The Palais des Congres Montréal--A Glass Wonderland

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You're not in heaven--just Quebec. This is the Palais des Congrès, a convention center in Montreal. The west side of the building consists of 332 colored and 58 transparent glass panels measuring 5 by 12 feet. Whether you're inside or outside, the effect of the light on them is stunning.

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Amazing Photo: How to Move a Mining Truck

How do you move a mining truck? Remember the rule: lift with your legs, not your back. Also: use another truck. Mercedes-Benz tweeted this image of one of its semis moving a mining vehicle.

-via Jalopnik


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Hornet’s Nest

Don’t freak out just yet. Redditor CountBubs’s dad hadn’t been in his shed for a couple of years. When he finally opened the door, he saw this hornet’s nest. Luckily, the hornets had already abandoned it. The head is part of a wooden statue that was stored in the shed -the hornets did not make it. They just built upon it. It must have been a Creative Commons sculpture.


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An Up Dollhouse

For the past few weeks, artist James Hance (a Neatorama favorite) has been working on a dollhouse for his daughter Maddy. When she wakes up on Easter morning tomorrow, she'll find this amazingly detailed recreation of the house from the Pixar movie Up. I hope that James has ballasted it properly so that it doesn't float away.


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Perfectly Stacked Groceries


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This is why supermarkets should always hire people with OCD to stock their shelves (lettuce ask the manager to raise that man's celery!). The wonderfully stacked vegetables in the produce department are probably just waiting for that jerk of a customer who'd always pick from the bottom of the pile.

Beets me why they do that. They just don't carrot all about squash-ing someone's feelings. Not berry nice at all.


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3D Classified Ads Optical Illusion

The newspaper classifieds (remember those?) is so anachronistic in today's digital world that it's like delving into a trippy and foreign world.

Felipe Salazar, Creative Director of Sancho BBDO advertising agency in Colombia, managed to grab our attention by cleverly manipulating the local newspaper's classified sections to create this unusual ad for his client Corona Kitchen. The ad shows a three-dimensional outline of a kitchen - including a range with hood, counter top and shelvings - simply by stretching and rearranging the text.

via Design Taxi and Laughing Squid


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When Animals Argue ...

You've probably seen it before, but when animals argue, hilarity ensues. I always chuckle no matter how many times I see this going 'round the web (that's probably what the spider said).

Because you know ...

Okay, I'll stop because ...


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Baby on Board

What do you think of first when you see those "Baby on Board" sign on the car in front of you? Mother-in-Law in Trunk? Or the Baby On Board song from The Simpsons?

Well, perhaps this image will be the basis of your new thought. Technically, it's correct (yes, it uses a baby doll - because planking a real child would be illegal, not to mention cruel).


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Can I Park Here?

This parking sign was spotted in Portland, Maine, and posted by redditor middleclassjobs. Can you make any sense of it at all? You have to wonder how many times traffic gets backed up because someone had to pull out their mobile device and look up a calendar, and spend time figuring out whether that parking space is empty because it’s illegal to park there, or because no one can figure it out. It appears that the bottom sign may contradict the middle sign, but what do I know?

When you negate the convenience of parking on the street with the headache of reading the signs, a few dollars to park in a garage may be a better option. And certainly the cost of a parking ticket would be more headache than all those options. Good luck fighting that ticket in court.


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This Beautiful Children’s Bookstore Looks Like a Long, Winding Rainbow

Architect and furniture designer Arthur Casas created the interior of this gorgeous bookstore in São Paulo, Brazil. Children can follow the rainbow-colored road along shelves and oddly-shaped alcoves filled with books. There are plenty of spaces along the journey to stop and read in comfort. You can view more images at Fubiz.


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Weight Watchers Canceled Due to Unforeseen (Yet so Delicious) Circumstances

The sign above tells us that Weight Watchers meetings have been cancelled for the next two weeks due to unforeseen circumstances. Round and delicious, oh so delicious unforeseen circumstances. Coincidence? We don't think so.

Via imgur


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When an Elephant Falls on You

Redditor 12345123451234 (which is probably a throwaway account) posted this picture of a baby elephant who fell down while being petted. Although he probably weighs several hundred pounds, it doesn’t look like he made direct contact on the woman with the bulk of his weight. But his face tells a story! “Derp! I've fallen and I can't get up!”  -via Daily of the Day


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Order in the Court!

Redditor pageblanche posted this image and commented "My town keeps it classy." This is occasionally a problem at libraries, too. I don't mind pajamas that much. But I'd rather not touch an ID card retrieved from a bra.

-via Charlie Thomas


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Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen Visit the Stonewall Inn

Actors Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are best friends. Stewart often posts on Twitter photos of the two of them together, palling around in their signature derbies. Here's one that he just put up. It shows them in front of the Stonewall Inn in New York City.

The Stonewall Inn is an historically gay bar in Greenwich Village. Police raided it on June 28, 1969. Gays fought back in an event known as the Stonewall Riots. Many historians regard this resistance as the birth of the gay rights movement in the United States.

P.S. Be sure to check out this hilarious animated .gif showing Stewart and McKellen. It mashes up a scene from the latest X-Men movie with their photos together. In the movie, Stewart and McKellen play Professor X and Magneto, longtime enemies.


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Could You Have Said It Better?

Is this English? It should be, because the picture from Nothing To Do With Arbroath is labeled Camp Pendleton Dining Hall. The Sodexo Management at the bottom refers to the French multinational corporation that supplies meals for restaurants and institutions like schools, prisons, and military bases. Don’t you think they could have worded it better? Here's my quick attempt:

No take-out with sit-down meals. To go orders cannot be eaten here.

How would you have said the same thing more clearly?


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