This is definitely the Easter Bunny we're looking for! But what's he holding under his arm? Is that a moon?

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Feeling chronically down? It's not normal and doesn't have to be. Talk to your doctor about tacos and what they can do for your life. This commercial by Jeff Wysaski tells you about the advantages and side effects of this wonderful new pharmaceutical treatment.

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Bwahaha! Jill's delightfully mischievous prank is one I'll have to remember. Her April Fools Dunkin Phonuts will get bring joy to anyone's heart right up to the very first bite. The frosting isn't sugar, but mashed potatoes and cream cheese. The donuts aren't made of dough, but an onion and pepper meatloaf.

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The Paul R. Tregurtha is the Queen of the Lakes--the largest ship operating on the Great Lakes. On Monday, it became the first ship of the season to pass through the locks connecting Lake Superior and Lake Huron. Watch the 50-minute journey of this 1,013-foot ship condensed into 25 seconds.

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The Circle must be broken--and it will with this costume from Tumblr member Aspiring Social Recluse. But will she become one if she plays a member of a telepathic species from Doctor Who?

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Agent Starling knows that Hannibal Lecter is a serial killer. But an anime fan? That's a bit too much to handle.

Side note: this video would be unspeakably awesome if it made with My Little Pony posters instead of anime images.

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Victoria Belanger's jello eggs look like Cadbury creme eggs, but they're actually made with Irish cream and cocoa powder. You can find her recipe at the link. I suggest serving them alongside the real thing.

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With a little red uniform snapsuit, the tyke is destined to a long engineering career or a brief hitch as a security guard. Victoria Shank's funny birth announcement is styled after both classic Star Trek and The Next Generation. I can't wait for the series premier!

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Tim Hopkins of Memphis, Tennessee died last Saturday. His obituary indicates that he's gone home to join legendary race car driver Dale Earnhardt, who died in 2001. Here's the brilliantly written opening sentence of Hopkins's obituary:

Timothy Wayne “Tim” Hopkins, 54, went to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and Dale Earnhardt to contribute his building and painting expertise to the constructing of many heavenly mansions on Saturday, March 23, 2013, in Memphis.

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New Yorkers' complaints that tourists walk slowly and block sidewalk traffic is so proverbial that Improv Everywhere painted a traffic lane for them. So keep moving.

But that's only one point of etiquette that newcomers should learn. Nathan Pyle has 11 other instructions presented as animated .gif files. You can view them all at the link.

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P.S. Why is the train car empty?

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Nando Te Riele can demonstrate his master piloting skills without even leaving the ground. Watch this Dutch RC airplane pilot move, nay, dance his plane through a gymnasium at this year's Electric Indoor Masters competition.

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If you see a woman standing by the runway sticking out her thumb, you're probably looking at Amber Nolan. She's a travel writer who wants to visit all 50 states in the United States. That isn't unusual, but her mode of transportation is. Nolan is "jethiking"--hitching rides on private planes. So far, she's flown on 25 aircraft on her journey. She writes:

As far as schedule and planning, I more or less going where the pilots go. I try to have a general direction that makes sense based on weather and where I’ve already been. “Anyone going southeast? Anyone going to Idaho?” But it doesn’t always work that way. I was trying to go to California once and wound up in Montana. The few times I’ve tried to plan to get to a specific place at a certain time, it’s been difficult. When I’m completely flexible and open to wherever, things are much easier. Sometimes the pilots give me options like, “I can drop you at one of these fuel stops,” so that I can choose a little based on what I want to see, or if I have a place to stay. But, a big part of the fun is the randomness of it: landing in small towns that I would never have otherwise thought to visit.

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It's not like stuffing a turkey* because peeps don't have a roomy interior once you've gutted them. But Becky McKay used melted Cadbury creme eggs to help seal the jelly beans in. You can find her recipe at the link.

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*Note to self: next Thanksgiving, make a peep-stuffed turkey.

Lesley A. Jensen, an artist and "fangirl for life," makes marvelous Easter eggs inspired by movies, cartoons and video games. Over several years, she's perfected her craft, creating a large portfolio of edible art.

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Last week, Texas Monthly, a magazine about life in paradise, hired Daniel Vaughn for a newly-created position. Vaughn quit his job as an architect to become the only full-time critic of barbecue for any magazine or newspaper in America:

Mr. Vaughn’s last day as an associate at Good Fulton & Farrell is Tuesday, and he starts his new job in April, a few weeks before the release of his book, “The Prophets of Smoked Meat: A Journey Through Texas Barbecue.” He spent six months exploring the state’s barbecue spots and collecting pitmasters’ recipes, eating at up to 10 restaurants a day and logging 10,000 miles.

Standing at a table at Lockhart, with his dinner scattered about the oily butcher paper and not a plate in sight, he pulled apart the brisket, which had been smoked for 14 to 16 hours. Lockhart opened in 2010 seeking to replicate Central Texas barbecue, using the same techniques, wood — post oak — and down-home style that is both anti-fork and anti-sauce.

“They leave some fat on,” Mr. Vaughn said, brisket in hand. “If you go to East Texas, you’re going to get basically just gray slices of brisket. The saddest thing you can see is for them to pull out a fresh new brisket, slap it down and it’s got this nice jiggle to it. Then they’ll take the back of the knife and scrape the fat off in one fell swoop and throw it away. They love the fat in Central Texas.”

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British race car driver Lewis Hamilton worked for the McLaren team for several years, but he recently joined the Mercedes team. In the rush of the recent Malaysian Grand Prix, without thinking, he pulled into the pit box run by his former teammates:

"I don't know how that happened. The teams look so similar. I have been stopping in that pit box for years.

"[It's] an easy mistake and hopefully one I won't make again."

Hamilton soon realised his mistake and drove further along to his new Mercedes team pit box.

You can watch a video of the incident at the link below.

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The best street artists need only add a few touches to the pre-existing environment to bring out striking images. These three pieces by Russian artist Alexey Menschikov are good demonstrations of this ability.

Menschikov's LiveJournal Page -via Twisted Sifter

Robert and Galina Wynn were driving through Glendale, California when they lost control of their car and crashed not through, but on top of a neighbor's home:

"As soon as we hit the corner, the airbags deployed and I didn't even see where we were going from there because the view was obscured," Wynn said.

Neighbors rushed to the scene. One grabbed a ladder and helped the couple off the roof.

An 80-year-old person inside the house was startled but unhurt. [...]

The fire department brought in a large crane to delicately lift the car off the house.

It had major damage. The roof, on the other hand, needs only minor repairs.

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Psycho Donuts warns:

Before eating the eggs below, make sure to eat the Peep on top first - these peeps are known to protect their nest eggs at any cost! 

That's good advice for eating this Easter treat made with Cadbury Easter eggs and what appears to be coconut shavings.

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Sometimes my wife complains of an earworm--a song that's stuck on a repeating loop in her head. I respond by loudly playing the Lexx theme song a lot. Later, she'll say that that song is stuck in her head. So I'll loudly play "Joxer the Mighty" a few dozen times.* Then, for reasons that are unclear, she stops telling me what she's thinking. Presumably the problem has gone away.

Why does my brilliant method work? Now researchers led by music psychologist Dr. Ira Hyman of Western Washington University have found out. If you want to get rid of an earworm, you need to use all of your working memory on another task, such as solving a puzzle:

“The key is to find something that will give the right level of challenge,” said Dr Ira Hyman, a music psychologist at Western Washington University who conducted the research. “If you are cognitively engaged, it limits the ability of intrusive songs to enter your head.

“Something we can do automatically like driving or walking means you are not using all of your cognitive resource, so there is plenty of space left for that internal jukebox to start playing. [...]

“Verbal tasks like solving anagrams or reading a good novel seem to be very good at keeping earworms out,” said Dr Hyman, who now hopes to examine whether similar techniques could be used to prevent other intrusive thoughts caused by anxiety or obsessiveness.

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*Message: I care.

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Content warning: NSFW language. Bryan Plummer filmed this riveting video of a shark off the coast of South Africa forcing its head through the bars of a shark cage. It's terrifying until we understand that the shark just wanted to help.

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Don't you hate it when someone serves you an improperly boiled sheep's head? Össur Skarphéðinsson, Iceland's Minister of Foreign Affairs, does. Fortunately, the boiled sheep's head served at a recent party function was almost perfect:

This is among the best boiled sheep heads I have ever had. They stuck to my gum as proper heads should do. This is the beginning of an enormous health effort that I plan to follow once the [upcoming general] election is over" says Mr. Skarphéðinsson when asked about the picture that his coworker, Bjork Vilhelmsdottir, put on her facebook page.

I said 'almost':

"This was a superb meal, but the head could have been more fermented. We, from the West fjords, prefer our sheep heads so fermented that we can drink the eye out of the eye socket"

Don't we all?

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The mother of redditor glNito was insistent. Fortunately, her son rose to the occasion.

One commenter pointed out that the tea selection would not be favored by most Britons. glNito responded:

I didn't really want to my fancy looseleaf teas and such in the bathroom. If the Queen is desperate for bathroom tea, she can compromise.

You can view three more photos at the link.

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Cowabunga, dudes! With just a modified hair tie, David Schwen turned a lime into Michelangelo from The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

You may remember other clever designs by Schwen that we've featured, including his Pokémon beer and his Pantone food pairings.

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Ezequiel Galasso, a luthier, and Gianfranco de Gennaro, a professional skateboarder, bring new excitement into worn out skateboards. The Buenos Aires-based duo repurposes the decks to serve as the bodies of electric guitars. 

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Alas, I made the mistake of waiting until my eldest daughter had been born before taking up instructing her in the Trekkie way of life. Now it's a struggle to get her to repeat the Ninth Rule of Acquisition (the foundation of wisdom).

Caleb Clark did not wait that long. An unborn child can hear after 23 weeks, so he began reading to her technical manuals, concordances and episode summaries at that time. But be sure to match your child's developmental level. "Then you can start to talk about Star Trek versus Star Wars, but not until they're a little older. Probably, like, 32 weeks."

Click on Continue Reading to watch Mr. Clark's hilarious video. 

Blouh, a street artist in Belgium, uses stencils to bring science fiction heroes and villains to his neighborhood. The Vader image is especially well-placed and gives me a great idea for how Luke and his father could have fought their last duel.

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Neat! Flip through the pages of a Finnish passport and you'll see a moose walking.

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British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, I am reliably informed, is a hottie. And since the Star Trek and Sherlock actor exists in the same universe as Tumblr, he is inevitably transposed into innumerable memes. The blog PokéBatch, I Choose You is devoted to Cumberbatched versions of Pokémon. You can view more images at the link.

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I've checked. It's real. And as soon as I've finished writing this post, I'm going to order through interlibrary loan the book containing this article. Peter McLaren and Janet Morris's essay on the Power Rangers' phallocentric milieu is something I must read.

It's one of 18 completely real academic papers about 90s-era television that were successfully published. You can read about them at the link.

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