I feel like I have had this exact conversation a few too many times. A friend of mine was visiting from across the country, staying on our couch for a couple weeks, and I wanted to tell him all about my Los Angeles exploits over the last few months. Unfortunately, he already knew everything- saw my Facebook photos and followed my on my sparsely used Twitter account. The excitement of telling him my stories was lost thanks to Social Media.
Has anyone else experienced this situation?
A man in Saarbrucken, Germany was pulled over for doing 130kph (about 80mph) in a 100kph (62mph) zone. When police approached his car, they discovered that the 35-year-old motorist had turned his car into a mobile office- equipped with laptop, printer, two phones, sat-nav, and a GPS signal receiver with a wide-screen. You can see from the image above, it was quite a chaotic office space. The officers wrote him a ticket and told him to pack up all his equipment.
To me, this is a terrible idea. I have always had a fear of dying in a car crash ever since I saw the film Big Fish. In the movie this kid is shown how and when he is gong to die, from then on he isn't truly scared of anything because he knows he dies much later on. Well that worked in reverse for me, I have a repeating nightmare in which I die in a car crash and so every time I get into a car I think - well boy'o, this could be it. Traffic is crazy enough where I don't need more distractions, so typing some TPS reports while cruising down I-5 at 80mphs does not seem like something I would like to do.
-Via Arbroath
Are you a science fiction fan (not that space fantasy Star Wars baloney) like I am? Then maybe you will like this super awesome infographic of the best selling Sci Fi books of all time! Ender's Game is possibly my favorite childhood book and it is both gratifying and disturbing to see it on this list. One million copies sold since 1985 sounds like a lot, but is it? A post I wrote earlier shows that Twilight already has sold a sickening 43 million, and Harry Potter is at a staggering 400 million. Yet Ender's Game can only get 1 million. People don't get out of bed for a Youtube clip with less than 1 million views. Fahrenheit 451 -one of the fathers of modern Sci Fi- a paltry 10 mil. I am a little soul crushed at the moment but I will get over it. Enjoy the list and enjoy the rest of your day. I will go sulk in a corner for a while. Stupid Twilight and it's 43 million.
-Via Flavorwire
That's it folks, I am never eating another hot dog again. Thanks internet, you already ruined chicken nuggets for me. I grew up hearing that urban myth "they just throw all the scraps" into hot dogs but I never thought anything of it. This is by far worse. That blob of food... well, I am done. No more hot dogs. Not now, not ever.
-Via Bits and Pieces
Meet Miss Xuxu of Melbourne, Australia. Possibly the world's cutest dog. Photographed by Thai Hoa Pham, you can catch more photos here. The picture on the bottom left just kills me... what a cute little puppy.
-Via The Modern Met
Have you heard that certain meats taste much better when their respective animals live stress free lives? I am sure you have. But what about when their respective animals live diving lives? A farmer in China's Hunan province is claiming that his bacon tastes better because of his diving pigs.
Huang Demin built a 3 meter tall platform and pushes his hesitant pigs overboard, daily, into the river. Not really diving, more free falling but you get the picture. According to him the act helps improve their immunity to disease and improves the quality of the pork.
While it may be hard to substantiate this claim, his economical incentives are proving their worth. Diving pig pork gets a diving pig price, Huang sells his stuff for three times above normal market value.
-Via Arbroath
It's an ocelot! For those of you who haven't heard of an ocelot, they are dwarf leopards from the Central America / Texas / South America region. For the artistic or wealthy they can be pets, Salvador Dali had one named Babou. They love to make cameos on the TV show Archer (NSFW - Language). Also they are cute, very cute.
-Via Tastefully Offensive
What is this? Why it's The Oatmeal! The snippet I have here is just a small piece of a much larger comic you can find here. While the comic is rather lengthy, it points out the pros and soul-crushing cons of being a content creator for the web. The Oatmeal has been at if for a long time, he has published a book, but if anyone could talk about this subject in both a realistic but totally absurdly funny it would be Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal. Enjoy.
-Via The Oatmeal
Introducing the best show that not that many but sort of a few people know about... ladies and gentlemen - Portlandia! Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are still at it, promoting Portlandia with a their new book! You can buy it on Amazon if you like, where it says “printed on 130% recycled paper in a peanut-free, smoke-free plant by local workers in a friendly and fair environment, free of sudden noises and unnatural light.” Oh Portlandia, how I love you. Check out more images and info here.
Thinking of visiting Portlandia? Discover all that this magical, dreamy city has to offer with PORTLANDIA: A Guide for Visitors. Inside you’ll find:
A comprehensive guide to all restaurants and food carts, including extensive use of symbols to signify Vegan, Freegan, Sea-gan, Wheelchair-Accessible, Skateboard-Accessible, Segway-Accessible, Clothing Optional, Polyamorous, LGBTQ, Dog-Friendly (No cats), Cat-Friendly (No dogs or mice) Mouse-Friendly (No cats or elephants), For Dogs (only), Regionally-Sourced Food, Regionally-Sourced Waitstaff, and House-Sourced Food (Born/dies on plate).
A guide for dogs and dog owners, including a detailed map of the numerous dog parks the city has to offer. Very numerous and passionately maintained.
An up-to-date guide to shopping, schools, and entertainment.
A city activities guide for older adults who are stuck in perpetual early twentysomething-dom.
A guide for getting around, either by foot, or by bicycle, the official car of Portlandia. Featured also are the 9 official bicycle rules of the road, drawn up by Spyke and his bike comrades. Not to be ignored!
-Via Laughing Squid
Guy Fieri is all fired up about a terribly critical review of his restaurant Guy's American Kitchen & Bar (photo by Casey Kelbaugh) in The New York Times. You might recognize Fieri as the guy with bleach blonde hair in those TGI Friday's commercials. The review, submitted by Pete Wells, is laughably harsh on the new restaurant. The entire review is written in questions. It starts out with this and only gets worse.
Guy Fieri, have you eaten at your new restaurant in Times Square? Have you pulled up one of the 500 seats at Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar and ordered a meal? Did you eat the food? Did it live up to your expectations?
Did panic grip your soul as you stared into the whirling hypno wheel of the menu, where adjectives and nouns spin in a crazy vortex? When you saw the burger described as “Guy’s Pat LaFrieda custom blend, all-natural Creekstone Farm Black Angus beef patty, LTOP (lettuce, tomato, onion + pickle), SMC (super-melty-cheese) and a slathering of Donkey Sauce on garlic-buttered brioche,” did your mind touch the void for a minute?
Read the whole review here. Fieri is upset, understandably so, and is on the Today show defending his restaurant. While there may be something to his claim that Wells is "trying to make a name for himself" it should be noted that Wells is the dining editor of The Times, his name is pretty well respected at this point.
I, for one, have never been much of a Fieri fan. I prefer the likes of Richard Blais or non-chef cooking celebrity / somewhat pompous individual Anthony Bourdain - who also slammed Fieri's restaurant.
-Via Hyper Vocal
I don't think it is possible to have a more comfortable nap than this. Holy Moly. One thousand people just died from smiling too hard when they saw this, another thousand just decided it's time to have a baby, and a final thousand went out looking to adopt puppies. I have to stop posting cute things today - it's too much strain on my cold little heart.
Side note- While this is about the cutest thing of the decade, I can't imagine it is all fun and games when these munchkins decide to wake up. Raising three puppies and a baby all at once would be quite a task.
The big feet paired with the big eyes and ears make this guy a lady-killer. I wonder if that is a specifically designed diaper for marsupials or they just said what the heck and strapped a human diaper to this kangaroo. I don't think there are many tigers in The Outback so I am leaning toward human diaper with a hole cut out for the tail.
-Via Hyper Vocal
Bon Iver has launched a shoe with the shoe company Keep. A video was put together showcasing the shoe along with pulling out our heartstrings by using baby animals.
The shoe is actually pretty cool if you ask me, so cool in fact... I might just get a pair. Consider it an early birthday present to myself which is only a few short weeks away. Sadly, for the second time in my life I am not looking forward to it at all. The first time being last years birthday. Turning 23 is meh, it's whatever.
Oh but the music video totally cheered me up so it was worth it.
-Via Explore
Want to serve some Elven Lembas Bread (from Lord of The Rings) for appetizers at your Christmas party? How about Butterbeer (Harry Potter) to celebrate the New Year? Now you can! Check out this entire list of fantastically geeky foods you can cook at home. Want Slurm? Why not Zoidberg?
There is even a list of 10 Butterbeer recipes.
Recipe #2: Just as easy as Recipe #1 but for adults. Ingredients: 1 cup butterscotch schnapps 7 cups cream soda (2 liter bottle) Directions: 1. Carefully mix just before serving, adding the schnapps to the soda then stirring gently to mix well, or the fizz will dissipate too soon.
Now that is some Butterbeer I can get behind. Just me... and Emma Watson... sipping it by the warmth of the fire. Talking about how dumb all those Brown kids are at school. What?! No! I don't have a crush in Hermoine Granger - don't say that. She may be the same age as me.. but she seems too young (she is 22, I am 23 this month). Let's just keep this between you and me, shall we?
-Via GeeksAreSexy
Add the best superhero (he is the best, not a typo) with the best living dead creatures and what do you get? Zombie Iron Man. So maybe it's a stretch to say Iron Man could even become a zombie, how could they bite through the suit after all, but zombies are a stretch of the imagination themselves.
Work done by Cosplay artist Kyosti Kallio and the photos are by Adam Jay. You can check out the full set of photographs here.
-Via Buzz Patrol
