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Dog Rescues Baby Dolphin


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Rich Wilcock was photographing the beach at Gwynedd, Wales. He was accompanied by Leia, his Cocker Spaniel. Leia kept on barking at and nudging Wilcock, drawing his attention to a spot on the beach. There, Leia had found a beached baby dolphin. The Daily Post quotes Wilcock:

“At first I thought it was a baby shark, it was only about one and half foot but on a closer inspection I could see the blow hole on top of his head and realised it was a dolphin.

“There was nobody around for miles so I did what I could as gently as possible. I lifted him gently under the belly and popped him back amongst the waves and he swam away into deeper water.

The video above shows the entire rescue.

-via Nothing to Do with Aborath


Toronto Erects a Memorial for a Dead Raccoon Left in the Street

(Photo: Jason Wagar)

Rest in peace Conrad, a beloved procyonic resident of Toronto. He passed away unexpectedly on the side of a street.

On Thursday morning, a human of the city informed the local government services that a dead raccoon needed to be removed. But the agency responsible for disposal of roadkill did not show up. Over the course of the day, this raccoon became the center of attention on Twitter among the people of Toronto.

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Giant Paint Tube Leaks Flowers

(Photo: Steve Hughes)

Photographer Steve Hughes spotted this inventive public display at a park in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. Marigolds appear to flow out of the uncapped tube of paint. Any artist would love to possess such a magical paint!

-via Colossal


3-Month Old Baby Subpoenaed to Testify in Court

Redditor aquatinne03 has an absolutely fascinating story. She says that her infant daughter has been issued a subpoena by her local district attorney’s office to testify in court on a certain date. Here’s a selection from her description of the problem:

I called the number on it to explain how it must be a mistake because my daughter is not even 3 months old yet but I was told there was no mistake and my daughter is required to appear as a witness to testify on the date shown on the subpoena. I went in person with my daughter to the DA’s office and was told the same thing. […]

My daughter has a rare and uncommon first, middle and last name, so it is very doubtful that there someone else with her exact name. When I called the number on the subpoena and went to the DA’s office I was told both times that if she doesn’t show up for court a warrant will be issued for her arrest. Would the police actually arrest a baby for not showing up in court?

-via Popehat


Fibonacci Clock

The Fibonacci sequence consists of the increasing sums of the two previous integers. So, mathematically, this clock doesn’t make sense unless you counts the members rather than the values of the sequence as indicators of the time.

But if you get a clock like this, you aren’t trying to tell the time easily. You’re trying to express something to other people about the type of person you are. Question: precisely what does this clock express about its owners?

-via The Worst Things for Sale


Celebrity Portraits Made out of Food

Jessie Maxwell Bearden of Austin, Texas is an illustrator, art director, and ad maker. She works in a wide variety of media, including watercolor and pencil. Beyond those conventional media, she also works with food. Lately, in her Instagram feed, she’s been posting her portraits of celebrities made out of food. These include Elvis made of chocolate, Beyoncé made of ice cream, and John Lennon on a poppy seed bagel.

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Dog Steals Garden Hose, Chases Owner

And it’s not the least bit accidental. The dog is very carefully keeping the water aimed at her owner. She’s impressively smart.


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-via Blame It on the Voices


College Professor Forces Students into Prisoner’s Dilemma

It is no longer online, but very recently, a webpage of the University of Maryland displayed a final exam for students. It offered extra credit—for free! There was no question over some arcane piece of information. A student could choose either 2 or 6 points of extra credit. But like the prisoner in the famous logical dilemma, the student faces a negative consequence if classmates are equally greedy.

Dr. Dylan Selterman, professor of psychology, is claiming credit for the question. And what were the results?

-via io9


The Book Hero

Book & Hero is a set of bookend designs that show a Superman-like figure rescuing your precious books from falling. The Israeli design firm Artori Design placed hidden supports that permit the structure to appear to defy gravity. The superhero is magnetic. It affixes to the outside of the rightmost book cover, while the metal support fits inside the cover.


Watch Betty White, Nick Offerman, and Larry King Audition for the Role of Wolverine


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Hugh Jackman has been playing Wolverine in Marvel films since 2000. But now he’s hanging up his claws to pursue other opportunities. Some other actor must step forward to play that savage and relentless member of the X-Men.

Who is fit for the role? Conan O’Brien gained access to recordings of actors auditioning to be the next Wolverine, including Thomas Middleditch and Patton Oswalt. They’re really interesting, but I’m surprised that O’Brien didn’t try out for it himself.

-via Flavorwire


This Dog Bed Is Designed to Simulate a Human Lap

(Photo: Unihabitat)

My Papillon will crawl onto any open lap that he can find. He’s bred to be a lapdog, so it’s what he expects. Perhaps this new bed design by the Japanese pet supply company Unihabitat will be an adequate substitute when a real lap isn’t available. It contains gel-filled packets arranged like a pair of human thighs. Think of it as the canine equivalent of this home mainstay:

-via Home Crux


“Today, nearly one out of every five dollars spent on cookies is spent on an Oreo.”

(Photo: Torben Hansen)

That’s according to Roberto A. Ferdman of the Washington Post. He writes that in the past few years, Oreo has come to dominate the cookie marketplace:

Since 2005, Oreo sales have grown by more than 60 percent, which is easily the largest increase among any of the top cookie brands sold in the United States. For context, consider that cookie sales market-wide rose by only 10 percent over that period, or that more than 7o percent of that growth is directly attributable to increased demand for Oreos.

Ferdman writes that Oreo’s popularity can be attributed to simultaneous but contradictory marketing strategies: it’s both innovative and stable. The company offers variants, such as Oreo Thins and key lime pie. But these are clearly labeled as different from the standard, which has remained constant for decades. If people want to eat an Oreo, they know exactly what they’re getting in the package.

-via Joe Carter


The World’s Most Perfect Vine

David Rind of ABC News awards that title to this glorious video. In 6 seconds, it summarizes the tragedy and comedy of the human experience: hope, victory, hubris, and defeat.

When this Vine is made into a feature-length film, who should play the hero?

-via David Burge


Homemade Walking Machine Driven by a Single Hand Drill

Izzy Swan loves to make machines that are driven by an ordinary battery-powered hand drill. He’s made a band saw, a lawn mower, and a mini bike this way.

His latest challenge was inspired by Theo Jansen’s famous kinetic sculpture Strandbeest. Swan’s walking machine uses the rotary motion of a 20 volt drill to move two actuated legs forward, pushing a little cart. It’s like a Segway, but way cooler. It can hold up to 370 pounds and move for a mile on a full battery charge.


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-via Make


This a Fully-Functioning Winery inside a 550-Square Foot Apartment in Manhattan

(Photo: Laura Murray/Thrillist)

Matt Baldassano lives in a little apartment of the East Village of Manhattan. It has 550 square feet of living space, which I suppose isn’t tiny by New York City standards. But most of the space is taken up by his wine processing facility that produces 10 different wines using the 2 tons of grapes that are delivered there. It’s a lot of work, but Baldassano has help. He throws grape-crushing parties to do some of the work:

Twice a year, Matt throws a party where members and invited guests come over to crush. Most of them just grab a box of grapes and throw them into that electric crushing machine. But others take off their shoes and stomp on the grapes, because they’re in the club, and it’s their wine, so they can do what they want. The grapes ferment in vats in the yard for 8-10 days before they get pressed and racked (that’s a fancy way of saying the grape juice gets extracted and put into barrels). Once the wine is in the barrels, he sets the temperature in his apartment to a necessary 66 degrees. Then 10-18 months later, boom, you’ve got matured wine.

You can see more photos of his impressive in-house facility at Thrillist.

-via Nag on the Lake


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