the guy who built it! Anchorage attorney Phillip Weidner makes it clear that this is the Goose Creek Tower, and Dr. Seuss had nothing to do with it. He describes himself as a “frustrated architect” who just really wanted a good view.  

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You can read more about the tower here and here. -via Metafilter


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Skyrim Player Goes On Epic Quest To Adopt A Dog

Skyrim is chock full of quests for eager adventurers, and there are so many things to do in the game players usually don't catch them all on their first playthrough.

But animal lovers were disappointed to find Skyrim sorely lacking in quests to find canine companionship, because players can't directly adopt a stray dog in game.

The lack of dog adoption options made most gamers shrug their shoulders and Fus Ro Dah on, but dedicated dog lover Patrick Lenton wasn't going to let the game squash his dream of adopting a virtual dog.

Patrick took on the glitchy quest to figure out how to adopt a dog in Skyrim, a quest that drove him to the brink of madness.

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Nuggets Unveil Lion King Cam

Kiss cams are old hat! Besides, it can be truly embarrassing when the camera focuses in and you’re sitting there with your brother, or even worse, your side-dude. Last night, the Denver Nuggets hosted the San Antonio Spurs, and unveiled a new crowd-cam idea that everyone immediately understood and took to: The Lion King Cam!

During a timeout, the camera finds a baby in the crowd, focuses in, and plays the opening lines from “The Circle of Life.” The object of the focus immediately understands what to do. All new parents, and even aunts and granddads, know they are supposed to hold the baby up just like Rafiki presenting Simba to the Pride Rock residents (or, for those of us of a certain age, the infancy of Kunta Kinte). We hope Denver keeps this idea going, and it may spread to other arenas. -via Uproxx


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Emoji Are Not Language


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In Book I of his Confessions, Saint Augustine of Hippo explained how he as a child acquired language:

When they named any thing, and as they spoke turned towards it, I saw and remembered that they called what they would point out by the name they uttered. And that they meant this thing and no other was plain from the motion of their body, the natural language, as it were, of all nations, expressed by the countenance, glances of the eye, gestures of the limbs, and tones of the voice, indicating the affections of the mind, as it pursues, possesses, rejects, or shuns. And thus by constantly hearing words, as they occurred in various sentences, I collected gradually for what they stood; and having broken in my mouth to these signs, I thereby gave utterance to my will. Thus I exchanged with those about me these current signs of our wills, and so launched deeper into the stormy intercourse of human life, yet depending on parental authority and the beck of elders.

And thus the individual was able to contribute to the "stormy intercourse of human life," as well as partake of the greatest works that resulted from the collected discourse of human civilization.

Then came emoji.

Emoji are small visual symbols that some people use to express their inner wills. They are acts of communication in the sense that a barking dog is communicating. They are, according to scholars at the University of Minnesota, dangerously imprecise tools to use instead of actual, you know, words. Hannah Miller and her colleagues summarize their findings:

Emoji are commonly used in modern text communication. However, as graphics with nuanced details, emoji may be open to interpretation. Emoji also render differently on different viewing platforms (e.g., Apple’s iPhone vs. Google’s Nexus phone), potentially leading to communication errors.

We explore whether emoji renderings or differences across platforms give rise to diverse interpretations of emoji. Through an online survey, we solicit people’s interpretations of a sample of the most popular emoji characters, each rendered for multiple platforms. Both in terms of sentiment and semantics, we analyze the variance in interpretation of the emoji, quantifying which emoji are most (and least) likely to be misinterpreted. In cases in which participants rated the same emoji rendering, they disagreed on whether the sentiment was positive, neutral, or negative 25% of the time.

When considering renderings across platforms, these disagreements only increase. Overall, we find significant potential for miscommunication, both for individual emoji renderings and for different emoji renderings across platforms.

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Men Rescued After Spelling Out “Help” in Leaves

A three-hour tour turned into a three-day stay for three castaways.

Three men left on a boat Monday traveling between two islands in Micronesia. But a large wave overturned their 19-foot boat, and they swam a couple of miles to the nearest island, uninhabited Fanadik, a few hundred miles north of Papua New Guinea. They were stranded there for three days. Meanwhile, when they didn’t arrive at their destination by the next day, relatives called the US Coast Guard. A joint Navy-Coast Guard operation to find the men was started. But there are countless tiny islands in Micronesia, and they would not have found them if the men hadn’t used palm leaves to spell out “HELP” on the beach. A Navy plane spotted the sign early Thursday morning. A boat was dispatched from nearby Pulap, their original destination, to bring the men in. -via reddit

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He Took His Skin Off For Me

When we find ourselves in a relationship with a partner we feel is our soulmate, aka “The One”, we will go to great lengths to keep that person happy.

But how far is too far when you're trying to please your partner?

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He Took His Skin Off For Me is a surreal short film by Ben Aston which is based on the surreal short story by Maria Hummer. Ben's "pearl of wisdom" about this piece:

if you take off your skin just to be with somebody? That’s only ever going to end messy…

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Why Are America's Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?

New corporate headquarters for Google, Apple, and other cutting edge tech companies are hailed as innovative and “futuristic,” but besides their size, they are a lot like the facilities that corporations built in the mid-20th century as they moved to suburbia. Companies not only got more space, they located near the white, middle class, educated suburban workers they wanted, not to mention that their executives already lived there. UC Berkeley architectural professor Louise Mozingo, author of Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes, tells us about that era. Those new workplaces had employee lounges for collaborating, services to help a worker with errands, and even recreational facilities like those we see today in tech startup offices.     

“All these perks had a certain element of welfare capitalism,” Mozingo says, “this idea that the all-inclusive physical environment is going to foster certain kinds of behavior, which are profitable for the company.”

The focus on amenities for office staff was also a way to prevent them from organizing, particularly the legions of low-paid female employees needed to maximize profits. “They were terrified that female clerical workers were going to unionize,” Mozingo says, “In the era before computing, companies ran on vast amounts of paper, and that paperwork was almost all done by women. That was one of the reasons they wanted to get out of downtown—if the secretaries unionized, they’d all be sunk.”

Even the shift to personal vehicles rather than public transit was hailed as a perk: Private cars were supposedly more reliable and allowed for more flexible work schedules, particularly in an era before highways were clogged with traffic. In actuality, this encouraged employees to extend their workday past the standard hours of nine-to-five, and helped isolated workers to ensure company loyalty. “This is something that Silicon Valley companies still do—they capture the employee for the entire day,” Mozingo says. “The descriptions were extremely explicit about this, about solidifying corporate culture, instilling loyalty, and minimizing happenstance meetings with people from other companies who might steal you. It’s about making the corporation your entire life.”

That sounds like a lot of tech companies today. Read more about the corporate move to suburbia and how those old ideas are new again at Collectors Weekly.


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A Viking Funeral Fit for a Fish

Imgur user chilly911 lost his pet fish of 6 1/2 years last week. Since the fish, Peeping Tom, lived in his bathroom, watching him use the toilet, shower and more, chilly911 thought he deserved a funeral of a warrior. 

He built the fish a tiny ship loaded with matches in order to provide him with a proper viking funeral and the result was perfect for helping him to rise up to Valhalla. Oddly, this is not the first viking funeral for fishes we've seen.

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Saitaman - He's More Than Just Super


Saitaman by Jango Snow

With one punch he's able to take down even the largest and most powerful foes on the planet, but is one punch really ever enough? When you're the mightiest fighter on the planet life can become boring mighty fast, leaving you on a quest to find a worthwhile adversary who can withstand more than one punch. But sometimes you have to look on the bright side of this dangerous life on Earth, and realize that becoming the most powerful being on the planet does come with certain perks....

Get geared up for anime adventure with this Saitaman t-shirt by Jango Snow, it's a real knockout!

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Linkira 8-Bit Buds Ink Strike Force Detective's Damask

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