Erin Hudson of Afton, Iowa, grabbed her camera when someone spotted a cow eating the family's mail right out of the mailbox! That's not something you see every day. Or any day, for that matter. Video contains NSFW language.
The cow acted like she knew she'd done something that wasn't permitted, but she did not want to give up that sweet tasty junk mail! -via Tastefully Offensive
DeLoreans were used in the Back To The Future movies for one reason- their gullwing doors, which made the time machine look way cooler than a standard car with boring old horizontal opening doors.
And while DeLoreans turned out to be pretty crappy cars the VW Bus is a classic that will be on the road now and forever more thanks to their simple yet durable engines and endless customizability.
So a Back To The Future-inspired VW Bus may not be the time machine we expected, but it's the only time machine that's truly outta time!
This custom 1967 VW Bus created by Velocity Motorcars was heavily inspired by Doc Brown's shiny time machine yet retains its classic good looks, and inside there are all kinds of fun additions to make passengers feel right at home in any time or place:
This is truly a one of a kind build paying homage to Marty McFly and Doc Brown featuring a working Flux Capacitor and accurate recreation of Doc’s time machine from the original film! The van is beautifully restored both inside and out. Rear seat passengers enjoy a beautiful screen to view movies. Driver and passenger doors are custom built gullwing style for added flair! It’s time to go “Back to the Future” and enjoy this VW Bus today!
-Via Laughing Squid
Dishwashers are amazing appliances, even if they never did anything besides washing dishes. But the possibilities for other things are endless. You can use them to wash things that aren't dishes. You can cook in them. You can heat things in them. And when it stops working entirely, there are many ways to re-use its parts. And some of the hacks in this list are completely unexpected.
16. RIPEN AVOCADOS.
A restaurant worker on Metafilter spilled the beans on his employer's trick for force-ripening avocados: Throw them on the top rack of the dishwasher for a cycle.
21. BUILD A HAND-CRANK GENERATOR.
If your dishwasher dies but the motor is still serviceable, it may just help you survive the zombie apocalypse—or, more likely, help you charge your electronics while you're camping. If you're handy, making the motor into a pretty powerful little generator like this is a snap.
Now, if you are considering cooking in a dishwasher, you should check out which recipes work and which do not. Find those and all the dishwasher hacks in a list at Mental Floss.
(Image credit: Flickr user Sandor Weisz)
Flying cars and starships look really cool in sci-fi flicks so people can't imagine the future without these cutting edge vehicles cluttering up the airspace above our cities.
Well, if you've always wanted to see flying cars take to the skies or rocket ships used as commercial air transport then you'll be happy to hear the wait is almost over, but first check out this super spacy water taxi known as Sea Bubbles:
Sea Bubbles made their debut on Paris' River Seine in summer of 2017 so their future is now:
Each individual Sea Bubble can hold up to five people, and can be accessed via special docks along the river. They are battery-powered, and have a 50-62 mile range at speeds of up to 20 mph. What’s particularly interesting about these vehicles is their ability to glide over the water surface, thus reducing friction with the water, and improving both its speed and range in the process. They do this by making use of two wings submerged below the water surface. When in motion, the Sea Bubble lifts up from the water, with only its two wings making contact. Because of this, the ride will be less bumpy as compared to ordinary boats, and there will be little to no waves generated. And because it is battery-powered, the Bubble is completely silent.
Now on to the fan favorite- flying cars. Uber and NASA have teamed up to make Uber Elevate, airborne taxis utilizing VTOL Vertical Take Off and Landing technology to fly people to their destinations and help with road congestion. But first some major changes to airspace management must be made:
NASA has been working on a project called Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System (UAS in the NAS) which aims to achieve just that. In a statement, Uber’s Chief Product Officer said that “Uber Elevate will be performing far more flights over cities on a daily basis than has ever been done before. Doing this safely and efficiently is going to require a foundational change in airspace-management technologies.”
And lastly we have the possible evolution of air travel- city-to-city rockets, allowing passengers to travel to any city in the world in a flash:
One such rocket would be able to transport 100 people from New York to Shanghai at speeds of 17,000 miles per hour and in just 39 minutes. It would, thus, take most people more time commuting to work every day than it would to travel half-way around the world.
The new trailer for Deadpool 2 is out, but the joke is that some post-production work has yet to be completed, specifically concerning Cable's arm. So Deadpool has to take matters into his own hands to get the trailer completed. Contains NSFW language.
The blurb from 20th Century Fox tells us more about the upcoming film.
After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World’s Best Lover.
Deadpool 2 will be in theaters May 18. -via io9
Have you listened in on a conversation between a group of kids these days?
They sound like they're speaking in some sort of shorthand with all those letter clusters, shortened words and those weird sounding made up word like fleek and bae.
On fleek
A newer, hepper, sassier version of the urban phrase “on point,” which means something is as it should be. If a girl has prepared her eyebrows in an alluring and sensuous manner, her eyebrows are said to be “on fleek.”
Bae
Noun. Term of endearment variously thought to either be a truncation of “baby” or an acronym meaning “before anybody else.”
It's as if they're speaking in code to keep their conversations secret from the older folks, but now you can break the code by reading The Old Person's Guide To Hip Young Lingo- your definitive guide to AF, FOMO and HMU.
AF
Acronym meaning “as f#%k.” Example: “Those pancakes were delicious AF.”
FOMO
Acronym meaning “Fear Of Missing Out.” It has nothing to do with homosexuality, or at least I don’t think it does.
Read The Old Person's Guide To Hip Young Modern Lingo here (NSFW language)
The more you look at this photograph, the more details stand out. There are 17 men, all engaged in some activity: pointing a gun, boxing, cutting hair, playing a musical instrument, reading a paper, enjoying whiskey, or staring at the photographer. That photographer was Fred Tyree, who took the picture in 1906 in Patarau, New Zealand. The men were workers at the Prouse and Saunders Flaxmill, where they harvested flax six days a week, and posed for the picture on a Sunday. Charles Anderson was intrigued by the photo and dug up what he could find about how it came about. He pieced together the lives the flax mill workers and the long, arduous journey Tyree took to Patarau.
That night he would rest at a tiny settlement manned by workers of Prouse and Saunders. Perhaps, Hindmarsh went on, Tyree would have joined in on the Saturday evening festivities, pleased to make it in time for the workers’ one day off a week the following day. Tyree would have drank beer with them, ingratiated himself so by the following day they were more than eager to indulge the photographer in a staged image.
Sunday morning would have been spent setting the scene beside one of the camp huts. A pirate flag was hoisted as a backdrop, bundles of flax carefully placed. Tyree would have choreographed every detail before finally climbing under the hood of his camera. Those 17 men posed in rock-still formation – one reading a newspaper, two pretending to box, another pointing a rifle at a stuffed kiwi, the cook standing proud in his whitest apron while a boxer drained a bottle. Some men bore tools, others washed clothes, three men played musical instruments.
Then, it was done.
Read the story of the most badass photograph ever taken in New Zealand at The Spinoff. -via Metafilter
Our eyes can play tricks on us at the most inopportune times, like when we're about to face off against an enemy who wants nothing less than your head on a spike. A fool runs away to become hunted like a scared little rabbit, while the foolhardy rushes in blind and gives their opponent exactly what they want. But the true warrior learns to work with the visual glitch, timing their parries and blows so the fractal snow blurring their vision doesn't stop them from dropping their foe...
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The 2002 film We Were Soldiers was based on the true story of the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam. The Americans were new to the country, and a US battalion, led by Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore (played by Mel Gibson) is drawn into a trap that leads to an extended bloody battle. While some details of the story were changed for the film, the result is a movie that captured the realism of the Vietnam War better than those that came before. If you've seen We Were Soldiers, you'll want to find out some of the offscreen trivia about the movie.
10. One of the original soldiers that survived perished in the 9/11 attack.
Lieutenant Rick Rescorla was the head of security for Morgan Stanley. He died while making sure that all the company’s employees were evacuated from the building.
9. There were Vietnamese actors in the film that had been in the North Vietnamese army.
The feelings this movie brought back had to have been extremely intense, not to mention it must have brought up a lot of memories.
There's more to learn about We Were Soldiers at TVOM.
Elon Musk had a big day on Tuesday. His company SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket, which deployed his personal red Tesla into orbit around the sun. How's he going to get home? Ah, yeah, just call Tesla and have someone bring him another. Or maybe he can strap a couple of his flamethrowers to his back and use them as a rocket pack. Or take a rocket; they've got a few extra laying around at SpaceX. This comic is from Ice Cream Sandwich Comics. -via reddit
Teeth are a marvel of nature. They are engineered to crush what we eat without breaking, and to last a lifetime (as long as we keep them fairly clean). Each species of mammal with teeth has developed teeth shapes to deal with the kind of food they eat. Teeth are crucial in identifying fossils and give us a clue as to what food a fossil species ate.
This TED-Ed video takes us through the structure, function, and evolution of teeth. We should all appreciate them before something goes wrong with them -take it from someone who just spent a year undergoing dental reconstruction. -via Digg
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
"You may or may not ever see a male nude centerfold in Cosmopolitan, but I hope you do."
-Helen Gurley Brown to female
Cosmopolitan staffers, 1971.
In 1972, after a decade and a half in the business, Burt Reynolds was finally on the brink of stardom. Now 36, Burt had been an actor since the late 1950's.
His first movie was Angel Baby in 1961. Since then, he had appeared in several mediocre to bad films (usually typecast as a Native American) and had either starred or had recurring roles in three TV series- Gunsmoke, Dan August and Hawk. Burt claims he was "the first actor in history to be in a cancelled TV series on each of the three networks" (CBS, ABC and NBC).
But the sweet smell of success seemed to finally be wafting Burt's way. He had just wrapped on the film version of James Dickey's powerful novel Deliverance. Burt was heavily counting on this major release (co-starring Academy Award nominee Jon Voight) to finally put him over into "grade A" films and roles. He knew he had done his finest acting to date in Deliverance.
Burt Reynolds was also by this time gaining a reputation as "a personality." He enjoyed making the rounds of the TV talk shows, especially The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Unlike many good-looking actors, Burt displayed a quick wit and a very keen sense of humor. Because he was so naturally funny and quick on his feet, Burt became the first non-comedian Johnny Carson ever asked to host The Tonight Show in his absence.
One night early in 1972, after he had finished filming Deliverance and was awaiting its release, he was hosting The Tonight Show. Appearing with him on the show was Helen Gurley Brown, editor of the popular women's magazine Cosmopolitan and author of the best-selling book Sex and the Single Girl. On the show, he and Helen started bantering back and forth.
There are two kinds of people in this world: extroverts who socialize with others, and introverts who prefer to be alone. Except that isn't true at all. The rift between the two is way more complicated, and you can't really peg someone into one of those labels that easily.
Life Noggin walks us through these types, introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts. -via Laughing Squid
The Mississippi Delta was destined to become the site of a big city. The Mississippi River was the method of transport for raw materials, people, and supplies for a large part of the U.S. and New Orleans became its sea port.
Three hundred years ago this spring, French colonials first began clearing vegetation to establish La Nouvelle-Orléans on the meager natural levee of the Mississippi River. At most 10 to 15 feet above sea level, this feature accounts for nearly all the region’s upraised terrain; the rest is swamp or marsh. One Frenchman called it “Nothing more than two narrow strips of land, about a musket shot in width,” surrounded by “canebrake [and] impenetrable marsh.”
Those two narrow strips of land were not enough for the growing city, so engineers went to work to make more land, by draining swampland and diverting water. The result of all that work is that now 50% of the city is below sea level. Read how this happened at The Atlantic.
Everybody sees the world a little bit differently, and aside from the effect of our mental state the physical state we're in affects our vision in weird ways too, making our own unique view of the world even more unique.
Add vision factors like eye defects, injuries and vision imparing substances like drugs or alcohol and your sight just keeps getting weirder and weirder!
To understand what all these different physical states do to our eyes check out this Bright Side video, it isn't necessarily medically accurate but it will get you thinking about the factors that are affecting your vision.
