It's always a good day when you turn this much trash into a treasure. Zayd Menk spent three months constructing a scale model of Midtown Manhattan in his free time after school. He built it out of discarded electronic components: circuits, relays, motherboards, and whatever else fit the bill. It's big, too. The finished landscape is 165x80cm (5'5" x 32"), and the tallest building is 10.6 inches tall. If you know Midtown well, you'll want to check out his accuracy by the closeup views from different angles in this Flickr album. See more of Menk's work, including a video of this project, at Instagram. -via reddit
Dogs can destroy tough stuff like boots, furniture and wooden fences in no time flat, but dogs usually destroy in short bursts unlike cats, who usually like to go slow and shred stuff over time.
Cats also normally like to hide the destruction from their humans so they don't get in trouble, but when kittehs stop caring about what their humans think they go paws to the wall and act like little furry wrecking balls.
This hilarious compilation by Tiger Productions reminds us our stuff is only in one piece because our cats haven't decided to destroy it yet, so be kind to your kitty and make with the treats...or else!
Luckily, this scene will never be expanded into a complete Star Wars movie, but it's perfect for a LEGO recreation! Ochre Jelly (Iain Heath) built Uncle Owen's and Aunt Beru's moisture farm in its death throes after the attack by Vader's Stormtroopers. Luke's entire family (as he knows it) is burnt to a crisp, but he takes it in stride. This frees him up to escape farm life and join the Rebellion as he always wanted to. Good thing he had his landspeeder with him, safe from the carnage!
Even the smoke clouds are made of LEGO pieces. See all ten pictures of Luke's horrifying discovery in Heath's Flickr album.
See more of Ochre Jelly's pop culture LEGO work.
Yellow Snow Cones by DeepFriedArt
When an Abominable Snowman gets bored things can go south real fast, so when Yeti started to show signs of boredom Mike and Sulley knew they had to find something for him to do- and fast. Since Yeti was always trying to make humans happy so they'd be less afraid of him they decided it would be best if he made some yummy yellow snow cones to give out to the kids and make them smile. So the monsters helped him whip up a batch from an old family recipe, after a talk about cleanliness, food safety and how you should never eat that other yellow snow, of course. Soon Yeti was a Himalayan hit, and the townies promised to include him and come visit him from time to time. Yeti was overjoyed, and excited about having the humans over to his cave again in the future, that is, until he discovered one of them had broken his favorite mug...
Share some warmth and a smile with all the humans you see by wearing this Yellow Snow Cones t-shirt by DeepFriedArt, it's deliciously dorky!
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Of all the friends from Friends I'd want to hang out with Ross the least, because his anal retentive nature and sniveling would make me want to mash him. Plus I'd probably want to hang out with Phoebe the most and they're practically polar opposites.
Thankfully the Friends are fictional so we don't really have to worry about which one we'd hang out with, but according to 22 Words I was right about Ross being the worst of Friends.
Added to my list of reasons- because he lords his intelligence over everyone, overthinks everything and is prone to emotional outbursts that make everyone, including his own sister, want to slap him.
And finish it off with that whole "will they, won't they, why did he cheat on her?" thing he had going on with Rachel, that really rubbed me the wrong way, Ross! You deserve to be alone with your dusty old bones!
Why do you hate Ross Geller? Yeah, me too. *hugs*
See 25 Reasons Ross From 'Friends' Is Someone You'd Never Want To Be Friends With In Real Life here
You'd think the 1985 movie American Ninja was conceived by someone pulling buzzwords out of hat A and hat B, but in reality the title came later. The plot pits an evil ninja gang in the Philippines against the US military, led by our protagonist Joe, who mysteriously displays amazing ninja and martial arts skills. The improbable plot matters little because the action drew audiences in, and American Ninja made more than ten times its production budget at the box office. If you fondly recall American Ninja, you'll want to read some trivia about the film.
4. Chuck Norris was the original choice for the lead role.
He didn’t want to have to cover up his face to play the part in a movie. Chuck has always preferred to be seen as himself in any movie he makes.
3. There were four sequels to this movie.
Yes, there was an American Ninja 2, 3, 4, and 5. The main actors starred in a few of them together but not all of them.
Learn more about American Ninja at TVOM.
Just because you declare something to be so does not make it so. Got a deadline? Do you have to rely on the folks underneath you to reach that deadline? Too bad! They tried to tell you it wasn't possible, but did you listen? A supervisor who talks to their workers and doesn't listen to them is as bad as one who doesn't talk to them at all. This is the latest comic from CommitStrip.
Paris Ferguson had a car wreck last year and broke her arm. They gave her some good drugs at the hospital, since they didn't know what other injuries she had. As she came out of surgery and woke up, all her inhibitions fell away, and she proposed to the cute nurse, Luke, who was tending to her. Luke alternated between laughing and blushing, but he remained both reassuring and professional.
She wants a blue wedding in a Las Vegas chapel. And a blue wedding ring. Sapphires, that is. Paris later made a video telling the whole story, which is pretty long. -via Digg
Contrary to what your mother may have told you, you can get a PhD in Batman. Kingston University's Will Brooker tells all about comic book academia.
JEFF RUBIN: I never got a PhD, so I don’t totally understand the process. Along the way, was
there someone you had to go to and say, “Just so you know, I’m going to be writing my thesis on Batman”?
WILL BROOKER: Yeah, there sure is. What happens is you have to find yourself a supervisor who is an expert in the area you want to study. There are quite a lot of checks and balances. My PhD was just as rigorous as someone doing a PhD on something more traditional.
JR: So writing a paper on Batman is just as much work as writing a paper on the Iliad. Why is that? Is it because there’s just so much more Batman? There’s only one volume of the Iliad, but there’s essentially an infinite amount of Batman out there.
WB: The challenge isn’t “Can you read every word that Shakespeare ever wrote?” and it’s the same with Batman. It’s not like a pop quiz where someone’s going to ask you a detail of something that happened in 1943.
JR: So when you say, “I’m writing about Batman,” which Batman are you writing about?
Who should you call? Animal control! Nick Offerman looks cool as an Italian plumber, but there's nothing that makes him the logical hero in this scenario. Donkey Kong made no sense when it first debuted in 1981, and it still makes no sense. That's what we loved about it. Oh yeah, and it was fun to play, too. This comic is from The Obscure Gentlemen, a webcomic you should be following on a regular basis.
The Oscar for Best Cinematography goes to whichever movie was judged to have displayed the best camera work over the preceding year. To show us what kind of movies the Academy likes for this award, Burger Fiction put together a supercut of all the winners from 1929 to 2016, plus the nominees for this year's Academy Awards. I would bet you've seen most all of them.
There's a list of the all the movies used in this video here, along with the names of the cinematographers.
The Galactic Empire constructed an operational space station in orbit and armed it with weapons capable of destroying planets. Twice. They weren't the only ones to conceive of such an idea. And although weaponized satellites built on earth wouldn't be quite that powerful, they are way more terrifying, because those plans are real. The first one was found in the confiscated archives of Nazi Germany. A Life magazine article from 1945 told of the German concept of an orbital base, armed with a "sun gun."
But the war brought a new idea to the table: Make a space station, put it at a lower orbit, and arm it with a giant mirror “to burn an enemy city to ashes or boil part of an ocean.” The station would be manned with a crew that, when not aiming the giant mirror
like a bully frying ants, would instead tend to pumpkin gardens.
The biggest obstacle for such a plan, the magazine claimed, was that no heavy rocket existed that could ferry the parts into orbit. “If the modern German scientists had been able to make such a rocket, they may have been able to set up their sun gun,” the article notes. “Whether the sun gun would have accomplished what they expected, however, is another matter.”
Modern German scientists were eventually able to make those powerful rockets -for the United States. The US and the Soviet Union also had their own plans for putting weapons of mass destruction into orbit, although they were written quite a bit later. Read about the proposed programs at Popular Mechanics. -via Digg
The second episode of the new Mental Floss video series Scatterbrained is all about Valentines Day. Learn quick facts about the history of the holiday, all about traditional Valentine candy, other holidays celebrating romance around the world, advice on buying and selling a diamond ring, and the mating habits of animals. This is just what you need when you're sitting at home alone at your computer on Valentines Day. May you someday know a relationship as good as that of the shingleback skink.
Our cats seem to be okay with the cat trees we've given them, and they seem to appreciate the effort when we build them a cat tree that looks like a prop from a movie.
But then again they're happy with any cardboard boxes we leave lying around the house too, so maybe they're not as content on their cat tree as we think.
Maybe they'd prefer a swanky tree with a modern look like the NEKO cat tree created by the Japanese cat product company RINN as designed by Yoh Kamiyama.
The NEKO tree has a marble base and hardwood slates surrounding the platforms, so it looks cool and your kitties can scratch on it without tearing it up. Plus the slates are spaced so your cat can look out from inside the tree and feel like they're in the safest feline fortress in the world.
-Via DesignTAXI
Viewers always feel like booing and hissing at the screen when the Imperial stormtroopers come marching in waging war and killing innocent people, but would we feel this way if their shiny white suits were full of pugs? If any dog could get away with blowing up a planet with a death star and still look like the cutest, sweetest pooch in the galaxy it's the pug, and if the Sith Lord Vader himself took his helmet off revealing a pug's face underneath we'd all go "awww, look at how cute that little doggy Darth is!" instead of cringing in horror.
Show the world why pugs are always the star of the dog world with this Pugtrooper t-shirt by Kellabell9, it's the funniest design in the galaxy and an adorable force for good!
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