Oooh, this is awesome: Mario Cake Pan! Too bad it’s currently out of stock …
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Architect Peter Archer’s client has a unique request: design a cottage modeled after a Hobbit’s house!
Here is the fantastic result: Link – via Scribal Terror
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Instructables user FreakCitySF has the step-by-step guide on how to make your very own Han Solo in Carbonite chocolate bar.
Link – via Eduyayo and Boing Boing
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Sylvia DeVries, who will turn 80 in May, skydived for the first time to celebrate Mother’s Day!
DeVries, accompanied by her four children and a dozen grandchildren, celebrated Mother’s Day on Saturday with a tandem jump at Air Indiana Sky Diving Center in Flora.
Minutes after landing, DeVries, of Kalamazoo, Mich., said she felt "a little rubbery" but was thrilled with herself.
Her plan was set into motion after DeVries told her son Don, an Indianapolis resident who offered to set up the jump.
Don DeVries, thinking his mother was kidding, researched sky-diving sites in Indiana, called her and said he booked a sky-dive.
Sylvia DeVries is known to make such jokes, he said.
"Two can play at this," Don De-Vries said. "I thought, ‘I’m going to call her on her bluff.’ "
He set it up once he learned that his mother was serious.
Link: Story and Photos at the Journal and Courier Online – via Spluch
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Minefields 2 is one addicting Flash puzzle – the goal of the game is to navigate your tank through enemy lines. When you get frustrated, remember that every puzzle has a solution! Link.
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What do you get when you mix Monty Python and Star Wars? This: Darth Vader on Guard Duty.
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The winner of “let’s take something simple and make it as complex as possible” prize goes to … the US Postal Service:
The postal rate increase that kicks in Monday is shaping up to be a big headache for many businesses.
Many companies say they are confused and frustrated as they try to adjust to the new rules, and some say mailings could be severely curtailed due to higher postage costs.
The new regulations mean larger envelopes and packages will automatically cost more than smaller mail. Currently, postage is determined by weight, unless it’s an especially large or odd-shaped package that warrants special handling.
If your solution come Monday is to stuff the same amount of material into a smaller envelope, the Postal Service could get you there, too: There are new thickness restrictions.
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You can write a message to these office workers online – your online message will appear on a scrolling sign in the office. When I did this, it was Sunday so nobody there was working. Lucky fellas!
Go to Doubleyou and send them a greeting!
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More “modified” Last Supper at My Confined Space.
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From now on, don’t believe a word of tv advertising… or even a single image!
Hit play or go to youtube video to view the transformation – via Things you don’t see every day.
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In 1944, Helen Duncan (1898-1956), a Scottish medium, was the last person to be convicted under the 1735 Witchcraft Act. A court was told she claimed to have conjured up the spirit of a sailor killed on HMS Barham during World War II. The sinking of this ship was supposed to be a military secret and the British authorities decided to prosecute because they reportedly feared that Helen Duncan might reveal plans for the D- Day landings. She was convicted of "pretending to raise spirits from the dead" and sentenced to 9 months in prison. The 1735 Witchcraft Act was finally repealed in 1951. – Niki Pollock, University of Glasgow Library
You can read more about the Helen Duncan story here. Also, if you follow the University of Glasgow link above, you will find a fascinating and horrifying account of a 1591 witch trial.
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Studio Frederik Roijé’s "Storylines" bookshelf, shaped like a city skyline, is fantastic! Link [Flash, click on products, then storylines – don’t miss the holyhomes bird houses, too)
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Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, discovered asphalt-munching bacteria trapped in the La Brea Tar Pit some 28,000 years ago.
"Asphalt is an extreme and hostile environment for life to survive," said Jong-Shik Kim, who initiated the study. But "these living organisms can survive in heavy oil mixtures containing many highly toxic chemicals" with no water and little oxygen, he said.
Bacteria that survive on petroleum produce methane gas as waste, so when Kim and his colleague Dave Crowley noticed the gas bubbling out of the oily soil, they knew they had found something unique.
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Here’s something strange: turns out, bicycle helmets are car magnets!
Last September a plucky psychologist at the University of Bath in England announced the results of a study in which he played both researcher and guinea pig. An avid cyclist, Ian Walker had heard several complaints from fellow riders that wearing a helmet seemed to result in bike riders receiving far less room to maneuver—effectively increasing the chances of an accident. So, Walker attached ultrasonic sensors to his bike and rode around Bath, allowing 2,300 vehicles to overtake him while he was either helmeted or naked-headed. In the process, he was actually contacted by a truck and a bus, both while helmeted—though, miraculously, he did not fall off his bike either time.
His findings, published in the March 2007 issue of Accident Analysis & Prevention, state that when Walker wore a helmet drivers typically drove an average of 3.35 inches closer to his bike than when his noggin wasn’t covered. But, if he wore a wig of long, brown locks—appearing to be a woman from behind—he was granted 2.2 inches more room to ride.
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French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin suggested a controversial theory on how ancient Egyptians built the pyramids: from the inside-out!
Last month, however, in an announcement that has divided the academic community, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin revealed a compelling new hypothesis that the Great Pyramid was built from the inside out. In an unusual departure from the archaeological techniques usually deployed by Egyptologists, he arrived at his theory with the help of engineering software typically used to design cars and aircraft.
Houdin believes that a smaller, long, straight ramp consisting of two carriageways was used to build up to the 43m mark of the pyramid (about 73 per cent of its volume). Then the frontal ramp was systematically dismantled and the blocks that formed it used to complete the upper part of the pyramid through a ramp that spirals around the inside of the structure. According to Houdin’s calculations, the volume of rock used in the external ramp would have been exactly the volume of rock required to construct the pyramid above the 43m mark.
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Boing Boing is keeping track of what’s happening to the guys charged with planting the "hoax devices" of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Moonite LED signs in Boston (which were misidentified as terrorist threats and sparked a costly city-wide alert) a few months ago.
Prosecutors in Boston finally dropped the charges against guerilla marketers Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens, who were hired to place the signs all over Boston. They had served a collective 140 hours of community service.
It turns out, there was actually a "hoax device" of fake pipe bombs planted at the same time by two workers at Tufts-New England Medical Center. Those guys, however, got off with just a slap on the wrist. No community service, just suspension without pay.
Here’s Boing Boing’s coverage of the whole drama: Link (with related, previous links)
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And I quote straight from YesButNoButYes:
I know Mother’s Day is just around the corner, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking of what to get the your Dad for Father’s Day. Here’s a nice suggestion – stretch-lace boxers. Now the big guy in the house can experience the soft gentle caress of lacy underwear too.
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From the website:
Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer’s "Iliad." …
The cylindrical urn also contained dried pomegranates — offerings linked with the ancient gods of the underworld — along with ashes and charred human bones from an early 7th century B.C. cremation.
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