Coco, the doting mother cat, takes a breakfast of cranberries. I guess she knows she's not allowed on the counter, but as longs as she stays up there, she may be within the rules. Or something like that. -via Tastefully Offensive
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Vine user Hunter Harrison made this amazing six second Vine tribute to the end of any given Super Mario Bros. level in delicious snack food goodness. Just wait till Pac-Man gets to this level and starts munching down on the entire thing.
Redditor Iphee spotted this awesome sand art sculptures celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who. While I don't know where the images were taken, I can tell you that you can find more fantastic pictures of the creation at the link.
The preparation process is, to put it mildly, laborious. But RuyGin, a restaurant in Tokyo, is ranked by critics as the 22nd best in the world. Its chefs did not acquire their reputation by slacking off. During the video, they appear to use, among many other tools, liquid nitrogen, an air pump and a blowtorch.
It was an eventful royal visit to the set of Doctor Who. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall accidentally activated the TARDIS. A Dalek threatened Prince Charles. Then, at 1:10 in the video above, a crew member handed him a microphone that makes his voice sound like that of a Dalek. It was at this point that Prince Charles switched sides and joined the Dalek cause.
Link -via Nerd Approved
This is not a new trick; you may have even played this parlor game yourself. But now we can watch how weird it looks in slow motion! Besides that, we get an expert telling us about real-life human reaction lag. -via Laughing Squid
Natalie Eve Garrett, an artist in the D.C. area and contributor to The Hairpin, has lately been retelling classic fairy tales using yogurt. Above you can see her scenes from Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and The Little Mermaid. You can view more images in her 2-part series at the links below.
First they kicked Pluto out of the solar system planetary family, then they ignored the will of the Interweb. Oh, what will the International Astronomical Union do next?
Earlier this year, we told you that astronomers asked the public to name two newly discovered moons orbiting Pluto. Vulcan, which was suggested by William Shatner, was clearly in the lead, but that name was nixed:
Vulcan was also deemed potentially difficult because it was the name of a planet thought to exist in an orbit closer to our Sun than Mercury's. Such a world never existed, but the IAU still reckoned it was too confusing.
“Although this planet was found not to exist, the term ‘vulcanoid’ remains attached to any asteroid existing inside the orbit of Mercury, and the name Vulcan could not be accepted for one of Pluto’s satellites,” it said.
So, what did they choose as the names of the two moons? Kerberos and Styx. Kerberos (or Cerberus) is the three-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld in Roman mythology. Styx is the mythological river that separates the Earth and the Underworld.
But fans of Star Trek didn't come away empty-handed. Astronomers are proposing that craters on Pluto be named after Star Trek characters:
After NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gets the first up-close views of Pluto in 2015, craters, mountains and other features spotted on the dwarf planet's surface could bear the names of famous "Star Trek" characters, researchers said.
"We might have craters called Sulu and Spock and Kirk and McCoy and so on," Mark Showalter of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif., said during a Google+ Hangout today (July 2).
Shattner, however, wasn't impressed:
“What? That’s impossible! I’m going to lead a revolt,” Shatner said, when Wired told him of the outcome. “Pluto is so big and cold that it deserved to have a hot little rock running around it, named Vulcan — for fire.”
... and tweeted:
We can only imagined that Shatner cried out "Khaaaaaaann you believe it? They didn't name Pluto's new moons after Vulcan."
Do you wish there was a quick and easy way to learn key Klingon praises and insults? Now you can with the How to Speak Klingon book from the NeatoShop. This fantastic book features 24 full color pages and a built-in sound module with 10 unique sounds. Learn to say phrases like:
- Today is a good day to die
- Your Mother has a smooth forehead
- and You bludgeon divinely
Learning this beautifully harsh and guttural language has never been so easy.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Star Trek items.
There are tons of red, white and blue food recipes out there for your Independence Day party, but dying foods a few colors is pretty boring and basic. If you really want to impress, make firecracker cupcakes that actually explode in your mouth courtesy of Pop Rocks. It's a fireworks show in your mouth and only patriots are invited.
Sometime around 1960, Aaron's grandfather purchased an oscilloscope. He passed it down in his family in excellent condition. Lacking any other use for it, Aaron turned the oscilloscope into a clock. You can see build photos at the link.
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This Xenomorph, part of the H.R. Giger 2009 art exhibition in San Sebastian, Spain, is so awesome that the only way to be sure that we can keep humanity safe is to nuke it from orbit. Photo via Orange
Here's an appropriate chess set to mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. Jim Arnold, a custom chess set maker in Ronda, North Carolina, crafted this set inspired by the August 19, 1812 battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere. That was one of the few American naval victories during the war and the battle in which America's revered "Old Ironsides" earned her sobriquet.
Are you on a quest for the perfect hiding spot for your precious cookies? Entrust them the Gandalf the Grey Cookie Jar from the NeatoShop. This striking ceramic cookie jar is shaped like Gandalf the Grey from the Lord of the Rings. He makes a wise and trusted kitchen friend.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Lord of the Rings items and fun Cookie Jars.
Those. Kicks. Were. Fast as lightening. It was. A little bit frightening.
And that's not only how to Kirk-Fu, but also how to sing the song as Captain Kirk.
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