A reader at Everyday, No Days Off sent in this picture of a chess set made by a US Marine deployed in Afghanistan. The kings and queens are .50 caliber cartridges and the rooks are 40 mm grenade cases.
Link | Previously: Cartridge Chess Set
A reader at Everyday, No Days Off sent in this picture of a chess set made by a US Marine deployed in Afghanistan. The kings and queens are .50 caliber cartridges and the rooks are 40 mm grenade cases.
Link | Previously: Cartridge Chess Set
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Oh no! This place is infested with coins! This short stop-motion animation was produced by Olly Newport. -via Laughing Squid
No, not a simulator, but a transmitter. There's a real person on the other end of the wire (presumably a girl) sending the kiss, which is in turn replicated by the mouth piece built by researchers at Kajimoto Laboratory. They explained:
"This device is for communications within the mouth, in other words, the goal is to obtain the feeling of kissing."
"If you take one device in your mouth and turn it with your tongue, the other device turns in the same way. If you turn it back the other way, then your partner's turns back the same way, so your partner's device turns whichever way your own device turns."
"It is achieved only by motor rotations, and you control the rotation positions via PC. It is called a bilateral control, and the turn angle information is sent reciprocally by both devices to maintain the same position. Right now the values are handled by one PC, but if a system is put together to handle the values over a network, then it would be easy for this operation to be conducted remotely."
http://www.diginfo.tv/2011/05/02/11-0090-r-en.php via Geekologie | Photo: DigiInfo
"Covering Lolita" is Dieter Zimmer's rather fascinating look at how Nabokov's classic novel has been depicted on more than 150 different covers from 33 countries over a period of 50 years. It's interesting to see what each country thinks a Lolita would look like. Some avoid the image entirely by using an abstract image or simply printing the cover of the book, and some even choose to depict Humbert Humbert instead. The cover at left is a Swedish edition from 1965.
Link via Flavorwire
Link via Flavorwire
Korean fashion designer Kathleen Kye made a jacket that looks like the wearer is wrapped up in King Kong's hand. This piece, inspired by a dream that she had of being squeezed by a giant hand, was one of several that Kye made for her graduate portfolio entitled "The Body Collection."
http://korean-content.com/2011/03/31/fashion-designer-kathleen-kye-aspires-to-become-a-cultural-icon/ via Copyranter | Photo: Kathleen Kye
You're just walking along with one of your friends, enjoying the lovely day and the grass between your non-existent toes - then a plumber comes out of nowhere and... the terror! The terror!
You can probably guess what happens next.
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Boing Boing reader Tyler Bartlett has been trying to understand the odd air pocket in this jar of raspberry jam:
I know this looks like we turned this jam jar upside-down and popped in in the fridge. But we didn't. My roommate brought this to my attention yesterday, and we have no idea how or why the jam is doing this. It did the floating thing yesterday, and when we had it at room temperature for a minute or so, the jam started to fall to the bottom again. We took it out of the fridge today, and again it floats.
How would you explain this event?
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cranberryzero of I Heart Chaos just got inked, and his tattoo has a special feature. It can be scanned by augmented reality readers to produce an image from a Nintendo 3DS game. You can see a video of it rendering at the link.
Link via CrunchGear | Photos: I Heart Chaos
Previously: Augmented Reality Cookies
Four years ago, we featured Josh Hardar's curvaceous bike designs. He's greatly developed and refined that theme since that time. This particular one, named "Teardrop", comes with a 80cc engine and hand-spun aluminum wheels.
Link via Dude Craft
If you thought face tattoos were intense and are frightened of the guy who turned himself into The Lizard Man, then you are really going to be squeamish when it comes to the Scar Tattoos featured in this gallery. My favorite is the guy who got his dog tattooed on his arm. Link
If I lived on Neptune I would be less than a Neptune year old, how old would you be? This nifty calculator allows you to figure out your “age” on different planets (including dwarf planet Pluto). Every grade school student knows we measure years by how long it takes the Earth to travel around the Sun. However it’s interesting to think how time measurement would be different if we lived on a world like Mercury that takes only 88 Earth days to travel around the sun. Link
And you call yourself an "animal lover". How could you demean your "companion animals" by continuing to call them "pets". I mean really.
Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be rebranded as “companion animals” while owners should be known as “human carers”, they insist.
Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as “free-living”, the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.
The call comes from the editors of then Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.
The editors, Professors Andrew Linzey and Priscilla Cohn of Penn State University, added more offensive phrases of the English language that need to be stamped out:
Phrases such as “sly as a fox, “eat like a pig” or “drunk as a skunk” are all unfair to animals, they claim.
“We shall not be able to think clearly unless we discipline ourselves to use less than partial adjectives in our exploration of animals and our moral relations with them," they say.
Nothing makes your memos and to-do list more delicious than the string of Sausage Magnets ($9.95) from the NeatoShop. You can cut out the individual sausages to share or use separately, too: Link | More fun Office and Desk items
Kids do it, dogs do it. And now, a house has called 911. Here's the strange case of how an empty house that has sprung a leak called emergency services:
A house that endured a leaking pipe for many months dialed 911 on Wednesday, finally bringing town officials to the rescue.
The homeowner gone — no one yet knows where — the house likely sprang a leak during a past freeze and began spraying water all over. "Water came down inside the walls and through the ceiling," said Health Director Wayne Attridge. "The (wood) floors have buckled. The ceilings are sagging. It filled the basement with (5 feet of) water."
Worse yet, potentially toxic mold is everywhere. "It's a horrific mess," said Attridge, who said the inside of the structure may have to be gutted.
The 911 call went out to police, apparently, when water short-circuited the phone system. Police recorded it as a 911 hang-up, and when they tried to return the call they got only static. Officers were sent to the location, 31 Rockaway Ave. According to the police log, they determined that something inside was leaking before they requested permission from higher-ups to make a forced entry through the back door.
