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If you love cars and LEGO, then Jonathan Elliott is the man you'll love. Check out his Flickr page for mini LEGO cars - from 1971 Mercedes-Benz 350SL to 1976 Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer - he's got 'em all (including some very neat build videos, too).

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This is neat: Slovenian artist Sašo Krajnc (AKA Cvern) creates amazing portraits with only a single sewing thread.

Krajnc is able to create shadings by overlapping black threads - the more black threads overlap in a certain part of the image, the darker the shadow.

Visit Krajnc's Instagram for more examples - via Oddity Central

The opioid crisis in the United States has led to an unexpected rise in demand for ... fake pee.

To be sure, people have long tried to beat drug tests by providing other people's urine, but authorities say that the preferred method nowadays is to use synthetic urine, creatively smuggled in the pants of the person to be tested.

The rise of the use of fake urine has now prompted many states to enact laws banning their sale:

Mississippi’s bill was dubbed the “Urine Trouble Act,” drawing snickers and groans in the State House. But its sponsors and others said that the jokey name belies a real problem: Truck drivers, people who operate heavy machinery and others can use the synthetic liquid to easily thwart a drug test, potentially creating public risks. ...

Mississippi state Rep. Willie Bailey (D), speaking at a hearing in Jackson, held a bottle of fake urine that came with instructions suggesting that users could microwave it to achieve body temperature. He said the substance has been a “hot seller” in truck stops statewide. “They can’t keep it in stock,” he said.

Katie Zezima of The Washington Post has the full story. (Image: P(ee) by triagus)

The balls seem to be moving in circular orbit, but when you take a closer look, you'll see that each ball is moving along a straight path. This clever "circle in circle" optical illusion, built by YouTube user veproject1, is based on the mechanical design by 16th century Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano.

Check it out - via The Awesomer

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To say Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are heartbreakers is an understatement, because these two femme fatales not only break hearts- they break minds and bodies too! But for some reason Batman's heart has always remained out of reach for these dead sexy gals, so they're about to win ol' Batsy over another way- by literally making him eat his heart out by forcefully removing it from his chest!

Add some adorable comic color to your geeky wardrobe with this Friends Forever t-shirt by Coinbox Tees, it's a sweet design that'll get you lots of love wherever you go!

Visit Coinbox Tees's Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs:

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Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

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Sakeru gum comes in regular and long. In these TV ads, Chi-chan seems to prefer the long kind. About a dozen ads ran in the series over the past year, and we are lucky to have them all together with subtitles. While technically SFW, it's full of innuendo that wouldn't fly so well on American TV. The story takes some turns as Chi-chan battles her temptation and constantly loses, but it ends with a twist you do not see coming at all. -via Geeks Are Sexy

Liz Ward of crocheted an Infinity Gauntlet that would give Thanos' version a run for the money. Better yet, Ward is selling her custom-made gauntlet on Etsy (or if you're crafty, you can crochet it yourself based on her crochet pattern).

Photo: Ronald Smits/Design Academy Eindhoven

After many months of enduring the struggles of living as a foreign student at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Yi-Fei Chen decided to channel all of her frustrations into her design project.

The end result is the Tear Gun, which collects the user' tears and then freeze the tears into a bullet and shoots it at the target of his or her frustration:

Her upbringing in Taiwan has instilled Yi-Fei Chen with a deep respect for authority. Disagreeing with your teachers is considered rude, and rudeness must be suppressed. Coming to the Netherlands for a master’s degree was a shock to her system. Within Western higher education, students are taught to question authority and expected to take a critical attitude. For many students like Chen it can be a confusing and emotional journey to adapt to such a new set of circumstances. The pressure they feel to step outside their own comfort zone may even cause drastic responses.

Chen has visualised her personal struggle to toughen up and speak her mind with a striking metaphor: she has frozen the tears she shed during an incident where she had to speak up but couldn’t, and built a gun to fire them. Next time a teacher puts her on the spot, she will be ready to respond with equal force.

Check out the video of the Tear Gun project:

Russian photographer Kristina Makeeva (@hobopeeba) journeyed to Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia, and took stunning photographs of the world's largest freshwater lake during winter when it is frozen.

Take a look at her Livejournal post (Google-translated version) - you won't be disappointed.

(Photos: Kristina Makeeva)

Drone pilot and photographer Calin Stan (@calinstan) took this amazing four-season collage of the roads to Transylvania. Take a look at Stan's Facebook photo album Infinite Road to Transylvania for more inspiring photos of impossibly curvy and windy roads from above.

(Photo: Calin Stan)

Last weekend, two goats were discovered to be in a predicament after they had walked out on a beam beneath the Mahoning River Bridge in Pennsylvania. They ran into an obstacle at about 200 feet into their adventure, so the brown goat turned around to go back.

The brown goat managed the trick. "He walked out to a concrete pier and somehow got himself turned around," says Todd Tilson, operations manager in the maintenance department of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

The white goat did not manage to turn around.

That's why, in the photo, you'll see the two goats facing each other.

Tilson reports that the brown goat "kept hitting the white one with its head" to make it walk backward. "It would take one step, two steps back, then stop," he says.

And really, can you blame it? Would you want to walk backward on a beam that is about 8 inches wide and 100 feet above the ground?

Yeah, me neither.

The owner of the goats said they were there 18 hours, resembling the Dr. Seuss tale of the North-Going Zax and the South-Going Zax. The Pennsylvania Turnpike staff borrowed a crane from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. But could they gets the goats down without spooking them into falling? Read about the dramatic goat rescue at NPR. -via reddit

(Image credit: Pennsylvania Turnpike)

British ornithologist Jamie Dunning normally studies twites, but for some reason he turned an ultraviolet light on a puffin carcass in January and found that its beak lit up like a Day-Glo stick at a rave. Now, these birds don't have blacklights at their parties, but they do have the ability to see colors we cannot. Humans see colors in a mix of red, blue, and green, while birds have tetrachromatic vision, meaning they have a fourth color available to them. A version of the fluorescent colors of the puffin beak could be not only visible, but important to them.  

Birds probably don't see those ridges all lit up like we do, said Dunning.

"It's hard to say what it would look like [to them], we can't comprehend that colour space.

"But almost certainly it's attractive to the birds. They must be able to see it — that's the only reason it would exist."

The next challenge for Dunning is to study the beaks of live puffins under an ultraviolet light. For that step, he has designed sunglasses for the birds. You can see those, and read about the research, at  CBC. -via Metafilter 

(Image credit: Jamie Dunning)

Love Stephen King's novels? See if you can find more than 170 references to Stephen King characters in this fantastic fan-made poster aptly titled "King Country" by Jordan Monsell. It'll be on sale at this month's Monsterpalooza in Pasadena, California.

Need some hints? io9 has the handy dandy key.

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Scientists at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have reported a disturbing finding: two of the world's major crop pests have combined or hybridized into a new "mega-pest".

The first species is the cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera), which is widespread in Africa, Asia and Europe and causes damage to over 100 kinds of crops. The second is the corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea), which is commonly found in the Americas. The new hybrid has potentially unlimited geographical boundaries.

What if you have a son and a dog, and you really, really like the name Bryan? Which one should get the name?

No need to choose! Edward Mahon, a mining and land baron in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in the early 1900s, decided that he did not need to choose between his son and his dog. He named his son "Bryan" and his dog "Bryan Dog."

Thanks Tiffany!