Don’t look in the oven! There’s something in that oven. And it’s coming out.
Judy and Gavin Holt have a new production in the works, due for release in March of 2016. It’s terrifying. The sounds, the sights, the smells—it’s a horror unlike any other.
Leave the kids at home. They don’t need to be frightened like this—at least, not yet.
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Sasha Zabelina, an art director, has lately been creating emoji versions of famous movie posters. Even very disturbing films, such as Scarface, become cute when reduced to emoji form. What movies would you like to see her emojify next?
Chris Durso of Foodiggity lays it out bluntly:
Sorry, jelly. Your reign as the ultimate donut-stuffing has come to an end. There’s always your complementary role within a PB&J, and whatever other work we can find for you now. Stay strong.
I would have been more gentle than that, but . . yeah. Jelly, your time is up. Clean out your office. Chef Thaigo Silva of Catch NYC has replaced the traditional donut filling with an entire cinnamon roll.
(Jelly, you can use me as a reference. Not sure about Chris, though. I wouldn't chance it.)
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Like all great fantasy role-playing adventures, our tale begins with a pizza delivery. Pizza does not make for great trail rations, but it's a good idea to have a final full meal before launching out on a great expedition against mystical forces and dark powers. A quality pizza gives you a temporary +1 Constitution bonus.
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The Dying Gaul is a famous Roman sculpture that dates back to the 1st or 2nd Century A.D. It's a masterful depiction of pain and sorrow by a traditional enemy of Rome by an artist whose name, sadly, is lost from the pages of history.
We do, however, know who composed The Dying Ninja Turtle. Brett Kern, a ceramics artist, made it and several other mashups of 1980s pop culture and ancient Greco-Roman statuary. You can see others at The Nerdist.
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You're not completely awake, but the warm water beating down on your skin is beginning to revive you. Your mind is rising in consciousness, but not engaged with the busyness of the day. This is the moment in which enlightement comes upon you. This is the shower thought experience. Imgur user yougavemehogwarts illustrated 20 of the best, which were perhaps gathered from the subreddit /r/showerthoughts.
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Jennifer Stetler's 8-month old daughter and her kitten took a nap together. They woke up at the same time, but the kitten wasn't quite ready to resume play. It's baby's job to soothe her.
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Hornussen is a traditional sport in German-speaking parts of Switzerland. It may date back as far as the 17th Century. Hornussen is a bit like golf and a bit like baseball. In this team sport, a player on one team hits a small rubber ball called a hornet using a 10-foot long club that is very flexible. It's more like a thick whip than a solid club.
The batter drives the ball out into the field. The opposing team members are downrange, carrying large paddles. Their goal is to intercept the ball before it hits the ground. A team accumulates points by driving its hornets farther without getting knocked out of the air by its opponents.
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Michael Harnett, the Chief Investment Strategist for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, developed this map that scales countries not by population, oil reserves, or per capital bronies, but the relative size of their stock markets.
Elena Holodny of Business Insider points out a few interesting comparisons. China and its constituent city Hong Kong are nearly the same size. Russia has greater surface area than Pluto, but is about the size of Finland.
Note that New Zealand, as many world maps explain, doesn't actually exist.
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Did you read the syllabus? Dr. Joseph A. Howley, a classics professor at Columbia University, suspected that most of his students didn't. So he hid a test in his syllabus. It instructed students to email him a picture of Alf, the alien character in the 80s sitcom ALF. The Daily Beast reports:
Like a lot of professors in 2015, Columbia professor Joseph Howley had a problem with students “class shopping.”
Some would sign up for his class only to see if it was easy, then bail after the first session if it wasn’t. But only Howley thought to counter this quiet menace with something that could stop it: a cat-eating space alien who was expelled from Earth to face his inevitable death in 1990.
The assistant classics professor stuck a command for his students to send him a picture of Alf—the ’80s sitcom star and alien from the planet Melmac—into the middle of his syllabus to see if anybody noticed.
So far, 8 of his 20 students have done so, emailing Dr. Howley with pictures of Alf. He tweeted:
My "are they reading the syllabus?" easter egg has yielded quantitatively dismal results but is still paying off. pic.twitter.com/OCTyV2Rtct
— Joseph A. Howley (@hashtagoras) September 11, 2015
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A horse escaped and ran down the M5 highway in the UK near the city of Taunton. Traffic shut down completely, leaving motorists with nothing to do.
Among the travelers were the members of a string quartet who were on their way home after performing at a wedding. They got out their instruments and played "Pachelbel's Canon" for their fellow stranded motorists. The Daily Telegraph (auto-start video) reports:
Alison Gillies, 37, of Bristol, who plays the cello in the group, said: "We were on our way back from playing at someone's wedding and we got caught up in the traffic jam, then one of the quartet jokingly suggested it and we thought why not?
"A crowd of people came over, and everyone seemed to like it - it was great. People seemed to just come over, they saw us unpacking and everything so it wasn't much of a surprise for them, but they got into it it was really nice.
"We were playing so we didn't really notice at the time, but there was quite a crowd. We got a round of applause at the end and a woman came over and gave us some sweets. It was the more unforgettable gig of the weekend."
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You may call it squirrel meat. But in Arkansas, it also goes by the name of "tree bacon" or "limb chicken." It's organic, free range, and a sustainable meat source. You can cook it in an infinite variety of ways and see a lot of those recipes at the annual World Champion Squirrel Cook Off in Bentonville, Arkansas. Elyse Pasquale of Mashable attended last year. She describes one of its unique cooking contests:
The competition is BYOS — that's "bring your own squirrel" — and the allocated cooking time is short and serious. Teams have 2.5 hours to fully prepare onsite (no pre-prepping or marinating allowed) one main dish where 80% of the meat must be squirrel, and one side dish. Taste counts; so does appearance and creativity. The winning team receives a cash prize and event proceeds are donated to charity.
In 2014, 38 teams prepared a total of 76 unique dishes. The panel of twelve judges included a cookbook author, a James Beard-nominated chef, a biologist, a hodgepodge of culinary and hunting professionals, and me.
What is your favorite way to eat squirrel?
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Hubbub, an environmental charity in the UK, wants to encourage people to dispose of their garbage in a proper manner. So it created a series of urban trash cans that make disposing of litter fun. In this case, people can vote with their cigarette butts for whom they think is the greatest soccer player in the world: Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. The managers can also swap out the question for others that encourages debate and thus proper garbage disposal.
You can see the other trash receptacles at Booooooom, which address the annoyance of chewing gum left on sidewalks.
Moving clockwise, that's Pikachu from Pokémon, Umaru Doma from Himouto! Umaru-chan, and Yuki Takeya from School-Live! La Ricetta, a restaurant in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, makes artistic pancakes that are so realistic that they look nearly photographic. Or, in these cases, animated. The restaurant specializes in anime characters, so order one of your favorite character and eat it--or frame it!
You can see videos on La Ricetta's twitter feed illustrating how its chefs compose these masterpieces. They draw the image in reverse with thin strands of batter, then fill in the interiors, frying at variable times in order to show contrast.
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Tyler and Lauren went paddleboarding in the Weeki Wachee River in Florida. While idly paddling down the nearly still river, they saw a pod of manatees swim by in the crystal clear water.
I've never been to Weeki Wachee, but I have tubed down the nearby Ichetucknee Springs, which is a similarly mesmerizingly beautiful place.
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