Artist PJ McQuade makes new geeky greeting cards for every occasion, every year, and his 2018 Valentines are now available at his Etsy store CastleMcQuade. They feature your favorite pop culture icons, many of whom would be completely unexpected in a romantic Valentine, but they work. Even evil villains have one great romantic line, or one that can be altered for the occasion. For example, Gollum's Valentine says, "You're Precious To Me." FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (from Twin Peaks) says, "You're a Damn Fine Cup of Coffee!" (That one is new for this year, along with Kylo Ren) You could probably guess the quote from Ian Malcolm on the Jurassic Park Valentine, which comes with a illustration of two dinosaurs falling in love inside, too. If you can't decide which one is best, you can get a collection of 17 different Valentines, and he'll even customize the selection! -via Geeks Are Sexy
People with way too much money who don't know the meaning of the words "savings" and "frugality" like to drop a bundle on expensive bottles of booze at nightclubs so they can look really cool to their fellow clubgoers.
But to their credit these people normally drink the booze they've just dropped a bundle on, unlike the clumsy guy in this video shared by Ibiza Club News who fumbles a bottle of champagne that cost him £30,000 like an absolute idiot.
Later when his kids ask him why they have no college fund he can tell them that in his younger days dad was the kind of guy who literally threw tens of thousands of pounds away while livin' that flashy nightclub life. Sorry kids!
-Via Munchies
NO PIZZA! by Alexander Medvedev
Many humans think of pizza as the greatest food product on the planet, and to them the thought of giant pizzas raining down from the sky sounds like a delicious gift from the heavens. But dinosaurs hated pizza storms for one main reason- they're the reason the dinosaurs went extinct! Apparently the herbivores had bad allergic reactions to the pepperoni and cheese so they started dropping, and the carnivores couldn't stop eating all that yummy pizza so they essentially ate themselves to death. Well, I guess that's more fun than having your world destroyed by a meteor...
Teach people about the tastiest apocalypse ever with this NO PIZZA! t-shirt by Alexander Medvedev, it'll help you rewrite the history books and make your fellow pizza fans want to eat you all up!
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If we were to tell you cats were playing Monopoly or Scrabble, you wouldn't believe it was real. But the game Hungry Hungry Hippos has just the thing to enthrall the whole clowder: marbles!
Watch a group of rescue cats in Sao Paulo, Brazil, play the children's board game. Or, to be more exact, one is playing while the others watch, fascinated. It's going to take a while before he finishes his turn and lets the next cat play. -via Tastefully Offensive
The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research, now in all-pdf form. Get a subscription now for only $25 a year!
Improbable theories, experiments, and conclusions
compiled by Dirk Manley, Improbable Research staff
Slingshot-delivered, Microchip-laden Hot Dogs to Gulls
“High Predation on Small Populations: Avian Predation on Imperiled Salmonids,” Ann-Marie K. Osterback, Danielle M. Frechette, Andrew O. Shelton, Sean A. Hayes, Morgan H. Bond, Scott A. Shaffer, and Jonathan W. Moore, Ecosphere, vol. 4, no. 9, 2013, article 116. The authors, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and San Jose State University, report:
PIT [passive integrated transponder] tags were inserted into miniature hotdogs (Hillshire Farm Beef Lit’l Smokies) and tossed out with a folding slingshot to maximize the number of different individual gulls that ingested tags.
Detail from the study “High Predation on Small Populations: Avian Predation on Imperiled Salmonids.”
Increased Gravitational Acceleration in Potato Deep-Fat Frying
Yakutsk, Siberia, has a population of 280,000 people, even though the temperature hovers around 40 below zero for several months of each year. The reason a city of such size even exists that close to the Arctic Circle is because of the minerals beneath it: a fifth of the world's diamonds come from mines near Yakutsk, and the area is rich in natural gas, oil, gold, and silver, too. Photographer Steeve Iuncker visited Yakutsk and witnessed the challenges that come with living in serious cold.
Case in point: Iuncker noticed that locals tended to visit one another a lot, but for only a few minutes: “They would come in, take off their first layer, drink hot tea, and have a toast with jam before bundling up again and stepping outside. It was as if their neighbors’ abodes served as relay points along their journey.” Like them, Iuncker had to adapt his working habits to the elements. His camera, a twin-lens Rolleiflex, afforded him only 15-minute shooting periods. After that the winding mechanism would freeze, and the film risked cracking. Which was just as well; by then his fingers were numb.
Read about Yakutsk and see two galleries of images at National Geographic. -via Mental Floss
(Image credit: Flickr user Maarten Takens)
He's a 44-year-old man from Austin, Texas. His wife and his friends made fun of him, and that led to a bet. He bet that he could put out a legit hip-hop song and make at least ten dollars from it. He took the name Spinach Dippa. Here he is, rapping' about eating at Applebee's, his German mechanic, and running up his credit cards.
You can buy the song (for 99 cents) through his website, and half the proceeds will go to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The other half will go toward fulfilling his bet. -via Tastefully Offensive
Artist George Catlin traveled to the American West and painted Native Americans in their homelands, before the land was carved up into towns, farms, and ranches. He envisioned land set aside to stay in the condition in which he found it, complete with the settlements of the tribes who lived there. His idea of allowing outsiders to come in and see the Native Americans was exploitive at best, although what ended up happening was hardly better. They were almost completely displaced.
Today, the foundational myth of America’s National Parks revolves around the heroic preservation of “pristine wilderness,” places supposedly devoid of human inhabitants that were saved in an unaltered state for future generations. This is obviously a falsehood: Places like Yosemite were already home to thriving communities that had long cherished—and changed—the environment around them. Catlin’s paintings are vivid reminders that the vast expanses of our western frontier were not empty, but rather brimming with human cultures.
Though the National Park Service prevented wholesale industrialization, they still packaged the wilderness for consumption, creating a scenic, pre-historical fantasy surrounded by roads and tourist accommodations, all designed to mask the violence inherent to these parks’ creation. More than a century later, the United States has done little to acknowledge the government-led genocide of native populations, as well as the continued hardships they face because of the many bad-faith treaties enacted by the U.S. government. This story is an elemental part of our National Park system, the great outdoor museum of the American landscape, but the myth continues to outweigh the truth. How did the National Park Service evict Yosemite’s indigenous communities and erase their history, and can it come to terms with this troubling legacy today?
While the latter is a theoretical question, the story of how the National Park system grew while completely discounting those who lived there is told at Collectors Weekly.
You may laugh when you first look at the Terror Bird, but these monsters were ten feet tall and weighed over 300 pounds as they made their way into North America to terrorize those who lived here. But this happened five million years ago, so there's no need to fret. They were pretty awful to the tasty prey of the time, though.
This could very well be a monster movie, but it's one episode of the PBS Digital Studios series called PBS Eons that looks at many different animals -and even plants- that no longer exist. -via Mental Floss
Kardashians are known for being loud, flashy and ostentatious, while librarians are known for being modest and subdued enforcers of quiet, so it's hard to imagine what would bring such disparate groups together.
Well, believe it or not the thing that brought the Kardashians and the librarians together is that sexy cover from The Hollywood Reporter at the top of the post.
This cover inspired the digital and communications manager from the Invercargill Library in New Zealand, Bonnie Mager, to team up with her co-workers and show the world that smart is sexy- by recreating the cover photo with librarians instead of Kardashians.
-Via 22 Words
There is nothing more heartbreaking than losing a child. Robin Birdsong founded Enchanted Farm Sanctuary after she lost her baby son. Ronnie the donkey came into her care after he underwent the trauma of losing a child, too. It took lots of time and love for the depressed donkey to start living again. Five years later, he is the king of the sanctuary, and helping Ronnie helped Robin to heal, too.
You'll want to have a hankie ready for this video. -via Metafilter
Nintendo has been one of the most innovative and original companies in the video game industry since the very beginning, and their commitment to creativity means the best is yet to come.
But when Nintendo came out with the Labo kits for the Switch they took both the gaming and crafting worlds by storm, and as you can see in this comic by Lolnein Comics those old fashioned crafting supplies don't stand a chance!
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
I once had three, yes, THREE children at once who all hated to read, because it wasn't easy for them. Reading becomes easy only with practice, so the challenge was to find the one book for each child that they couldn't put down. It turns out that the same strategy works for adults, too. Dad already reads well, but to get him motivated, it takes an exceptional story. Chewbacca Riding Dragons Fighting Wizards will do just fine ...who could resist that? This is the latest comic from Lunarbaboon.
Oh yeah, each of the books that sparked a love for reading in my kids are ones they consider trash now as adults, but it worked, and that's what matters. So I am grateful to Stephanie Meyers and other YA authors for what they've done.
That's No Moon by Captain RibMan
The rabbits of the Rebellion used to look up at the night's sky and stare at that beautiful moon beaming down at them, but ever since the evil ermine Empire had destroyed their home planet those poor little bunnies had been forced to hop from planet to planet in a war for survival. The loss of their home had hurt but it had also made them stronger, and as they took the fight to those stinking Sith rats the rabbits of the Rebellion became a force to be reckoned with, and their days of being preyed upon felt like such a long, long time ago...
Share a different view of that war in the stars with the world by wearing this That's No Moon t-shirt by Captain RibMan, featuring a mashup that'll make you feel like a kid again!
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National Geographic magazine is known for their breathtaking cover photos, but did you know they didn't start using a cover photo to help sell their magazine until the 1959? Before that it was just a bunch of text describing each issue's contents, which didn't do much to help them become one of the most popular and successful magazines of all time.
This year National Geographic is celebrating their 130th anniversary, so they created an amazing timelapse video showing how far their cover photos have come from 1888 to 2018.
It shows not only how important the cover photos became for the magazine's image, it also shows how far nature photography has changed since the mid-20th century.
-Via Laughing Squid
