"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former."
– Albert Einstein, scientist (1879-1955)
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The five-dollar bill is getting a face lift! Uncle Sam is unveiling a new design for the $5 bill, to make it harder to counterfeit.
COLOURlovers has the story:
For as long as all of us can remember, the US dollar has been synonymous with the color green. But as of 2004 the US government has been redesigning our paper money and adding splashes color. The new $5 bill was just introduced and might be considered the most colorful piece of US currency ever produced.
While the redesigned $10, $20 & $50 all have colorful designs the new $5 blends from purple to gray with shining yellow stars… not to mention the giant purple 5 on the back.
Color: The most noticeable difference in the redesigned $5 bill is the addition of light purple in the center of the bill, which blends into gray near the edges. Small yellow “05?s are printed to the left of the portrait on the front of the bill and to the right of the Lincoln Memorial vignette on the back.
Link | More info at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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John Liu of Kentucky was nervous when he took the SAT last December, but all that worrying was for naught: he scored a perfect 2400. He also scored perfect on the ACT.
Wow! Congrats, John!
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Star Wars fans run the gamut from those who just enjoy the movies to those who run around in full costume.
If you want to wear something Star Wars-y but can’t go all the way for the full bodysuit, here’s a middle ground: the Darth Vader Costume T-shirt. Link
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Tired of seeing holier-than-thou stickers hectoring you to Stop Driving or Stop Eating Animals? Wish you could think of some witty riposte?
Fight back – the lazy way – with this set of pre-printed stickers so you don’t have to think or do the hardwork of printing the stuff.
Sigh, graffiti has gone commercial: Link
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Talking ’bout street sign graffiti, Karen of Say No to Crack put together a short list of some really funny ones.
But really, don’t do ‘em – graffiti is graffiti is graffiti. Maybe except this one: Soap Not Spray Cans: Reverse Graffiti Art
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Raunchy doodles? Well … they started out like that, but apparently they just look suggestive. It’s all in your mind, you perv!
The doodles are actually very creative drawings by Maurício Ricardo: Link [embedded YouTube, warning: kind of ... um, yeah.] – via Miss Cellania
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Here’s a posable paper model of David Hasselhoff (as Michael Knight of the Knight Rider), complete with removable chest hair carpet, German singing sensation microphone and the Hoff tank top! Made by Rob Nance of Art for Robots.
Links: Posable Paper David Hasselhoff | Posable Paper Pope – via Random Good Stuff
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"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge"
– Bertrand Russell, philosopher (1872-1970)
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Found at For Your Entertainment – via Scribal Terror
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A Scottish Fold [wiki] is a breed of cat with mutated folded ears. If you’d like to be a Scottish Fold, first of all you need to have a big round head and short ears (whether they be folded or not), and then you have to know how to behave like one.
The Scottish Fold is a cat, and as a cat you should be able to sleep anytime, anywhere …
As a Scottish Fold you cannot be a good hair dresser or… well… you can start a career as one, but it will just end up with a lot of bitings …
You’ve got to learn how to cast yourself in the TV series My Name Is Earl or at least be the coolest cat around and sit around …
The perfect Scottish Fold acts all cute and then fake a fall to make the audience laugh …
Kiss your family just like the Eskimos …
Be glamorous for the press…
You should be capable of starring in a Dogzilla movie …
Or speak to UFOs in their own language just like in the movie Close Encounters …
And, of course, here’s the technical stuff on the Scottish Fold breed:
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Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew named Cuitlahuac, which meant "plenty of poo" or “dry excrement.” And here I am thinking that people today give their kids weird names….
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Photo: Sew Darn Jenny [Flickr]
Dutch company Happy Colors created these "tie-dyed" roses above and other multi-colored flowers by injecting pigments into the stem using hypodermic needles.
Link [in Ducth, with video clip] – Thanks quinn!
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When you get bleach on your clothes usually means ruining the fabric, but Phelyx managed to turn bleach into a tool to "inverse" stencil an awesome t-shirt design!
Here’s the tutorial: Link – via Boing Boing
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Neatorama reader Stane sent in this … um, impolite bag of chips. It means "Big Bag" in Finnish. Link – Thanks Stane!
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JTPednaud’s recent post on Neatorama about "Zombie," a young Montreal gentleman with radical full-face skull tattoo, and the comments in that post reminds me of INKED Inc., a project by (tattooed) photographer and corporate lawyer Dave Kimelberg.
Dave wanted to show how "the once-derided tattoo is quickly gaining popularity within corporate and professional America, a stronghold of conventionality."
The photo above is of Dr. Dave, a medical doctor with private general medicine practice in New York City:
Many of Dr. Dave’s tattoos have a medical theme. A caduceus, the symbol of medicine, sits on his right arm – although a woman replaces the traditional staff. The letters "MD" are tattoed on his back, while a skull with a red medical cross (the symbol of Dr. Dave’s motorcycle club of health professionals) decorates his left shoulder.
This doctor does have full sleeves.
Porfolio [Flash] | Link to INKED Inc.’s website
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Why scoop your dog’s poop when you can catch ‘em while they fall! Introducing the Sha-Poopie: Link – via Cribcandy
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In January 2007, yhe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received a photo album belonging to SS-Obersturmführer Karl Höcker who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp from May 1944 until the evacuation of the camp in January 1945.
The photographs depict Höcker with other SS officers in Auschwitz in the summer and fall of 1944 and provide us with a new understanding of their lives and activities in the camp.
In the above photo, Nazi officers pose with members of the SS Helferinnen (female auxiliaries) on a wooden bridge in Solahutte, an SS resort about 30 km south of Auschwitz.
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Here is good ol’ Donkey Kong. Played live with real barrels, hammers and stairs. Hit the “play” button or go to the YouTube source.
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Shovels, 2005 by Cal Lane at Foley Gallery
Wheel Barrel, 2005 by Cal Lane at Foley Gallery
Artist Cal Lane created these awesome knockout steel sculptures out of a set of regular shovels and wheelbarrow:
Knockout steel sculptures with a lacy touch. Lane, a certified welder and graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, wields an industrial blowtorch as if it were a crochet hook, burning dainty, intricate designs into heavy metal. The artist’s signature Steel Doilies and monumental, "crocheted" I-beams elegantly perforate traditional masculine realms of art and architecture with feminine craft.
Links: Cal’s artwork at Foley Gallery | Her website – via why not?
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A couple of years ago, Bryce Glass of Soldier Ant blog drew up a fantastic graph called the Flickr User Model, explaining exactly what they can do with in the Flickr-verse.
Link [Flickr, of course. Larger size] – via Infovis
Graphoholics be ware: Infovis has an incredible searchable database of 1,200+ examples of graphs. You’ll lose hours there if you’re not careful.
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Who knew cricket could be such a dangerous sport? Here’s the story of David Morrison, who has broken every single one of his fingers:
Reluctant to seek medical attention for fear of losing his place in the team, he would simply apply a bag of frozen peas and carry on playing. It was not until three years ago that doctors got a chance to examine his hands – his thumb was so badly injured it needed to be pinned in place.
A bag of peas! Now that’s one tough (and stubborn) guy: Link – via Arbroath
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This particular photo, titled Descent by Carlos and Jason Sanchez is absolutely beautiful in its simplicity and starkness. Link
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Listaholic has an interesting (though gruesome) article about the 12 most horrifying torture devices in history.
This one to the left is the Judas Chair [wiki]:
The Spanish Inquisition was said to have made use of, among other things, the Judas Chair, also known as the Judas Cradle. Victims were hoisted up by rope or chain and then made to sit on the pointed tip of the pyramid shaped device. You get the picture.
Yikes! Link
See also: This Won’t Hurt a Bit: A Painlessly Short (and Incomplete) Evolution of Execution
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Some people really go out of their way to do dangerous things.
Take, for example, Dan "Captain Cutless" Meyer. Not only did he swallow a 30-inch long steel sword, but he did it underwater. In a tank filled with live sharks and stingray. And within 29 minutes of eating a full meal!
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Darius’ recent post about the Skull Illusion Scarf got me all excited about this peculiar form of neckwear (hey, I live in California – we don’t wear scarves!). Here’s a strange one that I found at Twinkie Chan: a crocheted dead black kitty wrap!
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Trustnobody Slipmad Illustration by Alex Trochut
Alex Trochut, a freelance graphic designer from Barcelona, Spain, is one of those artists whose work literally drip with creativity – check out his portfolio here (don’t miss his "liquid illustration"): Link [Flash] – via TrendsNow
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