Could you really eat a horse? If you could actually eat a horse portion of spaghetti, here's a tool that will measure it for you. Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson, a designer in Iceland, made it for a variety of appetites, ranging from horse to child. The horse is the equivalent of 4 adult portions.
-via Swissmiss
When he was 3 years old, Gagan Satish's parents gave him a pair of roller skates. He showed remarkable proficiency with them. They approached a professional skating trainer and asked for his help. Soon Gagan was mastering the art of limbo skating. That's skating very low to the ground.
Gagan can split so far that he can skate while rising no higher than 7 inches off the ground. Recently, Gagan, now 6 years old, tried to break a Guinness World Record for limbo skating under cars. He skated under 39 cars for a total of about 230 feet in 29.8 seconds!
Guinness has yet to confirm his new record, but it appears to break the current record of 158 feet.
-via Gizmodo
The ad agency M+C Saatchi Malaysia designed these tea bags for the Boh tea brand. They're bags of chamomile tea with the tea shaped into symbols of stress. When you put the tea bag into hot water, the shape changes. An erupting volcano becomes a scenic mountain. An enraged wild bear becomes a happy teddy bear. A storm cloud becomes a puffy cloud.
The message of the new designs is that a nice cup of tea is just what you need to calm down from the stress that you face in your daily life.
-via Dornob
Turbo is a Chihuahua puppy who was born without front legs. His owners brought him to a veterinary office in Indianapolis, Indiana when he was a month old. They had tried to care for him, but it was proving impossible for Turbo to feed with his littermates. The owners didn't want euthanize him, so they handed him over to the clinic.
The staff at The Downtown Veterinarian has been caring for him ever since. Since a dog can't be fitted for a wheeled cart until he's at least 6 months old, the staff has been improvising. They've taken toys apart and used them to make substitute legs. His first set was originally from a Fisher Price helicopter. The staff is making new carts for Turbo as he grows.
-via Huffington Post
(Photos: Turbo/Roo)
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About 1,000 deer live in the roughly 1,200 acres that constitute Nara Park in Nara, Japan. The deer are wild, but used to humans. In fact, they're known to bow respectfully to visitors and walk across crosswalks only when permitted.
But in a quiet show of force, many of them have left the park and begun camping out on a sidewalk and street in the town. Some are going so far as to lie down in the road and impede vehicular traffic.
The rising has begun. The Day of the Deer is at hand.
Human Error is a fascinating ongoing image series by Victoria Siemer, a graphic designer in Brooklyn also known as Witchoria. Each image takes the form of a Polaroid snapshot--a memory--of emotional pain and turmoil. Witchoria presents these moments as computer hardware and software errors. It's a narrative of broken love as the user finds and loses trust and experiences aging and anxiety.
Do you have $3,995.95? Now discounted from an original price of $12,000 is this one-of-a-kind ping pong table by artist Cyprien Chabert. It's shaped like Rapa Nui, the south Pacific isle also known as Easter Island. You know--the one with the giant stone statues. It's a commentary on the birdman ritual of the aboriginal inhabitants and the island's ecological history. It's for sale at Anthropologie, which comments:
Artist Cyprien Chabert is haunted by the idea of lost paradise – forgotten and fantasized about. He recreates these worlds through his work, like this show-stopping table, carved from an erstwhile ping pong table. Chabert was inspired by the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, and its birdman ritual, an annual event in which competitors would swim through shark-infested waters to a nearby islet to collect the season¿s first eggs of the Sooty Tern and return it to their sponsor on the island. The winner was crowned birdman for one year; the ritual died out in the late 19th century. Chabert uses the exotic symbolism of Easter Island to represent the complex nature of man’s relationship with nature and the ecological challenges faced by modern societies and cultures.
This product description inspired some funny commentary by blogger Nancy French, who writes:
My favorite part of that description is the Anthropologie product description writer’s use of the word “erstwhile.” I’ve had a lot of tough writing assignments, but I’ve never faced a task like that poor guy. I can only imagine his face when he was assigned this one.
“We’re selling a ping pong table,” his boss must’ve said.
Great! the writer may have thought. A retro addition to any family room!
“Well, you can’t actually use it, because it was created to complex nature of man’s relationship with nature and the ecological challenges faced by modern societies and cultures.”
Blank look.
“Say something about sharks. And birdmen.”
“What’s a birdman?”
“You’re missing the point.”
“And the point is…?”
“$15,000..”
I found this table via BuzzFeed, which has included it on a list of 19 ridiculously expensive items for sale at Anthropologie.
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"Bruce, you stink. You really need to shower."
"I'm not Bruce. I'm The Batman."
"Yes, we know. But you can take off the Batsuit every now and then. And now would be a good time. Because you're starting to smell pretty bad."
"I can't take off the suit. I am The Batman. The suit and cowl are who I am."
"Yes, we know that. And perhaps wild bats smell a bit. But superheroes who want to stay in the Hall of Justice need to smell fresh."
"But I--"
"Dousing yourself with Axe body spray isn't enough!"
-via Pleated Jeans
Behold, the next great burger design! This is a high-end hamburger with bacon, brown sugar, arugula, taleggio cheese, and a strawberry/rhubarb ketchup. These ingredients are unusual, but not unknown (though the ketchup is a unique recipe).
What sets this burger apart is that the bun is composed of funnel cake. No, not spaghetti, French fries, ramen, macaroni and cheese, Twinkies, or Rice Krispie treats, but freshly fried funnel cake. A bit of powdered sugar gives it the authentic fair food look.
You can find the complete recipe by Josh, the Bro-Down chef, here.
-via That's Nerdalicious!
P.S. Josh does more than just cook awesome food. Among his services are emotional validation, haiku writing ($35), punching him in the face, and spoken word performances on post-colonial feminism.
Glasgow, Scotland is hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games, which are taking place now. Queen Elizabeth II made a surprise visit to a women's field hockey game between Australia and Malaysia. Australian player Jayde Taylor took a selfie with a teammate. And who slipped into the background? The Queen herself!
Taylor admits that she planned the photo:
“Brooke [Peris] and I planned it so that when she came out the door she would be behind us. And then she came out and smiled at the camera. We were in the right spot at the right time.”
Later, they got to meet the Queen:
“The security guard led us all round and we got to meet her.
“She asked us a bit about the pitch, how we were going and told us to enjoy our time here. She was lovely, really, really lovely.”
-Thanks, Wifey!
(Photo: Tzuhsun Hsu)
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Utoro is a small port town in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. Looking over the harbor are the fearsome Godzilla Rocks, so named for their resemblance to that monster. My question: is Godzilla guarding the town--or waiting for the right moment to crush it?
(Image: Toho)
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If you're a sports fan, you'd probably love to go to the stadium and cheer your favorite team on to victory whenever they play. But you might not have time. That's why one company in South Korea invented the Fanbot. It's a robot that fulfills your duties as a fan. When it's time to cheer, the Fanbot will lift up a lighted sign with an appropriate message.
It's an ingenious concept that should be expanded. Consider the possibilities. If you don't have time to watch that new hit TV show, you can have a robot servant do that for you. Want to go on a date, but can't fit it into your schedule? No time for the family? Just delegate those tasks to the robot so that you can get back to work.
-via Marginal Revolution
Cadbury the rabbit isn't up-to-date on social media, but she can now send email. Instructables member JackANDJude built an electronic trigger that sends an email whenever Cadbury presses the lever.
She used a CloudBit controller, a roller switch, and a chopstick. It's placed on the outside of the cage to protect the wiring from rabbit teeth (bunnies love to chew on wires).
With great deliciousness comes great responsibility. Fortunately, Dácil is up to the task. She made these strawberry treats by painting lines with white and dark chocolate.
-via That's Nerdalicious!
YouTube member TheOpenLens went to Round Island, Alaska to film local wildlife. He and his companions were taking pictures of sea lions when they saw a fox approach. TheOpenLens put his GoPro camera on the ground and in the hope that the fox would approach it. He was successful--more than he should have been! The fox ran off with his camera. It took him 8 minutes of searching before he found it again.
